Forget Religion - You Are In Control Of Your Destiny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZKMJkLtITc
Religions are all about controlling peoples minds, and that's something I could never be a part of. I think for myself and I don't let religion do the thinking for me.
The most dangerous religion that nearly EVERYONE believes in is authority. Authority can never exist but because people imagine it's real, we've created Hell on Earth. Teach everyone that he owns himself and no government has a right to control him under any conditions.
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How to see clearly through the obfuscating belief that is man-made religion
Re: How to see clearly through the obfuscating belief that is man-made religion
Unfortunately for me religion is very real, I cursed the name of god and got 4 black cats in less than 1 h!
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Re: How to see clearly through the obfuscating belief that is man-made religion
I understand your point but think your last conclusion to be wrong the moment someone decides to join a religion or society.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:26 am Forget Religion - You Are In Control Of Your Destiny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZKMJkLtITc
Religions are all about controlling peoples minds, and that's something I could never be a part of. I think for myself and I don't let religion do the thinking for me.
The most dangerous religion that nearly EVERYONE believes in is authority. Authority can never exist but because people imagine it's real, we've created Hell on Earth. Teach everyone that he owns himself and no government has a right to control him under any conditions.
They are trading off freedom for the security of a tribe.
What this link says applies to both governments/tribes and religions/tribes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2LMTRoWlA
As to hell on earth. As a Gnostic Christian, I cannot agree as I, like my ilk, see evolving perfection here and not hell.
That is long and goes off topic, so I understand if you do not reply, but I will put it to clarify my point.
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The Christian view.
1 John 2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Gen 3; 17 Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
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Gnostic Christian Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
"If those who attract you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you.
If they say to you, 'It is under the earth,' then the fish of the sea will precede you.
Rather, the Kingdom of God is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
[Those who] become acquainted with [themselves] will find it; [and when you] become acquainted with yourselves, [you will understand that] it is you who are the sons of the living Father.
But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."
As you can see from that quote, if we see God's kingdom all around us and inside of us, we cannot think that the world is anything but evolving perfection. Most just don't see it and live in poverty. Let me try to make you see the world the way I do.
Here is a mind exercise. Tell me what you see when you look around. The best that can possibly be or an ugly and imperfect world?
Candide.
"It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end.”
That means that we live in the best of all possible worlds, given all the conditions at hand and the history that got us here. That is an irrefutable statement given entropy and the anthropic principle.
Regards
DL
Re: How to see clearly through the obfuscating belief that is man-made religion
There is only good here, there is only unconditional love without condition.
Identification with a separate 'me' is a false self imposed prison, cutting oneself off from infinite source is not a good place to be. The good place is the mind that is not owned or claimed. This is true freedom, this is real love and beauty and goodness.
Every living thing responds to love...every living thing repels evil and hate. Animals respond to love and kindness, not cruelty or negativity.
Reality thrives on positivity...and repels negativity, this is self evident proof that all is GOOD.
No one can escape the beauty and love and goodness of being here.
Lying, cheating, deception, evil intentions, evil actions cannot be hidden, or thrive here, such ideas will be driven out, overwhelmed by the only real force in action here and that is love. No thing can over shadow love, so evil intension, actions will be revealed for what they are and extinquished by the ever present light of awareness which is beauty and good, and forever abides as the natural state it is. No other state has any reality over and above this.
The proof of this is when a human being takes a lie detector test, all lies are revealed by the only power there is which is unconditional love, the human being has no power to hide it's evil intentions...it's totally powerless under the real power..aka LOVE and goodness. You simply cannot cheat the goodness that is the only reality, it's wins out every time.
No lie can ever be hidden away, truth will always seek it out into the open where it will lie naked and shamed, all lies are exposed, there is nowhere to run and hide, truth can extinquish a lie, but a lie can NEVER extinquish the truth. Metaphorically speaking, the light can extinquish the dark, but the dark can never extinquish the light because there is only light.
Light is love, the only thing that's real. Good is the only reality...so there is no need to worry about a thing, ain't no thing ever going to happen to you.
IMHO.
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''A cactus on its own intends no harm. It's only when we interfere that it becomes dangerous'' The good place.
What is interference? ...the separate 'me' is.
When contact is made with the cactus, the mind says ..owch you hurt 'me'...and separtion is born.
When in truth, the catus did not hurt you, it had no intention of hurting, it's totally harmless.
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Identification with a separate 'me' is a false self imposed prison, cutting oneself off from infinite source is not a good place to be. The good place is the mind that is not owned or claimed. This is true freedom, this is real love and beauty and goodness.
Every living thing responds to love...every living thing repels evil and hate. Animals respond to love and kindness, not cruelty or negativity.
Reality thrives on positivity...and repels negativity, this is self evident proof that all is GOOD.
No one can escape the beauty and love and goodness of being here.
Lying, cheating, deception, evil intentions, evil actions cannot be hidden, or thrive here, such ideas will be driven out, overwhelmed by the only real force in action here and that is love. No thing can over shadow love, so evil intension, actions will be revealed for what they are and extinquished by the ever present light of awareness which is beauty and good, and forever abides as the natural state it is. No other state has any reality over and above this.
The proof of this is when a human being takes a lie detector test, all lies are revealed by the only power there is which is unconditional love, the human being has no power to hide it's evil intentions...it's totally powerless under the real power..aka LOVE and goodness. You simply cannot cheat the goodness that is the only reality, it's wins out every time.
No lie can ever be hidden away, truth will always seek it out into the open where it will lie naked and shamed, all lies are exposed, there is nowhere to run and hide, truth can extinquish a lie, but a lie can NEVER extinquish the truth. Metaphorically speaking, the light can extinquish the dark, but the dark can never extinquish the light because there is only light.
Light is love, the only thing that's real. Good is the only reality...so there is no need to worry about a thing, ain't no thing ever going to happen to you.
IMHO.
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''A cactus on its own intends no harm. It's only when we interfere that it becomes dangerous'' The good place.
What is interference? ...the separate 'me' is.
When contact is made with the cactus, the mind says ..owch you hurt 'me'...and separtion is born.
When in truth, the catus did not hurt you, it had no intention of hurting, it's totally harmless.
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