Original Sin?
July 20th, 2018 at 1:32:19 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | That you think reality is so limited, fleeting, and meaningless is what frigthens me. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
July 20th, 2018 at 1:37:56 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
It's because it's fleeting that you have to conjure up myths and fairy tales to make it more than it is. The reality can't be dealt with, but self deluded myths can be.. Life means whatever you think it means, you make up your own reality. You've chosen the safest and securest one. No original thinking involved. In fact, it's frowned upon. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 24th, 2018 at 3:26:03 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Watching the AT hiking videos and one guy tells a story of a Xtion hostel on the trail. They have dinner and before that, they ask everybody to stand in a circle and join hands for a prayer. He's an atheist and politely asked to be excused from the ritual, and a girl joined him. When the owner asked why, and he told them he wasn't a god person, some in the group went nuts on him. Screaming at him, saying he was going to hell. It got so bad he had to go outside and a few of them followed him out and kept up the harassment. He says now he should have just joined in and played along, he never expected Xtions to be so intolerant. Live and learn, buddy. The most intolerant people on the planet. How many other religions have burned people at the stake for disagreeing with them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 24th, 2018 at 3:48:03 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Lots of people are intolerant and it isn't specific to religion, lack of belief, governments, or liberals. Intolerance ironically seems most present in those who claim to be tolerant. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
July 24th, 2018 at 4:22:48 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Like Xtions. Look at your history, it's intolerance carried out to the n'th degree. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 24th, 2018 at 7:54:15 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I disagree with your understanding of history, I think it is very flawed. However we can probably agree that today and the last century has all been about the bloodshed and violent intolerance of secularism and modernism. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
July 24th, 2018 at 8:22:10 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
You think it's all a lie, you're in massive denial. What else is new. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 24th, 2018 at 8:23:52 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
No, your distorted view of history is not all lies. Like any good lie it includes bits of truth and then exaggerates and twists them to be what you want it to be. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
July 24th, 2018 at 8:33:08 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
The real history of the Church will always be at odds with the constant rewriting of it the Vatican is doing. Fortunately this isn't the 15h century, there is too much of the real truth out there. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 24th, 2018 at 9:23:33 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | There is indeed so much real truth out there and yet you refuse to even look at Wikipedia because you said it is controlled by the Vatican. Come on Bob open your eyes the Vatican isn't rewriting anything, you and the people who fed you all kinds of misinformation are the ones trying to rewrite history. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |