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Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen

Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
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I was once working behind the counter of a fine, taco-manufacturing, expedited delivery establishment (Taco Bell) when a middle-aged man entered throught the front doors holding large, bundled stacks of what looked to be small pamphlets. He was handing them out to everyone he could find, and when he finally worked his way around the lobby to me, he handed me about 5 or 6 of them. They were in both English and Spanish, and each one had a different title which concerned a different topic which, in pretty much everywhere but white-bred Colorado, would have gotten him shot in the face. "Allah Had No Son"..."Are Roman Catholics really Christians?"(I still have that one ) - that sort of thing - these pamphlets were AGAINST anything BUT, conservative-based, Protestant Christian doctrine. Everything else in the world was a lie, and this man was intent on telling everyone there all about it. I'm glad he left peacefully, because I don't have much patience for people who think that they're absolutely right all the damn time.
I later realised that the very fact that I thought he was offending people is, in itself, offensive. People should believe in whatever the hell they want to believe because, ultimately, all belief stems from desire anyways. Why do people believe in god? Because they want to. Why would they want to? Because they want to go to Heaven. Can you think of a single religious person who consciously practices their religion and honestly believes that they are going to Hell? Of course not - people believe to serve themselves, and they feel conviction when they can convert others to believe in it as well. Like there's some sort of reward system God has set up for his followers. Hey, maybe God will give me a free ipod if I can only convert 5 more people!
Not very likely.
Hell is a manifestation of the mind - if anything, this is what Jesus was trying to convey. His message may have been fucked around a bit too much by monks in the 17th century (who knows?) but Heaven and peace are states of mind - acceptance of your world and of your fellow man are steps towards a conscious happiness which can only be attained through you and you, alone. All others are living in Hell, but neither state of being is eternal until you have reached that inexpressible point of... halcyon?
Realise that God both exists and doesn't just as one person may believe in him and the next does not. In essence, do not deify God too much.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Mar-15-2005 02:26
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DJ Joshua H
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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I heard this quote once:
"Man is the stage between apes and superhumans"
discuss..
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Mar-15-2005 02:52
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