Was christianity a hoax?

Although in his early writings Freud equated the ego with the sense of self, he later began to portray it more as a set of psychic functions such as reality-testing, defence, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory.

i like this. ego = sense of self.

and shit ahnimus everybody knows ich means I. and I being one's self, it makes total sense that ego would translate to I.
thanks for the semantic translation lesson.

catefrances wrote:

Although in his early writings Freud equated the ego with the sense of self, he later began to portray it more as a set of psychic functions such as reality-testing, defence, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory.

i like this. ego = sense of self.

and shit ahnimus everybody knows [b[ich[/b] means I. and I being one's self, it makes total sense that ego would translate to I.
thanks for the semantic translation lesson.

Not exactly. Ego like to eat ice cream. Ego like Pearl Jam. Makes no sense, because in english we think of Ego as simply one aspect of self. Of course that term "self" can be interpeted different ways as well.

gue_barium wrote:

from now on you guys are fated to thinking of a canoe as your self-egos, thanks to me.

what's a canoe?

gue_barium wrote:

Maybe you can incorporate these goings-on into your story over there? somehow, some way.

which story would that be g_b?

gue_barium wrote:

The one you asked me to stop posting on.

OUCH!!!

did i really ask you to stop posting or stop posting irrelevent posts? i don't mind contributions if they fit.

hope i didn't bruise your ego g_b?

yes. hoax

to the father, the son and the holy hoax


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_IjNPmIEI

Last Exodus wrote:

And I was trying to lighten things up. I didn't have audio with your video,but I didn't need to. Whoa...! Pretty powerful imagery. Watch it w/o the sound...

if anyone would appreciate the audio ...it would be you.

Abuskedti wrote:

Do you believe in morals or integrity or anything like that..

because those are beliefs - There is no scientific basis..

Those are similarly hoaxes... Not nice to call what people belive in a hoax... we all have beliefs -

What on earth are you on about morals are a 'hoax'???

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but evolutionary biology/psychology has been providing a 'scientific basis' to the existence of morality since before my parents were born. There have been more scientific publications on the subject than you or I could wade through in a lifetime.

Granted many people in this thread will reject that scientifc literature and believe morality to be something God given and innate, which is fine and a sound basis for an interesting discussion on the subject. But to say no scientific basis has been offered is a little bizzarre.

NMyTree wrote:

Hmmmm......Jesus is not the problem, but the people who claim they "love" Jesus and know of his message. They are the problem.

Most self-proclaimed Christians don't even have the slightest clue of Jesus' message. That much is obvious.

i'd like to know what the message of jesus is, coming from your perspective. that would make me very happy.

deadnothingbetter wrote:

if we read the bible, the bible never says, "those that are not good are going to hell" and neither does it sum up to those teachings. what it does say is that goodness is something sort of like an obligation for every human being to do. whether you are ghandi, mlk, or the dali lama... goodness is a piece of God written in our hearts. read Ecclesiastes 3:11,12,13 goodness comes from God.

people without the knowledge of christ cannot share those "glorious" things the Bible teaches because of their own unbelief. like in the days of noah, the only reason why the men of then did not enter the ark was because of their unbelief. it still serves the same for today. you don't want to go to hell? well, then believe that you are going to heaven. how do you do that? well, you have to think like Christ did. in order for you to do that you have to live like Jesus did, you have to change your way of thinking and your way of living. this is what being "born again" means. it's in your power to do these things and not in what others say.

But on this issue im with qte. There is absolutely zero evidence of the life of Jesus outside of the new testament and that book is not history. It's myth, maybe even fantasy. You don't even have any written record of the new testament for almost a full century after Jesus's purported death. Now im not saying the guy didnt live. He probably did. There is just nothing to support any of the claims in the new testament. A big fat nothing. So you say have faith. Of course, you'd have to have faith because there ain't no proof. Christianity came into being more out of politics then out of religion. That's not meant as an attack so don't start shoutin at me again board. It's just fact.

I take issue with any religion that holds itself in higher esteem than others. And some christians do believe that unless you go with Jesus your doomed to burn. That shit is so middle ages it's ridiculous. It's high time all of the world's major religions gave it a hard think and looked to a more global and univeral message. Think of all the lives that would be saved if we all dropped the bullshit about our own respective religions or branches of religions. It's stagerring when you think about.