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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (82199)	6/20/2000 1:38:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

No I didn't say that. The All Powerful being I refered to comes with the characteristics that we focus our worship on. These are Compassion, Mercy, Charity, Benevolence, etc. There are full and uncontaminated descriptions, which I consider worthy of my worship. Like I said, if God turned out to be something different (illogical) then I am comfortable in saying I never worshipped "that." If it were simply "Hey, I got the power, trust me." I would be hesitant.

To: epicure who wrote (82199)	6/20/2000 1:47:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

On which subject, against better judgement I will momentarily break in with an old favorite song. From the album Sail Away, by Randy Newman, one of my alltime favorites. See randynewman.com God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not why For if the children of Israel were to multiply Why must any of the children die? So he asked the Lord And the Lord said: Man means nothing, he means less to me Than the lowliest cactus flower Or the humblest Yucca tree He chases round this desert 'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be That's why I love mankind I recoil in horror fro the foulness of thee From the squalor and the filth and the misery How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me That's why I love mankind The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV They picked their four greatest priests And they began to speak They said, "Lord, a plague is on the world Lord, no man is free The temples that we built to you Have tumbled into the sea Lord, if you won't take care of us Won't you please, please let us be?" And the Lord said And the Lord said I burn down your cities-how blind you must be I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we You all must be crazy to put your faith in me That's why I love mankind You really need me That's why I love mankind And, for the sake of the old time free-thinking feelies, this bit came up in a search, from primenet.com Excerpted from a profile of Randy Newman by Mark Evangelista in the Houston Chronicle Interactive titled 'Newman pacts them in'... Growing up in New Orleans and his father's atheistic view of life uniquely molded Newman. He was always comfortable in his own skin but wondering why he should be. Thus, the eight different versions of the same song on racism. "I asked my mom why the black kids weren't getting ice cream from the same side of the ice cream truck I was getting mine," he said. A visit to a someone in the hospital revealed his father's opinion on fate and the belief of a supreme being. While walking through a children's ward, the elder Newman pointed at the patients and lampooned the idea of a benevolent and merciful deity: "That's God's will over there and that's God's will over there and that's God's will over there. . . " Still, Newman lets people believe what they need to believe. Give the people what they want. "I never had faith," said Newman. "But I have respect for the idea. There's no joy being an atheist." "It'll be such a hit," he said, referring to religion in sarcastic tones. Cheers, Dan, in a manner of speaking.