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How can a Jew still have faith?
#5090564 - 12/21/05 04:17 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Throughout history, many rulers, empires and nations have everywhere oppressed, persecuted, expulsed, massacred, or even slaughtered their Jewish populations.
After knowing his history, how can a Jew still have faith in his religion, his God? How can a Jew stay faithful to a God which is supposed to have created humankind and supposively cares about it?
In Judaism, it is believed that God determines the course of events in this world. How could such an omniscient and omnipotent God could have let his people suffer and die the way they did? Where was God when he was supposed to show care for his Creation?
Surely all of the 6 million Jews that died only half a century ago hadn't all been violaters of His commandments. Surely this genocide wasn't God's way of punishing the unfaithful.
Because if I was a Jew, that would be the only way that I'd be able to explain to myself how such an event could have taken place under God's all-seeing eye, under his knowledge and his "care". And I wonder how true Jews explain this to themselves, how they arrange the facts and their religion together in their mind, so that Judaism is still a valid path to walk and so that God is still an entity worth devoting their life to.
So what does that make of God? Is God just a big scam? Is he like a supernatural politician, making lots of promises but never holding them? Or does the problem come from humans, who are uncapable of following and respecting God's requirements?
If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090576 - 12/21/05 04:24 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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A Jew can still have faith by believing he is a Jew. It's that simple. To see that each one of us is unique and a spiritual expression of creation releases one from the need to be other than what one is. Which is not any lable like "Jew".
-------------------- "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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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090601 - 12/21/05 04:32 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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I agree with Icelander. Also, having been raised in a Jewish house hold, one potential arguement could be that it is all a part of his plan, and what he does is not always rational. Jews have been persecuted through a lot of history, as you say. God only intervened when all the Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians, according to legend, at least.
Personally I don't put much stock in these as literal stories, and more as metaphors for finding God and his Kingdom in our own hearts.
But yes, the arguement you suggest is the one that my father generally uses/used to justify his atheism. "Since there has been no evidence found in 'modern' times of a deity, then clearly one must not exist." Which is essentially the argumentum ad ignorantiam.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Icelander]
#5090611 - 12/21/05 04:36 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Icelander said: A Jew can still have faith by believing he is a Jew. It's that simple. To see that each one of us is unique and a spiritual expression of creation releases one from the need to be other than what one is. Which is not any lable like "Jew".
Well not all Jews must see this, elsewise there would be no such thing as a Jew, there would be no need to follow this commandment or that commandment and adhere to Judaism, since there would be no other need than to be.
By followong Judaism, a person is labelising himself as a Jew. What I'm asking though is how can anyone still have faith in Judaism?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090623 - 12/21/05 04:42 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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and I answered. Think hard about how rational people believe irrational things.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090642 - 12/21/05 04:49 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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By followong Judaism, a person is labelising himself as a Jew. What I'm asking though is how can anyone still have faith in Judaism?
Not necessarily. There are many different forms of Judaism, from Orthodox to Kabbalists to Messianic Jews. I take some of my beliefs from the Kaballah, as I do other beliefs from other religious traditions. Religions "belong" to me, I don't "belong" to them. In other words, by following certain Jewish ideas, you are not the property of them and cannot thus be labelled a Jew. In fact, a label is just a word, a symbol. A Jew to one person may not be a Jew to another.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: dblaney]
#5090695 - 12/21/05 05:05 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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When asked what religion you adhere to, what do you say?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090726 - 12/21/05 05:13 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Generally I say that I'm a scholor of all religions, and I pick and choose as I see fit, but out of what's out there, I identify fairly closely with Taoism and Vedanta Buddhism.
What about you?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: dblaney]
#5090763 - 12/21/05 05:24 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Me? I don't adhere to any religion. I don't like to endulge myself in any system.
I see what you were saying now. I understand that you find some of the jewish religious ideas enriching for you, and that you aren't a strict follower of the religion. But alot still are, right? I guess you should know since you've been raised in a Jewish family.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090823 - 12/21/05 05:36 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yes, there are some people...actually quite a number, that follow Judaism just because it's what they've always done. They've never really questioned its foundation. They will obey silly customs religiously and flaunt others openly. Judaism has a lot to offer culturally as well as in terms of faith, and I think that attracts some people too, as I've seen people have lavish decorations and Jewish artwork while they don't follow the religious aspect of it much at all.
And then of course there are those who actually believe in the old grandfather in the sky.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090857 - 12/21/05 05:46 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Surely all of the 6 million Jews that died only half a decade ago...
What happened in 2000 that I missed?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Swami]
#5090862 - 12/21/05 05:47 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ehhh, half a decade, six decades, it's all the same in philosophical time.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: dblaney]
#5090930 - 12/21/05 06:06 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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dblaney said: Yes, there are some people...actually quite a number, that follow Judaism just because it's what they've always done. They've never really questioned its foundation.
Its really too bad that people don't study their religion before dedicating their life to it...
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And then of course there are those who actually believe in the old grandfather in the sky.
From what I understand, in Judaism God is non-physical.
Anyways, you answered my first question when you said that "it is all a part of his plan, and what he does is not always rational". However that kind of contradicts the Hebrew Bible, which says that if you do everything God asks from you, God will take care of you...
If I was a Jew, I'd be worried about God and what awful things he still has waiting for us in order to achieve his "plan". Hell, if I was a kid Jew, I'd be wondering what the hell the Jews did wrong for being punished so severly!
I'm still confused as to how anybody can still buy all this.
Can you believe that some people are still Christians?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Swami]
#5090948 - 12/21/05 06:10 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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oops, i meant century
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5090955 - 12/21/05 06:11 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Are you saying that there wasn't an OY 2k?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5091246 - 12/21/05 07:39 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Can you believe that I'm a Jewish Christian? It's true, even though most of both faiths are mythological. But mythology is a culture's collective manifestation of Universal themes, of archetypes of the Collective Unconscious which means that myths are depicting through fictional human dramas whole realms of experience. Death, rebirth, resurrection, judgement, reward, punishment, etc. - are all metaphysical conditions of the human soul that harken back to ancient Egypt (in the Jewish/Christian traditions). Similarities exist in Tibetan Buddhism with dangers and magical names to give one clear passage in the post-mortem condition. Gnostics had similar practices for getting past the Archons. The whole world from time immemorial has these religious traditions. Now if you're a simple materialist, then there is gonna be no talking with you. If you're not an Intuitive Personality, than you are not given to great leaps of 'what if?' But you have obviously not attempted to learn anything significant about mytho-religious images and have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Maybe you could read Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth before you take an seemingly superior stand to the profound mysteries which you just don't understand yet.
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I'm interested to see what that book says about the power of myths, I should check it out. What remains a fact though is that myths don't have the power to save the people that believe in them. Which is exactly what is suggested in the ancient texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, which claim to be the words of God.
I understand that you personally perceive these texts as being mythological, but I doubt that this is the way the majority of Jews/Christians have been interpreting them. Most of them read and follow their religion's texts in a litteral manner. Would you not agree?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5093057 - 12/22/05 08:50 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is the crux of the Gnostic vs. the Literalist interpretation of scripture, and it is the thesis of the book The Laughing Jesus by Freke and Gandy. Originally, there WERE no 'empty tomb narratives' (the Gospels) in the Christian faith. In fact early Christians didn't call themselves Christians for 150 years or so. They were followers of 'The Way' within Judaism and they continued to worship in the Temple at Jerusalem.
The earliest writings were certain letters by [St.] Paul, who never met Jesus in the flesh. Paul met the 'Resurrected' Jesus in visionary states, and recognized Jesus' eternal nature. Paul never mentions anything pertaining to a 'resusitated corpse' - the images of quasi-physical resurrection that the four Gospels depict (among dozens of other Gospels that were rejected because they could not appeal to the lowest common denominator, the simplest minded and hence most material-minded individuals). Unfortunately, this Literalist approach is what was pushed by Emperor Constantine and the so-called Church Fathers whom he hired to create the Bible as we know it.
Not all the letters we have with Paul's name were actually written by that historical person. It was common to attribute someone of fame to writings back in the day, and critical analysis of writings reveals many differences in content, attitude, etc. The original Christians for example were egalitarian towards women, then suddenly there is a reversion to anti-women sentiment about women keeping quiet in church, not to preach or teach or do anything! This particular change reflects the Roman attitude even more that the former Jewish attitude of patriarchy.
"Paul's authentic letters are full of thoroughly Gnostic ideas and terminology. He tells us he experienced Jesus as a vision of light and everything he knows about Jesus came through 'revelation.' When Paul tells us 'the secret' of Christianity, it has nothing to do with an historical Jesus. The great secret in Christianity, Paul declares, is the mystical revelation of 'Christ in you' [Colossians 1:25-28]...Paul's message is the perennial Gnostic message. We are all one. He teaches that when we are 'baptised into union with Jesus...there is no such thing as Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, for we are all one person in Christ Jesus....'The only elements of the Jesus myth that Paul mentions are Christ's death and resurrection, which Paul understands as symbolizing the process of initiation. By sharing in Jesus' death and resurrection initiates symbolically die to their 'old self' and resurrect 'in Christ.' Paul reminds his students 'the person you once were has been crucified with Christ.' p. 62 The Laughing Jesus
Now this material is not new, but it is explained to the layperson with clarity in this book. It is radical for those who have grown up and been hypnotised through repetition to believe the mainstream doctrinal party line. That line would be something along the lines of a mystical reverberation of Jesus salvific death on the cross through the rest of history so that:
"According to Literalists all you need to do was believe the Jesus story was true and you would be saved." p. 69
Unfortunately, the world is as evil as it has ever been. Paul himself seemed to misunderstand the immediacy of the end of the world and Jesus' return in clouds of glory. The End of Days, or the end of time, Gnostically interpreted (and one which reflects the same 'fully-realized eschatology' in Hinduism and Buddhism - that it's all here & now, not in any 'future time'), is the end of time and is a possibility for everyone in any moment. We are able to transcend space-time right here and now. This is Being-in-Christ. Christ is the mind of the Logos - that aspect of God with which humans can 'interface with' (in modern terms) or 'be caught up in' (in classical Biblical speak). Paul can be mistaken because there is no such thing as scriptural infallibility. The letters of Paul were letters to early churches, not holy writ. They were made into holy writ by the order of Emperor Constantine.
Understand please that mythological does NOT mean unreal. The mythic domain is a timeless psychospiritual reality which orders our lives according to timeless, universal themes like self-sacrifice (ego-death), the establishment of Compassion as The Way to Be ("I live, yet not I; Christ liveth in me."), and the expansion of this Being-in-Christ which results in our being transformed into Christ (Theosis, in the Greek Orthodox Church) and hence our establishment as a being of Compassion, in God, which is Resurrection.
The Gnostic interpretation draws the mythological into the psychological whereas the Literalist does no such thing: just believe the stories and one is 'justified by faith.' If one wants to become higher/holier (sanctification), then there are the precribed techniques according to Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox guidelines. Meanwhile, there are too many Literalists who are brainwashed into the monsters that they are (Jewish, Christian and Muslim monsters) who insist that they alone understand their 'unfallible' scriptures and those who disagree with them are worthy of damnation. This attitude of hate is justified by interpretation of aspects of scriptures which themselves are hateful, but being 'infallible' makes it perfectly OK to commit atrocities against humankind.
This post is for you and for anyone else who senses that there is Truth buried in the dungpiles of religious scriptures and dogmas of all faiths, particularly in the Peoples of the Book. [Whew! ]
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I suggest everyone read as much of Joseph Campbell's work as you can.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5093702 - 12/22/05 12:23 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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exclusive58 said: After knowing his history, how can a Jew still have faith in his religion, his God? How can a Jew stay faithful to a God which is supposed to have created humankind and supposively cares about it?
This is the test.
Are you set to sacrifice your first-born son?
Peace.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: fireworks_god]
#5093916 - 12/22/05 01:35 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Are you set to sacrifice your first-born son?
I am not, but Bush & Cheney are, and have. They must have tremendous religious faith.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Swami]
#5094285 - 12/22/05 03:01 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell not a jewish guy but good at following his bliss
what was the question?
BTW it's great having a controversial origins. FI as a jew, I can toss epithets with plenty of garlic underneath the radar of a goy detector, but otherwise it is business as usual.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: redgreenvines]
#5094372 - 12/22/05 03:21 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Campbell's take on religion has been compared to Einstein's idea of science in his last days, the search is for a unifying theory. Joseph Campbell believed all the religions of the world, all the rituals and deities, to be ?masks? of the same transcendent truth which is ?unknowable.? He claims Christianity and Buddhism, whether the object is 'Buddha-consciousness' or 'Christ-consciousness,' to be an elevated awareness above ?pairs of opposites,? such as right and wrong.
Ya, I like that! I definitely need to check out this guy's works.
Markos, do you think there are a majority of literal interpreters or Gnostic interpreters of the ancient scriptures?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: exclusive58]
#5094590 - 12/22/05 04:22 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Gnostic interpretation of scriptures belongs to the very few. I came to it through psychedelics. Ram Dass' Guru Neem Karolie Baba said that "LSD is like Christ in America." He said that the most materialistic country in the world needed to approach GOD through a material. Enter the unwitting servant and alchemist of GOD, Dr. Albert Hofmann. I was at odds with everyone in the United Methodist seminary that I attended from 1976-78. I would paraphrase something from BE HERE NOW, like "The Way is The Way is The Way...," with reference to The Way-Christ NOT being a long-haired 1st century Jewish carpenter, but the same invisible reality of The Tao (which means The Way). Students would look at the professor, worry on their faces, and Professor T.C. Oden said: "We don't all have to be high-fliers." In other words, the prof got it, but assured the class that everyone does not have to hold such 'elevated' views of the scriptures. And, I assume he was right, but that is because the majority of Christians are what the Gnostics called 'Psychic' Christians while only a few were 'Pneumatic' Christians who held lofty, cosmic understandings.
Hey, if rough inner city kids like the ones portrayed in the film 'Stand and Deliver' could learn advanced mathematics - lots of people could be taught a truly cosmic perspective when it comes to their religion. Most people take the religious myths at face value and do not know how to read more deeply (or highly). I would say that the same thing happens with dreams. People who we dream about symbolize certain psychic qualities that belong to us, the dreamer. The images of people in our dreams are not those people who we know in waking life. The motives and words of our dream images are our own psyches speaking to us, not our family members, friends, enemies, etc. Scriptural words, when they 'speak to us,' speak through OUR understanding according, not the author's understanding. Non-psychedelic seminarians had no cosmic understanding to interpret the scriptures, and I came to believe that a psychedelic understanding makes infinitely more sense than a superstitious or magical-thinking (not occult magic, child developmental 'magical-thinking') understanding. I further presume that most Shroomerites have learned to trust psychedelic insight over non-ordinary reality when it comes to spiritual-metaphysical assumptions.
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So these books you read Markos, are for following or else? God is a man in flesh, not some supernatural being, What does god have written about aliens, do they exist to him or not?
Markos i do not believe you have eaten the mushroom, to see what the mushroom is here for. What do you say about the rainforest? Is it not the center of the galaxy?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
#5095299 - 12/22/05 07:23 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Is sex not meant for reproduction and reproduction only?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
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Droz said: Is sex not meant for reproduction and reproduction only?
Um...no?
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
#5095335 - 12/22/05 07:31 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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The mushrooms when i took them did nothing to me but show me basic instincts that were inside of me, it did not bring upon hallucinations until later. Showed that i was an alien from a different galaxy. God knows this so god does not want one leaving the herd. Showed me the existance of the black people. Their existance is from the tree. My existance is from a seed.
I learned that we are all different types of monkeys on this planet, we inhabit the monkey body.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
#5095345 - 12/22/05 07:32 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Paradigm how could it not be for reproduction? DUH!
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
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Droz said: Showed that i was an alien from a different galaxy.
Based on your posts, I'm almost willing to believe that.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
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Droz said: Paradigm how could it not be for reproduction? DUH!
Of course it's for reproduction. The question was whether or not it was for reproduction ONLY. DUH!
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
#5095364 - 12/22/05 07:35 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Reproduction is one potential outcome of sexual intercourse. As is ecstatic union, emotional release, fulfillment of lust, etc. etc.
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Re: How can a Jew still have faith? [Re: Droz]
#5095404 - 12/22/05 07:39 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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And what is lust? But a desire to reproduce.
Materialism is wanting to have too much.
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