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 palmersc
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 God is and God is good 
#9830419 - 02/19/09 10:01 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm just really excited tonight. I know God and He knows me. Haha it is awesome.
I know I don't post on here very much anymore, but I still remember throwing ideas around on this board. The last 18 months for me have been filled with trials, but the joy of the Lord has been with me through it all. Jesus has given me living water so that I thirst no more. I spend time in His presence and talk with Him all the time.
It all began for me with fearing God. He is God and we are mere men. We are completely at His mercy. He is good though. So good.
We are stiff necked and rebellious by nature. He will work with us though if we work with Him. He will let us go our own way too. Take a look at the world and see what happens when we do things our way. Look at the absolute poverty of nations in spiritual darkness. Why practice spiritual disciplines which obviously do nothing but ignore the problems.
There is a battle between good and evil going on.
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 deCypher
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 Re: God is and God is good [Re: palmersc]
#9830486 - 02/19/09 10:09 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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There is no good. There is no evil.
To create the dichotomy is to have already lost the battle.
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mycoharry
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: deCypher]
#9830557 - 02/19/09 10:19 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah and if good wins in your life, Santa will bring you gifts! and the easter bunny wont poop in your shoes...
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Jufin
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: palmersc]
#9830647 - 02/19/09 10:30 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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You are so lame.
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Silversoul
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: deCypher]
#9830668 - 02/19/09 10:32 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
deCypher said:
There is no good. There is no evil.
To create the dichotomy is to have already lost the battle.
Nonsense. This dichotomy is the very foundation of a functioning society.
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deCypher
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: Silversoul]
#9830686 - 02/19/09 10:34 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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A functioning society should be founded on pragmatic principles that serve to promote social cohesion and stability, not on an inherently subjective concept of morality.
I was speaking more from the individualistic point of view, anyway.
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two_rivers
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: palmersc]
#9830697 - 02/19/09 10:36 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
palmersc said:
Look at the absolute poverty of nations in spiritual darkness.
to me it seems that if any country were to be referred to as being left in spiritual darkness, it'd be the US.
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Mr. Mushrooms
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: palmersc]
#9830925 - 02/19/09 11:17 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
palmersc said:
I'm just really excited tonight. I know God and He knows me. Haha it is awesome.
I know I don't post on here very much anymore, but I still remember throwing ideas around on this board. The last 18 months for me have been filled with trials, but the joy of the Lord has been with me through it all. Jesus has given me living water so that I thirst no more. I spend time in His presence and talk with Him all the time.
It all began for me with fearing God. He is God and we are mere men. We are completely at His mercy. He is good though. So good.
We are stiff necked and rebellious by nature. He will work with us though if we work with Him. He will let us go our own way too. Take a look at the world and see what happens when we do things our way. Look at the absolute poverty of nations in spiritual darkness. Why practice spiritual disciplines which obviously do nothing but ignore the problems.
There is a battle between good and evil going on.
Congratulations. However the battle for your soul isn't over. Stay close and help win that one.
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catboosh
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i am god
understand yourself
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Jufin
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: catboosh]
#9831456 - 02/20/09 01:36 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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No, I am god.
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catboosh
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: Jufin]
#9831464 - 02/20/09 01:44 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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everyone is their own god
perception is subjective
IDEALISM FTW!
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Jufin
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: catboosh]
#9831494 - 02/20/09 02:14 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
catboosh said:
everyone is their own god
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giPSY
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: Jufin]
#9831508 - 02/20/09 02:29 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well, being with Him is good!
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Kukaracha
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: deCypher]
#9831578 - 02/20/09 03:33 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
deCypher said:
A functioning society should be founded on pragmatic principles that serve to promote social cohesion and stability, not on an inherently subjective concept of morality.
I was speaking more from the individualistic point of view, anyway.
Can you really live without any concepts of good and evil? I doubt anyone can.
If I rape a baby un front of your eyes and beat it to death, you might think it's bad, am I wrong?
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MushroomTrip
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: Kukaracha]
#9831618 - 02/20/09 04:05 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
you might think it's bad, am I wrong?
What does this have to do with what he said, though?
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All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
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Kukaracha
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Quote:
deCypher said:
There is no good. There is no evil.
To create the dichotomy is to have already lost the battle.
To this!
I don't think it's possible to live without this dichotomy.
As I don't believe in stoicism, for example.
I would agree with DeCypher though, if he would say that we did lose the battle, whatever we do.
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MushroomTrip
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: Kukaracha]
#9831727 - 02/20/09 05:11 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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On a personal level, I guess it can be said that, based on our irrational feelings, we will always have the tendency to label things as good or bad. This doesn't mean that this is fruitful though, and these labellings can be removed, at least to some extent, from our way to view life.
When it comes to making decisions, laws and other social norms, I think it becomes even more obvious why these things are best if they're removed and replaced with whatever works best, based on observation and trial.
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All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
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Real CA Milk
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This is my problem with "Mainstream Christians". Its not Like i cant find spirituality in the bible......but why do so many of them choose to express it in a weird ass dialect that isnt their normal way of speaking. This is not the bible days in Ye Olde English (or whatever). Fucking express yourself normally.
And why do so many of them choose a "Holier than thou" attitude? And who the fuck say's that nations without spirituality are in Poverty? Some of the happiest people I know are next to dirt poor.
Sorry.....this really isnt a thread I should be reading when first waking up
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 How many psychedelic users — in any country — actually give
time to the local church soup kitchen, helping to feed the homeless and
hungry? How many of us, having had the experience, under the influence
of the visionary drugs, of seeing all human beings as incarnations of God,
have gone down to the local hospital to give affection and a listening ear to
lonely patients who need somebody to talk to? How many of us regularly
visit a jail, to provide spiritual and emotional support to confused, damaged
people who have grown up unloved, uneducated and unguided by their
confused, damaged parents -Alexander Shulgin 
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It seems weird to me to think that there is no such thing as evil just because it doesn't objectively exist. It doesn't make sense to live our lives through a purely objective viewpoint IMO.
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palmersc
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Re: God is and God is good [Re: Grapefruit]
#9832040 - 02/20/09 07:37 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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All these responses do not surprise me really. Most of you are proving my point of how rebellious we are... even to the point of calling yourselves gods. I can assure you the job of being God is already taken.
How can you be gods? You did nothing to create yourselves or the universe. Naked you came into this world and naked you will leave.
Let me ask. Is it possible that you have been deceived? Think about where you are getting your information from and who you are listening to. If you are anything like I was, your family is not buying into your ideas. Maybe you should listen to family. People who really care for you because the people who are quick to speak lies on the internet don't care.
Please don't think I am looking down on any of you. I know where you all are coming from as I once immersed myself in psychedelics and eastern mysticism. How many of you have been admitted to a mental hospital actually believing you were God?
The bottom line is you don't want to be accountable for your actions to a God which has laws. God's laws are not intended to pick you apart and be a burden though. The laws are intended to show us how far off the path we are and how much we are in need of God's grace.
There is right and wrong. God created this place with order. He is allowing evil to exist for a season and has given us free will to live however we want. The time is coming though when God will destroy evil and those who practice lawlessness.
It ain't no joke.
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