Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to present



Thank you!

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Now where is my g-d banana?!

well.. Big V I was in a way leaving Fargo a banana because he was right.

I do thank you for your participation..

leaves banana for Big V.

You didn't click the link, didja?

thanks for the banana anyhow!

yes I did...

An example how to hope to heaven rather than hope to hell.

Wisdom tells me when I die my soul goes UP to some higher space realm called heaven. Common Since tells me when I die my Body Goes Down Tor-ward the Earth. Reality tells me 2 minutes before that happens, I'm going to be in A-lot of pain.

Well, JB is kind of right. Fargon's answer is simple and it is coherent (until you start pushing for details).

Does it accurately represent reality? There is no evidence for this.

JBK has said that he is on a search for truth. I think that is not quite right. I think he is, like many people, searching for an answer. It must be understandable, it must be more or less coherent. It must enable him to say, Right, that's what's going on, which means I should live my life this way.

Whether it is true in the sense of corresponding to reality is optional. And given how horribly messy, complicated and unhuman reality seems to be, an answer which meets the psychological requirements listed above is very unlikely to be true.

What is it you want, JBK? "An" answer that will end the doubt and confusion and provide guidance and maybe even a feeling of satisfaction? Or "the truth", regardless of how lonely and desolate it might leave you feeling?

I think I have gone for the second option. A lonely and desolate universe is quite nice once you get used to the idea, an you're not constantly worried about the Giant Santa in the Sky commanding and judging you.

I just want a God I can have fun with. I'm an intellectual and often times I like to think up new Ideas and think outside the box. As long as I have a fighting chance of making it to heaven. (An that's why Jesus Died on the Cross) I'm gonna keep fighting the good fight. Jesus Died on the Cross to forgive US of our sins and I'm gonna respect it. Therefore I will turn form evil do good and live my life according to the standard Jesus set. You don't believe it, so I'm not gonna force it on you however "separation of church and state" was a guarantee to keep politics out of church not church out of politics. Where they messed up at was when they took prayer out of schools. Now the Country Is just so screwed in the head that an entire generation is suffering the repercussions of Godlessness. So where I come in is as a freelance renegade fighting for the children.

Ha!

Like the missionaries that offer starving children a meal in exchange for their freedom?

NO not at all like that.. In fact I've never even heard of that... wanna explain it??

The first option then. A functional answer. Fair enough. Good luck.

Well, let's start with this: what do missionaries do? What's their function?

they reach out to lost souls..

Sure you didn't leave out a P? Hopping to Hell? Better conveyance than a handbasket.

Oh, and you discovered the exclamation warning sign thingy? Is your real first name Pam?

How did the Pope and affections become same? Or did you mean a heart's infections? Can you die if the Pope infects your heart? Is that why religion kills so many people?

Could be worse. I could have god in my heart.

Does that mean I would feel like hell? And end up in heaven?

You put your pitchfork in,
You put your pitchfork out,
You put your pitchfork in
And you shake it all about.
You hope to hell it's copasetic
And you hope to heaven too.
That's what it's all about.

You put your pointed tail in,
You put your pointed tail out,


(you finish the lyrics)