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AnonymousJSS · 22-25, F
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@JBird you know meditation is good. If they learn it properly. Some people just can't concentrate so they don't know the power of it.
Clearly your mind doesn't just happen in one or two minutes. It take a while with proper technique and guidance. 30-45 minutes meditation helps us alot. It helps to improve our thoughts and attitude.
It helps to improve quality of living and motivates us. Trust me it helped me.
Some people of different religions won't agree but don't listen to them. Anyone can do meditation. There is a good teacher or guru in south india. Try to learn 'sudharshan kriya'.
Clearly your mind doesn't just happen in one or two minutes. It take a while with proper technique and guidance. 30-45 minutes meditation helps us alot. It helps to improve our thoughts and attitude.
It helps to improve quality of living and motivates us. Trust me it helped me.
Some people of different religions won't agree but don't listen to them. Anyone can do meditation. There is a good teacher or guru in south india. Try to learn 'sudharshan kriya'.
JBird · F
Carazaa · F
@MartinTheFirst God is in control of Satan! Read Job! And Romans 8
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Carazaa He rules over everyone but that doesn't mean he controls everything they do. That would mean that God would be evil. You know I see people like you everywhere I go, people who believe in God and doesn't read the bible properly. You go on to believe these crazy ideas that would completely incriminate god of evil-doing, and when I try to explain it to you how wrong you are about God then you claim that you're accepting of the idea of a god possibly doing things we wouldn't allow any other being to do to us, because we'd find it completely evil as human beings.
Then one or two years later you'll have a bad day and you'll think "my idea of god is pretty fucking evil actually, I will stop believing in him all together because putting faith in such an evil being makes no sense!"
And you'd be [b][i]right[/i][/b], because putting faith into a being that pretends to be pure and sin-free while they're actually in control of every single awful thing that happens to us humans, and the evil actions other humans do such as the ones that cut peoples limbs off to have them as living puppets, etc, is fucking insane.
The truth is, that God is nothing like you think he is. He doesn't control what we do because if he did that'd make him guilty of our sinning. It'd also make him guilty of evil doing and lying if he dictated our lives because all of a sudden we have no free will, and we live in an eternal hell.
Then one or two years later you'll have a bad day and you'll think "my idea of god is pretty fucking evil actually, I will stop believing in him all together because putting faith in such an evil being makes no sense!"
And you'd be [b][i]right[/i][/b], because putting faith into a being that pretends to be pure and sin-free while they're actually in control of every single awful thing that happens to us humans, and the evil actions other humans do such as the ones that cut peoples limbs off to have them as living puppets, etc, is fucking insane.
The truth is, that God is nothing like you think he is. He doesn't control what we do because if he did that'd make him guilty of our sinning. It'd also make him guilty of evil doing and lying if he dictated our lives because all of a sudden we have no free will, and we live in an eternal hell.
JBird · F
@Carazaa [quote]
No one thinks about death!
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I don't think that's true. People do think about death time to time. I think about my death which inspires me to do things and enjoy life before my time run out.
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No, God has told us in the Bible that there will be plagues!
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There have been plagues before Bible came. It's a natural phenomenon when organisms are not able to contain and immune against a virus. It's nothing supernatural.
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Here are the signs!
1. Increase knowledge
2. Iniquity abounding
3. Falling away from faith
4. Cold hearts
5. False Christs
6. Increase Pestilence and famines
7. Increase of large earthquakes
8. Signs in the heavens, sun and moon
9. Increase mockings
10. Days like the days of Noah
11. Persecution
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These are not signs of Christ's return. These are natural signs. Knowledge had been increasing since dawn of human civilization aka before christ. If you didn't know, ancient human beings didn't have faith, cold hearted to begin with. There have been famines from time humans were just hunter gatherers. How do you think continents came into beings? From platonic movements which caused series of earthquakes even before humans appeared on Earth. If you meant solar and lunar eclipse as signs on sky, that's also natural part of cyclic revolution of moon and earth. Mocking is again part of human nature. Persecution? What? Floods happens all the time.
You need to learn about science. You are just exaggerating
No one thinks about death!
[/quote]
I don't think that's true. People do think about death time to time. I think about my death which inspires me to do things and enjoy life before my time run out.
[quote]
No, God has told us in the Bible that there will be plagues!
[/quote]
There have been plagues before Bible came. It's a natural phenomenon when organisms are not able to contain and immune against a virus. It's nothing supernatural.
[quote]
Here are the signs!
1. Increase knowledge
2. Iniquity abounding
3. Falling away from faith
4. Cold hearts
5. False Christs
6. Increase Pestilence and famines
7. Increase of large earthquakes
8. Signs in the heavens, sun and moon
9. Increase mockings
10. Days like the days of Noah
11. Persecution
[/quote]
These are not signs of Christ's return. These are natural signs. Knowledge had been increasing since dawn of human civilization aka before christ. If you didn't know, ancient human beings didn't have faith, cold hearted to begin with. There have been famines from time humans were just hunter gatherers. How do you think continents came into beings? From platonic movements which caused series of earthquakes even before humans appeared on Earth. If you meant solar and lunar eclipse as signs on sky, that's also natural part of cyclic revolution of moon and earth. Mocking is again part of human nature. Persecution? What? Floods happens all the time.
You need to learn about science. You are just exaggerating
NortiusMaximus · M
@JBird r'Amen, sister.
TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M
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@TakingBackMidgaard How many Gods do you have? Do they all speak to you at once? Maybe they vote and then elect one as spokes person. That sounds very Democratic though, not normally a behavior you associate with God.
Carazaa · F
@TakingBackMidgaard It’s good to be good to family 💞🙏
Carazaa · F
@SW-UserMaybe 🙂
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
ArishMell · 70-79, M
That won't get the washing-up done.
Bit difficult "right now" anyway without a religious book in the house and the shops shut!
Bit difficult "right now" anyway without a religious book in the house and the shops shut!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Carazaa Each religion is unique, and the unique point about Christianity is its claim to the mystical nature of Jesus - Islam and I gather also the Plymouth Brethren respect him as a preacher but do not think he had any divine properties.
Does that mean the Muslims and the PBs are "wrong"? Of course not.
I have very grave doubts about the validity of vague "prophesies" written by fervent followers of a faith for their religious descendants; in a collection of ancient books that have gone through a lot of editing and re-translating over the centuries.
NO religion can claim itself being any sort of "absolute truth", for the very simple reason that they are all based on what are literally ideas of faith - neither provable nor disprovable.
Saying that it must be true because it's in the Bible misses the fundamental point that whatever its writers believed, like all faith's scriptures it is simply an expression of those writers' beliefs. It cannot prove itself, all it does is show what an ancient society believed.
It is your choice to be a Christian, but given that you say you have studied other faiths I am surprised that you seem to think it the only "true" one. Either all the others are just as "true", or none are true!
Does that mean the Muslims and the PBs are "wrong"? Of course not.
I have very grave doubts about the validity of vague "prophesies" written by fervent followers of a faith for their religious descendants; in a collection of ancient books that have gone through a lot of editing and re-translating over the centuries.
NO religion can claim itself being any sort of "absolute truth", for the very simple reason that they are all based on what are literally ideas of faith - neither provable nor disprovable.
Saying that it must be true because it's in the Bible misses the fundamental point that whatever its writers believed, like all faith's scriptures it is simply an expression of those writers' beliefs. It cannot prove itself, all it does is show what an ancient society believed.
It is your choice to be a Christian, but given that you say you have studied other faiths I am surprised that you seem to think it the only "true" one. Either all the others are just as "true", or none are true!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Carazaa Oh course it is your choice! You live in a secular, Western democracy that guarantees your choice of being religious or not, and which religion to follow!
You are as free to follow or abandon that faith as I am to remain agnostic or become a Christian (or take up any other religion).
I must admit I've not heard of that interpretation of Christianity before. I am familiar with the "Jesus died to save us all" slogan ( a hymn line I think); but your slant seems a complete abdication of personal responsibility and effort.
Like Islam actually, whose name means approximately "I surrender".
You are as free to follow or abandon that faith as I am to remain agnostic or become a Christian (or take up any other religion).
I must admit I've not heard of that interpretation of Christianity before. I am familiar with the "Jesus died to save us all" slogan ( a hymn line I think); but your slant seems a complete abdication of personal responsibility and effort.
Like Islam actually, whose name means approximately "I surrender".
ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 46-50, M
Carazaa · F
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP
Ok sorry at least that’s what I think God is telling me!
Ok sorry at least that’s what I think God is telling me!
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
Then you can start to read the Bible about the last thing we talked about, how God doesn't determine when everyone dies.
Carazaa · F
He knows when you will die!@MartinTheFirst
MethDozer · M
Well then God should stop using his powers to create an infinite amount of BS to rightfully distract us from reading his propaganda book. .maybe if God didn't allow war and pandemics we would ha e time and energy to read it more often. However, we have way to much pressing shut to pay attention to than read about stoning people and pillars of salt.