i've loved REM since their begining way back when, but i've had his song in my head for many weeks because of what's going on with me now. it's kind of a sad time really. if you knew the people i've been hanging around with for all these years in my little piece of urbania, you would understand. there's been no abuse of power or mismanagement of money (we run ourselves-no pope or bishops or outside authorities)and we work really hard to help those in need (and we includes many who are far from affluent themselves)in a commmunity that extends way beyond the city lines. my friends include doctors and nurses, scientists, teachers, and students working on their masters degrees. in fact, pursuing higher education is strongly encouraged. no one is coerced in how they should vote, in fact we have so many different political views as a rule we don't even discuss the subject with each other (on sundays anyway;). okay, i wasn't planning on writing all this now but i cannot end without giving an example of how we learn/understand the bible. i'll use john's revelation, NERO, it's all about what was happening with nero then. it might possibly have some prophetic future meaning but probably not. the books in the new testament were for those particular people in that particular time. basically, it is history; what can we can learn from it? and of course, that there is an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient god. one word has begun the breakdown... ineffectual
REM's losing my religion...
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this post was an oversimplified version of things just to explain that i'm not an escapee from some fundie/extremist sect of christianity. but the way i learned it, if jesus isn't god (1/3 of the triune, triple O god) like he said he was, then he's a liar or a lunatic. and even though he tore apart the hypocracy of the religious leaders of that time and hung out with the tax collectors and prostitutes and defended the married woman (that was about to be stoned) that the guiltless married man had 'taken,' etc; why would i give any more consideration to his rantings than i would any other lunatic on a street corner? in other words if he isn't god, it's just a bunch of bullshit and none of it should be taken seriously. apologies...again more than i expected to write.
I hope thing's are well for you at your job(?) maybe I read it wrong, but it almost sound's like ya'll are having problem's on the job. This is not a great time to have job problem's.
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