God does not exist....

[Gandalf]

I thought the New Kids On The Block reunion was ample evidence,no loving god would allow that to happen

Im still too inebriated to discuss that too.

[Trainer Monkey]

I thought the New Kids On The Block reunion was ample evidence,no loving god would allow that to happen

Im still too inebriated to discuss that too.

Im telling you its conclusive evidence that there is no god.
If thats not enough for you, I point you to exhibit B, Paris Hilton's still thriving career

[Gandalf]

I thought the New Kids On The Block reunion was ample evidence,no loving god would allow that to happen

Im still too inebriated to discuss that too.

Im telling you its conclusive evidence that there is no god.
If thats not enough for you, I point you to exhibit B, Paris Hilton's still thriving career

You may well be right!!

Im going to bed, Im done for the night. Maybe a silly thread to have started, but It felt like a good idea at the time. Night folks!!

[El Kabong]

The what is in God's place?

[Trainer Monkey]

The what is in God's place?

The ghost of Paul Lynde, it makes just as much sense

[AdamGB]

Keaton once said "I don't beleive in god, but I'm afraid of him", well I beleive in god... and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze!

[Youngblood]

The what is in God's place?

Humankinds need to answer its burning existential question.

[El Kabong]

Humankinds need to answer its burning existential question.

When you look at the mythology that man has used to tell of our being and our creation then you realize that some similar thing, some greatness, some entity dwells within all of us. When you understand that Buddah and Jesus are the same, when you understand that African Native religions, Christianity, Islam, and Native American creation stories are similar without all of them ever getting together and collaberating on a story then you kind of get the feeling there is something larger than us working behind the scenes.

"Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. There's a wonderful formula that the Buddhists have for the Bodhisattva, the one whose being (sattva) is illumination (bodhi), who realizes his identity with eternity and at the same time his participation in time. And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a wonder and to come back and participate in it. "All life is sorrowful" is the first Buddhist saying, and it is. It wouldn't be life if there were not temporality involved which is sorrow. Loss, loss, loss." - Joseph Campbell

And when confronted about the pessimism of this though Campbell replies

"Well, you have to say yes to it, you have to say it's great this way. It's the way God intended it"


Campbell also said "People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about. "

[CFH]

Humankinds need to answer its burning existential question.

When you look at the mythology that man has used to tell of our being and our creation then you realize that some similar thing, some greatness, some entity dwells within all of us. When you understand that Buddah and Jesus are the same, when you understand that African Native religions, Christianity, Islam, and Native American creation stories are similar without all of them ever getting together and collaberating on a story then you kind of get the feeling there is something larger than us working behind the scenes.

"Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. There's a wonderful formula that the Buddhists have for the Bodhisattva, the one whose being (sattva) is illumination (bodhi), who realizes his identity with eternity and at the same time his participation in time. And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a wonder and to come back and participate in it. "All life is sorrowful" is the first Buddhist saying, and it is. It wouldn't be life if there were not temporality involved which is sorrow. Loss, loss, loss." - Joseph Campbell

And when confronted about the pessimism of this though Campbell replies

"Well, you have to say yes to it, you have to say it's great this way. It's the way God intended it"


Campbell also said "People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about. "

Fucking hippie.

To be honest, I quite like what you've written though. Makes some sense to me.