Tag: existence
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December 06, 2007 10:34 AM EST --
The Demigod Blues
Oh, cruel feckless world!
Again you mourn your worth,
For no one does it better than you do.
Your life has been so tough.
The world is not enough,
‘Cos no one’s . . .
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November 01, 2009 01:05 AM EST --
From what I've read on the gather forum many people tend to believe that their concept of god is limited to a concept of love. I have to ask myself why some people have a need to believe this? Since . . .
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August 28, 2006 11:39 AM EDT --
This was originally a comment at 100 Days, but the system was down. The topic in the comment thread (look at Day 34 & 35) was uncertainty. MB, Lorianne, and Stray have written eloquently on uncertainty. . . .
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May 02, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
Again it is in this sleepy town my mind awakes
A sense of misplaced belonging
A taste memories unresolved
Amongst bitter change and sweet familiarity
I meet the wide-eyed child of me
As the drawn . . .
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September 06, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
An empty canvass of a woman
Stripped and empty and content
Not contained but spilling
Spilling over meticulously measured margins
Of the accepted
And the expected
And the respected
Bursting double stitched, . . .
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February 01, 2009 01:19 PM EST --
There is a passage in the Bible (Matthew 8: 21-22) where Jesus says to one of His disciples, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead". A similar passage is found in Luke . . .
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May 12, 2006 11:33 PM EDT --
I've only recently begun acquire a taste for Shakespeare. His prose was too dense and archaic for my wandering adolescent mind. Instead, I chose to focus on integrals and periodic tables. I chose the . . .
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November 01, 2006 04:29 PM EST --
Imagine for a minute that everything you see around you is not actually there. It is just for lack of a better phrase, a figment of your imagination. Could it be?
The world's top scientists now think . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:23 AM EST --
The kids play and eat cheese crackers, taking the tops off to scrape the filling with their teeth into their mouths.
These children are not yet near that age when they might question their direction, . . .
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December 12, 2007 06:11 AM EST --
Suffocated by the burden of life from which there is no reprieve
Gazed upon by the curious hiding behind the stares of mediocrity
Digging in the bag of seven deadly sins in search of pleasure or truth . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
An arrogant Department of Agriculture representative stopped at a farm and talked with the old farmer, telling him, "I need to inspect your farm." The old farmer said "OK, but . . .
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February 07, 2007 02:32 PM EST --
"I like you, even though you are often purgative and anxiety-driven. You have style and a voice and interesting ways to say interesting things. All of that is good.
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June 07, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
Are we to go on? Or Are we no more?
My belief is that we linger on as spirits. The reason for my belief is that I have had some real ghostly experiences. Ghosts do exist.
What . . .
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August 27, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
Have you ever stopped and thought, why does the universe exist? Neither religion nor science ever try to tackle this concept. They both describe the HOW.
For example, with science, the universe . . .
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November 19, 2007 01:04 PM EST --
We all know there is a connectedness between the Moon and the Ocean’s Tide, but did you know that the connectedness between the Sun and Moon is just as great as the connectedness . . .
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December 31, 2007 11:15 AM EST --
31st December 2007
Here is a confession, of sorts, and a New Year wish to all of you, of sorts...:
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31st December 2007
The clock starts chiming and a haggard . . .
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August 12, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
Sometimes I have a hard time believing any of you exist. I remember being a kid and playing with toys in the bathtub and thinking, maybe these people around me aren't real and it's one big dream. . . .
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December 29, 2006 04:02 PM EST --
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry, author and columnist (1947- )
As I see it, there are only two reasons why people want . . .
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October 21, 2007 06:39 PM EDT --
The High Road
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions . . .
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November 20, 2007 01:35 PM EST --
The short answer is: we don't "go" anywhere. The human being passes through several stages during his period of evolution. It begins at conception. The mother and father . . .
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