(June 23, 2011 at 6:57 pm)Anymouse Wrote:(June 23, 2011 at 12:53 pm)Nick_A Wrote:(June 23, 2011 at 10:59 am)Anymouse Wrote:I agree. You haven't thought and your head hurts. I'm concerned with those who are willing to think for the sake of understanding even at the risk of a headache. They have experienced the relative conscious quality of the moment in themselves. One moment they have a higher perspective analagous to that of the forest. At the next they are fighting amongst trees having lost a conscious perspective and lowered the quality of the moment.
"Quality of the moment?" I have never considered what this means, because when I do, my head hurts.
It's not even subjective, it's just non-sensical. Like "the flavour of blue" or the "taste of baroque music."
James.
A person seeking to sustain a higher perspective, a higher quality of the moment, wonders why they continually lose conscious self awareness, become caught up in negative emotions and experience dulled senses as well. You are not concerned with these things so you are better off just taking two excedrins and not concerning yourself with it.
You misread, I'm afraid. When I do consider what this means, my head hurts. Not from the idea of Christianity, the idea of horrible metaphor. I did give other examples of such metaphors.
Any religion that burns and stones people because they do not believe the same way is evil.That represses their "God-given" thought processes is evil. That takes the greatest gift of their god [sex] and makes it sinful, or casts them into an everlasting torment is evil. That glorifies slavery and the repression of women is evil. I would never worship such an evil being.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (KJV)
I also really don't like having to know more about someone else's holy book, because they don't read it themselves. Read the sections in Isaiah and Proverbs about adult nursing (how wives' are given this gift to prevent their husbands from going astray) sometime; no preacher in any church will read those to you, but they are there, and you would know it if you had read your holy book. (I have, it is a matter of self-defence from the endless missionaries.) You need a religion like mine, that has no such book at all. Or one like Discordia. If anyone can make sense out of the Principia Discordia, I applaud them. It's a hoot.
If the Bible had been written today, it would not be for sale to minors. It is a tale of the worst horrors both men and a god can ever inflict on humankind. Drowning everyone and repopulating the Earth by incest would never fly in a children's book.
You misunderstand the purpose of the Bible. You prevent it from doing its job
"The Bible: a book which either reads you or is worthless" ~ CHAZAL ...
