people have been begging to let this thread die for about 20 pages now.. i think thats the spirit talking, but i have a feeling its written somewhere in the bible "go forth and annoy all non beleivers make rediculouse claims to spread fear, for fear of the impossible shalt make them beleive" so i doubt they will let it drop so i guess the gospal of nay shall live on too
Though you are spot on when you say "The real enemy is ourselves". Very true. If we carry on passing laws that take away our civil liberties in the 'fight against terrorism' (that was ultimately bought on by our governments anyway) then isn't that ultimately self-destructive??
Tyrants did not get what satisfied So they locked the Seeker in a cell Told him and his friends they were in hell But Seeker was as like a well tuned Bell Hearing what others did not yet They nailed him to a tree And left him there to bleed Now Seeker was Strong and Kind Could See deep, a majestically cultivated mind Transcending illusion Tears, such a wonderful find And learned they did such a powerful spirit they could not rid
Shame that Campbell left, I honestly would have enjoyed a dialogue with him. Maybe we both would have learned something ? I have found that although people seem closed to learning anew that there is always some hole, some part that is open. That, I believe, is why we have realizations; why we learn at all. It is also, I believe, why we have wars and people have 'conniptions'; because of denial or lack of "ability to accept an experience" causing "rough learning"; this applies to all of us and applies to "good and 'normal'" expectations. Realization can be difficult.
petermess i agree with you completely, although didnt have access to so much data its true that the world today is in a near constant state of war & many times the wars are fairly out of sight, except when its conveinient to publicizea war to distract the easily distracted masses from some governmemnt screw up seeems like everytime a president gets in trouble you can bet a war will start within days. nothing unites people behind the president like a good ol' war huh? theres probably a secret list of countries that are on "in case of emergency atack at random" status whos next?
isnt it just great to have people discussing this who actualy think things through? now that theyre gone i dont feel the need to throw nayism in theyre faces shsake them up & scream why dont you open your eyes & see
Jesus Christ fulfilled over 300 prophecies found in the Old Testament. What book do you have that can repeat this. If you can show me one maybe I will listen to you. I'm waiting.
Please forgive me, Campbell, if lack knowledge or awareness. In either case, though, I will give as before. I am not really extremely, to great detail, familiar with your Bible. Would you relay a condemnation to people who live on an isolated island that functionally practice what you do but by a different name ?
jesus christ is a character in the same book right? by that logic every single book ever written repeats that never read any harry potter books, but i;'d imagine theres plenty of what is known in literature as foreshadowing, which you call predicting so you could look at a harry potter book, in the beginning it might hin at some magic trick hes trying to learmn, then towards the middel he accomplishes this trick..fullfilling the prophesy..is harry potter therefore a god too? post that in the young hippy or book threads & i bet youd find plenty who would get on theyre knees & say yes he is
I met this amazing lady who reads and draws alot and she began answering questions that I had by using Harry Potter analogues ! Yes, SoaringEagle, I believe that these themes are woven throughout literature in parallel.
you said a mouthful there how can you possibly beleive any religion that would condemn a baby who dies before hes even capable of understanding the word god let alone the concept? what about those who are truly pure beautiful kind loving spirits but have never heard of this bible? there are many..not only one..paths to the devine..& gods true nature can be contemplated yet never known by mortal minds. any who claim to knoww the truth are committing the sin og blasphemy & are spreading lies
First of all wars did not start in 1939. second communism did not spread the russian force them after invading half of the european continent. communism spread in vietnam becouse we choose to back up France instead of Vietnam. vietnam was a French colonie and those son of bitches should be the last one in the world to own a colonie. Had we choosen to help vietnam it would had never resorted to communist china and russia for help we left them with little choice.