Finding God

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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    callen wrote:
    don't need a mythical character to help us....we look within and deal, cope with our situations.....as what was posted in first page of this thread...religion is a coping mechanism...not that its a bad thing....just what ever it takes I guess to get through the day.....its just when others use religion to be mean...that sucks.
    are we discussing religion when we discuss god?

    love ya...too...

    grateful just to listen and to learn and maybe put out a question to provoke some more...

    god is part of peace; god is part of war;

    what cha think?
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    melodious wrote:
    nah, i was trying to allow space as opposed to confinement

    yeah, when you begin to understand me, it can be a scary thing...i am grateful

    and since i have you on a thread, i would love to include your piece of poetry as an example of god...i mean, even the niroshima bomb is counted in my new revelations about this god thing...i used to htink that god is only the good...this is where i was way off key....becasue if all particles in the universe are a creation of this Divine, then we have to look at yin/yang; darkness/light; positive/negative; love/hate; open/close, etc...gotta run...

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    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    well since you got me on a run ;)

    i forgot these terms: acceptance/denial!!!!
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    melodious wrote:
    well since you got me on a run ;)

    i forgot these terms: acceptance/denial!!!!


    i prefer to see my words as mine. from me. no one else. i write to exorcise my demons. to get things straight in my head.
    hear my name
    take a good look
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    hold my hand
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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    sending you support for the choices you make for yourself...

    **catefrances: thank you. i almost cried when i read that last post.
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    melodious wrote:
    sending you support for the choices you make for yourself...

    **catefrances: thank you. i almost cried when i read that last post.


    really? and here's me thinking it was an upbeat post. :)
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    take a good look
    this could be the day
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  • KosmicJelliKosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    callen wrote:
    thats all good....but then all those that believe in God (love) should denounch all organized religions....hate, intollerance....damning to hell..

    Did I not say something to the fact "Whom says the Bible is correct..." ?????
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    Did I not say something to the fact "Whom says the Bible is correct..." ?????
    wan't countering anything you posted.....I was just adding my thought...
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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    yes! discourse is part of God....love ya...
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    melodious wrote:
    are we discussing religion when we discuss god?

    love ya...too...

    grateful just to listen and to learn and maybe put out a question to provoke some more...

    god is part of peace; god is part of war;

    what cha think?

    true...they are seperate....just put them in same bag...as most that believe in god...also support religion....which supports intollerance...
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  • fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    callen wrote:
    true...they are seperate....just put them in same bag...as most that believe in god...also support religion....which supports intollerance...

    So my takeaway from that statement is that atheists are tolerant of non-atheists?
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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    callen wrote:
    true...they are seperate....just put them in same bag...as most that believe in god...also support religion....which supports intollerance...
    yet, religion is one's practice...

    intollerance is supported by elite "ism"....and that's becasue we fail to let all the dominoes of circumstances or events fall into a natural pattern. we, as humans, (i am biggest offender) project interference....
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • fanch75 wrote:
    So my takeaway from that statement is that atheists are tolerant of non-atheists?

    lmao

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  • That was SOOOOOO unFUNNY

    He's an evangelist now?
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    The greatest story ever told (no joke)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNf-P_5u_Hw&feature=related
  • Commy wrote:

    I have watched that several times. Good stuff.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    Smellyman wrote:
    I have watched that several times. Good stuff.
    same. saw it for the first time a few minutes ago.
  • KosmicJelliKosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    Thank You for that.. I didnt want to get on my high horse... (which is a shetland pony btw...) I was gonna say you all were asleep in your western civ class when they talked about gilgamesh and noah.... blah blah blah...
  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    Commy wrote:

    i'd agree that Zeitgeist is the greatest story ever fabricated.

    they cite Acharaya S as the special contributor to the religion section (or at least acknowledge her assistance) Here's a decent critique of her book that they used to base a lot of the information on. http://www.risen-jesus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=109
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  • Commy wrote:


    Lies.....
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    can't find something that never existed.
    "If all those sweet, young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised."
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  • chopitdown wrote:
    i'd agree that Zeitgeist is the greatest story ever fabricated.

    they cite Acharaya S as the special contributor to the religion section (or at least acknowledge her assistance) Here's a decent critique of her book that they used to base a lot of the information on. http://www.risen-jesus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=109


    bump
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  • Evidence and facts or sooo overrated.

    I'll go w/ the fairly tales. anything else is lies.
  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    Smellyman wrote:
    Evidence and facts or sooo overrated.

    I'll go w/ the fairly tales. anything else is lies.

    robert price on Acharya's book (zeitgeists primary information)

    "She is quick to state as bald fact what turn out to be, once one chases down her sources, either wild speculation or complex inference from a chain of complicated data open to many interpretations. One of the most intriguing claims made repeatedly in these books is that among the mythical predecessors of Jesus as a crucified god were the Buddha, the blue-skinned Krishna, and Dionysus. Is there any basis to these claims, which Murdock just drops like a ton of bricks? Again, she does not explain where they come from, much less why no available book on Buddha, Krishna, or Dionysus contains a crucifixion account. . . . When Murdock speaks of the ‘Christ Conspiracy,’ she means it. She really believes that ‘people got together and cooked up’ early Christianity like a network sitcom. And who were these conspirators? The, er, Masons (pp. 334 ff.). It is remarkable how and where some people’s historical skepticism comes crashing to a halt. But it gets much, much weirder than that. We start, in the last chapters, reading bits and pieces drawn from James Churchward, promoter of the imaginary lost continent of Mu; Charles Berlitz, apologist for sunken Atlantis; Zechariah Sitchen, advocate of flying saucers in ancient Akkadia; and of course all that stuff about the maps of the ancient sea kings. The Christ Conspiracy is a random bag of (mainly recycled) eccentricities, some few of them worth considering, most dangerously shaky, many outright looney."(123)
    free inquiry summer 2001
    i tried to google it and it has been removed but it did appear in that issue and both Acharya and Price acknowledge it.
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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    earth & sky

    sending grace to all in need of a good thought

    peace.
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    chopitdown wrote:
    robert price on Acharya's book (zeitgeists primary information)

    "She is quick to state as bald fact what turn out to be, once one chases down her sources, either wild speculation or complex inference from a chain of complicated data open to many interpretations. One of the most intriguing claims made repeatedly in these books is that among the mythical predecessors of Jesus as a crucified god were the Buddha, the blue-skinned Krishna, and Dionysus. Is there any basis to these claims, which Murdock just drops like a ton of bricks? Again, she does not explain where they come from, much less why no available book on Buddha, Krishna, or Dionysus contains a crucifixion account. . . . When Murdock speaks of the ‘Christ Conspiracy,’ she means it. She really believes that ‘people got together and cooked up’ early Christianity like a network sitcom. And who were these conspirators? The, er, Masons (pp. 334 ff.). It is remarkable how and where some people’s historical skepticism comes crashing to a halt. But it gets much, much weirder than that. We start, in the last chapters, reading bits and pieces drawn from James Churchward, promoter of the imaginary lost continent of Mu; Charles Berlitz, apologist for sunken Atlantis; Zechariah Sitchen, advocate of flying saucers in ancient Akkadia; and of course all that stuff about the maps of the ancient sea kings. The Christ Conspiracy is a random bag of (mainly recycled) eccentricities, some few of them worth considering, most dangerously shaky, many outright looney."(123)
    free inquiry summer 2001
    i tried to google it and it has been removed but it did appear in that issue and both Acharya and Price acknowledge it.

    The link I provieded mentions none of this...it is about Jesus Christ. And also, attacking the source without discussing the information is typical when you can't refute the evidence, which seems to be the case here.
  • Commy wrote:
    The link I provieded mentions none of this...it is about Jesus Christ. And also, attacking the source without discussing the information is typical when you can't refute the evidence, which seems to be the case here.

    your name says everything I need to know about you
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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    a lil bit of je'sus is always with us.
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    your name says everything I need to know about you
    are names like the covers of a book?
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    your name says everything I need to know about you
    So, how is it in your world? You ever have a good time, enjoy life? Open to new ideas?

    Or do you just spend all your time hating?
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