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One of the things that really really bothers me about "christians" is how judgmental they are. I live in the heart of the Bible belt and all my family and friends are modern day christians and if they found out how I really feel, as stated in the op, they would probably all dissociate themselves from me. They all fuss at me about not going to church and I just always come up with some lame excuse of why I don't go. I don't really know what the best way to handle it is. They are all so brainwashed by organized religion that trying to reason with them would be a waste of time and only make my life miserable. So I put on a smile and fake it
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: Stromrider]
#19039754 - 10/27/13 08:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I did the same for awhile as I grew up there too. But after I started taking LSD seriously I had a harder and harder time with that. Finally I told them what I thought and moved away. Best move I ever made.
-------------------- "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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Eywa_devotee said: The god of the bible is a god with the little G, the being is indeed our creator god, but is not by any measure the one and almighty GOD. If that God were the almighty god there would be no point in deliberately setting us up for failure. Technically speaking even Jesus failed the test of this so-called god by asking "Why have you fortsaken me?"
The answer is that "For your pride and desire to be a savior, you have put your own will before my will. You will be the messiah in the eyes of men who will idolize you as their God, yet your teachings will save the rest of mankind. For this, you shall descend to hell for a time until I need you to judge the human race on the basis of their idolatry, you shall claim those who worship you, and remove them from the earth."
The test is a clever one, to idolize Jesus will lead to ignoring the teachings in favor of turn-key salvation and being damned, to accept the truth of the teachings of Jesus and acknowledge what really happened to him for his pride is to be saved.
The kicker is we judge ourselves while God watches. Fear each other and die, Love one another and live.
You make up some tALES yOU.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: Icelander]
#19039792 - 10/27/13 09:07 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Icelander said: I did the same for awhile as I grew up there too. But after I started taking LSD seriously I had a harder and harder time with that. Finally I told them what I thought and moved away. Best move I ever made.
Now you're the one who tripped in and flunked out or whatever and went to hell. Best move you ever made There's lots of Catholic chicks there.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: eve69]
#19039970 - 10/27/13 09:49 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I grew up in a Catholic neighborhood. My next door neighbors had 12 kids and half were girls and they without exception were good looking.
-------------------- "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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MarkostheGnostic said: Afraid not. God is a shorthand word for volumes of concepts on Ultimate Reality, not a substance, howsoever sacramental, that may trigger an awareness of that Reality.
What is God if not the essence of Consciousness -- i.e., Entheogens.
The Gnostics reverenced the Serpent. The Serpent (Christ) opened the (spiritual) eyes of the (spiritually) blind with the Tree of Knowledge. The Tree of Knowledge is the essence of Consciousness (God).
 This is a fresco from a 13th century french abbey showing Eve, Adam, the Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge -- an Amanita Muscaria mushroom tree. The Serpent is offering one of the Mushrooms to Eve.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: endogenous]
#19042076 - 10/27/13 06:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't really get what you're trying to say. Do you think mushrooms created the universe? Because that's what people usually mean when they refer to "God".
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Sleepwalker said: I don't really get what you're trying to say. Do you think mushrooms created the universe? Because that's what people usually mean when they refer to "God".
"If a tree fell in the forest but no one was there to hear it, would it make a sound?"
God, Entheogens, are the Essence of Consciousness. God created the universe by making us aware of it.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: endogenous]
#19043054 - 10/27/13 10:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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endogenous said:
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Sleepwalker said: I don't really get what you're trying to say. Do you think mushrooms created the universe? Because that's what people usually mean when they refer to "God".
"If a tree fell in the forest but no one was there to hear it, would it make a sound?"
God, Entheogens, are the Essence of Consciousness. God created the universe by making us aware of it.
For heard him say so.......
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: endogenous]
#19043938 - 10/28/13 01:51 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You're confounding things - consciousness, keys that unlock 'forbidden' consciousness, including verbal and artistic representational symbols of consciousness, and the Ultimate Source of consciousness.
-------------------- γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Seauton - Know Thyself
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: Icelander]
#19044284 - 10/28/13 04:12 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Icelander said: I grew up in a Catholic neighborhood. My next door neighbors had 12 kids and half were girls and they without exception were good looking.
Since the thread is about almighty ass, did you ever play doctor? Do they do that in FL, or do they call it playing priest?
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: eve69]
#19045507 - 10/28/13 10:55 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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We had mock weddings in my garage. The girl would pull her pants down, we'd walk to the alter and then I'd kiss her bare ass and we were married.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: Icelander]
#19045750 - 10/28/13 11:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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awesome and no different from ten years later
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: eve69]
#19049827 - 10/29/13 12:06 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Much different for me.
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MarkostheGnostic said: You're confounding things - consciousness, keys that unlock 'forbidden' consciousness, including verbal and artistic representational symbols of consciousness, and the Ultimate Source of consciousness.
The language of the cross may seem illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation, but those of us who are on the way see it as God's power to save. As scripture says: "I shall destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing all the learning of the learned." Where are the philosophers now? Where are the scribes? Where are any of the "thinkers" today? Do you see now how God has shown up the foolishness of human wisdom? If it was God's wisdom that worldly wisdom should not know God, it was because God wanted to save those who have faith through the foolishness of the message that we preach. – 1st Corinthians, 1,18
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: endogenous]
#19061082 - 10/30/13 11:20 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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endogenous said:
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MarkostheGnostic said: You're confounding things - consciousness, keys that unlock 'forbidden' consciousness, including verbal and artistic representational symbols of consciousness, and the Ultimate Source of consciousness.
The language of the cross may seem illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation, but those of us who are on the way see it as God's power to save. As scripture says: "I shall destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing all the learning of the learned." Where are the philosophers now? Where are the scribes? Where are any of the "thinkers" today? Do you see now how God has shown up the foolishness of human wisdom? If it was God's wisdom that worldly wisdom should not know God, it was because God wanted to save those who have faith through the foolishness of the message that we preach. – 1st Corinthians, 1,18
Why is faith good? Why is believing something without proof good?
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: Stromrider]
#19061194 - 10/30/13 11:53 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Stromrider said: Why is faith good? Why is believing something without proof good?
I think that real faith is different than what most people think faith is. To most people, faith means blind belief without there being any reason to believe.
My understanding of "faith" is more along the lines of that when you've seen God, beyond physical life and death, and you've seen Satan, beyond physical life and death, that there is a kind of "faithfulness" that can grow and cause you to not want to give in when worldly (satanic) pressures try to force you into corruption.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: endogenous]
#19061308 - 10/31/13 12:41 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The human mind is very powerful. When people really really want to believe something their mind will make it so. Your mind can do amazing things. (like convince you that you feel gods presence) It's very similar to being brainwashed.
I would love believe that when I die I am going to live in paradise for all eternity (if I'm a good boy) But it's just a fairy tale. People are so terrified of death that it's comforting to believe that. I can certainly understand it.
I don't know what happens after we die. No one does. A lot of people claim they know but they're mostly full of shit. I personally think the mystery of it is the exciting part.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: Stromrider]
#19061372 - 10/31/13 01:08 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fuck everything you heard about god...
God isn't something that has freewill.
God is an indispensable being; not some connotation written in context. Hes the dude who decided to create reality. He also the dude who can take your reality away.
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Re: Almighty God My Ass! [Re: Specimen]
#19061379 - 10/31/13 01:11 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Oh. I'm totally a believer now, thanks. 
Man, that makes things so much easier.
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