God sets us straight.

Maybe I'm just to cynical but.. I'm guessing that if it happened it would just be the start of another religion and the current religions would all just starting fighting over it all again..

I'm thinking fishin's right. We humans is a messed up bunch.

AU1929:

Sweet thoughts!

What? BOTH neighbours?!

Welcome to A2K, Nona.

You'll love it here, being dlowan's neigbour or not :wink:

Nona, How cute you are! Can I adopt you? WELCOME to A2K. c.i.

Oh, Nona, ditto! I did not realise you were new, since another A2k'er used to have that avatar - welcome!

Welcome, nona!
Cute pic!

As i am sure everyone is aware by now, i'm an atheist. For whatever anyone else may think, i don't think that this precludes me from considering religious issues. Bishop Burnet was the confessor of King Charles II after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and an important source for the period. He once wrote to a friend that "the King has a strange notion of God's love" (which is very revealing about Bishop Burnet as well) and then quoted Charles: "The only things which God hates, are that we be wicked and that we design mischief."

Re: God sets us straight.


Now wouldn't that be nice ;-)

LOL! hahaha!

Re: God sets us straight.


What if God has already done that, and continues to do that every day?
What if His language is the sound of the wind, the rushing of a stream,
and the beauty we see all around us every time we look?

I have a theory that most people would listen for a few seconds,
say "Yeah, that's nice" and continue living as before.
Same as yesterday. Same as today. Same as tomorrow.

We may just be perfectly human, doing whatever it is we do.





Or perhaps God is not actually all around us, with and in everything
we think and do. That's possible too.

Did the bible ever say he was immortal, besides the alpha omega stuff? Actually say he was unable to be killed? Maybe he OD'd or hit a satellite on his way to Mother Teresa's for coffee. Old age? If he is alive, (and real...-) I'm sure we were his test planet and when he saw a few million errors he'd done he said "f--- this" and went to another one and started over.. In all the haste he forgot to dissolve this one. Like a kid on a beach forsaking one sand castle to work on another.

Oh how I love toying with the notion of a God!

Weren't the crusades great? "God" could tell everyone what to do exactly and mankind would alter it to fit there growing lust for more and more power.

Hey, NNY: if you liked the Crusades, you'll love the Spanish Inquisition !

I don't know if anyone has seen "An Evening with Kevin Smith", but he tells an intresting story about when he was working with Prince, and what a pain Prince was, and how crazy....the publicist said to him "Prince has just been living in his world for far too long....he'll say things at 3 A.M. like 'I need a camel', and we have to explain to him that that is impossible, and he is not malicious, he just truly does not understand why this cannot be done." I paraphrase, but I think God is the same way. God hires so he can be left out of it, and never understands why things haven't been sorted yet.

Setanta

Strange quote. From what I have read of the bible it is god who designs mischief.

hey humans are never perfect. And in my opinion, God never messed up what He did. Well... ever wondered that if God is the Almighty.. then why did He let all this happen rite? I can't say I know why even as a Christian. But i know for sure that He has a reason to everything that He is doing. There are still many unanswered questions that we have and we may never get the answer. Hopefully God will reveal and show it to us.

Nice dream but impossible and it will never happen. We make the mess and it's our responsibility to clean it up, not some supernatural power. It's kind of like your playroom when you were a kid; if you mess it up you clean it up.

Hey, the whole concept of perfect/imperfect, straight/messy does not exist
until somebody (an individual) comes along and starts judgeing things.

It's made up. The world isn't messy at all, until you create an agenda within yourself.
If you want quietness, then anything loud is bad.
If you want noise, then anything quiet is bad.

But if you step back, and just look at the world with curiosity and no pushiness,
then you'll see tremendous beauty and grace,
everything so interesting, cohesive and balanced, just as it is.

It's impossible for God to straighten out the world because that's your concept, not his. The world is exactly, directly, and perfectly what it is.