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Happy Monkey · 02-24-2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by marichiko

ps I like your new sig - is that Chaucer I'm reading?

Are you joking?

02-24-2006, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Are you joking?

No, people really don't beleive I have brain hiccups, but I do. What is it?

Trilby · 02-24-2006, 01:34 PM

What?

Pie · 02-24-2006, 02:11 PM

I dunno, I guess they all went home.

Happy Monkey · 02-24-2006, 03:51 PM

This is possibly my absolute favorite book.

02-24-2006, 03:59 PM

Thank you. If its not in words that I use every day, its unfortunately gone. I'd like to say that would have been my second guess, but probably my second guess would have been Beowulf or something. Oh, well.

Happy Monkey · 02-24-2006, 04:08 PM

Here's what's happening in that passage.

lumberjim · 02-24-2006, 05:10 PM

this thread is rife with tangents.

Yaweh is a big smiter. he'll smite the everliving shit outta ya.

to me, that's why religions are bunk. it's so obvious that they are written by man to control man. I think a true religion is purely personal. no two people are the same, so no two religions should be the same.

Kitsune · 02-24-2006, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

I think a true religion is purely personal.

My take: being spiritual? Good. Being religious? Bad. You don't have to be religious to be spiritual, don't have to be spiritual to be religious.

You're right about the control part. Religions are like the military -- some people need structure, need to be told what to do. I'll stay away from both.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-24-2006, 08:35 PM

"What wrong can there be in telling a downright good lie for a good cause and the advancement of the Christian Church?" --Martin Luther

Happy Monkey · 02-24-2006, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

I think a true religion is purely personal. no two people are the same, so no two religions should be the same.

If any two people agree on religion, at least one of them is wrong?

lumberjim · 02-24-2006, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

If any two people agree on religion, at least one of them is wrong?

could any two people absolutely agree on anything?

er, i mean.....only if they were standing in the woods and there was no woman around to hear them.

Beestie · 02-24-2006, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

no two people are the same, so no two religions should be the same.

Exactly. If any two religions were the same, they would be one religion.

But your point is well taken. As one who was raised Catholic, I was fortunate to have learned from military priests who, on average, were much less dogmatic and much more practical than some of their old-world brethren. I don't think any religion can mean the exact same thing to two different people. Some religions and religious leaders can handle that and some can't.

tw · 02-25-2006, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Beestie

Exactly. If any two religions were the same, they would be one religion.

Just ask the Shia and Sunnis. Yeph. Same religion.

jaguar · 02-27-2006, 10:34 AM

or the catholics and protestants

02-24-2006, 01:34 PM	#3
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02-24-2006, 02:11 PM	#4
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02-24-2006, 03:51 PM	#5
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02-24-2006, 04:08 PM	#7
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Here's what's happening in that passage. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

02-24-2006, 05:10 PM	#8
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	this thread is rife with tangents. Yaweh is a big smiter. he'll smite the everliving shit outta ya. to me, that's why religions are bunk. it's so obvious that they are written by man to control man. I think a true religion is purely personal. no two people are the same, so no two religions should be the same. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

02-24-2006, 03:59 PM	#6
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	Thank you. If its not in words that I use every day, its unfortunately gone. I'd like to say that would have been my second guess, but probably my second guess would have been Beowulf or something. Oh, well.

02-24-2006, 08:35 PM	#10
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02-27-2006, 10:34 AM	#15
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	or the catholics and protestants __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

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