many question & say why-all the suffering & evil!! if all your hope,is only in this short stay on earth-then expect=disapointment!! as a woman travail,s in childbirth-but soon forget,s the pain at the joy of birth of child. GOD has PROMISED a DAY of deliverance=hang-tuff PILGRIM!!!

-- learning to trust !! (dogs@zianet.com), September 21, 2000

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Um...not to make fun of your religious beliefs, but I have NEVER forgotten one iota of pain experienced during childbirth. A guy must have written that. And no matter what stupid shit is going on in my stay on earth, I still have a good time now and then. No disappointments. Sometimes the message of religion is that this world isn't as good as the next -- if people regarded THIS world as the best place to be, maybe they would invest more of themselves into making that true.

-- helen (b@s.z), September 21, 2000.

Now THAT is wise, Helen. All we truly have is today.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), September 21, 2000.