Redzeppelin
Cur etiam hic es?

Merry Christmas Red.

Merry Christmas Zep.

Hi Redzeppelin.

Your posts are great to read

I really like your signature. So simple and yet so meaningful. Always makes me smile.

Howdy do yourself - thanks for stopping by!

I think it would be nice visiting my friends in the list..
Howdy do?

Ah....Monty! I am quite embarrassed!
How are things with you right now?
I would add something to teleios's statement... I know I don't read all your posts, but you are always speaking from a good intention... and you are telling your views about God, which is important... have you ever read "Works of Love," by Soren Kierkegaard? I learned a great deal about Christianity from him. He explains his ideas very nicely, which are based off Christ's words.

Christ said to love the Lord with all your heart is the most important thing to do; and the second most important is to love your neighour as yourself. I may not have come to this not having read the book. Kierkegaard states then that to love God is to truly love yourself; then to help your neighbour to love God is to truly love them; likewise vice versa, to be helped to love God is to truly be loved.

This coincides with what I've been learning from the Bhagavad-Gita and Krishna's devotees for quite a while. Knowledge of the self, in relation to God, is part of self-realizatoin. We are created for a certain purpose, and that is to fully realize our original nature. Love of God is the highest state in self-realization. And the way to treat other people is with compassion, to help them realize their potential...

I am rambling on, I don't mean to preach. I wanted to say, too, that people I look up to in this life are believers...Karl Jaspers, Blaise Pascal, Johann Goethe... Goethe didn't find any particular system fully adequate, but still held certain spiritual views.

Anyway, mainly just wanted to support you for what you do...I can't deal with some of the energies on here so if certain people try to take over my threads, I go elsewhere. Words do matter and pessimistic ideas, for instance, are destructive.

Talk to you soon!

Hey Red,
Just wanted to say I really respect your posts. I always find them illuminating/enlightening. I also wanted to note; I know how frustrating it can be sometimes when attempting to debate with people online. I want to encourage you, as one brother to another, to keep Ephesians 4:29 at the front of all your communications here - I think you'll find they'll tend to be more fruitful (Pendragon seems to have mastered this art). While you haven't done anything wrong, I have followed your posting quite closely and have seen your frustration occasionally show itself.

Stay strong, my brother. As a Christian, everyone is watching you closely, waiting for a single misstep.

I hope to see you around!

In Christ,
Teleios

To be quite honest, I got over Lit Net a while ago. I've only been a member for around a year or so, and the majority of my posts were made in the first 6 months. Now I show up every once in a while and troll the religious threads, but I only run into Atheist (who won't engage in real debate) and Jozanny (who frets about the state of debate in Lit Net). I used to be really into it, until I discovered how many people would prefer just to slam Christians than to enter into a serious discussion with us.

Oh well. Good to find a fellow "lit scholar" here.

No, I really meant that I had an emphasis in American Lit. My actual degree is English Literature. It's just quicker to write that my degree is "American Literature" because that's what I focused on.

I'm glad you appreciate my posts. To be honest I'm starting to get burnt out on the forums with all the excessive arguing. I am also starting to feel that way about the internet in general.