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posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 21, 2006 at 7:07 AM
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SDuccessWarrior
What a delightful post!This god changes faces and moods more than I change my socks and I'm kind of weird about socks., What payment do you want, Prophet?
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on September 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Thanks Sunny! I get my inspiration from god, you know.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 20, 2006 at 11:34 PM
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Good Post!
God IS Love and is in everything, everywhere.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on September 20, 2006 at 11:27 PM
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Tony, I was just teasing.
It's a common saying when people start to doubt the validity of some point of some religion.
"I just don't see how something like this could actually happen."
"You don't have to understand, you just have to have faith."
It's a way to keep followers dumbed down.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 20, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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Yes, you're right.
At the moment, in religious terms, i suppose I have very little - but not none at all, as I would never claim categorically, despite what i said before, that there is no god. I simply don't know. The fact that I see no evidence for it doesn't of itself prove there isn't one, or many. Whether I have faith or don't is, i suspect, largely out of my control (in my own defence!). Keep it up!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 20, 2006 at 4:47 PM
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Tony, thanks for the visit and the input and let me add...
To find god, you just have to have faith. =)
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 20, 2006 at 2:24 PM
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Odysseus, "superstition" - I like it.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 20, 2006 at 2:23 PM
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Hello!
God is an example of a made-up word about a made-up thing. All words are of course, made up, but not all things are. Most things aren't. A tree can be called anything, but whatever you call it, it's there. Where is a god? Not idols, these are wooden, stone etc. sculptures or pictures. I mean, where is a god? Up there, somewhere? Where - tell me the exact location. In all of us? Where exactly? Exact location please. Everywhere? How do you know? (Not you, of course, but all believers in a god.) Yes, it tells us in a book, but how do you know that book is true? Because it says itself? Why do you accept that? If I wrote a book beautifully outlining a god and including its supposed sayings, would you believe that? Why not? Because it's only just been written? To cut to the chase, the books we believe in are only the books we believe in because they became entrenched long ago within the culture we happened to have been born in. The music we listen to is the music we listen to because it has been entrenced within the culture we or our parents were born into. If you're Swedish, you probably don't listen to Indonesian musicians. One difference - music is a thing, god isn't. The world - or at least since the last major prophet died (take your pick) - is waiting to see this god. I'd love to see it. Or maybe I wouldn't, because it might take a dislike to me. If, that is, this god is genuinely a third party, and not just my own wish fulfillment, in which case of course it will do everything to help me, defeat my enemies, and give me everlasting life. What a load of nonsense all this is. (Not your blog - that's rather good!)
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 20, 2006 at 2:05 PM
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Success……yes, we should understand God
in the ways that God has chosen to be manifest unto us…….which is through the conscience and through the basic truths of morality……….Superstition has long been a stumbling block for humanity.
posted by
telemachus
on September 20, 2006 at 1:38 PM
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But your ideas of good and bad must be intelligently formed by you
That's another part of the sin picture. You have religious leaders who are trying to control great masses of people. Personal responsibility means thinking for yourself. You can't watch some preacher on TV and know what you are supposed to do. You could use the information to help you form your basis but in the end, only you can live your life, and only you know what's right for you.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 20, 2006 at 8:26 AM
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personal responsibility
that's right
but with the rider that one makes mistakes. everyone makes mistakes. but don't get mired in the guilt of being human. admit the mistakes, try not to do it again, get up and go ahead with your life -- avoiding mistakes and learning how to interact better with others.
the old system was that there was sin. one had to make propitiation for the sin. one then was forgiven for the sin. but guilt always lay on one.
life is not any different really, only we have to understand that sin is "missing the mark", just like playing darts. you aren't so accurate at first, but with practice you become more accurate, not 100%, but enough that you feel good about being better at it.
so that's life -- learning how to be more accurate at doing good (do unto others, etc.) and refraining from doing bad (do no harm).
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 20, 2006 at 8:12 AM
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