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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:17 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:54 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:21 am
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:39 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:06 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:14 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:21 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:53 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:01 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:09 pm
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Khalida Nyoka Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:21 pm
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To start I'll post this:
"Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds... "
- Algernon Blackwood
Then this:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
- Howard Philips Lovecraft
Then there is the age old bit "the perfect is the enemy of the Good"
Beyond all of that though, I shall say this. It is impossible to know if God exists, who created whom, and for what real purpose. However, it was determined to be set out like this:
Four options.
1: God exists, and you believe; it's all good 2: God doesn't exist, and you believe; only so much harm was really done anyway 3: God Doesn't exist, and you don't believe; good, you didn't waste time or energy. 4: God exists, and you don't believe; you are in so much trouble...
So the best choice in the situation is to find a belief, and stick with it.
Also, it should be known that perfect, complete, and good are not synonomous. We are incapable of understanding the long-term in the way that God would see it. We only know a blip in the timeline, and the spites and joys that we receive therein. Just bear in mind that no matter what a perfect entity does, it will not necessarily be "good" as we define it, but it will be the right and proper thing to be done.
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:00 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:18 pm
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