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2012 = not
    #5694050 - 05/31/06 07:54 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

IMO there is no way that this global consciousness shift can happen. Veritas and I were discussing world conditions and basic human awareness. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if the lower survival needs are not met it would be practically impossible for the individual to become aware of or value the development of higher/spiritual needs.

Much of the world is in dire straits to meet these lower needs. If you take an honest look at world conditions (and that includes this country) there are very few humans who are coming close to having their basic survival needs met.

This idea of a global consciousness shift beginning around 2012 is a totally elitist idea and has no substance as far as I can see.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694060 - 05/31/06 08:00 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It doesn't matter to me... I died from the giant tsunami that happen last week when a comet fragment stuck the atlantic ocean.  If you don't believe me, just ask the aliens that telepathically warned everybody to flee the coast.  It happened, really.  You can read all about it at www.savelivesinmay.com  :rolleyes:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694072 - 05/31/06 08:06 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Maybe it just marks the begining of the end of "this world order"

Maybe nothing will happen.

Maybe America pisses the whole world off and we nuke the planet into dust????


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My mom used to say "You can what if something to death"

Trying to predict the future is a waste of time.

I would bet that 2012 will come and go much like 2000 did


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Seuss]
    #5694075 - 05/31/06 08:08 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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It doesn't matter to me... I died from the giant tsunami that happen last week when a comet fragment stuck the atlantic ocean.  [/url]  :rolleyes:




Lol. Me to, so how are we talking, thats weird. The afterworld is exactly the same.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Seuss]
    #5694080 - 05/31/06 08:09 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Not living near the coast I handn't noticed that you had died. I am sorry to hear of your passing. :heart:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694221 - 05/31/06 09:49 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

A lot can happen in 6 years.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694229 - 05/31/06 09:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:thumbup:

It's hard to concentrate on spiritual elevation when all of your effort is spent attempting to procure food and clean water.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Redstorm]
    #5694246 - 05/31/06 10:00 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Actually, the poor tend to be much more spiritually oriented than the rich. It's those who have too much that are going to have a more difficult transition.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694276 - 05/31/06 10:08 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:thumbup:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694299 - 05/31/06 10:14 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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A lot can happen in 6 years.




As far as human evolution goes either physical or emotional/spiritual that has never been true. What do you base your statement on besides wishful thinking?


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694306 - 05/31/06 10:16 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

are you in te same room as veritas but on differnt computers?


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694307 - 05/31/06 10:16 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Silversoul said:
A lot can happen in 6 years.




As far as human evolution goes either physical or emotional/spiritual that has never been true. What do you base your statement on besides wishful thinking?



The fact that poverty is not inevitable, and can be fixed(yes, even in 6 years, if we act now). The "shift in consciousness" may not happen overnight in 2012, but the stage may be set for that shift by that time.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694317 - 05/31/06 10:18 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Actually, the poor tend to be much more spiritually oriented than the rich. It's those who have too much that are going to have a more difficult transition.




I would dispute this. Most really poor are malnourished or diseased and do not have the mental capacity (you need nutrients to fuel brain function) to work on their spirituality. Much of the worlds poor are in a state of malnutrition. Survival until tomorrow is their path.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694321 - 05/31/06 10:20 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Silversoul said:
A lot can happen in 6 years.




As far as human evolution goes either physical or emotional/spiritual that has never been true. What do you base your statement on besides wishful thinking?



The fact that poverty is not inevitable, and can be fixed(yes, even in 6 years, if we act now).  The "shift in consciousness" may not happen overnight in 2012, but the stage may be set for that shift by that time.




Poverty vanquished in six years. :biggrin: Again what do you base this unreal speculation on?


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694326 - 05/31/06 10:22 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Poverty vanquished in six years. :biggrin: Again what do you base this unreal speculation on?



My own diligent research.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: niteowl]
    #5694340 - 05/31/06 10:25 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

2012 is predicted to be the end of old and beginning of new. It will not be a big boom, pow, shockwave that wakes everyone into enlightement or something. The changes have begun already, things will get really crazy starting next year 2007, mark my words. It will be like all things, gradual escalation and de-escalation. 2012 is just a marker.

But it's undeniable that humanity is somewhere it's never been. Technology and population have hit unprecedented levels and that's not going away. We are entering a new age, 2012 is supposed to be the year that the trasnformation from old to new is complete. But transformation is never complete, so this just marks a major shift, which to me, is clearly present already.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694345 - 05/31/06 10:26 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

The potential has always been there. The willingness never. You need to do some research on that. There is no evidence of any lessining of poverty since the big political and social movents around this in my lifetime. I heard exactly the same claims in the 70s. It's an eliteist idea that helps ones conscience take a break for having to be one of the haves, often at the expense of the have nots.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694348 - 05/31/06 10:27 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Just so you know, I don't expect poverty to be vanquished within 6 years, simply because I don't expect that people will wake up soon enough. That shift in consciousness may actually be that necessary awakening among the developed world, where we realize our interconnectedness, and responsibility to the planet.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694357 - 05/31/06 10:28 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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The potential has always been there. The willingness never. You need to do some research on that. There is no evidence of any lessining of poverty since the big political and social movents around this in my lifetime. I heard exactly the same claims in the 70s. It's an eliteist idea that helps ones conscience take a break for having to be one of the haves, often at the expense of the have nots.



How is it elitist to point out that it is possible? I never said it was actually going to happen.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694363 - 05/31/06 10:30 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Actually, the poor tend to be much more spiritually oriented than the rich. It's those who have too much that are going to have a more difficult transition.




I would dispute this. Most really poor are malnourished or diseased and do not have the mental capacity (you need nutrients to fuel brain function) to work on their spirituality. Much of the worlds poor are in a state of malnutrition. Survival until tomorrow is their path.




Spirituality has nothing to do with mental capacity, you are mislead about that. It is about being, not thinking or doing. This is implicit in all life and enlightenment is the acknowledgment of that. It's not about figuring anything out, thinking will always just be thinking.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694375 - 05/31/06 10:37 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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The potential has always been there. The willingness never. You need to do some research on that. There is no evidence of any lessining of poverty since the big political and social movents around this in my lifetime. I heard exactly the same claims in the 70s. It's an eliteist idea that helps ones conscience take a break for having to be one of the haves, often at the expense of the have nots.





How is it elitist to point out that it is possible? I never said it was actually going to happen.




Anything is possible. Ok I'll give you that. BUT!

I'm trying to take a logical look at the idea that 2012 is a big global consciousness change.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694376 - 05/31/06 10:37 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Spirituality has nothing to do with mental capacity, you are mislead about that. It is about being, not thinking or doing. This is implicit in all life and enlightenment is the acknowledgment of that. It's not about figuring anything out, thinking will always just be thinking.



My thoughts exactly. Also I'd like to point some things out:

Jesus was poor.

Siddhartha renounced his riches in order to become enlightened.

Monks and nuns always take a vow of poverty.

Ghandi lived a simple, aescetic life.

The poor in the US are statistically more likely to be religious.

Poor countries tend to have more religious populations than wealthy countries.

The obstacle to spiritual development is not poverty, but materialism.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694380 - 05/31/06 10:39 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Anything is possible. Ok I'll give you that. BUT!

I'm trying to take a logical look at the idea that 2012 is a big global consciousness change.



As I said in another post, it will take a shift in consciousness before people will do what is necessary to rescue the world from poverty and self-destruction. Maybe that is the shift in consciousness that will take place. The poor don't need the shift in consciousness. It's the privileged who do.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694389 - 05/31/06 10:41 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Silversoul said:
Actually, the poor tend to be much more spiritually oriented than the rich. It's those who have too much that are going to have a more difficult transition.




I would dispute this. Most really poor are malnourished or diseased and do not have the mental capacity (you need nutrients to fuel brain function) to work on their spirituality. Much of the worlds poor are in a state of malnutrition. Survival until tomorrow is their path.




Spirituality has nothing to do with mental capacity, you are mislead about that. It is about being, not thinking or doing. This is implicit in all life and enlightenment is the acknowledgment of that. It's not about figuring anything out, thinking will always just be thinking.




Tell that to a starving malnourished individual whose body does not function correctly.

We may all be ultimately spirit, (I'm not disputing that) but on this physical plane of experience the physical body needs to be a functioning unit for awareness of that spirituality and the ability to really act on it in a major way.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694401 - 05/31/06 10:42 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Icelander said:
Anything is possible. Ok I'll give you that. BUT!

I'm trying to take a logical look at the idea that 2012 is a big global consciousness change.



As I said in another post, it will take a shift in consciousness before people will do what is necessary to rescue the world from poverty and self-destruction. Maybe that is the shift in consciousness that will take place. The poor don't need the shift in consciousness. It's the privileged who do.




That's a huge maybe with no evidence for it. That's what I'm looking at. Like I said I heard all of this (and a lot louder) in the 70s.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5694402 - 05/31/06 10:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

"The poor don't need the shift in consciousness. It's the privileged who do."

Here here!!


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694405 - 05/31/06 10:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

whoops, I think it's "hear hear". anyone know?


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694412 - 05/31/06 10:45 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

There is no evidence that they are making it (the privilidged) any more than at any other time in history.

The error I believe is in individuals who surround themselves with a like minded social group and all read the same literature and then begin to believe that much of the world is thinking along the same lines. I've seen this over and over and have done it often enough myself.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694420 - 05/31/06 10:47 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

The problem is people sitting around and waiting for this shift to happen. I, for one, plan to do my part to actively initiate this shift. And if everyone who looks forward to that shift will do the same, then we can make it a reality.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694442 - 05/31/06 10:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I think it will happen whether we want it or not. There is no "problem", it's inevitable, this is not something we are choosing, but rather have chosen. Some people will sit back and think it's bullshit, others will march in the streets. I for one will be meditating in the Himilayas. (leaving in september)


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694458 - 05/31/06 10:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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I think it will happen whether we want it or not.



It's that kind of thinking that will prevent it from happening. We need to play an active role in this.

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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694476 - 05/31/06 11:06 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Here's my assessment of what happened in the 70s and my prediction of what will happen in 2012-2016.

The true believers who are invested in their beliefs will find that what they expected did not happen as planned and over the next few years will become disillusioned. At that point they will change tactics and say well that was a lot of youthful BS. I'm gonna take care of me and mine.

You might think my view is negative and without hope but that is not the case. I like to look life straight in the eye and use my logical abilities along with my spiritual leanings and say what's the best course of action for myself. That's living what I call the warriors way to the best of my ability. Good for me and good for everything IMO. I was a true believer in the 70s and I saw it all go down. I re-evaluated my stance (so I didn't have to give up and go for the almighty buck and safety net) I choose a spiritual path more suited to my true nature. So I'm not saying don't do what you're doing. I was just taking a look at it and seeing if anyone thought as I do.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5694553 - 05/31/06 11:37 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

----Spirituality has nothing to do with mental capacity, you are mislead about that. It is about being, not thinking or doing. This is implicit in all life and enlightenment is the acknowledgment of that. It's not about figuring anything out, thinking will always just be thinking.-----

This sounds good and is well articulated but I don't quit agree with it totally. Being aware is not implicit in all life, To me it goes hand in hand, you learn and then you become, you become and then your able to learn, do I just accept something on blind faith then I'm granted enlightenment, maybe on somethings but not all.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: capliberty]
    #5694651 - 05/31/06 12:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Silversoul: I don't agree. You need to be active maybe, maybe that is your path. It's not mine. There is no point in arguing about the future, we'll just wait and see. But I'm 100% sure a big change is coming and it doesn't require my activism.

Icelander: Respect. You are a warrior. You don't need to get caught up in BS. Stay strong and take care of your family.

capliberty: I did not mean being aware is implicit, just being, plants, bacteria, viruses, dirt, and rocks included. Being aware is a wonderful opportunity we have as humans. It thoroughly enhances the experience of existence, but it does not make it. Spirituality is about tuning into that existence that is independent of consciousness. Thought is mostly a distraction.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694890 - 05/31/06 01:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

But I'm 100% sure a big change is coming and it doesn't require my activism.

IMO to belive something 100% is closed minded and fear driven.

Unless you have some amazing evidence besides your hopes that you are willing to share. :confused:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694915 - 05/31/06 01:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

not willing to share, cause it wouldn't seem amazing to you, it would just give you an opportunity to say I'm a hippy or something.

I'm not scared of anything. It's like saying you are 100% sure the sun will set tonight. Ok, maybe it won't but I'm not 99% I'm 100%, fear is not involved. It truly believe that the sun will set tonight, I don't see how that's close minded.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694921 - 05/31/06 01:20 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

There is a precedent for the sun setting: It has done the same every other night, so it is reasonable to assume it will do the same tonight. What precedent is there to believe that this massive shift in consciousness will occur?


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5694979 - 05/31/06 01:41 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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not willing to share, cause it wouldn't seem amazing to you, it would just give you an opportunity to say I'm a hippy or something.

I'm not scared of anything. It's like saying you are 100% sure the sun will set tonight. Ok, maybe it won't but I'm not 99% I'm 100%, fear is not involved. It truly believe that the sun will set tonight, I don't see how that's close minded.




It's closed minded IMO because we don't have the information to be 100% sure of anything. That's why people reach out to religion or political dogma, so they can be 100% sure they're right. And it is fear based at least in most cases IMO, because many people become invested egotistically and the ego cannot face being wrong.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5695160 - 05/31/06 02:35 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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The obstacle to spiritual development is not poverty, but materialism.




Not if you don't presuppose that spiritual development is a mystical endeavor. However, if you meant materialism in the sense of lusting after material possessions, then yes I suppose that would be detrimental.

There seems to be a lot of confusion over the meaning of "materialism" around here. My philosophy professors always used the term "physicalism" to describe the belief that there is nothing beyond the material world.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695188 - 05/31/06 02:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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not willing to share, cause it wouldn't seem amazing to you, it would just give you an opportunity to say I'm a hippy or something.

I'm not scared of anything. It's like saying you are 100% sure the sun will set tonight. Ok, maybe it won't but I'm not 99% I'm 100%, fear is not involved. It truly believe that the sun will set tonight, I don't see how that's close minded.




It's closed minded IMO because we don't have the information to be 100% sure of anything. That's why people reach out to religion or political dogma, so they can be 100% sure they're right. And it is fear based at least in most cases IMO, because many people become invested egotistically and the ego cannot face being wrong.




I see your point. I am definitely scared of being wrong. It's a daily battle with my ego. Admitting this is a victory over it. So I guess I'm not sure of anything 100%. The earth could stop spinning, I really don't know that it won't. So back to the topic. I guess I don't know what will happen. But if I had to wager..


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: tallgreen]
    #5695264 - 05/31/06 03:11 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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not willing to share, cause it wouldn't seem amazing to you, it would just give you an opportunity to say I'm a hippy or something. 

I'm not scared of anything.  It's like saying you are 100% sure the sun will set tonight.  Ok, maybe it won't but I'm not 99% I'm 100%, fear is not involved.  It truly believe that the sun will set tonight, I don't see how that's close minded.




It's closed minded IMO because we don't have the information to be 100% sure of anything. That's why people reach out to religion or political dogma, so they can be 100% sure they're right. And it is fear based at least in most cases IMO, because many people become invested egotistically and the ego cannot face being wrong.




I see your point.  I am definitely scared of being wrong.  It's a daily battle with my ego.  Admitting this is a victory over it.  So I guess I'm not sure of anything 100%.  The earth could stop spinning, I really don't know that it won't.  So back to the topic.  I guess I don't know what will happen.  But if I had to wager..




Admitting one doesn't know is a brave and true act IMO. :thumbup: It's brave because we are taught that to be ok we must know certain things.

Your best guess is up to you and you can use any method. I like to use intuition and experience. I hear something that feels "right" and because I want to choose a path I decide to believe it and explore it. But I never forget the other side of a coin. I could be totally wrong. This concept became clear to me from the Castaneda books. It's called "having to believe". It's very powerful but needs all it's component parts.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: it stars saddam]
    #5695283 - 05/31/06 03:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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The obstacle to spiritual development is not poverty, but materialism.




Not if you don't presuppose that spiritual development is a mystical endeavor. However, if you meant materialism in the sense of lusting after material possessions, then yes I suppose that would be detrimental.

There seems to be a lot of confusion over the meaning of "materialism" around here. My philosophy professors always used the term "physicalism" to describe the belief that there is nothing beyond the material world.



I was referring to the latter definition of materialism, not the philosophical kind.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695320 - 05/31/06 03:23 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

A [nearly] global shift in consciousness happens about every hundred years. Pay more attention to the guerrilla mind theatre and stop concerning yourself with otherworldly expectations!


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    #5695340 - 05/31/06 03:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It does?


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695359 - 05/31/06 03:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yessir! Industrialization seems to have changed the consciousness of most of the world in the 20th century. The internet will probably be the primus impetus of consciouness change in the 21st century.


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    #5695369 - 05/31/06 03:33 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

The heliocentric model, once it was accepted, was a huge shift of consciousness, too.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: MushmanTheManic]
    #5695373 - 05/31/06 03:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah, I can see that kind of change. It's got nothing to do with 2012 or emotional evolution either.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: MushmanTheManic]
    #5695376 - 05/31/06 03:35 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Age Of Enlightenment.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: MushmanTheManic]
    #5695425 - 05/31/06 03:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Icelander it seems like you are scared in not beilieving in something 100%

Believe 100% for everything, all is connected and real no?
2012 in my mind happens alot of times to alot of people, anyone :laugh:
to me its just another metaphor trying to describe the act of breaking the veil, becomeing one with all. :royalrainbow: :mushroom2: :heart:


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    #5695434 - 05/31/06 03:47 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

[Methinks] the "emotional level" of the average person in the 13th century is far below the average person nowadays (in the Occident.)


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    #5695465 - 05/31/06 03:57 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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icelander] I'm trying to take a logical look at the idea that 2012 is a big global consciousness change.




Logical look at consciousness :laugh:
Whats your definition of logic?
Would you not say a consciousness shit at any point would be a
metaphyisical or spiritual act?
Theres more than one road you know?
Will it be different or the same?
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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Silversoul]
    #5695477 - 05/31/06 03:59 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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The obstacle to spiritual development is not poverty, but materialism.




The obstacle to spiritual development is religion. :smirk:

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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Springs]
    #5695481 - 05/31/06 03:59 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Icelander it seems like you are scared in not beilieving in something 100%

Believe 100% for everything, all is connected and real no?
2012 in my mind happens alot of times to alot of people, anyone :laugh:
to me its just another metaphor trying to describe the act of breaking the veil, becomeing one with all. :royalrainbow: :mushroom2: :heart:




Don't agree. It's non productive wishful thinking in my experience. Like I said this is the second time around for me.

But I could be totally wrong.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695503 - 05/31/06 04:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Icelander it seems like you are scared in not beilieving in something 100%




From my point of observation, anyone who has to commit themselves to believing in something in such an absolute, 100% manner is doing so out of fear.

The nature of reality and our perception of it is that absolutely nothing is certain. To accept something as otherwise is close-minded.

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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695507 - 05/31/06 04:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I don't know about the entire world, but most people i encounter have their basic survival needs met, and actually are allowing themselves to evolve emotionally. (then again, i'm anti-social at best, so i don't encounter that much people)
I have no idea what will happen in 2012, but there's this feeling that something will and that it will take effort. Just not sure whether i should trust this feeling or not. :shrug:


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    #5695511 - 05/31/06 04:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I think there is zero chance that humans will change by that time, in fact I don't think they will go to better at all.
What' I'd do is let them do whatever they wan't, legalise everything, and wait for the society to fall down, then start over again.

I think this society can not be fixed, it can only be destroyed


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    #5695531 - 05/31/06 04:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Just not sure whether i should trust this feeling or not. :shrug:




Why should you? What basis does it have beyond that of a "feeling"? I mean, what observation have you made directly from reality as it presents itself to you that is suggestive and supportive of the fact that, specificially on 2012, some sort of evolution will occur?

The amusing thing is that everytime someone mentions something about 2012, a line of people will exclaim "Well, nothing is going to happen directly on 2012, but its a change that will start beforehand and will noticeable then", or something to the effect, and its like, "um, dude, change occurs all the time, and your associating its possibility with some arbitrary date doesn't lend any sort of evidence or substantiation to the fact that someone else has prophecized that something will occur on that date".

It is always amusing to encounter so many people on a spirituality forum who will grow positively feral when it comes to affirming that some future event will occur, when The tenant of spirituality is to immerse oneself within the present moment, the here and now. The past no longer exists, and is only referred to by an abstract recollection, and the future does not exist and is only imaginary.

Which would seem to suggest that perhaps everyone should shut the fuck up about 2012 and simply live one's life in the moment? Go on, hang me to the cross right this instant, because this is the only instant in which we live... :smirk: :rolleyes:

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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695532 - 05/31/06 04:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Icelander it seems like you are scared in not beilieving in something 100%

Believe 100% for everything, all is connected and real no?
2012 in my mind happens alot of times to alot of people, anyone :laugh:
to me its just another metaphor trying to describe the act of breaking the veil, becomeing one with all. :royalrainbow: :mushroom2: :heart:




Don't agree. It's non productive wishful thinking in my experience. Like I said this is the second time around for me.

But I could be totally wrong.




Thats just it, im not talking about wishfull thinking it, what happens when you eat 10 grams of mushrooms?

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Icelander it seems like you are scared in not beilieving in something 100%




From my point of observation, anyone who has to commit themselves to believing in something in such an absolute, 100% manner is doing so out of fear.

What about without commitment? and without fear, 100% and 0% become indifferent, just pure light. Eh, sorry I know my responces are more suited for the other forum, I just dont see a difference so I dont make it one :p plus im procrastinating by being here and posting :P


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    #5695536 - 05/31/06 04:16 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Silversoul said:
The obstacle to spiritual development is not poverty, but materialism.




The obstacle to spiritual development is religion. :smirk:

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There is no religion anymore. People don't obey the religious laws, nor read the religious texts.
They go to churches, and like to say "god" a lot, but that's about it.
How many religious people have you met in your life? I mean the ones that live and think like Jesus? I've seen none.
So obviously, something that doesn't exist is not an obstacle to anything.

The obstacle to spiritual development is the fact that most people don't have a spirit to be developed.
Can you expect a dog to have spiritual development? Nope, because dogs  peak of spirituality is drinking from the toilet.


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    #5695539 - 05/31/06 04:17 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs




Maslow's hierchary of needs is not the be all end all description of human development, it's just one theory.


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    #5695546 - 05/31/06 04:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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I think there is zero chance that humans will change by that time, in fact I don't think they will go to better at all. 




Exactly. Why focus within oneself in this moment and take the responsibility to initiate change when one can simply speculate over such change occuring for everyone in the future? Its easier, and lazy people who won't take that responsibility love easy. :rolleyes:

The future never comes, which is underscored by Seuss's post. :lol: Nothing left to do but make more baseless, bullshit predictions!  :thumbup:

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    #5695552 - 05/31/06 04:20 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs




Maslow's hierchary of needs is not the be all end all description of human development, it's just one theory.




yea, the easiest thing to sacrifise is food.
I've been hungry many times in my life because I saved money for tools for self-actualisation and creativity. I think that piramid is a bunch of BS


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    #5695566 - 05/31/06 04:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Why should you? What basis does it have beyond that of a "feeling"? I mean, what observation have you made directly from reality as it presents itself to you that is suggestive and supportive of the fact that, specificially on 2012, some sort of evolution will occur?



I never mentioned an evolution will occur exactly in 2012, actually i even said that from my perspective lots of people are eolving emotionally (as in allready happening).
As for my "feeling" that something will happen in 2012, i'm pretty sure it's just high hopes and dreams, but heck... hope never dies.


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    #5695572 - 05/31/06 04:25 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Silversoul said:
The obstacle to spiritual development is not poverty, but materialism.




The obstacle to spiritual development is religion. :smirk:

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lets see some proof that buddhism has never helped someone develop spiritually. lets see proof that christianity has never influenced someones's developement postively. of course in many cases religion can and is an obstacle, just like a great many things. but to it is the main obstacle is baseless. why arent all atheists buddhas then?


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    #5695574 - 05/31/06 04:25 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

evolving emotionally? Into what?!


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    #5695582 - 05/31/06 04:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Icelander it seems like you are scared in not beilieving in something 100%




From my point of observation, anyone who has to commit themselves to believing in something in such an absolute, 100% manner is doing so out of fear.

The nature of reality and our perception of it is that absolutely nothing is certain. To accept something as otherwise is close-minded.

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is it certain that nothing is certain? are you certain that someone believes something with certaintly is doing so out of fear? what is fear?


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    #5695585 - 05/31/06 04:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

compassionate human beeing, what else?


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    #5695601 - 05/31/06 04:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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compassionate human beeing, what else?




You actually see more compassion?
Don't confuse liberalism and tolerance with compassion


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Deviate]
    #5695603 - 05/31/06 04:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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this is ignorance at its finest.




How do you know what that statement is? That statement is vauge and practically undefined. :lol:

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but that it is the main obstacle is baseless.




I never proposed that it was the main obstacle, and it was not implied.

I would suggest that you reflect upon your statement:

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of course in many cases religion can and is an obstacle, just like a great many things.




After doing so, consider my statement in comparison to Silversoul's statement to which it was a reply. Then observe any points that I might have expressed subtly and indirectly.

Truly, why would I say such a thing? :wink:

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Re: 2012 = not [Re: fireworks_god]
    #5695617 - 05/31/06 04:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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I never proposed that it was the main obstacle, and it was not implied.

I would suggest that you reflect upon your statement: "

it was implied by the word "the".


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5695635 - 05/31/06 04:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

yes I actually see more compassion. (either that or i'm completely dillusional which is possible)


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Deviate]
    #5695657 - 05/31/06 04:42 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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it was implied by the word "the".




Taking into proper context, most notably, taking into consideration the quotation it was a reply to, it should be pretty obvious why the word "the" was used. Sometimes the design that is apparent within the world exists on multiple levels and is not always to be taken at face value. :grin:

Do you get it now? :wink:

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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Springs]
    #5695668 - 05/31/06 04:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Thats just it, im not talking about wishfull thinking it, what happens when you eat 10 grams of mushrooms? :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:

What does that have to do with humanity at large? I'm really having a hard time seeing where you are going here. I'm not talking about a few individuals. I'm talking about global transformation of humanity in 2012. Come on. :tongue:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Triplexiosis]
    #5695674 - 05/31/06 04:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

ok, give me a couple of examples, maybe I'm the one who is being delusional


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5695700 - 05/31/06 04:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs




Maslow's hierchary of needs is not the be all end all description of human development, it's just one theory.




yea, the easiest thing to sacrifise is food.


I've been hungry many times in my life because I saved money for tools for self-actualisation and creativity. I think that piramid is a bunch of BS




Not when you're starving to death. I've been fasting for 8 days now and plan on 20. That has nothing to do with my basic needs or survival.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695709 - 05/31/06 04:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Im talking about everyone aswell :P
You keep looking at the differences not the connection.
Being high on mushrooms and being high off of mushrooms difference? Sure some molecules in my noggin, but when you get high with out the molecules there is little difference. Unlimited, infinite, theres NO LIMITS :heart: :peace:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
    #5695733 - 05/31/06 05:01 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I could go on forever describing compassion of few individuals i encounter in my day to day life. but it's there allright, completely different people keeping (or tying to) an open mind, genuinely caring, not beeing afraid of showing acceptance, kindness, support and love.
Heck... I'm a dreamer, and i'm probablly day-dreaming as writing this.

I'm not saying it's all milk and honey too...


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695748 - 05/31/06 05:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Not when you're starving to death. I've been fasting for 8 days now and plan on 20. That has nothing to do with my basic needs or survival.




Why are you fasting? Since when do you believe in abstinence and humility?


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Springs]
    #5695756 - 05/31/06 05:05 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Im talking about everyone aswell :P
You keep looking at the differences not the connection.
Being high on mushrooms and being high off of mushrooms difference? Sure some molecules in my noggin, but when you get high with out the molecules there is little difference. Unlimited, infinite, theres NO LIMITS :heart: :peace:




I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say. :confused: Or how it relates to this thread. Sorry.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695769 - 05/31/06 05:08 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

maybe thats the point, you think 2012 is something its not, thats what im trying to say it doesnt relate. :laugh: No need for sorry.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Springs]
    #5695774 - 05/31/06 05:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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maybe thats the point, you think 2012 is something its not, thats what im trying to say it doesnt relate. :laugh: No need for sorry.




I think everybody who believes in 2012, thinks it's something it's not. :grin:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695791 - 05/31/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

True :laugh:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Springs]
    #5695853 - 05/31/06 05:33 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Well, lets say somthing happends in 2012..but not the huge headlines on cable news kind of event...?

Perhaps brain-computer interfacing will finally take a giant leap forward that year, enabling entire virtual worlds and digital copies to be made of a human's consciousness. . .

At first glimpse this would seem like a natrual step in the current direction of modern science...I mean, at some point our computers will be limited by the rate of human input..mice and keyboard simply won't suffice.

This would forever change the human race, but it might take 100 years to actuall realize it was that day in 2012 that totally set humankind into a new frontier.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695886 - 05/31/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Anything is possible. Ok I'll give you that. BUT!

I'm trying to take a logical look at the idea that 2012 is a big global consciousness change.




Logic does not explain everything, my friend. And when you look at the metaphysical, you can go ahead and just throw it out of the window.

I'm agnostic towards 2012. If something paranormal does happen, then so be it. If not, I'm not going to hype myself or anyone up for an anticlimax.

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    #5695895 - 05/31/06 05:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Good attitude.  :thumbup: I never said logic is everything but I think logic belongs somewhere in every equation.


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Icelander]
    #5695930 - 05/31/06 06:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

There may be a formula for the universe, but God is void of an equation.

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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Fospher]
    #5695953 - 05/31/06 06:08 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:thumbup: :cool:

If by God, you mean Tao. :grin:


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    #5696001 - 05/31/06 06:23 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

No, I do not mean that, I believe in Jesus Christ, the man and the message. However, I do subscribe to the belief that there is God in all of us, and it is a matter of reflection through meditation that can take us from finding the Kingdom of Heaven within.

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    #5696178 - 05/31/06 07:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

this threads needs a LOL


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Fospher]
    #5696182 - 05/31/06 07:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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There may be a formula for the universe, but God is void of an equation.

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How convenient!


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: Fospher]
    #5696183 - 05/31/06 07:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Which man and which message. Every Christian seems to have a slightly different version.

Tao = source of all, including God. :jawdrop:


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Re: 2012 = not [Re: it stars saddam]
    #5696196 - 05/31/06 07:19 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

What is convenient and for what use?


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    #5696286 - 05/31/06 07:36 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Christians never have to defend their beliefs as contingent non-existentials cannot be falsified. It's like having a trap door underneath the debate table.


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    #5696880 - 05/31/06 09:36 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It's your own trap door leading only to the shackles of your own ego, not allowing you to accept anything that defies your almighty reason.

It's too bad you don't have any authority to say that this world is as it is you think so.

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    #5696893 - 05/31/06 09:38 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It's too bad you don't have any authority to say that this world is as it is you think so.

No one has that athority.


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    #5696959 - 05/31/06 09:51 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Exactly. And that means that none of us has proof that the world is any other way.

The only trap doors are the ones you put there yourself.


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    #5696983 - 05/31/06 09:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It all just is and our individual awareness and perceptions see it in so many differing ways.


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