Posted on 04/11/2002 1:49:22 PM PDT by Phil V.
Yours and Socks C.'s preferences in magazines are most dissimilar.
Theodore Geisel
I don't know what God does in his time off. It seems to me, Jesus, the second person of the trinity, is the one to whom has been charged with working out creation. Presumably he is now occupied preparing places for believers; that's what he said anyway.
"Every year, millions of Skeet are cruelly shot for mere sport". Toss in some conservative gun-bashing and some liberal idiots, and you've got a demonstration. We actually had a local news crew show up....must have been a slow day. The cameraman caught on quickly, though, and tipped off the infobabe that was sent to do the coverage. They quickly left.
I've been freeping even before FR was a gleam in Jim's eye. ;-)
Same liberal idiots set up a 'hunger camp' on the quad and went on hunger strike to Protest Apartheid (this was the early 90s). My friends and I sent them pizzas.
Oh, I could go on and on. It's fun to be a conservative engineer at a mostly liberal school.
What really pisses me off is when we get our dinner plates mixed up. GAG ME!
For the longest time I never even considered the "oversight" (you allude to) - the spare nature of Creation at the time of year zero.
Some miracles as performed by Jesus are now funded by HMOs. And the money changers - their craft was aptly summarized by our previous president(intentionally not capitalized) who proclaimed, "It's the economy, stupid!".
If Jesus could just ride "Splash Mountain" at DisneyLand. OH MY . . . It's a small, small world.
I'm going out NOW and upgrade to GPS!
I expected better from you. Wasn't the cause of their ruin the fact that they exported all their good high-paying jobs?
It would take a scholar more thoroughly versed than I to shed any light on Jesus' inspiration in that direction. Interesting.
How do you reconcile that with the notion of free will? If everything I'm ever going to do has already been determined, why should I spend any effort thinking about it? Of course, if it's predetermined that I will think about it I'll do so, but if there isn't any way for me to do anything "wrong", why should I not do whatever I feel like?
For me personally, that rationale would not be applicable, since I believe in free will rather than predestination. But for anyone who believes in the latter, in what way does the above rationale not prove that nothing matters?
God's pen does not write even one letter of one word in advance. (IMHO)
God's creation is instantaneous - a happening NOW kinda thing. Study calculus for a profoundly different spiritual experience. Study/meditate on f(x)=1/x. The journey inward is just as vast as the journey outward.
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