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RE: It's A Quote
December 23, 2023 at 7:20 am
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We were speaking of belief, beliefs and conditioning. All belief possibly could be said to be the result of some conditioning. Thus, the study of history is simply the study of one system of beliefs deposing another, and so on and so on and so on... A psychologically tested belief of our time is that the central nervous system, which feeds its impulses directly to the brain, the conscious and subconscious, is unable to discern between the real and the vividly imagined experience. If there is a difference, and most of us believe there is - am I being clear? For to examine these concepts requires tremendous energy and discipline. To allow the unknown to occur and to occur requires clarity. And where there is clarity there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should anyone listen to me? Why should I speak, since I know nothing?
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December 23, 2023 at 8:16 am
“Cats choose us; we don’t own them.” (Kristin Cast)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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December 23, 2023 at 8:52 am
I presume that Pope Benedict XVI retired prematurely because he was losing his faith. In his address at Auschwitz, which was not long, he asked no fewer than three times: “Where was God? Where was God when this was happening?”
- Werner Herzog
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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December 23, 2023 at 5:41 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: It's A Quote
December 24, 2023 at 8:58 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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December 24, 2023 at 9:12 am
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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RE: It's A Quote
December 26, 2023 at 10:54 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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December 27, 2023 at 12:26 pm
John the Evangelist Wrote:In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the very beginning.
Through him all things came into existence,
and without him there was nothing.
That which came to be
found life in him,
and the life was the light of the human race.
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has been unable to overcome it.
…
The true light that enlightens everyone
was coming into the world.
He was in the world,
the world had come into existence through him,
yet the world did not recognize him.
He came to his own,
but his own did not accept him.
However, to those who did accept him
and who believed in his name
he granted the power to become children of God,
who were born not from blood
or human desire or human will,
but from God.
And the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us.
And we saw his glory,
the glory as of the Father’s only Son,
full of grace and truth.
John 1:1 – 14 Happy Feast Day!
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RE: It's A Quote
December 27, 2023 at 12:53 pm
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(December 27, 2023 at 12:26 pm)SimpleCaveman Wrote: John the Evangelist Wrote:In the beginning was the Word,
John the Evangelist did not write that just like Ganesha did not write Mahabharata. They lied to you.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: It's A Quote
December 28, 2023 at 4:21 am
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