Tuesday, June 06, 2006


just a personal note on this "666" stuff

this is America, you can believe whatever you choose
but me, i do not believe in a devil. i am not a literalist
and i think we have far too many evil human beings in this
world to be worried about 666 and the people that make money
by scaring the crap out of good people when they write books and
try to convince people that "they" can tell you, guide you, in
finding heaven and avoiding hell.

how about just following that good old "golden rule?"
most religions have it, slightly different wording, but
the same meaning.

save the frights for rollercoasters and such.
try a little empathy and compassion on today. 666, indeed!

5 comments:

QUASAR9 said...

hi sherry, if there is no heaven fine. But if there is a heaven, many will knock but not all get in.

After all it would no longer be heaven, if we dragged everything from earth up there. inc Death.

Some things are of the earth and stay on earth. How does that school break saying go about extra-curricular activities. What happens in so & so, stays in so & so. We have Club 18-30 here, which takes people to holidays in Greek resorts to 'let their hair down' and do things they would not dream of doing back at home.

QUASAR9 said...

On famous quotes:
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
Frank Lloyd Wright

Sherry Pasquarello said...

oh i didn't say there was no "heaven" or whatever one chooses to call it. i just said i didn't believe in a devil or a hell.

i think we can be changed after death, perhaps hell is being shown just how we screwed up BEFORE a divine presence (god)"heals" us of whatever caused the "evil" we did.

i mentioned before that there are things and people that i could not forgive, but there have been and are, people that do forgive others, that have say, murdered a family member etc. i couldn't, but they have. so, it stands to reason, that any deity HAS to be better than the best of us. i would think that this deity would know exactly WHY we screwed up and take pity(for lack of a better term) on all of us, therefore, we all go to heaven.

if there is nothing after death, well then, there is nothing, and so, we should strive even harder to make this world a better place.

just my thoughts. i used to think there were and have been many different religions and beliefs over the ages because god was such a vast and awesome being that it needed worshiped in many different ways.

now i think that the many faiths and beliefs were a gift from the divine to fullfill our needs both personal and cultural. if more people believed that these were gifts to us, we might not try to proclaim by coercive means or by force one doctrine over another.

belief is just that, belief.
knowing, well, we will all find that out after we pass on.

LSqrd said...

Wow, all this deep thought.... I just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the Hitchhiker's Guide reference!

Sherry Pasquarello said...

i was happy to find a use for the picture! i read the book and the sequel years ago! i love that drawing!