2013/1/30 Stephen P. King <[email protected]> > On 1/30/2013 12:06 AM, Kim Jones wrote: > > "we do WHOSE will"??? > > I mean, what if God turns out to be a gigantic chicken or the Michelin Man? > > Are we still happy with our chosen values? > > K > > > Hard for Gozer the Gozerian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gozer#Gozer>to > be infinite, eternal, Omnisient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent.... Kim, > this is a bad straw man... why are you writing it? > > And why the Michelin man coudn't be infinite, eternal, Omnisient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent... Have you some proof of that ? Because the *Flying Spaghetti Monster is... *or so I've been told.
Quentin > > > On 30/01/2013, at 4:01 PM, "Stephen P. King" <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 1/29/2013 11:13 PM, Kim Jones wrote: > > This is a pretty well-worn, oft-used, school prayer. Given it is recited or > sung by the entire student body and staff at a good many schools and other > institutions you would have to assume that it's all fundamentally good stuff. > > > > Teach us, good Lord, to serve thee as thou deserves; > to give and not to count the cost; > to fight and not to heed the wounds; > to till, and not to seek for rest; > to labour, and not to ask for any reward, > save that of knowing we do thy will. > > > Amen. > > > But it's all incredibly bad advice, really - don't you think? Why do people > assume God wants Earthlings to be such a bunch of try-hards? > I hate this prayer. It advertises values that no one can live up to and no > one need live up to. Surely we can invent a better, less servile, less > obsequious, less cringing, less Gollum-like take on what we think God wants > for us. > > All this servility, this grovelling at the feet of somebody. Is God really > into all that? I don't believe it. > > > > Kim Jones > > > > Saint Ignatius' prayer, no? Common for those in Jesuit schools. I never > hear it in my days of Christian school... Many people live well with such > ideas in their heads, why the licentious talk of them? > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
