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Lets Make a Deal with God
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 2:17 pm
by stilltrucking
If He
leaves us be in peace
We won't mock Him no more
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 6:12 pm
by Nazz
Or,
If We stop "personifying,"*
He will stop persecuting.
* for lack of a better term.
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 6:17 pm
by mtmynd
If We stop "personifying,"
He will stop persecuting.
exactly.
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 8:20 pm
by Barry
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.
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 6:24 am
by tarbaby
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Posted: September 12th, 2009, 11:48 am
by stilltrucking
Nazz wrote:
If We stop "personifying,"*
He will stop persecuting.
BINGO!
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 12:50 am
by Barry
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
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 1:52 am
by stilltrucking
Make the deal Barry
while you still can.
I got nothing left to deal with except fear.
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 7:57 am
by mtmynd
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.
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 9:13 am
by stilltrucking
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.
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 9:26 am
by mtmynd
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.
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 9:35 am
by stilltrucking
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?
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 9:44 am
by mtmynd
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.
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 9:50 am
by stilltrucking
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.
Posted: September 13th, 2009, 10:32 am
by justwalt
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