"Someone said to Buddha, "The things you teach, sir, are not to be found in scripture."

"Then put them in there," said Buddha

Afte an embarrassed pause the man went on the say, "May I be so bold as to suggest, sir, that some of the things you teach actually contradict the scriptures?""Then the scriptures need amending," said Buddha.

A proposal was made at the United Nations that the scriptures of every religion be revised; everything in them that leads to intolerance or cruelty should be deleted; everything that damages the dignity of human beings should be destroyed.

When it was found that the author of the proposal was Jesus Christ, reporters rushed to his residence. His explanation was simple: "The Scripture, like the Sabbath, is for human beings," he said, "Not human beings for scripture.""

-- John McDowell (jmcdowell@hotmail.com), March 23, 2002

Answers

John, my lad, it is illegal for you to use those hallucinogenics.
(Man, they are really comin' out of the woodwork here these days.)
JFG

-- (jfgecik@hotmail.com), March 23, 2002.

I'll say John.
Glad to see you are in and around but laying low.
"Must be the season of the witch" or something like that.
Love, Chris

-- Chris Coose (ccoose@maine.rr.com), March 23, 2002.

John,

This was plagiarized from "A Challenge to Love" by Henry Miller (1990). From "http://www.affirmation.org/", a website for Gay and Lesbian Mormons. Not particularly relevant on a Catholic Forum, in my opinion...

Mateo.

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), March 24, 2002.

Matt

Are you aware of the unique similarities of the Mormon Temple rituals and the Masonic Lodge Rituals? Joseph Smith also was a Mason just prior to his creation of the Mormon Idiology. The ideals and his writings in the Book of Mormon are a direct insult to the history and ancestry of the American Indians. All of the facts Smith used were at best fabricated from some of the most wildest imagination akin to a childs dreams. It is full of historical facts that are totally illogical and fully unfounded. Yet the Mormons know and ignore all of the false and unveriviable knowledge in it and still revere it, The Book of Mormon, as gold. Imagine a stone age people having the knowledge to make steel. the process of making steel is of recent knowledge sometime in the early 1800's. Bless You for Your Excellent Work.

-- Fred Bishop (fcbishop@globaleyes.net), March 24, 2002.

John,

This was plagiarized from "A Challenge to Love" by Henry Miller (1990). From "http://www.affirmation.org/", a website for Gay and Lesbian Mormons. Not particularly relevant on a Catholic Forum, in my opinion...

Mateo. ***************************** BEEP.....WRONG! Try again. John

-- John McDowell (jmcdowell43@hotmail.com), March 24, 2002.

OK--
If you aren't stealing someone else's inkblots, then it's all your own mediocre slop. Nothing genuinely worth writing in here. Come back with a simple plagiarism. Preferably a good joke. Or some restaurant reviews. You can find them in the Sunday papers /

-- eugene c. chavez (chavezec@pacbell.net), March 24, 2002.

I wrote:

This was plagiarized from "A Challenge to Love" by Henry Miller (1990). From "http://www.affirmation.org/", a website for Gay and Lesbian Mormons. Not particularly relevant on a Catholic Forum, in my opinion...

John responded:

***************************** BEEP.....WRONG! Try again. John

What is this, Blue's Clues? OK, so this was actually your favorite Jesuit, Anthony de Mello, SJ, from "The Song of the Bird." You like this guy, don't you. So, do I get a prize or what? I'll reiterate from another thread. It would be helpful if you would credit quotes you use. Your opinion is valued more than your ability to cut-and-paste.

You have now chalked up three Catholic posts! Wacky-dissident-Catholic quotes, but Catholic, just the same.

Here's a little about the book (written in 1982) that you quote. The back cover of the book, in preparing the reader has an amazing quote: "Let the story speak to your heart, not to your brain, the author suggests."

So, Father de Mello is instructing you to turn off your brain before reading his book...interesting instructions for his book. This is a view that I disagree with. Absolute guidance by the heart leads to faulty, inconsistant doctrine; while, absolute guidance by the intellect leads to a doctrine absent of God's Love for us.

John, you actually go against the wishes of Fr. de Mello. His preface explicitly states,

"When you read the book for the first time read the stories in the order in which they are set down. The order imparts a teaching and a spirit that will be lost if the stories are read haphazardly."

The fact that this book was written in 1982 is an interesting context for its wishy-washy theology.

Peace,

Mateo

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), March 25, 2002.

-- (no@bold.com), March 25, 2002.

Try number 2:

I wrote:

This was plagiarized from "A Challenge to Love" by Henry Miller (1990). From "http://www.affirmation.org/", a website for Gay and Lesbian Mormons. Not particularly relevant on a Catholic Forum, in my opinion...

John responded:

***************************** BEEP.....WRONG! Try again. John

What is this, Blue's Clues? OK, so this was actually your favorite Jesuit, Anthony de Mello, SJ, from "The Song of the Bird." You like this guy, don't you. So, do I get a prize or what? I'll reiterate from another thread. It would be helpful if you would credit quotes you use. Your opinion is valued more than your ability to cut-and-paste.

You have now chalked up three Catholic posts! Wacky-dissident-Catholic quotes, but Catholic, just the same.

Here's a little about the book (written in 1982) that you quote. The back cover of the book, in preparing the reader has an amazing quote:

"Let the story speak to your heart, not to your brain, the author suggests."

So, Father de Mello is instructing you to turn off your brain before reading his book...interesting instructions for his book. This is a view that I disagree with. Absolute guidance by the heart leads to faulty, inconsistant doctrine; while, absolute guidance by the intellect leads to a doctrine absent of God's Love for us.

John, you actually go against the wishes of Fr. de Mello. His preface explicitly states,

"When you read the book for the first time read the stories in the order in which they are set down. The order imparts a teaching and a spirit that will be lost if the stories are read haphazardly."

The fact that this book was written in 1982 is an interesting context for its wishy-washy theology.

Peace,

Mateo

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), March 25, 2002.