God is widely conceived to be eternal, you dumb fuck. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn men back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, O sons of men.” For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.--Psalm 90:1-4 The gracious, eternal god permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.--Johannes Tauler (1300-1361) Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.--Khalil Gibran A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.--Bertrand Russell Barry steps in it again: > > See what I mean about minds too small to conceive of eternity? < < --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > Oh Barry, how you really hate the human race. You are constantly irritated > and upset by how stupid everyone is and how different you are from the rest > of the blathering, naive masses. The mere idea that you espouse of there > having been no creation or creator and that those who believe in such > silliness are simply too pathetic to live is giving me my first chuckle of > the day. That is like saying the beer you buy at your local bar had no > creator, was not created, always existed because by the time you get to your > table and order it it just magically appears from some back room. You weren't > there to witness the brewing, you didn't see who harvested the hops or who > put it all in a big vat or who bottled it but you are drinking it > nevertheless at that very moment just like you are living life at this very > moment. You weren't there at the beginning of that either just like you > weren't there for the brewing of the beer so what makes them different? It is > like anyone who believes in some higher force or, horror of horrors, God > makes them in some way simpletons. The inability to conceive of creation > before it existed or to somehow be able to hold the possibility of a personal > or even impersonal God in one's imagination or heart is the sign, IMO, of a > very stunted, very poor man indeed. I don't need science or religion to tell > me what is what. My experiences on this planet and, perhaps, elsewhere have > allowed me glimpses of such a thing as a creator and what animates that force. >
