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  1. Tonstad39

    Is it still Buddhism?

    I'm still new to religion and growing up in a western country, I have only known Tennant to mean "Central concept of the faith" Until your comment I had no idea that it could mean something else.
  2. Tonstad39

    Sangha troubles

    When i went there we did a meditation (I don't remember what it was called, but had something to do with permitting what was happening around you). He talked about the various energy centers and how our importance on appearenceis an illusion before making a quip about how the cosmetics industry...
  3. Tonstad39

    Sangha troubles

    The area where I live has three Sanghas and a temple. The temple is in a remote area that's difficult for me to get to as i don't have a car. I am interested in the Therevana school of Buddhism, but the only Therevana sangha in my area is run by a priest who mixes in leftist ideology with...
  4. Tonstad39

    Is it still Buddhism?

    I have recently been sifting through many online recourses on Buddhist cosmology and the reincarnation cycle. They go into detail about 31 realms with giants in mythical continents, gods outside of a flat earth and a universe smaller than the solar system was later discovered to be. These realms...
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  5. Tonstad39

    Quantuum mechanics and dieties

    Well they're probably closed minded
  6. Tonstad39

    Quantuum mechanics and dieties

    no, because Quantuum particles such as Leptons and Bosons make up the universe INCLUDING matter and forces like gravity and electro-magnitism. While I don't necissarily warship any gods, i do however find myself entertaining the possibility of a deity's existance.
  7. Tonstad39

    Do you believe in rebirth?

    As a recent convert, I personally believe that different people have different personalities in spite of having the same organs boil down to life-to-life reincarnation. The higher or lower realms are imperceptable to our 4D minds and souls after a while simply end up in Quantuum superposition...
  8. Tonstad39

    How much of the Bible counts as Mythology?

    That might be relegated to a short story in the compilation now that you bring that up.
  9. Tonstad39

    How much of the Bible counts as Mythology?

    Namely the following: The divine war in heaven, Adam and Eve, The Tower of Bethel, Moses parting the Red Sea and recieving the covenant, The temptation of Jesus and the second comming of Jesus It's nice to have Second opinions *shrugs* I mean folk lore that I could use without being a...
  10. Tonstad39

    How much of the Bible counts as Mythology?

    I'm not here to bash christianity or to insult individual Christians, but I do have one question that will help me out with the first edition of my upcoming short story compilations: How much of the Bible is Mythological? The main reason I ask is that I don't want to be rewriting the Bible for...
  11. Tonstad39

    My writer's block

    I'm in the process of writing the first book in a series titled "Onstad Mythologies." The stories in each book take a set of myths and apply them to the 21st century society (Think Anubis and Ra as godly has beens in a post Islamist Egypt).I'm working on the first in the series whitch are based...
  12. Tonstad39

    Recently converted to Buddhism because it's a way of directly understanding the soul and all things.

    Recently converted to Buddhism because it's a way of directly understanding the soul and all things.
  13. Tonstad39

    Jesus Christ the monk

    So, I have found a couple of Documentaries that show the supposed life of Jesus in places like Kashmir in India and I know that the Resurrection is very central to Christian theology. What do you as a Christian think of these historical records in terms of your faith?
  14. Tonstad39

    Buddhist scripture

    it is Vajrayana with practices based in Tibetan folk belief.
  15. Tonstad39

    Buddhist scripture

    One other curious thing that I remember from my first meditation service, we prayed before we got started (the instructor had us grasp universal truth). What (or who) are we praying to Or for during these services? Why do Buddhists prey
  16. Tonstad39

    Yes, and Edgar Allen Poe wrote his first poems while he was in college. I am also into Video...

    Yes, and Edgar Allen Poe wrote his first poems while he was in college. I am also into Video Games (I have a huge collection of consoles) I'm simply a man of many passions *shrugs*
  17. Tonstad39

    Buddhist scripture

    That reminds me: yesterday I popped into my first buddhist service (Vajrayana for the curious) and the teacher had a service on emptiness and the illusion of reality as well as the delusion of attaching your emotions to an inanimate object.
  18. Tonstad39

    Why is energy gendered?

    I understand that there are two gods in wicca, a god and a goddess but why must energy from the sun and moon have gender? Forces are fundemental to the construction of the universe and acts in ways that make all of life possible, but if it lacks any biology or consiousness than where does...
  19. Tonstad39

    Buddhist scripture

    Thanks everyone for the resources, I will find them very useful and if I am to comment: Buddhism (and other dharmic faiths) seem to rely more heavily reliant on the practices like Medditation, achieving bliss etc. whereas Abrahamic faiths like Christianity rely more heavily on interperating...
  20. Tonstad39

    The ONE book?

    So if I'm understanding this: reading and fully understanding The Holy Bible is an exclusive club that Christians and only Christians can do because God commanded that the comphrehension of his holy work be encrypted to nonbelievers like premium cable channels to basic subscribers in the 1990's?
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