well actually I dont doubt his perceived communication from

Post #283,272

4/27/07 9:04:55 PM

above since the guy up stairs has a sense of humor and a snarky side as has been personally demonstrated to me over the years. Just pointing out the difference between defference and most organized religion.

As for the beer:30 next time Im on the left coast I'll take you up on that.
thanx,
bill

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Post #283,282

by static

4/28/07 7:44:03 AM

I think we agree on something...

above since the guy up stairs has a sense of humor and a snarky side ...

Quite.

I ran across something some years ago that convinced me that God has quite a sense of humour. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was :-/ but the conviction nonetheless remains.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

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Post #283,463

by Ashton

4/30/07 10:37:28 PM

The Prime Directive, nevertheless remains

(whether in Sanskrit or jive,) like all those other re-re-retranslations of a transliteration by an anonymous army of successive scribes, wannabe-writers, sure-to-be: editors -- all laboring away with their own peculiar flavour of jelloware doing the Creating --

The [Absolute] is without attributes, is beyond being and nonbeing ...

(This little pretty-Big Much - has been around since, long before the year 0-CE, thus many more centuries before The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind [link|http://www.julianjaynes.org/| Julian Jaynes] (merely an indicator that contemplation of the immutable, the immanent and the ephemeral have continued along since.. ook! OOK!! meant duck.)

Now, should I have a few moments to stifle the jelloware, in those final minutes ... I think I'd like to conjure up the Medicine Man to Geronimo - surely He was a sort to have aided Geronimo himself, in seeing the vacuum/vacuous core of the sanctimonious invaders, as they trashed lands, spread disease and slaughtered buffalo - for the sheer perversity of Killing Easy Targets, while manufacturing coin purses from the mammaries hacked off the women, watching children sabered to death.

Geronimo Knew.. the soullessness of the entrepreneur and what was to Come: the nothingness inside a Shrub, that long before any of the present ones were spawned. It would Be Good to die in such company, and -- such may be conjured-up as readily, on-the-occasion: as any of the Brand-names. No need to die first, to find This out, y'know?

But I digress: *Without* [any!] *Attributes*
such as, [but not limited to]
"He", "Father", "Likes jokes" / hates-queers-S/He-'made' / will 'Save' assholes like Robertson and Foulwell / gives virgins to hot/horny new bomber-boy arrivals ...

as in, C'monnnn, Mon :-0

Ummm... never mind;
Sweet Reason has long been discredited by the cloaked ones: for that little stain on her dress. Now, if only we had a fairwitness. With a larynx.

Post #283,468

by static

4/30/07 10:52:52 PM

In other words...

God is not just beyond what we imagine but beyond what we can imagine. :-)

Even in the Christian church it is instructive to remind ourselves of this from time to time.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

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Post #283,474

by Ashton

5/1/07 12:20:04 AM

Sounds about right -

I think you've Got It, about as far as word-things manage.
Pity that so many folks skipped that crucial clue, eh?

We could skip the warz! everybody's Right-enough, and the only blasphemy is claiming a Certainty of this or that sort. As with quantum mechanics and any other statistical crap-shoot: let the Casino serve as our Basilica.

;-j

PS - PBS is doing tonight, The Mormons @ 2 x 2 hour-sessions. I'll try.. for,
as Lao-TzuHeinlein said, best to grok thine enemy to fullness, in the battles for preservation of one's bedroom from the armies of the Righteous enforcers.

(Hey.. they're all set-up to cover the er, food shortages during the tribulatin times n'stuff - by dictat: ya wanna be a Mormon? Learn how to make fire from twigs - at least they believe in thermodynamics, however grudgingly.)

My deal:
Aces, deuces, treys wild and 5 Jokers in a deck

Post #283,509

by boxley

5/1/07 10:07:44 AM

look here brother, who you jiving with that cosmik debris?

Post #283,512

by bepatient

5/1/07 10:18:23 AM

Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?

Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

Post #284,636

by mmoffitt

5/14/07 4:20:31 PM

"The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

And, "Those who know do not speak. Those who do not know, speak freely."

Two gems from the East. Pity the Western religions never learned them.

bcnu,
Mikem

It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

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