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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 1, 2017 7:34:30 GMT
Enjoy.  history-world.org/poem_of_the_righteous_sufferer.htmSuffering, like physical death, is just part of the picture, yes? And if I have to suffer, I would rather suffer with a purpose than without one. I doubt any of the RFS board heathens would understand that, but hey, don't say I didn't give them a chance to explain their views on the topic. |
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Sept 1, 2017 8:44:45 GMT
What exactly is your purpose, Erjen? I have often wondered about that. Can you prove it?
An interesting link. This poem in particular reminds me of the so-called 'Terrible Sonnets' of the Catholic priest-poet Gerald Manly Hopkins, a man by this time tortured by his repressed sexuality and a perceived failure in life:
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’
I WAKE and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!
And more must, in yet longer light’s delay.
With witness I speak this. But where I say 5
Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament
Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent
To dearest him that lives alas! away.
I am gall, I am heartburn. God’s most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; 10
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 1, 2017 16:09:18 GMT
I was right. You don't understand. Perhaps you are incapable of understanding. Then again, I should remember that you're the same individual who insisted that the 4th dimension is not higher than the third.
Being as how you don't understand, have you ever wondered about the time you would save for everyone if you drifted off and concentrated on the materialistic things that you do understand? Religion, faith, and spirituality are just too esoteric for someone like you.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Sept 5, 2017 10:24:31 GMT
FF: What exactly is your purpose, Erjen? I have often wondered about that. Can you prove it? E: I was right. You don't understand. Perhaps you are incapable of understanding. "Nope. I can't prove it". Oh yes I remember that. Got yourself in a right old jam there didn't you, necessarily equating complexity with 'higher'? Condescension noted. |
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Post by Cinemachinery on Sept 5, 2017 17:52:02 GMT
Enjoy. history-world.org/poem_of_the_righteous_sufferer.htmSuffering, like physical death, is just part of the picture, yes? And if I have to suffer, I would rather suffer with a purpose than without one. I doubt any of the RFS board heathens would understand that, but hey, don't say I didn't give them a chance to explain their views on the topic. Not sure it refers to needless suffering, man. God helps those, etc. |
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 5, 2017 17:58:18 GMT
Enjoy. history-world.org/poem_of_the_righteous_sufferer.htmSuffering, like physical death, is just part of the picture, yes? And if I have to suffer, I would rather suffer with a purpose than without one. I doubt any of the RFS board heathens would understand that, but hey, don't say I didn't give them a chance to explain their views on the topic. Not sure it refers to needless suffering, man. God helps those, etc. What qualifies as needless could vary from person to person. |
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Post by Cinemachinery on Sept 5, 2017 18:23:59 GMT
Not sure it refers to needless suffering, man. God helps those, etc. What qualifies as needless could vary from person to person. I suppose. For all I know you're shackled to a desk , prevented entirely from doing anything save re-posting Yewtewb videos. |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 5, 2017 18:34:47 GMT
What qualifies as needless could vary from person to person. I suppose. For all I know you're shackled to a desk , prevented entirely from doing anything save re-posting Yewtewb videos. Touche'! LOLOLOL!  |
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Post by gadreel on Sept 5, 2017 22:48:26 GMT
I was right. You don't understand. Perhaps you are incapable of understanding. Then again, I should remember that you're the same individual who insisted that the 4th dimension is not higher than the third. Being as how you don't understand, have you ever wondered about the time you would save for everyone if you drifted off and concentrated on the materialistic things that you do understand? Religion, faith, and spirituality are just too esoteric for someone like you. Here we go, at some point a person such as Erjen has to point out they maybe they know and you don't because you are too stupid, but they however are 'woke' and no longer tied to the mental binds that the 'sheeple' are tied to. This is the most disgusting hubris as it not only dismisses people who have a different opinion but also raises the proponent of this as being so advanced as to not even be able to explain their stance to the other. This is another example of Erjen avoiding Christian morals and establishing an us and them paradigm. I wish I could say I was shocked, but really I am just disgusted. |
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 6, 2017 5:16:15 GMT
How about "appalled?" |
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