Which just supports my contention . . .

Post #35,615 by Andrew Grygus 4/16/02 1:19:13 PM Reply	Which just supports my contention . . . . . that Islam, Judaism and Christianity should all three be banned as violent, intollerent and guilty of copious crimes against humanity - or just ban monotheism entirely as worthless crap - it's just an excuse to declare everyone else subhuman so you can kill them. Of course, then "right thinkng" folks would have go through all the trouble of coming up with some other excuse to slaughter their neighbors. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #35,643 by 3) 4/16/02 3:31:18 PM Reply	The problem is numero-theism Assigning a number to divinity. Doesn't matter if it's one like the monotheists think, two like the Manicheists, zero like the atheists, or even three as most of us Catholics almost-rightly say. I Am isn't a number, isn't even countable. I am not a man, I am a free number.
Post #35,648 by Andrew Grygus 4/16/02 3:48:16 PM Reply	Well, if you're gonna be . . . . a freak'n Kabalist about it . . As any good Pagan knows, Nothing & Everything (0 and Infinity) are just different ways of expressing the same concept (or number for the mathematically inclined). Anything else is just a sub expression of nothing - a construct of perception - dividing out a piece of nothing and contemplating it's properties as if it were a distinct entity. "Nothing divided itself into everything in order to know itself." There are also a lot of "bad Pagans" who just run an imitation of Christianity with multiple gods/goddesses instead of just three (or 4 if you count Mary (Isis)). [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #35,645 by boxley 4/16/02 3:38:38 PM Reply	Hindus are going at it pretty good right now in India Couple of massacres going on over a temple/mosque problem. Has to do with the theory if the other guy built it the dirt must be spiritual, so knowck down his stuff and put up ours. thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #35,651 by Andrew Grygus 4/16/02 3:55:57 PM Reply	They are resisting the incursion of . . . . a foreign, monotheistic (thus naturally exclusive and violent) religion that has every intention of killing them if it can get away with it. A zillion cults get along pretty well there so long as nobody claims to "serve the one and only" and tries to kill everyone else (or convert by force as is being done in Africa right now). [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #35,683 by Ashton 4/16/02 6:29:53 PM Reply	We need a few more supporting that contention, methinks. Believe there is ample evidence that all the -isms, taken together - acoount for near-100% of the rationalizations for the warisgoodbizness; investyourson periodic massacres for $, for ego - for just plain Goodness. Trouble is: the fear of the Mystery of Why Life Is* (or for that matter: why Anything Is) won't go away. Substituting some idea of Holy-Science (say) proves not nearly as attractive an antidote to things thatgoBump inthe night as -- all those refined fantasies of bearded men -- alternatively and occasionally "kindly/loving" ... but always Ruling With That Iron Fist\ufffd. What do you call folks who Love Punishment (even for - just being born) ?? * never ... Never! ask 'why?' !! y'know? Now if there is some genetic predisposition in homo-sap, towards masochism (?) Then we just may lack the overall capacity to kick the fantasy habit, accept that Life is a pretty Wonderful Thing\ufffd (compared with.. what?) and thus finally grow into an adult species, and cease being Righteous - as daily expression of our Death Wish. In which case, all the excrescenses and slogans and flags shall continue for the duration to be - Will Shakespeare's compact summation: all that, ..sound and fury, signifying Nothing. (where.. ignorant armies clash by night.) SO.... what's on Tee Vee?

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