Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Two pea brains in a pod! Message-ID: <1846@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 05:54:15 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1846 Posted: Thu Nov 8 05:54:15 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:33:05 EST References: <> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Western Annex Lines: 70 Keywords: arndt, silly Summary: In article <4131@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes: >You guys have been standing out in the sun too long. Of all the vacuous >drivel I've seen on the net this about tops it. You sound like a couple >of Christians going on about God's Plan - don't you notice it? I mean >you don't even have a book that tells you what you say is so - it just comes >whole cloth out of your heads. Hmm... What a nice change of pace-- a tolerant Christian. After all of the viperous intolerance, this is truly a breath of fresh air. Excuse me while I go puke. If you listened at all to what I said, there really isn't a difference between what I said and what Christians say-- that is the whole POINT! All faiths worship the same God, they just use different names and ways different from the Christian pantheon. Some of us don't NEED books to tell us how to react to God, some of us can do so on our own and feel comfortable with it. >Next you'll be telling us about Mother Nature. What else do you honestly think a Zen Druid (such as myself) would consider worshipping? >Some go for more than one "Being" others for none at all. Well, if you want to get technical, I consider myself polytheistic rather than monotheistic, even though when you look at it each 'deity' they are actually different facets of what is really a single Being. Besides Nature, a real mother if I've ever seen one, I could also make a case for my worshiping someone such as Aphrodite because of my beliefs in loving and tolerating my fellow human beings regardless of their faults (or pan, or cupid, for that matter-- they are all personifications of the same essence). I don't see anything wrong with that. > (me) >"The Plan boss, the Plan!" Now you're seeing plans, eh Byron. >How the hell do you know that what you have said above is true???? You got a >book, hear voices, see things?? Sounds like a lot of no brainer to me. At >least the Christians have a book. Let's call nonsense by it's name, eh. I know what I've said is True for the same reasons that Christians believe their book and what they say is true-- I believe it. I've never asked you to believe it, I don't think you'd understand it, much less believe it. Without the faith of the Christians, the Bible is no more the word of God than my microwave cookbook. With that faith, it is EVERYTHING, at least to the Christians. The same is true of my faiths. >What a load of silly crap you guys are spooning out. And you have the BALLS >to knock the Christians!!! You make them look pretty reasonable. No wonder >they want to have a net free of your barf. Ah, if you can't baffle them with brilliance, bury them with, well, nevermind. I never knocked the Christians or their faith. I knocked their lack of willingness to allow me to practice my faith in the same way I allow them to practice theirs-- with my tolerance that NEITHER path is incorrect, just different. Ken, I firmly believe you were born into the wrong century. You belong in 1600 Salem where you could torture people like me by calling them 'witches', during the inquisitions where you could stick red hot pokers into my eyes, during the great holy wars where you could have gone and killed heathens for their lack of faith, raped their women, and slaughtered their children. the world is too civilised for people like you-- your lack of caring for your fellow man disgusts me. I try to be tolerant of other people's viewpoints, but I have my limits. I firmly believe that if your Jesus was half the man my studies of him show him to be (son of God or not) he would spit on you for your flagrant disregard of his teachings; all the time professing to be a follower of his. It is the people like you that give the REAL Christians such a bad name. chuq (I love my fellow man, but does Ken Qualify?) -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA I'd know those eyes from a million years away....