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shirtless
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0 posted 2006-12-27 06:36 PM



STRAY THOUGHTS BEGINNING WITH IF

if
I oppose
suicide
because
it is
unnatural,
I must
also
oppose
resurrection

if
they knew
what breaking
did
to hearts,
why didn’t
they leave
the atom alone

if
god knows
the whole story,
my prayers
are pointless
and the universe
must be
god’s
prayer to me,
so you
dear lady
are the way
that god
adores me

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themute
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1 posted 2006-12-27 06:38 PM


i like your point of view, i have had it since i was fifteen or younger. i have it still (but i do not have conflict in believing because i am above having philosophy. you write good x)  
Sunshine
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2 posted 2006-12-27 08:43 PM


if
god knows
the whole story,
my prayers
are pointless
and the universe
must be
god’s
prayer to me,
so you
dear lady
are the way
that god
adores me

~*~

and the ribbon
became a red bow
of love.

Well done, Sir.


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3 posted 2006-12-27 08:56 PM


outstanding!
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4 posted 2006-12-28 07:39 AM


Anthony... I enjoyed this write of yours
RDB

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5 posted 2006-12-28 09:14 AM


if everything would happen the way it should there would be no if's....

just my 2 cents of if

nice write
bernie

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6 posted 2006-12-28 03:10 PM


thought-provoking.  I'd like to hear more.  Nice ending.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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7 posted 2006-12-29 11:26 PM


I'm thinking about your first if.  To be mortal is suicide.  Resurrection is only proof to the material senses that the substance life is not of matter.
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8 posted 2006-12-29 11:39 PM


Hi Klassy Lassy,
Does life have any substance--material or otherwise? Perhaps every thing is impermanent; perhaps every moment is impermanent.  Suicide and resurrection both contradict the natural flow of change.
Regards,
shirtless

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Klassy Lassy
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9 posted 2006-12-30 02:22 PM


I think I see your perspective, but why then the experience or the idea that we exist?  I've only read one answer that makes sense to me:  We are spiritual beings who go through this apparent morass of mortal changes for the sake of either education or entertainment, definitely a temporal conception of time, space, and living. Being can't be manifested without expression whether it is spiritual or material, so it seems logical to me that intelligence is the substance  of anything that IS.



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10 posted 2006-12-30 02:49 PM


shirtless
Good thoughts, good write but I don't think anything influences change except change itself

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