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Deviate
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The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord
#18939489 - 10/06/13 10:00 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That is, in the light of Christ.
All other happiness is merely transient happiness, which isn't true happiness at all because it is accompanied by sadness. Thus the world can never satisfy. Even in the rare event that circumstances come together perfectly for you and your own happiness, that state of affairs is virtually impossible to maintain for very long. Eventually something will go wrong and you will have to confront the same old problem of unhappiness again.
Let us imagine if our exceedingly wealthy neighbor offered to pay us $325,000 to watch their children for a year and help them with their homeowrk. Consider the utmost care and effort we put into doing what our neighbor had asked of us and careful we would be to carry out their every instruction.
So my brothers and sisters in the Lord, if we are willing to put forth that much effort in the pursuit of temporary, imperfect happiness why do we hesitate before putting forth the same or greater effort in the pursuit of eternal perfect happiness?
God is so gracious and merciful that he cannot help but take notice whenever we sincerely attempt to please Him. Hence he is prepared to grant us most undeserving and unworthy sinners, so much grace and divine assistance that provided our intent is pure, we can scarcely fail our mission. But such is the Lord our God, so loving and kind and compassionate.
Let us pray: May almighty God have mercy on us poor sinners and help us to resist the temptations of the flesh, in order that we may become holy servants of the Most High. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Edited by Deviate (10/06/13 10:04 AM)
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18939500 - 10/06/13 10:02 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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nahh
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18939571 - 10/06/13 10:21 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I believe in the flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendage!!!
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Stargrazer]
#18939612 - 10/06/13 10:31 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Deviate
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Yogi1]
#18939684 - 10/06/13 10:54 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Stargrazer said: nahh
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Yogi1 said: I believe in the flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendage!!!

congrats but what does that have to do with the topic?
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18939806 - 10/06/13 11:24 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Deviate said:
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Stargrazer said: nahh
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Yogi1 said: I believe in the flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendage!!!

congrats but what does that have to do with the topic?
The only true happiness is within thy noodly appendage, can I get a ramen?
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Yogi1]
#18939866 - 10/06/13 11:42 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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One Bowl of Ramen coming up.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Withinity]
#18939872 - 10/06/13 11:44 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thats not Ramen, thats actually unholy shrimp which is a sin according to the word of god contained inside the bible.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Yogi1]
#18939873 - 10/06/13 11:44 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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jah pastafari...
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: leon trout]
#18939877 - 10/06/13 11:46 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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leon trout said: jah pastafari...
"It all started with the word, and the word was arrrghh!" -Piraticus 20:20
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18939933 - 10/06/13 12:00 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Absolutely not. I'm not a poor sinner and I don't need the mercy of a violent and vengeful god. That kind of slavery is not my cup of tea. Nor does it seem so to many here from the replies. But you go ahead and knock yourself out.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Icelander]
#18940000 - 10/06/13 12:20 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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thats exactly the problem it seems we have a spirituality and mysticism forum where everyone besides me, markosthegnostic and a few other posters is a god damn atheist.
as timothy leary so eloquently described in his trip report for his first ever mushroom, he realized that the path of the mystic was the inner path. i am interested in in communicating with people who share that belief. all the worlds major religions are the same to me,because they all teach that in their own way.
the mystic looks within himself for love, happiness, and all spiritual treasure, whereas the ordinary man looks outside himself.
now how many people actually believe in looking within? i am curious, because it seems like every time i make a thread on a mystical or spiritual topic, the majority of responses are from skeptics and non believers.
the problem with discussing mysticism with non believers is how incredibly ignorant they tend to be. the experience is like if you were a scientist and an atheist and you went to an evolution forum wishing to discuss evolution and you were met with nothing but a bunch of young earth creationists who do nothing but arrogantly ridicule your ideas about evolution.
can you see how that would be dissapionting?
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18940100 - 10/06/13 12:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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HA, youre shocked a spirituality forum is full of agnostics and there are only a couple people who would post here who believe in a book made by god but not made by god but is forever but is based on the context of the actual writers.
You are the minority for a good reason sire.
The path IS within, not without.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18940127 - 10/06/13 12:45 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Deviate said: thats exactly the problem it seems we have a spirituality and mysticism forum where everyone besides me, markosthegnostic and a few other posters is a god damn atheist.
as timothy leary so eloquently described in his trip report for his first ever mushroom, he realized that the path of the mystic was the inner path. i am interested in in communicating with people who share that belief. all the worlds major religions are the same to me,because they all teach that in their own way.
the mystic looks within himself for love, happiness, and all spiritual treasure, whereas the ordinary man looks outside himself.
now how many people actually believe in looking within? i am curious, because it seems like every time i make a thread on a mystical or spiritual topic, the majority of responses are from skeptics and non believers.
the problem with discussing mysticism with non believers is how incredibly ignorant they tend to be. the experience is like if you were a scientist and an atheist and you went to an evolution forum wishing to discuss evolution and you were met with nothing but a bunch of young earth creationists who do nothing but arrogantly ridicule your ideas about evolution.
can you see how that would be dissapionting?
Life is full of disappointments.
I suggest you find yourself a great religious forum full of like minded christians to play with. There must be plenty of those out there. This should solve your problem handily.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Icelander]
#18940133 - 10/06/13 12:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Free thinkin be all like, why you not think like me bro?
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Deviate
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Yogi1]
#18940136 - 10/06/13 12:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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if you agree that the path is within then why do you disagree with me? because i use christian terminology?
do you realize that that would be like disagreeing with someone if they state something in russian but then agreering with the very same thing stated in spanish?
when i say, happiness is in the Lord i could very well say happiness is within the Self. both statements mean the very same thing so if youre going to agree with one and not the other, youre the one who owes an explanation.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Icelander]
#18940145 - 10/06/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
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Deviate said: thats exactly the problem it seems we have a spirituality and mysticism forum where everyone besides me, markosthegnostic and a few other posters is a god damn atheist.
as timothy leary so eloquently described in his trip report for his first ever mushroom, he realized that the path of the mystic was the inner path. i am interested in in communicating with people who share that belief. all the worlds major religions are the same to me,because they all teach that in their own way.
the mystic looks within himself for love, happiness, and all spiritual treasure, whereas the ordinary man looks outside himself.
now how many people actually believe in looking within? i am curious, because it seems like every time i make a thread on a mystical or spiritual topic, the majority of responses are from skeptics and non believers.
the problem with discussing mysticism with non believers is how incredibly ignorant they tend to be. the experience is like if you were a scientist and an atheist and you went to an evolution forum wishing to discuss evolution and you were met with nothing but a bunch of young earth creationists who do nothing but arrogantly ridicule your ideas about evolution.
can you see how that would be dissapionting?
Life is full of disappointments.
I suggest you find yourself a great religious forum full of like minded christians to play with. There must be plenty of those out there. This should solve your problem handily.
with a psychedelic bent though? i am interested in discussing the truth as revealed by psychedelics, because psychedelics have played a major role in my understanding the Truth.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18940149 - 10/06/13 12:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Deviate said: if you agree that the path is within then why do you disagree with me? because i use christian terminology?
do you realize that that would be like disagreeing with someone if they state something in russian but then agreering with the very same thing stated in spanish?
when i say, happiness is in the Lord i could very well say happiness is within the Self. both statements mean the very same thing so if youre going to agree with one and not the other, youre the one who owes an explanation.
No youre saying "the only true happines is happiness in the (christian) lord." First of all that a ridiculous statement as I find happiness in a lot of other experiences, and right now youre backpedaling. Apologetics are the lowest form and least respected of fundamentalist religions.
EDIT, you cant possibly believe gays will burn in some ridiculous underground sea of eternal fire for expressing love to eachother while experiencing a trip.
Edited by Yogi1 (10/06/13 12:51 PM)
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18940164 - 10/06/13 12:52 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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the problem with discussing mysticism with non believers is how incredibly ignorant they tend to be.
Ignorant means without knowledge and yet belief without factual evidence is pure ignorance.
There is one law of gravity because facts converge. There are several hundred thousand religions or sub-flavors of religions because there is nothing to base them on; hence the wide divergence.
If you could present actual reason why an agnostic should choose your belief system over all the others then you might have a real discussion; otherwise all you have is a bold assertion that does not stand out from the other hundreds of thousands of bold assertions.
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Re: The only true happiness, is happiness in the Lord [Re: Deviate]
#18940168 - 10/06/13 12:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Deviate said:
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Icelander said:
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Deviate said: thats exactly the problem it seems we have a spirituality and mysticism forum where everyone besides me, markosthegnostic and a few other posters is a god damn atheist.
as timothy leary so eloquently described in his trip report for his first ever mushroom, he realized that the path of the mystic was the inner path. i am interested in in communicating with people who share that belief. all the worlds major religions are the same to me,because they all teach that in their own way.
the mystic looks within himself for love, happiness, and all spiritual treasure, whereas the ordinary man looks outside himself.
now how many people actually believe in looking within? i am curious, because it seems like every time i make a thread on a mystical or spiritual topic, the majority of responses are from skeptics and non believers.
the problem with discussing mysticism with non believers is how incredibly ignorant they tend to be. the experience is like if you were a scientist and an atheist and you went to an evolution forum wishing to discuss evolution and you were met with nothing but a bunch of young earth creationists who do nothing but arrogantly ridicule your ideas about evolution.
can you see how that would be dissapionting?
Life is full of disappointments.
I suggest you find yourself a great religious forum full of like minded christians to play with. There must be plenty of those out there. This should solve your problem handily.
with a psychedelic bent though? i am interested in discussing the truth as revealed by psychedelics, because psychedelics have played a major role in my understanding the Truth.
If christians are all that great they should accept your ways of finding your truth. I mean the lord is revealing the truth to them right? They are not relying on their own understanding right?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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