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Shenmue
Dark Lord of the Sith
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AroundtheSon
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Re: about Jesus [Re: Shenmue]
#26593870 - 04/11/20 05:12 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Whether you believe or don't believe - most stories have value. As I was saying, whichever way your pleasure tends!
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Shenmue
Dark Lord of the Sith
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It's obviously not true. Anyone over 30 with half a brain knows that.
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AroundtheSon
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Re: about Jesus [Re: Shenmue]
#26595502 - 04/12/20 10:54 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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The tortoise and the hare, jack and the beanstalk, the fox and the hound - someone told me they aren't true either. Yet, still, I find a nugget of truth. How / why?
I'm not interested in arguing. I keep saying "whichever way your pleasure tends".
Your propensity to "prove" your right says more about your unsettled mind than anything.
Let those who seek rainbows seek rainbows, and those who seek the truth of existence seek the truth of existence? Do you really think you will convince someone with your gift of language or ability to post a Youtube?
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The Blind Ass
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Quote:
AroundtheSon said: Whether you believe or don't believe - most stories have value. As I was saying, whichever way your pleasure tends!
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blackdragon999
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Re: about Jesus [Re: saved7]
#26595930 - 04/12/20 02:37 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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saved7 said: ...I mocked Christianity for most of my life before surrendering to the truth of Jesus.
I think the opposite is true for me. Even though I grew up in Jesus, the teachings/faith never stuck with me. The faith is now completely gone. Most of that I attribute to traveling most of my adult life and living in various countries with cultures that in have a very partial/limited concept of Christianity as it exists in the western world. How does one acquire faith?
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Rorge
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Well I can say wholeheartedly that Jesus (or maybe it was Satan) has helped me tremendously recently but I’m still a Jew. Must. Study. More. Buddhism!
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AroundtheSon
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Re: about Jesus [Re: Rorge]
#26598500 - 04/13/20 05:13 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Rorge said: Buddhism!
This. Where a lot of folks end up. Psalm 46:10 He who has ears
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The Blind Ass
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Ati Yoga, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Zen, Shingon/Tangmi, Theravada Forest Tradition, Daoism, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church, Islam, Judaism, Brahmanism, Jainism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Worldwide Primal-Indigenous-Aboriginal-Shamanic religions,World Religion, Anthropology, The Sciences, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, History, dreaming, psychedelics, higher education-uni/college, family, friends, strangers, monasticism, direct experience, and more... in study, practice, faith, and gnosis have collectively transformed and transcended the understanding of thyself in a way that is beyond what I could have ever possibly imagined. In doing so my understanding of Jesus has also changed, and that extends to many men and woman that are revered as gods, sacred or divine symbols, or just charismatic and highly gifted teachers.
I highly recommend expanding one’s horizons in respect to ones own religious upbringing, current religion or absence of religion by learning about all the wonders that the world, humanity, and human history- ancient and modern, esoteric and exoteric- has to offer.
Know thyself!
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OP disappeared from the thread
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Shr00mEater
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He been raptured.
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LittleBoard
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AroundtheSon said:
This always tripped me out:
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was [is] the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, 'Blessed be Abram to the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth, And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand'. And he gave him tithe from all.
— Genesis 14:18–20
Breaking the bread and drinking the wine back in the old skool. Interesting...
Clearly Melchizedek must be some back to the future version of Jesus Christ and there is NO other explanation.  I think the whole bible and everything in it is made up by the likes of you to gain some sort of political power, to make others believe the same nonsense to and have a group identity. Social cohesion is the only reason religious belief exists.
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Shr00mEater
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Well. I guess that settles it then. Thanks.
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AroundtheSon
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Please do tell me the likes of me?
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