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October 15th, 2012
01:47 PM ET
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Spirituality is everything in itself ,you can waive all your worry away by doing or accepting the way as spiritual healers possess. This is a good practice for those who are really searching a peace of mind.
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Religion requires blind faith otherwise its nonsensical. Spirituality requires open thinking & the desire to dig deeper. Peter of nambassa
Second Coming Christ already came with a New Name (Rev 3:11) – Christ Ahnsahnghong! And He appeared with God the Mother!
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God bless you
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Putting an end to spirituality and Christianity in less than ten seconds:
Only for the new members of this blog:
The Apostles' Creed 2012: (updated by yours truly and based on the studies of historians and theologians of the past 200 years)
Should I believe in a god whose existence cannot be proven
and said god if he/she/it exists resides in an unproven,
human-created, spirit state of bliss called heaven??
I believe there was a 1st century CE, Jewish, simple,
preacher-man who was conceived by a Jewish carpenter
named Joseph living in Nazareth and born of a young Jewish
girl named Mary. (Some say he was a mamzer.)
Jesus was summarily crucified for being a temple rabble-rouser by
the Roman troops in Jerusalem serving under Pontius Pilate,
He was buried in an unmarked grave and still lies
a-mouldering in the ground somewhere outside of
Jerusalem.
Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by
many semi-fiction writers. A descent into Hell, a bodily resurrection
and ascension stories were promulgated to compete with the
Caesar myths. Said stories were so popular that they
grew into a religion known today as Catholicism/Christianity
and featuring dark-age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals
called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus.
Amen
(references used are available upon request)
The simple answer is yes. You can be spiritual without being religious. Christ Himself was not religious, but he was highly spiritual.
Faith– A belief system predicated on the defense that all the religious bull shyt from religious liars is true. Actually, the one thing that is true about any religion is that they all are false.
hindu pagan Catholicism is an off shoot of hinduism, paganism, created by hinduism, corruption of truth absolute to justify hindu Mithra ism, pagan savior ism labeled as Christianity with help of hindu's, deniers of truth absolute of hindu filth of Cartage, such as hindu Agori, dead body eater, Augustine and to justify hindu criminal King's and their hindu Prophets, criminal fortune teller as man god's through hinduism, racism.
Word hindu is based on Latin word hindered, negative, Han, great, HUN, to be in greatness, hin, to be negative to both of them, hindu, a noun in negativity, hinduism, way of negativity,
hindu's, deny the truth absolute GOD, essence of every thing and pry to hindu sanatans, filthy goon's, make their statues with clay with their hand's and pray to them as their god's to follow hinduism, racism, a crime against truth absolute GOD and humanity, deserving to be kicked out of humanity to live like their hindu stupid god monkey, they follow to justify hindu, filthy evolution. hindu, ignorant's an insult to be called human, follower of hinduism, racism, borrowed from animals. For truth about hinduism, senial of truth absolute please visit limitisthetrtuh.com
Human my mother, a domi'natrix, thanks to my Haramee (bast ard) Taliban father, pim~p, never allowed me to go to school, instead, sent me to Aghori Mullahs, dead body eaters, taught me a book of Mithra Quaran ism, denier of truth absolute, Satan Allah ism.
Human my mother, now a professional hook'er, thanks to my goon Taliban father, I am an off shoot of Taliban sc' um ism, paganism, created by Saudi Meccan Mullah ism, corruption of truth absolute to justify Mithra Quran ism, pagan savior ism labeled as Islam with help of Moo' ham mad's, deniers of truth absolute of filth of Cartage, such as Muslim Agori, dead body eater, Augustine and to justify criminal Saudi King's and their Muslim Prophets, criminal fortune teller as man gawd's through Allah ism, racism.
hinduism, absurdity of a hindu,
Excellance in communication skills, can be accomplished by you.
Listening (Reading), Deliberating, and Speaking (Writing/Keying) can become most beneficial, to yourself and others.
Take some time, i'm positive you have some great ideas.
Huh? You might want to learn English first, pal.
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This appears to be one of those random posts that usually only appear on stale threads. A lot of them seem to be Asian in origin and usually totally off topic with generic comments like "Your blog is interesting."
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
– Marcus Aurelius
The thing I wonder is should you categorize all of those who are spiritual, but not religious into just the one group, or should you sub-categorize based on why they are spiritual, but not religious?
Mankind's entire pantheon of gods, including Jesus and the Abrahamic god, never existed. All religion is a fraud. Calling beliefs "unaffiliated spirituality" or other hogwash, while still holding out for some sort of pseudo-christian being or afterlife, does not help one dodge this bullet. If you suffer from a brand of the delusion that holds any of it as "reality", it is no less crazy than any other.
I feel sorry for all the unbelievers.
Unless you accept (INSERT DEITY) into your life, you can never get to (INSERT AFTERLIFE).
You must have faith in the inerrant Truth of (INSERT HOLY BOOK).
If your unbelief is correct, you'll have lost nothing – but if you're wrong.....
God-libs, cool.
Buzz Lightyear
Infinity and beyond
Toy Story
ME II thank you... I came here looking for my morning laugh and got it 🙂
Did you hear the one about the Canadian that minded its own F'n business?
You won't , somehow the ass hole thinks that someone somewhere needs its backwoods bull sh it. Light just never comes on for you does it doc, you're useless as hell in Canada and twice as useless to the rest of the world.
The only kind of "trickle-down" that actually works:
"Dodney Rangerfield degenerates to:
"Salvatore" denerates to:
"Douglas" degenerates to:
"pervert alert" degenerates to:
"Taskmaster" degenerates to:
"Ronald Regonzo" degenerates to:
"truth be told" degenerates to:
"Atheism is not healthy ..." degenerates to:
"tina" degenerates to:
"captain america" degenerates to:
"just sayin" degenerates to:
"nope" degenerates to:
"WOW" degenerates to:
"!" degenerates to:
and many other names, but of course I prefer to refer to this extreme homophobe as
the disgruntled Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co. writer boot camp flunkie.
(atheism)
(the grave)
(a monkey being your uncle)
Too funny!
Well done Doc!
You hit the truth so hard that a buch of upstanding, moral, religious people can't argue and have to just insult you instead.
@?????
I think you will find your way into a grave whether you profess atheism or not.
Odin
Valhalla
Edda
Zeus
Elysium
Theogeny
bacteria
proper decomposition
nature
Whether its spiritualism or religion or atheism, it is still decision making process.
Each of us decides.
Some necessarily are not equipped with a stable decision making process, and so, feel better in a group.
Each of us still decides.
If people weren't barraged with absurdities from the religious there'd be no such decisions to make.
I don't like that decision.
Atheism is not unhealthy for children and other living things
Forgot to switch from your troll name to a familiar non-believing name I see. I always suspected "Atheism is not unhealthy for children and other living things" was actually an atheist just looking to fan the flames.
Tod, it's just a troll, seeking attention from anyone. I doubt it even cares about religious affiliation. It's just a lonely, annoying creature who can't figure out why it has no friends.
tallulah13
The above post is so completely out of character, and coming from the opposite "side", for "Atheism is..." that it's obvious to me that the person responsible simply forgot to switch user names. They are probably a regular poster from the non-believing side who simply delights in stirring the pot every so often. Pathetic!
"Ronald Regonzo" who degenerates to:
"truth be told" degenerates to:
"The Truth" degenerates to:
"Atheism is not healthy ..." degenerates to:
"Dodney Rangerfield" degenerates to:
"tina" degenerates to:
"captain america" degenerates to:
"Atheist Hunter" degenerates to:
"Anybody know how to read? " degenerates to:
"just sayin" degenerates to:
"Kindness" degenerates to:
"Chad" degenerates to
"Bob" degenerates to
"nope" degenerates to:
"2357" degenerates to:
"WOW" degenerates to:
"fred" degenerates to:
"!" degenerates to:
"pervert alert"
This troll is not a christian..
Even if you are just trolling, there is still a point to be made.
I don't believe it is a choice. It doesn't make any sense to me that an all knowing and powerful god would do the things the bible says he did. Therefore, I don't believe in the bible. I didn't choose to not believe, I just can't accept it.
This is very much like when the only child living in my house tells me she doesn't know how the lamp got broken. No proof, it just seems difficult to believe that the lamp jumped onto the floor by itself.
It may seem reasonable to you that god smote the lamp, but I believe the child was playing in the house with a volley ball. Not a choice, just believing what makes sense.
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Wouldn't it be funny if everyone on your list was actually a non-believer using these handles to troll with, or as sock puppets to debate against. I often wonder if any of the believer characters here are "real"?
Prayer changes things .
pictures or it didn't happen
I'm sorry, "Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things", but your assertions regarding atheism and prayer are unfounded. Using my Idiomatic Expression Equivalency module, the expression that best matches the degree to which your assertions may represent truths is: "TOTAL FAIL".
I see that you repeat these unfounded statements with high frequency. Perhaps the following book can help you:
I'm Told I Have Dementia: What You Can Do... Who You Can Turn to...
by the Alzheimer's Disease Society
"Ronald Regonzo" who degenerates to:
"truth be told" degenerates to:
"The Truth" degenerates to:
"Atheism is not healthy ..." degenerates to:
"Dodney Rangerfield" degenerates to:
"tina" degenerates to:
"captain america" degenerates to:
"Atheist Hunter" degenerates to:
"Anybody know how to read? " degenerates to:
"just sayin" degenerates to:
"Kindness" degenerates to:
"Chad" degenerates to
"Bob" degenerates to
"nope" degenerates to:
"2357" degenerates to:
"WOW" degenerates to:
"fred" degenerates to:
"!" degenerates to:
"pervert alert"
This troll is not a christian....
Prayer does not; you are such a LIAR. You have NO proof it changes anything! A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work and their children died. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!;.
@reddragon
Go to Israel. Not only pictures but the real thing. Go to prayer not only theory but the real thing. Start with the sinners prayer of repentance. God bless
@reddragon. Good one!
I am a spiritualist who refuses to align w/any religion! I believe in a Higher Power, but I also believe in all religions! They all have it right...& wrong! I don't belive in a bearded Santa in the sky, but I do believe there is a power in the universe that draws us to its light! I don't think Pentecostals are more deserving than Baptists, Catholics or Islamists, for that matter, because they are all man made, which is nothing but cause for disagreements, anger, fighting & even war! My spirituality is between me & the power of the universe, no 1 else! It gives me comfort & makes me feel connected to nature & humanity! I believe every person has a right to discover what's right for them & if atheism is your choice, I will not sit in judgement or tell you God will do it for me! My belief system makes me feel free & encourages me to love the world & its inhabitants! It works for me!!
I've been happy with the .264 Lapua 123 gr Scenar match bullet in .260 Remington at 600 yards. I too have been thinking of moving to a Higher Power. How were you able to deal with greater felt recoil?
Tom, Tom 🙂
Some years ago I went to an AA meeting in support of a family member. The first woman who got up to speak (a Texan, I think) kept saying how much her harp hour made things so much better for her. I thought, hmmm, well, harp music can be relaxing and calming 'n stuff... only to be clued in a bit later in the meeting what she was actually saying!
Ive got a 38lb recurve bow and have wanted to move up to a higher power compound bow. Which one is best? In the fact of this question eeeeeehhhhh weeeellll I don't know I'll just make up an imaginary bow and hunt with that.... dummmmasss
I just really need to find some real friends, instead of my Internet alliances, or perhaps check my into rehab from my IPhone/IPad/desktop internet addiction