i had a very vivid dream last night that i would like to share it with you.
i wonder if any of you have had the same type of dream.
i believe that dreams are used by subconscious mind to communicate with the conscious mind, so im sure that this dream has a meaning.
I dreamed that I was unjustly put in jail and facing deportation ...
In the dream, my wife visited me and at times stayed with me in my jail cell.
It could be anxiety dream about marriage. As for the hippopotamus that got out of control and very angry and grew to a size of a five story building - I daren't say!
i have been watching the discovery channel's, 'into the universe with stephen hawking' and it occurred to me that professor hawking knows more about heaven (which is just part of entire universe) than jesus did.
maybe jesus knew about black holes, alien life, other worlds, the origin of the universe, etc.
jesus could have told us something so remarkable about our universe that it would have taken us 2000 years to confirm jesus' divine knowledge and prove he was the son of g-d, but he instead decided to tell us that heaven "has many rooms"- whoop-dee-doo.. i don't think jesus had a clue that there was anything out the in the physical universe beyond what he could see with his own eyes.
This thread confirms the conclusion that I, along with many other people, have come to. People will believe whatever they want or need to. They need no proof. In fact proof would be counterproductive for two reason. Firstly it would eliminate the basic need for faith. Secondly once we only believes what has been proven, proof becomes a burden that stands in the way of shaping our beliefs to suit our needs.
We all do this to some degree, not just religious people. In order to make the world seem more comfortable and friendly than it really is, we adjust our subjective reality. I have no desire to live a life completely without illusion. I cherish my own illusions.
Why so much attention on Jesus of Galilee? There are over 300 Roman and Greek gods; so real that the days of the week and months of the year are named after them and they relate to real planets which we can see.
1. wednesdays: funny hat day .
2. plural wives allowed.
3. hugh hefner style silk robes for elders.
* Naffest suit competition
*Brothers shortest haircut maturity competition
*Most becoming head covering for sisters competition
*Best underlined watchtower study competition
In general a normal Sunday in the kingdom hall.
Welcome to the forum peachburger. It is OK to feel or be anything you want.
On this forum you are likely to get some eggs or even peaches thrown at you for sharing your ideas. This is because everyone here has different views and we huff and puff and debate in order to prove that we each have it right and inflate our egos.
You will hear from religious people, atheists, agnostics and those who aren't too sure. I will watch your back for you and keep the lions and tigers at bay.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4274187/.
this object is 13 billion light-years away.. light travels 300,000 kilometers per second.. it took 13 billion years for us to receive the light that was recorded as the image in the article:.
buy a cheap telescope at a department store, and you can see the andromeda galaxy easily.
Wow! I had no idea that Perry was the most distant known object in the Universe.
He seems far out at times but this is mind blowing.
If he has gone home for the weekend it could take him another 13 billion light years to get back. I'm a patient man but...
Don't take this too seriously Perry - I am only a simple gladiator.
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i don't get it.. they're wrong about almost everything they say.
they flip-flop on dates, chronology, prophecy, bible understandings.........
They do not view themselves as just Jehovah's Witnesses but have been promoted to 'Jehovah's People.'
Minimus - this is such an important upgrade that I am surprised you even have to ask why they take themselves soooooooooo serious.
matthew 5:44 "but i say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,.
luke 6:35 "but love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.
the most radical teaching attributed to jesus has implications if followed.. an invading hoarde of mongols would not be resisted.. a christian husband would not only allow his wife and daughters to be raped; he would be compelled to forgive the rapist, pray for him and offer.
As I have expressed before when discussing forgiveness; if someone wrongs us and we choose not to seek a penalty for them we have forgiven them. If we try to have a penalty imposed then we have not forgiven them. It our action that counts.
Too often we think that forgiveness is just a feeling inside ourselves. How we cope with our feelings of anger or loss is a personal matter, but unless we take action to exact a penalty, how we feel is irrelevant to the offender. To forgive means no action - to not forgive means action.
Many will disagree with me because they think that the whole business of forgiveness takes place in their heart. Christians will sometimes say they forgive, in the belief that the offender will answer to Jesus. This is a part of their subjective reality.
Objective reality is a more demanding master. Generally, wrong doer's only respond to the latter. Forgiving someone may not be in the long term interest of the offender. Paying a penalty or even knowing that a penalty is payable acts as a deterrent.
what is meant by the supernatural?
supposedly, a realm that transcends nature.. what is nature?.
nature is existencethe sum of that which is.. it is usually called nature when we think of it as a system of interconnected, interacting entities governed by law.. so nature really means the universe of entities acting and interacting in accordance with their identities.. what, then, is super-nature?.
My fear of demons vanished along with my belief in their existence.
It got me thinking; Could the imagination really be that powerful? Was the mind able to produce real fear or emotion simply by imagining that something existed? Had my mother really been plagued by demons or had it all been in her mind? Had my fear of demons been caused by my imagination?
If so, what other tricks of the mind was I enslaved to? Could the God I lived in fear of, also exist only in my mind?
what kind of employment question is that?
have you ever been asked that question on an employment interview?.
jeff ireland, is your mother a prostitute?
Is your mother a prostitute?
Not unless you are my brother!
This is question too deep for me arrive at a conclusion through thought.
I am however 'intuitively' drawn to cuddly women and consider them more fun than puppies.
