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Faith - Virtue or Vice?

by nicolaou in

faith gives you permission to believe that jesus actually did feed thousands with a few loaves & fishes, walk on water and rise from the grave.

all the evidence proves that none of this happened so why persist with faith?

why be dishonest with yourself?

Pinku

Viviane

What about people that claim to be spiritual yet believe something completely different about God than you?

Everyone knows what is right and wrong, and they are FREE to make any choice, BUT NOT FREE to choose the results which are predetermined. The discreet one will learn from other’s experiences. The indiscreet one will learn from his own experience, paying a price.

What is spirit made of?

A clock is not meant to know how it is made of, so is our mind. We only need to unfold our inner qualities—Mathew 7:12

How can we objectively know what God wants using a book that has numerous errors and contradictions?

Bible has been corrupted, says Bible itself. (Jeremiah 7:22; 8:8; compare Acts 20:28-30) Will God permit corruption of the Bible if it really did belong to Him.

Hence look at Nature. God has kept lessons for us in it.—Romans 1:20 (Bible is corrupted, yet some eternal truth contains in it intact such as Mathew 5:44-48; 7:12; James 2:8 ..... which are the same lessons found in the nature too, hence we can quote such verses)

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Faith - Virtue or Vice?

by nicolaou in

faith gives you permission to believe that jesus actually did feed thousands with a few loaves & fishes, walk on water and rise from the grave.

all the evidence proves that none of this happened so why persist with faith?

why be dishonest with yourself?

Pinku

Viviane

Spirituality without religions means acknowledging God as He really is (God is spirit—John 4:24) and spirit of what He intends for us. Religions abused human rights, so did Atheists (in former USSR, China, Cuba …) hence both are two sides of the same coin—abuse of power.

Now spirit of what God intents for us: He never uses messengers or books (if He did, He would not have permitted distortion by the followers of the messenger nor corruption of the books), but has left the teaching to the mother Nature. For example, look at the fruit-bearing trees! You can learn great principles like—SILENTLY WORKING, COMPLETELY INVOLVED FOR THE CAUSE OF ALTRUISM AND BEAUTY (expressed in appealing colors and shape of the fruits) …. and many more. So nature teaches you simple lesson: SPIRITUALITY without religions (which means TAKING DELIGHT IN THE WELFARE OF ALL BEINGS--Mark 10:18; Mathew 5:44-48)

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Faith - Virtue or Vice?

by nicolaou in

faith gives you permission to believe that jesus actually did feed thousands with a few loaves & fishes, walk on water and rise from the grave.

all the evidence proves that none of this happened so why persist with faith?

why be dishonest with yourself?

Pinku

LisaRose

You never know how much good you are going to attract by saying such a great wisdom (appreciating the good in God and in His nature)--you are going to reap good after good.

Continue your good thinking and good work. You have the support of your great mother Nature and great Father (God)

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Faith - Virtue or Vice?

by nicolaou in

faith gives you permission to believe that jesus actually did feed thousands with a few loaves & fishes, walk on water and rise from the grave.

all the evidence proves that none of this happened so why persist with faith?

why be dishonest with yourself?

Pinku

nicolaou

Excellent, I agree with you 100%. I believe in God, who does not intervene in the affairs of mankind. Because man has been given the ability to become gods (to progress indefinitely) or demons (to lead lives of destruction). He never uses messengers or books (if He did, He would not have permitted distortion by the followers of the messenger nor corruption of the books), but has left the teaching to the mother Nature. For example, look at the fruit-bearing trees! You can learn great principles like—SILENTLY WORKING, COMPLETELY INVOLVED FOR THE CAUSE OF ALTRUISM AND BEAUTY (expressed in appealing colors and shape of the fruits) …. and many more. So nature teaches you simple lesson: SPIRITUALITY without religions.

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Glory of creation is still untouched!

by Pinku in

according to plato, the universe thrives on its own, dies and gets rebornall on its own and within itself.

the wise symbolized this concept in ouroboros, a serpent eating its own tail.

[even more wonderful is the marvel called a fruit-bearing treeit does not even eat its own fruit, but simply subsists on mostly what we may consider as dirt/refuse; and trees collectively perform yet another marvel of photosynthesis that make use of our wastes and give us oxygen, food, water, shelter, fiber..........................................[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet-dont-plant-trees.html?_r=0].

Pinku

Hi Vanderhoven7,

I will call you THE man who really understood what Shakespeare said: ‘See the forest, not the trees.’

Reading or listening is not that simple. My professor used to say:

See the word, get the meaning, get the feeling behind the meaning, get the context behind the meaning, get the significance and the resultant spark and awakening that happened in you—something which words cannot accomplish! This will not happen if you have an approach of editing (rather than listening) what you read or listen.

Now regarding your question: Are you "young earth" or "old earth" creationists?

Neither. I believe in God, the Creator (when He did creating matters not) who does not intervene in the affairs of mankind. Because man has been given the ability to become gods (to progress indefinitely) or demons (to lead lives of destruction). He never uses messengers or books, but has left the teaching to the mother Nature. For example, look at the fruit-bearing trees! You can learn great principles like—SILENTLY WORKING, COMPLETELY INVOLVED FOR THE CAUSE OF ALTRUISM AND BEAUTY (expressed in appealing colors and shape of the fruits) …. and many more. So nature teaches you simple lesson: SPIRITUALITY without religions.

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Glory of creation is still untouched!

by Pinku in

according to plato, the universe thrives on its own, dies and gets rebornall on its own and within itself.

the wise symbolized this concept in ouroboros, a serpent eating its own tail.

[even more wonderful is the marvel called a fruit-bearing treeit does not even eat its own fruit, but simply subsists on mostly what we may consider as dirt/refuse; and trees collectively perform yet another marvel of photosynthesis that make use of our wastes and give us oxygen, food, water, shelter, fiber..........................................[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet-dont-plant-trees.html?_r=0].

Pinku

This is the charm of life. What greatly delights me seems to be ”utter bollocks," facile drivel" to others, and vice versa. Ultimately both are happy.

Yet here things could have been bit different. It seems those who disagreed did not read the post. What I highlighted is that “humans have never come anywhere even closer to the majesty of things in the nature--equipments humans have so far designed are clumsy and rudimentary in comparison with the things in nature.” Unfortunately, no one has commented on the essence of the posting!

‘Can’t we see the forest rather than trees?’

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Let us be thankful to JWs! (September 21 is World Gratitude Day)

by Pinku in

let us be thankful to jws for having resisted our free-thinking.

what is resisted persists and becomes even stronger.

i pray that jws continue this habit of theirs with more vigor so that more and more free-thinkers come out!.

Pinku

Let us be thankful to JWs for having resisted our free-thinking. What is resisted persists and becomes even stronger. I pray that JWs continue this habit of theirs with more vigor so that more and more free-thinkers come out!

Researchers have found that those who lead a life of gratitude were more optimistic and felt better about their lives, and paid less visits to doctors than others. (http://www.lifebroker.com.au/news/2014-09-19/world-gratitude-day-feeling-good-from-being-grateful#.VB6XrpSSwqM)

(http://www.inspirationalhappiness.com/law-of-gratitude.html)

I am especially grateful to some of the children of Elders in my congregation who went for higher studies despite the WT encouragement to stop studies after their basic education. Thus I never became a babtized JW (though my family members were active JWs), but could go for a Masters in Journalism.

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What is a morally upright life?

by jgnat in

is it relative, or do all human societies and cultures hold at least some things to be good?.

i don't think right and true is "universal" other than what is right and true for people.

a dolphin or a praying mantis may have alien perceptions of what is "good".

Pinku

Xanthippe

I liked your comments--reminds me of the hammer in the hand of a Judge!

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Glory of creation is still untouched!

by Pinku in

according to plato, the universe thrives on its own, dies and gets rebornall on its own and within itself.

the wise symbolized this concept in ouroboros, a serpent eating its own tail.

[even more wonderful is the marvel called a fruit-bearing treeit does not even eat its own fruit, but simply subsists on mostly what we may consider as dirt/refuse; and trees collectively perform yet another marvel of photosynthesis that make use of our wastes and give us oxygen, food, water, shelter, fiber..........................................[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet-dont-plant-trees.html?_r=0].

Pinku

Dear all,

I have highlighted only two marvels--universe and trees. You need both of them to stand on and energize yourselves to make comments like " Utter bollocks," Facile drive" etc.

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Glory of creation is still untouched!

by Pinku in

according to plato, the universe thrives on its own, dies and gets rebornall on its own and within itself.

the wise symbolized this concept in ouroboros, a serpent eating its own tail.

[even more wonderful is the marvel called a fruit-bearing treeit does not even eat its own fruit, but simply subsists on mostly what we may consider as dirt/refuse; and trees collectively perform yet another marvel of photosynthesis that make use of our wastes and give us oxygen, food, water, shelter, fiber..........................................[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet-dont-plant-trees.html?_r=0].

Pinku

Tiktaalik

How did you reach The Second Law of Thermodynamics without seeing the first?

Conservation of energy is a fundamental axiom of science. The FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS states that energy can’t be created or destroyed. It can only change forms. Although bodies self-destruct, the “me” feeling is just a 20-watt cloud of energy in your head. But this energy doesn’t go away at death. A few years ago scientists showed they could retroactively change something that happened in the past. Particles had to “decide” how to behave when they passed a fork in an apparatus. Later on, the experimenter could flip a switch. The results showed that what the observer decided at that point determined how the particle behaved at the fork in the past.

Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply powering a projector. Whether you flip a switch in an experiment on or off, it’s still the same battery responsible for the projection. Like in the two-slit experiment, you collapse physical reality. At death, this energy doesn’t just dissipate into the environment as the old mechanical worldview suggests. It has no reality independent of you. As Einstein’s esteemed colleague John Wheeler stated “No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” Each person creates their own sphere of reality – we carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which energy just dissipates.

This shows we are more than what the materialists want to believe! All the inventions and innovations humans made are because of the intuitive power of the subtle and SPIRITual entity within us, called soul!