Cofty,
Whenever I read your comments, it reminds me of this one particular Senator
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/21/3614028/so-much-senate-climate-change-trolling/
abiather
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Can the world condition be worse than this?
by abiather inthe innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day.
attacking hospitals too are happening frequently.
now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in peshawar on december 16, 2014)..
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Can the world condition be worse than this?
by abiather inthe innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day.
attacking hospitals too are happening frequently.
now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in peshawar on december 16, 2014)..
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Galzxie,
Lebanese philosopher Khalil Gibran narrates, Once Beauty and Ugliness met on a seashore. And they said to one another, Let us bathe in the sea. They disrobed and swam in the waters. After a while, Ugliness came back to the shore, wore the garments of Beauty and walked away. Beauty came later, could not find her robe, was too shy to be naked, so clothed herself in Ugliness robe and walked away. To this day, men and women mistake one for the other and identify them from dressed appearance.
However, in my case, I have not experienced goodness and beauty from anywhere except from the invisible hand of God. I have helped many people—including my family members. It is ok if they do not show gratitude. But they enjoy doing harm to me. Hence I am not trying to prove anything. I just wrote what I am observing and experiencing.
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Can the world condition be worse than this?
by abiather inthe innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day.
attacking hospitals too are happening frequently.
now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in peshawar on december 16, 2014)..
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The innocent civilians being attacked is the norm of the day. Attacking hospitals too are happening frequently. Now schools being attacked is becoming a regular affair (last of its kind massacred 150 children in Peshawar on December 16, 2014).
In response, female teachers are going to teach the students with machine guns in their hands!
http://extranosalley.com/?p=68421
asian-defence-news.blogspot.com/.../pakistani-female-teachers-learn-to-u.
http://www.naturalnews.com/048291_gun-free_schools_child_militias_soup_cans.html#
http://godfatherpolitics.com/16450/ohio-schools-arming-teachers/
Can the world condition be worse than this?
“People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world.”—Luke 21:26
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When a Witness claim the uniqueness of Bible and its accurate prophecies!
by abiather inwith the bulletin of atomic scientists moving its iconic doomsday clock up 2 minutes on 23.01.2015 (which means we are just three minutes closer to midnight in comparison to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991), and rapturewatch.net/timelines.htm predicting the end of the world as early as 2017, subject of last days is getting heated up again..
next time you have a witness boasts about the uniqueness of biblical propheciesespecially about last days, you can point the following photographic description of our times found in srimad bhagavatam, one of the ancient scriptures written even before the bible:.
1) religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of kali (age of unrigteousness).12.2.1.
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Viviane,
Entropy requires no proof--the very fact that we left JWs itself is the proof. Many of us left them because we experienced them becoming worse than other religions
Nature of community is the reflection of the individuals that make up that community.
For example,
1) all the RELIGIONS were good when they started, then gradually deteriorated into a money making machine.
2) HOSPITALS start as charitable institution, then they become a synonym for greed!
3) Communism came as a replacement of tyranny, only to become more tyrannical later
4) JWs came accusing all religions to be Satan’s instrument, yet they became Satan's worse tool—declaring God felt challenged by Satan, not even greeting those leaving them …
That’s why all the scriptures (that include Bible and Bhagavatam) foretell about moral decline reaching a climax in the last days (which is ENTROPY in one word)
In my case, I have helped many people (including my family members), yet it is ok if they are not thankful—but if they do harm to me, what should I term it? I would call Entropy of the mind!
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When a Witness claim the uniqueness of Bible and its accurate prophecies!
by abiather inwith the bulletin of atomic scientists moving its iconic doomsday clock up 2 minutes on 23.01.2015 (which means we are just three minutes closer to midnight in comparison to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991), and rapturewatch.net/timelines.htm predicting the end of the world as early as 2017, subject of last days is getting heated up again..
next time you have a witness boasts about the uniqueness of biblical propheciesespecially about last days, you can point the following photographic description of our times found in srimad bhagavatam, one of the ancient scriptures written even before the bible:.
1) religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of kali (age of unrigteousness).12.2.1.
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Viviane,
My subject is ENTROPY.
You are now concerned about at what speed it is happening, and ask me what do I mean by day-by-day!
Entropy is a fact experienced everywhere—whether it happens day-by-day, or year-by-year does not matter!
Leaders spying on other leaders of friendly nations and even on own citizens are all the proofs that entropy is at work!
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When a Witness claim the uniqueness of Bible and its accurate prophecies!
by abiather inwith the bulletin of atomic scientists moving its iconic doomsday clock up 2 minutes on 23.01.2015 (which means we are just three minutes closer to midnight in comparison to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991), and rapturewatch.net/timelines.htm predicting the end of the world as early as 2017, subject of last days is getting heated up again..
next time you have a witness boasts about the uniqueness of biblical propheciesespecially about last days, you can point the following photographic description of our times found in srimad bhagavatam, one of the ancient scriptures written even before the bible:.
1) religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of kali (age of unrigteousness).12.2.1.
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Cofty & Viviane
You are free to hold your view that world is getting better and better day-by-day.
My experience is that world is becoming worse and worse day-by-day.
Interestingly, former Pope Benedict XVI shared my view of the world (http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/02/12/popemain/bit1RIB2rL0hlshVpiAiKJ/story.html). He was hesitant to lead an organization that is going to become bankrupt because of on-going settlements of cases involving pedophile priests. And not only Pope, virtually all world leaders too share my experience. See how much security arrangements they do when they visit even a friendly country. Some of them even request for a no-fly zone over the hotel they stay in as guests.
http://www.kashmirobserver.net/news/top-news/india-turns-down-us-no-fly-zone-plea-obama
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/01/22/Nofly_zone_of_radius_400_km_enforced_for_Obama_visit_to_Indi/
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When a Witness claim the uniqueness of Bible and its accurate prophecies!
by abiather inwith the bulletin of atomic scientists moving its iconic doomsday clock up 2 minutes on 23.01.2015 (which means we are just three minutes closer to midnight in comparison to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991), and rapturewatch.net/timelines.htm predicting the end of the world as early as 2017, subject of last days is getting heated up again..
next time you have a witness boasts about the uniqueness of biblical propheciesespecially about last days, you can point the following photographic description of our times found in srimad bhagavatam, one of the ancient scriptures written even before the bible:.
1) religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of kali (age of unrigteousness).12.2.1.
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Viviane, You say we know “elevation and entropy” to be false!
Entropy is a fact because people in general do not learn from their mistakes, but only repeat them. We know spending more than our income is a bad habit—yet which Government does not suffer from debt. Do you have any idea about US Federal debt? Trillions and Trillions. It fought all the Middle East wars on borrowed money. Yet did it make that part of the world a safer place? Is the situation worse than before? Only in last year how many journalists were beheaded there? The very fact that we humans have not learned to live in peace with each other is the proof that entropy is the norm of the day!
I know a marriage counselor who helped over 200 couple to reunite from their divorced status. She is a retired Judge and Human Rights activist (not a psychologist). The technique she used in all of them was very simple: “Go to your ex-spouse and say ‘let us start again, as if nothing has happened between us.’” If these magical 11 words worked with that many divorcees, it can definitely work with Israel and Palestine, or with any others who are in conflicted relationships. What is needed is the will to come out of the self-made prison of past!
Yet humans in general are not doing such an easy thing, instead resort to age-old wasteful idea that war-preparedness is better security than a friendly neighbor. Why? We are evolving physically, but mind is not evolving!
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The best argument that we have an immaterial part (called Spirit/Soul) came from Jesus Christ
by abiather inthe best argument that we have an immaterial part (called spirit/soul) came from jesus christ.
however, it is recorded in the gospel of thomas (not in the traditional four gospels).
jesus says: if the flesh came into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel.
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villageidiot,
It is not that I have not seen Mathew 10:28.
Barak Obama would not say sometime in the 20th century that “no one from the black community has become US President except me.” He can make such statement only after becoming the President! So is the case with Jesus: “No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.” (John 3:13) He obviously ascended into heaven after his death, not in the beginning of his ministry, because context is that he is talking to Nicodemus. If John 3:13 is not spoken by Jesus, what about the subsequent verse 3:16, which says: “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
If such major subject as ransom teaching was later interpolation, Bible itself says we have to use discretion to quote from the bible. (1 Thess 5:21)
In the light of the above Biblical warning, we can know that Mathew 10:28 would not have been spoken by Jesus who had already declared categorically that the obedient ones experience only the physical death (death of the body), but his spirit survives the death of his body. (John 5:24). In this saying, there is no departure from the OT where we find the statement: “the spirit returns to God” following man’s physical death. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
To make the ransom teaching meaningful, Bible writers (rather editors) had to invent many verses such as Mathew 10:28.
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The best argument that we have an immaterial part (called Spirit/Soul) came from Jesus Christ
by abiather inthe best argument that we have an immaterial part (called spirit/soul) came from jesus christ.
however, it is recorded in the gospel of thomas (not in the traditional four gospels).
jesus says: if the flesh came into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel.
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Phizzy,
You are wonderful, great. What I had in my mind you discerned perfectly.
If evolution is true, it should be EQUALLY true everywhere--why only be restricted to body?
Mind is not evolving, rather it is going downward! Our deep-rooted prejudices remain as they were--anything we term as progress is only an eye-wash, just cosmetic toch.
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When a Witness claim the uniqueness of Bible and its accurate prophecies!
by abiather inwith the bulletin of atomic scientists moving its iconic doomsday clock up 2 minutes on 23.01.2015 (which means we are just three minutes closer to midnight in comparison to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991), and rapturewatch.net/timelines.htm predicting the end of the world as early as 2017, subject of last days is getting heated up again..
next time you have a witness boasts about the uniqueness of biblical propheciesespecially about last days, you can point the following photographic description of our times found in srimad bhagavatam, one of the ancient scriptures written even before the bible:.
1) religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of kali (age of unrigteousness).12.2.1.
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Vivane, you are right—things that happen repeatedly is not prediction.
In the West the word prediction is often used. But in Bagavatam it is all about repeated elevation and entropy (hence it is not about prediction). It says history repeats itself identically in every Kalpa (cycle of a few thousand years):
First half of the Kalpa (is like Day) passes through stages such as GOLDEN AGE (Satya Yuga) when people are quite divine in nature and SILVER AGE (Treta Yuga) when they are more or less divine in nature. Second half of the Kalpa (is like Night) passes through stages such as COPPER AGE (Dwapar Yuga) when people start becoming egoistic and IRON AGE (Kali Yuga) when people become too egoistic. In Kali Yuga even religions display intoxication towards their own identity (collective ego) and compete with each other for supremacy, forgetting their original role of reconnecting people with God. When irreligiousness reaches its climax, the Supreme Soul (whom even Krishna calls, the Supreme Father), God Shiva, makes His promised descent on to this earth (Gita 4:7), chooses a worthy person, names him Brahma (Great Mind) according to his character, through him, He teaches and trains the willing people for the Golden Age and re-establishes Heaven on earth. This short period is the most auspicious part of a Kalpa (because God Himself is the real Hero of this period and His training makes people like diamond in their integrity and purity) and is called DIAMOND AGE (quality-wise). Thus we have five Yugas which explains why the Silver Age is called Treta (which means third, in Sanskrit) Yuga. As the time passes by, entropy sets in—quality of people declines and Heavenly world gradually becomes Hell! And again God’s role begins, and the Time Cycle repeats. Thus human history is compared to a Kalpa tree, because the tree is an apt symbol of growth and decay followed by the intervention of a seed which ensures the sprouting and growing again! Thus humanity is like an inverted tree (Gita 15:1-2) and God is like “the Supreme Seed” of humanity (Gita 14:3, 4; 9:10) who ensures the sprouting each time the world decays!
However, history of first half of the Kalpa is unlikely to be faithfully kept by the second half Kalpa residents whose inclination is not very much towards truth. Another problem is that each Kalpa ends with a nuclear catastrophe which makes things complicated and difficult for the future researchers who want to know the details of the previous Kalpa! Situation is almost like trying to discern the contents of a book that has now been reduced to ashes by fire! Yet there are indirect proof for the cycle of elevation and entropy. November 2014 issue of Geophysical Journal International had even this headline: “Earth's Magnetic Field Could Flip Within A Human Lifetime.” In other words, what they indirectly say is that earth has a LINEAR history of Billions of years whereas its magnetic field has a CYCLIC history of a few thousand years which requires a very large supply of energy to keep it going [which obviously points to a Supreme Soul, or “the Ruler of the universe”—Gita 10:3]
If the earth’s magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster than scientists originally thought, it means cyclic history of the present magnetic field is nearing its end! No wonder Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its iconic Doomsday Clock up 2 minutes on 23.01.2015 which means we are just three minutes closer to midnight in comparison to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991. Experts substantiate this, pointing to the undeniable threat to the continued existence of humanity arising from insufficient action by the Governments on issues such as nuclear arms, unchecked climate change… etc. (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/23/us/feat-doomsday-clock-three-minutes-midnight/index.html). Also, the way terrorism flourishes in spite of all-out fighting against it by nearly all Governments of the world shows we are heading for a global catastrophe! Interestingly, the Vishnu Purana (4:24) rightly predicted some more characteristics for our time: “Social status depends not upon your accomplishments, but in the ownership of property; wealth is now the source of virtue; passion and luxury are the sole bonds between spouses; falsity and lying are the conditions of success in life; sexuality is the sole source of human enjoyment; religion, a superficial and empty ritual, is confused with spirituality.” The same is elaborated in Shrimad Bhagavatam as shown in the post and also in Bible, Quran … etc.
Yet, as usual this seeming dead-end is actually going to be the beginning of another Age! Change-over from a catastrophic end of the Iron Age to a Golden Age will take place orderly under the supervision of the Supreme Soul, God Shiva whose very name means THE SUPREME WORLD BENEFACTOR. He takes all souls (not the bodily beings, but their souls) to Paramdham, the soul world, and recreates Heaven on earth into which souls will descend number-wise (merit-wise), in a systematic process by which all souls would have reached here on earth towards the end of next Kali Yuga—each one according to his merit and according to his time. In fact, the only role God plays is this: Recreating the Heaven on earth whenever humans transform it into a Hell. (Gita 4:7) Hence He is aptly symbolized in Lingam, made of parts of two Sanskrit words lin + gam indicative of Dissolution (laya) and Recreation (agaman) respectively (Gita 7:6; 10:34), which is a symbol that is found all over the world, even in (Etruscan Museum) Vatican (which is originally a Sanskrit word vatica, meaning religious center). Photos from multiple locations are displayed in http://www.stephen-knapp.com/art_photo_fourteen.htm. Thus Shiva Linga is a symbol of cyclic history in nutshell.
Collective memory!
If there was a Golden Age that once existed here on earth, then it would not easily be forgotten. No wonder, virtually all cultures and religions of the world point to a Golden Age and to a Great Fall that mankind experienced from it. The most prominent of them all is the Bible which is made of 66 small books. Its first book (Genesis) speaks of how the Paradise on earth was lost (when humans began to think in terms of me and mine), and its last book (Revelation) shows how it will be restored on earth (when people revert to purity through oneness with God’s qualities)!
Existence of Deism
There were many shrewd people (in the history of the world) who firmly believed in the existence of a loving God, yet declared He has not started any religion on earth! These people are called Deists (who are different from Theists who are mostly associated with religions). Some of the famous Deists are: Albert Einstein, Alfred M. Mayer, Antony Flew, Alexander Pope, Adam Smith, Ahmad Kasravi, Benjamin Franklin, Brett Gurewitz, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Colin Maclaurin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Ethan Allen, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Elihu Palmer, Émilie du Châtelet, Ernest Rutherford, Frederick the Great, Friedrich Schiller, Gottfried Leibniz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, George Washington, Harish-Chandra, Harmony Korine, Henrik Wergeland, Hermann Weyl, Humphry Davy James Heckman, James Hutton, James Madison, James Watt, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Jean le Rond D’Alembert, John Muir, John Toland, John Locke, José Rizal, Jules Verne, Ludwig Boltzmann, Luis Walter Alvarez, Lysander Spooner, Mark Twain, Martin Gardner, Matthew Tindal, Max Born, Max Planck, Maximilien Robespierre, Mikhail Lomonosov, Moses Mendelssohn, Napoleon Bonaparte, Neil Armstrong, Nick Cave, Paul Davies, Robert Hooke, Simon Newcomb, Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Walter Kohn, Wernher von Braun, William Lloyd Garrison, William Hogarth, Wolfgang Pauli …. etc. (http://www.deism.com/einstein.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deists). The resounding thinking of these great people passes the stage of drama (as though a King’s pilot vehicles) before God makes His promised descent on earth, disowning all the religions. Thus existence of these well-informed great people is an indirect proof to what God Himself says in Bhagavatam: ‘His role begins only in the fag end of Kali Yuga, (not before that).