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Originally posted by Destiny10
Originally posted by TRGreer
OP you make some great points but I do get this vibe that you really don't seem to care all that much for "old men."
It is extremely difficult to know exactly what ancient pagans believed because Christianity did a very good job at all but obliterating the belief. It is my perspective that paganism was about living in harmony with mother earth. sure you return to the earth when you pass but it wasn't/isn't like the Christian faith who in my opinion are basically living to die. Everything is about the after life for a majority of Christians
I think paganism was about life not death. Survive and thrive in freedom, peace and harmony with mother earth and all her inhabitants. Do as you will harm no one.edit on 22-8-2012 by TRGreer because: Added some content.
Most people come to a faith in Christ because of crisis, not convenience! Someone dies, someone is fighting cancer etc. Wherever you get your perspective I have no idea. Not my experience. As for paganism, it all sounds good dude. But the very worst of them are very good at hiding their immense sins such as human sacrifice and actual hatred in God. IOW they, believe in Him but they hate his guts. To me, if you hate the creator, you hate life. So what if you are living for the moment? I have not had this blissful experience with pagans all happily joining hands and being considerate. Instead, my experience is an observation of vindictivness and violation. As for the ancientness of paganism making it all so valid and everything, the Navajo faith has it right. First man became a witch.
Originally posted by milkyway12
Ah, Earth citizen. You are taking part in prophecy right now. Your heart will harden and you will curse God for the things you see instead of repenting.
The destruction that will come is no other fault than our own.
Np, you don't have to have anything to do with God if you so choose.edit on 22-8-2012 by milkyway12 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by St Udio
the insightful research work that was presented to the public as the book 'The Fourth Turning' already presents this info
all one has to do is to follow the frequency of self-proclaimed Jewish 'Messiahs' thru time...
the 12th Imam followers in Iran(Persia) are part of this repetition (frequency of end-times adherents)
yeah 'Hamlets Mill' was a very good overview...but the real, intrinstic , contemporary 'meaning' is not found within the academic tome of 'Hamlets' Mill'...
shed yourselves from the 3 Abrahamic Desert Religions...Christian Cult/Hebrew Ritual/Islamic Submission
Nemaste
Originally posted by Shuye
reply to post by EarthCitizen23
Nobody in Israel is taking him seriously, he's quite a laughing stock. Why should you?
No one in Israel wants a religious regime, besides a few nuts and a few followers. I'm sure you have similar nut cases in the U.S, but you don't pay much attention to them, right?
Originally posted by EarthCitizen23
shed yourselves from the 3 Abrahamic Desert Religions...Christian Cult/Hebrew Ritual/Islamic Submission
Nemaste
Amen my friend,
but they can keep their religion for all I care,, just don't make destroying the earth ""as god wills"" part of the process of being one of its adherents.
will check out the book,,
thanks and Namaste
Originally posted by Wide-Eyes
reply to post by EarthCitizen23
Interesting thread 23. I have considered myself agnostic for many years, I'm on the fence about God. See, I still use a capital G just in case!
I really don't like the way religions clash and some of the things religious people have done and are still doing disgusts me and I mean, I am really, really angry that so called 'people of God' can do such hideous things to other human beings. Seriously, WTF is/was wrong with these people?
My biggest obstacle with belief in the creator is, how come these ancient tribes and cultures hadn't heard of him? The almighty God, did he just have a favourite region of Earth? Was he neglecting all those dudes and dudettes in the Americas? Were they not good enough for him that he focused his almighty power specifically in the Middle East?
Were they not worthy of his time?
These are the questions that will never be answered by any believers in any religion because they know they can't answer them...
edit on 22-8-2012 by Wide-Eyes because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Galactic
Everything what I reading lately is only manipulation.
First to say disinfo is a great tool for manipulation. Forums are the best way to do that.
Israelis will be sacrificed again like on WWII.
It is just the way it is.
Sabathei Tzwi was a self proclamed judish messiah from Turkey.
Search about his sect and what they did in the past.
Armageddon was his idea. Rotschilds liked that idea.
Today they rules all over the world. David Wilcock wrote something about
This also. They destroyed Ottoman Empire from inside.
There is a lot of infos about this sect. But this is the main factor for creating WW3.
They actually do answer by claiming the status of CHOSEN PEOPLE.. (separate from the 'others')
Whatever. And they think people like me are the problem..
I have a hard time when I hit a butterfly driving my car,,, much less the guilt of billions of souls on my "Divine Head" but Hey,,, It's GOD! that makes it ALL OK.
Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
OP, i think (and hope) that you are being overdramatic here. While i share your views about Rabby Ovadiah Yosef as Jewish Taliban/Iran-type theocracy proponent,he is spiritual leader of a Shas party with 11 (not 4) Knesset members that are part of ruling coalition out of 60-70 (excuse me but it chages so rapidly lately i just stopped following ). Shas also has 4 minister posts.
This is serious parliamentary force that needs to be reckoned with.
Adding to it, Rav Ovadiah is extremely important religious leader for Sephardic Jewish community. Maybe not the most important, but one of most importants, surely.
Significant political power. Courting him prior to important decisions when majority is not clear is pretty normal.
Also, current crysis hardly looks like Armageddon-type one. Worse thing i see happening - Israel strikes, there is major regional war, economies world wide crumble. Which is really bad,but not Armageddon-bad.
And in your concentration on Abrahamic religions and their alleged self-fulfilling prophecy drive,you completely disregard Chinese and Russians who have more so much more destructive power then Israel or Muslim states and who want to (and probably can in the future) challenge US global hegemony. This is much more Armageddony, i think.
Oh, you've studied the major religions have you? Well, surely if you studied the Talmud, you must be fluent in Hebrew and Aramaic. And if you studied the Koran, you must know Arabic. And if you studied the New Testament, you certainly know Greek and Latin. Are you claiming to be fluent in all of these languages as a religious scholar? From what university, seminary, or rabbinical college did you study?
Originally posted by sumogeek
reply to post by TheJourney
Does Jewish law according to halakhah apply to everyone living in Israel, even if you are not Jewish? What about Muslims and Christians that live in Israel?
According to Orthodox Judaism, a non-Jew (goy) is inferior to a Jew in every conceivable aspect. This inferiority is absolute, inherent, intrinsic, and not subject to any related or unrelated factors. Rabbi Abraham Kook, the religious mentor of the settler movement, taught that “the difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews — all of them in all different levels — is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.” The teachings of Kook are based on the Lurianic Cabala (Jewish mysticism), which teaches the absolute superiority of the Jewish soul and body over the non-Jewish soul and body. This means, according to one Rabbi who is member of the Chabadi Lubovitcher sect, that “every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity and is part of God.” In 2003, Rabbi Saadya Grama of the Beth Medrash Govoha, the renowned Talmudic school of Lakewood, NJ, published a book in which he claimed that Gentiles were completely evil and that Jews constituted a separate, genetically superior species. The book published under the Hebrew Title “Romemut Yisrael Ufarsahat Hagalut” quoted numerous classical Jewish sources to prove Jewish superiority over the rest of humankind. The difference between Jews and gentiles, he argued, is not religious, historical, cultural, or political. It is rather racial, genetic, and scientifically unalterable. The one groups is at its very root and by natural constitution “totally evil” while the other is “totally good”
Originally posted by TJT188
reply to post by EarthCitizen23
Hey, EarthCitizen thank you for making me now dumber after reading your rambling bunch of bs. I'am not sure if i have a set religion or not, but I know there is a god and someone was here to spread his word. Rather if it was Jesus, Mohammed, or whoever. I believe religion has been chopped and screwed so much by man that we have been led to follow all these different type of religions, because the devils army "The worlds government" doesn't want us to know the truth.But i also know that these 3 senseless religions also say that there will be people like yourself, and thousands more that will speak exactly what you just typed, but it's not up to you, me ,or anyone else to determine someone else's beliefs....It's between a person and there personal relationship between them and God- creator- Allah, there all the same my friend two many religions and only one God.
Originally posted by TRGreer
OP you make some great points but I do get this vibe that you really don't seem to care all that much for "old men."
It is extremely difficult to know exactly what ancient pagans believed because Christianity did a very good job at all but obliterating the belief. It is my perspective that paganism was about living in harmony with mother earth. sure you return to the earth when you pass but it wasn't/isn't like the Christian faith who in my opinion are basically living to die. Everything is about the after life for a majority of Christians
I think paganism was about life not death. Survive and thrive in freedom, peace and harmony with mother earth and all her inhabitants. Do as you will harm no one.edit on 22-8-2012 by TRGreer because: Added some content.
Originally posted by Destiny10
You sound like the classic liberal who feels that womans time has just begun. And its all based in sex, sex and more sex. Not the brains. Not the worth. Just the physical appearance of the woman. If you don't look good enough to be a sex toy-well maybe in your next life. If you are too old to make money from your body-maybe your next life.
Where have you been over the past 100 years? Do you really think that throwing out all tradition in favor of the philosophy "new is always better" works? You don't do the people of faith any favors my dear. Why not find fault in Stalin, Mao, or Hitler who had no place for God in their lives. Were they progressive and enlightened? Its all about control my dear who cares where the platform starts! Bilderburg, high Masonry, Illumati, all they care about is not losing control because they have control believe it.
Ultimately its not what you do, its who you believe in. My power happens to be in my faith in Jesus. Who do you believe in, yourself? What if someone takes that away? None of us are going to be fresh and clean as the newly driven snows. Its a fallacy, period.