Can You Make A Good Name With God?

[goodlife]

There is a verse in the Bible book of Ecclesiastes that may seem to be a very strange statement to some readers: A good reputation is better than expensive pleasures, the day someone dies is better than the day they were born.
2 It is better to go to a funeral than to a party,
because everyone must die,and the living need to remember this. Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 (ERV)
How can this be? How can death be better than life?

[Khandro]

Shelley wrote;
'Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep and it is lifted....'
He contiually asked if 'life was a form of death, or a deeper form of waking life. Is life death, at least of the spirit?' and 'Is death a form of sleep?'
Could we live merely in order to dream?
"What dreams may come...Must give us pause" Hamlet.

[vulcan42]

Elderman/Goodlife/obsessed, all the same really.

[goodlife]

Baldric@vulcan42@ Do your friends help you to reach your potential, or do you have to lower your standards to fit in with them? Proverbs 13:20 says: He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.

[Baldric]

Watchtower Online ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^YET AGAIN

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102011329

just scroll down a bit it's there!

[goodlife]

who a clever Boy,So what are you, a good reputation for what?

[Baldric]

I'm trying to find something to interest me in your offerings, but the ability to cut and paste copious amounts of the Watchtower et al is just not doing it!

[vulcan42]

Oh dear, I am going to fare badly.

[ChillDoubt]

My friend is a dyslexic, insomniac agnostic.

He spent all night awake, wondering if there really is a Dog.

[Baldric]

^^^ That's Wruff! ^^^

[jim360]

Poor guy must be barking.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Infamy! Shelley is Khandro's new best friend. And I've been thinking all this time that he was more or less on my side.

[Khandro]

v_e; Apt comment, but because he was an arch-atheist, (he was in fact expelled from Oxford for being so as I'm sure you know) doesn't mean he was all bad. Recent reading; 'Being Shelley' by Ann Wroe, 400 pp, read them all and from where the first quote was gathered.

[jomifl]

Arch-atheist eh? is that not just having no belief at all, but having absolutely no belief at all? or worse?

[jomifl]

Goodlife, I strongly recommend that you don't believe everything that people who come back from the dead tell you. They might just be a false prophet and you well know how credible they can be.

[Khandro]

jomifl; I've no space or inclination to write a biography, but as a young man Shelley was expelled not just for being an atheist, he was not alone in this, but for writing, publishing and distributing a booklet called 'The Necessity of Atheism'.
My personal belief - and you heard it here first - is that he was actually and unknowingly a Taoist.

[jomifl]

But not a self identufying Taoist though ?

[naomi24]

Goodlife, (to Baldric) //So what are you, a good reputation for what?//

It appears Baldric is acquiring a reputation for seeking, and finding, the truth – unlike you, Goodlife.

[mrs_overall]

Forgive me for asking this, but do you have a spare room/garage filled to the brim with pamphlets, placards and sandwich boards?

[jomifl]

Khandro, Just had a quick look a Shelley's 'wikiography', it seems that he was a bit of a spiritual atheist, nein?

[naomi24]

'Nein'. Haaa! :o)