2013/11/29 Samiya Illias <[email protected]> > I understand that so many deities and faith-systems and all the myths and > fantasies in them easily put off any thinking mind. Yet, the more we > discover, the closer we get to theorizing about everything, the more > difficult it is to believe that everything just happens on its own. >
And how is it easier for a god to happen on its own.... it is as absurd, between the two, god hypothesis is just a gap of explanation and the easiest to dismiss. Quentin > We may not be able to describe or imagine God, but it is also not possible > to honestly dismiss a existence of a Deity! > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:26 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But if *everything's *holy... well, you know the rest. >> >> >> On 29 November 2013 14:02, Platonist Guitar Cowboy < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I don't think size/length of the list matters much, lol! >>> >>> Crazy Ginsberg's list was shorter and he and his publishers apparently >>> see reason for them to exist: >>> >>> *Footnote to Howl* >>> *By Allen Ginsberg >>> <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/allen-ginsberg> * >>> >>> >>> Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! >>> Holy! Holy! Holy! >>> The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is >>> holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! >>> Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is >>> in eternity! Everyman’s an angel! >>> The bum’s as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul >>> are holy! >>> The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers >>> are holy the ecstasy is holy! >>> Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy Kerouac holy Huncke >>> holy Burroughs holy Cassady holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars >>> holy the hideous human angels! >>> Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks of the grandfathers >>> of Kansas! >>> Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the >>> jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace peyote pipes & drums! >>> Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeterias >>> filled with the millions! Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the >>> streets! >>> Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the middleclass! Holy >>> the crazy shepherds of rebellion! Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles! >>> Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria & Seattle Holy Paris Holy >>> Tangiers Holy Moscow Holy Istanbul! >>> Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space >>> holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy the Angel in >>> Moloch! >>> Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy >>> the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy >>> the abyss! >>> Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! >>> magnanimity! >>> Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! >>> >>> >>> *Berkeley 1955* >>> >>> I believe both Brent and Allen. And the Sun... Dunno much about their >>> existence though. PGC >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:03 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 29 November 2013 09:19, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I can conceive of (with apologies to H. L. Mencken), Agdistis or >>>>> Angdistis, Ah Puch, Ahura Mazda, Alberich, Allah, Amaterasu, An, Anansi, >>>>> Anat, Andvari, Anshar, Anu, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apsu, Ares, Artemis, >>>>> Asclepius, Athena, Athirat, Athtart, Atlas, Baal, Ba Xian, Bacchus, >>>>> Balder, >>>>> Bast, Bellona, Bergelmir, Bes, Bixia Yuanjin, Bragi, Brahma, Brent, >>>>> Brigit, >>>>> Camaxtli, Ceres, Ceridwen, Cernunnos, Chac, Chalchiuhtlicue, Charun, >>>>> Chemosh, Cheng-huang, Clapton, Cybele, Dagon, Damkina (Dumkina), Davlin, >>>>> Dawn, Demeter, Diana, Di Cang, Dionysus, Ea, El, Enki, Enlil, Eos, Epona, >>>>> Ereskigal, Farbauti, Fenrir, Forseti, Fortuna, Freya, Freyr, Frigg, Gaia, >>>>> Ganesha, Ganga, Garuda, Gauri, Geb, Geong Si, Guanyin, Hades, Hanuman, >>>>> Hathor, Hecate (Hekate), Helios, Heng-o (Chang-o), Hephaestus, Hera, >>>>> Hermes, Hestia, Hod, Hoderi, Hoori, Horus, Hotei, Huitzilopochtli, >>>>> Hsi-Wang-Mu, Hygeia, Inanna, Inti, Iris, Ishtar, Isis, Ixtab, Izanaki, >>>>> Izanami, Jesus, Juno, Jehovah, Jupiter, Juturna, Kagutsuchi, Kartikeya, >>>>> Khepri, Ki, Kingu, Kinich Ahau, Kishar, Krishna, Kuan-yin, Kukulcan, >>>>> Kvasir, Lakshmi, Leto, Liza, Loki, Lugh, Luna, Magna Mater, Maia, Marduk, >>>>> Mars, Mazu, Medb, Mercury, Mimir, Min, Minerva, Mithras, Morrigan, Mot, >>>>> Mummu, Muses, Nammu, Nanna, Nanna (Norse), Nanse, Neith, Nemesis, >>>>> Nephthys, >>>>> Neptune, Nergal, Ninazu, Ninhurzag, Nintu, Ninurta, Njord, Nugua, Nut, >>>>> Odin, Ohkuninushi, Ohyamatsumi, Orgelmir, Osiris, Ostara, Pan, Parvati, >>>>> Phaethon, Phoebe, Phoebus Apollo, Pilumnus, Poseidon, Quetzalcoatl, Rama, >>>>> Re, RheaSabazius, Sarasvati, Selene, Shiva, Seshat, Seti (Set), Shamash, >>>>> Shapsu, Shen Yi, Shiva, Shu, Si-Wang-Mu, Sin, Sirona, Sol, Surya, Susanoh, >>>>> Tawaret, Tefnut, Tezcatlipoca, Thanatos, Thor, Thoth, Tiamat, Tianhou, >>>>> Tlaloc, Tonatiuh, Toyo-Uke-Bime, Tyche, Tyr, Utu, Uzume, Vediovis, Venus, >>>>> Vesta, Vishnu, Volturnus, Vulcan, Xipe, Xi Wang-mu, Xochipilli, >>>>> Xochiquetzal, Yam, Yarikh, YHWH, Ymir, Yu-huang, Yum Kimil and Zeus. But I >>>>> see no reason to believe any of them exist. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hey, what's that about Amaterasu? 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