Sit down

by John Doe 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    beside me on the cool dirt. Grab a drink, relax and tell me why there's so much suffering--did the world always hurt? We're not prophets, nah, lord knows we ain't prophets, but happenstance you don't have to be a prophet to see the strain and tears drifting down the river with the eddies ebbing and flowing with a pulse flickering through the blood red snow covered banks. Nah, we ain't no prophets. Least not that the people gonna sacrifice for our souls. Times the drowning river draws us forward, and we sho nuff feel it, don't we now?

    But I ain't gonna ask for not too many more. I see the bright rays flickering through the trees, and I feel the warm shoulder often enough, sheltering from that cold dam wind. There just ain't no room for wanting anythang more. A full gut and a kindled stove, and we'll settle on down the river with the rest of them.

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    John Doe,

    I think northwest Arkansas is rubbing off on you........you better get to the city for a visit QUICK!!!!

    purps

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    You'ns wimins jes don no what you bein talk bout.

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    Must be a class you are taking LOL

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    Or maybe it's this big tool growing out of my head.

  • blueviceroy
    blueviceroy

    I know why the suffering comes, it's for thr learning sir. The ways of pain and strife are the lessons we all fear and dread.

    Running from the truth of our existence , the truth we hold inside,is the cause of all the pain sir.

    If we could only look in there and see what God put in us ,the world wouldn't hurt no more , sir.

    It's the fear, the fear of what we'll find, thats the cause ,,,,sir.

  • Happy Harvester
    Happy Harvester

    I think it is because nature is indifferent. But we don't have to be; and we're not indifferent. That's one reason suffering troubles us. We evolved compassion, but most of nature did not, even though I assume all creatures want to avoid suffering.

  • changeling
    changeling

    You OK?

    There's no joy w/o suffering. And we learn in the process. Ride it out to the other side.

    I was wondering, when you say things like: "you are inciting my ire, sir", do you say it with an Arkansas accent?

    changeling

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    Absolutely madam. Arkansawyers have by far the best accent! ;-)

  • changeling
    changeling

    Hey JD: If you have some free time this weekend go see "Into The Wild". I saw it with my son today (the one that reminds me of you, he's an entj). I think you'd enjoy it.

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