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Topic: WHO'S YOUR GOD?
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erict3
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posted May 25, 2001 03:31 PM
   
An old buddy of mine is the best example I can relate on the good that religon brings.
He was recon in NAM, a middleweight boxer, a man I've seen strike out ,without direct provocation, on a number of occasions at outspoken strangers. I know of him hunting down "targets", for want of a better word, on his vacation for sport.Today he is a different man. This email I received is an example: God's Boxes
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>> > I have in my hands two boxes
>> > Which God gave me to hold.
>> > He said, "Put all your sorrows in the black box,
>> > And all your joys in the gold."
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>> > I heeded His words, and in the two boxes
>> > Both my joys and sorrows I stored,
>> > But though the gold became heavier each day
>> > The black was as light as before.
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>> > With curiosity, I opened the black,
>> > I wanted to find out why,
>> > And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole
>> > Which my sorrows had fallen out by.
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>> > I showed the hole to God, and mused,
>> > "I wonder where my sorrows could be."
>> > He smiled a gentle smile and said,
>> > "My child, they're all here with me."
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>> > I asked, "God, why He gave me the boxes,
>> > Why the gold, and the black with the hole?"
>> > "My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings,
>> > The black is for you to let go."
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>> > We should consider all of our friends a blessing.
>> > Send this to a friend today just to let them know you are
>> > thinking of them and that they are a joy in your life:
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>> > A ball is a circle, no beginning, no end.
>> > It keeps us together like our Circle of Friends
>> > But the treasure inside for you to see
>> > Is the treasure of friendship you've granted to me.
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>> > Today I pass the friendship ball to you.
>> > Pass it on to someone who is a friend to you...
>> >
Although I will remain an agnostic, there are a number reasons why I refuse to snicker at a believer. A big one is the peace and comfort it has brought to my friends and family. -------------------- Amd Duron 850
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Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
192 Meg Ram I pushed the button and it didn't work. It must be an electrical problem.
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memo
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posted May 25, 2001 05:48 PM
erict3,
I don't need god to realize and undestand the points your friend makes in his email.
In fact I guess I was born like that, or my parents brought me up well. Without god.That people change is a known fact, and some of them, when the change is radical, tend to endorse it to a miraculous occurrence. It is called growing up. Also known as coming down to your senses. I certainly understand better someone who was brainwashed since early age and is a believer than the so called born again xians, for the latter are a total bore. Parroting all the time the myths and sci-fi tales written on that book. I've never even tried to talk a believer into tossing the useless crutch of religion, since I know it is impossible, and furthermore I don't care. By the same token, I have no respect whatever for the idiots that every once in a while ring the bell to my house and try to sell me their beliefs, or else I'll go to hell. My usual response to those pinheaded retards is that I am a pagan that lives in adoration of horus, the Egyptian sun god, at which point they look at each other (they always come in pairs), and leave. Cheers. -------------------- Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
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Brydon
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posted May 26, 2001 12:14 AM
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Originally posted by SCoooBYMcDooo:
Well, I now know why Info posted what he did.
While I still, personally, bear no ill will toward Memo, as nothing has been said against me... I've been privy to emails between the them that shed light on the whole situation.
Privacy seems a thing of the past  . -------------------- Confuscious once say: Passionate kiss like spiders web : Leads to undoing of fly.
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