GENIUS FORUMS

I think I'm attributing correctly: Scott: How could the world be swallowed up by evil? Do you mean humanity? The world, to me, is a big planet...and the only thing that can really swallow it up is the Sun if something crazy happens like a change in the size of the Sun. Carl G: By swallow up, I meant...

When I was taking Effexor (like Zoloft), things didn't bother me and I didn't get easily frustrated, yet I still believed in God. Would you say that was because I consciously believe? (Which I do.)

It's an interesting reductionism, I must admit.

Sky wrote:

somehow it sounds like music theory or math

Physics, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Grist for the mill:
Time (duration) and energy are complimentary the same way position and momentum are complimentary.

Hey, symmetry arguments never hurt anyone.

Scott wrote: yet how do you ever know a person is a sage? That's entirely based on a leap of faith. If I think Kevin Solway is enlightened, I have to suspend my thinking and just believe! If sages are rare, then it should be easy to spot them because they stand out, right? For a particular person, I...

From Kevin: As for the one God, I call the Totality, the All, "God", but that is entirely different to what we were talking about. So you think we are speaking of a personal God, God as being a person. I for one cringe when I hear people reject the "Old Man In The Sky With a White Bea...

Kevin wrote: Carl G wrote: How could you possibly know that the following are not real: gods, higher entities, higher self, dream weaver, gods within one's own psyche, angelic being, demon, and magic. How do you surmise this? Same answer. A "god" is anything we choose to call a god - and t...

And take little steps first!!!

"Everybodywants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die."

Little steps, like try going one (1) day without thinking an evil thought about another person.

It's not so easy, is it? Be honest.

It gets easy.

Practice makes perfect.

I think sky is correct in that God's Will ultimately prevails. Enlightenment can only be accord with that Will. The sage is always active, always learning. That's how one gets to be sage. Open your heart to God. That's all He wants you to do. The rest will happen, it has to happen. unwise, jump in, ...

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I accept your right to consider whatever you choose, but the above pretense is like saying that a person who is not caught up in cars would not notice if one ran over his dog.

This makes no sense.

I think she's saying her karma ran over her dogma....

Pye wrote To be perfectly, perhaps even effectively crude, I once long ago knew a man with an 8.5 inch penis (erect) of which he was very proud, but he was not, in any way, good in bed . . . . Crude again, this quote from an old Maria Muldaur song: It ain't the meat; it's the m-o-t-i-o-n . . . . I'm...

David Quinn wrote : Men also quickly realize that what women are attracted to in men is their potential earning power, their social status, their willingness elbow people out the way and climb the greasy pole, their ability to create exciting and envious lifestyles, etc. The nice guys know this is ...

Not exactly. Some religions teach god loves you. SOme teach god doesn't care, and you're "bad" for caring. Don't misunderstand the middle quote! First, it's not original with me. Second, it doen't say ALL PATHS lead to the top of the mountain, just that there are many that do. And it does...

DavidQuinn000 wrote: There are significant problems with the teachings of Jesus themselves, when viewed as a whole. For example, I don't like the way that Jesus constantly drew attention to himself, even going so far as to stress that no one could come to know God or enter the kingdom of heaven exce...

Hey, as Buckminster Fuller said: "Dare to be naive."

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but when you get there, the view is the same.

...uh, he who has the most things when he dies, wins?

...what?? We're breakable???!!?!?

That sounds like a Kundalini experience. Theosophist literature draws attention to the possibility of accidentally triggering a release of the coiled Kundalini force, usually occurring after a physical fall.

Interesting that you read UB in your teens, I have trouble with it now. I wouldn't have had the time or the intellectual basis for appreciating it when I was in my teens. But then this is the Genius Forum. I also read Martin Gardner's somewhat disjointed critique of the UB and found that even harder...

Everyone should make a mad rush to the Urantia Book, smash into it, then bounce off, and come back here in new a formation.

I hope I didn't kill this thread by mentioning God.

In almost all of the literature I have read concerning the Inner Self and how humans have strived to perfect It, extreme caution is urged upon anyone attempting to "arouse" the serpent of Kundalini from its natural repose. I should point out that I am acutely unqualified to guide anyone in...

I am new to this forum, and like a bee to honey, like a fly to doggy doo-doo, I find myself drawn to this wonderful thread. The answer is yes, the coiled serpent of Kundalini is real. It resides at the base of your spine and it is as real as your arm or leg. I have seen my own uncoil and begin its j...