So me, of all people, had a religious experience

by sabastious 363 Replies latest jw friends

  • Nickolas
    Nickolas

    SBC, you are seriously invited to my place for a drink, any time. How's it going?

    edit: Good night.

  • Robdar
    Robdar
    perhaps it's time to withdraw your claws, and to readjust your sense of justice.

    Only if you do the same for JO. Do you like people who have opinions different from yours, or maybe not?

    Goodnight.

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    From my profile:

    ''I BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists even it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams aren't as real as the here and now?'' A quote from: ~The late John Lennon: may he rest in peace.~ ******


    ''You've got to believe in foolish miracles.''Ozzie.

  • SweetBabyCheezits
    SweetBabyCheezits

    I'm doing pretty damn well, sir. How about you?

    BTW, I actually thought you seemed like you mellowed a little over your hiatus. Of course, I totally misread you in our first encounter last year. I do that with a lot of highly intelligent primates.

  • Mad Sweeney
    Mad Sweeney

    I just feel like posting Sam's "I believe" rant from Neil Gaiman's "American Gods." I don't necessarily agree with it all but it's a great quote nonetheless.

    "I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen–I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones who look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline of good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of The Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies too. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

  • Nickolas
    Nickolas

    doing ok, SBC, thanks. Seems I'm still ruffling feathers, though.

  • snowbird
    snowbird
    I remember when dolphman related his wierd kundalini symptoms. I'm not going to do a search, though.
    S

    I like searching.

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/73169/2/Signs-of-an-Awakening-Kandalini

    Syl

  • Violia
    Violia

    Mad- great quote, loved it.

  • Robdar
    Robdar

    Mad, I love you, man.

    Nic:

    Seems I'm still ruffling feathers, though.

    LOL. Brats usually do.

  • Nickolas
    Nickolas

    I can't think of anyone who made a serious contribution to humanity who did not ruffle feathers. Generally speaking, those whose feathers get ruffled are far too involved in preening themselves.

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