earthfaze

I don't want to go to heaven. I don't really want to die but then again when I have grown old and my body has started to decline I don't want to live too much longer either. I personally prefer reincarnation. I want to keep coming back to this crazy blue rock and experience life over and over. In 200 years I want to be using my VR implant to chat in the cybercafe with people just like you over things just like this. Of course that is just my preference, I have no conclusive proof.

If someone wants to say I am not actually in control of my body, then why I am the only one who can raise my arm??? I'm pretty sure that if someone were to muck about in your brain and hit the right spots, they could raise your arm. I could always just hit you in the elbow with a hammer and I bet it would raise. Of course I would be running away so I might not

We should cut the teacher open to make sure... We might find god in there.

earthfaze I intend to answer all of the questions you asked, even if I'm not an expert. For now though only this because I'm pressed for time these days: You say triplicity but I don't think that makes sense. Why the number three rather than say 400, what is so special about three? To answer this I'll point you to Cuca's On Peace of Faith (De pace fidei). It is an excellent read and although not l

You know, I really hate the shortcuts to spelling properly. I just can't read it anymore, it hurts my brain.

One woman is more than enough for me and Crown Royal will do nicely, as far as the stereotype goes if the shoe fits...

Like I said, No Offense to anybody. But if heaven does not have kinky, sluty women , booze, and lots to smoke, then it is not heaven. So you tell me is it heaven or hell I would like to go to? Call me simple but I only need one kinky, slutty woman, whiskey will be fine you can have the other booze, and I'll take a toke from yours every now and then but if it's not around I will just play with the woman and the bo

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves i

Actually I didn't read the translated version, I read the Greek version. The New testament was written in Greek. The fact is that Christ is a part of the Trinity. Saying He was Son of God, means that he is an aspect of the Holy Trinity. It doesn't mean the physical son, as in birth from a physical body, nor creation. When He came to earth to save us He lived as a perfect man. So He was the perfect human and the perfect God in on

All right then, if Jesus is the most important human ever, the mighty Son of God wtf are the rest of us here for? None of this answers the point of it at all, why are we here and what is God. Jesus may have claimed he was a messiah, a savior to his people, he may have claimed he was a child of God but he never said he WAS God. Any quote from the bible is only as relevant in Christianity as the amount of stretching you can apply to it, does claiming to be the Son of God mean you are claiming to b

If free will is truly free then not even God knows which way an individual will choose.Otherwise it is predestination,which would allow God to read the hand writing on the wall since to God there is no past,present or future. If god is all knowing all powerful and beyond past,present, future (infinite like the whole Eternity of Eternities title) then such a paradox as predistination vs free will would only a

Not being a Christian but having been raised Christian I always had this "feeling" that if Jesus ever said he was the son of God then he probably regarded everyone as the sons and daughters of God. So after reading way too much of these forums I tried to look it up and found this John 10:34 John says Jesus quotes "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' from Psalms 82-6 I am sure this simple line can be construed to mean a lot of things but I prefer to

I understand where you are coming from, but it seems a few points were missed from my previous argument. First off would be the seriousness of sin. Yes you are correct the original meaning of sin was "to miss the mark". This definition however needs to be applied to the context of the original writing. Sin is not simply a case of a child learning to walk and falling, it is willing and purposeful disobedience to God. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were warned not t

Ok I'll bite the apple here... I am probably getting some of this wrong but... Adam can mean many things in hebrew. One is red clay one is first blood, both of which allude to the idea of material or flesh. Eve is derived from a word Chayvah which basically means life or source of life or life force. So you have this idea of spirit and flesh having a conversation with God where only Flesh (Adam) was ever explicitly told not to eat the fruit and then we assume he informed life force (Eve) or

I would say Crowley was Luciferian more than Satanic. He seemed to think god, jesus, devil where all sides of the same weird coin and had a wierd fascination with things like a new eon of horus (think lightbringer) and kind of alluded to the idea that knowledge was the apple on the tree and the snake did us all a favor. Anton Levay sp? Church of Satan actually seems to think its all dogmatic BS and is a mash of occultism, ancient religious beliefs and a sort of dog eat dog philosophy. A lot of h

As time went on that slowly morphed until I found myself with a homemade belief system. Though undoubtedly my parent's beliefs and ethics, and the rules by which I was raised played into it, there are some things which I myself decided, and other bits of wisdom I picked up off of various people in history who are highly regarded spiritually, politically, and philosophically. There is also a huge helping of science thrown in. That sounds

Has anyone got any thoughts of their own. Or are we merely to be guided by the ideas of others. This seems to be a debate on customary and accepted theology. What is the point of arguing some other thoughts that aren't yours. Should i quote "good will hunting" or do the theologists alone still beg eager for answers Marcus If a thought is truly original there are no words ye

Monks make great beer.

It is not a fact it's an exaggeration, I should have made that clear. Actually I think only one U.S doctor has ever been sued for saving someone and I am not sure it had anything to do with a car wreck or other accident. It is however, a common myth among healthcare professionals. I was really trying to point out that one day it may come to that with the way lawsuits are being levied in the U.S right now. The most common thing to sue a doctor for is malpractice, basically doing something wr

Seriously, why isn't Dystopic Global Emperor? I am generally distrustful of anyone who says they are an atheist since they tend to have a "this is stupid" outlook on all religious and spiritual topics but you are constantly making informed, emotionally detached, relevant posts!! So riddle me this Emperor Dystopic: Are the natural laws of the universe indicative of a design and therefore a creator or is it just humanities tendency to see patterns where there are none that make us think there are

People are good by nature. Prove it.

we must say that our Order has always been against the common notion of chance, which it looks upon as an easy solution and resignation in the face of reality. We agree with Albert Einstein’s comment about chance when he described it as: “The Path that God takes when [God] wants to remain anonymous.” The Rosicrucian Order A.M.O.R.C. right? Most of the content of your post was taken directly from their

Faith is belief in spite of reason. Faith 1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability. 2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact. 3. belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims. 4. belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty. 5.

I didn't say two wrongs make a truth. I said between two falsehoods you sometimes find a truth and I meant in spite of the wrongs not really because of them although if you hadn't noticed the wrongs you may have never sought the truth at all. The point being that looking into alternative beliefs can be valuable even if you do not adopt any of them as your own. I am also not debating the usefulness of probability I am just pointing out that no matter how much data you collect there is always the

Neoplatonist mysticism ftw!!! I think all this discussion about Jesus can easily be solved if we all become enlightened and anoint each other with spikenard and start calling each other Christos. I could use a title, honestly it might help my self esteem and everyone could use some enlightenment. Seriously though I think ancient mystery traditions are the way to go. They have had scores of interesting stories and more than a few dying and resurrecting god-kings as well as some great parables abo