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06-14-2008, 11:47 AM
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|  god is who we say he is...
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Originally Posted by Ice_Monkey Sure it does. Where else would such an "understanding" come from? | It's cool to see that it's only abrahamic religious icons being tossed into the trash in your avatar. That seems to directly correlate with your question here.
There's a Buddhist saying: "If you see the Buddha walking down the road, kill him."
Point is that the real god is inside you and who you are. If you see it outside yourself, you're mistaken. Tossing those symbols in the trash, as your avatar illustrates, is exactly that act.
Introspection and sharing/discussion with others is a good place that this understanding can come from. | though most of our views were inherited. I've long ago decided to kill god, not replace or relabel him, and it seems to have worked.
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06-14-2008, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by magisterfaust The bible had been interpreted in so many ways it appears to have "lost its' way ( if it ever had a direction at all). Why doesn't the Almighty just show himself and put the record straight, once an for all... He Can do that? After all, he IS The Almighty. Take all those poor souls who insisted thagt the earth was not aty the centre of the solar system, (a solar system that "God" created [supposedly], and were put to death for the crime of heresy by those who insisted that the earth was the centre of the solar system. "Those" being the Catholic Church, preaching, for want of a better word, the word of The Almighty. This absent father figure leaves us with free will, but when it all goes wrong, comes back and punishes everyone for using thier free will.  | I suggest.
start with A god as you understand it.
religion does not own god's traits.
start there.. | Sure it does. Where else would such an "understanding" come from? | Religions do not own God’s traits.
It starts with us.
Read Og's post.
That is a good start. |
.. being the inventors of gods, I guess it only stands to reason. | good point.
This is a good way of saying it. | |
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06-14-2008, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by magisterfaust The bible had been interpreted in so many ways it appears to have "lost its' way ( if it ever had a direction at all). Why doesn't the Almighty just show himself and put the record straight, once an for all... He Can do that? After all, he IS The Almighty. Take all those poor souls who insisted thagt the earth was not aty the centre of the solar system, (a solar system that "God" created [supposedly], and were put to death for the crime of heresy by those who insisted that the earth was the centre of the solar system. "Those" being the Catholic Church, preaching, for want of a better word, the word of The Almighty. This absent father figure leaves us with free will, but when it all goes wrong, comes back and punishes everyone for using thier free will. | I suggest.
start with A god as you understand it.
religion does not own god's traits.
start there.. | Sure it does. Where else would such an "understanding" come from? | Religions do not own God’s traits.
It starts with us.
Read Og's post.
That is a good start. | religion describes you and your god and it starts with an assumption that you can not deny. |  | i always know when its the rub the silly faces appear. | |
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