Hi Ron, Yes, I agree. There is no hypothetical entity. We make the rules.
Sent laboriously from an iPhone, Mark On Nov 27, 2011, at 7:47 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mark: > Can you imagine a place where you are given presents every day? Where > someone gives you rules with a twinkle in their eyes. Where the order of the > day is to Ho, Ho, Ho. Can you imagine a place where it is Christmas every > day? Such a place does exist, and it is not as foreign as you may think. In > fact you could say it is not foreign at all. Just drop your baggage you do > not need it where you are going to be. > > Ron: > I think THAT is exactly the sort of baggage of reward/punishment that is > placed in > a hypothetical entity that gives one rules that is the problem with God AND > christmas in general. > When people start doing Santa's work of weeding out the naughty from the > nice, when they are > disapointed in the presents they get are not the presents they asked > for...gosh..it's not foriegn > it's just an immature undeveloped selfish conception of the good. > > On Nov 26, 2011, at 1:25 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> I try to understand, that god IS "good" and in that way I can use the word. >> But >> That is usually not the typical conception >> >> the typical conception is a kind of santa clause fantasy and the arguement >> lies in the meaning of the word in the common contextual way. >> >> .. >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
