Have ever been in an expensive restaurant and asked a waiter for something simple and they reply. “Sorry, sir, this is not my table.”
I embarrassed my European wife half to death on three different continents by getting up and FINDING the waiter for MY table. She finally divorced me.
My logic is that I’m the payer, I’M the customer.
Below is a piece about the third dimension. Its point is that there is no room in my world for priests who hide behind damnation. There is no room in my world for someone to make me PAY them so they can exercise whateverthehellitis they want to call “academic freedom.”
There is no room in my world for someone to tell me I have to have their degree for no reason except that I have to have their degree.
There is no room in my world for obedience to anybody who does not make MY life worth living.
In our present world you get paid for who you are. You get paid to be a philosopher, to explain why suffering is good.
I am not asking whether that is ENOUGH, I am asking whether it is ANYTHING.
If it’s NOTHING, why are you paying for it?
Ask the priest, ask the guru, ask the professor, ask the doctor whose only function is to keep you ALIVE. Ask them, “Are you giving me anything?”
The replies are:
“I am a priest, my job is to keep you from Sin, which I define,”
“I am a doctor, my job is to keep your heart beating,”
“I am a professor, my job is to provide you with an Education, which I define.”
“I am a guru, my job is to help you escape the Wheel of Life.”
If you ask anyone you PAY about making life worth living, they will laugh out loud.
That is NOT their table.
#1 by Pain on 03/16/2007 - 7:21 pm
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Bob,
Sorry to disappoint you, but you are preaching Christ here. There are two reasons why: (1) God came down into history and while making promises of the afterlife, he made history better. True morality means to treat everyone else right, which reduces our suffering now, before the afterlife. Christianity — by way of Constantine the Great — was directly responsible for the thousand years of white civilization in the New Rome and for the birth of the white West that lives today. (2) The resurrection of the body means that you get your life back and not some mystical ghost-like existence in a pseudo-world.
#2 by Alan on 03/17/2007 - 11:40 am
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In a free and civilized world men are presented with choices, in most cases we can recieve what it is we desire by paying a fee to those who in turn provide the service we demand, our money inpowers us. In todays world, Individual wants and needs have been replaced by the one size fits all consumerism that caters to the masses or group. The members providing the services work with in a group, they only deliver what their group dictates IS of value, individual satisfaction and benefit is irrelavent. In this world real choice does not exist, there is little competition and the fee you pay is added to the rest, welcome to the group.
#3 by Peter on 03/18/2007 - 7:29 am
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“I am a priest, my job is to keep you from Sin, which I define,”
Well, then my priest has been a disater. Oh, Lord, I am a sinner! It is the only thing that keeps me from suicide or madness, the latter being debatable.
If the reason Christ came to us was to redeem our sins, is it not a denial of His purpose, to be sinless? I refuse to deny the meaning of my Savior. I sin every day.
The pastoral role of the clergy is charity distribution, mediation and emotional tranquility. Most of them are too dumb to handle the theological structure which they constantly misunderstand. A good priest, and there are many, is seldom, if ever, an intellectual. The two are oil and vinegar.
Back Bay Grouch
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