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Originally Posted by abaya
You know what, Dave? You're alright.  This was actually the exact same "interpretation" of hell that I came up with, after all my years believing in the traditional sulphurous hot lakes (Iceland?), gnashing-of-teeth (I do that at night), eternal separation from God definition of hell. (That's the one I stopped believing in.)
But, consulting with many other Christians and reading up quite a bit, my interpretation of hell (same as yours) wasn't terribly doctrinal. I still "believe" in that one (hell for the living, as a result of all the hurt we cause ourselves and each other), but instead call it "karma" because that simply makes more sense. Buddhism is good for those kinds of concepts. |
Its all in the interpretation, just as Parable said earlier, some scripture may be taken literally, others seen as a mythical or allegorical, and so on. I dont follow a fundamentalist approach, and I have beliefs that follow other faiths, which I mentioned in the 'We are God' thread. They're definitely not doctrinal, but I consider that a good thing. Fundamentalist would almost certainly consider me a blasphemer or hypocritical, but thats cool with me, judge not...and all that.
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Originally Posted by parable
Surprise You're Dead, by Faith No More
"Surprise! youre dead!
Ha ha! open your eyes
See the world as it used to be when you used to be in it
When you were alive and when you were in love
And when I took it from you!
Its not over yet
You dont remember?
I wont let you forget
The hatred I bestowed
Upon your neck with a fatal blow
From my teeth and my tongue
Ive drank and swallowed, but its just begun
Now you are mine
Ill keep killing you until the end of time
Surprise! youre dead!
Guess what?
It never ends...
The pain, the torment and torture, profanity
Nausea, suffering, perversion, calamity
You cant get away"
3 guesses as to who is singing to the damned....
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Its either Mephastophales, Keith Richards, or GW Bush. Has to be one of em...
I've always liked this song.
Queen - The Prophets Song
Oh Oh people on the earth
Listen to the warning
The seer he said
Beware the storm that gathers here
Listen to the wise man.
I dreamed I saw on a moonlit stair
Spreading his hands on the multitude there
A man who cried for a love gone stale
And ice cold hearts of charity bare.
I watch as fear took the old men's gaze
Hopes of the young in troubled graves
I see no day, I heard him say
So grey is the face of every mortal.
Oh Oh people on the earth
Listen to the warning
The prophet he said
For soon the cold of night will fall
Summoned by your own hand.
Oh Oh children of the land
Quicken to the new life
Take my hand
Fly and find the new green bough
Return like a white dove.
He told of death as a bone white haze
Taking the lost and the unloved babe
Late too late all the wretches run
These kings of beasts now counting their days.
From mother's love is the son estranged
Married his own his precious gain
The earth will shake in two will break
And death all around will be your dow'ry
Oh Oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning the seer he said
For those who hear and mark my words
Listen to the good plan.
Oh Oh - and two by two my human zoo
They'll be
runnung for to come
running for to come
out of the rain
Flee for your life
Who heed me not, let all your treasure make you
Fear for your life
Deceive you not the fires of hell will take you
Should death await you.
God give you grace to purge this place
And peace all around may be your fortune.
Oh Oh children of the land
Love is still the answer, take my hand
The vision fades, a voice I hear