punishment.
On Mar 28, 12:15 pm, Pat <PatrickDHarring...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 18, 6:48 pm, DarkwaterBlight <douglas.bli...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > "LOL!! If I'm correct and "God is One" and we are all extensions of
> > that One, then God suffers in every tradgedy, too. This is why I
> > sometimes refer to God as "a glutton for experience", as God, being
> > all, experiences all aspects of every act. In a murder, for example,
> > God is both murderer and victim. God gets to experience all aspects
> > simply because, in reality, there is no 'other'."- Pat
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> > Allan,
> > How, then, could one be seperated from God?
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> > "God is actually very fascinating being. Within his being the entire
> > contained.. As I see it the object is to be with our creator, as
> > Confucius
> > said To be in the presence of your creator is to be in heaven."-
> > Allan
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> > Is it your understanding that, though within his being the entire is
> > contained, that somehow God might seperate Self from Self and be
> > absent from One's self? :P
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> Well, how can an omnipresent God be absent from anywhere?
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> > On Mar 18, 9:49 am, Pat <PatrickDHarring...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Mar 17, 3:14 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > I doubt "punishment" was in the dinosaur "vocabulary" but we have no
> > > > idea how they viewed and coped with natural disasters, do we? We have
> > > > no idea how early mankind dealt with disasters except to study the
> > > > apes and chimps, I guess.
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> > > > "Where Was God" by William Safire was in last Sunday's NYTimes then
> > > > removed and so was any link as far as I could tell by Monday when I
> > > > thought to print it out. I finally found it through Google but the
> > > > link looks goofy so you are on your own. :-) He wrote this op-ed in
> > > > 2005 after the Indian Ocean tsunami and based his response on the Book
> > > > of Job re the questioning of faith in the midst of a natural disaster
> > > > and untold suffering. It tracks to humans being responsible to lessen
> > > > human suffering and injustice.
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> > > > The world is so depressing. Please do not try to cheer me up. Thank
> > > > you.
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> > > LOL!! If I'm correct and "God is One" and we are all extensions of
> > > that One, then God suffers in every tradgedy, too. This is why I
> > > sometimes refer to God as "a glutton for experience", as God, being
> > > all, experiences all aspects of every act. In a murder, for example,
> > > God is both murderer and victim. God gets to experience all aspects
> > > simply because, in reality, there is no 'other'.
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> > > > On Mar 16, 7:26 am, Pat <PatrickDHarring...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > On Mar 16, 6:47 am, iam deheretic <dehere...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > Of course are not a punishment but rather a natural planetary force that
> > > > > > though it is going to happen is not preplanned nor can it be said that it is
> > > > > > in punishment.. those that say that I wonder about their knowledge of right
> > > > > > and wrong. . but there are some people that you will never be able to
> > > > > > explain anything because they know it all and their minds are closed.
> > > > > > Allan
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> > > > > It can't REALLY be a punishment, as we know earthquakes happened long
> > > > > before humans. I doubt very seriously if the dinosaurs viewed
> > > > > earthquakes as punishments.
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> > > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Ash <ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > "Life" is also a cereal.
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> > > > > > > I recently tried to convince someone that natural disasters were not a
> > > > > > > punishment from her God for those who do not believe. It didn't go too well
> > > > > > > and turned into an angry lecture on my part. Basically substitute
> > > > > > > "scripture" for "life" in a crash course of anthropology and spirituality,
> > > > > > > that's what it was. Why do I feel guilty?.. If it shakes her faith and hope
> > > > > > > I'll be damned, if she reflects and understands the larger reality it will
> > > > > > > strengthen. Sometimes to what seems at first an academic matter, with
> > > > > > > empathy and understanding, we find a great responsibility in the actions we
> > > > > > > take.
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> > > > > > > Risk. Isn't there a song about life being a poker game?
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> > > > > > --
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> > > > > > I_D Allan
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