| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNVZDW9eQs&feature=related
bono is a good person with a bono vox (good voice). |
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| I feel like I’m always disappearing, drowning into myself, and then they only way I get any air is when Christ pulls me up. |
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| Thought for the day:
so the great miracle of Christianity is that we can reach "Nirvana" without being this perfect, understanding, absolutely pure and benevolent being. We don't need to re-live this life over and over in order to "learn the lesson." We are asked to be Christ like, but never expected to be Christ (or Buddha).
we die, but dont have to suffer the sting of death. we are granted peace with so little effort because God is a perfect, understanding, absolutely pure and benevolent being. i dont kow how it works, but Christ's blood, sacrificed, cleanses us and makes us worthy to stand before perfection. We will be given heaven... only because He loves us. Not because we figured anything out.
How weird is that?
It always seems that Christianity expects less from us, but offers an equal reward. I can see why that would make people angry.
But wow, imagining that you are the greatest sinner, how grateful you would be, if this were true. That you will be given Paradise, simply for believing... and maybe we don't even have to do that.
But, given such a great gift, I would hope that we would Want to believe.
*** just recording what is going through my head right now... not trying to preach.
added later:
all this suffering. i can suffer, but then never suffer again. This is it. I hurt now, but its medicine.
I wonder if we all have to learn some great universal truths before standing before God. How do we learn it if it is not in this life? (example: put others before yourself... if u dont learn it here. How do u learn it in the afterlife without some sort of suffering. There is this idea of redemptive suffering - hurt that is good for you, teaches you a lesson. I wonder how that works - or if our minds are just opened completely standing in God's Glory - like a great understanding. People who have had near-death experiences talk about this enlightenment. Understanding everything and being filled with love and peace.)
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| "How much suffering and fear, and
How many harmful things are in existence?
If all arises from clinging to the "I",
What should I do with this great demon?"
Shantideva
i kind of hate the person i was in the past couple of posts.
i was happier, but not better. |
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| i wish facebook did not rock the face off of xanga. i kind of miss it. its old school.
f'ing html B!tch.
ps. i heart female orgasm. |
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