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9th December 2011, 01:24 AM | #401 |
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OK.... put in that light.... I agree. I will be charitable and not take offense to being labeled Satanist and dead and hell bound. I will also try to ignore the historical fact that not long ago these very same slurs would have also been followed by an invitation to a dungeon and a barbeque of my own flesh preceded by a bout of stretching on the rack to hasten my journey to the hell they wished on me. I can be charitable in the light of the fact that it is the only pleasure they still have seeing that they are now powerless to realize the pleasure of actually sending me to hell. Ok.... I will learn to be charitable despite the danger of such people one day taking power again and fulfilling the well known aphorisms that history repeats itself and that he who does not know history is doomed to repeat it. Let's just hope that they would be as charitable when they have insidiously usurped the power due to our charitable apathy. |
9th December 2011, 07:27 AM | #404 |
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That doesn't answer the question.
How do you know it isn't Satan trying to trick you into telling us these things He's told you while pretending to be God? How do you know you would not be telling us these things if it was Satan? I find Christians never have a good answer to this. They just say they can feel it. (aka it's only in their heads)
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Thanks Olowkow, I think I'm back to my previous sleep pattern, I don't recall anything at all of my dreams; three nights in a row now...
Years will go by like that. I kind of like it. It started with one about a week before the last two, so it has happened three times total with a week between the last two. They are all related and religious in nature. Who knows? |
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Well Paul if they didn't have this on the site, "Religion and Philosophy", we wouldn't be here and if it aggravates you, then why do you come in here and read, curiosity perhaps, a glimmer of hope of evidence?
To be Thomas like is ok, So all can be saved. His faith in the end exceeded others. It's true that power corrupts, and it doesn’t matter what agencies do it, human nature will abuse power and control, we all fall short in the positions we carry through life. Religion isn’t alone in the guilt. |
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Po-poo He brought up the Satanic issue not me, in what I just posted I did not see any punisment, if anybody could stop that it would be God, therefore God, not Satan.
We don't really know all of Gods plans, we know what's written and that's what we have to go by. All I did was answer questions and made corralations that were known. |
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Really...????? So what would be the reason we then have to APOLOGIZE TO YOU???? What would be the thing that would compel us to apologize to YOU?? What is the "heads up" for?? "Heads up" against what? I think your own words are sufficient to belie your words above. |
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That doesn't matter. Religion doesn't need proof, and that is has been shown not to be the way to truely learn about the world.
Thoughts not tested in the real world time and time again lead to things like the Spanish Inquistion, witch burning etc. And before you start, witches are in the bible. Paul |
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Since you asked so nicely.
Because I have been witness to both sides and I know the difference exists. Malevolent and benevolent beings exist. Both manifest into our reality from time to time and how they present themselves and what message they convey to us is where you have a decision to make in whether its real or not or what principality you wish to follow, most make the mistake of not believing or following either but as it says there is no middle ground you are either Hot Or Cold, if you are luke warm you will also be rejected, so take a stand pick a side and start following the good because it is the higher, harder road. |
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That.....doesn't answer the question in any way.
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If they can make this god work for them, what does it say about them.
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*Looks at humanity* Do we really need evidence of malevolence or benevolence? Not that I'm actually defending Edge's post or anything, but there's plenty of individuals (some very prominent, like Hitler) that provides prodigious evidence for both. Though I must confess I'm baffled why Edge and other God botherers feel the need to insert an outside source for it.
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[quote=Mudcat;7833031Though I must confess I'm baffled why Edge and other God botherers feel the need to insert an outside source for it.[/quote]
Why else would primitive brains do the things they do (Hitler for one), we have to bring in a magical answer. The real problem is, they think they are answering questions, but the truth is that they are only adding a useless layer the the questions, that is because their god answer can be anything they want it to be and so it anwers nothing. Paul |
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See people, this is what you learn from believing in a so-called god of the bible, people aren't important, only that god is.
And in my last post I posted no names. We all have primitive brains edge and knowing this we can adjust our thinking on how and why we think like we do. Edge "without respelling your name" why do you support such a primitive idea of what a god can be, and why do you think you aren't worthy of a much better god. Paul |
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Again what is the point you are trying to make besides insults?
It's not anything I want it to be but it is clarification on what it will be. I have experienced both sides and one is malevolent and one is benevolent, that is how you can tell; the encounter ends badly or absolutely holy/good, with a good outcome with great information. |
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