THE HEAVENS—Sources close to God reported Thursday that the Creator of the Universe and Author of Our Eternal Salvation suffered a crippling bout of existential dread this week, lying awake all night as He pondered His own immortality...
...Reasoning that He would be able to calm down if He just had something to take His all-knowing mind off everything, God reportedly read 1,000 books and created several million new nebulae, but sources said the Supreme Being’s thoughts inevitably returned to the inescapable fact that He is ultimately trapped for all eternity in the infinite expanse of the cosmos.
-- http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-fr ... g-o,31097/
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“What is the point—I mean, seriously, what’s the point?” God
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“What is the point—I mean, seriously, what’s the point?” God
by Ben » Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:46 am
God Freaks Self Out By Lying Awake Contemplating Own Immortality
...he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion.
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Re: “What is the point—I mean, seriously, what’s the point?” God
by plwk » Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:05 am
At press time, sources confirmed the Lord had fallen asleep after resolving that first thing in the morning He would create an immortal dog or cat to keep Him company for the rest of eternity
Bhikkhus, if you develop and make much this one thing,
it invariably leads to weariness, cessation, appeasement, realization and extinction.
What is it? It is recollecting the Enlightened One.
If this single thing is recollected and made much,
it invariably leads to weariness, cessation, appeasement, realization and extinction.
Anguttara-Nikaya: Ekanipata: Ekadhammapali: Pañhamavagga
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it invariably leads to weariness, cessation, appeasement, realization and extinction.
What is it? It is recollecting the Enlightened One.
If this single thing is recollected and made much,
it invariably leads to weariness, cessation, appeasement, realization and extinction.
Anguttara-Nikaya: Ekanipata: Ekadhammapali: Pañhamavagga
WBB TBHT HBM AC My Page
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Re: “What is the point—I mean, seriously, what’s the point?” God
by Ben » Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:06 am
Hi plwk,
I trust you to pick out an appropriate lolcat picture appropriate to the story!
I wonder whether that was an allusion Rumford and Kazak in Vonneguts 'The Sirens of Titan'
Hmmm...
I trust you to pick out an appropriate lolcat picture appropriate to the story!
plwk wrote:The Onion wrote:At press time, sources confirmed the Lord had fallen asleep after resolving that first thing in the morning He would create an immortal dog or cat to keep Him company for the rest of eternity
I wonder whether that was an allusion Rumford and Kazak in Vonneguts 'The Sirens of Titan'
Hmmm...
...he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion.
-- John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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Re: “What is the point—I mean, seriously, what’s the point?” God
by tiltbillings » Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:28 am
What is the use of his knowledge
pertaining to the number of insects in the whole world?
Rather, inquire into his knowledge of
that which is to be practised by us
-- Dharmakirti
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond.
SN I, 38.
Níl sa saol seo ach ceo
There is naught in this life but mist
Is ní bheimid beo ach seal beag gearr.
And we will not be alive but a short hard time.
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