mick wrote on 09/06/10 at 11:25:47:


here's a quote for you mick...

"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views."  Albert Einstein

JOG: One of the things that bothers me deeply is the part of the Bible that says, referring to the newly saved man, & all things become new
& the way Iread it, Itseems to me to mean that all the old ways fall away & righteous ways replace them, but, my experience doesnt fit that./

Here's one way to explain that: the wise captain of a last place football team, facing long odds against the league champions, is not going to say to his team: "go ahead and play the game, but face it guys, we don't have a snowball's chance of winning."    No, he'll deliver the pep talk, lead by example and fight all the way to the end of the game.

So it is with your experience about an instant change. It doesn't exactly work that way and I know some preachers say it does but they are wrong.

To continue the sports analogy, strive to "win" every second by your carefully thought- out definition of what winning means to you. Acknowledge when you lose, but then put them behind you and fight on. When you do lose, becareful calling that loss anything other than what it is, faiure.  In other words, don't justify failure by expanding your defintion of winning and losing without long and careful thought. The rules of this game never change, its just from time to time we realize we misunderstood the rule book the first time we read it.

And remember, you don't get to see the clock in this game. Keep playing until the game's over. You'll know when it is.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/07/10 at 15:38:32:

they are only good refreshing answers if you agree with them.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/08/10 at 04:05:01:

your stuff usually goes on forever and I loose interest.
All thinking men are Athiests,and so are thinking women.

Reelthing wrote on 09/09/10 at 18:18:55:

it was a quote from Ernest Hemingway,also an athiest.

For a man like Ernest, Who lived a life of high adventure making his own choices and paying his own dues along the way, the prospect of a long slow decline of health to an ignonomus death in a sick bed had no appeal whatsoever.   He lived, loved, laughed, fought, and died on his own terms.
I have read most of what he wrote but the one that stays with me the most is "For Whom The Bell Tolls".  I think that is how he would have preferred to go but he simply lived too long for it to be that way.

Phelonius