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Originally posted by Skorpiogurl
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Are you kidding me? Scorpio is the ONLY sign in the astrological family that matters, RIGHT? *devil horns*
Yup, I can count, I just learned how to read too! Maybe the OP can have a talk with me about my "attitude", he can make me feel better about myself while simultaneously making himself feel better about himself
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by Skorpiogurl
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Are you kidding me? Scorpio is the ONLY sign in the astrological family that matters, RIGHT? *devil horns*
Yup, I can count, I just learned how to read too! Maybe the OP can have a talk with me about my "attitude", he can make me feel better about myself while simultaneously making himself feel better about himself
My gal is a Virgo butt that doesn't mean Scorpio gals ain't got it go'n on.
Attitude makes sense, latitude is nonsense.
BTW - are you a Scorpio in the old Astrology charts with 12 signs or the new one with 13 signs? I was a Pisces in the old one and an Aquarius in the new one, which Aquarius fits me and Pisces never fit me. I have a theory that peeps that followed their astrology sign while there were 12, if they were actually a different sign via the 13 signs, they subconsciously recreated themselves by believing they were the sign designated for them, even though they weren't that sign.
Ribbit
Originally posted by Skorpiogurl
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by Skorpiogurl
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Are you kidding me? Scorpio is the ONLY sign in the astrological family that matters, RIGHT? *devil horns*
Yup, I can count, I just learned how to read too! Maybe the OP can have a talk with me about my "attitude", he can make me feel better about myself while simultaneously making himself feel better about himself
My gal is a Virgo butt that doesn't mean Scorpio gals ain't got it go'n on.
Attitude makes sense, latitude is nonsense.
BTW - are you a Scorpio in the old Astrology charts with 12 signs or the new one with 13 signs? I was a Pisces in the old one and an Aquarius in the new one, which Aquarius fits me and Pisces never fit me. I have a theory that peeps that followed their astrology sign while there were 12, if they were actually a different sign via the 13 signs, they subconsciously recreated themselves by believing they were the sign designated for them, even though they weren't that sign.
Ribbit
My husband is a Virgo, so is my mother and my brother (goddamn perfectionists).
My sister is Aquarius and she totally fits her sign... and drives me crazy!
Four and a half words for you: I am a scorpio !
There is no changing sh*t. Isn't it bad enough they demoted my ruling planet, now they're telling me I am not who I think I am? I'll kick their asses and there's some words of a true scorpion right there
Originally posted by gabby2011
When something really horrific and evil happens to someone you love.. I sure hope you remember your philosophy about evil being subjective.
Originally posted by AnotherYOU
reply to post by NewAgeMan
excuse me, but you just shot your own argument down.
if you say that love needs to be increased...
wait, how absolute and transcendental did you say it was?
if love's sake is love, why in the hell do we need more love?
or why does love need more of it itself.
trying to multiply the infinite are you?
does it mean theres a lack of love? how can it be, if your love is absolute, theres no need to increase.
if there is any need of anything, it only shows that your love is not love and its not whole.
because if you say love needs to perpetuate itself, its means you're the one aknowledging the void, and noticing you are missing something.
what you need to increase is the love and aceptance for the lack of love.
thats the part of the picture you are not getting.
when you start to love the absence of love where it manifests you will surelly understand that there is already enough love for this world and the next.
nothing to be saved from, nothing to fear, nothing to forgive and nothing to regret.
true love is like an anesthetic, it will make you love when the universe rips and tears us apart atom by atom, particle by particle, back into the melting pot.
dust to dust
such is the way the wind blows you could swear the dust was moving acording to its own senses
we are nothing but animated dust being blown by the wind of love, and love can be a gentle summer breeze that refreshes you or a gust that sweeps you right off balance.
learn to live with it,wichever way it goes.
thats the purpose of life
that and anything else we might want to add on the list
nothing is wrong, everything has a purpose.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
Originally posted by Skorpiogurl
Four and a half words for you: I am a scorpio !
There is no changing sh*t. Isn't it bad enough they demoted my ruling planet, now they're telling me I am not who I think I am? I'll kick their asses and there's some words of a true scorpion right there
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by IblisLucifer
reply to post by MemeticHarvest
That is correct there are no wrongs in the universe, Just like their are no rights
because Three rights make a left which one cant know is left or right until one knows forwards and backwards
which is unknown till one understands where down is and up is not
which only discovered from knowing what lies within and what is without
Then the knowledge of truth can be learned, understood and comprehended if one chooses too
Knowledge is the father Wisdom is the mother understanding is the son
Then you must be a test-tube baby.
All Rights make a Circle, which perfectly defines this Time-Warp Matrix you call Life.
Ribbit
Originally posted by IblisLucifer
Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
Originally posted by IblisLucifer
reply to post by MemeticHarvest
That is correct there are no wrongs in the universe, Just like their are no rights
because Three rights make a left which one cant know is left or right until one knows forwards and backwards
which is unknown till one understands where down is and up is not
which only discovered from knowing what lies within and what is without
Then the knowledge of truth can be learned, understood and comprehended if one chooses too
Knowledge is the father Wisdom is the mother understanding is the son
Then you must be a test-tube baby.
All Rights make a Circle, which perfectly defines this Time-Warp Matrix you call Life.
Ribbit
Welcome toad friend whose father spit some knowledge into your mothers whose limitless intake of knowledge gives her wisdom through pain because nothing is more pain full then birthing you a child and their are few things as insufferable as raising a butt ugly toad for a child
All of which has taught them both this most impotent lessen about understanding the son and that mommy should have swallowed that load of knowledge,
but failure is the greatest teacher since we live on one world with 7 billion of are closest relatives each their own world where your barely within it but at least realize were with-on this 3rd rock's own world and its 3 from the suns worldly reach that is only but one solar system out of the endless possibility that everything that is within reason will probably happen and again and again live die live die until all is 1 and One is all
How would you achieve knowing everything everywhere and in every way that what is possible within a cause of logical and reason, is also rationally unreasonable or irrationally illogical yet reasonable in the every aspect of the effect from all causes within this Happening which seeing how all things gravitate back down is the bases for the next happening currently being birthed from our past that has been and will be the crafting of energy in the future universe waiting in the womb for its big banging birth just as the last one before it, was and is made full of what things being done here with much of the same # repeating over again but One thing changes this cause has and effect and this effect a cause so that the little choices made from options are made in other-ways
That is how you gain insight into the mind of all its not perfect but it is perfection because a problems solution will have one answer in all ways possible for it to have an answer and having answers for all but one in all until that one's world returns to the all after looking out at their world in two ways as one and hearing two ways as one touching one way as three, smell all that can be smelled in combination of the ways one uses to sense and you shall taste life
Originally posted by Resinveins
Originally posted by Skorpiogurl
Four and a half words for you: I am a scorpio !
There is no changing sh*t. Isn't it bad enough they demoted my ruling planet, now they're telling me I am not who I think I am? I'll kick their asses and there's some words of a true scorpion right there
There's the fire and passion of a scorpio... but the actual kicking of asses is best done by an Aries .
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by MemeticHarvest
The universe wastes nothing and all is art, and yes even death....However things take on a different perspective from up close and personal. I do not think the universe as a whole recognizes or distinguishes good from bad, or life from death, everything is what it is....But then again we are a part and creation of the universe and we distinguish between good and bad and life and death all the time...So in a way.. yes...yes it does recognize all, trough us. But only as long as we recognize ourselves.
Nothing is simple, even simple things are not that simple.
Originally posted by gabby2011
Originally posted by smithjustinb
reply to post by gabby2011
Evil is subjective.
I realize this... but I dare anyone with half a heart to say there isn't some serious evil in this world..that is hurting innocent people everyday.
It is not a matter of balance or how you look at it.. its just WRONG ..plain and simple....and anyone who can be grateful for it..is a little unbalanced in my opinion.
That's my opinion, and its best I stay out of this thread..
I will never buy into those views...of evil being subjective.. and the whole "everything is one", spiritual type of beliefs.
Originally posted by Northwarden
Originally posted by gabby2011
Originally posted by smithjustinb
reply to post by gabby2011
Evil is subjective.
I realize this... but I dare anyone with half a heart to say there isn't some serious evil in this world..that is hurting innocent people everyday.
It is not a matter of balance or how you look at it.. its just WRONG ..plain and simple....and anyone who can be grateful for it..is a little unbalanced in my opinion.
That's my opinion, and its best I stay out of this thread..
I will never buy into those views...of evil being subjective.. and the whole "everything is one", spiritual type of beliefs.
Oh, well said.
It weaves the gnostic view of a duality that smithjustinb is describing in simple terms, which states that evil exists as it's own ends, and cannot be seen in the light of it's own failings as a shortfall against virtues which ought to have been. In fact, (s)he's going so far as to say we can't even describe an action as good or evil any longer, which is to discard in the process any peer-edited human rights, any constitutional rights, ten commandments, a noble eight-fold path, or any other humanitarian principles that we, as humans, have quantified and aspired to as societies throughout the many centuries of existance.
It's an appeal to ignorance to simply say "it's subjective", and therefore "without actual quantifiable value". It gives a free pass to corruption to take such new age thinking and attempt to call it a working philosophy in peoples lives. How destructive they are, and how baseless/ lacking-in-perspective their decision-making complex-less ideologies portend!
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To the Op, I think you have a far better grasp of where you're going and what you're teaching. I enjoyed reading your explanations.
Over 20,000 known manuscripts document the New Testament text. This makes the New Testament the most reliable document of antiquity (a document written before the printing press). These manuscripts vary in size from a part of a page to an entire Bible (Old and New Testaments). The earliest New Testament manuscripts date from the second century (100-199) AD These manuscript copies were written in different languages by people of different nationalities, cultures, and backgrounds. In spite of all those differences between them, the New Testament texts all agree. (That is, those differences that we do observe between these hand written documents are occasional changes in the spelling of names or isolated cases of missing or changed words. Still, since we have so many copies, it is obvious to anyone but the hardened skeptic can that they all represent the same text.)
Note: Those minor differences that do exist between the Old and New Testament manuscripts are interesting for academic reasons. They are the topic of a future “in depth” Clarifying Christianity page. (It is currently about 10,000 words long and still under construction—stay tuned.)