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How Well Do You Know The Bible?
by dark clouds ini want to share a perspective, with everyone that comes here to read, for i feel it will take some of us in a new direction.
perhaps it will allow for some creative thinking and interesting discussion or maybe it simply wont go anywhere.
it does not really matter either way, for there are subjects which can only be speculated on and thoughts which can only be shared.
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How Well Do You Know The Bible?
by dark clouds ini want to share a perspective, with everyone that comes here to read, for i feel it will take some of us in a new direction.
perhaps it will allow for some creative thinking and interesting discussion or maybe it simply wont go anywhere.
it does not really matter either way, for there are subjects which can only be speculated on and thoughts which can only be shared.
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On that note Dig:
if we accept jesus only, with no questions asked, are we being comfortable or have we accepted truth?
see let me reiterate i believe that there is truth in all of their teachings, i am not picking and chosing from these, i am taking their teachings solely, not the church's, and am attempting to blend them together. (reread my post with the unified theory)
as in a fraction conversion, i am looking for the greatest common factor, in this case factors, amongst the options available.
Of the religion cocktailing class
CHUCK
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IMPORTANT NAME CHANGE
by ICHING inguys - just wanted to let you know:.
as of my 101st post .
i will be the artist formerly known as i-ching.
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IMPORTANT NAME CHANGE
by ICHING inguys - just wanted to let you know:.
as of my 101st post .
i will be the artist formerly known as i-ching.
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To the apostate (ahem) artist formerly known as I Ching:
Can i call you glyph of the bad ass class?
heehee
CHUCK
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How Well Do You Know The Bible?
by dark clouds ini want to share a perspective, with everyone that comes here to read, for i feel it will take some of us in a new direction.
perhaps it will allow for some creative thinking and interesting discussion or maybe it simply wont go anywhere.
it does not really matter either way, for there are subjects which can only be speculated on and thoughts which can only be shared.
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too many duplicates sorry
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How Well Do You Know The Bible?
by dark clouds ini want to share a perspective, with everyone that comes here to read, for i feel it will take some of us in a new direction.
perhaps it will allow for some creative thinking and interesting discussion or maybe it simply wont go anywhere.
it does not really matter either way, for there are subjects which can only be speculated on and thoughts which can only be shared.
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How Well Do You Know The Bible?
by dark clouds ini want to share a perspective, with everyone that comes here to read, for i feel it will take some of us in a new direction.
perhaps it will allow for some creative thinking and interesting discussion or maybe it simply wont go anywhere.
it does not really matter either way, for there are subjects which can only be speculated on and thoughts which can only be shared.
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WTF 3ple post
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How Well Do You Know The Bible?
by dark clouds ini want to share a perspective, with everyone that comes here to read, for i feel it will take some of us in a new direction.
perhaps it will allow for some creative thinking and interesting discussion or maybe it simply wont go anywhere.
it does not really matter either way, for there are subjects which can only be speculated on and thoughts which can only be shared.
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Digderidoo:
i guess that would make nostradamus a worthy candidate for the GB if he were still alive. . .
as far as why it bothers you and if it is worth dwelling on, i will risk the assumption that you also spent most of your life in the borg and perhaps just recently abandoned ship. . . it bothered me for a long time for i felt that there had to be A TRUTH and the fact that i spent time dwelling only confirmed to me that i did have a spiritual nature and it drove me to find my answers, i feel I CHING made some valid points as far as to why we cling to our views.
I have come to see the planet and its religions as one continous experience, not one greater than the next but a chronological order of truth and enlightenment, each of these enlightened men had something for the time and the culture and eventually the world, its a unified theory of sorts in which i feel very comfortable, it allows for equality of all faiths without giving any more spotlight to any one in particular, and focuses on what their function was. . .
CHUCK
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How Well Do You Know The Bible?
by dark clouds ini want to share a perspective, with everyone that comes here to read, for i feel it will take some of us in a new direction.
perhaps it will allow for some creative thinking and interesting discussion or maybe it simply wont go anywhere.
it does not really matter either way, for there are subjects which can only be speculated on and thoughts which can only be shared.
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I Ching:
My views go back to my teen years when i wore blinders, though at the time they were not as rooted or escavated as they are now, the seed was there. . .
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I could not be bothered with converting anyone outside of the western idealogy of religion. To me it seemed ludicrous, not to use the old WT cliche but could 100 million [(hindus, buddhists, muslims) take your pick] BE WRONG??! The idea that a cow was sacred fascinated me, the idea of meditation made perfect sense, how could i possibly sell a magazine written in brooklyn to these people and expect them to deny their CULTURE. To accept the ideas that i was barely able to swallow . . . there ideas were just as valid, if not more so if we were going to go by numbers,P2
I would ask my mom if we had been born in india would we be hindus, would we have converted to christianity because of a magazine and her reply would be that (so wrong to see the effects of indoctrination) jehovah wanted us to be saved and that is why we were his followers, of course that set off the question of why were we so much more fortunate than the others, if god was so fair, wouldn't he want us to have equal opportunity throughout the globe . . .In answer to the patriotism statement i agree that it is true, we are born into what we are taught, and many times it is never questioned. unless we step away and question what it is that we have been raised to believe, we have a very minimal understanding of our spiritual nature, if we come full circle to where we began then perhaps that faith is the one we belong to, if we find another along the way, then we still have found a faith, but to never question and blindly accept is a lack of spiritual interest. I was always amused at how everyone whose door we went to, could be probed to doubt their stand, but we could never doubt our own. . .
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Conditioning and the fear of the unknown, we could write books on this . . .thanks for sharing
CHUCK