Posts by JamesThomas

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Do you suffer from RELIGIOUS HYPOCHONDRIA???

by Terry in

healthy people don't go to a doctor.

if they do they are hypochondriacs.

hypochondriacs spend their time and money on imagined illnesses.

JamesThomas

It seems that some are becoming a little perturbed at our dear Terry.

My sense is he is going through something I too went through not very long ago; and that is an acute awareness of the dangers and harm of religion and their deities. In fact religion may very well be the most mind-numbing, divisive and destructive machine of the past 2000 years. You see this, and natural instincts arise to save your fellow man from drinking the poison. Sometimes we may slap the glass out of peoples hands a little too hard. We forget that folks may not see the bigger picture and present dangers that we see, as they sing koom-by-ya, live and let live.

Since I don't have any religious beliefs or god to protect, it's easy to sit back and enjoy Terry's intelligent efforts of educating people and revealing their illusory and harmful mental constructs; and he certainly does make many think about and see things they may never have allowed themselves to ponder or behold before.

So, savor Terry's posts, as this too will pass, and he will likely return to the fluffy little love-bunny that he really is.

j

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To believe or not believe...

by changeling in

that seems to be the question around here lately.. people's panties have been getting into quite a twist over this one.. personally, i don't believe.

but i'd like to put that aside and focus on something else.. i'd like to focus on: now what?.

what can we individually and collectively do to make this planet a better place to live?

JamesThomas

Changeling:

I'd like to focus on: Now what?
What can we individually and collectively do to make this planet a better place to live? What can we do that trully makes a difference?

Once we have clearly seen the folly of beliefs, the next step is to meet with Reality. alt

I strongly suggest, either buying the book, or better yet getting your hands on the audio book: A New Earth: Awaking to Your Life's Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle.

I have just finished listening to the audio book version narrated by Eckhart himself. It's a masterpiece!

The audio version is also available as a torrent. I've met with Eckhart, and can assure you he would find joy in the fact that you felt it important enough to swipe it off the web.

j

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Hey! An all-purpose mental healt med!

by Madame Quixote in

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common uses:

"this medicine is used to prevent or treat seizures.

this medcine is used to treat acute manic episodes.

JamesThomas

Gabapentin?

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NAME JUST ONE thing....ONE THING...revealed by God....

by Terry in

somebody is always insisting they have an invisible and mysterious source of divine information and selling it like hotcakes and syrup.

but, why are you still buying?

when will you ever learn that this is a scam among many scams.

JamesThomas

Terry:

Rationally, I'm merely pointing out that every OPPORTUNITY for demonstrating something HIGHER than man's knowledge is failed time and again.

I agree, in that the very act of attempting to demonstrate or exhibit requires some small isolated and definable thing (god/deity) that can be objectively witnesses and demonstrated as higher than man's knowledge; and this must always fail as our gods and deities are merely products of the mind, as is all man's knowledge. They are one in the same. So, like a snake eating it's tail, it's doomed to failure.

This does not negate the fact that the entire universe came into being without man's knowledge. Is it so irrational then to sense there is a greater intelligence than that which our brains contain? Of course to discover such would require a looking past the confines of all mental knowledge, concepts, abstracts and gods.

Easily said, but problem is we come to identify "self" as the contents of the mind. So then there can be great inhibition to question not just our gods which have been weaved into our conceptual identity, but our entire believed construct of "self" and universe. Yet, this is the doorway, to allow conscious-awareness to nonjudgmentally and radically investigate and uncover what is false-self and false-reality that the mind has assembled. When what is false is clearly seen, what remains -- is true; and in this undeniable realization of our genuine Identity, the confusing dualities of self and universe -- ends.

j

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NAME JUST ONE thing....ONE THING...revealed by God....

by Terry in

somebody is always insisting they have an invisible and mysterious source of divine information and selling it like hotcakes and syrup.

but, why are you still buying?

when will you ever learn that this is a scam among many scams.

JamesThomas

Milky Way solar system? Perhaps some of us could use a refresher course in astronomy as desperately as I need to learn how to spell.

What I continually find intriguing, is how people can so unquestionably and tenaciously attribute the Bible-deity for all existence. How pray-tell, does what is INFINITELY vast, originate from some thing so moronically human-like and small? and what is it in us that creates the illusion that it is actually honourable and wise to shrink and belittle it to such?

If we are incapable of pondering the blatant obviousness of this absurdity through, then it's little wonder we so easily come to cherish fairy-tails and myths.

Certainly the true source and sustenance of all universes (there may be countless universes) must be greater still than all existence and not so severely diminutive as an anthropomorphic tribal deity. If there ever was a glass-darkly we can place before our eyes, it a book we have come to know as The Holy Bible.

j

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"Thy Kingdom Come..."

by AGuest in

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to the household of god, israel, and all who go with, may you have peace!

i am compelled by the spirit of our lord, jaheshua mischajah, son and christ of the most holy one of israel, whose name is jah of armies, to share the following truth with you.

true, we hate suffering and pain, but all of mankind does, whether they belong to the christ or not, whether they are righteous or unrighteous.

JamesThomas

Hello, dear Shelby.

I was thinking about you just the other day and wondering how you are doing. Seems you're well and up to speed.

Thank you for your sincere concern. It has always shined brightly through your posts.

j

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Are Jw's trained to be just plain mean spirited?

by AK - Jeff in

not long ago, i would have defended them slightly with opinions about those 'under mind control' etc.

but the further i get from jw think, the more i believe that jw's are just plain mean and hateful asses!

two situations that i relate in my life.. 1- an elder i know works in a grocery store.

JamesThomas

Totally entombed within a smothering egoic structure whose walls are built of greed for a perfect body and life, and fear of death at the hand of their murderous deity, they are driven insane.

What else can we expect from them but pathological behavior?

I feel the best we can do for them is show our compassion and understanding; as hatred and bitterness never heal any ones ills.

j

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I Need a Sermon--I'm starving for some spiritual food!

by journey-on in

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just a sentence or two....something to stimulate my spiritual brain cells?

please don't make me turn on tbs, or worse, go to the kh!!!

something funny would be nice.

JamesThomas

Be still. alt

Feel what it is to breath.

Feel the life flowing within and around you.

Listen and hear the sounds that are near and far.

Silently sense the cradling space in which life moves and unfolds.

Be still. Interpret, judge and label nothing. Open to what IS, as it IS.

j

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Coming to terms with your death - immortality options

by Crumpet in

i must say its terribly hard to dredge up any enthusiasm for today or even this week at work, but i dont feel depressed.

the weather has been so undecided these last few weeks, a little sun, but mostly pregnant clouds breaking water over our heads several times a day.

its also quite warm and clammy as if we are in a limbo land between seasons and there is little in terms of beauty to redeem it.

JamesThomas

Dear Crumpet,

Are you completely clear on the fact that everything you have ever believed in, thought about and pondered, has not given you the peace you seek? If so, and if you are sincerely unwilling to put up with the confusion and lack of relief any longer, it may be time for you to radically change the direction of your quest. Ready?

Who is it, really, that is concerned with death? Forget everything you think you know, and quietly and nonjudgmentally investigate within. Thoroughly check all the beliefs the mind presents regarding "self", and all the senses the body presents as "self", and see if you can genuinely find yourself in any of it. Such inquiry requires total honesty and an agonizing willingness to discover what is truly real, and what is not...at any cost. Thorough inner investigation can seemingly take moments or years. Don't be concerned with time. What is true??? What are you, really???

A moment will arise, an awakening to the endless and unconditional purity of that which is closer than all phenominal experience. That, which is untouched by events in time and space. That, which silently bears witness to the universe of things. That, which looks through those eyes right now. Then, you will unequivocally know what you truly are (though the mind will never be able to grasp it), and your concerns will be over.

Realization of your natural authentic Self, is all you need. It's here always. It just needs to be seen.

j

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Are YOU Being Brainwashed ? Public Talk MP3

by AlphaOmega in

are you being brainwashed ?.

that was the title of a "public talk" given by brian steinblock of brooklyn bethel(monroe cong) it is a post-2000 talk.

this talk was e-mailed to me by a jw, and can be downloaded from here:.

JamesThomas

Poppers, down at the bottom left of the page is a gold colored DOWNLOAD button.

edited to add: However it takes 20 seconds before it appears.