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Poll: How you work that out?
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My religion represent God
3.70%
1 3.70%
I take from what religions say
0%
0 0%
No religion represent God
25.93%
7 25.93%
I wouldn't know
11.11%
3 11.11%
I am not interested
18.52%
5 18.52%
I have no other way to know so I just write what religions say
0%
0 0%
Nah.
40.74%
11 40.74%
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Do religions represent God?
#61
RE: Do religions represent God?
(January 9, 2017 at 7:33 am)Tonus Wrote: I strongly suspect that "the student is ready" right about the time that the mushrooms kick in.

I practiced yoga in my younger years. LSD and psilocybin were more efficient.
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#62
RE: Do religions represent God?
(January 8, 2017 at 3:58 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: The deification of Christ was a legal stipulation.

Why do I read that as : defecation ?
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#63
RE: Do religions represent God?
(January 9, 2017 at 8:00 am)ignoramus Wrote:
(January 8, 2017 at 3:58 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: The deification of Christ was a legal stipulation.

Why do I read that as : defecation ?

That too.
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#64
RE: Do religions represent God?
Holy shit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#65
RE: Do religions represent God?
Or:

Wholly shit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#66
RE: Do religions represent God?
(January 9, 2017 at 5:09 am)Little Rik Wrote:
(January 8, 2017 at 2:06 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Yeah, no, you're full of shit here.  There are practicing religious and theoretical spiritualists.  The distinction you make doesn't exist.  Moreover you're simply assuming that what you do is "right practice" whereas what they do isn't.  That's just being biased.  How do you know that what the religious do isn't "right practice?"  You don't.  You're just assuming the high ground.  Anybody can make an assumption.  Assuming that you're doing the right thing and they're not is not providing any reason to believe you.  Anyone can just assume.




1) I don't?
Wrong again yog in fact I do know very well indeed.
When you try to think about something or to find a solution to your problems you look within not at the stars.
It is within where the knowledge lie.

Outside there is mainly a lot of illusion.
Any researcher when he-she try to discover something look within and even if he look outside that knowledge still come from someone who previously look within.
You can not go wrong with that.
The routine is the same.
The knowledge only come from within that is why spirituality is a search within unlike religions which search outside.
Religions worship idols, effigy, statues and pray God for the daily bread.
In spirituality all this is totally off.
Once you understand that the real knowledge is within there is no point in wasting the time in external exercises that not only lead nowhere but are also ruining the already acquired knowledge.  Lightbulb
Putting religions and spirituality on the same level is unfounded.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. You're just doing exactly what I said you were doing. And no you don't know.
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#67
RE: Do religions represent God?
Yeah, I think we have gotten off topic a bit. And with most of us apparently certain that we are standing in the one place in the Cosmos where we can judge everyone and everything absolutely, I can't see any useful, down-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road value of being on or off topic. Yeah, I'm probably just a grouchy old fart, but I've learned a few things getting there, and one of them is that when the teacher is ready a student will come.
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#68
RE: Do religions represent God?
Why isn't one of the choices "There is/are no god/gods for the various holy books and myths TO represent"?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?

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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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#69
RE: Do religions represent God?
(January 9, 2017 at 7:24 am)chimp3 Wrote:
(January 9, 2017 at 5:09 am)Little Rik Wrote: Wrong.

Tantra is not a religion and yet from it you can know what Shiva, Krishna, Buddha, Christ and other were doing.
Tantra is pure spirituality and by practicing Tantra the knowledge within come to the surface.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear and this teacher will provide you with a system that
eventually will lead you to know how the system works.
You don't need religious books to know how the system works.
In fact by following religious book you are put off track in no time.

So, If a person who never heard of krishna or tantra began to meditate sanskrit words and hindu deities would become apparent to them?


When yoga started about 7000 years ago nobody write down anything.
Nobody knew how to write and the writing was not there yet so the religious books that did not exist could not possibly be the source of anything how some fool suggest.
It was the guru or spiritual teacher that show the system how to get closer and eventually merge in the ocean of cosmic consciousness.
The same thing goes on today and will go on for ever.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear no matter who you are where you live or any other
thing that may eventuate.
The knowledge must be given to anyone who is really interested no matter what.
By following the guru teaching is obvious that come apparent who the previous masters and teachers were.  Lightbulb

(January 9, 2017 at 1:13 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(January 9, 2017 at 5:09 am)Little Rik Wrote: 1) I don't?
Wrong again yog in fact I do know very well indeed.
When you try to think about something or to find a solution to your problems you look within not at the stars.
It is within where the knowledge lie.

Outside there is mainly a lot of illusion.
Any researcher when he-she try to discover something look within and even if he look outside that knowledge still come from someone who previously look within.
You can not go wrong with that.
The routine is the same.
The knowledge only come from within that is why spirituality is a search within unlike religions which search outside.
Religions worship idols, effigy, statues and pray God for the daily bread.
In spirituality all this is totally off.
Once you understand that the real knowledge is within there is no point in wasting the time in external exercises that not only lead nowhere but are also ruining the already acquired knowledge.  Lightbulb
Putting religions and spirituality on the same level is unfounded.

Blah, blah, blah, blah.  You're just doing exactly what I said you were doing.  And no you don't know.



If you reckon that I do not know then show evidence that the knowledge is external.  Wink
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#70
RE: Do religions represent God?
(January 10, 2017 at 6:37 am)Little Rik Wrote:
(January 9, 2017 at 7:24 am)chimp3 Wrote: So, If a person who never heard of krishna or tantra began to meditate sanskrit words and hindu deities would become apparent to them?


When yoga started about 7000 years ago nobody write down anything.
Nobody knew how to write and the writing was not there yet so the religious books that did not exist could not possibly be the source of anything how some fool suggest.
It was the guru or spiritual teacher that show the system how to get closer and eventually merge in the ocean of cosmic consciousness.
The same thing goes on today and will go on for ever.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear no matter who you are where you live or any other
thing that may eventuate.
The knowledge must be given to anyone who is really interested no matter what.
By following the guru teaching is obvious that come apparent who the previous masters and teachers were.  Lightbulb

I was being sarcastic lil rik! Of course no one would see Hindu deities if they had never seen or heard of them before. You are just recycling old superstitions the same as any other religious person. Hari Bo! (It's a candy!)
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