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Moliere
16th May 2005, 09:00 AM
http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
jmercer
16th May 2005, 10:17 AM
Originally posted by Moliere
http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
Should be required reading. :)
Hutch
16th May 2005, 12:36 PM
Impressive...would love to see it done as a reading or a short film. Maybe find someone else at TAM4 and do it?
Donks
16th May 2005, 01:16 PM
Interesting, yet he didn't ask one obvious question: Where did his universe come from? Was it created by yet another evolved deity?
Yahweh
16th May 2005, 01:33 PM
From the article:
‘The full benefit will be temporary, but like most orgasms, worth it.’
‘this being the moment when our new god merges with you and we become one again?’
‘don’t play it down, that’s the ecstatic vision driving us all, me included – and when it happens the ecstasy lasts several times longer than this universe has already existed. Believe me, it really is worth the effort.’
‘Yes, I think I can see the attractions of a hundred billion year long orgasm’
Even without mincing words, the entire article still continued to be both interesting and informative.
Kitty Chan
16th May 2005, 01:51 PM
Interesting . . . describes a view of god pretty well. Actually I can see the different ideas people have of god or gods in the conversation.
It raises some good questions and ideas for thought. If the author had in mind the God of the Bible then it reads quite not as well.
The questions are good (as all questions are, questions can not be wrong).
The whole concept is great, as far as a having a conversation which is honest and easy going sitting in a casual atmosphere. The bulk of the conversation wanders into more of a concept of god than specifically God.
Some of the responses are geared to those concepts rather than the actual nature of God. For example the ant.
Others like evolve, survive are a mix, so close but not knowing the nature misses the point.
But I enjoyed it.
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