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Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by zorkan - Today at 11:54:25 AM

Do theists allow you to have your own beliefs, or do they force them on you?
The brainwashing of young minds.

The bible is a forgery.
The genocidal god of the OT could not possibly have become the loving god of the NT.
We know nothing about the authors of any book in the bible, and there are no original manuscripts.
All of it is recycled and translated from earlier beliefs found in the ancient world.

In scientific terms what theism is to the Anthropic Principle, atheism is to the Copernican Principle.
The human mind is torn between the two.
 

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - Today at 09:25:12 AM

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Game: The Next Person... (...

Last post by Anne D. - Today at 05:10:51 AM

False. I have only nice Christmas memories and from what I recall haven't made anyone else's Christmas miserable.

The next person has never been to jail.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: animals in your life

Last post by Anne D. - Today at 05:00:20 AM

Poor goose. Doesn't look like a great place to nest.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Build the Pyramid

Last post by billy rubin - Today at 02:26:13 AM

old illustrations are often unhelpful

even if detailed, it wasnt the engineers doing the art.

look at a series of casual illustrations of a modern bicycle. you would be excused for concluding that modern illustrators had never seen one.

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Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?

Last post by Tank - May 04, 2024, 03:45:15 PM

May the 4th be with you! 

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Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Me_Be - May 04, 2024, 02:22:37 PM

Therefore no one can even claim to be an Atheist, let alone a Theist.

I don't claim to be an atheist to every god because I believe in Zorka, the god of my own reason.

I'm not a theist because such a person believes in ancient scripture which has no place in this world.

I believe we all believe in the God of our own understanding. So each to their own as they say.

Those people who wrote the Bible must have believed in a God of their own understanding at the time when it was being written.

Who's to say theirs was the wrong God while holding to their own God as right.
That's the nature of the human mind I guess.

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Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by zorkan - May 04, 2024, 12:26:00 PM

Therefore no one can even claim to be an Atheist, let alone a Theist.

I don't claim to be an atheist to every god because I believe in Zorka, the god of my own reason.

I'm not a theist because such a person believes in ancient scripture which has no place in this world.

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Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Me_Be - May 04, 2024, 08:53:54 AM

Can I just ask...This assembling of all the named molecules and chemistry that just happened to have made up the material world as we know it to be.... Was all that just an accidental, opportunistic, spontaneous event...or will we never know for absolute certainty why there is something rather than nothing question?

Ask me a difficult one.
As there are no absolutes we will never know.
Maybe when we capture one of those aliens who invade our airspace we could ask it.
Meanwhile, your guess is as good as mine.

You cannot capture reality and encapsulate it into a formal system because reality is infinite and so it will always escape any attempt to encapsulate it as it must, because reality is one thing, it is the self, and the self is capable of self-reference and when you're capable of self-reference this necessarily leads to a paradox.

Therefore no one can even claim to be an Atheist, let alone a Theist.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Build the Pyramid

Last post by Old Seer - May 03, 2024, 01:51:27 PM

It's not a mechanical devise for sure. Other info says its a symbol of stability. Making it mechanical is quit a stretch as there's no upper/end bearing which would be needed.