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I believe you, I once got stoned off my butt and amazed my best friend by reading his thoughts. I haven't been able to do that again since.Why is it that millions of people who believe in a God who they never see, can accept that he/she can communicate with them via an emotional link (From heaven to earth) They feel God's heart. But when I say that I can feel my daughter exactly that same way, I'm classified as mentally ill. (Why aren't you all classified the same way?)
And - on this note, a person's own soul energy cannot be created or destroyed. When they can no longer hold onto their own body, it returns to where it came from, but if it is in an imperfect state, it returns again to the physical to seek out new experiences and answers.This will continue until all answers have been achieved, and this is when all things will have returned to God, the end of the cycle.
Nothing in this universe is random. Everything happens because of the influences of external forces. Things only appear random because we don't have the mental capacity to process the trillions of little influences that affect everything. The entire course of the universe is therefore predictable but only if you had an infinitely huge computer to process all the data. This in turn means you and I are part of that whole process and we only think we have choices but the reality is we don't, everything happens via cause and effect. Nature doesn't decay either, it's just in a constant state of flux as it's part of the universe which is doing the same. Nature churns out life forms, grows things but it is an absolute pre-requisite that Nature MUST first reduce something to its prima material before it can then recycle it and make it into something else. This is a key process of Alchemy and it's this same key process that Jesus refers to in his parable about the grain of wheat falling to the ground and dying. Everything is caught in this constant cycle of growth and subsequent disintegration. The only way to defer that process is to get hold a large source of "life energy" which will allow your current body to constantly heal itself and keep you young and fit and in peak form. i.e. The Elixir of Life. Even then your body itself is still undergoing this constant transformation. With or without the Elixir your body regenerates every cell in your body about every 5-10 years. Thus old cells will be broken down into their prima material and recycled. If you have the Elixir the regeneration process happens very very quickly so you don't age and decompose like other humans. All of this is iterated in the Bible if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.It will take a bit of time to respond to everything you are saying, just a quick note:
No, nature isn't perfect, that is why there is no ideal tree in the natural world. It is the idea of a tree that is perfect and timeless. The natural world is subject to randomness and decay and can only approach the ideal but never achieve it because physical matter is constantly changing and breaking down.
For example, consider the perfect woman, let's call her Eve. Every woman is a reflection of Eve. They embody some traits of her, maybe she looks a certain way, maybe she looks at you a certain way. However, many women are old, all women have bodily imperfections to varying degrees. A woman's beauty is based on how much she recalls the image of the perfect woman. And - this is not a physical image, but an impression. You can call it a sort of energy. The energy of the perfect woman.
I don't think it matters if you call it energy or spirit, the two are really the same. Spirit is energy and energy is spirit.
Yes, Jesus had power over this energy, but he did not conceal it. He told everyone exactly how to use it, but nobody has such strength of will to be able to do so as he did.
More allegorical messages which you are interpreting as literal. It's easy to give up all you have when you have the one thing that perpetually enables you to live in perfect health and transmute things. Much harder of course to give up that one thing, to give up the Elixir. Jesus didn't do that. He held onto it, shared the secret with his disciples only and left everyone else to swing in the wind saving those fortunate handful that he passed by and healed using his Elixir.Whatsoever a man sows, that will a man reap, so to reap all the universe has to offer, we must give all that we have of ourselves to the universe. Jesus told the rich man to sell all he had and give it to the poor. Jesus was a servant to all in order to be made ruler of all.
The essence of controlling this energy is controlling yourself. You are inside of the universe, but the universe is also inside of you.
You don't need to believe anything. It is something that needs to be proven or disproved first (Which I do not accomplish by other people believing it to be true or not true first) Is the earth flat because I believe it's flat? But it wasn't more flat when most people believed it was flat? No or yes? My argument is simple. Without empirical evidence to support a truth claim, any truth claim that only require me to believe must be all equal in nature (Those types of claims should be treated with healthy scepticism)I believe you, I once got stoned off my butt and amazed my best friend by reading his thoughts. I haven't been able to do that again since.
An Omniscient (all-knowing) God by definition means that free will can not actually exist.
A person is presented with a Choice of A, B or C
But God knows, infallibly, unerringly with 100% certainty that option A is going to be the choice.
I'm not talking about the Bible exactly, but only using Eve as an illustration, I am talking more along the lines of idealism. That the symbol of the perfect woman existed first, then the world took shape to reflect symbols such as these.Nothing in this universe is random. Everything happens because of the influences of external forces. Things only appear random because we don't have the mental capacity to process the trillions of little influences that affect everything. The entire course of the universe is therefore predictable but only if you had an infinitely huge computer to process all the data. This in turn means you and I are part of that whole process and we only think we have choices but the reality is we don't, everything happens via cause and effect. Nature doesn't decay either, it's just in a constant state of flux as it's part of the universe which is doing the same. Nature churns out life forms, grows things but it is an absolute pre-requisite that Nature MUST first reduce something to its prima material before it can then recycle it and make it into something else. This is a key process of Alchemy and it's this same key process that Jesus refers to in his parable about the grain of wheat falling to the ground and dying. Everything is caught in this constant cycle of growth and subsequent disintegration. The only way to defer that process is to get hold a large source of "life energy" which will allow your current body to constantly heal itself and keep you young and fit and in peak form. i.e. The Elixir of Life. Even then your body itself is still undergoing this constant transformation. With or without the Elixir your body regenerates every cell in your body about every 5-10 years. Thus old cells will be broken down into their prima material and recycled. If you have the Elixir the regeneration process happens very very quickly so you don't age and decompose like other humans. All of this is iterated in the Bible if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Again the Bible is not literal. Adam and Eve are allegorical representations of the male and female principles of the universe. So too are the Sun and the Moon, just alternative terms for these male and female principles. They are mentioned in Genesis which in no small part is telling us how to create the Elixir Of Life, using allegorical and cryptic terminology. If you read the passages literally you go astray and are blind to the real message.
Those that have the secret greatly fear everyone else finding it.
The secret is hidden in plain sight:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
The problem with pure empiricism is that you are measuring only that which is observable, and that what is observable is limited. That is why it is often better to use rationality to deduce answers.You don't need to believe anything. It is something that needs to be proven or disproved first (Which I do not accomplish by other people believing it to be true or not true first) Is the earth flat because I believe it's flat? But it wasn't more flat when most people believed it was flat? No or yes? My argument is simple. Without empirical evidence to support a truth claim, any truth claim that only require me to believe must be all equal in nature (Those types of claims should be treated with healthy scepticism)
What would make dropshop's post(s) more credible. Aren't all their arguments fought in the same vein of believing? Why is there any argument if each believer knows the truth? It's that everybody believes they possess the truth (But nobody else does) That's what it's all about? I feel sick to my stomach when I see people talk to each other per-beliefYou already posted this silliness in page 7 of this thread (post #122) Repeating it doesn't make it any more credible. As had to be pointed out to you the words came from the angel not directly from God. There can be no free will if you are forced or cajoled into making a decision.
Reading your reply is causing me to feel suicidal (That all, I am not saying anything else)The problem with pure empiricism is that you are measuring only that which is observable, and that what is observable is limited. That is why it is often better to use rationality to deduce answers.
For example, empirically, I can only prove that I exist, I cannot prove that you and other people are not just a construct of my mind, because I cannot directly observe your experiences.
However, rationally, I can prove that I am not the only thing that exists, because I know that wisdom and benevolence and power exist which are beyond myself. So seeing that I am lesser to something else, I cannot be all that exists.
Is there something wrong?Reading your reply is causing me to feel suicidal (That all, I am not saying anything else)
Here's how to kill a God.The secret is hidden in plain sight:
John 10:34
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
Everything is one. Man controls his own reality. What is the difference between a sorceror and a holy man? A sorceror thinks he can control God, thinks he IS God. A holy man acts in humility according to the will of God. God is that underlying energy field of consciousness that everything else is created from.
You describe a sorceror, sorcerors control the world through controlling the minds of men. They see other men as animals, beasts of burden who should serve the enlightened, and try to draw power from manipulating their minds. A holy man seeks that all should be enlightened.
Jesus and the prophets were not sorcerors, they have said time and time again what the truth was, but nobody wanted to listen.
Luke 17:21
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Do you use a screwdriver to open a sealed crate or a crowbar to unscrew screws? Crude topics require crude tools. Fine topics require fine tools. Physics requires observation, metaphysics requires reason.Yes there's something wrong.
Job 35Here's how to kill a God.
Stop believing in it.