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Live (Lyric) by Luv2write We can live for every moment
We can die for what we love
We can dream of sunny days to come
And what awaits us up above
We can plan our futures to a 't'
We can live with hope to share
We can imagine Heaven's pearly gates
And what life will be like there
We can strive for every goal we have
We can reach for distant stars
We can long for what we do not have
And what will never be ours
We can hope for the best in all we do
We can deal with what life gives
We can be free in knowing when we die
Forever in Christ we'll live
Up the ladder:
Simple
Down the ladder:
You tell me I suck *2*
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Posted: March 11, 2003 7:37 PM PST; Last modified: March 19, 2003 6:24 PM PSTWeighted score: 4.880797 Overall Rank: 10046 Comments:
Pop Quiz: what did Kurt Godel, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Werner Heisenberg prove? Answer: you don't know, you can't know, you can't say and you can't understand. This applies to everything. Even Christian theology implies these things. You should stop being so goddamned selfish and give something back to the earth instead of engaging in futile debate concerning what is none of your business. It don't matter. It just don't matter. Oh god we can't even establish causality *WUH HUH HUH* can't observe something without affecting it *SNRKNKNK* language is no better than mathematics, which is a pile of hooey anyway **SBBLLB WUH HUH HUH HUH, HUH WUH WUH** Bertrand Russell where are you now that we need you here?? **WUH HUH HUH** Whitehead?? Anyone??????///////////////////
The first two lines are horribly cliche. Then you dive right into the juvenile idea of some happy realm in the clouds were everything is lemonade and buttercups. Everything is pretty much the same after that. What are you trying to say? What is important here, new, insightful? You are terribly naive.
Write something meaningful. Write something frightening, tell me something frank and risky about yourself, your faith. This is an easter greetings card, it's not about reality, or living this life. Or the struggle of being a christian for that matter. Personally, I am an atheist who loves Jesus more than anyone else, more than any other idea. Because of what he tries to teach me. Whether there is a god or not holds no bearing on what Jesus symbolizes. Love, charity, friendship. Infact if there is no god, and Jesus was just some gentle schitzophrenic, his life is that much more poignant. Is christ really as concerned with what happens to you after you die, as he is with how you live? Paul's the one who keeps going on about the rewards of the afterlife. I mean just for the sake of arguement read the sermon on the mount or any of the parrables but instead of thinking Jesus is talking about what awaits you when you're dead, read it in the context of Jesus telling you what awaits you now, while you're here in this life, if you follow his teachings. Not to judge, but to love. That is so fucking difficult. Look at me, I couldn't be nice to Ornella if you paid me(well maybe if you paid me), and the man I have loved deeply for 7 years just dumped me, and what do I want to do? Buy a gun and shot him because of the unbearable pain I'm his brought me. That's why I love Jesus, because he offers me salvation from being such a lousy selfish impulsive animal. He says to me, "Hey, what about love. What about treating these horrible people the way you'd want them to treat you"? Because I'm horrible too, intil I train myself not to be, and for me personally, the best teacher, the one it's easiest to understand, is Christ. That is all, that's why my faith in him is important. There is no afterlife. No heaven. No hell. Most christians interpret "The kingdom of god is at hand" as meaning the end is near. Maybe it means this place here, this only existence we can be sure of, could be the kingdom of god if we just did right by each other. I've read the bible hundreds of times. I read it every day. It's mostly a fairytale, but every myth has it's lesson. Don't let the lesson be that dying is better than living. That there is a place better than this place. This place is all we have, and we have it for such a short while. Don't imagine pearly gates or strive for distant stars. Imagine a simple contentment. Strive for a moment's peace. Don't let the lesson be that all those who don't believe as you have been taught, are doomed to eternal suffering. How arrogant, how stupid and childish and ungodly. I chose the name god'swife because it is such a ludicrous idea. As if there were a god, as if he had a wife. I cannot be god because I am female. The best I can do is marry well. I feel very tender feelings for you right now. I don't wish to shake your faith, but step outside your fence. Travel out to the edge of the wood, go in, find something better for yourself. Read the Gnostic gospels, read the gospel according to Thomas. Go to the desert and confront God. Did you know your Bible, the one you hold in your hands and take to church, was put together by a bunch of greedy, perverted catholic bishops? Think about that. Your sister in Christ.
lol
Yes it's very funny. I was thinking of you when I wrote it. How I love to hear you laugh. It's like a fluffy puppy dog taking a whiz on a crystal fire hydrant...no... it's more like a 10 dollar whore faking an orgasm. Either way it's music to my ears. Love is deaf as well as blind.
The word 'lol' has nothing to do with laughing. One says 'lol' when one wishes to summon the power of a certain mental state. By uttering 'lol', the intent to instantiate the state is announced, and the instantiation begins or is more completely done. But it can also be used as a threat of entering that state, or a bluff.
It's true that part of the power of the 'lol'-state comes from the common misconception that 'lol' has something to do with laughter, so by telling you this I am compromising my gender-specific individuality profile, but since I respect you so much as a poet, a lover, a friend and most of all as a human being, I thought you should know. xoxo -=Dark_Angel=-
Why not read the Koran instead? It's actually pretty interesting. Some nice imagery.
Hm...wow. As you can see religion is a touchy subject. Something that anyone and everyone is willing to argue with, since no two people have the same exact beliefs. Cheers to you for hitting such a controversial subject on a public site.
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According to your beliefs, what will god do to me if I choose not to worship him? (hint: torture me for ever and ever)
Your childish theology is so at odds with the actual text of the bible you clearly have NOT actually read it yourself.
(a) God does not do things by accident
(b) Therefore everything He does must be intentional
(c) God sees all things
(d) Your bum is a thing
(e) Therefore God is looking at your bum
(f) He cannot be looking at your bum by accident
(g) Therefore He is intentionally looking at your bum
(h) QED
personally, i think that god probably wants a nice fire and a glass of scotchbehind closed doors in his snug, now and again. no noise but the crackling of the spiders on the firewood.
maybe that's why he's bring armageddon on us?
Yeah but without suffering, there would also be no suffering. Let us suppose that the aim of compassion is to reduce suffering. Surely any compassionate being would want to live in a World without suffering. Is there compassion in Heaven? You utter weiner.
Consider this:
(a) God made all things
(b) Hell is a thing
(c) Therefore God made Hell
(d) If He hadn't made Hell, then no-one would have to go to Hell.
So why did He make Hell? Before you answer, consider this:
(a) God is perfect
(b) God has free will
(c) Therefore it is possible to be perfect AND still have free will
(d) So God could have made us all perfect beings with free will
(e) Then there would be no suffering
(f) But He did not do this
(g) Why?
(h) IT CANNOT BE BECAUSE HE WANTED US TO HAVE FREE WILL
Also, if they lost their faith because it conflicted with whatever morals happened to be in vogue, then they are losing it for the wrong reasons, and as far as my pants are concerned, not believing in Jesu for the wrong reason is just as naughty as believing in Jesu for the wrong reason.
Anyway I do believe in Jesu. Don't you?
"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth"
It's hard for people to give their lives to Christ because Christianity is complete and utter bullshit. It's so obviously bullshit. The vast majority of Christians are only Christians because they have grown up with Christian beliefs and are too scared to let (one) go. The fact that the majority of religious people adopt the religion of those about them makes it OBVIOUS that it is their environment, rather than any sort of divine experience of Jesu, that has led them to choose such a religion.
If you believe in Christianity, but still refuse to give your life to Christ because you think Christians have no fun, then you are either insane or so unbelievably stupid that I seriously doubt you even wear trousers.
Besides, Christians don't have fun. I've been to Christian social events, and all they consist of is a load of smug idiots in sandals singing Christian folk songs. You can tell by their faces that they are utterly weak and probably think that wooden toys are better than plastic toys because they are more traditional. Wooden toys are so beautiful.
But stuff like Numbers 31 and Psalm 137 (which I came across when I was 16) just don't cut it with me. Even if he is real, I won't serve a god who tells his followers to do such things.
Would you, really, Luv2write? Have you ever read Numbers 31? Or Joshua? Read Numbers 31 and make it into a story, dramatize it in your head, from the point of view of one of the 32,000 Midianite virgin girls divvied up among the Israelite men after they had slaughtered everyone she'd ever known. How would she feel about god? I DARE you to read Numbers 31 and make a vivid story of it in your head. Your god ordered that done.
Exactly why was it important to God to have 32000 terrified girls watch the "Children of God" hack their mothers and brothers and older sisters to death with bronze swords?
Having read Numbers, Joshua, Deuteronomy, and Revelations you understand then that you are a follower of a God who commits and demands that his followers commit genocide on a regular basis. If your beliefs are true, if Revelations is true and you make the grade, you yourself will ride behind Christ at the end of times, participating in an act of mass slaughter.
Now tell me: why should I have any more respect for your beliefs, or any less loathing than for those of any other follower of a genocidal leader -- than for the followers of Hitler or Lenin?
amen.
FWIW--i don't eat seafood!
What does one have to do to be Jesu? I met the Lady Jesus in Berkeley -- oh she was a hoot, she came from somewhere out of the midwest, well-dressed, educated cultured voice with just a hint of midwest accent, 5'2" with long corn husk hair, tanned like a country girl, late-thirties and stunningly beautiful, she believed with complete congruence that she was the "Lady Jesus." When she told you so she'd look straight into your eyes and say it with a quiet conviction that'd send shivers down your spine. Maybe Luv2write is a Lady Jesus in the making.
Ain't schizophrenia a beautiful thing? They say such dark and lovely things, I love to listen to them.
as a fundamentalist bible thumping Pentecostal. Because of this I ended up leaving home at the age of 17. It was the most difficult thing I ever did, and
I'm still not over the emotional effects.