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Postby postodave » January 26th, 2008, 3:43 pm

Hi Mitch
I'm a bit short of time and I'm reading this carefully so I don't answer glibly. I got my copy of the Myth of Sysyphus off the shelf. It looks like the bit you have read is the last part of a much longer essay of the same title which begins by talking about suicide.
I can feel the point you are making in your last post and I can agree that the whole thing about divine fudgement has sometimes been exagerated and distorted in Church history but the idea of reward and punishment as an appropriate motivator is so clearly taught in scripture that I could not entirely abandon it.
The other stuff I'll get back to because I think I see where you are coming from and we are perhaps not as far apart as we had seemed. But it is not the first time I have thought that.
So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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Postby mitchellmckain » January 26th, 2008, 7:49 pm

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Postby postodave » January 29th, 2008, 8:17 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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Postby mitchellmckain » January 30th, 2008, 4:28 am

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Postby postodave » January 30th, 2008, 8:36 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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Postby mitchellmckain » January 31st, 2008, 4:49 am

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Postby postodave » February 1st, 2008, 5:38 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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Postby mitchellmckain » February 2nd, 2008, 12:12 am

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Postby postodave » February 3rd, 2008, 12:40 am

So I drew my sword and got ready
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Postby mitchellmckain » February 3rd, 2008, 12:26 pm

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Postby postodave » February 4th, 2008, 11:03 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
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Postby mitchellmckain » February 5th, 2008, 8:46 am

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Postby postodave » February 6th, 2008, 8:37 pm

So I drew my sword and got ready
But the lamb ran away with the crown
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Postby postodave » February 6th, 2008, 11:15 pm

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