Re: Good feelings -- ENJOY LIFE!

Oxidized wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oxidized) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > What gives pantheists feelings of "contentment"?  I mean
> > those situations where the cares of the regular-world are
> > erased, to be replaced by a feeling of ... contentment.
> >
> > How long do those feelings last?
> >
> > Oxidized
>
> Hey, Pantheists, I feel compelled
>   To reiterate my query.
> And lets just dispel
>   Any feelings of "I'm weary.
> Let me loose from this hell
>   Of naysayers," leary
> Of thoughts to dispel.
>
> Please tell me your feeling
>   When you look at the sky.
> And what is revealing
>   When you lay down to die?
> You claim that "appealing
>   To the universe: it's 'I'".
> It's not your soul I'm stealing.
>
> So what do you see
>   When the thunderclouds rise?
> And what do you believe
>   When you know you will die?
> What will you leave
>   For the generations nigh?
> What are you, a tree?
>
> Oxidized

KOHELETH WROTE: LONG AGO:
"For whoever is joined with all the living,
there is hope;
surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.
For the living know they will die;
but the dead do not know anything,
nor have they any longer a reward, \
for their memory is forgotten.
Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished,
and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.
Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart...
Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life...
for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the 
sun.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might;
for there is no activity
or planning
or knowledge
or wisdom
in Sheol where you are going."
    (Ecclesiastes 9:4-10)

    Libertarius
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