[DMCForum] Re: Calude is back!

["Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>]

> So you're saying that I can do whatever I want, and then
if I repent, I
will get into heaven?

Yeah Farrar, isn't that cool?  But it can be a really big
"if" that circumstance may allow you the opportunity to
repent before an untimely death.  Additionally I have heard
accounts of people who tried to repent on their death bed,
but were distressed that they couldn't find it within
themselves to do so even tho they desperately wanted to.
Apparently true repentance is a gift that isn't always
given.

If it is hard for you to believe that forgiveness is free
then consider the gift of life itself.  We didn't ask or pay
to be created.  We didn't strike a bargain or negotiate
anything concerning it.

Back to Plato, "Cogito ergo sum."  Okay, so I am aware that
I think.  But I really dont understand what thought is.  I
cant objectively measure it.  I cant make a copy of myself,
have it think on its own and then double-blind-test it with
other copies of myself.  I just seem to be this indefinable
serial thought processor.  If I try to map my thoughts to
analyze them then I ultimately get locked up in a tight loop
of mapping a map of a map of a map of a ...

Until or unless I can make sense of what the thought process
is all about then all that I know is based on faith.  And
based on the premise of faith, it makes it really easy to
believe in God and to doubt man-made science.  All knowledge
is based on faith that there is such a thing as knowledge.
Or is it?  I do not understand well enough to explain it
even to myself let alone a sharp witted Farrar.  (I cogito I
sound like Socrates. ;-)  I am always amazed at the ability
of the human mind to deal with day-to-day problems when
there are much bigger issues looming overhead like, "What
the hell am I?  What is life all about anyway?"  It makes me
want to just stop caring about regular day-to-day life and
only think about the bigger issues that most people manage
to spend a lifetime not thinking about.  Ergo, I want to be
a monk.

> Do I get 47 virgins?

Life & salvation are free.  But that many virgins will
definitely cost you something.

> Free tacos?

I dont know about tacos, but apparently this second coming
of Christ ends in a really big banquet.  I wouldn't miss it.

> I prefer to live a good life here, do no harm, and help
others when I
can, not because there's a reward at the end, not because I
will be
punished if I don't, but because I CAN.

Cool.  But still you do that because you have faith in
yourself.  Do you have enough faith in yourself that you
will be prepared for what happens when your current life is
over?

Food for thought.  Damn I got the munchies for a taco.
Maybe for breakfast.

Brother Walt
(seriously tho, I would be known as Brother Vladimir since
that is my baptismal name. ;-)

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