Topic: What does GSLU mean to you?

that’s a good answer. I like that phrase “inspite of ourselves” :)))

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I think it means that God still loves us 100% in spite of ourselves.

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1…2…3…now flex those cyber-muscles

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Well, they did take quick action, but so did we!

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I’m telling you, he chose a lousy time to take a lunch brake.

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Where’s the God-creature who destroys whole cities when we need him?

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And then, there WAS light. It’s from Genesis, I thought a quote from the bible would be appropriate here…

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And then…

Topic: What does GSLU mean to you?

I haven’t read the original novel by Richard Matheson in 1954, but if the plot of the movie tries to stay somewhat true to the novel, the “darkseekers” in the movie have two different groups that look exactly allike. One group is aggressive and hedonistic. The other group, indistinguishable physically from the first, is humane and good but only seeks to kill the protagonist, Robert Neville (I should start a topic on tie ins to Bob Marley) because he has killed so many of them effectively (the girl darkseeker he captures may be good and the boss darkseeker’s daughter). I am thinking that the GSLU sign in the movie might be from the humane “darkseekers.” (They have the biohazard sign next to it since they realize that they are fallen, or infected if you don’t want to have a religious allusion) They are like Robert Neville but he discriminates against them cause “they all look alike” (a racist quote from myself, sadly, when I was resisting God). I think we will all agree on Matthew 22:39 (Christian), Lev 19:18 (Jew), “One Love” Bob Marley Exodus 1977 (everyone else since I am not well versed in other religions), Imagine, John Lennon (Atheist)

Topic: What does GSLU mean to you?

to me it means that dispite the fact that people still disrespect God in many ways, He still loves us and keeps giving us chances to make things right.

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I copied it to my computer that is on the fritz; haven’t copied that file over since I got my new computer set up. Sorry.

I don’t think I can be your date, either…but you might try Alaska for the solstice. Really captures the full impact of it, and the skylights are magnificent!

Topic: What does GSLU mean to you?

Well, some of us are trading emails on the daily threads, then editing them out a few hours later. I also put my home phone # on a daily thread and left it for 12 hours, but no one calls me, boo hoo, Can’t get a date for solstice…

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Koo, good idea…maybe we should get some contact info for each other and/or spawn a backup site to ward against the fickle fortunes of Time-Warner…

Topic: What does GSLU mean to you?

Okay…

So we (the ever-so-hip theological/philosophical intellectual illuminati) are the Will Smith-ian survivors, the close-minded haters and spam-mongers are the mutants and Time Warner is God.

Is that how it works?

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Or we could be fending off haters and close minded SPAMMERS…which has been our track record so far…

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There is irony in this somewhere…

This site is a promo for a movie about the last human survivors trying to fend off a bloodthirsty horde who could descend on them at any minute…

Yet many of us feel that we may end up the last humanist survivors trying to fend of a bloodthirsty corporation who could shut this site down at any minute.

Kinda makes you think, don’t it.

Oh well, at least God still loves us.

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Lab rats, maybe, but revolutionary rats. People all over are being told about this place suddenly with all the extra publicity. People don’t believe what is happening here, apparently. If we lose it for some reason, we can find someone to help us start PLUR.org. I’m serious!

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God still loves us even if we’re all big media’s lab rats???

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Well with all the “revelations” about the tie-in with “Legend” I think the “STILL” has to do with the fictional plague in the movie… God still loves Will Smith & other survivors despite humanity’s having been smote by a plague of their own creation. Hence also the bio-hazard symbol.

I STILL love this site even if it is a stupid corporate marketing campaign gone awry.

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Welcome, Kog!

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Koo, since the “babble” comes from the myth of the Tower of Babel and the confounding of language, I don’t think you’ve yet achieved maximum babbality…you’re rambling is still coherent! Perhaps less sleep and more random typing could elevate you to this level of enlightenment. Or you could just provoke God to curse you…you might have some fun with that one…

Topic: What does GSLU mean to you?

the word “STILL” in “God still loves us” is the kicker… why not say simply, “God loves us?” The word “still” implies that we have acted out so badly that even God might take His love back. At the same time this is also a statement of hope: “We know we screwed up, but we have to believe that God still loves us.” see article about I Am Legend at www.kogmedia.com

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Yes, I see, Nyar. (you are the first person to call me kook here, I’ve suggested it many times in my “babble”, but usually just do it myself, Thank you, I wear the name proudly.)

Yes, the Hebrew Nation (Children of Israel, whatever) believed in one god because they believed that they had evidence of that. (The ten commandments, well, the whole OT!). Did they evangelize, in order to convince the other polytheistic tribes (nations) of their “truth”? It doesn’t seem so. If your beliefs were different from theirs AND you were in their way, they crushed you. But they didn’t seem to go after others for war or evangelism. And, it seems that they did welcome those of other faiths when they came to visit unless they spread blasphemy or made a ruckus. Did they believe during those times that people could or should convert to their religion? Apparently, you can convert now during modern times. The word “unbeliever” is sprinkled generously throughout the OT and NT, perhaps King James had a thing for it? (don’t answer that one lol)

Oh, I’ve come to love babble, babbling brooks, babbling kooks, babbling kookoos, you know. Until it was pointed out to me a few days ago, I didn’t know what to call it, now I use the term all the time. Nyar and another person above have said they may have “babbled”, too. We’re here to talk, but only have these forums. We’re not face to face, where we would see and hear context. and comprehend better. All we have is our keyboards. Tell your stories, take as many words as you want. I, for one, love reading them!

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I agree with you Kook. “Atheism” comes from the Greek atheos, a- without, theos, god. The normal use for “atheist” down the millennia is to define someone who does not believe in the existence of any god/gods.

The thing that fascinates me about Western religion is how it relates to the methods for understanding the world that the Greeks defined as mythos and logos. Mebbe I’ll start a new topic on that elsewhere… but in mythos, the origin of the modern “myth,” natural phenomena were explained as the result of the actions of gods and goddesses. Then sometime in the early first millenia b.c. the Greeks hit on the idea of logos the origin of our “logic”. Using logos, Greek philosophers (and everybody since) endeavored to understand the world using empirical data.

The scary thing about logic is its dialectical nature- that there is a correct way of looking at something and an incorrect way… and contradictions must be reconciled. Western civilization has been driven for almost 3,000 years by this drive to find the truth in all things.

Anyhow, before the Greeks brought logos into the world, most folks (with the exception of the Hebrews) in the Eastern Meditterranean were happily polytheistic, and why not? Without the dialectic of logic demanding that the best god be exhalted above all others, any one way of explaining the world was as good as another. Contradictions were not minded because, without logic, there was no demand to find the one truth.

To make a sweeping generalization, in the Eastern Med it seems there was a slow process of syncretism through the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. In the Bronze Age, most societies seemed to worship an immense pantheon, with spirits for every rock and tree… by the time of the Hellenic period the classic Greek pantheon of major gods and lesser spirits had evolved, then came the Roman version of the pantheon. Meanwhile, the Hebrews had come to know their one God, to the point that His name evolved to be the unpronounceable tetragrammaton- YHWH. Then came Christ… then Mohammed.

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most of the inmates here abouts are quite PLURish…which keeps this atheist willing to play nicely…me