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#122012 - 04/09/07 07:45 AM
World Religions
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Registered: 02/06/03
Loc: Kutuh Kelod, Pulau Dewata
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#122013 - 04/09/07 08:46 AM
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Recovering Necromancer
Registered: 02/25/04
Loc: Sublime Underbelly
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"Faced with the precarious discontinuity of the personality, the human spirit reacts in two ways which in Christianity coalesce. The first responds to the desire to find that lost continuity which we are stubbornly convinced is the essence of being. With the second, mankind tries to avoid the terms set to individual discontinuity, death, and invents a discontinuity unassailable by death--that is, the immortality of discontinuous beings.
"The first way gives continuity its full due, but the second enables Christianity to withdraw whatever its wholesale generosity offers. Just as transgression organised the continuity born of violence, Christianity fitted this continuity regarded as supreme into the framework of discontinuity. True, it did no more than push to its logical conclusion a tendency which was already marked. But it accomplished something which had hitherto only been suggested. It reduced the sacred and the divine to a discontinuous and personal God, the creator. What is more, it turned whatever lies beyond this world into the prolongation of every individual soul. It peopled Heaven and Hell with multitudes condemned with God to the eternal discontinuity of each separate being. Chosen and damned, angels and demons, they all became impenetrable fragments, for ever divided, arbitrarily distinct from each other, arbitrarily detached from the totality of being with which they must nevertheless remain connected.
"This multitude of creatures of chance and the individual creator denied their solitude in the mutual love if God and the elect--or affirmed it in hatred of the damned. But love itself made sure of the final isolation. What had been lost in the atomisation of totality was the path that led from isolation to fusion, from the discontinuous to the continuous, the path of violence marked out by transgression. Desire for the harmony and conciliation of love and submission took the place of the overwhelming wrench of violence, even while the memory of early cruelty lasted."
--Georges Bataille, Erotism
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#122014 - 04/09/07 01:23 PM
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Ninja
Registered: 02/18/03
Loc: Accra
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This is a hi-fi and obscure thread that is beyond my abilities to comprehend. One gentleman is posting a Nataraja picture and other guy quoting an intellectually stimulating scripture. Poor fellows like me don't understand what is going on here. Any enlightenment for religious beginners like me would be highly complimented. 
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#122015 - 04/09/07 03:33 PM
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Ninja
Registered: 02/05/03
Loc: St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
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What they both are trying to say, Krish, is that Ljubomir Ljubojevic is the best chess player to ever exist. Here is Ljubo teaching Kasparov and Anand how to play proper chess.  Keeping on topic, we all must realize that G-d sent him here just for our (my) enjoyment. 
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#122016 - 04/09/07 07:17 PM
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Ninja
Registered: 10/17/03
Loc: Pennsylvania
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Originally posted by Chess Fan: This is a duet song that I have sung with two or three different women from our church in the past for the special music portion of our church's Sunday morning worship services. The song in the following video is sung by two very well known Christian singers, Sandi Patty and Larnelle Harris My only two slight "complaints" with this video is that it is NOT the best "visual" quality video, and, I think that Sandi Patty's "soprano side" of this song overpowers Larnelle Harris's "tenor side" of this song a bit, (which bothers me a bit, because, since I have sung the "tenor male side" of this song many times, and, because I know just what a "unique and fun" tenor part of this song that it is, I really DO wish that Larnelle Harris's tenor part was not QUITE so overpowered by Sandi Patty's soprano part of this song.)But anyway, no matter; so, without any further "ado", here is the great Christian duet song that is titled, "More Than Wonderful." I have brought my quote above from the "no longer functioning" edition of the World Religions thread over here to this "presently functioning" edition of the World Religions thread. Because Ken had some comments that he made about the video of "The Easter Song" that I had posted in the previous World Religions thread, I just wanted to ask him here: "Ken, what is your opinion of the "More Than Wonderful" song that I posted a link to the video of in my quote above?"Chess Fan
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#122017 - 04/09/07 10:57 PM
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Ninja
Registered: 02/01/05
Loc: Canada
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Short answer, Chess Fan, is not my style at all. Now you don't have to read the rest of my post...cause I just edited and deleted it...my previous answer was too long, too rambling, and off-topic (sort of).
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#122018 - 04/10/07 06:12 AM
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Recovering Necromancer
Registered: 02/25/04
Loc: Sublime Underbelly
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The last page of the old thread terrifies me. It makes the implosion seem so impermanent. I have nightmares about imploded posts returning to haunt the board.
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#122019 - 04/10/07 02:08 PM
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Ninja
Registered: 10/17/03
Loc: Pennsylvania
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Originally posted by Ken:
Short answer, Chess Fan, is not my style at all. Now you don't have to read the rest of my post...cause I just edited and deleted it...my previous answer was too long, too rambling, and off-topic (sort of). Well, too late for that, Ken! Last evening, I did "a quick read over" of your entire post which contained your quote above before I went to bed. In that post, (before you edited it), you talked about your days at Christian summer camp, etc. Ken, how many years did you go to a Christian summer camp? What was your favorite Bible story that you can remember from those summer camps? Chess Fan
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#122020 - 04/10/07 02:21 PM
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Ninja
Registered: 02/15/03
Loc: Montana
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Originally posted by The Gelatinous Cube:
The last page of the old thread terrifies me. It makes the implosion seem so impermanent. I have nightmares about imploded posts returning to haunt the board. When a thread implodes in a sudden or violent manner it is not uncommon for the thread to leave behind a kind of psychic residue, lost and confused they haunt the forums in which they died, never able to find rest. ... Then there are the zombie threads. BRAIIIIIINNNSSSS
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#122021 - 04/10/07 02:35 PM
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Bishop
Registered: 01/31/07
Loc: North Dakota
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Originally posted by octal:
Then there are the zombie threads. BRAIIIIIINNNSSSS Or in the case of Vegan zombies: GRAIIIIIIINNNNSS.
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