Posts by bboyneko

The x-box is far superior to the PS 2 dual processor. It's a technically superior machine. I love dead or alive 3 on x-box, and you have GOT to play jet grind radio future. It's awsome.

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Riddle from Gospel of Thomas

by bboyneko in

gospel of thomas verse 11: the dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

during the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive.

when you are in the light, what will you do?

I liked your ideas thinker. I didn't bother to look up what religious scholars have said about that passage. I should see. Most people say this is a gnostic viewpoint presented in gospel of thomas but the gospel pre-dates gnostics by quite a bit.

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Riddle from Gospel of Thomas

by bboyneko in

gospel of thomas verse 11: the dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

during the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive.

when you are in the light, what will you do?

bboyneko

Greetings bboyneko this is interesting, where does one find this gospel of Thomas? Can you tell me more about it as I have never heard of it. Thank you .......Jedd

The gospel of Thomas begins like this:

These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.

It's quite an interesting book. This "secret sayings" gospel does not tell the story of Jesus' life, but rather is a list of over 100 of his sayings, some of which are familiar to readers of the New Testament, others enigmatic and strange.

The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of traditional sayings, prophecies, proverbs, and parables of Jesus. The Coptic Gospel of Thomas was translated from the Greek; in fact, several fragments of this Greek version have been preserved, and can be dated to about 200 C.E. Thus the Greek (or even or Aramaic) collection was composed in the period before about 200 C.E., possibly as early as the second half of the first century, in Syria, Palestine, or Mesopotamia. The authorship of the Gospel of Thomas is attributed to Didymos Judas Thomas, that is, Judas "the Twin," who was an apostle of Jesus.
Some scholars have suggested that Thomas is also based on the Q source or is actually Q itself. Of course, these remain only hypotheses since there is no conclusive proof that a Q source ever existed. Still, the existence of a collection of sayings of Jesus as early as the dates proposed for Thomas suggests that there did exist such a collection in the early church.

This Thomas is mentioned in the 'official' bible:

John 11:16 - Thomas, nicknamed the Twin,[1] said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too--and die with Jesus."

Tradition holds that Thomas was the twin brother of Jesus. Cool huh?

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MetalGear Solid 2

by KissAFish in

has anyone here enjoyed metal gear solid 2...?

:)

bboyneko

In some ways i liked metal gear one better, and the ending to metal gear solid two was freaky and weirded me out man.

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Riddle from Gospel of Thomas

by bboyneko in

gospel of thomas verse 11: the dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

during the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive.

when you are in the light, what will you do?

bboyneko

Gospel of Thomas Verse 11: The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive. When you are in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"

This is an interesting riddle I read in the gospel of thomas. Wether or not you beleive Jesus actually said that it's a fun riddle to try to interpret. Here is my idea of what he is saying:

The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

Dead people are dead and vanished from exsistance, yet living people will not die in the sense that there is a circle of life. You die only to become dirt and gases and get eaten by other ogranisms and still live on in that sense.

During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive. When you are in the light, what will you do?

All the food we eat is dead. we eat the flesh of dead animals or dead plants. We make it come alive by eating it and it becomes energy that runs our bodies and minds. Then the part about being in the light, maybe that is talking about being born. When you come into light, how will you live your life, the only life you have?

On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"

This one seems to be talking again of being born. You became one and two on the same day you were born. You were 'one' with your mother, then became two by being born and having the umbilical cord severed. And again you became 'one' by being an individual. Again Jesus seems to ask, how will you live your life when you have it grantd to you?

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Girl Scouts

by MoeJoJoJo in

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does anyone know what jw's have against girl scouts?

my mother would never buy girl scout cookies and i was always taught to feel that joining the girl or boy scouts would be wrong but never knew why.. my daughter wants to join and i want to know what i can expect to hear from my jw family.

bboyneko

Girlscouts and boyscouts are christian organizations with thinly veiled religious 'values' such as barring of homosexuals from being a scout.

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GOOD GOD!

by SYN in

hehe, all my best threads usually have all-caps in the titles.

this one's a doozy!.

i went out to this nightclub near my work last night (saturday night), and i was having a good old time, when i decided to sit down on a big, flat futon couch near the entrance to one of the dancefloors for a while (it's an outdoors club!).

bboyneko

I say shes playing her cards right and trying to reel someone in to help her out before she gets blimp-like and then has a child which would make going out to bars and clubs nigh impossible, and getting a good man harder.

I say get to know her better and then decide, a few dates won't hurt anyone unless she kicks you in the nuts. And hey, you dont have to worry about getting her pregnant!

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A Beautiful Mind

by messenger in

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the little girl stands for your family within the organization all the attempts they will make to encourage you to come back and have their approval if you will just submit.

the best friend represents all those that you grew up with in the organization, people you have known all your life, those who you may see once a year at the district convention who rush up to you and are so happy to see you, they make you feel secure and a part of something.

the government agent symbolizes the organization that has desperate need of your services.

bboyneko

It'd been mentioned before, but the story presented in 'BEAUTIFUL MIND' is so fictional it might as well have space aliens landing on John Nash's front lawn. First off, his wife played by jennifer connely divorced him along time ago, he had another wife and an illigeitimate child with her before the jennifer one, he was arrested for some sort of lewd sex act in a public place around the same era, and he was never allowed to make his acceptance speech at the Noble awards.

And as I have said before, Ron Howard was originally going to make this movie about another schizophrenic until the guy he was basing the movie on went crazy and killed his GF, so that wasnt exactly the hollywood ending ron howard wanted. As this shows, he was never interested in telling a true story of schizophrenia but instead was going for a 6th sense hollywood entertainment vehicle.

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I gave blood for the first time, yesterday.

by jschwehm in

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many of you may know that i teach at a small christian liberal arts college in nebraska now.

my pre-med students sponsored a blood drive yesterday and asked me to donate.

so, i donated blood for the first time.

bboyneko

it's good you didnt donate on 9-11, they got so much blood most of it had to be thrown out, they didnt have the storage capacicty to handle that much organic material.