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Yah, it's the Jewish passover tradition, except instead of a lamb it's God, the Son of God. Judeo-Christianity is all about interpreting the sayings and actions of the teacher Jesus from within Jewish traditions, even if it means forcing a round peg into a square hole. The official term is...

What is "mind", exactly? How big is it? How much influence does it have? How much actual creative power does it have? What if man, himself is in a "mind"? Whose mind? What if man's mind doesn't really create anything? What if some other mind thinks through man's mind? Is man in a mind as...

As a Christian, Bill Still might feel obligated to devote a whole video to this theme, on this day, instead of the usual political or financial fare. The idea is generally that a Christian should not hide one's faith, and/or he really believes the information would be helpful. So this is a...

Not necessarily. Depends on what hell is. If hell constitutes everything that is not true, doesn't mean there is no truth. If hell is all that is imaginary, doesn't rule out a reality. If hell doesn't exist, doesn't mean something does.

Interesting. I wonder where he pulls the term "disappearance" from. Could it be he has read this book, "Disappearance Of The Universe"? The book is a transcript of a series of conversations over a nine year period, beginning in 1992. It describes two worlds that cannot co-exist: reality and...

The mode of operandi so far has been to try and bust anybody possible on anything at any time...drumroll please...to get them to turn states witness against Trump in relation to the campaign. That's the only connection to the campaign so far, except to try and bust people who were associated...

So to clarify a little more, i don't consider anything that can be weaponized to be *good* or *god* or even *God*. The concept of "God" can be weaponized, as one man uses psychological warfare against other men. "God" is, or can be, a weapon in the arsenal of priests, when they wage...

Even if the correlation between god and good was clear, we'd be hard pressed to get people to agree on what is actually good, for the same reason people don't agree on what is actually real and/or true. Note well, most things that may be considered good by one side may be considered evil by the...

I don't think I'm changing meanings much when I say that god and good mean the same thing. The shorter version is missing an "o", producing a meaningless variable into which all kinds of charlatans pump their own values. I'm for clarity, not the many meaningless words people use like "sin"...

What word would you use for a Jesus who is NOT the Jewish notion of Messiah, but whose actual words are salvific for anyone who understands them, and applies his principles? I would attribute only about 5% of the red letters in the "new testament" to something Jesus actually said. Then, what...

I have asked YOU to stay professional, or, if you are not a professional Buddhist, to step up to the standards of a consistent philosopher. My credentials are evident in my consistency. I don't take absolute opposites and conflate them together with superstitious sayings. Buddhism is plagued...

What are your credentials while floating duplicitous, self-condradicting, and misleading info about what Guatama learned through inquiry? You do understand that everything and nothing are opposites, right? You are aware Guatama said the material world's of form are empty (void, nothing), right?

I've often thought how Stoicism is alot like Catholicism.

From the article/her writing: "Today, members and leaders of the Islamic faith actively condemn acts of violence. They speak out against injustices and work together with other Abrahamic faiths in interfaith dialogues to aid the spread of understanding and peace." Translation: "Today, members...

OddTrader, are you agreeing with this 12 year old kid? Whose probably been brainwashed by politico parents? If so, i'm disappointed. And murray t turtle likes this? I'm neither disappointed nor surprised. Both of you are like boats, adrift at sea, without anchors. Look at the very first...

I think what you mean is inequality (inequity) does not exist in Buddhism. I think most here would agree that the idea of God, coming from the Abrahamic faiths, means there is always going to be a supreme leader, God, and subcategories of creatures. This view takes hierarchy for granted and in...

Hmm. Maybe the Trump Train is back on track. Need a little more evidence.

I classify the material world(s) as a religion, inasmuch as matter (organized particles) is a phenomenon originating in faith. I call "religion" any devotion to what faith has produced (man, matter), as well as to the phenomenon of faith itself. Given this more broad definition, it's easy to...

I'm sure you are as aware of the answer the riddle as i am: the Self. What i'm emphasizing in this thread is when faith reduces the Self to something like a fish or bird, existence becomes dangerous, even hellish. It seems for every thing, there is a predator waiting to strike. I think the...

Heaven is the spiritual existence of Christ. I have explained how faith is alien to Christ's home within the knowledge of Self, which is also the knowledge of everything and the knowledge of reality. I would even emphasize that whatever Christ has (all knowledge), that is also what Christ is...