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What to do when someone offers advise to pray to God?
« on: January 29, 2015, 10:19:53 am »
When interacting with someone and offering strategies on how to deal with "the morning terrors" - that feeling of dread that seems present every time we emerge back into consciousness from sleep, even when I convey the fact that walking to the ocean and making noise relieves a great deal of pent up anxiety, suppose some "stranger" you always get along with suggests praying to God (as if I were a child who has never heard of such a "radical" idea).  My method is to remain respectful, but I can't keep myself from joking around, saying things like, "I scorn the Creator" and "I fired God and told Him not to use me as a reference."   :P

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I am feeling sad tonight. Literature does not comfort me or bring me solace because the nature of what I tend to read is disturbing. Writing on the Internet brings me no comfort or solace.

It’s a sign of merit to be ignored: “Panglossian falsehoods convene the crowd, discouraging truths disperse it.”

As Ligotti writes, “They will trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who spoiled Himself and the universe with his corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the original article. They trust in Jesus Christ, a historical cipher stitched together like Frankenstein’s monster out of parts robbed from the graves of messiahs dead and buried – a savior on a stick. They trust in the virgin pimping Allah and his Drum Major Mohammed, a prophet come lately who pioneered a new genus of humbuggery for an emerging market of believers that was not being adequately served by existing religious products. They trust in anything that authenticates their importance as persons, tribes, societies, and particularly as a species that will endure in this world and perhaps in an afterworld that may be uncertain in its reality and unclear in its layout, but which sates their craving for values NOT OF THIS EARTH – that depressing, meaningless place their consciousness must sidestep every day.”

The true philosopher/thinker today must merge literature and philosophy, challenge and better psychoanalysis … become the writer-philosopher-militant.

Thomas Ligotti is a "bad dog".  :) 8)

He p-isses on the gods from a considerable height.

Can you believe this auto-editor censors out the word p-i-s-s?
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Re: What to do when someone offers advise to pray to God?
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2015, 12:37:51 pm »
I am a mangy mutt ;) If God did exist,I'd shoot him dead myself :) The only saving grace of this hell called planet Earth? That you exist Mr H!
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
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Re: What to do when someone offers advise to pray to God?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2023, 09:00:59 pm »
it has been to long since I have had the opportunity to read posts I have not responded to that I have 6 pages to read through. All the way back to 2015 - even though I have only been off the grid since April 2022.

A few months ago I invested in a low budget Stylus for a couple hundred USA dolares.

I was charging this device with solar panel today. Many kind People blessed me with cash, food, cigarettes, more cash, more food. I was so cold by 5 AM - in describable pain in jaw. And yet, I was crying little tears of joy as MY ANIMAL BODY stuffed itself in the Glorious Sunbeams!

My mother seems too flabbergasted to check my TEXT MESSAGES which are heartfelt Letters worthy of diary entries scribbled in Roger Waters penmanship!   I am patient with her, but tonight-l decided to give some attention to my True Philosophical Brothers (FAMILIA de ALMA).

THANK You for validated my MYTH of Sisyphus existence!

You are loved.
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

~ Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen ~