When the priest said to the cops Jean Valjean did not steal his silver, he was buying Valjean's soul for God, not for himself. This is the part many don't come anywhere close to understanding.
So there's your exercise in remedial spirituality in checking out the priest in "Les Miserables."
God doesn't give a fuck about your soul as the God of 'we' is in our tribes and we feel it every time we are together with them. Individually we ask, God where are you, but he never says anything because he ain't there. In abandoning your tribe, you abandon your God. Your own selfishness brings the demolition of the faith you need so much.
The proof is in what happens on Broadway just before show time, a football game, marching with the platoon, riding in two columns of Harleys. When we are united with our tribe for a positive common purpose, whatever it may be so long as it's positive, we humans never feel any better in our lives. This is home and, honey chile, that is the face of God. Whether he made me is not important but whether he made us is vital.
The problem in the above is generals pull boys from their tribes and the kids are lost but, that's ok, son. We will give you another tribe. Hup, two, three, four. Generals have known how to play that for millennia. They don't change and neither does the age of the kids they play.
You all aren't even remotely fooling me with your religion as you're hurting from it. I see it every single day. Why isn't it working. Answer: because you don't let it.
Oh, oh, I need a car and I don't have one so God must not love me. Pray with me and maybe he will.
Are you fucking serious?
Lord,
won't you buy me
a Mercedes Benz
You tell 'em, Janis. "Ballad of Me and Bobby McGee"
The only part of 'pray with me' with any value is the actual translation is that 'I'm feeling down and I need my peeps' and there's nothing wrong with that. Where they miss it is God isn't going to be taking the time from making stars and whatnot to put a car in your driveway. If it's going to happen, it's because the God in your tribe made it happen. You did it.
Jimmy Carter has been showing you this for, oh, forty years now in Habitat for Humanity. It wouldn't surprise me if his only prayer has been for the clarity to do well. As you see, that prayer works. He calls to the tribe and it's there. God comes. The people in that tribe would go to war if he asked them but they know he never has and never will.
The paradox is you won't find God in the Bible because there's one salient point: God didn't write it. Unless you already accept the existence of God, you have no reason to read the Bible. People try it the other way around and get things all back-to-front, skew-whiff, higgledy-piggledy. They believe in Jesus but they're not sure they believe in God. Well ...
That's what Sasquatch does. He will show you it doesn't even take any particular faith to accept the existence of God as simple logic works just fine. Take a look at the stars. Come up with some better answer for why those stars should be there and, sure, we don't need God anymore. We have read a lot of smart motherfuckers on the matter and they can dazzle with words but none can fault the logic.
Atheist: There was nothing before the Big Bang (Hawking)
Sasquatch: You're measuring the wrong thing. Anything else??
This pooch is unscrewable. Where you get completely screwed is in wanting God to have hung around so he can do magic for you but fall back a few steps. Is that not massively-ridiculous or what.
Maybe he does and I can't possibly know that. Where people get their hearts ripped out is in thinking God doesn't love them if he doesn't do stuff for them but they only expect him to love them because some preacher told them he would. Follow me and, for the right price, I'll help you ensure he keeps loving you. God is not a subscription, only preachers need subscriptions.
Lots of Christers get really pissed about any question of the Bible as they end up worshipping it more than what's in it. The Ministry of the Internet does not question the Bible nor do we question what is in it. Given the acceptance of God, the arrival of Jesus isn't so much revelation as of course it happened that way. The Bible is the record of what people saw and it goes back all the way to the earliest days of the Jews.
We can't possibly know what happened on Golgotha but it was a monumental event to get people talking about it for two thousand years. So we don't question that people recorded everything they knew or heard about it in the various Gospels of the Bible written over the next several hundred years. Neither do we question what is in the Koran or the Torah.
The sound of trains crashing, a popular spectator sport in the late 19th Century, is when people try to elevate one God over another as in Jesus is the most important or Muhammed, etc. If you believe any of it, you already know it's all about the same God so why all the digestive upset. That's only rhetorical as I don't need an answer.
Note: that's true about the trains. We assume there was a surplus at the end of the steam locomotive era and Americans did the most practical thing: crashed them into each other for the fun of it. Roll with it as some things you have to be here to understand. In part it's because of Germans who really, really need a reason and they're all over the Midwest. You mean?? You mean we can crash them into each other, just for fun, just for the hell of it?? Fark, that was like a Girls Gone Wild tour for Germans. You mean we will not get arrested for crashing trains? Really??
Scots and Irish are so drunk they're accustomed to train wrecks so mix them up with some Germans who were way the hell too repressed and hand them some surplus locomotives and some alcohol. You are going to see some seriously-damaged vehicles.
As above, people get into scripture before they really accept the existence of God and then it goes all upside-down. They need to prove the Bible is true before they can believe God is true. Turn that the other way around and the heartache evaporates. At that point, you don't read the Bible because you need it but rather because you want to learn more about what happened. You also don't need any preacher to tell you what it means although we value preachers in Silas World when they exist for the purpose of discussion and not for the purpose of inculcation. Silas World doesn't need robots.
Silas World also doesn't need combat. The good Reverend is quite sure he will be a troll magnet and that isn't even interesting:
Troll: You're going to burn in Hell, you pagan bastard
Reverend: Motherfucker, I'm already burning. Wanna see me fookin' teeth. Piss off.
(click)
That kind of puerile crap is inevitable, at least it appears to be so based on what I see of anonymity elsewhere.
There is one filter which may prevent stupid trolling (i.e. as opposed to rational but opposite discussion) as the caller will have to connect via Skype so there goes anonymity unless the caller has created a fake Skype account just for the purpose of trolling me. That's one seriously determined dickweed and not a high probability.
There's not any particular reason to troll Sasquatch as he's not going to hurt anyone and the only ones who will even get bent over what he says are already so wrapped around the axle over religion that they see nothing but highway lane markers anyway.
Note: I invite trolling so long as you aren't going to get wild-eyed and steam coming out of your ears. If it's your purpose to talk reasonably then Sasquatch won't have a problem with it. I know this guy well and I'm quite sure of it.
In fact, maybe that's a possible programme in Meet the Cadillac Man, a Representative Christian Who Does Not Have His Head Up His Arse. We have talked already and he knows I am not mocking him and that's precisely because he does not have his head up his arse. That kind of discussion might well be of value to people because there's no dogma in it and no-one's asking you to believe anything except the foundation, something lit the fire.
Maybe you're thinking, Kee-rist, like I need to hear another religious chat show but that's not what will happen. Sasquatch doesn't want that either. Nitpicking the Bible is a waste of time as you know going into it some of it isn't true. Leviticus talks of insects with four legs. Not true. Move on, move on. That doesn't obviate the history overall, it just means bugs don't have four legs. Fascinating. Sasquatch is NOT going to sit around for an hour talking about stuff like that.
Reviewing what the Bible isn't gains nothing and review what it is, the best known history of humans in the modern era, is only a history lesson. Read it if you will or no but that doesn't change the fundamental acceptance of God which really doesn't need any particular discussion.
Troll: I don't believe in God.
Sasquatch: Step over to the window, young grasshopper, and we can talk some other time about how the stars were made but find me an answer other than God which makes any kind of sense for why the stars were made and there's basis for discussion, otherwise move along, move along. Absent any coherent answer and I've looked far and wide, God did it.
This is NOT an attack on religion. It is ABSOLUTELY an attack on televangelists. However, that attack can be achieved through positivity in helping people understand they never needed those sleazy bastards anyway.
So there's your exercise in remedial spirituality in checking out the priest in "Les Miserables."
God doesn't give a fuck about your soul as the God of 'we' is in our tribes and we feel it every time we are together with them. Individually we ask, God where are you, but he never says anything because he ain't there. In abandoning your tribe, you abandon your God. Your own selfishness brings the demolition of the faith you need so much.
The proof is in what happens on Broadway just before show time, a football game, marching with the platoon, riding in two columns of Harleys. When we are united with our tribe for a positive common purpose, whatever it may be so long as it's positive, we humans never feel any better in our lives. This is home and, honey chile, that is the face of God. Whether he made me is not important but whether he made us is vital.
The problem in the above is generals pull boys from their tribes and the kids are lost but, that's ok, son. We will give you another tribe. Hup, two, three, four. Generals have known how to play that for millennia. They don't change and neither does the age of the kids they play.
You all aren't even remotely fooling me with your religion as you're hurting from it. I see it every single day. Why isn't it working. Answer: because you don't let it.
Oh, oh, I need a car and I don't have one so God must not love me. Pray with me and maybe he will.
Are you fucking serious?
Lord,
won't you buy me
a Mercedes Benz
You tell 'em, Janis. "Ballad of Me and Bobby McGee"
The only part of 'pray with me' with any value is the actual translation is that 'I'm feeling down and I need my peeps' and there's nothing wrong with that. Where they miss it is God isn't going to be taking the time from making stars and whatnot to put a car in your driveway. If it's going to happen, it's because the God in your tribe made it happen. You did it.
Jimmy Carter has been showing you this for, oh, forty years now in Habitat for Humanity. It wouldn't surprise me if his only prayer has been for the clarity to do well. As you see, that prayer works. He calls to the tribe and it's there. God comes. The people in that tribe would go to war if he asked them but they know he never has and never will.
The paradox is you won't find God in the Bible because there's one salient point: God didn't write it. Unless you already accept the existence of God, you have no reason to read the Bible. People try it the other way around and get things all back-to-front, skew-whiff, higgledy-piggledy. They believe in Jesus but they're not sure they believe in God. Well ...
That's what Sasquatch does. He will show you it doesn't even take any particular faith to accept the existence of God as simple logic works just fine. Take a look at the stars. Come up with some better answer for why those stars should be there and, sure, we don't need God anymore. We have read a lot of smart motherfuckers on the matter and they can dazzle with words but none can fault the logic.
Atheist: There was nothing before the Big Bang (Hawking)
Sasquatch: You're measuring the wrong thing. Anything else??
This pooch is unscrewable. Where you get completely screwed is in wanting God to have hung around so he can do magic for you but fall back a few steps. Is that not massively-ridiculous or what.
Maybe he does and I can't possibly know that. Where people get their hearts ripped out is in thinking God doesn't love them if he doesn't do stuff for them but they only expect him to love them because some preacher told them he would. Follow me and, for the right price, I'll help you ensure he keeps loving you. God is not a subscription, only preachers need subscriptions.
Lots of Christers get really pissed about any question of the Bible as they end up worshipping it more than what's in it. The Ministry of the Internet does not question the Bible nor do we question what is in it. Given the acceptance of God, the arrival of Jesus isn't so much revelation as of course it happened that way. The Bible is the record of what people saw and it goes back all the way to the earliest days of the Jews.
We can't possibly know what happened on Golgotha but it was a monumental event to get people talking about it for two thousand years. So we don't question that people recorded everything they knew or heard about it in the various Gospels of the Bible written over the next several hundred years. Neither do we question what is in the Koran or the Torah.
The sound of trains crashing, a popular spectator sport in the late 19th Century, is when people try to elevate one God over another as in Jesus is the most important or Muhammed, etc. If you believe any of it, you already know it's all about the same God so why all the digestive upset. That's only rhetorical as I don't need an answer.
Note: that's true about the trains. We assume there was a surplus at the end of the steam locomotive era and Americans did the most practical thing: crashed them into each other for the fun of it. Roll with it as some things you have to be here to understand. In part it's because of Germans who really, really need a reason and they're all over the Midwest. You mean?? You mean we can crash them into each other, just for fun, just for the hell of it?? Fark, that was like a Girls Gone Wild tour for Germans. You mean we will not get arrested for crashing trains? Really??
Scots and Irish are so drunk they're accustomed to train wrecks so mix them up with some Germans who were way the hell too repressed and hand them some surplus locomotives and some alcohol. You are going to see some seriously-damaged vehicles.
As above, people get into scripture before they really accept the existence of God and then it goes all upside-down. They need to prove the Bible is true before they can believe God is true. Turn that the other way around and the heartache evaporates. At that point, you don't read the Bible because you need it but rather because you want to learn more about what happened. You also don't need any preacher to tell you what it means although we value preachers in Silas World when they exist for the purpose of discussion and not for the purpose of inculcation. Silas World doesn't need robots.
Silas World also doesn't need combat. The good Reverend is quite sure he will be a troll magnet and that isn't even interesting:
Troll: You're going to burn in Hell, you pagan bastard
Reverend: Motherfucker, I'm already burning. Wanna see me fookin' teeth. Piss off.
(click)
That kind of puerile crap is inevitable, at least it appears to be so based on what I see of anonymity elsewhere.
There is one filter which may prevent stupid trolling (i.e. as opposed to rational but opposite discussion) as the caller will have to connect via Skype so there goes anonymity unless the caller has created a fake Skype account just for the purpose of trolling me. That's one seriously determined dickweed and not a high probability.
There's not any particular reason to troll Sasquatch as he's not going to hurt anyone and the only ones who will even get bent over what he says are already so wrapped around the axle over religion that they see nothing but highway lane markers anyway.
Note: I invite trolling so long as you aren't going to get wild-eyed and steam coming out of your ears. If it's your purpose to talk reasonably then Sasquatch won't have a problem with it. I know this guy well and I'm quite sure of it.
In fact, maybe that's a possible programme in Meet the Cadillac Man, a Representative Christian Who Does Not Have His Head Up His Arse. We have talked already and he knows I am not mocking him and that's precisely because he does not have his head up his arse. That kind of discussion might well be of value to people because there's no dogma in it and no-one's asking you to believe anything except the foundation, something lit the fire.
Maybe you're thinking, Kee-rist, like I need to hear another religious chat show but that's not what will happen. Sasquatch doesn't want that either. Nitpicking the Bible is a waste of time as you know going into it some of it isn't true. Leviticus talks of insects with four legs. Not true. Move on, move on. That doesn't obviate the history overall, it just means bugs don't have four legs. Fascinating. Sasquatch is NOT going to sit around for an hour talking about stuff like that.
Reviewing what the Bible isn't gains nothing and review what it is, the best known history of humans in the modern era, is only a history lesson. Read it if you will or no but that doesn't change the fundamental acceptance of God which really doesn't need any particular discussion.
Troll: I don't believe in God.
Sasquatch: Step over to the window, young grasshopper, and we can talk some other time about how the stars were made but find me an answer other than God which makes any kind of sense for why the stars were made and there's basis for discussion, otherwise move along, move along. Absent any coherent answer and I've looked far and wide, God did it.
This is NOT an attack on religion. It is ABSOLUTELY an attack on televangelists. However, that attack can be achieved through positivity in helping people understand they never needed those sleazy bastards anyway.
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