"Zeitgeist: The Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph. It asserts a number of conspiracy theory-based ideas, including the Christ myth theory, alternative theories for the parties responsible for the September 11 attacks in 2001 and that bankers manipulate the international monetary system and the media in order to consolidate power."
"The Torah scrolls that we read from in synagogue are unpointed text, with no vowels or musical notes, so the ability to read a passage from a scroll is a valuable skill, and usually requires substantial advance preparation (reviewing the passage in a text with points)."
I prefer discussions, not arguments. I don't like the "My dad is stronger than yours" type of fights. In discussions we pull apart ideas and we all win. Or nobody wins. The goal shall not be winning, but learning from each other.
None of these. They were not religious. They simply stayed together because we were a family. At that time people didn't have this throw-away mentality.
Fear? No. My parents didn't stay together because of fear. Today it is too easy to walk away for any reason whatsoever. I am not happy, and it is because of you that I am so miserable. OK, what did you do to improve the situation. Oh, I had very high expectations and you didn't live up to them. I abused you, but you didn't change.
Crash!... Relationships end.
These things don't improve relationships. They damage them even more.
Acceptance is the secret of staying together, not fear.
Let's see. I post my thoughts in a religious thread. People have the choice of ignoring it or getting involved. So they choose to get involved, they respond, and then they complain why I posted my ideas.
LOL. Can you make sense of this? I didn't ask anyone to get involved.
I am here to see if there is anyone out there who makes sense to me. Lots of ladies make sense for others, but I am looking for one that makes sense to me.
Single, so what? Finding a woman is not urgent to me. These forums helps me to understand better who people are. I am interested about how they respond in various situations, whether they get into dirty talk or they turn abusive at times. Those women are not the ones that interest me.
So these forums are actually a great way to see if there is a woman there that you are interested in. It shows me their personalities. Profiles tell me nothing about ladies and pictures are often photoshopped anyway.
You said it well. Modern Christianity is built on the foundation laid by the ancient Greeks who did not have the slightest clue about what the Jewish authors means and therefore interpreted these works by incorporating ideas from their own Pagan religions and Platonic philosophy.
I doubt you can accuse ancient Judaism of the same.
That is what happened when the early Greek church took the Jewish scriptures into their hands and tried to make sense of it.
My quest is not to get out what I think is right by putting on my rosy glasses of our modern society, but by trying to understand it from the point of the writers, which is a very hard job for this very reason. In the process I also depend on the work of others, great academic minds, who may have a deeper insight into the ancient culture than I.
The purpose of research should never be to get results that suit you - that is the realm of sects - but to recover the original meanings of the texts. Now that takes a lot more skills and a lot more time than to sit down and develop doctrine out of an English translation.
So true. So many people live miserably because the neighbour has a bigger car and a bigger house, or that they don't have an iPhone or any other "i"s out there.
Well, that happened at Nicea, but the decision was enforced by the emperor. There was no common consensus and the bishops were unhappy with it for over a year. But who can argue with the emperor?
The problem is when the laity is denied the right to object.
In my opinion everything should be freely debatable. I would never stop anyone converting to atheism or to other religions. I don't even require it from my own children. I told them they had to do their own studies and work out their own belief system as they grow up. I don't want them to believe what I believe just because I am their father and have authority over them, but I do share my thoughts with them.
Ancient people did not have a concept of "eternity". The Greek term "aiona" means "age", and "zoe aionios" therefore doesn't mean "eternal life", but "life pertaining to the age", which corresponds to the Jewish belief about the Messianic Kingdom, the "Olam Haba"("the age to come").
An age had beginning and their end gave way to another age.
There are a number of cosmological constants that are so fine tuned that a minutest change in them would result in a totally different kind of Universe with different physical laws, which would make life impossible as we know it. Cosmological models cannot account for these values, for they should have taken random values, therefore the idea was developed that there is no universe, but multiverse, that is, infinite numbers of universes exist, and each of them these cosmological constants take up random values. As Hawking explains, one may not have light, another may not have gravity, etc.
It seems to me that science here goes well beyond the observable, and requires more faith to believe in something that we will never be able to discover, simply because the precise values of these cosmological constants cannot be explained. The belief in multiverse, in my opinion, requires as much or even more faith than belief in the existence of an Almighty Creator.
Science has lots of things that they believe in, yet cannot be proved. For example, dark matter and dark energy:
"According to observations of structures larger than solar systems, as well as Big Bang cosmology interpreted under the Friedmann equations and the FLRW metric, dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass-energy density of the observable universe. In comparison, ordinary matter accounts for only 4.6% of the mass-energy density of the observable universe, with the remainder being attributable to dark energy. From these figures, dark matter constitutes 83%, (23/(23+4.6)), of the matter in the universe, while ordinary matter makes up only 17%."
These are called "dark" because they cannot be detected, but they are believed to exist because their scientific model requires it. Wow! It seems to be as good as belief in God, doesn't it? Science should not ask you have this leap of faith.
One of the differences between unaccredited and accredited courses is that unaccredited courses teach you a single theological doctrine, and prove why it is the only correct one and all others are wrong.
In accredited courses you are required to submit well researched discussion papers and you are free to argue for or against an idea, or develop your own argument. You are never marked down for your choices.
There are bible studies provided by various churches and organisations that are not accredited, and there are accredited bible college courses. The accredited courses attract Austudy and have an official curriculum.
I studied at a bible college, and the course was accredited.
Can you show me how I twist it? You give me a modern definition and in reply I give you the ancient definition of biblical terms. That is not the same as twisting anything.
I have no agenda. My quest is to correctly interpret the Jewish scriptures that are compiled into the bible - not by reading modern definitions into it, but by using their very own definitions.
You can have "living faith", whatever it means to you. It seems to me abusing another fits well into it. It seems to me dirty talk also fits very well into this so-called "living faith" that I don't have. But seeing what this "living faith" entails, I agree with you that I don't have it - and I am happy that I don't have it.
I think you mix up a few things. I did not go to IT college. I studied IT at Griffith uni. And I studied theology in a bible college, it was a full time course.
It is unsafe to provide personal information in online forums, that's all. I also suggest to everyone else to provide as little about themselves as they can because there are many criminals who profile people on the Internet in order to steal their identity.
If you defrag the hard drive don't forget to delete all the files in the c:\windows\prefetch directory. These are pointers to the physical location of various files on the drive. After defrag they will not be correct and the system has to search for the executables. Because your system gets regularly updated it is beneficial to empty that directory from time to time.
But it is a Windows "feature" that it slows down over time. If you want an OS that stays the same fast you invest some good money into a Mac or install Linux on your PC. Nowadays it is very easy and there are tons of free applications online.
I use PCLinuxOS because you don't need to reinstall it for years, just keep applying the patches, but if you are a beginner you better go with Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
What you describe is not the ancient biblical definition of faith. That faith is based on knowing your duties [observing the laws of God] and doing them out of love for God. These include charitable work also. I do have active faith according to that definition.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 This is the end of the matter; all has been heard: fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
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Sin sacrifice?
Maybe scholarly works like these: