Open Thread, and a Question

[filkertom]

Chat away.

And... has anyone had trouble ordering downloads in the past few days? I'm having an odd glitch.

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[shsilver.livejournal.com]

My glitch happened about two weeks ago. Haven't tried to download since then.

The 2 1/2 year old loves Twelve Days of Star Worz and shouts "Funny" whenever she hears Chewbacca. The six year old is constantly playing 500 Hats off the GAFilk download.

Online Religion v1.0

[hms42]

Tom - I wonder if they know of your song..... This was over on CNN's web page today...

Harold

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/05/12/uk.online.church/index.html
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Re: Online Religion v1.0

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Eeyup, already saw it. SimGod....

[beki.livejournal.com]

At least you dont have an 8 year old running around dancing and shouting BEEFCAKE!!!!

:)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Son uv a....

[beki.livejournal.com]

While I can be a cast iron bitch, she is definately not my son :)

God

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not about to say that I have "the answers". As far as I'm concerned, anyone who says they know for certain the measure and nature of anything that is supposedly as mind-bogglingly grand as "God" is fooling themselves and really just asking for a whole mess of trouble.

But as an old friend of mine once said "Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one".

And if noone specifically objects, I'd like to offer my opinion on the subject.

First of all, I'd like to say that I consider "God" to be literally ambiguous, in that the word means different things to different people. In fact, I consider Mr. Webster's greatest blunder to be assigning a definition to the word.

To some, "God" means a Jew who went around talking about how we should try to be nice to one another, and wound up getting nailed to a big stick and having atrocity upon atrocity done in his name.

As to what "God" means to me... Let me put it this way;

Do I believe there's some all-powerful invisible sadist who lives in the sky?
Absolutely not!

Do I believe that there very well could exist a universal presence of absolute benevolence?
I think it's a good possibility.
After all, there are SOME things I've experienced in my 27 years on this earth that I can't help but feel CERTAIN have a quality of absolute good. Things such as love, compassion, charity and kindness.

Now, do I think that there is something GREATER "out there" than we?
All I can say is, I certainly hope so.
Because if the performance record this thing we call the human race has managed to write up for itself for the past several-thousand years is any indication, us being the supreme form of universal being suggests a pretty low standard, indeed.

-G. Gentile

A thank you...

[andrianna.livejournal.com]

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Every time I hear this song, my heart lands in my throat.... and tears are brought to my eyes.

<i>Thank you, Tom!</i>

Re: A thank you...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, you're very welcome. Lotsa hugs.

Argh.

Fourteen years.

And I've been so discombobled the past few days, it slipped my mind.

Time to slap in that copy of The Muppet Movie.

Tom - Have you seen this yet?

[hms42]

http://media.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/1956/squirrel_revival1.swf

Harold

Praise the Lord and I Saw The Light!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

That's just weird.

In a really, really good way. :)

Re: A thank you...

[andrianna.livejournal.com]

Hey, we're all allowed some discombobulated days. (Hell, I think I'm having a week or so, personally.)

And I think you're right... time for The Muppet Movie. Or perhaps I should find some of The Storyteller series. *small grin*

Re: God

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Nice, thoughtful post. My own favorite thought regarding God -- and I don't believe it's an actual quote, or who it's from, I just saw it (probably in a Sandman comic) -- is that "Every religion has only one member".

There is no possible way that whatever you worship can be exactly, precisely what anyone else worships, because within you are the seeds of your own interpretation, and there will always be some variance with anyone else's take, however small that variance may be.

A former friend, who somewhere along the way became a Jehovah's Witness, tried to tell me that the JWs had it licked, because they only have the one printed version, the one interpretation... but it does not take into account what's in one's head.

Re: God

[(Anonymous)]

Kinda hard to take the non-existent into account.

-G. Gentile