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Aug 11, 2017 20:45:32 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 20:45:32 GMT 1
I ain't got no answer to my question, at least not from you. My conscience speaks to me quite plainly, while you all remain mute....
Martyrs don't just take the form of suicide bombers, pursuing what we choose to call fanaticism, regardless of the cost to others....
Martyrs include Ghandi, Mandela, Joan of Arc and those crucified, literally and figuratively for their beliefs.
Where would we be today without them? Where would we get our set of moral values, our sense of what is right and what is wrong? How much longer must we see Man's Inhumanity to Man with cold indifference??
Be a martyr. Be as big as you can be.
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Aug 14, 2017 21:14:31 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 21:14:31 GMT 1
I learn (from The Times Magazine, Saturday) that blood-thirsty revenge is being exacted on members of ISIS, and their supporters, in Mosul, following the military success there....
I also learn that atrocities perpetrated against the people of Mosul, by ISIS and their supporters, are what fuel the blood-thirsty revenge....
Impossible it is for me to feel the vengefulness of those who have suffered under ISIS. Impossible it is for you.
Impossible it is for me to preach forgiveness to the people of Mosul, and to urge them to turn the other cheek, on the grounds that two wrongs don't make a right, without acknowledging that I just don't feel the depth of their loss, their family members' murders.....
Hope is all that I have left for them. It don't feel like much...
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Aug 29, 2017 19:05:40 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 19:05:40 GMT 1
Err, I have something profound to say, so profound that I do not feel emboldened enough to say it, mere mortal man that I am. May He empower me to say it, soon, now, before I die. God please help me to find the words.
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Sept 8, 2017 9:48:25 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 9:48:25 GMT 1
I continue to despair at your collective failure, not just in the God thread, but everywhere else on the forum. No, you will not connect, commune, with your fellow man, but you will hoover up anything your fellow man has to say, for free....
You take, and don't give. It's not in your own interest to behave that way, IMO. To Give is to Receive, but that idea seems beyond your imagination. So it is I despair for you. Increasingly, as I watch the World go by," to Give is to Receive" seems irrelevant to my fellow man.
The times they are a-changing. Now I'm a throw-back from another age. My expectations are unreal, without foundation, now...
No they're not.
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Sept 13, 2017 9:46:28 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 9:46:28 GMT 1
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind The United Methodist Hymnal Number 358 Text: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Music: Frederick C. Maker, 1844-1927 Tune: REST, Meter: 86.886
1. Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways; reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise.
2. In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word, rise up and follow thee.
3. O sabbath rest by Galilee, O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity, interpreted by love!
4. Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace.
5. Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm.
"O still , small voice of calm" - i.e. slow down, quieten 'our foolish ways' so that we may be happy - is what I've been banging on about all this time. It was as pertinent to our existence in the 1800's as it is now. Now we have even more need for a small voice of calm, now we have even more foolish ways.
ps: Sing this hymn just once, in the company of your fellow man, before you die. The written word doesn't come close to what you will feel by singing it.
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Sept 30, 2017 12:58:04 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2017 12:58:04 GMT 1
The little Syrian beggar boy
Sat on the floor with his mother, down a little side-street - are they forbidden to sit on the main street where most of the tourists are? Are they shunted away, for fear of annoying the tourists? - was a little Syrian boy on Kos.
He approached me, talking all the while in his own language, and seemed too young to know that I didn't understand a word of what he said...
Except that 'Syria' I did understand, and with it all of the desperation that it implies, refugees seeking a safe place....
Off back to his mother he trotted with my donation. Back he came gabbling in his language. Up he raised his arms, high in love and embrace. I knelt down to receive his hug, and to return it. Who wouldn't have almost wept, he in his shirt three sizes too big and me overwhelmed by his outpouring? I had given him nothing - I could've lost that donation and never even noticed - yet he gave me everything he had.
There is a God. One God for Everyone.
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Oct 24, 2017 16:03:52 GMT 1
Post by littlemouse on Oct 24, 2017 16:03:52 GMT 1
Tell me something . How can a catholic remain a catholic after all the revelations of abuse within their religon? Surely the best and only moral thing to do is leave.perhaps the brainwashing is really deep.
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Oct 25, 2017 10:53:33 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 10:53:33 GMT 1
Bloody phew, littlemouse.. Don't ask me about religious denominations - what do I know about them? Don't ponder moral dilemmas, who am I to ponder them with you?
Do stick to basic tenets - universal principles - that we are all miserable sinners, in one way or another, but that we can atone for that, we can put right our wrongs, we can make amends for our faults, if we have the forgiveness of everyone else, and if we have the will to do so...
"Forgive us our trespasses, and forgive those who trespass against us - no finer words said.....
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Oct 25, 2017 14:29:17 GMT 1
Post by littlemouse on Oct 25, 2017 14:29:17 GMT 1
Forgive those who use « god » as the means to further their own perverted ways, but hay you can do as you like when you know that your boss will keep his gob shut and the worst that will happen is that you will be moved to another diocese to carry on the « work of god ».Hence the question how can anyone remain a catholic when they know this is happening?
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Oct 30, 2017 11:24:45 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 11:24:45 GMT 1
I had waited until someone else had their say, but now I feel that I've waited long enough....
Littlemouse, agonising about how others conduct themselves, and how utterly unacceptable their conduct is to you, distracts you from your own conduct. I say ignore others, and focus on yourself...
I say stick to basic principles, regardless of what others do, because over yourself you have control, over others you don't....
You, you, you, moral values are about you. Get it right for you. Know thyself, live by what you believe in, forgive others, disregard others, because you have it within you to be massive in your own name. The World is richer if you do, and so are you....
ps: All my posts are an invitation to re-consider your views. We've seen how some do, and others flatly refuse. It's everyone's choice. You decide. What the catholics do and say is not, fundamentally, relevant to me. What I do and say, is.......
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