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believing the unproven (god)

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Don Seer:

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--- Quote from: Overseer on May 30, 2006, 03:33:48 PM ---
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--- Quote from: Overseer on May 30, 2006, 03:26:25 PM ---even as a kid under 5 years old being 'tricked' at sunday school i saw through the scams of them saying "taste this in the cup" (it was salt water) ..

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Wtf?

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yup.. sunday school.. back of a dusty church in some annexed room.. passing around cups with salty water.. "here kids have these cups".. i watched the sunday school lady make them.. and she was all "clsoe your eyes and sip" etc etc.. telling the kids that this was jesus's tears... i was like "blah".. as you would with salty water.. and she was trying to lay this guilt trip shit on (no it wasnt a roman cathlic church either.. i'm christened COE (church of england therefore protestant).. i was having none of it.

i do remember being 'excluded' from games etc because i wouldn't conform. muthafuckas!

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Overseer the rebel. That's a sickening thought that they'd want someone to beilive that they are drinking tears. I've never had a Sunday School class like that. Must be you crazy Euros. :P

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lol... i think i was so upset when my folks came to get me i never went again.. i tore that muthafucka up!! lol..

i did used to have to go to church a lot when i was in the boy scouts.. it weren't no thing.. the organisation had a christian background.. i got to burn stuff and go camping, had my own squad of kids under my command (who i didnt oppress.. i ran that shit fair.. actually they had problems coz a lot of kids wanted to switch to my 'pack').. shit was a good compromise..

lol.. i just realised.. i was dubbing eazy duz it for the b.g's.... lol

Don Seer:

--- Quote from: nibs on May 30, 2006, 03:41:46 PM ---(Overseer) - in other words.. don't take it literally.. word for word. but view it as guidelines to living a righteous life.

i think that is a powerful idea.
many religious texts also try to explain the nature of man and existence symbolically; thus what it means to have eternal life, or what the true benefit of becoming righteous is.  alot of ideas beneath that literal surface; and those ideas are largely universal.  

in ancient times religion was a pursuit of knowledge, now it has become robotic rituals for many.  you can see that idea of a pursuit of knowledge in christian gnosticism, sufism in islam, mystic kabbalism...etc.

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yup.. i'm happy with anyone using any religious text, or even better combining the wisdom of them all to try and find the best path for them or whatever they're looking for.

they say before the word.. stories were passed as tales, and as metaphors..so if these were written down they shouldn't be taken literally.

Machiavelli:
The human mind is too simple to comprehend the complexity of God and the whole universe

Don Seer:

yup.. thats another thing.. i fully accept that i dont know everything, that i'm not perfect, but that i strive towards being good and moral in the things i do, and am willing to accept change.

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