Toadfish Monastery

Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on July 07, 2007, 07:43:44 PM
Mmm, other subject for the clone survey?

Nah, another triumph of the British education system. Killing religion stone dead by trying to teach it.

Born and Raised Unitarian Universalist, and I couldn't imagine it any other way.

I do know a lot of unitarians who describe themselves as "Recovering Catholics" which is a term I enjoy greatly.

~Qwerty

  I hadn't heard that one before!

 I attended a Baptist church from '67 thru '73 along with my sibs(5) I was the last to leave .

It was Hell back then most of the time , a horrid amount of sanctimonious hypocrisy , racism and intolerance .

Miss showing up for a week or two and the elders were condemning us little kids to Hell .

Why on Earth would we want to go to a church to defend ourselves against a good percentage of hateful kids and/or adults ?

By my mid teens I had turned agnostic (sort off) I couldn't follow Paul's God anymore , I liked Jesus God much better .

By the time I hit 21 , I looked into all the rest and decided they fell short as well , but at least were not as harmful as a fundie whatever .
Back in ' 89  I found myself giving fundie another try , but...

The pastors always evaded my questions , mainly regarding the logic and logistics of certain Old Testament writings ( and some bizarre stuff that be !)

Anyhow I did it mainly for my sis who is an angel .( the pastor had convinced her I was hell bound .

Being the character that I am I just go into any church i feel like and make myself at home ( I rarely feel like it )

Nowadays I show up at the UU at Christmas which is where I ought to be but I haven't joined .

Now I have found the HOT I needn't look any further , here is spirituality as God(s) intended , the home page says it all .

Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on July 19, 2007, 11:36:51 PM
the pastor had convinced her I was hell bound

For some reason I have trouble admitting that they (the fundies) and us are going to the same place. For them to be in the same place with us would be the equivalent of going to hell, so I guess in a way we are going to hell. On the same token, if I end up in the same place as them, I would feel like I am in hell. Perhaps 'hell' is just a name for an uncomfortable place relative to me regardless of what the others may feel about it.

In any case I am convinced everyday more that their version of heaven is not mine. I am hell bound. 

I like to think that if there is an afterlife, it is as infinite as it is eternal, and that a soul would have to open up to the Great Everything and accept all there in order to enter.

But that's only a supposition.

Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on July 19, 2007, 11:36:51 PM

Now I have found the HOT I needn't look any further , here is spirituality as God(s) intended , the home page says it all .

Wow, that made my day. We've worked hard on the home page wording and we may alter it yet as we grow, but it's good to hear that someone appreciated it!

Quote from: Opsanus tau on July 20, 2007, 07:59:49 PM
Wow, that made my day. We've worked hard on the home page wording and we may alter it yet as we grow, but it's good to hear that someone appreciated it!

The work is very much appreciated.  Personally, I sometimes find it too easy to just take things as they are as being the way they are just because, and forget that lots of hard work goes into them.  Thank you (and everyone else!).

Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on July 20, 2007, 10:07:38 PM

Quote from: Opsanus tau on July 20, 2007, 07:59:49 PM
Wow, that made my day. We've worked hard on the home page wording and we may alter it yet as we grow, but it's good to hear that someone appreciated it!

The work is very much appreciated.  Personally, I sometimes find it too easy to just take things as they are as being the way they are just because, and forget that lots of hard work goes into them.  Thank you (and everyone else!).

Yes , this must have taken much time and effort to put together , the site is esay on the eyes and userfriendly

Quote from: Opsanus tau on July 20, 2007, 07:59:49 PM
I like to think that if there is an afterlife

I love that wording 

Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on July 19, 2007, 11:36:51 PM
Now I have found the HOT I needn't look any further

Quote from: Opsanus tau on July 20, 2007, 07:59:49 PM
Wow, that made my day.

What does it mean when all my thoughts can be quoted from other posts?
 

kooooombaaaayaaaaaaaa my lord.

kooooooomaaaayaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa



I'll stop.

as far as the afterlife is concerned, I don't really know what there is, nor do I know what to think, but I really hope I get to at least WATCH the rest of the world, if not mess with people as a ghost.

think about what you could do if after you died, all you did was move around as an incorpreal, intangible, invisible sensory intaking being.

~Qwerty

Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on July 21, 2007, 04:19:01 AM

Quote from: Opsanus tau on July 20, 2007, 07:59:49 PM
I like to think that if there is an afterlife

I love that wording 

Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on July 19, 2007, 11:36:51 PM
Now I have found the HOT I needn't look any further

Quote from: Opsanus tau on July 20, 2007, 07:59:49 PM
Wow, that made my day.

What does it mean when all my thoughts can be quoted from other posts?
 

It means you're home.
You don't need to ask how I know this. 

Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on July 21, 2007, 04:45:05 AM
think about what you could do if after you died, all you did was move around as an incorpreal, intangible, invisible sensory intaking being.

Don't know if that would be wwhat I would chose for my afterlife.

Imagine you see all the people you left behind, all the people you love, see them suffer because of losing you, and you cannot really engage in a normal contact with them.

It's an afterlife full of suffering, if you ask me.

Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 21, 2007, 10:07:58 PM
Imagine you see all the people you left behind, all the people you love, see them suffer because of losing you, and you cannot really engage in a normal contact with them.

Imagine you see all the people you left behind, all the people you love, see them not noticing you had gone.....

When I am gone, I just want to be gone. zip. nothing. And there's always the chance that everything I think exists will go with me, which would get around both of the above.

Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 21, 2007, 10:07:58 PM
Imagine you see all the people you left behind, all the people you love, see them suffer because of losing you, and you cannot really engage in a normal contact with them.

well, I would avoid them, for a while at least. I'd probably just float about in secluded nature for a while or something. avoid people in general, then come back and see how society is doing. or spy on people like the president.

~Qwerty

Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 21, 2007, 10:07:58 PM

Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on July 21, 2007, 04:45:05 AM
think about what you could do if after you died, all you did was move around as an incorpreal, intangible, invisible sensory intaking being.

Don't know if that would be wwhat I would chose for my afterlife.

Imagine you see all the people you left behind, all the people you love, see them suffer because of losing you, and you cannot really engage in a normal contact with them.

It's an afterlife full of suffering, if you ask me.

Might be a bit like the curse of Cassandra (she was given the gift of prophecy but also the curse that nobody would believe it, so she knew of horrible events to come, but was powerless to stop them)... you'd just have to watch and know, but do nothing.