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Afzal
You are doing very well here with your posts. Your ranking is very high. I'm very proud of you.
Poetry....
THE SEARCH 
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 4:51 PM
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Sweetie,
I am grateful.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 4:39 PM
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Afzal
I've sent
darling
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 4:37 PM
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afzal
I will miss you today.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 3:49 PM
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afzal
And you know you are mine, as well. Thanks, love.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 3:48 PM
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Sweetie,
you are my inspirarion. Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:45 PM
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afzal
You know you are very welcome 
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 3:36 PM
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Bhaskar, you know that great men think alike.Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:36 PM
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Tonysonit, Well spoken Sir, I am grateful you got the point . Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:34 PM
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Sunny, you are always so kind and sweet . Thanks for your sweet kisses.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:31 PM
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nonconformist, I like your comment and do agree with you . Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:30 PM
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afzal
Thanks
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 3:29 PM
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Sunny , Good evening . I am O.K now after seeing your comment and finding
you near me .
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:28 PM
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babe rocks, Your comment has raised an important point regarding evil .
Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:25 PM
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afzal
You are very welcome, love.
Good Morning. You are awake early again, I see.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 3:19 PM
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lionladroar, Your comments are always so beautiful. Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:17 PM
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Sunny, I am happy to know that you liked the post . Thanks.
posted by
afzal50
on October 1, 2006 at 3:15 PM
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I think people should do good out of the kindness of their heart because
they see others as human as they are and "do as you would be done by". Surely there is no credit in doing good just so God will not punish you. In that way we are really only doing it for ourselves that is why I think that threatening punishment does not produce true goodness. If only people could see all of us as the same then there would be more humanity in the world and lesss inhumanity.
posted by
nonconformist
on October 1, 2006 at 2:11 PM
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This is interesting. I had a similar discussion with Jehovahs Witnesses about this. I was reading the Bible from cover to cover and there's a lot of blood and guts in the Old Testament. Supposedly God told the Israelites to slaughter the Canaanites and take their land. In my book that's genocide. The JW's said it was because the Canaanites worshiped Baal and sacrificed their children to their gods. I said, but the slaughter included little children, old people, the devout and the indifferent alike. I don't remember what they said but it was some half-baked excuse. It seems like morality as I know it was turned upside down in the OT. I don't know where evil originates but I don't doubt its existence.
posted by
babe_rocks
on October 1, 2006 at 1:41 PM
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Tonysonit
You have spoken the words that could have been mine. I have always wondered why God-fearing and not Gog-loving, why falling in love and not rising in love, and I have an innate abhorrence for 'the blood of Christ'.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 1, 2006 at 11:34 AM
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Hi Afzal
I don't know about God as worshipped by all the religions in equal detail, but as far as Christianity goes, the Scriptures imply that God will eventually allow everyone into heaven after they have been sufficiently cleansed. This is not however what the Christian church teaches. It tends to increase guilt and blind obedience by threatening sinners with hell. This may force people to behave better than they otherwise would, but it creates a horrible image of God as a vengeful being, which puts a lot of people off, and means that people have no responsibility to actually be good on earth, because they have a get out clause simply by going to church, or praying (usually only when they want something!) Most people can see through this nowadays.
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 1, 2006 at 11:03 AM
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Hi afzal, I believe only the great Creator is good, wholesome and rich in bursting colours of forgiving grace, swollen with love and understanding, of our many pitfalls as we climb the runs of the ladder.Blind, making many mistakes. Two of which I humbly consider are thinking ourselves good and others bad. Good is like the morning rising sunbeam, shooting golden arrow of truth, in faith through deep oceans of doubt. Creating the map of knowing for some, whom smile once more as they are embraced in the welcoming arms of Good. . . . Bad is the willful blinding of the innocence whom still trust themselves safe, in the arms of Good. . . But I am only a blind worldly man, whom dares in thinking I know the difference between Good and bad. Thank you afzal for my chance in comment friend. Mike
posted by
lionladroar
on October 1, 2006 at 10:27 AM
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Afzal
Good Post! 
As you already know, I have views that are quite different. I don't believe in sin. I believe that everything we do here, everything that happens, is just part of the human experience....
"We are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human".
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 1, 2006 at 5:53 AM
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