[Homestead] Enjoy the quiet while it lasts...
Lynda
lurine at softcom.net
Fri Sep 12 01:00:46 EDT 2008
That's o.k. My gods were here before your gods and I like them better. <g>
Besides, your god is probably their god since both books of mythology talk
about those virgins.
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <rayzentz at aim.com>
> Here's an even more radical thought. What if "my" God, and the "god
> of the terrorists, and radical fundamentalist muslems", are actually
> one and the same? What if what is happening is all part of the
> "Plan", and has been foretold. What if all this is necessary? What
> if the entire reason OUR God put us here is to experience suffering and
> misery, so that we would "understand" it in our future eternal
> existance.
>
> Yeah, I know. Kind of similar to some buddhist thought, isn't it.
>
> Of course, one would have to believe in an eternal existance of some
> kind... which would include both a pre-mortal and post-mortal
> existance. If you do, then our little moment here becomes
> insignificant, when compared to the power of the Force...
>
> Oops, sorry. I mixed mythologies, there. ;-)
>
> Ray
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynda <lurine at softcom.net>
> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 5:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Enjoy the quiet while it lasts...
>
>
>
> O.K., here's my thinking on this. I can believe, against all evidence
> to
> the contrary (worked at a rehab center and saw a whole bunch of dry
> alcholics and can recognize one about a mile away, so had no problem
> recognizing the one in the White House) that maybe some people *think*
> they
> "hear" god talking to them.
>
> Now, let's follow my line of thinking. IF your god is the god that
> people
> claim he is, and IF he is soooooo far removed from the god of the
> terrorists
> and radical fundamentalists Muslims, then WHY would he be talking to
> Bush
> and telling him to start a war and KILL 100s of thousands of women,
> children
> and the elderly?
>
> And please don't tell me it's about choice. If this was another one of
> those tests where he tells the guy to kill his son to prove his love,
> then,
> theoretically speaking, and following the usual steps that were taken
> in a
> certain book, he'd have stopped him just in the nick of time.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <rayzentz at aim.com>
>
>
>>I find it a little presumptive, to decide that of course, it couldn't
>> possibly be "God" speaking, that it must instead be a "hallucination".
>> I find it interesting that anyone puts a limit on God.
>>
>> Of course, you apparantly don't believe in "God", so limiting Him
> isn't
>> an issue for you, is it?
>>
>> Now, please don't take this to mean that I agree that God talked to
>> Bush. Just saying that I wouldn't presume to say he didn't. I
> don't
>> know. He appeared to speak through a burning Bush, once, so
>> anything's possible.
>>
>> Of course, if you don't believe in God, you probably don't believe
> that
>> little story, either...
>
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