Originally posted by Wild i:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by f0reverneverm0re:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Wild i:
Dear I (Am), Please look over your misguided children and keep us safe from ourselves. May our candles help guide our world leaders to your light and know that peace is the only solution to strife.
For those who are suffering, comfort them; for those who are sick, heal them; for those who are troubled, calm them. Bring peace to the world and everyone in it.
Make us to know that you are forever with us and as long as your are with us, there is reason, not for war, but for hope.
I humbly ask these thing in your name I (Am).
Amen. can 'I Am' ever be replaced w/ 'me'? also, does I Am have a penis or a vagina? </font>[/QUOTE]I supposed not everyone can eith grasp or accept the concept.
Let me be clear before the battle breaks out...
I say grasp OR accept because it could be either. I am making no judgement here. In fact, just the opposite. I find belief in a higher power strengthens me. If all we have to depend on is humankind, I find that terrifying.
Different strokes, I suppose. </font>[/QUOTE]speaking of concepts, what might God's name mean if anything? humans are important enough to have names with given meanings, isn't God important enough. as my mother would say, everyone is important (of course, she says it without saying what *exactly* she means by this).
does it matter what anybody can grasp or accept? i firmly grasped myself last night in bed and i truly understood.
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a fool like me: what's your name God?
God: I Am.
fool: I am what?
God: you are you my child.
fool: no! what is your name?!
God: oh, I Am.
fool: yes?..
God: *...*
fool:--you are what?!!
God: I'm your Father God for one and maybe you couldn't raise your voice at me..or at least yell as loudly as you can, either way it's all the same to me.
fool: i'm gonna ask you one more fvcking time God--what's your name muthafvcka?
God: my name is I_Am.
fool: well what does your name mean?
God: it means I exist..i think. i guess it can also means that my existence points to something else and that that something else should also point to my existence. in a way, my name says that I am what I do/say. since your name is fool, i guess you do and say--
fool:--don't even go there. so do you suffer an identity crisis?
God: no, but people trying to figure out the true meaning of my name usually suffer insanity, if you can call being insane suffering.
fool: i think i'm going insane because of this conversation.
God: try to smile.
fool: so I Am..do you, like, have a penis or a vagina?
God: I'm glad you asked--I have a 12-inch clitoris so i'm good to go.
fool:...oh. well, bye.
I Am: Lechaim!
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He that will not reason is a bigot,
He that cannot reason is a fool,
He that dare not reason is a slave.
- William Drummond -
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I Am bless those who cannot *truly* grasp or accept..and smite mine enemies while You're at it