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Fishead soup
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Location: Korea
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 Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: Spirituality is the consolation prize |
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| Ever notice whenever someone loses everything they either discover God or fall for one of mystical Eastern religions. |
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Underwaterbob
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Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Quite often they kill themselves as well. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Or drugs. People sometimes need crutches.
Plenty also stop believing when shit happens. |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: Re: Spirituality is the consolation prize |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| Ever notice whenever someone loses everything they either discover God or fall for one of mystical Eastern religions. |
Kinda like the ex-druggie-down-on-his-luck turned hardcore Buddhist (although he/she never goes to temple, and inists on referring to every little concept or place as deep and magical, and his/her opinion of every human being depends on a particular vibe)?. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: Spirituality is the consolation prize |
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| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Fishead soup wrote: |
| Ever notice whenever someone loses everything they either discover God or fall for one of mystical Eastern religions. |
Kinda like the ex-druggie-down-on-his-luck turned hardcore Buddhist (although he/she never goes to temple, and inists on referring to every little concept or place as deep and magical, and his/her opinion of every human being depends on a particular vibe)?. |
I used to have a friend like that. Used to. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:54 pm Post subject: Re: Spirituality is the consolation prize |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
| Fishead soup wrote: |
| Ever notice whenever someone loses everything they either discover God or fall for one of mystical Eastern religions. |
Kinda like the ex-druggie-down-on-his-luck turned hardcore Buddhist (although he/she never goes to temple, and inists on referring to every little concept or place as deep and magical, and his/her opinion of every human being depends on a particular vibe)?. |
I used to have a friend like that. Used to. |
He's over in the evolution thread. |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| I've always admired the one saint who said "the reason God has so friends is because of the way He treats them." |
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Rteacher
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Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Any fool can see that western atheism and materialism is better than eastern religion and philosophy.  |
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