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Well Kooka....,

For me its like we are both looking at one of those visual puzzles. You know, the kind where you have to focus a certain way in order for the graphic to be revealed. I’m sure you’ve seen them before. Well, for me, its like I’ve focused on the graphic and you have not yet. I know that you will eventually see it and so I keep harping away on you about it. Just as with the puzzle, you will one day suddenly achieve an acute realization and focus. Until then, I’ll be here telling you what the graphic looks like.

posted by telemachus on April 5, 2004 at 8:24 PM | link to this | reply

Okay, one more then Shawn

You have not been debating. Your last few comments have been about that same, with no point to them. YOU feel that profanity is evil. I understand your opinion here. It is not, but I understand that is how you feel. Fine.

I AM a good person who rarely uses profanity. It can and does happen. I do not use profanity to insult or hurt. I use it to get a point across. It is part of our language and it can be very powerful when used right.

I know who I am and I am very happy, good nattered person. I need to go on no big quest to find the 'good with in me'.

I will keep using the 'f' word when I feel the need to. It does no harm, no matter what you may believe.

Oh, and I measure myself against no one but myself. Always have and always will.

I got tired of what I felt was tralking to a wall which kept repeating itself to me.

posted by kooka_lives on April 5, 2004 at 10:35 AM | link to this | reply

Kooka, that's alright.

I thought you liked to debate. I’m really sorry to be stressing you out like this. From my end of things, it seems that you are not listening, but I know you feel differently about that. Striving to do good involves not offending others if you can avoid it and I’m sorry that I offended you. Purposefully offending people is evil and listen, Kooka, profanity is clearly evil as well. These facts would be clear to you as well if you would but meditate, pray, and contemplate the nature of "good". I am really sorry that you are not going to reply to me anymore. I hope that you will check my blog from time to time. And one last piece of advice: don’t measure yourself against Christians or anybody. Work only to alter your self-professed evil nature so that it may become good. And try to stop using that “F” word.

posted by telemachus on April 4, 2004 at 6:41 PM | link to this | reply

Shawn

As always you are 100% full of it.

I know of or a fact I am a good person. I strive to do good and make the world a better place. Profanity has nothing to do with good or bad. You really have no clue my friend. You want to make this into something it is not. Profanity is neither good nor evil, it just is. It causes no harm, btu at the same time really helps no one either. I used it to try and make a point. A point which went completely over your head and into the next time zone. For someone who seems to think I am closed minded, you really do not want to think outside your little box here,.

So you know what?
Fuck it. (Yes I am once more using the 'F' word to make a point)
If you decided to reply to this, I am not going to keep it up. Until you take the cotton out of your ears and start listening, there is no point in trying to reason with you on this.

I said fuck so I must be evil. Fine then. I am evil, which of course would make most Christians I know the anti christ, considering that they live less moral lives than I do, but that is unimportant in the end. if you say fuck you are evil.

posted by kooka_lives on April 4, 2004 at 3:35 PM | link to this | reply

Kooka

Any diligent attempt to define the “good” will reveal that profanity is not good. It accomplishes no good purpose. Your choice to defend it clearly categorizes you as in opposition to the good. You may indeed use profanity rarely, but you resort to it when confronted with goodness because you can discern no rational response other than agreement, and your prideful nature will not allow you to agree. The expulsion of profanity is a common phenomenon exhibited in evil when it is extinguished by good. Your profanity has no power except over those who are tittering between the good and bad and you use your profanity only in an evil attempt to blow these souls into the dark. Anyone that reads my blog will know clearly that my philosophy is exactly the opposite of what you have falsely implied. One should look within to promote their inner goodness, not be indoctrinated by theology. It’s in “Spiritual Medicine” for anyone to read and see that your comments are false.

posted by telemachus on April 4, 2004 at 11:58 AM | link to this | reply

LUKE, Dont give into Hate

That leads to the Dark side.

posted by cantey on April 3, 2004 at 9:07 PM | link to this | reply

Wow

What a load of BS that was.
Profanity is not evil either.
When used right it is effective and powerful.
I very rarely use it in my life.
I used it here to make a point and you seem to be so far gone form reality that the point completely went over your head.
In the end profanity is just a bunch of words that have no more and no less power than you give them.
Obviously you give them a lot of power and therefore they have power over you.
I give them very little power and so they really do not bother me in the least.
I think I wrote a post on this way, way back.
I still find it amazing that people who claim to be intelligent give simple words so much power and can even be scared of them.
But then you are a Christian and therefore you do not really want to have power over yourself, but seem to enjoy letting other things have power over you, such as your man-made version of God and the church.

posted by kooka_lives on April 3, 2004 at 5:02 PM | link to this | reply

Profanity is not Good

Your writing is clearly a testimony of your desire to promote evil. In the face of goodness you descend into a fit of profanity. You have one agenda and that is to try and diminish God in the face of all of these readers. Your prior statements that you promote good in your life are falsifications. You presently walk on the dark side

posted by telemachus on April 3, 2004 at 2:45 PM | link to this | reply

Holy Cow

Are you ever grasping for straws here
Oh look, I said Holy Cow. I must believe in a holy cow then.
Darn, well look at that, another expression. I must worship those who fix socks.

Expressions and curses are part of society. We are raised with them being the known way to express one's self in those situations. They have nothing at all to do with a belief in anything.

My favorite one when talking with friends is 'Flying Fuck', and yet I have no clue what a 'flying fuck' is, but I often do not give a 'flying fuck' over something or other. Guess what. 'Flying fuck' is an expression and I have yet to try it or worship it or have anything to do with it.

Shit man, look there's another one. Do I like shit now?

You are just trying way too hard to look for whatever it is you want to find in me. So just trust me here when I tell I have no belief in God or anything related to the Bible

posted by kooka_lives on April 3, 2004 at 8:51 AM | link to this | reply

Why blame God if you don't think he exists?

You should ask yourself why these particular words are manifest in your vocabulary. Certainly you must see the inconsistency in denying God all credit for everything that is good in the universe but turning to blame him when you stump your toe. I should think that a self-professed atheist would be the first to avoid using God’s name in vain unless he has some subconscious desire to berate God, as you seem to do. It is obvious that your agenda extends far beyond simply debating your atheism, but also encompasses a negative propaganda program against God.

posted by telemachus on April 3, 2004 at 6:28 AM | link to this | reply

Uh shawn, me boyo

That is called an expression.
I used it on purpose here because it just seemed very fitting.
I really think you are trying to read a little too much into this stuff.
I say 'Jesus!' at times, as well as 'God Damn it'.
But it has nothing to do with any belief, just word usage to convey feelings.

posted by kooka_lives on April 2, 2004 at 10:50 PM | link to this | reply

Kooka

Pay close attention here and notice that in your comment below, you write, and I quote: "Oh My God"!

posted by telemachus on April 2, 2004 at 9:11 PM | link to this | reply

Oh my God

That was funny, very funny.

You really do not listen.

I do wish you could enjoy life for the sake of enjoying life instead of needed the ideas of God to make you think you have found happiness.

I hope someday you will understand that one does not need a God to make them happy or to find true happiness. It comes form with in and has no need of an outside influence such as your God.

posted by kooka_lives on April 2, 2004 at 6:27 PM | link to this | reply

Bye for Now But Remember to Pray

Kooka:

 

Your responses reek of exaggeration.  You are so concerned about compromising your prideful position that you refuse to see.  You insist on bad mouthing the most high and perpetuating chaos.  Your continuous testimony of your over joyous happiness is strained and overworked. 

 

All enlightened bloggers please pray that Kooka may conquer the forces that besiege him. 

Kooka, when whatever event eventually humbles you occurs, remember to pray for insight

posted by telemachus on April 2, 2004 at 5:13 PM | link to this | reply

Shawn

I have no need for this 'Truth' which you and so many other preach about.
I understand the idea of wanting to share joy with others, I do it all the time. My life is very full of joy and happiness, more so than a lot of Christians I have known and I do everything I can to share that Joy. You may believe that somehow what you feel is the absolute highest version of joy and that the only way to feel it is to believe, but you are wrong. You have found your joy in believing and somehow that has made it so you feel comfortable in life and I am happy for you. If there was a way to measure joy and happiness I would bet you anything I would would measure up to you, if not exceed you in that. It is not about God, but about knowing how to make the most of life. I know all the 'Truth' I need to enjoy life to the fullest.

And you keep bringing up the fact that I did say I feel there is a higher being. This being is not God, nor does it even come close to being what you and other have been worshipping as God. It is something so totally alien that we can only guess at what it is like or what its purpose is. However it has nothing to do with our happiness and enjoyment of life. That is something we each must go out and find on our own in our own way. This higher being does not really care about us as individuals, but rather the whole of what mankind adds to the total of the universe, even though it is very minuscule, if it is even aware of us at all. Each and every person needs to go and make their most of their lives without worrying about any kind of Higher Power. That is true happiness. To enjoy life for the sake of enjoying life and not worry that you might be damned to hell because you did something wrong.

posted by kooka_lives on April 2, 2004 at 11:58 AM | link to this | reply

Let Goodness Prevail

The hard thing for me to figure out a way to communicate to you is that being connected to God is like having a direct, fiber optic pipeline to the Truth. Religious people preach to you because they care about you and want you to get linked into this fiber optic pipeline. It’s kind of like finding something really good and wanting to let others in on it. To ignore people without it would be like watching someone starve to death while you were pigging out on a plate of double beef whoppers with cheese. For some reason you choose to create this barrier of denial even though you subconsciously seem to acknowledge the higher power. I am baffled as to why you would be motivated to publicly denounce God, who so clearly represents the prevailing goodness in the world.

posted by telemachus on April 2, 2004 at 2:11 AM | link to this | reply

And U-l-f

I have often said that everyone has the right to believe as they will. The point of what I am doing here has nothing to do with trying to convert others to my ideas. As long as religious people are going to run around preaching to me, I am going to preach back. The only time I really go off on someone is when they get into the whole 'I pray that you will find God' thing, which is insulting to me and my beliefs. Some people need a 'God' to worship and make their lives complete, for whatever reason. I do not and I make that very clear, although it seems like very few listen or understand this idea.

posted by kooka_lives on April 1, 2004 at 9:44 PM | link to this | reply

U-l-f

You are wrong. True happiness has nothing to do with please others all the time. It has to do with being true to yourself and doing what you can to make others happy. Often making others happy is not the same as pleasing them. I have known many people who do not want to be happy, so pleasing them is to make sure they are miserable. When you do find some way to make them happy, it can be a very amazing thing to see. Even though it is normally not lasting. And a lot of people think they known what they need to make them happy, but are wrong. So it is not about pleasing people, but about doing what you can to enjoy your life and hope that you are able to make that joy rub off onto others.

posted by kooka_lives on April 1, 2004 at 9:39 PM | link to this | reply

shawn

A higher power and God can be two very different things. I do not beleive ina God. A god is a being who is powerful and active and all that. A higher being jsut is. It does not need to be all powerful or even aware. I made no contradictions. You are trying to put the two things together, when they need not be. What I see as a higher power that is theuniverse is nothing like a god of any kind.

posted by kooka_lives on April 1, 2004 at 9:34 PM | link to this | reply

You may think this idea lacks integrity, but I've been thinking lately more

often, that the only way to be happy is to be pleasing to others.  So they say you can't please everyone; but when it doesn't matter, can't you just agree with the person who's whole existance is based upon their faith, rather than to argue about it?  I mean, who cares if they think you're full of faith or not?  If they truly ARE full of faith, they'll be able to tell the difference, and you would be guilty of doing nothing more than to practice what they preach - that is being a loving person by not arguing.

Too shallow?

posted by TARZANA on April 1, 2004 at 8:36 PM | link to this | reply

Get it Straight.

Come on Kooka, this is contrary to what you just said in the comments to your previous blog, and I quote you directly: "at some level I do think there is some kind of higher power, but it is not anything like what the Christians want us to believe. It does not need a bunch of people worshipping it and it does not care. We are part of it like atoms are part of us." - Kooka, that’s an acknowledgement of God. Stop denying your true beliefs. I truly hope that you are not exaggerating your exorbitant happiness.

posted by telemachus on April 1, 2004 at 8:09 PM | link to this | reply