Merry Christmas

"Annika1980" wrote in message
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Happy don't count if you're dead.

So long as I'm happy while I'm alive, I don't care when I die.

Bruce.

So long as I'm happy while I'm alive, I don't care when I die.

I have this vision of arriving in Heaven and God holding out
his hand and smiling, asking "Well, tell me, how did you
enjoy it?"

Me: "I didn't, I was miserable worrying about the oil running
out and public transportation and starving Lemurs and
Mama taking my Kodachrome away and ..."

God: "And after I put all that effort into making the universe
you refused to enjoy it. What an ingrate."

God picks up the phone:

God: "Hey, Luce baby, I have another one who would really be
much happier down there with you. Got any openings?
Good ol' Luce, he always has room for one more."

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
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http://www.nolindan.com/da/index.htm
n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com

"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
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God: "Hey, Luce baby, I have another one who would really be
much happier down there with you. Got any openings?
Good ol' Luce, he always has room for one more."

And you somehow imagine that I would be happier in Hell? That's truely
bizarre.

Bruce.

"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
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So long as I'm happy while I'm alive, I don't care when I die.

I have this vision of arriving in Heaven and God holding out
his hand and smiling, asking "Well, tell me, how did you
enjoy it?"

Me: "I didn't, I was miserable worrying about the oil running
out and public transportation and starving Lemurs and
Mama taking my Kodachrome away and ..."

God: "And after I put all that effort into making the universe
you refused to enjoy it. What an ingrate."

God picks up the phone:

God: "Hey, Luce baby, I have another one who would really be
much happier down there with you. Got any openings?
Good ol' Luce, he always has room for one more."


Not a problem for us atheists, we don't believe in the devil either,
which is why these scare stories written to try and make us conform,
will never work.

Harry Stottle wrote:
"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
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So long as I'm happy while I'm alive, I don't care when I die.

I have this vision of arriving in Heaven and God holding out
his hand and smiling, asking "Well, tell me, how did you
enjoy it?"

Me: "I didn't, I was miserable worrying about the oil running
out and public transportation and starving Lemurs and
Mama taking my Kodachrome away and ..."

God: "And after I put all that effort into making the universe
you refused to enjoy it. What an ingrate."

God picks up the phone:

God: "Hey, Luce baby, I have another one who would really be
much happier down there with you. Got any openings?
Good ol' Luce, he always has room for one more."


Not a problem for us atheists, we don't believe in the devil either,
which is why these scare stories written to try and make us conform,
will never work.

I don't think Hell is a big fire-pit.
I think Hell will be the place where people recognize that they've utterly
missed their opportunity to know God...and are then faced with the reality
of being eternally alone. If there is "knashing of teeth..." I think it
will be due to ultimate lonliness...rather than physical pain or physical
torment.

But who cares what I think...

--
Images (Plus Snaps & Grabs) by Mark² at:
www.pbase.com/markuson

"Mark²" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message
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Harry Stottle wrote:
"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
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So long as I'm happy while I'm alive, I don't care when I die.

I have this vision of arriving in Heaven and God holding out
his hand and smiling, asking "Well, tell me, how did you
enjoy it?"

Me: "I didn't, I was miserable worrying about the oil running
out and public transportation and starving Lemurs and
Mama taking my Kodachrome away and ..."

God: "And after I put all that effort into making the universe
you refused to enjoy it. What an ingrate."

God picks up the phone:

God: "Hey, Luce baby, I have another one who would really be
much happier down there with you. Got any openings?
Good ol' Luce, he always has room for one more."


Not a problem for us atheists, we don't believe in the devil either,
which is why these scare stories written to try and make us conform,
will never work.

I don't think Hell is a big fire-pit.
I think Hell will be the place where people recognize that they've
utterly missed their opportunity to know God...and are then faced with
the reality of being eternally alone. If there is "knashing of
teeth..." I think it will be due to ultimate lonliness...rather than
physical pain or physical torment.

But who cares what I think...

I think you are in for a big disappointment.

In , on 12/28/06
at 02:09 AM, "Mark²" mjmorgan(lowest even number
said:

But who cares what I think...

Regarding your views about "god," I could not agree more... -
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les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
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Harry Stottle wrote:

Not a problem for us atheists, we don't believe in the devil either,
which is why these scare stories written to try and make us conform,
will never work.

So what stops an atheist from just going around stealing and killing
people they don't like?

It maybe something called "common sense" and "ethics", not too widespread
between religious fundies however (crusades, witch trials, suicide
terroriste etc.)



"Annika1980" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Harry Stottle wrote:

Not a problem for us atheists, we don't believe in the devil either,
which is why these scare stories written to try and make us conform,
will never work.

So what stops an atheist from just going around stealing and killing
people they don't like?

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:17:41 -0800, Annika1980 wrote:

Harry Stottle wrote:

Not a problem for us atheists, we don't believe in the devil either,
which is why these scare stories written to try and make us conform,
will never work.

So what stops an atheist from just going around stealing and killing
people they don't like?

The same thing that keeps Muslims from going around stealing and killing
people they don't like? Oops.

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