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wildtimes
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Have you seen the movie What Dreams May Come?
I have not. Thanks for the suggestion. You seem to be, from what I read of your posts, very tuned in to "suffering". I have suffered, make no mistake - and I do believe we "suffer" in order to learn, but I don't think that's the "whole purpose" of life. It's part and parcel of this life, yes...but I think "BALANCE" is what we're meant to 'find.'
Now as for the answer to this question, he would not have known the difference. He was a rural farm kid born in 1903 on the farm in Ohio. No, I had never even heard of Set until a few years ago.
there would be no need for any kind of faith if God just "showed up". So that's why it's a test. Can you cultivate your faith? Or are you a cold hearted snake that's no good for anything but to be thrown in teh fire.
wildtimes
reply to post by LewisStulePhD
| meant the book, book. With the paper and ALL that jazz..
Oh, trust me, I MUCH prefer to read paper and cover books. I just meant like an amazon link or summary page or something. I'll look for it.
AfterInfinity
What are the chances he could have mistaken this being for Satan?
,
Everyday Zen: Love and Work
by Charlotte Joko Beck
"Everyday Zen" offers a warm, engaging, uniquely American approach to using Zen to deal with the problems of daily living--love, relationships, fear, ambition, suffering. Beck shows how to live each moment to the fullest.
Secret Splendor: The Journey Within Paperback
by Charles Earnest Essert (Author)
Who was Charles Essert? Passionate adventurer, non-conformist, traveling with carnivals and circuses, working in factories and on farms, selling, playing music, building: a citizen of the world. He was a soldier in combat, who, when he left the service became the seeker who would journey around the world--- searching, reading, pondering, asking, is there a reality behind this world? Avatars, sages, and mystics throughout the ages pass down techniques and methods for transcending the human scene into the fourth dimension --- principles for attaining enlightenment. Yet all who reach this rarefied dimension universally acknowledge that the experience itself is something beyond words and thoughts--that it is virtually indescribable. In this remarkable book, Charles Essert not only points the way to enlightened consciousness, he has been able to describe the indescribable in words of profound clarity.
there would be no need for any kind of faith if God just "showed up". So that's why it's a test. Can you cultivate your faith? Or are you a cold hearted snake that's no good for anything but to be thrown in teh fire.
We all make mistakes. The Creatrix knows this well.
AfterInfinity
reply to post by nenothtu
Just like Jesus is unlikely to appear to someone in New York or Kentucky or Oregon when he lived and died in the middle east, right?
I think my point is made.edit on 2-11-2013 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
I can't say something without sounding like a creep, a weirdo, an idiot, a goofball, a jerk, or any combination of them. I try to be funny, it comes off as lame, I try to be clever, it comes off as trying too hard, I try to be sweet and sensitive, I come across as being a rapist or some such.
My social skills are very lacking,
With that said, and since Jesus enters the fray, I've noticed that in many NDE's a figure is reported. Christians identify it as Jesus, Shiites identify it as The Imam, Buddists identify it as Buddha, etc, but I know of no genuine case where it identified ITSELF. This figure seems content to let the individual do the identifying, based on their own cultural preconceptions. I believe that in all cases it's the same figure, and it just neglects to correct them as to it's identity - if indeed it really has an identity.