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  1. Diogenes

    Why Are So Many Creationists Conspiracy Theorists?

    In the eastern world, starting with India, the thought that All is Spirit became the presuppositional thought. Every aspect of their culture flowed from this. In the western world the presuppositional thought was that All is Matter. History has panned out in favor of the western world, as the...
  2. Diogenes

    Is God In Anyway Necessary?

    I suppose love is unneccesary. There have been many cultures historically that did not place a very high value on love. They were able to survive and even thrive in a material sense. But to me a life without love would not be worth living. This is the most vital 'necessity ' of God for me.
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    Edmond Burke quote

    Hitler was asked by one of his corporals (I believe) if he thought that he would get away with his plans for the Jews. Hitler turned to him and said, "Does anyone remember the Armenians?" and then walked away.
  4. Diogenes

    Favorite Books

    Too many to list. The Nexus trilogy by Henry Miller. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Phillip K. Dick. Right now I'm reading To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellows. Soon I'll be back to Lolita, if I find the time.
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    Cultural Books

    How to Overthrow the Government was great (Arianna Huffington).
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    religious fiction

    The Last Temptation of Christ if you are interested in rousing some suspicion...the quote below is from that book.
  7. Diogenes

    What Was Hitler's Religion?

    A good book to pick up on this topic was Spear of Destiny by Ravencroft. Ravencroft asserts that Hitler was a devout Satanist initiated by D. Eckhardt of the Thule Society (a satanic group that had ties to the Golden Dawn). All of the Pagan and Christian adornments was mere decoration...
  8. Diogenes

    The value of respect

    I think respect should be freely given initially but earned when a broader relationship is entered into. Personally, I find it very hard to respect someone who does not respect me. If there were any criteria necessary it involves a receprocal relationship.
  9. Diogenes

    Christian responsibility to beg for mercy

    Nietzsche believed that God died out of pity for man. He was no modern atheist. He thought that God had withdrew to such a degree that man was left all alone in the Universe. Here is the plight that we face-you see it often in the books of the Prophets. Does God save man by the scales of...
  10. Diogenes

    What is faith?

    Faith is what you use when you are walking down a road but can not see anything up around the bend.
  11. Diogenes

    Will any more 'Major' religions emerge?

    Scientific materialism blended with some kind of mystic ideology will probably be the next dominant religion. If you see scientific materialism as a religion then it seems pretty obvious as you are using a computer right now that it is The dominating force to be contended with. If you happened...
  12. Diogenes

    Christian: The Need for a Fresh Word from God

    Of course we would all like to hear something new breathed into Christianity. But as for prophecy the question is: Do we reallly want to hear it? Usually we prefer what is already pleasant to what is confrontational. Another question remains here: Are we truly enlightened? Perhaps we have...
  13. Diogenes

    Christian Only: View on extraterrestrials

    Personally, I don't feel my faith would be damaged by any new or sudden revelation about life on other planets. We are still finding out about new life on this earth-its very abundance despite our destructive tendancies do hint at many different Universal possibilities. As for our current 'UFO...
  14. Diogenes

    Is Any Religion Superior to Others?

    I believe that religion superior to all others which allow its adherents to supercede it. When anything becomes institutionalized, it naturally coalesces into something tyrannical given enough time. "Each man proclaims his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?" Our ultimate religion...
  15. Diogenes

    Creation is Now

    I'll have to admit that there are many aspects of Zen that are appealing to me. If you eliminate the self the ego disappears, and with it the necessity to do harm. If you eliminate the necessity of time then history disappears and with it all of the grudges and misconceptions built up around...
  16. Diogenes

    Your impressions of Paganism?

    I found it to be very enjoyable-acedemic, but not dry. It had many footnotes and seemed to be accurate enough. Highly reccommended!:cool:
  17. Diogenes

    What is happiness?

    I would say that I was quite serious and quite romantic in the most chivalrous sense. "To me it is quite clear that those are giants, and I am about to engage them in deadly combat." (Don Quixote)
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    Your impressions of Paganism?

    Most of what I know about Paganism is from books and not personal experience. The best book on ancient Paganism I have found is A History of Pagan Europe by Jones & Pennick. I knew one Pagan in college once, but I later came to the conclusion that she was actually a born again Rastafarian. :-)
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    The true religion..

    I think it is the quest for truth and the search itself that provides Illumination. Once we are sure of ourselves and our answers, we stagnate. Each religion is a point of departure. We, as the seekers, are the ones who must decide for ourselves what is of value and what should be discarded...
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    What is happiness?

    I tend to look in thier eyes. "The eyes are the windows of the soul." A smile can be duplicitous, but the eyes tell the whole tale.
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