WHEN GOD CREATED MAN & ALL CREATURES=HE SAID''IT IS GOOD'' SO WHAT WENT WRONG??TRACE IT ALL THE WAY BACK. MAN[ADAM] BELIEVED A LIE!![THE ORIGIN OF SIN] LIES. GOD DIDN,T CREATE JUNK. [US] OUR MINDS ,ARE LIKE A GARDEN,GOOD SEEDS & BAD WEED,S.---IF WE KEEP THE WEEDS-OUT, WE HAVE=PEACE. GOD CREATED MAN--TO BE LIKE HIM[DADDY]--'GOD IS LOVE' SO WHERE DOES ALL THE EVIL COME FROM??? IT [ALL] START,S WITH ''THOUGHT,S'' RENEW THE MIND---IT,S WORK.-CLUE=SAY WHAT GOD SAY,S.

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), June 12, 2000

Answers

Actually, it starts with not paying your debts and writing in bold font.

-- Ra (tion@l.1), June 12, 2000.

al-d, your analogy doesn't work for me. A weed is a plant that is growing somewhere someone doesn't want it to. A case in point: I'm a semi-serious lawn fanatic (I stop at applying chemicals more than once a season). I don't want all heal, crab grass, or pine seedlings growing in my patch of Kentucky blue grass. Yet, one of my neighbors plants these "weeds" (and many others) for her medicine cabinet. Go figure.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), June 12, 2000.

Al-d,

I see three possible reasons for your posting style. Please instruct me if there is another reason.

1)-You are dyslexic. If this is true, I welcome you to the surreal world of disability. My disability has cost me much yet ultimately it has enriched immensely and I thank God for it. It has brought me a measure of humanity.

2)-You lack formal education and this makes you borderline illiterate. If this is true, then I urge you to get some help. Most Public Libaries have a volunteer program for illiteracy.

3)-You are putting us on in the manner of Dieter. I admit, I think this is your game. I apologize if I'm wrong. Why you would deliberately choose to come off as a fool is beyond me. You seem to be trying to communicate something important so why do you choose to do it in this insulting way? No matter, I will continue to give you a glance but no more than that.

As Z would say---best wishes,

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), June 12, 2000.

Where does all the evil come from? Well, If God is all powerful, all knowing, and the creator of this here universe, then it logically follows that all this evil comes from God.

Use some form of formal logic to dispute this, Al-D.

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), June 12, 2000.

Ra,

Well, at least I'm not the only one taking shots at al. :-) Al, sorry, but it's become sort of a hobby with me, if you'll be Christian enough to understand, I'll try and be Christian enough to stop (hopefully)

(Soon now)

Sooner yet

Very soon

Frank

-- Someone (ChimingIn@twocents.cam), June 12, 2000.

no problem, frank. people are people. true i don,t have a formal- education. i try to space my messages. but they still glom. i think it,s time too fade,best to all.

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), June 12, 2000.

I don't buy it Al. It takes expertise to put those commas where apostrophes belong. Why not just give it up and post like a real person?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), June 12, 2000.

al-d,

God allows us to experience things that are not true and things we don't want, because without these experiences, we wouldn't know what is true and what we do want. He gave us free will, so that we could learn by our experiences, otherwise we literally would not know black from white, lies from truth, love from fear, and on and on.

Einstein's theory of relativity is really a theory of Everything. Just as space and time are a continuum, so are love and hate, truth and lies, light and dark... eternally linked together. Without one, you cannot have the other.

-- Hawk (flyin@hi.again), June 12, 2000.

Dualism is a heresy. To the rack, Hawk!

-- (nemesis@awol.com), June 13, 2000.

Lol, sure, I'll try the rack. Give me pain baby! The more pain I experience, the more I appreciate everything that is not pain. :-)

-- Hawk (flyin@hi.again), June 13, 2000.

Al, I re-read my post to you and I don't like it. I was convinced that you are a troll and are a deliberate put-on. Now I'm not so sure and I hope you will not leave even tho your posts are difficult for me to follow. What changed my mind? Your simple post in the Summertime thread.

Best,

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), June 13, 2000.

Who would have thought al-d would have appeared as a comfort, in an off post, post. Damdest thing, I can remember.

-- My Story (andiam@sticking.to it com), June 14, 2000.