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Weatherlawyer
Mar 11, 2016, 4:31:48 PM3/11/16
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Folklore was written by people like me.
I am not saying I would ever have been material fit to present to a king, especially not the irascible, determined kind that god so patiently favours. But to get god's input on the way he has designed a system as elaborate as this planet, one has to at least believe he did create it. If you are inclined in any way to believe any old bit of damned nonsense that the first fool you meet will tell you, then you are not material that god can use effectively.
In the first place to get insights from him you have to be able to stick with it. You can't just bump the project off onto someone else's lap. they will just do the same and nothing will ever get don. On the other hand...
The worst thing you can do is the worst thing every strong willed man does:
He makes up his mind and it takes decades of patient application for the angels to stick with the most resolute of us. Maybe they get a kick out of dealing with mules. None the less, time and time again you need the heart to start again when you have travelled almost as far down the wrong road on a cross-road as you took to get to the damned thing in the first damned place. It is depressing.
The last thing you want to do is to turn right around and go back the way you came. However if you do, once you do, the rewards come thick and fast. You get given all sorts of short cuts once you prove worthy of starting again, seemingly from scratch.
The thing is that once you realise that you were going the wrong way and decide to turn around, you find yourself on the right track again. Things that you had to make up to make sense, fall behind you and the things that didn't make any sense whatsoever suddenly become real, simple and as usable as the air that we breathe.
However this can not happen if you do not believe in god. How can it?
So the first thing in folk lore is that you must decide that the planet and everything in it was created for one purpose: Us!
And once you realise that this is true: "The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom".
Fearing god is not the contemptuous fear that cowards have; so much as the simple understanding that we are here at his almightiness' pleasure. What is there to be afraid of in that?
We don't get out of this life alive. Nowhere in his instruction books does it say that his purpose was our function, to grow old and die. Then come alive in heaven or, for that matter, hell. What sort of a god would that be, that ensured for our own benefit that we would have toothache, cancers and bladder problems before we join him to say thank you in his house in the sky?
What do you think he would say to the angel that brought back news to him that I'd just died and as a reward for dying I expect to be welcomed home by them to see him?
Don't you think that would cause him to say to the angel: "Tell him can feck off and go to hell you cheeky bastard?
I am not saying I would ever have been material fit to present to a king, especially not the irascible, determined kind that god so patiently favours. But to get god's input on the way he has designed a system as elaborate as this planet, one has to at least believe he did create it. If you are inclined in any way to believe any old bit of damned nonsense that the first fool you meet will tell you, then you are not material that god can use effectively.
In the first place to get insights from him you have to be able to stick with it. You can't just bump the project off onto someone else's lap. they will just do the same and nothing will ever get don. On the other hand...
The worst thing you can do is the worst thing every strong willed man does:
He makes up his mind and it takes decades of patient application for the angels to stick with the most resolute of us. Maybe they get a kick out of dealing with mules. None the less, time and time again you need the heart to start again when you have travelled almost as far down the wrong road on a cross-road as you took to get to the damned thing in the first damned place. It is depressing.
The last thing you want to do is to turn right around and go back the way you came. However if you do, once you do, the rewards come thick and fast. You get given all sorts of short cuts once you prove worthy of starting again, seemingly from scratch.
The thing is that once you realise that you were going the wrong way and decide to turn around, you find yourself on the right track again. Things that you had to make up to make sense, fall behind you and the things that didn't make any sense whatsoever suddenly become real, simple and as usable as the air that we breathe.
However this can not happen if you do not believe in god. How can it?
So the first thing in folk lore is that you must decide that the planet and everything in it was created for one purpose: Us!
And once you realise that this is true: "The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom".
Fearing god is not the contemptuous fear that cowards have; so much as the simple understanding that we are here at his almightiness' pleasure. What is there to be afraid of in that?
We don't get out of this life alive. Nowhere in his instruction books does it say that his purpose was our function, to grow old and die. Then come alive in heaven or, for that matter, hell. What sort of a god would that be, that ensured for our own benefit that we would have toothache, cancers and bladder problems before we join him to say thank you in his house in the sky?
What do you think he would say to the angel that brought back news to him that I'd just died and as a reward for dying I expect to be welcomed home by them to see him?
Don't you think that would cause him to say to the angel: "Tell him can feck off and go to hell you cheeky bastard?
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