This is the New Rule

Be kind only to those who are kind to you.
And be an absolute ass to those you don't dig.

Go forth and multiply.

So sayeth the New Scriptures.

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And he saw that it was good.
Sarcastically.

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Sadly, that's how the world goes. Sorry, God.
Can we say "ePiC fAiL"?

Forgiveness Is Not Just Divine

"If God can forgive, what more can we humans? We're only humans".
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope)

I don't follow these thoughts.

"We are only humans" is the very reason why we would be less able to forgive than God can.

I mean God is perfect, He has everything, He has no need for anything. If God forgives, what does He lose? Nothing.

If someone steals a wallet, then God forgives him, what is it to God? He doesn't need that wallet, or the money in the wallet... God can afford forgiving.
If the victim forgives the thief, the victim gives something. What if he doesn't get the wallet back? What if he gets the wallet back, but some money is missing, and the thief could be sentenced to prison life? If the victim says, "No need for prison. I forgive you. Don't worry about the money, and I will carry the emotional burden of not having justice served", is it less than what God has done, or is it more?
We are looking at the effort expended here, or the lost possession, or the satisfaction of getting back at the "enemy". God doesn't need any effort, he doesn't need any of those things. At least that's what I think His Perfection means.

Forgiveness is giving an emotional or material pardon. That means if a thing is forgiven, the effort to give that thing back is not expected. It is giving. God has everything to give. Man doesn't have that luxury.

Forgiveness is more than divine.

The Best Prayer

[... that I could think of.]

"God, take my freedom."










Have you prayed lately?




What have you prayed lately?

Perfection and God

What really is perfection?
Is it the absence of flaw and of failure?
By human terms, it is. But is God bound by our definition of it? Is God even bound by any of our definition of anything at all? I do not think so.

By human definition of the concept of perfection, the human body is imperfect; human existence on Earth is imperfect; the ways of dying to go to Heaven are imperfect; even Crysis is imperfect!

Is perfect existence the absence of suffering? Or is real perfect existence actually a combination of suffering and comfort?

Are we truly unworthy of putting God in our imperfect minds or is thinking about Him in an "imperfect" human noggin the perfect case?

Why do we keep on arguing that imperfect, ugly events and creations mean a cruel, nonchalant, or even nonexistent God?

Because we really don't know what actual perfection is. Like the uncertainty we have of the real power of brightness of stars as viewed from Earth -- evidenced by the terms apparent and absolute magnitude -- how can we surely say that our view of perfection is "absolutely" what we believe it to be?