Hi Roger, Is this post related the the e-mail thread? If so I am missing how. Could you clarify?
Thanks, Jason On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote: > Hi Jason Resch > > Love means to love somebody else, other than yourself. > To do that, you must trust that person. > You will partly submit your will to them, > or at least not dominate them. You will > want to give things to that person. > So love, trusting, submission and giving are > all tangled together somewhere deep in your psyche. > You cannot feel one without the others. > > > Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net > 9/20/2012 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen > > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > From: Jason Resch > Receiver: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Time: 2012-09-19, 20:41:03 > Subject: Re: the "nothing but" fallacy. > > > > > On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:19 PM, meekerdb wrote: > > > On 9/19/2012 2:11 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 5:27:13 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: > Hi Richard Ruquist > > Obeying the commandments will not get you into heaven, > only believing in Christ's sacrifice for us will do that. > > > What kind of a sacrifice is that? "I'm going to do you the biggest favor > you can imagine, but if you don't believe in it, then my favor is worthless > and makes anything good that you have ever done in your life a complete > waste of time". > > If I were Satan, I would write the Bible exactly as it is, full of > horrific promises and threats that can be interpreted in many ways. It's > pretty much like dropping candy colored hand grenades onto a school > playground. The grenades would say "if anyone tries to take this away from > you, then they deserve whatever happens to them". > > > But I'm curious; as a member of the EVERYTHING-list, don't you believe > that there's a world where the Bible is essentially accurate (modulo direct > contradictions)? > > > Well no one can hold on to a soul forever, at all times there is a chance > you will escape their grip and find yourself elsewhere. > > > Also, the concept of a super intelligent entity torturing someone may be > almost contradictory, for they may realize the identity of all minds, and > therefore they would be torturing themselves. > > > Self contradictions aside, all religions are true with some relative > probability. That is to say, in this world, some fractions of the > explanations for it's existence is because a Christian god created it, in > another fraction it is because brahma (a Hindu god) is dreaming it, and so > on. > > > Jason > > > > > Brent > "Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and > remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that > exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by > contrast" > --- Mark Twain > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
