DeepSight:

Merci

MizMyColi:
Mujtahida,

I will have to re-read your words...

A very dear one did teach me that art of breathing, and it really helps.

Sometimes, I just stop and breathe...

I find that it makes me more aware of my experiences, be they positive or negative, and then deciding what I really want, raising my vibration to that level etc etc.

Okay
I cannot say explicitly that I have a hang of how it all works, yeah?

But I find that when I feel Joy, and peace and this attitude of gratitude, it's like Nothing is Impossible anymore.

Hahahahahahahahaha

I can even fight a lion okay, pet a lion

Lol

MizMyColi:


Oh, cool, great even.
You just reminded me one of the reasons I dropped my bible for at least 2 years.

Most of these people we so admire did not have canons and sets of rules to guide them or become a basis for thought conformity.

Their limitations were only as far as their mind could carry them.

DaveP, you're my good pal, else I would tell you straight up that I do not enjoy biblical debates...
Like say,, but Matthew 3 v 5 says you must not jump a story building, and I say, oh, but Leventicus chapter 6 v 8 says you can jump if it's just 2 stories high.

Honestly speaking, it's so tiring.
Truly, it is.

There was a time I used to feel bad that I did not read my bible daily. There were times I fought so hard to pray and fast in certain ways...

I just do not live by those rules anymore.

I know it makes me a misfit and outcast among religious folks, and it is not my intention to offend the sensibilities of you, my friend when I say this, but I simply do not care about that anymore.

kkins25:

No the joke is on you.

Allah is the God of jesus christ. I know because Allah told me so. Proof me wrong.

Sarassin:


A lot to ponder in what you wrote. For me the Bible is religious and political literature constructed from a religious perspective. The so-called history recorded in the biblical narratives, are to be understood first and foremost as representing beliefs and myths constructed to serve a purpose in the social and historical contexts in which they were written, edited, and arranged in their present form.

It seems to me that these texts cannot simply be picked up and read as though they constitute objective factual history in the modern sense, based on contemporary eyewitness reports.

The biblical literature first and foremost constitutes “propaganda.” The writers make no pretence to objectivity. It is revisionist history on a grand scale. Those who composed this literature had been minority parties, either in subjugation, exile or diaspora. Therefore the Hebrew Bible is basically a minority report in my view.

Without any doubt, those responsible for gathering and editing this material have been deliberately selective in what they included, in doing so, they provided a disservice by presenting a jaundiced view of events.

KingEbukasBlog:


Mr man , Can you provide evidence for a universe without a creator ? And stop making inane comments please .

kkins25:
thats simpler than ABC. Simple logic can be uses to disproof the creationist fairytale. I'll be right back. Let me switch to PC. Currently using a phone.

MuttleyLaff:
This is like asking, is the pope a christian?

kkins25:
me self i tire ohh. To does who claim theve heard God, they never told us how God talks or sounds. Does God have a bass voice, does He talk like a Girl etc. Did dey hear with thier ears? Why didnt anyone else hear if God actually spoke and produced mechanical waves?

hopefulLandlord:
analize701 would answer NO to this question

analize701:

Is the Pope a Christian?

hopefulLandlord:

my reply is inconsequential here, I'm just telling muttleylaff that the answer to that is not as cut and dry as he (probably) thinks

analize701:
The Pope is a Hellenist. Christians don't worship idols.

hopefulLandlord:
analize701 would answer NO to this question

analize701:
The Pope is a Hellenist

analize701:
Christians don't worship idols.

hopefulLandlord:

their god doesn't talk to them, its all an illusion cuz I've always noticed their god seems to agree with them a bit too much, so much so that I could've sworn they're talking to themselves

[Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago] found that when people contemplated God’s opinions, their brains activated similarly to when they were contemplating their own opinions the same was not true when they contemplated the opinions of other people.

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God thinks exactly like you"
Anne Lamott (tweaked)

MuttleyLaff:
I concur with you and Analize701.
Both of yah are actually right,
however I won't go as far as with Analice107 though, that the pope is a hellenist

I stand to corrected, as I don't want to fall out with Analice107.

Isn't hellenisim, influence by all that Greek civilization is about, which could be adopting its architecture, adopting the language, adopting Greek culture, ideals, character, philosophy, adopting its sports or games etcetera


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUoIu6Ygrl0
It's believers who don't worship idols.
Christians worship idols and/or gods

LotusFan:
This thread shaaaaa... wonder where Sarassin went...

Mujtahida:

I wanted to highlight some part of your writings but everything you wrote is of importance.

First take the notion of 'the chosen' people propaganda pushed in the bible which people swallow without questioning. So the whole world should just believe that the Jews were chosen by God and this fact is contained only in their own literature. The Bible itself says in the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter is established. So who is the independent third party to verify this facts?

Again there are serious doubts that the passover ever happened. The Egyptians were highly developed at that point in time in history. They kept good records of everything that pertained to their lives yet historians have not found one single reference to the enslavement of the isrealites in Egypt. Imagine if America having enslaved the blacks has no single document referencing that fact. How plausible can that be.

The history in the bible is pseudo, invented history mixed with real history. It's mashed up one can hardly know which is real history and which is pseudo history.
Read the work of a Jew named shlomo Sand 'The invention of the Jewish people'. You can download it. It's central thesis is that the Jews are an ahistorical people whose history is invented rather than real.

LotusFan:
This thread shaaaaa... wonder where Sarassin went...

Sarassin:
That meme....
Still here, never left

Mujtahida:
I wanted to highlight some part of your writings but everything you wrote is of importance.

First take the notion of 'the chosen' people propaganda pushed in the bible which people swallow without questioning. So the whole world should just believe that the Jews were chosen by God and this fact is contained only in their own literature. The Bible itself says in the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter is established. So who is the independent third party to verify this facts?

Again there are serious doubts that the passover ever happened. The Egyptians were highly developed at that point in time in history. They kept good records of everything that pertained to their lives yet historians have not found one single reference to the enslavement of the isrealites in Egypt. Imagine if America having enslaved the blacks has no single document referencing that fact. How plausible can that be.

The history in the bible is pseudo, invented history mixed with real history. It's mashed up one can hardly know which is real history and which is pseudo history.
Read the work of a Jew named shlomo Sand 'The invention of the Jewish people'. You can download it. It's central thesis is that the Jews are an ahistorical people whose history is invented rather than real.

Sarassin:
They say "whose land whose God" very interesting, and I do agree with a lot of what you've written here.
I will look for that book and see what Shlomo Sand has to say.

MuttleyLaff:


Not surprised coming from a self-hating Ashkenazi Jew
The book is as good being used as toilet paper

MuttleyLaff:


Wow, cry me a river, taken and done almost literally
it made Sarassin, just like a jack-in-the-box suddenly pop out, harmlessly and amusingly appearing

Sarassin:
Your point being?

MuttleyLaff:
Point being, it's a good trick
Do you do genie in a bottle
that when the bottle is rubbed the right, you pop out and grant three wishes

MuttleyLaff:
Point being, it's a good trick
Do you do genie in a bottle
that when the bottle is rubbed the right, you pop out and grant three wishes

LotusFan:
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Sarassin:
Sometimes....evidently.

MuttleyLaff:
Nice repertoire

Sarassin:
Thank you kindly.
Happy New year in advance.