Hi Laura,

Thank you for responding to my post.  Excuse my delay.  I’m at Friday
morning, CP Digest, and slow typing drag.  No instant response and
gratification here.

You write: “I hope the wink menas you're kidding, right?”

Usually I am.  Kidding.  Ink or not.  Also not kidding, to some degree.

As far as driving.  Or driving straight.  I don’t.  Couldn’t drive a
car, or my wheelchair, in a straight line if you guaranteed me my next
million.  As I don’t drive straight, nor do I usually so write.  I tend
to be indirect, more often than not, because nothing makes sense to me.
From my point of view life is ultimately meaningless.  For me that’s
wonderful and perpetually confusing.  (I admit: could be me confused and
uncertain of meaning, not life at all!)  I usually have more questions
than answers.  At my age I tend to fudge and forget both q’s&a’s.

Sometimes I come out straight and clear.  Or try to.  That often gets
more laughs than intended.

Back to you, Trisha, and religion.  You asked her: “Could you explain
this reasoning?”  I thought your question paradoxical.  And funny.

For me Trisha, usually, and religions, intrinsically, express beliefs.
“Beliefs” and “reasoning” inhabit different universes, though we often
confuse the distinction and bend one to serve the other.  Sometimes we
wind up “bending”--believing in our reasonableness and the
reasonableness of our beliefs--one another: that’s usually where comedy
turns to tragedy.

S.



Date:    Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:57:42 -0500
From:    Laura Cleveland <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Think Gods

 What specifically are you asking? I hope the wink menas you're kidding,
right?
Would be glad to enlighted you with my sheep-like reasoning if you'd
give
me a clue as to what you are driving at. (poor sentence, I know)
Laura

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> From: I. S. Margolis <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Think Gods
> Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:43 AM
>
> Laura:
>
> Perhaps you can enlighten me?
>
> Which do you reason the more reasonable: Trisha or “Organized
Religion?”
> ;-)>
>
> S.
>
> ----------
> > From:
> > To:
> > Subject:
> > Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:52 PM
> >
> >
> >
> > Trisha's view
> > "How egotistical to
> > think Gods have nothing better to do than think of me."
> >
> > God's view
> > "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is
> > forgotten by God. Indeed the very hairs of your head are numbered.
> Dont
> be
> > afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." Luke 12:6,7
> >
> > Also
> > "O lord, you have searched me and know me. You know when I sit and
> when I
> > rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going in
and
> my
> > lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on
my
> > tongue you know it completely, O Lord.  Psalm 139:1-4
> >
> > If I rise on the wings of dawn, if I settle on the the far side of
the
> sea,
> > even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me
fast.
> > Psalm 130: 9,10
> >
> > It's an awesome thing to have the God of the universe so intimately
> involved in our lives! He even says we can call him Abba (Aramaic for
> daddy).
>
> >
> > Trisha said
> > "Of course organized
> > religions are not for the people who think only for people who must
be
> told
> > what to think and how to act. Its much easier to be told how to be
> than
> to
> > accept responsibilty for one actions and have to think them out. The
> > problem
> > with life is the fact people are spoon fed what to believe thru
> > religions..."
> >
> > Huh? Do you mean every organized religion, really? Could you explain
> this
> reasoning?
> Respectfully,
> Laura
>
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