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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2021 19:08:56 GMT
Win you over to becoming Christian. Ive never tried to hide that that was my goal. i don't agree with your form of Christianity - if i was to follow a more Christian path it would be Gnostic / Mystic / Esoteric Christianity - as per the thread. i'm quite happy with a Self realization practice however. If it's so simple then why has there always been so much argument & division within Christianity, & so many different forms, sects, denominations etc of Christianity?
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2021 19:27:12 GMT
As for what Christianity is, its not that complicated. Imo can be summed up by John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His own Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall have everlasting life. You think that a psychological Belief in a Mythological Religious Figure will cut it when you are back on the other side? Good luck with that, i sincerely hope that you are right with it all.
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2021 19:36:36 GMT
Imo can be summed up by John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His own Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall have everlasting life. Believeth in Him? His Teaching of Self / God Realization? His teachings as a Mage / Gnostic? A lot of debate as to who Christ was & what He taught. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlbVjHkyuLM
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Post by snowstorm on Feb 11, 2021 20:46:22 GMT
wynona, why do you want to do that? I think these personal choices should come from within.
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Post by Chimera on Feb 11, 2021 20:54:04 GMT
wynona, (a) do you suffer from mental illness, or (b) are you offering a panacea for all mental illness, or (c) none of the above? (Damn, I was trying to stay out of this! It reminds me too much of being at secondary school in Northern Ireland in the 1960s.)
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Post by snowstorm on Feb 11, 2021 20:55:38 GMT
Does a sudden conversion to Christianity cure mental illness? Somehow I think not.
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Post by snowstorm on Feb 11, 2021 20:57:18 GMT
Chimera, have been to Northern Ireland a couple of times, nice scenery at the Causeway and around.
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2021 20:57:49 GMT
wynona, why do you want to do that? I think these personal choices should come from within. Part of the Christian & Islamic Faith to Convert everyone else to their form of thinking / Belief system.
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2021 20:59:56 GMT
wynona, (a) do you suffer from mental illness, or (b) are you offering a panacea for all mental illness, or (c) none of the above? (Damn, I was trying to stay out of this! It reminds me too much of being at secondary school in Northern Ireland in the 1960s.) Reminds me of the English Church of England Private School that i went to in the 1970's, with the Pedophile headmaster, who was very into spanking little boys bottoms, droning on about the Final Judgement, Damnation of Souls, Sin, Hell, Devil & Demons.
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Post by Chimera on Feb 11, 2021 21:04:26 GMT
Some time I must post about my ex-wife's large Pentecostal family, and the vast amount of child abuse, violence and mental illness in that family and (even more) in the family of a certain "Reverend" with whom she also lived. (But now's not the time, not least because her 89-year-old mother is seriously ill with cancer, and I always rather liked her mother, in spite of all the craziness, and I feel it would be .. well, un-Christian of me to rant about what is wrong with her family at this moment!)
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2021 21:27:02 GMT
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Post by Chimera on Feb 11, 2021 21:33:11 GMT
Chimera , have been to Northern Ireland a couple of times, nice scenery at the Causeway and around. My mother used to live in Portstewart, which is a place I like, and which reminds me of the seaside town in which I grew up. (Not that I ever actually grew up ...) She now lives not far away, in Coleraine, and when I used to visit her (which I haven't done for a few years), I used to spend a great deal of my time walking back and forth along the coastal path between Portstewart and Portrush. I loved that walk. I also used to take the bus to the Causeway, now and then - there are indeed some good long walks around there.
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Post by Chimera on Feb 11, 2021 21:38:27 GMT
At one and the same time, I feel a bit guilty for dragging this conversation off-topic, and I wonder what exactly the topic or purpose of the conversation is! Either way, I should probably have stayed out of it.
I could probably get back on-topic if I could post honestly about why I married such a religious woman (not to mention the baffling mystery of how someone as terminally messed-up as me could ever get married and father a child!) - but that'a a very demanding subject to tackle.
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2021 21:45:48 GMT
I wonder what exactly the topic or purpose of the conversation is! i started the thread to discuss other forms of Christianity. Gnostic, Mystic, Esoteric, 'New Age' etc. The idea of 'Christ' / Unity Consciousness, in relationship to ideas of Buddha Nature / Krishna Consciousness, Samadhi / Self Realization etc. Christ as Mage / Teacher of 'Self / God' Realization. Etc.
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Post by Chimera on Feb 11, 2021 21:57:39 GMT
Actually, on reflection, I have a pretty good idea of what caused me to disrupt this conversation.
I've been having a pretty bad few days, so much so that I couldn't bring myself to have my usual perfunctory telephone conversations with my mother and brother (who has severe brain damage and lives in an institution) at the weekend.
When I posted here, it was only a few minutes after I had forced myself to phone my mother, four days late. I was really off-balance, in a horrible way that I can't easily describe (perhaps in a more appropriate thread I will - at the moment all I can say is that I felt, to an unusual degree, that I was betraying myself by talking to her at all), and my judgement was affected in such a way that I intruded a lot of my personal disturbances into this thread.
Please excuse the painful digression; I'll try to end it here!
(Families, eh? Who'd have 'em?!)
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