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Honestly, it is much easier to understand all this stuff if you know the nuts and bolts of the thing, but if not, then screw it, let's just make up some stuff that sounds like it makes sense and hopefully people will be too stupid or apathetic to call us on it.
Is this because symantics will allow you to under stand as you see-man-tick?
What do you think people?
Am I saying anything that isn't said by Christ or any teacher..?
Most people have SOME concept of what it means (sin), but this knowledge usually does not contribute towards influencing their behavior and "preventing Sinning" so what is REALLY being talked about when we think about "Sin"..?
It seems that repentance is what is really is important here, and not necessarily the act (because no matter the severity, the general Christian consensus is that any sin can be forgiven..) so really this is a matter of semantics rather than attaining the position of some sort of "perfect decision maker"...
When you consider yourself "a sinner", you then make a very REAL decision that you deserve to be in Hell, and.. there you are. You begin to see Hell in more and more places, you feel that your "sinfulness" is more and more obvious and offensive to those around you, you sabotage yourself because you don't consider yourself deserving of success..
You see, Moses and Jesus weren't threatening us on God's behalf, but rather than pointing out common mistakes in keeping a balance between our innate need to preserve and appease "the self" and our innate yearning to better the world around us and appease "God"..
We are NOT born with the predisposition to be EITHER Sinner OR Saint, but can be both or neither at-will, when one can maintain awareness of this flexibility and focus on the true nature of "the Self" (not your body or brain or memories, but your Consciousness itself..)
I suppose my point is that ultimately "The Judgment" that is often spoken of, is in fact an internal self-judgment which is much more brutal and authoritative than any "daddy-God" could ever be.. Heaven AND Hell are very much present during life, the "7 deadly sins" are merely areas of the self to keep in balance and harmony (notice how there are also usually 7 chakras in eastern systems..) and not "laws" which result in external-punishment when "broken" (although there is plenty of internal-punishment to be had for those who insist on ignoring these areas of The Self..)
Am I saying anything that isn't said by Christ or any teacher..?
Wilson does indeed write ad infinitum about some pretty far out stuff, but all this stuff is firmly grounded in science.
Watch the video and you will see why I made that comment. Listen to how he manipulates words. He starts talking big time smack at the 2:45 mark.
His approach and your approach are very similar.
Unfortunately, neither Maxwell's nor your premise sounds much like Korzybsky, maybe a mix of Korzybski's General Semantics and Neurolinguistic Programming, but not General Semantics.
I have been telling you what I thought this entire time.
You just don't like what you hear.
If you weren't prepared to hear what people were thinking about then you should never ask to be told.
Lesson learned.