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Re: Messiahs [Re: dr_gonz]
#10688526 - 07/16/09 02:47 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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What if they all have and they are us?
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Re: Messiahs [Re: dr_gonz]
#10688582 - 07/16/09 03:01 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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We are relatively real but not very.
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Re: Messiahs [Re: dr_gonz]
#10688604 - 07/16/09 03:06 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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dr_gonz said: The Christian Messiah: Second coming of Jesus Christ.
The Islamic Messiah: (Orthodox Sunnis) Muntazar: The successor to Mohammed who at the 'end of time' will unite the races of the world through understanding.
The Aztec/Mayan Messiah: The return of Quetzalcoatl -- an olive-skinned man with a white beard and followers in red.
The Sioux Messiah: A man in a red cloak coming from the East.
The Indonesian Messiah: the twelfth-century Indonesian prophet, Djojobojo, foresaw the coming of a great Spiritual King from the West to come after the Dutch and Japanese occupations, and what sounds like the severe end of the rule of Indonesian dictatiors, Sukarno and Suharto.
The Hopi Messiah: Pahana the 'true white brother' from the East will wear a red cap and cloak and bring two helpers holding the sacred symbols: The swastika, the cross and the power symbol of the Sun. He will restore the Indian version of the Dharma.
The Buddhist mainstream Messiah: Maitreya: Meaning either 'The World Unifier' or simply 'The Friend.' A very human God-Man whom Buddha predicted will be a greater Buddha than himself.
The Mahayana Buddhist Messiah: Amida: A great Christ-like Bodhisattva.
The Japanese Messiah: Several sects of Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism foresee a variant of the Buddhist Maitreya appearing after 8 August 1988 (8/8/88).
The Maori Messiahs: Over a dozen Maori cheiftains in New Zealand from the nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries have laid claim to the title.
The Messiah of Central Asian nomads: The White Burkhan. He will come when the people of the steppes have abandoned their ancient gods (Communist Russia was atheist). He will come to offer them and the entire human race a spiritual rebirth.
The Jewish Messiah: "The" (sic) Messiah. The true messenger of Yahweh, the god of the jews, who will restore them to their status as the Chosen People. Know his time has come when Israel is restored and the temple of Solomon is rebuilt (interest in rebuilding the temple is at an all-time high during the 1990s)
The Hindu Messiah: Kalki or Javada: The ninth and last Avatar of this yuga cycle. His final incarnation will appear from the West.
The Shiite Messiah: The twelfth Imam: The final religious leader of the Shiite sect of Islam. He has never died but will reappear beside Jesus prior to Judgement Day to complete the Holy Qur'an (Koran).
The Sufi Messiah: Khidr, the mysterious guide of the Islamic spiritual underground. He is the Sufi's version of the Shiite twelfth Imam and Muntazar of the Sunnis.
The Zoroastrian Messiah: Saoshyant: Like Zarathustra, he's scheduled to come at the Zoroastrian twelfth millennium (AD 2000)
The Eskimo Messiah: the prophets of the Arctic foresee him to be an olive-skinned man with long beard and white hair who comes from the East.
Just goes to show how people all over the world want someone else to be in charge.
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Or to put Nibbana off into the future.
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Middleman said: We are relatively real but not very.
If you only knew how real we aren't. Truth is much scarier than fiction.
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Re: Messiahs [Re: dr_gonz]
#10689596 - 07/16/09 06:21 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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There was some confusion in the Bible apparently..
The second coming of Christ is coming en-masse via the collective consciousness. Christ Consciousness.
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Shroomism said: There was some confusion in the Bible apparently..
Ya think so.
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Shroomism said: There was some confusion in the Bible apparently..
The second coming of Christ is coming en-masse via the collective consciousness. Christ Consciousness.
I thought about this on the ride to work. Could the first coming of Christ have been Christ Consciousness too, which was persecuted and banished from collective consciousness? The symbolic nailing to the cross?
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Shroomism said: There was some confusion in the Bible apparently..
The second coming of Christ is coming en-masse via the collective consciousness. Christ Consciousness.
I thought about this on the ride to work. Could the first coming of Christ have been Christ Consciousness too, which was persecuted and banished from collective consciousness? The symbolic nailing to the cross?
Meh...I don't really buy the whole Zeitgeist/Jesus-Myth Theory. The mythological parallels get way overblown, and coincidences are made out to be way more significant than they really are. The evidence for a historical Jesus is circumstantial, but nonetheless fairly compelling. Nonetheless, I have no doubt that the message of Jesus has been grossly distorted.
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Re: Messiahs [Re: dr_gonz]
#10692083 - 07/17/09 02:03 AM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Indeed he was. And the Bible was the biggest piece of propaganda ever published.
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MisterMuscaria said: I think that too. I either think I am the Christ or the Anti Christ.
Apparently it is a common delusion.
There is said to be a possible "messiah", and an "anti-christ" in every generation. I think the first book of John actually talks about there being many lesser anti-christs.
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