[MD] tiny skull... change... nothingness...

[MarshaV]

Originally sent at 01:33 PM  11/12/2006:


At 12:41 PM 11/12/2006, you wrote:

>Marsha -- (to Ham) Huh? Why the fairytale to drag you down? Nothing is
>more real than
>nothing, and besides, I thrive on it.
>
>Chin -- The "fairytail" figure of God, a powerful godly figure sitting
>up on a cloud moving the chess pieces of life is a popular
>interpretation of the words, or 'Word' of the bible, but using all the
>words of the bible, as opposed to picking out a few snippets and
>calling this The Word might offer us a bigger picture of God, as I
>offered earlier, and as you many not have received my email on the MOG
>discussion board, -- omnipresent, which would not mean sitting out on
>a cloud somewhere, or even a human type entity.
>
>The Buddha has also been brought up in some Zen teachings as a Deity,
>maybe because they were jealous of the Christians having theirs, and
>all they had was nothing, or Nothingness?
>
>I know this sounds silly, but thinking all others are wrong and we are
>the only ones who possibly can be right, which is my problem with most
>Christian churches, might be even more silly, huh? ;o)
>
>Chin

Hi Chin,

Welcome back!  I don't know anything about a message board.  I 
received this as your forth post to the MD List.  Recently, that is.

Ham wrote:
 > He's (Pascal) saying that if we believe in a transcendent God,
 >we have everything to gain and nothing to lose; conversely,
 >if we believe in nothing, we have nothing to gain and everything to
 >lose.

It sounds like advice you'd give a 7-year-old.  Silly. Silly. Silly...

I do not understand the problem that requires such a strange 
solution.  What's this 'gain'?  What could it represent if it were 
based on pretending?

Marsha