I am looking forward to faith lighting my path when I face my own inevitable dark night.
How about you?
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moksha wrote:I am looking forward to faith lighting my path when I face my own inevitable dark night.
How about you?
Lighting is not necessary if the path exists.
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Ludwigm, I think the dark night might involve some unknown terrain. Perhaps faith can serve as the GPS device?
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moksha wrote:Ludwigm, I think the dark night might involve some unknown terrain. Perhaps faith can serve as the GPS device?
As far as I remember, some new and superior Apple map application has describe a path can carry out only with bungee jumping with the car (highway crossing without connection, and moreover, near their own center).
For unknown terrain there is no GPS help.
Faith - in the forms I know - produces fake routes. (From Paris to New York You should swim a little...)
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To be serious (Yes, I can do that - even without pictures).
For me, the dark night is death.
After death, there is no path.
All I can do for my wife, children, grandchildren, the family in general - and some people around who count -
- I should do it now. NOW.
All of I don't do in this life are lost. Beyond recall.
I act according to this categorical imperative.
by the way
I am 67. More than anybody of my parents and grandparents used to live. Biology and statistic, not Nostradamus.
Old enough to think about death.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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moksha wrote:Ludwigm, I think the dark night might involve some unknown terrain. Perhaps faith can serve as the GPS device?
Oh, irony.
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: The Need for Faith
ludwigm wrote:moksha wrote:I am looking forward to faith lighting my path when I face my own inevitable dark night.
How about you?
Lighting is not necessary if the path exists.
but you still need a stick

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I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them
what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams
If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent