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But the only thing that makes sense of what has happened to them can be found in Christian faith.
I'm afraid the bottom line is that we have to try to put these things right ourselves. No gods, spirits or fairies are going to do anything to help.
You can make up anything that purports to make sense, Alan. Indeed, you've just done exactly that. The usual arrogance about Christianity and the implicit but clear snub to the consolations offered by other religious worldviews is duly noted also.Someone, I forget who for the time being, once said quite rightly that all (petitionary) prayer ultimately boils down to: Dear Lord, please let two and two not be four. If you are unable to see that the sort of narratives we've been discussing of late are precisely and exactly the sort of auto-consoling stories we'd expect people to invent in extremities of the utmost anguish and desperation - potentially the worst emotional torture humans are capable of experiencing, I'd say -, stories to make the terrible truth not quite so terrible or indeed not even true, then there's no reasoning with you.But we knew that already.
Well said, as always, LJ. And of course AB, like so many millions of people, wil end their lives still believing religious stuff and, in fact, never know the truth, as AB thinks he does.I'm reading HHGG at the moment and it is interesting to see how quite a bit ahead of his time was Douglas Adams.
Well said, as always, LJ. And of course AB, like so many millions of people, wil end their lives still believing religious stuff and, in fact, never know the truth, as AB thinks he does.
Next to Becky's hospital bed, one of the many prayer cards is signed:With love from Mike, Lucinda and Mariana in heaven
Criticising but not offering any constructive alternative
because frankly there isn't a materialist consoling statement.
We are merely sophisticated apes says the materialist Chaplain.......the self is merely an illusion.At the end of the day only Love is the answer......but I suppose that is an illusion too.
Some people think love is an illusion caused by chemicals in the brain.
Why does everyone want to force their own truths on them and make them even more unhappy?
A caricature view of the advice given across the board by Christians.Do you watch a lot of Dot Cotton on Eastenders.What do you think La La the garden fairy divinity would have you say Rhiannon?
One day you will know the truth, ippy
Plastic? Mine are made out of some sort of stone, like garden gnomes Mine came from a garden centre.You obviously got the wrong sort 😜Mine are very useful, can be aimed at the head of any Christian coming out with a platitude.
Your description of your Garden decoration betrays poor taste Rose.
On a more humorous note, that reminds me of a boo boo I made in my single early twenties I sent Christmas cards to my colleagues at work, some being married and older men.I didn't read the message inside, they were just cheap ones, didn't think.As the day wore on I was getting some funny looks.They got together and saw the funny side of it, they were lovey dovey ones. I was extremely embarrassed when I was told. I don't think anyone took them home in case the wife read them.I always read the message now, in case of messages I didn't intend
Rose, I'm not sure how Jeremy's post could have inspired you to write anything 'humorous'.
No I know, but the connection was that the person may not have read the message in the card or thought about the other implication of what it said.
I don't think the sender meant it in quite the way it comes across.
I take it that's an attempt at humour; you'd sound like such a snob otherwise.
Of course, I was once the proud owner of a mooning gnome....Tell me, is there anything like that in the pagan pantheon? Don't Cheeky chappies often get a following in your department?
Tell me, do you actually have even the faintest idea what you are talking about?
Yeah aren't there cheeky pagan gods....like Loki who was anything but low key. Aren't there any cheeky gods in your pantheon Rhi?
