Lets Make a Deal with God

Post by **stilltrucking** » September 11th, 2009, 2:17 pm

If He
leaves us be in peace
We won't mock Him no more

Post by **Nazz** » September 11th, 2009, 6:12 pm

Or,
If We stop "personifying,"*
He will stop persecuting.

* for lack of a better term.

Post by **mtmynd** » September 11th, 2009, 6:17 pm

If We stop "personifying,"
He will stop persecuting.

exactly.

Post by **Barry** » September 11th, 2009, 8:20 pm

Parents don't call their children its.
Why would children call their parents its?

"Male and female we will make them."

God and Goddess, too.

Peace,
Barry
PS: This is all metaphor, remember.

Post by **tarbaby** » September 12th, 2009, 6:24 am

Post by **stilltrucking** » September 12th, 2009, 11:48 am

Nazz wrote:

If We stop "personifying,"*
He will stop persecuting.

BINGO!

Post by **Barry** » September 13th, 2009, 12:50 am

HE doesn't persecute.
WE do.

The Tao of God is this:
what Man gives to God is what God gives to Man.

Peace,
Barry

Post by **stilltrucking** » September 13th, 2009, 1:52 am

Make the deal Barry
while you still can.

I got nothing left to deal with except fear.

Post by **mtmynd** » September 13th, 2009, 7:57 am

I got nothing left to deal with except fear.

truck, amigo... you know there is nothing left to fear. why hold it as a reason any longer? freedom demands it and the sooner it's accepted the better we all will feel.

Post by **stilltrucking** » September 13th, 2009, 9:13 am

If you say so Cecil.
But it sure going to put a crimp in the entertainment industry. So much of seems oriented towards fear these days.

Post by **mtmynd** » September 13th, 2009, 9:26 am

But it sure going to put a crimp in the entertainment industry. So much of seems oriented towards fear these days.

Good point! Our oldest son, Noah, is a big, big horror movie fan. Lives in Austin and there is a big Film Fest going on (or will be???) and he's already got his tickets for a zillion flicks to see. He does this every year.. and the fan base has got to be huge. Very popular genre.

Soo and I don't ever watch horror films.

Post by **stilltrucking** » September 13th, 2009, 9:35 am

I don't watch them either. I am not much for war movies anymore either. I suppose that is the upside of wars. Some fine novels have come out of them. Short Timers by Gustav Hasford the beat Marine on which the movie Full Metal Jacket was based is the last war novel I have read.

I wonder how Surfer Mike is doing. Do you remember the discussion about God on litkicks where mike said he saw God on a hilltop in Vietnam where his fire base was being over run by Vietcong?

Post by **mtmynd** » September 13th, 2009, 9:44 am

Do you remember the discussion about God on litkicks where mike said he saw God on a hilltop in Vietnam where his fire base was being over run by Vietcong?

No, truck, I sure don't. I'd imagine being over run by VC would bring the hopes of a god to anyone, eh? It may very well summon up a more powerful presence than me and the angry, vehemently-opposed-to Americans VC, I'm sure.

Post by **stilltrucking** » September 13th, 2009, 9:50 am

Mike was plenty scared he said. Praying to God to help him. Then God arrived deus ex machina in a heliocopter, wearing avaiator sun glasses with a forty five automatic in his hand. Firing away as Mike boarded the copter.

Post by **justwalt** » September 13th, 2009, 10:32 am

To me, fear is a welcome ally... a tool to aid in the perceptions of my
internal and external realities. Without (it), my life would be lacking
on all levels.

76 years ago, FDR said;
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
This makes sense, but only for a moment.
His words certainly helped many people at the time, but it was a
misconception, for it is not an emotion, or even a concept, just a tool...
as necessary as eyes or ears, but not as necessary as a mouth.

walt

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