Alphascendant
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After posting "Love is Patient...." in a different forum a few days ago, this morning the following words appeared in an email:
"Thank you very much for posting these words...
I was having a hard time with some of my own thoughts and concerns do to a challenging situation which I choose to engage in. From reading your posting, my energy shifted... Thank you again for posting..." It's easy to clap our hands, pat ourselves on the backs, and to shout "hooray for love" when all is going well. Paul wrote most of those words when he was in prison on his way to being executed. My opinion is that most of the bibles being printed today are pieces of shit, designed to lead us into darkness. Genesis 1.3 "...and then there was light." I don't want to be where the light was, I want to be in the light. Just received Youngs Literal Translation in the mail today. Of the twenty most popular bibles being sold today, eighteen of them say "and then there was light." Young's Literal Translation says; "and light is." I don't want to be where the light was, but where it is. In the office where I work, there is a tortoise. It had almost starved to death. Twenty people work on this floor, yet only one took the time to nurse it back to health and feeds it on a regular basis. It had a dried up clump of shit stuck in it's ass which probably would have killed it had not somebody taken the time to soak it in water and dig as far up it's ass as possible to try and unclog it. There are times when I didn't feed it as often as it should have been, which is every day, but it's not my tortoise, it's not my responsibility, there are nineteen other people here, can't at least one of them give it water every couple of days? The answer is "No, that's not my job." They sit there on office time and talk about how great their church is and how I'd be so much better off and happier if I would join them. But they can't even give that starving little tortoise a cup of water every couple of days. So, yes, I may have been guilty of not feeding that tortoise as much as I could have, but the truth is, I am the only one that does feed it and the only reason it is alive. I often feel guilty when I am doing other things and not putting enough time into studying the bible, if those activities are not productive towards good health and well being. True, just studying the bible doesn't make a person good, but it's a place to start. It feeds me with hope . I watch that video posted earlier in this thread and think, "Man, I was so happy then." Sometimes I feel like that little tortoise, locked in a cage, no way to get out, often bordering on starvation as those around me are saying "Oh, you poor little tortoise." I may often make mistakes, some of them deliberate, knowing the difference between wrong and right. Yes, the bible might be a piece of shit, but it's not impossible to dig through a bunch of shit and find a diamond. "Love is patient" still works for some people, even if only for a short time. It worked for that stranger and possibly could make a difference between lonely for a lifetime or being with somebody he loves for his entire life. Thank you Paul. I can hand out five dollar bills, buying food and cigarettes for the local homeless, but those homeless people are a little better off than that tortoise because they can move on down the road to another place. Thank you little tortoise. I am going to write a song just for you.
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