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- Bindegal-1
- ZOOP0
Nun Gives Birth To Baby Boy In Italy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
tisk tisk Georges- immaculate!albums
- jesus christ!ZOOP
- if the nun is white and the baby is black would that mean god is black?pango
- that's mulatto speculation there pangoalbums
- so one one or another. that means got is not white right?pango
- just means your a child in conceiving realityyurimon
- its more sad in the sense of her denial of the fact she was pregos...yurimon
- what?! you'r saying virgin birth is not possible?pango
- it wasn't me,
still virginGeorgesIV - virgin birth refers to astro theology sun being born in virgo.yurimon
- chukkaphob0
- this shit is fascist propaganda, why would you want to post that?uan
- Christianity is on here 4 or 5 times as different religions, but not Hinduism (4 main branches), Buddhism (3), Islam (5+)...i_monk
- @uan because this shit's funnY!chukkaphob
- How dare you! We shall not give a shit till you die!pango
- moldero0
Took a whole lotta tryin', Just to get up that hill.
Now we're up in the big leagues, Gettin' our turn at bat.
As long as we live, it's you and me baby, There ain't nothin wrong with that.
- moldero0
"I look at all the stars in the sky and think, 'how could there not be a creator who created all this 7500 years ago?'" - bible thumping dumb fuck
On a clear night, some of those stars your looking at aren't even stars at all, their other fucking galaxies. Eta Carinae nebula which is in our own milky way galaxy is about 7500 light years away from our sun, if everything was created 7500 years ago we wouldn't see the light of anything past that yet, including most of own our galaxy let alone other galaxies.
Jesus fucking Christ, do these people even try to think?
Even Fox is turning on those idiots with Cosmos.
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- you'reset
- yurmoldero
- lol @ using logic against these guys... don't you know logic is full of fallacies (yurimon)?monospaced
- also, urmonospaced
- very true mono
http://diagoras.file…moldero - http://dictionary.re… .. truth is in the origin of the wordatomholc
- wow, that's an interesting piece of linguistic historymonospaced
- doesnotexist0
everything ok here?
- yurimon0
^^
from my understanding in comparison of the general similarity in all cultures in mystical practice.Mysticism is a bit of shamanism. Real mysticism is inner study of yourself in understanding the natural world, and in knowing your true nature. It is the tuning of the senses through physical exercise and inner reflection. the discipline of the mind body. etc.
Ancient Egyptians believed you have more then 5 senses or 6 senses. more along 100'sOver all in a nutshell its an attempt to unify the body so that you act in alignment and agreement of all your parts and higher universal energies.
for example. you have a left right side of the brain opposite modes of processing. sometimes you are in conflict with 2 sides of the brain in making choices or one side is more dominant like todays society.. Also in some mystical traditions there is mind in organs such as your heart, and lower stomach. in toaism its called lower dantian. like you have a gut feeling and your brain starts telling something else and your heart is feeling something else in conflict. Knowing your true nature is important in that regard and all levels acting in unison and consciousness.unification of self, moral in tuned action, strength, intuitive understanding of nature, heightened awareness, expansion of senses, wisdom, along the lines of what a healthy individual is.
some practices like to ad immortality but not in human form but more of having control of energy in your body. etc.I think the ideal structure of a mystical practice is something like this.
Physical exercise to strengthen the body.. is always the first step..
Forms such as Indian Yoga, Tibetan Yoga, Martial arts,Inner work.
Meditation, Inner martial arts practice. some type of combo. etc.The inner work leads to greater understanding of yourself, leading to greater understanding of the outer world.
Then mental work such study of,
Math, Music, Sacred Geometry, Astronomy, cosmology.
Study of ArchetypesAlso your comment on Gnosticism.. Its originality is supposed come from pagan shamanic sages. not Christianity.
ok so that it and dont shoot the messenger.
- well thanks for sharing. I mean it. it is interesting. however do you think it has direct connection with religion?pango
- or it's just another forms of energy that exist in this world independently with out the whole god thing?pango
- I think religions are just systems of control.. I think there are laws and principle but more in tune with nature.yurimon
- Most religions try to deal with cause and effect... but they tend to try to recreate the world in their favor.yurimon
- cool.
sorry for almost thinking you're as none sense as son.pango - I'm guessing you must be one of Son's students, not his equal, because he went right back to posting pics of black peopledetritus
- thanks pango,yurimon
- lol – detritus. I guess so. me so confused...yurimon
- breadlegz0
Most won't watch this (especially the Dawkin's sheep), but i'll post it for the thinkers on here...
- meh, not enough reason and freethinkingGeorgesIV
- Agreed. Plus, why are Christians so painfully maladroit with humor?waterhouse
- I was trolling earlier but this guy is a very wise man, everyone even atheist should give his speech a listenGeorgesIV
- ok downloading thismoldero
- Do we really need a religion to be good?ApeRobot
- We don't need religion to be good, no. That's not the point.
breadlegz
- monospaced0
@TBO Agreed. And likewise, it's also the positive credit they give him that bothers me.
I was talking to this cab driver the other day and he told me this amazing story about how he saved several children from a burning building in NYC awhile back. I told him he was a good man and should be proud of the accomplishment and his bravery.
He actually turned around and told me it was Jesus. That Jesus/God made him save the children. I told him he should give himself some credit, but he wouldn't hear it. He was adamant that something outside himself that takes the credit for the good he did, and he likened that to all the good in the world. I didn't get into it with him, but it did bother me, because so much good happens in this world that we should be proud of.
- kingkong0
@ morning star... I of course teach them about the context of religion, in fact I've sent them to a semi-religious private school where they do morning prayers, say grace before meals and do a decent amount of religious studies.
Pay or pray as they say in the UK.
I'm nothing if not a hypocrite.
I actually went to Jesuit seminary school as a teen (my Stockholm syndromy upbringing) and studied politics, economics and theology, before finding drink and women and going to art school. So I'm pretty well informed about all things religion, having gone to mass 3 times a week from the age of 4-18.
So these days I tend to teach my children the context of religion in terms of is cultural and historical place on this planet, which is why I love the 100,000 year info graphic a couple of pages back.
You sure as hell can't ignore it or isolate anyone from it. I certainly don't talk about it through rose tinted glasses. It (in it's broadest sense) is responsible for huge amounts of suffering, poverty and disease, and plunged the planet into a 1000 year age of scientific darkness. Early Christians crusaders made the Taliban look like amateurs.
In truth as a curious (and non-judgemental) type I love to read and understand as much as I can the reasons why the stones all over Europe had a religious significance, I love to read about the political motivations behind the modern church, which culminated in the Papacy and cathedrals all over the world.
I love to read about the British empire and how it became an evangelical empire in the mid 1800's after 200 years of profiteering, sending white folks to Africa and South America to 'civilise people'
Religion is just a part of the human story. Inextricably linked to the moment we had some sort of consciousness up until the fundamental islamists - it's a man made creation to validate ones existence, and explain the world around you. As we have become more intelligent so has the religion.
Also some interesting points have been made here as to how religion is politics on the whole and faith is personal on the whole.
Religions have tended to form into 'power groups' to run things, in that sense a church is like Communism, when the faith system was socioeconomic system structured upon common ownership. The organisation fucked up a pretty sound 'belief'.
People tend to be quite tolerant of other faiths. It's religions that tend to despise other religions... Religion is both a force for good and bad, much like humans. But I see it purely and simply as history.
But if I had to put my finger on 'me' I'm a little 'meh'. I don't 'believe' nor do I actively 'disbelieve. I'm like most people I meet; which is indifferent.
Indifference is killing off religion, not another religion or atheism. People when they are educated 'tend' not to care for it, which is why churches are closing at a rapid rate. When all the congregations (mostly ages in the 50s/60s') die off so will the Church in large swathes of western countries.
In fact, mostly they are kept alive through people going to them to get their kids into their schools. Once that gets stopped (which it will) they will disappear from the public consciousness over a few hundred years.
If there was one growth religion/belief system it's secularism. Once that pervades the rest of the world via the UN, IMF etc. Game over.
It (modern religions) will in time be replaced by something else, as other have always done. Jesus is no better than Zeus or Odin.
Just different.
If anyone hasn't there is a wonderful book called Flatlands written in 1884. It will maybe make you pause for thought (it's a key starter for 10 book in theology)...
A quick synopsis
"A classic of scientific and mathematical fiction, Flatland is the story of a Square as he journeys through new dimensions. He experiences Spaceland (a universe with three dimensions), Lineland (a universe of one dimension), and Pointland ( a universe no dimensions). This work of literature looks at the world through a purely mathematical lens to help us better understand the concepts of dimension as well as the sociological implications of hierarchies. Finally, the Square dares to dream of a land with four dimensions, an incredible idea which gets him banished from Spaceland."
Said my piece after a lot of pithy quotes...
- I read flatland when I was 16 and stoned. Blew my mind =)set
- doesn't sound that you went into it on more profound level at all. what this about the corrupt UN? to save us? lolyurimon
- Yurimon, you are a high priest of tools.kingkong
- Yurimon. Guaranteed to tell you more.,set
- i'm not tool teaching my future kin the exact philosophy they want you the mediocrity to believe.yurimon
- that makes no sense, much like everything else you write.kingkong
- king you know history right? Every empire teaches what it requires to perpetuate power over truth.yurimon
- well you live in an empire teaching such program. just different empire. im sure what you are teaching some one in the future is going think is propogandayurimon
- future will think it otter shyit. like your comment about british empire.
you chose gett along over truth or sanity to teach your childrenyurimon - understandable because people do well keeping close with those in power...yurimon
- copeash?yurimon
- As usual, not really.set
