Why should we?

Post #36,015 by orion 4/19/02 2:57:28 PM Reply	Why should we? I should have a right to voice my opinion just like anyone else. Would you rather we Christians go door to door like the Jehova Witnesses, or Mormons? Or give out flowers and phanplets like the Hari Kristnas? Instead of the usual outburst of opinion, etc? I tried holding it in, but it hurts real bad. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #36,026 by Ashton 4/19/02 3:54:55 PM Reply	But what you are reading is Making you sick. [with anticipation] Notice? Like being sick ?? Think it's the only Way to hang-out here: a waitin fer the Final Judgment of all the inane stuff you (and everybody who ever lived) manage to 'do' ??? So's you can Really Live -- after You Be Daid? Misery loves company: that is why it is peddled door-to-door. You ARE what you 'believe' you are. Sadly.. Ashton I Believe - I'll have a glass of Schrammsburg blanc des noirs. (Whether or Not God will be made 'happy' by this choice.)
Post #36,060 by 3) 4/21/02 2:20:32 AM Reply	Not a problem Well, the theory is that the end-time is a Good Thing, at least for the righteous. Unfortunately, I'm not righteous enough to think that way. Fortunately, I take the concept that God has His own non-human-scaled idea of time more seriously than I do the idea that event X corresponds to event X' in a coded comentary on the bloody politics of certain long-dead tyrants in a way that implies the world will be ending spectacularly any time soon. The end-times are always here. My own world will be ending soon enough, my world-view will be destroyed by new evidence or further thought even sooner. Orion, focusing on end-times is not, from my understanding of your mental state (and I know a thing or two about depression, in theory, in people near to me, and by bitter pain-filled personal experience) a profitable perspective. Besides, it is out of season. Save it for autumn. This is the season of beginnings, of life sprouting from the rotten crud that was revealed when the snow melted. I am not a man, I am a free number.
Post #36,028 by inthane-chan 4/19/02 4:07:58 PM Reply	Ask yourself this question. "What can I do about this problem?" By this problem, I mean (in your opinion) impending end times. Then do it. If you can't do anything about it, then don't sweat it. If I knew that the world was about to end, I'd make the best of it. Spend time with friends 'n family, enjoy myself, and in fact, go on like things weren't going to end. Especially in the case of uncertainty - the world might end, and it might not. If you aren't certain, then don't sweat it! "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #36,038 by orion 4/19/02 4:54:06 PM Reply	The answer is that I do not know what I can do to avoid it. Got any ideas? *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #36,044 by inthane-chan 4/19/02 5:17:33 PM Reply	Then don't try to avoid it. If the end of the world is indeed coming, then there's nothing you can do about it. What good is it going to do you to worry about it? Please note I'm not saying to internalize it - just that IMO if God is going to end the world, he doesn't want all his True Believers having a cow about it. #disclaimer I am not a prophet of God, Allah, Yaweh, or any other known diety. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #36,150 by orion 4/22/02 6:07:08 PM Reply	Have a cow or warn others? I welcome the end of evil, etc. Just that there are a lot of people I am unsure of and that might need another chance to do good. Nothing I can do about it by myself, but as a group with others, we can make the world a better place. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #36,472 by 3) 4/24/02 11:42:02 PM Reply	In case of rapture Can I have your car? I am not a man, I am a free number.
Post #36,596 by inthane-chan 4/26/02 12:18:42 PM Reply	Damn, I was going to use that one... ...if you had used the usual one... :) "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #36,686 by orion 4/28/02 12:32:36 AM Reply	I promised it to my brother-in-law who is a Buddist as long as I am not driving the car when it happens. :) *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*

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