October 21st, 2006, 02:54 PM
I haven't answered you because I was busy, you are not my major concern. Not that you would ever rate above a zit any how..
Quoting MikeyDB
Once again, snide, smug and completely oblivious. CDNbear and heritage.
“because of my up bringing and love of my ancestry, I have a sort of traditional view.”
To entertain the notion that this “up-bringing” and “love of my ancestry” could in any way be irrelevant is incredible.
That aside for the moment; You seem to offer your experiences in a “this is your ancestry…” kind of way have you noticed?
From reading those posting it sounds to me like you’ve had a hell of a whirl on life’s merry-go-round. Some of it you own as consequences of your own make-up involved dynamically in the experiences of others while in other parts of it you were both used and abused without much attention ever being paid to who you really are.
I feel badly that that was your experience …perhaps…you may just as likely have experienced a loving childhood and been propelled into your future by influences and forces beyond your control.
I had nothing to do with any of it.
You “exist” only as an image on the computer…or through the computer through what you write.
If convincing yourself about something is why you participate at Canadian Content….to measure yourself against other people or profess a value system and invite challenge, what’s the pay-off for you?
Do you think it reasonable that I should change my life to follow your advice and your guidelines based on what you’re writing on some Internet forum? Do you believe it’s reasonable that you expect me to change who I am on the basis of why you say…..
Is that any more reasonable than my asking you to change to suit me?
If there’s a point to all this then please let’s be much more specific.
“because of my up bringing and love of my ancestry, I have a sort of traditional view.”
To entertain the notion that this “up-bringing” and “love of my ancestry” could in any way be irrelevant is incredible.
That aside for the moment; You seem to offer your experiences in a “this is your ancestry…” kind of way have you noticed?
From reading those posting it sounds to me like you’ve had a hell of a whirl on life’s merry-go-round. Some of it you own as consequences of your own make-up involved dynamically in the experiences of others while in other parts of it you were both used and abused without much attention ever being paid to who you really are.
I feel badly that that was your experience …perhaps…you may just as likely have experienced a loving childhood and been propelled into your future by influences and forces beyond your control.
I had nothing to do with any of it.
You “exist” only as an image on the computer…or through the computer through what you write.
If convincing yourself about something is why you participate at Canadian Content….to measure yourself against other people or profess a value system and invite challenge, what’s the pay-off for you?
Do you think it reasonable that I should change my life to follow your advice and your guidelines based on what you’re writing on some Internet forum? Do you believe it’s reasonable that you expect me to change who I am on the basis of why you say…..
Is that any more reasonable than my asking you to change to suit me?
If there’s a point to all this then please let’s be much more specific.
I haven't answered you because I was busy, you are not my major concern. Not that you would ever rate above a zit any how..
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October 26th, 2006, 08:17 AM
This is a forum, a discussion area where opinions and perspectives are invited.
If my opinion offends you then you have the opportunity of responding and if you choose “argue” for your point of view and the superiority ........
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Listen MikeyDB andCNDBear I am politely asking both of you gents.If you want to argue do it somewhere else ,not on my thread.Thanks , China
This is a forum, a discussion area where opinions and perspectives are invited.
If my opinion offends you then you have the opportunity of responding and if you choose “argue” for your point of view and the superiority ........
__________________________________________________ _____________________________
Listen MikeyDB andCNDBear I am politely asking both of you gents.If you want to argue do it somewhere else ,not on my thread.Thanks , China
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October 30th, 2006, 04:05 AM
Having a natural understanding of our surroundings, humans naturally questioned who or what is the next logical step. I believe we viewed the creatures around us and saw we could talk and they could not. This would give “The next logical step” even greater abilities. From mans observations and the knowledge that we are at the top of the chain we theorized a deity. One who was not on this earth, simply because we could not see it. We also noticed that the only thing that really kicked our collective asses were the elements. We noticed that most of the time the elements were good to us but when winter came it was harsh. When winter ended new life seemed to have been born out of this action. Much like a “Mother” figure giving a rebirth to the sun. She will take care of you, but do not step out of line or else you will feel her wrath. I think this is were religion come from, the mother figure was a derivative. Most deities of what we call the simpler peoples were mostly female or the Sol (sun, in Catholicism: son). Hence, ergo, I.E., E.G. and all the other ones, Mother Nature.
Not until we learned people could be manipulated from such beliefs did it become a useful commodity! Then we had started the foundation of a god, much like ourselves, to be placed. This foundation was laid and built upon by influential peoples and families of what was deemed at the time, considerable power. The hierarchy: naturally being smarter than the rest, they must have been in some way to be set apart from the rest, in any way imaginable. Used this to call themselves closer to god and if not in fact gods themselves.
Building further upon this basement and first floor of belief, the “Want To Be’s” latched on becoming there subservient doers, yet retaining their own power over people. The purpose served by this is credence to the powers that are in hold. Having such devout followers eager to serves only helps further them up the pyramid. Common folk seeing the “Seconds” have prestige and a little power cling to them, perpetuating the third and fourth floors to be built.
What we ended up with is our own “Tower of Babel” that has fallen and divided the globe. With the “Prophets” working every angle to gain a foothold anywhere and anyway. The word prophet is great, comes along with “prophesier“! In religion, a prophet is a person who has directly encountered God, of whose intentions he can then speak. Those who are not prophets must then commit themselves to the divinely inspired word as an act of faith. This can be problematic, especially as there are false prophets. Even though prophets are the lowest of the low, used car salesmen, insurance salesmen, and every other politically incorrect thing I could say. It is through prophesizing that they get what they want out of the deal.
Religion is, without question, a Mega-Monopoly. Controlling not only great wealth, but even worse controlling people’s lives.
All of it is a derivative of “EGO”. Another great posting by China in this forum.
Having a natural understanding of our surroundings, humans naturally questioned who or what is the next logical step. I believe we viewed the creatures around us and saw we could talk and they could not. This would give “The next logical step” even greater abilities. From mans observations and the knowledge that we are at the top of the chain we theorized a deity. One who was not on this earth, simply because we could not see it. We also noticed that the only thing that really kicked our collective asses were the elements. We noticed that most of the time the elements were good to us but when winter came it was harsh. When winter ended new life seemed to have been born out of this action. Much like a “Mother” figure giving a rebirth to the sun. She will take care of you, but do not step out of line or else you will feel her wrath. I think this is were religion come from, the mother figure was a derivative. Most deities of what we call the simpler peoples were mostly female or the Sol (sun, in Catholicism: son). Hence, ergo, I.E., E.G. and all the other ones, Mother Nature.
Not until we learned people could be manipulated from such beliefs did it become a useful commodity! Then we had started the foundation of a god, much like ourselves, to be placed. This foundation was laid and built upon by influential peoples and families of what was deemed at the time, considerable power. The hierarchy: naturally being smarter than the rest, they must have been in some way to be set apart from the rest, in any way imaginable. Used this to call themselves closer to god and if not in fact gods themselves.
Building further upon this basement and first floor of belief, the “Want To Be’s” latched on becoming there subservient doers, yet retaining their own power over people. The purpose served by this is credence to the powers that are in hold. Having such devout followers eager to serves only helps further them up the pyramid. Common folk seeing the “Seconds” have prestige and a little power cling to them, perpetuating the third and fourth floors to be built.
What we ended up with is our own “Tower of Babel” that has fallen and divided the globe. With the “Prophets” working every angle to gain a foothold anywhere and anyway. The word prophet is great, comes along with “prophesier“! In religion, a prophet is a person who has directly encountered God, of whose intentions he can then speak. Those who are not prophets must then commit themselves to the divinely inspired word as an act of faith. This can be problematic, especially as there are false prophets. Even though prophets are the lowest of the low, used car salesmen, insurance salesmen, and every other politically incorrect thing I could say. It is through prophesizing that they get what they want out of the deal.
Religion is, without question, a Mega-Monopoly. Controlling not only great wealth, but even worse controlling people’s lives.
All of it is a derivative of “EGO”. Another great posting by China in this forum.
