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04/01/02 (67 review reads) |
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First of all I need to assure you that I am writing not on behalf of a certain religion. Here I just want to describe the ?equal love? from God. Remember, I am not preaching, either. If I say that God treats us with the same treatments, not all people agree with this statement. Then I say that we were born with no clothes (nakedly) is the proof of the same treatment from God, I am sure many of you must be laughing at me. Well, I have been thinking and thinking of this issue for quite a long time. In daily living sometimes I complain, ?My God, why do I have bad luck though I remember you most of my time? Then why my other friends have better lucks than I have though they do bad deeds?? Finally I have found out that my soul needs a bowl of chicken soup to recover from this pain. And now I am trying to share some of the chicken soup to you hopefully could be effective in recovering your soul?s health. The fate of a beggar Once upon a time there lived a beggar in a village. He was asking and asking for some mercy from the villagers with a bowl on his hands. Okay, it is no need for me to describe any longer how the beggar begged or how the villagers took pity on him. I cut the scenario, and ? When the beggar reached his age around 50 years old, he passed away on the street. In the early morning the villagers came around the dead body. A villager said, ?Oh, how poor he is! He died with no family. He?s been a beggar since he was born.? In short words, some villagers buried him in a funeral. Suddenly one villager shouted, ?Alas! We have forgotten to bury his only bowl. He has nothing with him now ?? Then another villager took the bowl and said, ?How stupid he was! He should not have been a beggar if he had known that this bowl is made of gold. He should have been a rich man and didn?t have to beg and died in this miserable way.? Listening to the latest news, all vil
lagers gathered and had a look at the bowl. Finally they found it was really a bowl which was made of gold. Is this story interesting or touching? I think it is more interesting if I change a bit of the scenario. Just say when the beggar was begging and most of the villagers had found out that the bowl on his hands was made of gold. Supposing some villagers told the beggar that the bowl was made of gold and the beggar believed in what he had heard, the beggar would have pensioned earlier and might have had a better living. Thus, he did not have to die on the street in a miserable way. He might have got married and lived properly with his family. In another hand, if he did not believe in what the villagers told him, the first scenario happened. The Implication of the Scenarios What is the implication of these scenarios in our living? We were born with no clothes on our bodies. God just gives a soul to each person. It is fair enough, I think. Just consider that the soul is the bowl. Now do you realize that the soul is very precious? In this story the beggar could not change his fate as he did not know what was on his hands or he did not believe the bowl is gold when some people told him. I have told you that your soul is precious. Try to make use the ?bowl? in order change your fate. It does not harm you. It is up to you to make a final judgment on yourselves. An imaginary tale can be an actual story. Do you believe it or not?
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- 12/04/02 Very interesting - thanks. C. |
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- 01/02/02 Djohan,a very thought provoking op,thanks |
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- 04/01/02 A lovely way of looking at life. however I remain an atheist - mainly because I just can't conceive how or why a loving God could inflict such suffering on his people - like giving kids cancer etc. |
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