The Concept of God
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RYME said:PJ soles, or HFD, any of you coming down to this Bourbon Festival in Kentucky by any chance? It would be fun to have a few cold drinks together and talk about music or whatever you know.
Btw, lol, you used the name of the REAL PJ Soles, the actress who played Norma in Carrie. That nasty biatch!!!I have watched that movie probably a dozen time, but I actually never connected the dots when I quite thoughtlessly chose my screen name in the middle of the night, hahaha:
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata0 -
PJ_Soul said:RYME said:PJ soles, or HFD, any of you coming down to this Bourbon Festival in Kentucky by any chance? It would be fun to have a few cold drinks together and talk about music or whatever you know.
Btw, lol, you used the name of the REAL PJ Soles, the actress who played Norma in Carrie. That nasty biatch!!!I have watched that movie probably a dozen time, but I actually never connected the dots when I quite thoughtlessly chose my screen name in the middle of the night, hahaha:
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Oh, you've never seen Carrie, eh? Hmmmmmm, I'd be very curious to know what you think of it actually, because it's in context with this whole conversation. Carrie's mom is an extremely devout Christian with some, er, very strong views. Meanwhile, her daughter has some very concerning supernatural abilities. They clash a little, lol. You7 should watch it! Just make sure you watch the original from the 70s, and not any of the remakes.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata0 -
A must see!
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PJ_Soul said:I just hope they're wrong, because my best friend's brother is getting married on Saturday, and it promises to be an extremely fun party - I'd hate to see our fun and their big day ruined by the Rapture.“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
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I feel that most, who run the churches,are greedy. Most who attend the churches are needy, And those who believe that it doesn't matter where you worship, It's how you worship, Are pretty damn cool.
On a serious note, I do believe in God, I've never had a denomination, And only visited a few churches in my lifetime. Two of which, Gave me migraines from the time I entered,Til the time I left. I don't believe, Just to get a spot in heaven, I believe in him, Because I feel his presence. I know that I was born, I know that I will die. The in between is mine, To be kind, To love, To learn from my mistakes, And to teach what I've learned.....
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donnaruhl said:I feel that most, who run the churches,are greedy. Most who attend the churches are needy, And those who believe that it doesn't matter where you worship, It's how you worship, Are pretty damn cool.
On a serious note, I do believe in God, I've never had a denomination, And only visited a few churches in my lifetime. Two of which, Gave me migraines from the time I entered,Til the time I left. I don't believe, Just to get a spot in heaven, I believe in him, Because I feel his presence. I know that I was born, I know that I will die. The in between is mine, To be kind, To love, To learn from my mistakes, And to teach what I've learned.....
Amen to that.
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goldrush said:PJ_Soul said:I just hope they're wrong, because my best friend's brother is getting married on Saturday, and it promises to be an extremely fun party - I'd hate to see our fun and their big day ruined by the Rapture.
Anyway, the wedding went off without the apocalypse, so the bride and groom can enjoy more than a few hours of marriage together. Yay!
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata0 -
totally forgot about the rapture this weekend.Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall0
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HughFreakingDillon said:totally forgot about the rapture this weekend.
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HesCalledDyer said:
Message from God:
"No one here gets out alive. Stop fooling yourself with this rapture nonsense!"
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In a way I envy the believers. I guess it would be really cool to have the kind of solid confidence some folks seem to have that they will either be whisked away to paradise en masse with their family of believers or, because some divine will, be led up the golden staircase into an eternally peaceful place called Heaven. My gut tells me that my own life will be a rather quickly fading echo. I already feel the coils unwinding. Best to leave as little wreckage as possible. Try to do better or a least be a bit less corrosive. I don't know if time really flies, but it is fleeting.
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Don't envy arrogant ignorance brother Lux, read some Wendell Berry and revel in this life with it's joys and sorrows, it's a singular experience and I'm not sure I would want to cheapen it with an endless(ly boring) paradise.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0
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Speaking of Berry, he's one of those inexplicable poets who is simultaneously confident in a Creator and yet possesses the surety of knowledge that is usually inaccessible to those with such belief.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0
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He's like an electron in an excited triplet state, taking on the light of life, he makes forbidden transitions with predictable regularity, releasing the light slowly in altered wavelengths, and illuminating the world thereby.
Damn, I am one toke right to the line, that is a beautiful metaphor for physics buffs, phosphorescence is the shit.
As a little boy I loved all things glow-in-the-dark, little did I know that a quantum mechanical improbability is responsible for that dear phenomena.Post edited by rgambs onMonkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
rgambs said:Don't envy arrogant ignorance brother Lux, read some Wendell Berry and revel in this life with it's joys and sorrows, it's a singular experience and I'm not sure I would want to cheapen it with an endless(ly boring) paradise.
Nice metaphor by the way!
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donnaruhl said:I feel that most, who run the churches,are greedy. Most who attend the churches are needy, And those who believe that it doesn't matter where you worship, It's how you worship, Are pretty damn cool.
On a serious note, I do believe in God, I've never had a denomination, And only visited a few churches in my lifetime. Two of which, Gave me migraines from the time I entered,Til the time I left. I don't believe, Just to get a spot in heaven, I believe in him, Because I feel his presence. I know that I was born, I know that I will die. The in between is mine, To be kind, To love, To learn from my mistakes, And to teach what I've learned.....
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I would like to step forward today and say thank you to everyone that has posted here. I think often about our convos in this thread.
I believe in God.
I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say. I feel I understand "organized religion " a little better.
Thank you all for sharing.
But I do wonder if I'm just believing what I want so it's easy.
I know this is weird and choppy but felt I needed to get it out. Maybe it will help me process.
Oh please let it rain today.
Those that can be trusted can change their mind.0
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