Could you please elaborate on this?
Is going to church for you kinda like just "going through the motion" type activity?
Sounds like he goes there to play the organ.
Could you please elaborate on this?
Is going to church for you kinda like just "going through the motion" type activity?
Sounds like he goes there to play the organ.
Are you a father, BTP?
I agree with you, a little, in an indirect way. I want to do whatever I can to help my children be happy and successful, but not for any sort of credit. I find immense satisfaction in being able to teach them things, but the satisfaction comes from their accomplishments, not my role in them.
I am a church organist. Love playing for services and enjoy hymns, liturgy, readings, and all that stuff. Interestingly, I'd consider myself to be in the 'don't care/don't think about it' category.
To be on topic a little, the idea of an afterlife is the byproduct of the fear that comes from our awareness of our own mortality, the grandest of all self delusions that allows us to face reality.
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Yeah but what for? Just for fun?
Then why not do it at a rest home? Or at an orphanage, etc.
I imagine he gets paid. Most churches pay their organists, although LDS churches do not.
First thing I'll do after death in order. Dunk a basketball, hang with John Lennon, watch Natalie Portman take a shower, invade the Jazz locker room to see what really goes down, up my rep count, then float around Turley Barracks and haunt people.
Please elaborate.
Pretty much the same things with what ill do. But watching Natalie Portman taking a shower is more prior to me, i can dunk the ball later.
God forbid you die early or anything, but if you do I'm going to pay close attention to your rep power. If it goes up we have our answer to if there's an afterlifeFirst thing I'll do after death in order. Dunk a basketball, hang with John Lennon, watch Natalie Portman take a shower, invade the Jazz locker room to see what really goes down, up my rep count, then float around Turley Barracks and haunt people.
It's alright. Not that great, but alright.
It's alright. Not that great, but alright.
Near death experience?
I'm not. But actually I felt comfortable putting myself into the situation and tried to cover a lot of angles through experiences I have on that matter.
I truly believe you if you say you're happy for what they do. But I think the human perception works in a way that it plays down the role of the ego.
I don't know how many of your friends who have kids are divorced and if you ever paid attention to how they talk about their kids compared to fathers living in the same household. But the experience I do have from friends in my youth who grew up in such a situation is that their fathers(since I don't know a single one who lived with his father) are way more distant and feel less included, since they're less involved into the learning processes of their kids.
Maybe you would be a positive exception even in that case, and I don't wanna talk badly about anyone whom I don't know, but that was my observation in general.
The God gene, yabish!
I don't think it is rubbish at all. I look very simply at this - one opinion is based on scientific evidence, other based on faith. It is ok to chose which one suits you more. It is your choice, I respect it and I actually am a bit jealous - you will die with hope that you will live again, while I will die believing it is the end.
Could you please elaborate on this?
Is going to church for you kinda like just "going through the motion" type activity?
Wow really? I thought the worship team usually do that... I've never heard of a church that pays for musicians... not here in NZ anyway.. LOL