The Storm B4 the Calm

Danbones

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No matter the oil, Ginger might be to the anointer for you:
she is a great topical NSAID...er, conservative feminist angel I mean
 

damngrumpy

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Religion as an individual experience is a spiritual thing.
When it generated by mass produced rigid concepts fed
to those who don't think it through its a yoke around the neck
that prevents the mind from seeing new truths or debunking
old ones of no value
 

darkbeaver

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You are right grump, I think. Religion is personal you can't just subscribe without the bonifides you're fully paid up or you don't ride this time, you'll get thier though, time on task, nothing better for personal development.
 

Motar

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Religion as an individual experience is a spiritual thing. When it generated by mass produced rigid concepts fed to those who don't think it through its a yoke around the neck that prevents the mind from seeing new truths or debunking old ones of no value

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." (James 1:27 NIV)
 

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"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." (James 1:27 NIV)
That is a pretty simple and profound basis for a religion. Why did they add all the rest of the nonsense to complicate it?
 

darkbeaver

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Yes, I'm one of them, and glad to be so, because I'm convinced those beliefs have nothing to do with reality. There is no deity, never has been, never will be, that's all mythology, which does have certain didactic values and purposes but the literal truth isn't among them. We're on our own here, nobody's going to save us from ourselves but ourselves.

We're not alone, we have pets.

All I need for my retirement is one working elbow.
 

Motar

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That is a pretty simple and profound basis for a religion. Why did they add all the rest of the nonsense to complicate it?

There is the matter of tongue-control, Cliffy: "Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless." (James 1:26 NIV) This verse precedes the one I posted previously. It underscores the fact that religion does not produce righteousness.

Do you know anyone who never does damage with their words?
 

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4. THE BIRTH OF CHRIST ‘FROM THE MAIDEN’S SIDE’ AND THE BIRTH OF THE EGYPTIAN GOD SET OR TYPHON FROM THE MOTHER’S SIDE.

In Christianity only Christ is born on the first days of Creation. But in the Egyptian texts, at least the way they are translated by the commentators, - there were born several gods at once. Who, in fact, all correspond with Christ. Thus there emerges a striking parallel with the Christian texts. We already said that according to the Old Russian Sunday service Christ was born from the Maiden’s side. The Egyptian papyrus says that ‘on the third day Typhon (i.e. Set) came into the world, but he was not born as it should be, when he was due, but CAME OUT HIS MOTHER’S SIDE FROM THE WOUND HE INFLICTED ON HER’[11], p.40.
Here the two Christian stories are mixed in one. Firstly, the Nativity of Christ ‘from the Maiden’s side’. Secondly, in the Christian service quite often there is recalled a Gospel maxim about Christ’s crucifixion causing a deep emotional wound to the Mother of God. It is literally says: ‘Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also’ (Luke 2:35). These words should be interpreted in the sense of an emotional wound. But on the other hand the Mother of God also endured a bodily wound during the birth of Christ via caesarean section. The two wounds could have mixed up, as we can see in the Egyptian papyrus. But the second spiritual wound was inflicted on the Mother of God by the one who crucified Christ. In the Egyptian version they referred to Typhon or Set = Satan. In the story of Andronicus-Christ it is Isaac Angelos, aka Satan in the Christian tradition. This is possibly the reason why the Egyptian source is speaking of the wound inflicted onto to the mother by Typhon = Set.
As we have seen above, see ch.2, in the ‘Ancient’ Greek myth about Zeus-Christ, similar to the Judaic texts CHRIST AS IT WERE GIVES BIRTH TO HIMSELF FROM THE HIP. We can also see literally the same motif in the ‘Ancient’ Egyptian version. Here we are informed that GOD HORUS (Christ?) WAS BORN FROM THE BODY OF OSIRIS [86], p.81. In fig.5.9 we present the corresponding Egyptian image – god Horus appears from Osiris’ hip or his side. It is likely after the incision, i.e. as a result of the caesarean section from his Mother’s side.

5. WEDNESDAY FAST AND THE EGYPTIAN FASTING ON THE ‘FAILED THIRD DAY’.

There is the matter of tongue-control, Cliffy: "Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless." (James 1:26 NIV) This verse precedes the one I posted previously. It underscores the fact that religion does not produce righteousness.

Do you know anyone who never does damage with their words?

There's an prescribed law, that words should be true, to be of value. A tight reign bespeaks engineered words, spells, begone Satan.


should that be proscribed? fukkin stupid language
 

Motar

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There is the matter of tongue-control, Cliffy: "Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless." (James 1:26 NIV) This verse precedes the one I posted previously. It underscores the fact that religion does not produce righteousness.

Do you know anyone who never does damage with their words?

"The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life." (John 6:63 NIV)
 

Motar

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I speak the truth but you refuse to hear (Cliffy the Biffy Man 12:46 FOR)

"You do not want to leave too, do you?' Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” (John 6:67-69 NIV)
 

Cliffy

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Are you capable of thinking for yourself or can you only regurgitate verses from an ancient manuscript written by men?
 

Motar

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Are you capable of thinking for yourself or can you only regurgitate verses from an ancient manuscript written by men?

Do you know anyone who never does damage with their words, Cliffy? I do. I've been quoting Him.