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  1. Diogenes

    I was reading your post on visions and was wondering if you have read Heschel's seminal work...

    I was reading your post on visions and was wondering if you have read Heschel's seminal work titled The Prophets? I'm sure you'd enjoy it. Incidentally, I ended up finding that book due to a dream I had. It was definitely one of my more memorable dreams. That book has become my Bible during...
  2. Diogenes

    Jesus and "Homo rationalis"

    As far as church dogma goes, I believe that it is the drive to mold uniform minds based on someone's definition of what is acceptable that drives dogmatic thought-and this applies not just to religion. Science has become quite dogmatic in this repect, in my opinion. My own definition for dogma...
  3. Diogenes

    Is Bible Prophesy realible?

    As far as Biblical prophesy goes, that is always up for interpretation. Revelations should be a book of interest for any truly modern person today, but you could read it merely as a highly poetic and imaginative work if you chose to. I think any thinking person can not fail to ackowledge the...
  4. Diogenes

    Moral Question for Believers

    There was a famous Rabbi when asked which should be greater-the fear of God or the fear of flesh and blood-he replied that to be fearful of flesh and blood is enough. That is because when we commit a bad deed we think to ourselves, "I hope that no one can see me."
  5. Diogenes

    "Forgive them, they know not what they do".

    "But I almost think we are all of us Ghosts, Pastor Manders. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that 'walks' in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get...
  6. Diogenes

    Jesus and "Homo rationalis"

    The only problem with this is that it sounds dangerously close to the dictums of church dogma which it sounds like you were advising us to escape from in order to embrace a more 'rational' Jesus. There is evidence for a rational Jesus in the Gospels, (In the beginning there was the...
  7. Diogenes

    Does Satan Plant Wicked Thoughts In People's Minds?

    I think taken from a cosmic scope the inference can be made that our minds are not the only form of intelligence around. The Greek word for demon or daimones means literally alien intelligence. Taken from an historical perspective starting from Zoroaster there have been many people that viewed...
  8. Diogenes

    True To Yourself or True To Your God?

    I think this presupposes that one actually knows themselves well enough to be true in the first place, which I think is very rare. I think most people do not know themselves for what they truly are, and so they are true to a false image which they hold of themselves. If you get past this...
  9. Diogenes

    Jedi as a religion

    And then you have H.P. Lovecraft and his Necronomicon. You still find this book in the non-fiction or occult section of the bookstore to this day even though Lovecraft admitted it was his 'fictional attempt' at creating a religion. Considering his popularity today, I'd say that he did a good...
  10. Diogenes

    Iraq was to be the first of seven country in five years

    Seven countries in five years? Iraq has already eclipsed the time spent in Vietnam and WWII. It won't be long before we have spent more time in Iraq than both of these wars combined. If this plan is really on the table, then the 'seven countries in five years' really typifies how this Iraq...
  11. Diogenes

    Why Do You Argue?

    Ben Franklin thought it unwise to spend any time in 'vain, ignorant and ill-conceived dispute', so he tried to avoid any conversations that led to it. Of course, he also said that procrastination was the thief of time, early to bed, early to rise, etc. etc. Come to think of it, I never did...
  12. Diogenes

    Did God control Dark Ages.. or was it just fate?

    Sadhu Singh, the Christian mystic from India was invited to America and left within days. He was horrified by the gross materialism and declared that he had never been to a country steeped in more blindness. Of course, he was an ascetic. The values of a greater society usually tend to run...
  13. Diogenes

    America is a secular nation.

    It would be more accurate to state that this country was founded on Freemasonry. All of the signers of the Declaration of Independence except for 1 were masons. All the freedoms granted by the Constitution were taken from the ideals and bylaws of the Masons. Masons even prophesied about...
  14. Diogenes

    Did God control Dark Ages.. or was it just fate?

    I would give 5:1 odds that any person from the 'Dark Ages' who had a chance to look in on us 'Enlightened Ones' of the modern age would be happy to return to their own plight. History is written by the winners. We can impose any refaction we choose on something that happened in the distant past.
  15. Diogenes

    Emotions vs. Obligations

    As you get older the pressing needs of duty only increase. This world makes many demands on your time. To displace the stress of this 'duty' when freedom is available often means seeking pleasure at any cost. Like your duties, the stakes will go up in this area as well. I don't think wants are...
  16. Diogenes

    Texts show Newton's deep religious

    Some more on Newton's strange religiosity. Newton believed himself to have been divinely appointed to interpret the book of Daniel. I believe it was Newton who began a theological interpretation of the book of Revelations that entails the coming of Christ's Kingdom through a series of human...
  17. Diogenes

    Is idealism wasted on youth?

    Idealism beats the hell out of cynicism any day-perhaps you can add realism to that. The final chapter of Don Quioxte shows our hero on his deathbed recanting all of his adventures and telling his loyal side kick (who warned him every step of the way about his foolishness) that he was right. It...
  18. Diogenes

    How do you define eternity?

    "You might as well ask Heaven what it sees. No human can know." -Anne Rice
  19. Diogenes

    Is the Far Right in America Morally Bankrupt?

    Exactly. Because those crazy hippies were trying to create a complete alternative to the society they were born into. The only real reaction to this could be to strengthen the already overpowering arm of the establishment. Like Dr. Evil said, "Freedom failed.":shrug:
  20. Diogenes

    Texts show Newton's deep religious

    Newton was a 33rd degree Mason. He was not a product of the enlightenment, but something closer to an alchemist from the Middle Ages. For him there was no conflict whatsoever between science and religion, faith and reason. Also, they found many different versions of the Book of Revelations on...
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