If you could save the world

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[Pokerman]

I would tell Him to find someone else (in the most respectful way possible, of course...)

Sounds more like a deal Satan would make....

 

[Tabby432]

Fuck off.

 

[sexy-girl]

no i wouldnt

however maybe it would be different if it was just my life

 

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[april-wine]

thats a tough one, my mom is breast cancer survivor, and now here sister has breast cancer......sadly for her it doesn't look so good........i think i would have to say yes, but only if one of three could be me........

 

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[thumbs2_ca]

I would have to say thanks but no thanks please find someone else. I could not give anyone who is close to me up for any rewards to humankind.
If I could make a deal to it just being me then I would do it.

 

[Pokerman]

I dont think I'd do it, even if it was just my life. NOW...if I could pick three people, say George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat, then maybe I'd say yes...

 

[april-wine]

hugs and licks.....thank-you .............and snuggles i hope.......ahhh it's ok mistresshoney, but it was an interesting question.....often in these days and ages, folks will go for anything as long as they don't have to make sacrifices, or change things too much in their own little worlds.....to make a decision like that would be selfless, the what's in it for me attitude sure wouldn't apply here....... hugs and licks

 

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[april-wine]

having seen cancer at work, my thoughts on the thinning the herd stuff are unprintable.... as far as god, i guess my religious side is not as strong as it used to be....i mean i believe in a higher power, to think the world begins and ends with us is pure ego....sometimes i wonder what kind of god, would make indidviduals and families suffer needlessly........yipessssss i guess we are getting a little deep here.....stepping down off of soap box...........lol sorry this is just something that is near and dear to my heart, a debate i can sink my teeth into.......looking around nervously, don't tell lavy, or PC.......

 

[cymbidia]

As an avowed agnostic, such a situation would certainly answer one of my big questions, wouldn't it?

And as to the deal?
Like others, i'd have to decline the opportunity, with enormous regret. I'm sure god could find someone more well-suited to the job than me. I couldn't possibly make such a decision. Wouldn't.

 

[ohiobbw]

This is hard, because you are chosing for someone else to die. Now if they question was would you die to cure cancer, I would say yes. Kill me now. This would save my dad, my sister and the guy I'm in love with. But to say, oh kill these three but I'll get to live, is another story. (Unless you could chose anyone in the world not the people your close too)

I also have a book of question (called If.... Questions For Life)
they can get very interesting!

 

[bluntforcemama]

I would say "Go away." What kind of a God would ask you to do that? Ask yourself that.

 

[Pokerman]

Kill me now. This would save my dad, my sister and the guy I'm in love with.

But then the question is....how would THEY feel about it? I'm sure none of them would approve of your decision.

Which is why I would ask Him to find someone else.....I know my wife and kids would be 100% against me sacrificing myself for 'the good of humanity'...

 

[ohiobbw]

This reminds me of a letter I recieved from a very religious friend once.

It had a story that went like this.

There was a strain of the flu in a remote part of the world and no one knew the cure, then it spread and spread until it came to the US and thousand of people had died. So research teams started to check people's blood to find a cure. And they found it in one family. Everyone was happy, they could save the world with the "pure" blood. But the blood came from a child and they had to get the parents to sign off on it. So the mother asks "How much?" And the answer is "We didn't know it would be a child, we have to take it all" So they go see there son, tell him goodbye. And they let him die.
Months later, the cure as made it's way through the world and people are well again. But no one seems to care that a little boy had to die for it to happen. No one acknowledges the parents or the boy after a celebration right after the cure a was found.

Ok, the moral of the story (from my friend) is that the disease is sin and the little boy was Jesus.

(This is the condesed version the story is three pages long and actually quite good)

 

[bluntforcemama]

Ohio, that's a very powerful story. I'm an agnostic, but the moral of the story (not the religious aspect of it) should be relevant to everyone. That's going to be one of those little stories/blurbs that sticks with me for several years.

 

[ohiobbw]

Ohio, that's a very powerful story. I'm an agnostic, but the moral of the story (not the religious aspect of it) should be relevant to everyone. That's going to be one of those little stories/blurbs that sticks with me for several years.

Myst, if I have sometime tonight I will type out the whole thing and post it. Glad you liked it. It's a really good story and the first time I read it I got goosebumps! I know where it is (the letter) I just have to dig it out.

 

[Pokerman]

Of course, the world is NOT cured of sin. Look around you, sin is everywhere.

Some would say, even here in Lit

 

[Xander]

If it was just my life...then yeah....Shoot me now.

but I cannot and will not make decisions and actions on account on someone elses life....so if it was on those terms I'd tell Good Ole' God to shove it up his ass.

 

[Silverlily]

Considering my opinion of god, I wouldn't be surprised if he asked a question like that.

The question reminds me of a conversation I had with my nine year old daughter. The scenario was there was going to be a fatal accident, either a busload of fifty people or a car with only the driver. Who dies? She choose the driver.

In the next scenario, everything was the same, except this time the driver was someone she knew. Not necessarily a friend, just an acquaintance. Again, she choose the driver. She did add she would say nice things for the driver at the funeral.

In the final scenario I was the driver. That one gave her pause. Finally, she looked up at me, tears in her eyes and told me I would be missed. She told me as much as it would hurt to loose me, she couldn't to that to the mothers of those fifty people on the bus.

 

[cymbidia]

Of course, the world is NOT cured of sin. Look around you, sin is everywhere.

Some would say, even here in Lit

What is sin?
Who defines it?
Is it the same for you and me?

"Sin" is a cultural concept, is imbued with religious overtones, and is nebulous at best as a point of similarity between any two people at Lit.

 

[Pokerman]

Yes, but my point was, as 'great' as the story is in it's full form, it's not as if Jesus' death cured the world of sin, as if it cured the world of AIDS.

Sin still exists in the world, and probably always will.

 

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