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Old 22nd November 2011, 08:20 PM   #121
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really? Who was Asherah then?
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Old 22nd November 2011, 08:56 PM   #122
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"Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god."


"I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things."


"For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other. I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right. "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other."


"Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
Good thing you're not the lord.
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Old 22nd November 2011, 09:07 PM   #123
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Good thing you're not the lord.
Damn right. His patience and forbearance far exceeds mine. Use your remaining time wisely and learn thanksgiving... or not. As You Will.

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Old 22nd November 2011, 09:16 PM   #124
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I've verified for myself that the Divine, whatever it is, is real. As for the plans of the Divine, I think they are difficult for us to wrap our heads around because the Divine uses both causality and retro-causality to bring itself about in both the past and the future (alpha and omega). The plan of the Divine is to be.
You know it's real, but you don't know what it is.
You know it has plans, but you don't know what they are.
Causality/retro-causality? I don't think the Divine knows if it's coming or going.
The plan of the Divine is to be. I am, does that make me divine?
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Old 22nd November 2011, 09:41 PM   #125
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"Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god."


"I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things."


"For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other. I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right. "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other."


"Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
Care to prove this lord fella wrote this? If you can't it's just a fairy story.
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Old 22nd November 2011, 11:13 PM   #126
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I've verified for myself that the Divine, whatever it is, is real.
How did you do that?
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Old 22nd November 2011, 11:30 PM   #127
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Where's your sorce?
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I need to know where he is coming from and in here it's the rules... when you copy and paste?
Is that how you avoid difficult question? Say "there is no link" (to the bible???)

That doesn't ring true to me. Even if you were too lazy to pick up your copy of the bible, you could always look up http://www.biblegateway.com/ and verify my quotes.

Hey, look at that! I just quoted a "sorce"! Now you will have to answer me.
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Old 23rd November 2011, 01:45 AM   #128
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The bible is a work of fiction written by bronze-age goat herders. Unfortunately, due to transcription errors, the first page of the bible is missing which is a shame as the authors dedicate the book to their wives and children who put up with them while they wrote it. The editor is also mentioned.
Not to mention the disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, any resemblance to events, places or people; living or dead; is purely coincidental.
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Not to mention the disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, any resemblance to events, places or people; living or dead; is purely coincidental.
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Old 23rd November 2011, 04:54 AM   #130
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How did you do that?

By using various techniques of mysticism.
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By using various techniques of mysticism.
Yea, right.
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Damn right. His patience and forbearance far exceeds mine. Use your remaining time wisely and learn thanksgiving... or not. As You Will.
How do you know that?
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Old 23rd November 2011, 05:59 AM   #133
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How did you do that?
I'm sure he did like they all do and just looked into his own mind.
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By using various techniques of mysticism.
You went without food or water till you started hallucinating?

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Old 23rd November 2011, 06:16 AM   #135
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"I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God

you shall have no other gods before me.

"Gods" is pural.

I have never hear of your versions before. But it is easy to change words in books, that is why the god of the bible isn't a real one. A real god's bible could never ever be changed in anyway that would change any meaning within it by anyone. Seeing that the bible is not self correcting, it has nothing to do with a real god.

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you shall have no other gods before me.

"Gods" is pural.

I have never hear of your versions before. But it is easy to change words in books, that is why the god of the bible isn't a real one. A real god's bible could never ever be changed in anyway that would change any meaning within it by anyone. Seeing that the bible is not self correcting, it has nothing to do with a real god.

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Wrong, it says we have the right to re-proof it and discuss it.
He's talking about the false paths and the false gods, not to mention the beings that are lower.
Especially the fallen ones that are lower who trick us into believing they are god, that's one of the reasons and rights we have and that is to figure it out.
That is also part of his plan.
Listen and read what Jude Brando posted before.
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you shall have no other gods before me.

"Gods" is pural.

I have never hear of your versions before. But it is easy to change words in books, that is why the god of the bible isn't a real one. A real god's bible could never ever be changed in anyway that would change any meaning within it by anyone. Seeing that the bible is not self correcting, it has nothing to do with a real god.

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Yes, seems like a real book of god would have only one meaning so if two or more read it they would all agree on what it meant, the fact that we have all these different interpretations is strong evidence that it's just another work of fiction with a poor plot and only one sustaining character.
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Damn right. His patience and forbearance far exceeds mine.
As far as I can tell, your god is a moody, jealous SOB. Seems to hate kids too.

If you believe the stories anyway.
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"Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god."


"I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things."


"For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other. I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right. "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other."


"Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
That's nice. So what?

Jude Brando, you sometimes answer questions put to you, so I'd like to ask why someone of at least normal intelligence would quote the Bible to a bunch of people who put no credence in it, as if that would prove something to them. Why do you do that? It's like quoting the Just-So stories to describe to a bunch of evolutionary biologists how the rhinoceros got its skin or the armadillo its scales. So why do you do it?

Thank you.

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Wrong, it says we have the right to re-proof it and discuss it.
He's talking about the false paths and the false gods, not to mention the beings that are lower.
Especially the fallen ones that are lower who trick us into believing they are god, that's one of the reasons and rights we have and that is to figure it out.
That is also part of his plan.
Listen and read what Jude Brando posted before.
How do I know you and Jude aren't merely the lower ones who trick us?
Afterall, you have no evidence to support your argument.
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As far as I can tell, your god is a moody, jealous SOB. Seems to hate kids too.

If you believe the stories anyway.
He will arbitrarily kill off women, children and animals just to win a bet with his good bud, Satan.

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He will arbitrarily kill off women, children and animals just to win a bet with his good bud, Satan.
God's reasons are his reason, who are you to say he can or can't?
What would have happened if he lost that bet?
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9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according as the LORD commanded them. The LORD also accepted Job.


10And the LORD released Job from captivity when he prayed for his friends. Also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.


11Then came there unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.


12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand sheasses.


13He had also seven sons and three daughters.


14And he called the name of the first Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Kerenhappuch.


15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.


16After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons and his sons' sons, even four generations.


17So Job died, being old and full of days.

All Gods plan.
Never give up never surrender.
The devil hasn't gone anywhere, he's doing it to us all still.
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you shall have no other gods before me.

"Gods" is pural.

I have never hear of your versions before. But it is easy to change words in books, that is why the god of the bible isn't a real one. A real god's bible could never ever be changed in anyway that would change any meaning within it by anyone. Seeing that the bible is not self correcting, it has nothing to do with a real god.

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Yes, seems like a real book of god would have only one meaning so if two or more read it they would all agree on what it meant, the fact that we have all these different interpretations is strong evidence that it's just another work of fiction with a poor plot and only one sustaining character.

EXACTLY.........
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Wrong, it says we have the right to re-proof it and discuss it.
He's talking about the false paths and the false gods, not to mention the beings that are lower.
Especially the fallen ones that are lower who trick us into believing they are god, that's one of the reasons and rights we have and that is to figure it out.
That is also part of his plan.
Listen and read what Jude Brando posted before.

How do you know you are not being tricked??????

Why are the others being tricked .....but you are not?????

What if YOU TOO were being tricked????

How would a trickster god's bible have been any different from the one we have today????

How would the world be any different from one being run by a none caring shyster of a god???

I am really interested to know Edge.....how do you know you are not being tricked?????
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The devil hasn't gone anywhere, he's doing it to us all still.
How the hell does an archangel ever get on the same level as a god.

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How the hell does an archangel ever get on the same level as a god.

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Pretend assasination?

In the xian silly story, improved upon by Milton, satan almost made it.

Wish he had - it would have been a much better story.

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God's reasons are his reason, who are you to say he can or can't?
What would have happened if he lost that bet?



All Gods plan.
Never give up never surrender.
The devil hasn't gone anywhere, he's doing it to us all still.
Right, GWIMW* yet you seem to know what and why god wants things, how is that?

The devil didn't do anything. God's the one that did the killing.

*god works in mysterious ways
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How do you know you are not being tricked??????

Why are the others being tricked .....but you are not?????

What if YOU TOO were being tricked????

How would a trickster god's bible have been any different from the one we have today????

How would the world be any different from one being run by a none caring shyster of a god???

I am really interested to know Edge.....how do you know you are not being tricked?????
Indeed. Whose attributes would people think these are the devil or god:

Plays games with human lives

Lies constantly

Actively forces men to do evil

Kills children for laughing as his messenger

Destroys all life on the planet less eight.

ect. ect. ect.
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God's reasons are his reason, who are you to say he can or can't?
That is the problem with you people that believe in the god of the bible, you are afraid to hold him to a higher standard like any real god should be.

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By using various techniques of mysticism.
OK, how do you know it wasn't just your mind playing tricks on you? People of every faith do the same thing and confirm their beliefs, many contradictory to yours, the same way. My grandfather converted to Christianity while he was reading the Bible in bed the middle of the night, obviously sleep deprived and very likely dreaming. Someone else I know sees ghosts when they are in that awake/asleep paralysis zone - even I do. The brain is a powerful hallucination machine, and religious hallucinations tend to confirm whatever faith is hovering in your mind at the moment when these hallucinations are most likely.

So, Limbo, how can you be sure your various techniques of mysticism didn't merely allow your brain to mess with you the way brains are known to do? How do you know it wasn't Satan messing with you?
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Lets see what you got here.

Later in the day...
Lets all understand who they were.
The League of Corinth, a federation of ancient Greek states.
err ...

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And as usual you left out the rest.

11O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened unto you, and our heart is enlarged.

12Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.

13Now as a recompense for this (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.
Those three verses have nothing to do with pagan influences. They are basically just Paul asking the Corinthians to be nice like he is.

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14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?

15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God. [b]As God hath said: "I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

17Therefore, "Come out from among them, and be ye separate," saith the Lord. "And touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you,

18and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters," saith the Lord Almighty.
Verses 17 and 18 are consistent with the three that I quoted.


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And you’re telling me that you understand this passage?
Of course not! Nobody actually understands any of the passages in the bible - they merely interpret them. The quoted verses are clearly suggesting that God's followers should keep to their own because God has nothing to do with evil.

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We were talking about what God/Jesus said.
Have you forgotten which part of your posts I was responding to?

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So separating you're self from the bad is what?

Part of The plan? For Us to do?
No Hell, in Sight?
The unclean thing is what?
idols/Belial/infidel

Their false religion.
like Sledge said ...

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Your point is Moot.
Do you have any idea what my point is?
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Old 23rd November 2011, 04:04 PM   #152
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OK, how do you know it wasn't just your mind playing tricks on you? People of every faith do the same thing and confirm their beliefs, many contradictory to yours, the same way. My grandfather converted to Christianity while he was reading the Bible in bed the middle of the night, obviously sleep deprived and very likely dreaming. Someone else I know sees ghosts when they are in that awake/asleep paralysis zone - even I do. The brain is a powerful hallucination machine, and religious hallucinations tend to confirm whatever faith is hovering in your mind at the moment when these hallucinations are most likely.

So, Limbo, how can you be sure your various techniques of mysticism didn't merely allow your brain to mess with you the way brains are known to do? How do you know it wasn't Satan messing with you?

Valid questions, Mr Scott. Knowing is a problem.

My approach to solving that problem is two-fold. First, years of studying comparative mysticism, comparative religion, comparative mythology. That has enabled me to unlearn all the crud that pop-culture and orthodoxy shoves in our heads all our lives. Crud that still fills the heads of most religious and non-religious people. Once all that crud is unlearned, then true learning can begin. The comparative fields have allowed me to understand God in a way that few people do. I know what to look for, I understand the pattern of mystical development. That makes it hard for my brain or for Satan to mess with me.

Second, I have received verifiable non-local information from God. For example, a series of dreams that came true in sequence. Or visions of the future that come true moments later right before my eyes. And so on. Being able to verify information that I had no way of knowing is a plus.
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Old 23rd November 2011, 04:18 PM   #153
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Originally Posted by Limbo View Post
Second, I have received verifiable non-local information from God. For example, a series of dreams that came true in sequence. Or visions of the future that come true moments later right before my eyes. And so on. Being able to verify information that I had no way of knowing is a plus.
Information from a non existent being? I don't think so. And your knowledge of comparative religion is less than impressive, as you demonstrated during the discussion about Zen Buddhism and Taoism. Got any more campfire stories?
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Old 23rd November 2011, 10:50 PM   #154
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Valid questions, Mr Scott. Knowing is a problem.

My approach to solving that problem is two-fold. First, years of studying comparative mysticism, comparative religion, comparative mythology. That has enabled me to unlearn all the crud that pop-culture and orthodoxy shoves in our heads all our lives. Crud that still fills the heads of most religious and non-religious people. Once all that crud is unlearned, then true learning can begin. The comparative fields have allowed me to understand God in a way that few people do. I know what to look for, I understand the pattern of mystical development. That makes it hard for my brain or for Satan to mess with me.

Second, I have received verifiable non-local information from God. For example, a series of dreams that came true in sequence. Or visions of the future that come true moments later right before my eyes. And so on. Being able to verify information that I had no way of knowing is a plus.
I did the same thing -- for years studying comparative mysticism, comparative religion, comparative mythology, and it led me to skepticism and hard atheism.

My first hint was to see how my perceptions that I was foretelling the future were invalid. For example, I used to feel I could predict what card would come up next on a deck. After a card turned up, I had a feeling I predicted that card. However, if I said out loud to witnesses what the next card would be, I was never right. I think my brain has even once or twice concocted the memory of a dream after the event it supposedly predicted, since I could remember no thoughts of the dream until after the event, nor did I mention to anyone the dream before the event.

Understanding how your brain tricks you is an important step to enlightenment. If you want to really know spiritual truth, you have to eliminate all possibility that you've been deluded. If you don't do this, then your search is insincere. You are only out to confirm what you already believe.

Here's how you could be wrong about prophesies:

1) After an event you supposedly predicted, you involuntarily revise your memory of your prediction. (the antidote to this is to write down what you predict before the thing happens, and objectively evaluate hits versus misses).

2) The things you predicted were so likely to happen anyway, even if occasionally unlikely. E.g. "I had a dream the sun would come up, over a thin cloud, and it did, just as the dream predicted, so it was a God-given prophetic dream."

3) You cherry-pick predictions that come true and ignore predictions that don't.

So Limbo, I really advise you start your search again, using the additions to your skeptic toolbox you learn here. It would be a weak god that couldn't stand up to critical thinking.
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Old 24th November 2011, 03:01 AM   #155
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Valid questions, Mr Scott. Knowing is a problem.

My approach to solving that problem is two-fold. First, years of studying comparative mysticism, comparative religion, comparative mythology. That has enabled me to unlearn all the crud that pop-culture and orthodoxy shoves in our heads all our lives. Crud that still fills the heads of most religious and non-religious people. Once all that crud is unlearned, then true learning can begin. The comparative fields have allowed me to understand God in a way that few people do. I know what to look for, I understand the pattern of mystical development. That makes it hard for my brain or for Satan to mess with me.

Second, I have received verifiable non-local information from God. For example, a series of dreams that came true in sequence. Or visions of the future that come true moments later right before my eyes. And so on. Being able to verify information that I had no way of knowing is a plus.
Modesty, that's what I like to see.
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Originally Posted by dafydd View Post
Modesty, that's what I like to see.
Not good enough dafydd.

Either show that Limbo is just posting self aggrandizement or bow out of the debate.
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Old 24th November 2011, 04:15 AM   #157
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Not good enough dafydd.

Either show that Limbo is just posting self aggrandizement or bow out of the debate.
Yes boss. Right away guv'nor. Try reading what he wrote and all will be revealed.

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Valid questions, Mr Scott. Knowing is a problem.

My approach to solving that problem is two-fold. First, years of studying comparative mysticism, comparative religion, comparative mythology. That has enabled me to unlearn all the crud that pop-culture and orthodoxy shoves in our heads all our lives. Crud that still fills the heads of most religious and non-religious people. Once all that crud is unlearned, then true learning can begin. The comparative fields have allowed me to understand God in a way that few people do. I know what to look for, I understand the pattern of mystical development. That makes it hard for my brain or for Satan to mess with me.

Second, I have received verifiable non-local information from God. For example, a series of dreams that came true in sequence. Or visions of the future that come true moments later right before my eyes. And so on. Being able to verify information that I had no way of knowing is a plus.
By learning you achieved unlearning?

I'm guessing you can't pass on any of that non-local information from God that might prove your statements
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Old 24th November 2011, 05:22 AM   #159
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Not good enough dafydd.

Either show that Limbo is just posting self aggrandizement or bow out of the debate.
You see a debate? I see someone claiming to understand the universe better than anyone else but failing to understand how water boils.
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Valid questions, Mr Scott. Knowing is a problem.

My approach to solving that problem is two-fold. First, years of studying comparative mysticism, comparative religion, comparative mythology. That has enabled me to unlearn all the crud that pop-culture and orthodoxy shoves in our heads all our lives. Crud that still fills the heads of most religious and non-religious people. Once all that crud is unlearned, then true learning can begin. The comparative fields have allowed me to understand God in a way that few people do. I know what to look for, I understand the pattern of mystical development. That makes it hard for my brain or for Satan to mess with me.

Second, I have received verifiable non-local information from God. For example, a series of dreams that came true in sequence. Or visions of the future that come true moments later right before my eyes. And so on. Being able to verify information that I had no way of knowing is a plus.
I've followed the discussion but this phrase really took me for a loop.
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