GENIUS FORUMS

And yet as parents, most people strive to make the childhood of their young as happy as possible. I think SK is oversimplifying things, possibly because he saw himself as one of the "exceptions." It seems to me in this world a happy childhood stands one in good stead in later years. I agr...

For MANY are called, but FEW are chosen..... Brothers Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard on the subject: "Everyone who has awakened from the first dream of youth will realize, if his judgement is not paralyzed, that this world is the kingdom of chance and error, of folly and wickedness. Hence everyth...

For MANY are called, but FEW are chosen..... "The man who is completely "me", there is no awakening in him.....He probably makes up eighty percent of the world, more perhaps, ninety percent." "A mind that is simple will understand perfection because it is part of perfection ...

prince wrote:We must do what we are here to do. Ugly as it may seem, we must do it.
We are brothers.

Yes indeed! The Brethren of Free Spirits!

And 'the higher we free spirits soar, the smaller we appear to the herd, the multitude, below.'

Thus spaketh brother Friedrich and I.

Bob M.

It seems to have a Rousseauesque feel to it. I get the impression you are longing for the "natural man" who is capable of hearing the Divine correctly. One problem is that, if we believe the stories and their context, and even considering Saul-Paul as one of the first Christians, the Chri...

Well, there is that one quote: "Thou Shalt cleanse the planet of the huge multitude of the neurologically malformed", which fits here nicely. If we get rid of them we will finally have love, harmony, peace of mind and perfection. Yay! Can't wait! I wouldn't be too anxious here, my friend....

Mr Michael, Thanks for your response. Will try to get back to it soon. You're quite welcome TA. I've enjoyed the exercise. Such activity helps me continue to learn and grow along spiritual lines. Meanwhile I shall remain busy re-examining the life of St. Paul some more. As he once alluded to, I fin...

DHodges wrote:Matthew 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

He who lives by the sword, shall die by the sword (or perhaps even worse yet)???

"We have ceased fighting anything or anyone."
(Alcoholics Anonymous 'Big Book' - Page 84)

Bob M.

To mention a few men that I've long and carefully studied: J. Krishnamurti, U. G. Krishnamurti, Osho, Eckhart Tolle, Franklin Jones, Bill Wilson, Nietzsche, and Gopi Krishna have all gone through radical transformative experiences that rendered them for a time quite dysfunctional (while often suffe...

A couple of things. One, when visiting a donkey, don't talk about ears. Ha ha, I thought that was clever. Two, if anyone has "ears to hear" it would certainly be me. Ha ha again. I thought that was sort of funny too. Yes, many have ears to hear, but the key here again is to have a mind/he...

A couple of things. One, when visiting a donkey, don't talk about ears. Ha ha, I thought that was clever. Two, if anyone has "ears to hear" it would certainly be me. Ha ha again. I thought that was sort of funny too. Yes, many have ears to hear, but the key here again is to have a mind/he...

So far, your references to "Jesus" are totally selective. Is't this obvious? Shouldn't this be set on the table right at the start? It is absolutely obvious that you make 'Jesus' into what you want or need him to be, which requires that you negate so much else of what he in fact 'was'. I ...

One of the few stories involving women has one anointing his feet and drying them with her hair. Perhaps you mean with conquering just responding to her desire to be conquered. But I'd think a wise man has some bigger challenges before him. Hi Diebert, Perhaps I should have said help a woman conque...

Almost all Christians I have known (well, to be truthful, those I have overheard, living in a stable as I do where so many come and go) emphasize, emphatically , that one cannot (in the Christian sense) "save oneself". To get out of this trap of this cruel, demonic realm, requires the sur...

I would be interested to hear what you consider to be Jesus's shortcomings. I have my own views on that as well. He, like most of the 'wise' men, never conquered woman. Which was probably his biggest shortcoming. His calling his fellows such things as swine, ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing, a g...

Although there are many, many different 'interpretations' of who Jesus was, what his mission was, and what he in fact taught, the one I have offered is the Genius Forum definition and it is the correct one. It is the truer one is perhaps the best way to describe it. (You have to give up relationshi...

It's not a matter of being "selective". It's a matter of seeing into the heart and soul of Jesus and then interpreting everything in the Gospels in that light. Hi David, I find it's a matter of actually walking in Christ's footsteps, and as a result having the Christ Spirit dwelling withi...