Immortality?!
- Thread starter Katrina Johns
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i actually just came back here to delete my post, but you responded already. i wanted to delete it because i realized i was being too nosy. sorry..i understand.
Quote from Katrina Johns:
"The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it."
-- Mark Twain
gods need to give a little more for intellect and a little less for subservience.
then rs7, dan_m and i could put up some BIG NUMBERS!
err scuse me, can I join this what do you call it..... "multiple career" ( for career read sex) club?
Apparently I am able to give the feeling to some they have lived an eternity after listening to my mutterings This is, I should add, dissimilar to listening to Thunder, where you get to wish you were dead.
However I would be a useful addition, although most of the universe has me on ignore I can be very cheerful. Where there's life there's hope, hey what !
trdrmac reconsider. You may have overlooked something you are not aware of yet. How will you know if you are dead?
uh oh look out, we have one of those *christians* in our midst. (notice the "heylow")he's off his knees long enough to post his wisdom here. thank you oh wise & good one but to you have some advice of my own ...
... the swindle of life and the treachery of a God that can create disease and misery and crime -- create things that men would be condemned for creating-- that men would be ashamed to create.
-- Mark Twain
"We have to keep our God placated with prayers, and even then we are never sure of him -- how much higher and finer is the Indian's God.... Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge."
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned.
-- Mark Twain
chuckle chuckle
-- Mark Twain
chuckle chuckle
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. He would not stoop to ask for any man's compliments, praises, flatteries; and He would be far above exacting them. I would have Him as self-respecting as the better sort of man in these regards.
He would not be a merchant, a trader. He would not buy these things. He would not sell, or offer to sell, temporary benefits of the joys of eternity for the product called worship. I would have Him as dignified as the better sort of man in this regard.
He would value no love but the love born of kindnesses conferred; not that born of benevolences contracted for. Repentance in a man's heart for a wrong done would cancel and annul that sin; and no verbal prayers for forgiveness be required or desired or expected of that man.
In His Bible there would be no Unforgiveable Sin. He would recognize in Himself the Author and Inventor of Sin and Author and Inventor of the Vehicle and Appliances for its commission; and would place the whole responsibility where it would of right belong: upon Himself, the only Sinner.
He would not be a jealous God -- a trait so small that even men despise it in each other.
He would not boast.
He would keep private His admirations of Himself; He would regard self-praise as unbecoming the dignity of his position.
He would not have the spirit of vengeance in His heart. Then it would not issue from His lips.
There would not be any hell -- except the one we live in from the cradle to the grave.
There would not be any heaven -- the kind described in the world's Bibles.
He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when he could have made him happy with the same effort and he would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.
-- Mark Twain
He would not be a merchant, a trader. He would not buy these things. He would not sell, or offer to sell, temporary benefits of the joys of eternity for the product called worship. I would have Him as dignified as the better sort of man in this regard.
He would value no love but the love born of kindnesses conferred; not that born of benevolences contracted for. Repentance in a man's heart for a wrong done would cancel and annul that sin; and no verbal prayers for forgiveness be required or desired or expected of that man.
In His Bible there would be no Unforgiveable Sin. He would recognize in Himself the Author and Inventor of Sin and Author and Inventor of the Vehicle and Appliances for its commission; and would place the whole responsibility where it would of right belong: upon Himself, the only Sinner.
He would not be a jealous God -- a trait so small that even men despise it in each other.
He would not boast.
He would keep private His admirations of Himself; He would regard self-praise as unbecoming the dignity of his position.
He would not have the spirit of vengeance in His heart. Then it would not issue from His lips.
There would not be any hell -- except the one we live in from the cradle to the grave.
There would not be any heaven -- the kind described in the world's Bibles.
He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when he could have made him happy with the same effort and he would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.
-- Mark Twain