[In response to a Native American quote: ""If you take a copy of the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain."]
I'm just feeling very emotional about all this today. I haven't given it much thought lately and all of a sudden when I read that quote I just saw red! I was just so angry! And then I wanted to cry and maybe I should have and then I wouldn't feel like I want to just throw up now.
I have often thought, isn't it just overwhelmingly incredible that we have the ear of the Creator of the entire universe and everything in it? My Lord! It blows me away. He loves us. Why, I just don't understand, but He does.
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I'm just feeling very emotional about all this today. I haven't given it much thought lately and all of a sudden when I read that quote I just saw red! I was just so angry! And then I wanted to cry and maybe I should have and then I wouldn't feel like I want to just throw up now.
Wow, lady. You need to get over yourself. People in this world are going to disagree with you. It's a sad fact of life, I know, but you're just going to have to learn to deal with it.
Also... That is an awesome Native American quote! do yourself a favor Maggie, travel someday to the upper part of New Mexico, stand in the stunning Anasazi cliff dwellings and remember that quote. Those humble people smack the shit out your crappy wal-mart spiritualism.
I'm reminded of a story about a Buddhist and a Christian.
The Christian walks in and sees the Buddhist bowing to a statue of the Buddha. The Christian walks up to the Buddhist and says "You know, I can spit on your holy statue.". The Buddhist looks at him and replies "Okay. You spit, I'll bow."
I've always respected Buddhists for how little importance they tend to place on the icons of their belief.
(Love the Native American quote as well.)
"It blows me away. He loves us. Why, I just don't understand, but He does."
You mean he loves your mom!!! WHOOO!!
(PS:Rock on Native Americans!)
Time to change your period-panties, Mags.
And while you're at it, fuck off and die.
"I'm just feeling very emotional about all this today. I haven't given it much thought lately and all of a sudden when I read that quote I just saw red! I was just so angry! And then I wanted to cry and maybe I should have and then I wouldn't feel like I want to just throw up now."
Why? Because what they worship/respect/revere/etc. is actually tangible and what you worship can't be shown to be anything other than your own imagination? Guess that'd piss me off too.
"I have often thought, isn't it just overwhelmingly incredible that we have the ear of the Creator of the entire universe and everything in it? My Lord! It blows me away. He loves us. Why, I just don't understand, but He does."
That's a mighty fine ego you've got there. Be sure to keep it in check.
"Originally Posted by Maggie
Ah, fundies don't know ANYTHING about making inane statements, naaaahhhh. Pot, meet kettle.
that is an awesome quote. I'm not a pagan but I have a lot more respect for those that worship nature then for those that worship a book, because nature is amazing and none of the books that people call "holy" are particularly impressive.
Yeah lady, take a chill pill and shut up.
"I haven't given it much thought"
HA! An excellent out-of-context truth from Maggie!
"And then I wanted to cry and maybe I should have"
I would cry if I was that closely attached to information.
All of them, perhaps.
Uh huh . . . loves you so much he wilt smite thee with ass cancer in a heartbeat, prayers or no. "God Fearing" I understand, if they want to believe such a monster exists, but why they call it "love" I'll never get.
@ Moon Wolfhowl,
You know, if you Christians has managed to finish off your mass murder of Native Americans, maybe their wisdom wouldn't be giving your closed-minded spirituality based off of a relationship with a petty and sadistic fictional entity so much goddamned trouble.
Christians killed Indians. It's poetic that Native American wisdom can kill Christianity itself.
You have some very serious issues, Maggie and should work on them before you hurt yourself. Or, worse yet, hurt someone else.
The quote itself is a good contrast of spirituality to religion. Maggie's reaction is a good example of someone overreacting incredibly to something that amounts to saying that "The Bible is written with ink on paper", and that this, being the basis of their religion, is less in tune with nature, and less timeless, than nature itself. Not incredibly complicated, not incredibly ferocious. Yet it makes her cry and vomit. Pathetic on so many levels.
This has given me my first "had to go away and come back" moment.
When I was in HS (89-93), there was an incident in the Israeli-Palestinian mess, in which a Palestinian child was killed. One of the more radical Native American students was taunting a Jewish student, "What? The only good Palestinian is a dead one? You know the difference between a refugee camp and reservation, Sharon? Not a damn thing."
That was first period on a Tuesday. Sharon went home before lunch and stayed gone until the following Monday.
Awwwwww . Does someone need to join the Wailing Fleet?
I'll bet if they told you not to take the bible literally, you'd kill yourself.
'Isn't it just overwhelmingly incredible, that some stupid pieces of shit are so overwhelmingly egotistic that they think they have "the ear of the creator" while others do not? My Lord!'
Maggie, try Midol or Pamprin. I mean, we've all had days like these, it doesn't mean we have to act like such drama queens.
I love that Native American quote. It's more profound than the entire Christian religion.
I'm going to memorize it and throw it in the face of every fundie who loves to quote that ridiculous Matthew 24:35 verse: "Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away."
@The Quote:
I keep putting less and less faith in the bible, and more and more in the unpredictability of the world and in the actions of humans. Sure, I believe in Jesus, and I believe in an ultimate Creator, but the Bible is a mix of maybe-truth, blatant lies, and dogma meant to control the masses. The bible is an inherently conservative work, despite the fact that Jesus was most definitely liberal.
Confused?
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