I'd like to change this one to:God favors no group. Only religions do that.
- Bumper Sticker
God favors no group. Only Bumper Stickers do that.
I'd like to change this one to:God favors no group. Only religions do that.
- Bumper Sticker
God favors no group. Only Bumper Stickers do that.
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*something random to make post over 10 characters long*
I have a plan: attack!
is that a mercat, Basil? or his legs are crossed?
hm. a mercat would be an oxymoron wouldn't it...
I'm not sure what Mr. Whiskers' story is. I think perhaps he was in a car accident and his broken, mutilated body defies all reason or explanation . . . and yet, he seems oddly serene.
No, I didn't know that, though it does sound very vaguely familiar (perhaps I heard it in another life...). Speaking of that, has this strange feeling that you've seen or done something before, even though you know that it's impossible, ever happened to anybody else? Because, well, it's happened to me quite a few times, and I can't really explain it; the only possibility I see is reincarnation.Originally Posted by Taliesin
Anyway, here's a few quotes I found in books:
...Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain2. In man's heaven everybody sings! The man who did not sing on earth sings there; the man who could not sing on earth is able to do it there. The universal singing is not casual, not occasional, not relieved by intervals of quiet; it goes on, all day long, and every day, during a stretch of twelve hours. And everybody stays; whereas in the earth the place would be empty in two hours. The singing is of hymns alone. Nay, it is of one hymn alone. The words are always the same, in number they are only about a dozen, there is no rhyme, there is no poetry: "Hosannah, hosannah, hosannah, Lord God of Sabaoth, 'rah! 'rah! 'rah! siss! -- boom! ... a-a-ah!"
3. Meantime, every person is playing on a harp -- those millions and millions! -- whereas not more than twenty in the thousand of them could play an instrument in the earth, or ever wanted to.
Consider the deafening hurricane of sound -- millions and millions of voices screaming at once and millions and millions of harps gritting their teeth at the same time! I ask you: is it hideous, is it odious, is it horrible? - Letters from Earth by Mark Twain. The full text can be found here.I thought it is interesting how religion is explored within literature. I'm sure there are numerous more examples, however these are the only ones I have come across so far, that I have my eyes open for them.Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. - Preface to the second edition of Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.
Miss Darcy
After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-W. A. Mozart
Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.
Not school, but life teaches us.
I read this Sufi parable not long ago, and thought to share, as it seems quite thought provoking:
In one of the great court banquets, everyone was seated according to rank, waiting the entry of the King. In came a plan, shabby man and took a seat above everyone else. His boldness angered the prime minister who ordered the new comer to identify himself. Was a he minister? No, more. Was he the King. No, more. "Are you then God?" asked the prime minister. "I am above that also," replied the poor man. "There is nothing beyond God," retorted the prime minister. "That nothing," came the response, "is me."
dEJA VUE'? In Psyche class (Brain and Behavior) we were taught that episodes of deju vue' were actually little misfires within the brain, hiccups in the chemical/electrical communication system used by the synapses. Thus an interupted reality, or thought, or awareness for a nano-second, too short a time for us to realize what has just taken place within our bodily functions...
As for reincarnation....yes.....all of us will be returning to the earth at some time in the future.......but it will be difficult for human compost to have an awareness of its existence......IMHO.....
I like the parable you've given mono...but its way over my comprehension, lol
I had to read it a few times to understand entirely also. It reminds me, in fact, much of a riddle:I like the parable you've given mono...but its way over my comprehension, lol
"What is greater than God, more evil than Satan, poor people have it, rich people need it, and, if you eat it, you will die."
Answer: nothing, of course.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
Through the deep wood, the slanting sunlight
Casts motley patterns on the jade-green mosses.
No glimpse of man in this lonely mountain,
Yet faint voices drift on the air.
~ Wang Wei
When we look around in this great beautiful earth. Some super being must have made the earth. and made us. So there must be a reason that we exist. There must be some sort of plan here. It must be in the Bible, so we can find the answers to our questions.
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