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originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
I simply stated another more likely option, and you took it from there by the powers of your imagination.
I know people who meditate for days but once they come out of it, they are right back to being miserable... Another HUGE red flag: Demons communicate through meditation, that is why it is also used in Satanism so effectively. Below is a quote from another post explaining how to summon demons that confirms this:
originally posted by: Trachel
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Trachel
This isn't true.
It is. Someone who claims they are enlightened do so because they think they are enlightened. They aren't bestowed the honor. Enlightenment is always self-proclaimed.
Actually enlightenment is bestowed by higher powers unto those who deserve it.
Buddha didn't magically wake up one morning and call himself enlightened--he received that mantle from spirits.
Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu and all the famous sages and saints (and bodhisattvas and arhats) all experienced the same.
Enlightenment is generally bestowed during periods of prolonged meditation--and that occurs because during meditation your body goes into a sleep-like trance and the cerebrospinal fluid (which contains copious amounts of the neurotransmitter D-M-T floods into the brain facilitating contact with spirit realms).
Meditation is a self-induced psychedelic trance where you product a D-M-T burst in your brain.
And enlightenment is a title granted you by others.
Try meditating for a decade or two (and following other Taoist/Buddhist principles... you'll see what I'm on about).
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Trachel
Meditation is for one who closes his eyes to the world, or who seeks the life in a cave or a monestary, doing what he does best—staring at the back of his eyelids and exercising the only muscle that matters to him.
Enlightenment is simply a claim to authority.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Trachel
Meditation is for one who closes his eyes to the world, or who seeks the life in a cave or a monestary, doing what he does best—staring at the back of his eyelids and exercising the only muscle that matters to him.
Enlightenment is simply a claim to authority.
"Yeah, you're right, I'm a douche..."
originally posted by: blueman12
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Trachel
Meditation is for one who closes his eyes to the world, or who seeks the life in a cave or a monestary, doing what he does best—staring at the back of his eyelids and exercising the only muscle that matters to him.
Enlightenment is simply a claim to authority.
Are you trolling? Take away enlightenment, belief systems, and any other abstract concepts attached to meditation and you're left with many people who have benefited from it. Damn dude, your post was dumb. Just a bucket of dumb.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Trachel
The only thing meditators are getting better at is meditating—sitting and staring at the back of their eyelids. It's all self-gratifying. It's romantic.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Trachel
I have researched it. Yes there are noticeable effects on the brain. But one also has noticeable positive effects in his right arm if he continually plays with himself, but that does not prove he gets better at anything other than playing with himself.
That's true... by meditating you get better at manifesting and maintaining that meditative state.
Then the question becomes: what benefits does that meditative state confer?
Calm, equanimity, centerness, and poise are only the superficial advantages of meditation. The real advantages manifest later when you gain firsthand experience of that old Buddhist koan: "What is it that thinks?"
Once you know that--once you grow so adapt at detaching from thoughts that the brain ceases compel your actions--you gain an unparalleled freedom of action. You can start manifesting true free will.
Meditation is the key towards unlocking that state. It's the crux technique that releases the spirit from the bonds of its cognitive prison.
And it lets you completely remap and restructure the neural network of the brain at your behest.
So yeah, to an outsider it might look like someone meditating is doing nothing more than staring at eyelids.
But what I'm actually doing is delving my own psyche and reprogramming my entire mind.
originally posted by: Chrisfishenstein
You my friend are keeping others from finding the truth spouting this in public...
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
...The second is exactly like it: 'You must love your neighbor as yourself.' ~ Matthew 22:39
Christians are Hypocritical. We are held to a high standard by the world, and as soon as our words and actions don’t line up, it’s easy to say all Christians are fake. One mistake is all it takes for Christians to be considered hypocrites.
6 Reasons Why People Don’t Like Christians
Another type of email that we keep receiving on a very regular basis is the exact title of this article – why do some Christians behave so badly? Many of these types of bad-behaving Christians are also chasing many nonbelievers away from the Lord instead of leading them to Him as a result of them making very bad representatives for our Lord.
Many nonbelievers are wrongly judging our God by our actions, words, and deeds – and when they see some Christians behaving very badly in their marriages, in their work places, and in their social environments, they will shy away from checking what our faith is really all about. And this is all due to the hypocritical bad behavior of so many Christians who are not being properly sanctified by the Lord.
Why Do Some Christians Behave So Badly?