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I got some mail today!
Replies: 7Last Post June 12 3:34pm by morik
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It's always great to get mail, especially when it isn't junk/bills. Aside from the usual crap, I got a newsletter called "Awake!" The cover was asking me how well I know my children, but I don't have any (that I know of) so I turned my attention to the pamphlet that accompanied it:

All suffering about to end? Suffering? All of it? I could hardly believe it, so I started flipping through to see how such an event could be possible:

http://img.golivewire.com/ib/220138_f.jpg

The earth will be a paradise and people raised from the dead holy shit next page

http://img.golivewire.com/ib/220139_f.jpg

I was completely pumped about the zombie paradise that was promised to me, but this was distressing. Wouldn't an omniscient God know that his creations would turn on him? And even though this "God" character is apparently essential to my well being, I seem to be doing fine without him. Maybe I'm wrong:

http://img.golivewire.com/ib/220140_f.jpg

This is convincing enough. There didn't to be any scientific basis for the claims so far but by loosely alluding to genetics I was convinced this was scientific. Moving on, I was shocked to learn that every kind of imaginable human invention in the world was a direct contributer to all of our suffering. Every imaginable ordering of society is a catalyst for moral failure and doom. Unless we can return to a relationship with God, only then can we reenter into the eternal life that animals have oh wait

http://img.golivewire.com/ib/220141_f.jpg

Yes, the idea that humans will endure suffering in the world is a totally unique prophesy that cannot be contradicted! Surely this proves everything the Bible has laid out for us. For indeed, no suffering has ever stemmed from religious conviction, ever.

http://img.golivewire.com/ib/220142_f.jpg

It ended nicely enough, but I was still unconvinced. Turning to "Awake!" I searched for insights into the nature of God. I found an article on sibling suicide, and it was very helpful in that it dished out reasonable advice and offered comforting Bible passages. And then I got to here:

So God knows all of the factors involved when a person decides to end their own life, but never feels like sharing/intervening/doing a damn thing about it? I guess negligible homicide isn't a factor in heaven even though he sure seems to love it.

Still truckin', I moved on:

http://img.golivewire.com/ib/220136_f.jpg

Well of course this mound didn't come about by chance, that's completely absurd. Therefore it must have been designed QED.

Can anyone reasonably explain any of this?

e: i linked the majority because i feel less people will be inclined to read the whole damn thing if all they see are words words words

Post edited at 2:54 pm on June 12, 2008 by SovSull

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what do i write here, hatesyou


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what

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A bunch of bullshit really. Simple, there is no logical and coherent explanation for their assertions.

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I love getting mail.
But getting that would disappoint me.

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awww, looks like barack and michelle! with a moose!

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wtf. that picture looks like the fucking retarded teletubbies; running around in happy land with the bunnies all there and rubbing eachothers stomachs.

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i'd  be annoyed if i didnt couldnt feel pain

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urgh thats sickening

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