Posts by AlphaOmega

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Covers for captions anyone? Here you go!

by Wasanelder Once in

here are more covers for you to play with.

can't wait to see what you come up with.

remember, try to keep it short and use larger fonts so they can be easily seen in a video.... and we're off:.

AlphaOmega

nvrgnbk - is it just me, or are your pictures the only ones I can't see? All of your posts on this thread are just a box with "alt" next to it.

I'm glad that you said that... Maybe NVR's playing a game of "Emperor's New Clothes"

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Covers for captions anyone? Here you go!

by Wasanelder Once in

here are more covers for you to play with.

can't wait to see what you come up with.

remember, try to keep it short and use larger fonts so they can be easily seen in a video.... and we're off:.

AlphaOmega

alt #

It will be too small for the video, but I had to get it out of my head and on the screen !

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What if you're missing the purpose?

by journey-on in

jw
friends

for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

AlphaOmega

lol alpha, no offense, but your way off. it's "let the good times roll" cajun french is a slang form of true french. it's sometimes hard to translate cajun french if you don't know the language. thanks for trying though.

oops

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What if you're missing the purpose?

by journey-on in

jw
friends

for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

AlphaOmega

Journey... leave...good times... forever...

Is my translation bad ?

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What if you're missing the purpose?

by journey-on in

jw
friends

for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

AlphaOmega

I so agree with this! Our creator dwells within this body temple and He experiences his creation through His created.

Indeed, so if all we do here on Earth is rush around, bumping into each other... what is the purpose ?

I reckon that it has to do with what we pass onto each other when we "bump". Just like everything in life, it has to do with the flow of information (be it factual, sensual or whatever).

If God experiences THROUGH us... How can we return his love to him ?

By loving those that we "bump" into on our journey - therby returning it to him. That is borne out by Jesus words in Revelation "that you did for the least of my brothers - you did it for me" and it addresses the "karma" of the Lord's prayer.

Also, this explains how WE are forgiven by God when WE forgive others.

I am not suggesting pantheism, rather panENtheism.

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What if you're missing the purpose?

by journey-on in

jw
friends

for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

AlphaOmega

That is the very thing that will not allow me to let go and adopt a more gnostic way of "being".

Our life is here for a purpose. I am sure that PART of that purpose is for the EXPERIENCE.

We are here to touch, taste, smell, see, hear and think : experiencing life through these limited senses should "remind" us of all that we are missing out on. It should make us yearn for the fullness of "being". The fullness of being with our God. In effect, we yearn for Eden - we mourn for it and desire it again.

Imagine if I took away your sense of taste, then years later I waved a loaf of fresh bread under your nose - you could see it, feel it's freshness, smell that just-baked smell, but you would never be able to taste it again.

However, the torture would be that somewhere in your memory, the memory of the taste of that bread would be awakened. You would desire it again.

The same can be said of freedom. If it is taken away - you desire it, whilst when you had it, you took it for granted.

The flipside is that we can get "hung up on" the experience and never find that yearning. We have, in effect, "become drunk" on the world around us as we experience it through our limited senses.

Just some more thoughts to add to the melting pot

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