--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > There is no need to posit GOD as thinking your f.. mundane > > thoughts. OMG, give God a little more credit. If GOD thought > > your thoughts, the THOUGHTS would so f... blast you to > > NOTHINGNESS (Jai Sarte) -- its not even polite to imagine > > the carnage. > > LOL. I didn't read whatever post this is bouncing > off of, but I have to agree with new here. Like > God (if there were one) has nothing better to do > than think *your* thoughts. That's one bored-ass > God, if you ask me. :-) > > > Thoughts come because of your past mundane attachments. And > > your reaction to oncoming karma (responses based on learning > > and education -- again karma-based). > > Or (perish the...uh...thought), one could just > suck it up and admit that one has NO IDEA where > thoughts come from. That's the real story, as > far as I can tell, for everyone on this planet. > They make up stories about where thoughts come > from, but not one of them knows for sure. And, > unable to *admit* that they don't have a clue, > they make up stories and claim that those stories > are not only a clue, but *the* clue, "the Truth." > > Me, I don't have a clue where my thoughts come > from, and I don't really care. They certainly > don't come from God. If there is one, He/She/It > has far better things to do than create the stuff > that goes through my brain. > > > And why Randomness and Predetermination are the only > > two choices -- thats trip down blinders-on thinking. > > There are SO many more possibilities. > > Indeed there are. I don't believe in either. As > I said earlier, I DON'T KNOW, and doubt I ever > will. There are elements to life that seem > pattern-like, but that could happen without the > intervention of any kind of God. And there are > elements of life that seem random, and *that* > could happen *with* the simultaneous presence > of a God as well. > > I guess the bottom line for me is that, as new > suggests below, claiming that God "does every- > thing" and/or "thinks all my thoughts" sounds > a tad...uh...self important to me. It's like, > "God has nothing better to do than to plan all > the minutiae of my life and every detail of it." > Yeah, right. *That* is certainly likely. :-) > > Besides, who would really want to *live* in a > world that you have no choice in, and no possible > effect on? That, after all, is the bottom line > of believing in either predestination or God- > running-everything. BORING. *This* is what some > people believe to give their lives "meaning?" > I can't possibly imagine anything *less* mean- > ingful than believing that you're some kind of > robot or puppet just acting out "God's will." > > But people are different, and some might just > find this belief the most inspiring thing in > the world. Go figure. > > > So rock on, if you need to get off on the image -- and > > illusion -- of GOD thinking your thoughts (just a bit > > grandiose and meglomanic are we?) I thought we left maya > > back at the last train stop. > > Exactly. > > It should be pointed out that most of the horror > conquerors and megalomaniacs the planet has pro- > duced claimed that "God thinks my thoughts." They > were "in tune" with "God's will." They knew what > God had in mind with His/Her/Its Grand Plan, not > only for them personally, but for everyone else. > > Yeah, right. We all see how well *that* worked out. > > Personally I think we're all a great deal safer > with people who believe "different strokes for > different folks and not one of us has a lock on > 'Truth'" than we are with people who believe that > they or others "know 'the Truth' and we should > believe them and do what they say." The latter > have fucked up this planet for centuries, and > have justified war after war after war after > atrocity after genocide by doing what God told > them to do as He/She/It was "thinking their > thoughts for them," and by convincing others > to do the same. > > Give me someone who thinks his *own* thoughts any > day, and who realizes it. That person is "handleable" > and can be kept under a modicum of control by other > people who think their own thoughts. They're not all > that likely to get totally out of control, in a mega- > death sense. > > But the ones who claim that God thinks their thoughts, > or that God is telling them what to do, or that they > "know" what God wants done? Scary as hell. Those are > the people this planet needs to be wary of, and to > never allow within a mile of having any kind of power > over others. > > Just my opinion, which is really mine. God had > absolutely nothing to do with creating it. >
Its OK man. God still LOVES you.
