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01-02-2012, 09:26 PM
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We never learn,do we? Look at the wars that was fought in the name of religion?
Says it all!
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02-02-2012, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Left Behind
...I'm coming more to a view that even truth can be relative. It may be that, say, if you believe in reincarnation, and I don't, that is God or Spirit telling you that it will happen for you, and it won't for me...
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What you stated above is kind of where my path is leading me. And it might be as simple as we are all just different parts of the same energy/the God being. So if we are all different parts, there is no reason for us to all be the same. imo, it is our character that is programmed into our brains over our lifes. When the body/brain ceases, the energy in our brain that holds our character, moves into a higher dimension.
mj
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light is as a pillar on which is a lamp -- the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as it were a brightly shinning star -- lit from a blessed olive tree,
neither eastern nor western, the oil whereof gives light, though fire touch it not -- light upon light: The Light:35
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02-02-2012, 04:27 PM
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And will we learn the truth in that higher dimension?
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02-02-2012, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: New Orleans
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Originally Posted by deepsea
We never learn,do we? Look at the wars that was fought in the name of religion?
Says it all!
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I suspect, Deepsea, that if it wasn't religion it would be something else: nationality, race, geography, economic status, etc.
I also wonder how much fighting in the name of religion is really about religion. Many Crusaders went to the Holy Land to pillage. The Protestant-Catholic conflict in Ireland was about more things than denominational Christianity.
If you can ever get hold of a book called African Genesis, by Robert Ardrey, it's well worth reading.
Ardrey concludes that humanity has an "amity-enmity complex": "I" must be extended to "us", and since there's an "us", there must be a "them". People are always going to have, or will create, an enemy.
You see this everywhere, from nations to sports fans to street gangs.
Jim
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If you don't go to church because you find it full of hypocrites: go to church, be sincere, and help outnumber the hypocrites. 
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02-02-2012, 04:48 PM
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Superiority?
In other words 'I'm better than you'.
Would that make sense?
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02-02-2012, 11:52 PM
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Wars/fighting are never about religion. There is nothing to win in a battle over religion. What is there to gain if a person kills or hurts someone if all they want to do is convert them. There is nothing that makes sense about a war over religion. Wars are fought to gain an enemy's possessions, what ever that may be, but it is not for thier religion.
mj
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light is as a pillar on which is a lamp -- the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as it were a brightly shinning star -- lit from a blessed olive tree,
neither eastern nor western, the oil whereof gives light, though fire touch it not -- light upon light: The Light:35
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03-02-2012, 04:49 AM
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Originally Posted by deepsea
Superiority?
In other words 'I'm better than you'.
Would that make sense?
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It makes sense.
I just like the Ardrey book, and like to plug it whenever I can! 
Jim
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If you don't go to church because you find it full of hypocrites: go to church, be sincere, and help outnumber the hypocrites.
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