Love That Christian Tolerance

Started by TehBorken, Apr 11 06 10:26

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TehBorken

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P.C. wrote:
How are these people.......
 

 
reading the same book as these people
 



 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

tenkani

Sportsdude, sorry if I'm offending you. You seem like a nice guy, and your philosophy, apart from the crazy dogma associated with the core beliefs of your faith, is a good one.

  Crazy doesn't necessarily mean evil or dangerous anyway. As you've demonstrated, believing in invisible people doesn't necessarily lead to intolerance and hatred.  
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of Juan Valdez
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of coffee forever.

P.C.

My Grandmother was probably the most religious person I know.  She never went to church, she didn't own a Bible or a crucifix over her bed.

  She was kind and compassionate.  She thanked the earth for her vegetables and treated the earth with respect and care.  She ate eggs from her chickens and she treated them as well as she would treat you or me.  She was grateful for what she had and always gave thanks (without ceremony.....in her own way, in her own home to her own 'god').

 

She worked hard.  She was able to because she treated herself with respect as well.

  That's what it's all about to me.    
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

tenkani

Goodness and spirituality without religion.

Nice to know that it's possible.
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of Juan Valdez
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of coffee forever.

P.C.

tis tenkani.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/d042.gif" border=0]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

kitten

As P.C. said, the whole key to decent behaviour is in the Golden Rule.  If everyone was to follow that, there would be no war, poverty or famine.  Unfortunately, we can only do this individually, since the vast majority don't feel that way in spite of all the religions that teach it.  Since a lot of the preachers are the greediest of the lot, we can't expect their followers to pay attention to anything that doesn't either scare them or benefit them.  The ones that do try to practice love and tolerance get punished by the very churches that advocate tolerance.  And all of this is predicated on a bunch of old myths.  Amazing!  So sad that there are so many sheep in the world that want to be led by the nose.  A lot of them are otherwise intelligent, but they still won't question the beliefs of the elders.
Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped.  They have not forgotten.

Gopher

Three cheers for P.C. and Sportsdude!
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Gopher

Schadenfreude wrote:
 Why do homosexuals feel they have to announce to the world they are homosexual?

  That's something I've always wondered about, too. Certainly not to make life easier for themselves as they lay themselves open to the homophobia of the ignorant.
 
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

I might not being practising due to the fact that I'm a bit peeved at the culture in general (not elca just the christian culture in america). We have a new pastor (since the old one got booted) she yes SHE said in her bio that she was lost in the wilderness for 20 years before she came back. I guess I'm in that stage, but I've been alienated not lost. Alienation turns to hate. So I've decided to take another route and just be a good person and help the world. After college I might sign up for the peace corp or something before going into law school. I've always helped the poor and misfortunate first in my life before myself. (Yes this can backfire, since my own life was in shambles 2 years ago).

   So I've decided to go into politics but I can't due what I want to do in Missouri.  Washington on the other hand I can do what I want to do. Anybody remember Tommy Douglas? Well, thats my political view. 40 million people in this country don't have health insurance. When they get in an accident they are sent to places you don't want to know.  Small businesses in this country continue to suffer to the big box stores of Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Home Depot, Microsoft.  The enviroment is going down the tubes in this country. The president is selling off our national forests. People get tax breaks for buying hummers, cars haven't gained better fuel economy in 20 years! Public Transportation is not existant in this country, we need to stop being the world's bully acting like we own the world, censorship in america needs to stop, fcc shouldn't be allowed to fine broadcasters, mpaa movie ratings are old and need to be updated with more of a focus of higher ratings on violence instead of sex. People need to get over the abortion issue. Separation of Church and State. Bilingual america by making english and spanish the offical languages. Then to stop a Quebec thing from happening schools must teach spanish and english, must take spanish all 12 years in school along with english and 3 years of another language. Make cars have 50 miles per gallon. They can do it look at Europe. Pass the first transportation bill in history that only deals with public transit (subways not buses).  

  Only problem is, is that will never happen in america and one person like me can't accomplish it. Why? Politics. We live in a autocratic government where there are only two parties with any chance and those two parties won't let other ideas come to the table. I'd like to set up a SDP party here but I couldn't use the words social democracy party because I'd never win. Conservatives would call me a commi. And they would somehow turn me into a Stalin.  Even though the rest of the western world is run by social democratic thinking (they use FDR as a model) we can't have that noo that would be communism.

  The other plan I have is to become mayor of Pt. Roberts, Washington. Why Pt. Roberts? Its a defacto community in that in order to get to the U.S. you need to go into Canada take a half hour ride thru White Rock and re-enter into Blaine, Washington. But starting in 2007 Pt. Roberts which is an AMERICAN TOWN will be treated like a CANADIAN TOWN in which all 1,500 residents will have to pay 500 bucks to get into there own country. That means kids going to school will have to pay 500 bucks to get this card because school for them is in Blaine. Bush has effectively succeded Pt. Roberts and the triangle in Minnesota to Canada because of this law.

                                                         
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Sportsdude

sorry for my rant, time for me to go to bed now.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

tenkani

That was beautiful, sportsdude.

You've really got a grasp on American politics and it's a shame that it's almost impossible for someone like you (with socialist leanings) to be elected to high office. Americans are too hung up on labels and so they miss the essence of issues. BUT DON'T STOP TRYING! I'd vote for you    
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of Juan Valdez
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of coffee forever.

Legion

Do what thou wilt.

Love is the law, love under will.

- Aleister Crowley (the wickedest man in the world)
 
curses!

tenkani

Legion, what's the deal with Satanism?

What do they believe Satan wants from them?
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of Juan Valdez
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of coffee forever.

Legion

I prefer to call Satan the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge"]Demiurge[/a].

According to the Gnostics he is the creator of this universe and feels himself to be the one true god. However, he is not the one true god as christians misunderstand him to be.

Jewish Kabbalah, the great mystical philosphy of the jews, calls God the ain soph aur. Rough translation: the ultimate limitless light. This God cannot be known and anything we think we know about him is wrong and possibly blasphemous.

Anyway. Gnostics believe that we all have a divine spark within and this is our path to the real God. As above so below.


   
curses!

tenkani

 Ah, so Satan (the Demiurge) IS god.

Is that what Satanists believe?

And according to Satanists, what should guide our lives?

Whim?[/DIV]
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of Juan Valdez
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of coffee forever.

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