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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

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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