Re: Re: Re: have to ask 2 members something
areenactor said:
ok smart butt. i know buffy is just a t.v. show. i was trying to convey a point using humor. that being we have no idea what is lurking on the other side of dimentional barriers! maybe god put up those barriers to keep some nasty beasties away from us good kids?
maybe there are monsters, maybe there is nothing, maybe this is all a load of tripe, and there's no such thing as other dimentions?
Not the first time I've ever missed a humourous remark by a million miles, is it?
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Maybe he did, but then again maybe not. Here's an additional idea to chew on...
Barriers of whatever kind, whether it's the physical distance between Earth and Mars, or the vibrationary distance between us and the fifth dimension, are there as hurdles which we always strive to overcome. There's certainly no need to fear them just because we aren't yet familiar with them though, just as there was no need to fear lions as a race, before we'd properly explored Africa. Once we go there, lions, though still ferocious and frightening when they land on top of you, were no threat to us at all. There are many, many things to discover in other dimensions, but we'll co-exist with them, just as we have with everything else we've discovered.
areenactor said:
there are many religious texts around the world, from many religions, my point was that as you said in an earlier post today jim, who's to say who's correct? man is too self induldged to realize they may be wrong! btw jim, i loved your reply to crydens post.
I don't think any of them are correct to be honest. There's the odd golden nugget here and there, but nothing I'd care to base my hope of everlasting life on.
I puzzled a bit over how to reply to Crydun. She's a largely innocent and lovely person, without a shred of malice in her. Her view is typical though, of someone who pins their faith on any one err... faith. I give God a lot more credit than any person who conforms to a particular faith, because I don't believe He'd create millions of people who have no hope of salvation, simply because they were born 5,000 miles too far to the east. If Crydun's (and kis123's) point of view is correct, then God is the Universe's most petty, biggotted, racist wanker in existence. Even if he is all powerful I'd consider it morally wrong to ally my faith to such a deity. Why should I, just because He's so strong? That'd be cowardly.
Thankfully, I have a lot more faith in God than devout Christians do.
areenactor said:
the myans were not as blood thirsty as the aztecs, or toltecs, but they were not all boy, and girl scouts! their empire reached all the way into what is today, the central united states.
and i repeate, they had multiple gods as you know, the idea of "one true god" was non-existant to them. so t.a.'s idea of the myans predicting the comming of god, in 12/2012, along with the falling of dimentional barriers is ridiculous.
steve
Oh don't get me wrong, they were'nt a shining example of moral courage by any means! They just weren't as ignorant and blood-obsessed as the Aztecs and most modern day Republicans.
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(That was a JOKE, for all those who didn't get it!)
Multiple Gods: What faith doesn't? When Christianity supplanted the older "pagan" religions, it's figures took over the old roles. Just as Jesus took on the identity of the Saviour from Quetzalcoatl, Horus, Mithra, Frey, Balder, Tammuz, Ninuz and Dionysus, so figures like St. George and St. Michael assumed their own positions. Both of those worthies were Middle and Near-Eastern deities under other names originally. Quetzalcoatl was simply the leading figure in Central America.
(To be strictly accurate, he was Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs and Olmecs, whereas the Mayans and earlier tribes knew him as Kukulkan.)
Of course one of the 10 commandments instructs Christians to use the term "god/God" only when referring to the chief deity. Christianity is just as obsessed with multiple deities coming back at the End of Days, but only Jesus would actually be afforded the title, with a supporting cast of angels, saints and the saved.
