Hello Kelly Thanks for your reply. No doubt, you're a very energetic woman! My question, is, do you use your energy in the right way? Your fight seems to me a quite unequal fight and I am wondering whether if you make the balance between the spent energy on one side and the little result on the other, the balance is for you positive enough. If not, you're just getting exhausted, like you seem to suggest yourself. Well I guess I don't really have some alternative, I just am thinking out loud. I just wonder if it's not the time to calm down and to think about some better strategy, however I can't imagine how that should be. Do you sometime do some meditation? I do and it helps me. Oh got to go now. We'll talk about this further on. Send you a hug, Little Pilgrim
If you have an mp3 player, how do you download music? Does it have to be delivered on a CD or flash drive, or do you have access to computers and the internet? Or is there a service that takes your mp3 player and installs songs for you, and then returns it?
Inquiring minds want to know! :-)
I don't really have any suggestions for music to download... my music taste tends toward the Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, Vern Gosdin, end of things, with a sprinkling of Tragically Hip and Econoline Crush thrown in. But I do like the occasional reprieve of Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Chopin every now and then too.
If you have access to internet, you may be able to download podcasts for free, such as The Roadhouse Podcast, which features about an hour of Blues music each week.
3. It´s not proven that near-death experiences are simply a last reaction of the dying brain, to be exact, of the God-spot. A part of scientists believe that, but there are also other scientists - even such who first also believed that - who think completely different.
4. Nope, God doesn´t need us on our knees; he doesn´t need us at all - loves us, but not need us. I personally believe (and it´s completely okay to disagree!) that he wants a close connection. If he always did everything without being asked, men would simply forget him and take everything for granted.
5. The Genesis was probably never taken that literal as it is today by evangelical Christians. I think the main meaning is to tell that the earth didn´t come simply from nothing. But apart from that, I believe the big boss wanted to spare us too much knowledge - about good and bad - because it was clear that if we knew we would do bad things. We´d loose our innocence. And as there can´t be anything bad around God, he simply wanted to protect us from having to leave him.
6. Where would the world be without crusades and burning witches? Well, question vice versa: Where would Kambodscha (I intentionally took the spelling in my own language) be without Pol Pot who tried to kill all religious people as well as all intellectuals?
Hope you´re not angry that I tried to give an answer to the things that seemed the most important to me. I do like your letters and also your drawings since you don´t paint skulls anymore ;-) and I´m looking forward to your next letter. May you and all who comment here (even the ones who dislike me) have a good time and I´m sending good wishes for everyone´s further life.
PS II Maybe, as I´m commenting on this one blog entry anyway, I should take the opportunity to just get a few things right....
1. Even American secret services did take North Korea serious, as they said in the news.... they´re simply not sure what exactly that dictator possesses, but they seem to know THAT he does.
2. Hitler was NO Christian. He was probably christened, as an Austrian at that time. But he confessed a man named Georg Schönerer as his hero; who demanded getting rid of the Jews and racial segregation, and an ethnic-racist German culture "as a substitute for Catholic Christianity". And Hitler even had new "Christmas songs" written which had no relation to Christmas anymore but praised his ideology of motherhood etc. Doesn´t really sound like a Christian to me.
Stalin, by the way, even was a candidate for priesthood...Being a Christian once doesn´t mean being it your whole life.
Dear Ronnie, yes, I have read "Fear" and also all those comments - at least up to my own last one. As you know I´m open for discussion in general and I consider it completely okay if people disagree with me, but that´s always a matter of style. If debates can´t be done in a civilized manner, then I don´t have any sense in having them.
Religion is not the only topic where it seems you can´t discuss with most people - the death penalty, for example, is another one. I have no idea why people start getting aggressive against others who "dare" not to follow their arguments...Is it a feeling of power when they´re trying to insult the other one? Or is it a painful experience they had in the past?
Why do some people feel the need to come with arguments like that spelling of Korea? THAT was indeed a "crappy argument"... On the other hand, me saying I wouldn´t change my mind about faith was no argument at all, it was just a statement of fact. ;-)
Well, no matter...I for my part never needed to call others "whatever-bashing idiots" and I never will. In fact, among my friends, there are more atheists than Christians and my best friend, as you know, is gay (just to say; as it was one accusation against religion that it says homosexuality is wrong). A little funny is, obviously those words were meant to prove faith wrong....in my eyes, they did exactly the opposite. How often did Jesus tell his followers the world would hate, attack, slander them...? (And in my case, it´s not only people who are against religion that do that, but also strictly conservative Christians. Did you know that, considered exactly, I´m excommunicated because I don´t believe that women shouldn´t be priests?)
Well....I told you I wouldn´t follow your blog any more. I made an exception here...but no more in the future. And PS: The one who finds mistakes in my spelling and grammar may keep them. ;-)
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Thanks for your reply. No doubt, you're a very energetic woman! My question, is, do you use your energy in the right way? Your fight seems to me a quite unequal fight and I am wondering whether if you make the balance between the spent energy on one side and the little result on the other, the balance is for you positive enough. If not, you're just getting exhausted, like you seem to suggest yourself. Well I guess I don't really have some alternative, I just am thinking out loud. I just wonder if it's not the time to calm down and to think about some better strategy, however I can't imagine how that should be. Do you sometime do some meditation? I do and it helps me. Oh got to go now. We'll talk about this further on.
Send you a hug,
Little Pilgrim
If you have an mp3 player, how do you download music? Does it have to be delivered on a CD or flash drive, or do you have access to computers and the internet? Or is there a service that takes your mp3 player and installs songs for you, and then returns it?
Inquiring minds want to know! :-)
I don't really have any suggestions for music to download... my music taste tends toward the Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, Vern Gosdin, end of things, with a sprinkling of Tragically Hip and Econoline Crush thrown in. But I do like the occasional reprieve of Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Chopin every now and then too.
If you have access to internet, you may be able to download podcasts for free, such as The Roadhouse Podcast, which features about an hour of Blues music each week.
Athough part of your story seemed to be cut off and that unfortunately was the punch line... so now I have no idea why his legs were so short...
You have the best handwritting!
It´s not proven that near-death experiences are simply a last reaction of the dying brain, to be exact, of the God-spot.
A part of scientists believe that, but there are also other scientists - even such who first also believed that - who think completely different.
4.
Nope, God doesn´t need us on our knees; he doesn´t need us at all - loves us, but not need us.
I personally believe (and it´s completely okay to disagree!) that he wants a close connection.
If he always did everything without being asked, men would simply forget him and take everything for granted.
5.
The Genesis was probably never taken that literal as it is today by evangelical Christians. I think the main meaning is to tell that the earth didn´t come simply from nothing.
But apart from that, I believe the big boss wanted to spare us too much knowledge - about good and bad - because it was clear that if we knew we would do bad things. We´d loose our innocence. And as there can´t be anything bad around God, he simply wanted to protect us from having to leave him.
6.
Where would the world be without crusades and burning witches?
Well, question vice versa: Where would Kambodscha (I intentionally took the spelling in my own language) be without Pol Pot who tried to kill all religious people as well as all intellectuals?
Hope you´re not angry that I tried to give an answer to the things that seemed the most important to me.
I do like your letters and also your drawings since you don´t paint skulls anymore ;-) and I´m looking forward to your next letter.
May you and all who comment here (even the ones who dislike me) have a good time and I´m sending good wishes for everyone´s further life.
Maybe, as I´m commenting on this one blog entry anyway, I should take the opportunity to just get a few things right....
1.
Even American secret services did take North Korea serious, as they said in the news....
they´re simply not sure what exactly that dictator possesses, but they seem to know THAT he does.
2.
Hitler was NO Christian. He was probably christened, as an Austrian at that time. But he confessed a man named Georg Schönerer as his hero; who demanded getting rid of the Jews and racial segregation, and an ethnic-racist German culture "as a substitute for Catholic Christianity".
And Hitler even had new "Christmas songs" written which had no relation to Christmas anymore but praised his ideology of motherhood etc.
Doesn´t really sound like a Christian to me.
Stalin, by the way, even was a candidate for priesthood...Being a Christian once doesn´t mean being it your whole life.
yes, I have read "Fear" and also all those comments - at least up to my own last one. As you know I´m open for discussion in general and I consider it completely okay if people disagree with me, but that´s always a matter of style. If debates can´t be done in a civilized manner, then I don´t have any sense in having them.
Religion is not the only topic where it seems you can´t discuss with most people - the death penalty, for example, is another one. I have no idea why people start getting aggressive against others who "dare" not to follow their arguments...Is it a feeling of power when they´re trying to insult the other one? Or is it a painful experience they had in the past?
Why do some people feel the need to come with arguments like that spelling of Korea? THAT was indeed a "crappy argument"...
On the other hand, me saying I wouldn´t change my mind about faith was no argument at all, it was just a statement of fact. ;-)
Well, no matter...I for my part never needed to call others "whatever-bashing idiots" and I never will. In fact, among my friends, there are more atheists than Christians and my best friend, as you know, is gay (just to say; as it was one accusation against religion that it says homosexuality is wrong).
A little funny is, obviously those words were meant to prove faith wrong....in my eyes, they did exactly the opposite. How often did Jesus tell his followers the world would hate, attack, slander them...?
(And in my case, it´s not only people who are against religion that do that, but also strictly conservative Christians. Did you know that, considered exactly, I´m excommunicated because I don´t believe that women shouldn´t be priests?)
Well....I told you I wouldn´t follow your blog any more. I made an exception here...but no more in the future.
And PS: The one who finds mistakes in my spelling and grammar may keep them. ;-)
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