are people who truly belive the bible mentaly retarded?

Beefbisquit said:

I don't respect anyone's religion because they're unjustified beliefs. When an idea is worthy of respect, I'l respect it. Not because it offends people when it's disrespected but because it's earned respect in some way.

I also don't respect peoples beliefs in vampires, werewolves, zombies, Chutulu, or any other undocumented entity/being/creature. Want respect for what you believe? Earn it, cause there's no 'free passes' for me.

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darrellduaner said:

people dont really believe in god or the bible even though they claim they do.

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Ringsixty said:

That's like saying people really don't believe in the Koran and Allah.... Duh... Hello!
I guess they don't in your mind.

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Nice Ol Bud said:

I think it's a shame this mans comment got any likes.
Be a little more open minded.. Yea man I understand where your coming from.. but the way I was raised.. people that respect get respected.
Who the fuck cares if someone believes in vampires or werewolves... yea it upsets me too bro.. I'd love to sit down with those people and talk to them and listen why..
I bet they all really don't know.. I'd love for them to get educated as well and for us to move on as a Race.
But if they respect you.. then show them respect back. Some mind's are really undeveloped.. and won't develop further..
and natural selection has almost completely ceased in our society... so those individuals survive. Even mentally/physically ill people are raised and some have kids..

Anyways bro it's a complicated topic and I'd love to keep communicating.. but I hate typing.. i'd rather sit in a circle.. roll up.. and discuss..

All im saying to you.. just show some more respect to the uneducated people.. but hey.. i bet they know shit you don't or ever will(that's beneficial to you.. not a werewolve has an average of 86 teeth type shit lol).

Think about this if it has any impact on you.. wouldn't take my time to type this if what i'm saying didn't have any meaning..
Just spread the love man.... and be more open minded..(not saying your not... but just a tad bit more! )

None of us are perfect.. and ever will be..

NoB

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Ringsixty said:

That's like saying people really don't believe in the Koran and Allah.... Duh... Hello!
I guess they don't in your mind.

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Nice Ol Bud said:

I think it's a shame this mans comment got any likes.
Be a little more open minded.. Yea man I understand where your coming from.. but the way I was raised.. people that respect get respected.
Who the fuck cares if someone believes in vampires or werewolves... yea it upsets me too bro.. I'd love to sit down with those people and talk to them and listen why..
I bet they all really don't know.. I'd love for them to get educated as well and for us to move on as a Race.
But if they respect you.. then show them respect back. Some mind's are really undeveloped.. and won't develop further..
and natural selection has almost completely ceased in our society... so those individuals survive. Even mentally/physically ill people are raised and some have kids..

Anyways bro it's a complicated topic and I'd love to keep communicating.. but I hate typing.. i'd rather sit in a circle.. roll up.. and discuss..

All im saying to you.. just show some more respect to the uneducated people.. but hey.. i bet they know shit you don't or ever will(that's beneficial to you.. not a werewolve has an average of 86 teeth type shit lol).

Think about this if it has any impact on you.. wouldn't take my time to type this if what i'm saying didn't have any meaning..
Just spread the love man.... and be more open minded..(not saying your not... but just a tad bit more! )

None of us are perfect.. and ever will be..

NoB

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GreyLord said:

You just can't let go of this 'pretending' nonsense Z S. An inability to even conceive an understanding of Life without fear is your perspective. You saying those who do not fear for the immortality of the soul are pretending is like me saying that you really didn't enjoy your last sexual encounter, you were just pretending. A sexually inept & impotent guy with a small dick, whose only experience is with disinterested prostitutes, just can't conceive how sex could be enjoyable from his perspective. No matter what you say, he continues to repeat "Stop pretending". Your being that guy.
You do not know what I know. You do not know what I've experienced. I didn't really want to reveal this on this forum [can bring out the mentally unwell] but I'm the guy you call when you have the worst kind of negative entity/energy in your home. I get to deal with the worst, when the 'White Lighters' & the churches fail. Stuff that make grown men shit themselves, especially the "I never believed in this stuff before, I thought it was bs" types. One family I helped had the official Catholic exorcist sent to help, within minutes he turned pale & fled the home muttering "It's evil, it's evil." over & over. haha, pussy. You have no idea of the hierarchy of the spirit world. I've seen & experienced that which you couldn't comprehend. There is Truth & there is Higher Truth. One cannot understand the latter without knowing the former. Authentic faith is - Knowing. What do you know Z S? You know fear. Now you can LEARN authentic faith - if you choose. That's what it boils down to, choice. You choose fear.
"You asked what if this is all a dream"? A mystic said 'Imagine a shadow puppet show. We are the shadows, the puppet our sub-conscious, the puppeteer our over-soul [true self]." haha There are some questions that can't be answered in this reality.I have no need or desire to know everything. One 'day' I will, but it's not going to happen here where many vibrate at a lower level. Some questions are irrelevant, no-one will ever have all the answers in this dimension. I only need to know what I need to know.
The mystics have told us for eons that this world is an illusion, [a reflection of our loves, our fears, our desires, our understanding &, most importantly, our awareness] that the real world is where we exist between incarnations [the almost infinite layers of 'reality' that lead to Nirvana, Heaven, Valhalla etc.]
There is no such thing as reality, only perception. Reality changes as our perception changes. You acknowledge that fear represents a lack of knowing. You can't imagine a fear free existence because, apparently, you don't know much [or enough].
I'd appreciate it if you can stop telling me that I'm pretending, it's insulting. I've faced death, I did not fear it. If not for the fact I had a young child at the time I would've looked forward to & embraced the death of this mortal vessel. Released to continue my journey.
I was given 3 years to live 13 years ago. 100% of those with my disease are dead within 3 years of diagnosis. If I feared my demise I'd be one of the '100%'.

Death is just another beginning.

Peace.

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darrellduaner said:

people dont really believe in god or the bible even though they claim they do.

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Nevaeh420 said:

People that believe in religions WANT to believe in religions. Some people don't want to go to hell and as a precaution they believe the lies just to be safe. Some people actually believe in the fairly tales for real but the fairy tales have been passed off as facts by the leaders of that religion.

I don't think people are retarded that believe in religion but they are very misguided but they will think they are on the path to heaven or whatever. Some people believe in their religion because its popular to do so in their society. Some "holy" books have some truth in there too so its hard for the believer to discern the fact from the fiction because its integrated into one book.

Some very smart people believe in the Bible but its probably because their parents believed in it too. I can almost guarantee that if the Bible came out as a new book today, many people would just laugh at it and totally disregard it as fairy tales and fables. But because the Bible has been infecting the world since around 2,000 years ago (or more if you're just talking about the old testament) and at those times there was no science like today.

I used to be a Christian until I watched the movie Zeitgeist in 2008. Now, I hope there is a God but I don't believe in Jesus or most of the Bible!

Zeitgeist

[youtube]oZgT1SRcrKE[/youtube]

~PEACE~

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eye exaggerate said:

Is it because the fairy tale is immaterial and we live in a material world?

Are you a material girl?

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Nevaeh420 said:

I'm a material boy. I'm made up of material.

Eye, you know that I'm a dude so what are you talking about?

You should have read enough posts to see that I'm claiming to be Christ and when is Christ a girl?

~PEACE~

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Nevaeh420 said:

I'm a material boy. I'm made up of material.

Eye, you know that I'm a dude so what are you talking about?

You should have read enough posts to see that I'm claiming to be Christ and when is Christ a girl?

~PEACE~

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eye exaggerate said:

lol, sorry, Madonna joke.

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Greatest I am said:

In esoteric language God is neither male nor female Jew or gentile. Gnostic Christians, unlike Christians, do not discriminate against women. We Gods recognize the Goddesses. Regards DL

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Nevaeh420 said:

I heard the song before a long time ago. I just don't understand your logic about where you got that from, from the post you quoted by Me.




I don't know much about God to be honest but I have some expectations of what God would be like. God could be any sex, including hermaphrodite but I doubt God is a hermaphrodite. And God also could have no sex, no pun intended. I could care less what sex God is as long as He or She is benevolent and cool and only wants to help. I'm going to refer to God as a He though just because I always have thought of God as a dude. For all I know, there could be no God at all but who or what created the Big Bang?

I believe I'm Christ and I'm a dude. So THIS Christ is a dude!

~PEACE~

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Greatest I am said:

1)As you can see, you do have back up in your view.

2)Who but you can make you voluntarily do anything?

3)You are God/Jesus in a very real sense.

Regards
DL

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Zaehet Strife said:

I do not claim to have knowledge where ignorance only resides. I do not know whether or not you are right or wrong Grey, i only know that the possibility will always exist that you may/might be wrong. And to ignore that fact, only reveals the desperation you have that your beliefs be certainly true without room for doubt. To refuse to become conscious of the fact that your ideas contain the possibility of being wrong, reveals to us the fear you have about being wrong. Instead of facing that fear, you ignore it, and you pretend it is not there, so you can continue to pretend you are certainly right... when in all actuality, you may very well be wrong.

Close your eyes, cover your ears, refuse to acknowledge the fact that there is a possibility that you may be wrong, and you do not have to face your fears. It is a scary fact to face mind you, but when you do, you'll be thankful you don't have to hide anymore.












Here is a short, beautiful 5 minute video that may help you understand further.

[video=youtube;lgriYaz3fEM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lgriYaz3fEM[/video]

"You see, one thing is, i can live with doubt, uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things. But I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things i don't know anything about."

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GreyLord said:

that possibility is very slim to infinitesimal.
In your understanding that possibility is much larger.

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