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Old 10-01-2008, 11:34 PM
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Each person is free to believe in God or disbelieve ...
Do you believe in Ra? Zeus? Odin? Krishna? Set? Thor? Huitzilopochtli?

They all have very different tenets and demand very different things. We are all free to believe what we want but if you ever want to understand ME and my beliefs it may not be as easy as you seem to think it is.
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Old 10-01-2008, 11:39 PM
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Sure, Ra, Zeus, ... etc are all false gods

The search for the True God is where the right answer is to be found ...

He is the One and Only Creator and Sustainer of the universe

The origin of our human soul, and to Him one day it will return ...
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BalanceFX writes: Spiritual realm.. Yes... please define and provide evidence.

Try not to view death as a vacation. It is not. When you go away to vacation, you usually go to "get away." In death, it is the opposite. Death is a way to "come back." When you go on vacation, you usually go to relax, to escape responsibility. Death, again, is just the opposite. In death, you don't escape responsibility; you "live up to it." When you die, you are already at peace, but still quite a bit must still BE accomplished.

Death is not heaven; it is not an eternal vacancy to MY kingdom. There are no chocolate rivers, golden gates, cloud beds, or peppermint trees like some have envisioned. When you arrive to this spiritual realm, K(NOW) that is as valid as any space in time or place you have ever occupied.

In the spiritual world, a certain freedom comes with BEing detached from the constraints of a physical body.

HELLO IT’S ME: An Interview With GOD
Chapter: Life After Death or Living On An Angels’s Wages
Pg: 98, 104

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BalanceFX writes: If its personal belief I dont care. At all.

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BalanceFX: writes (from Post #1): What is heaven to you personally?

Then why ask?

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BalanceFX writes: If you think its real and more then just your whimsical fantasy of delusion than provide evidence. If you cant then accept the delusion.


I can’t (shouldn’t) accept this description because the same source in which this evidence originates also suggests that I work the belief towards a conclusion.

BELIEVE EVERYTHING, I say! BUT…ACCEPT NOTHING! UNTIL – I repeat – UNTIL YOU HAVE PROVEN THIS BELIEF TO BE A TRUTH OR AN UNTRUTH. This method works for everything.

HELLO IT’S ME: An Interview With GOD
Chapter: Belief, Faith, Hope and Joy
Pg: 164

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BalanceFX writes: You cant remember... Do you have any concept of memory, how memories are formed and how to recall repressed or forgotten memories? Do you believe memories either persist before you brain is created or after it has died? Do you believe the fundamentals of our economies are strong?

It would seem that whatever, whichever, whomever I do not or cannot remember that there is a source that can assist me in remembering when I forget or misunderstand.

Few people actually REMEMBER early in their physical life what they set out to do or go willingly to their graves only then to REMEMBER what they have accomplished after crossing over. Many moments can go by in a human’s existence before he or she realizes “Hey! This is what I'm supposed to BE doing!"

What you REMEMBER late in this life will help prepare you for the next incarnation.

HELLO IT’S ME: An Interview With GOD
Chapter: Life After Death or Living On An Angels’s Wages
Pg: 104, 106
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Old 10-02-2008, 06:24 AM
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Try not to view death as a vacation. It is not. When you go away to vacation, you usually go to "get away." In death, it is the opposite. Death is a way to "come back." When you go on vacation, you usually go to relax, to escape responsibility. Death, again, is just the opposite. In death, you don't escape responsibility; you "live up to it." When you die, you are already at peace, but still quite a bit must still BE accomplished.


There is no way to know what happens when we die. Until of course it happens. However the accepted versions of heaven I have heard have no basis in reality and seem very unlikely.

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I can’t (shouldn’t) accept this description because the same source in which this evidence originates also suggests that I work the belief towards a conclusion.

BELIEVE EVERYTHING, I say! BUT…ACCEPT NOTHING! UNTIL – I repeat – UNTIL YOU HAVE PROVEN THIS BELIEF TO BE A TRUTH OR AN UNTRUTH. This method works for everything.


Ok so mindless belief but acceptance only after you have proven it? Is that a fair interpretation? How did you then prove your belief about heaven? Not to me, but even to yourself?

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It would seem that whatever, whichever, whomever I do not or cannot remember that there is a source that can assist me in remembering when I forget or misunderstand
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Few people actually REMEMBER early in their physical life what they set out to do or go willingly to their graves only then to REMEMBER what they have accomplished after crossing over. Many moments can go by in a human’s existence before he or she realizes “Hey! This is what I'm supposed to BE doing!"

What you REMEMBER late in this life will help prepare you for the next incarnation.

HELLO IT’S ME: An Interview With GOD
Chapter: Life After Death or Living On An Angels’s Wages
Pg: 104, 106
What you remember late in this life will help prepare you for what? What next incarnation? Mom births you, you grow up and think and do stuff and affect the world at large here and there and then the chemical process that gives you the illusion of being conscious and an individual ceases. The end. That is what seems to be the case based on my rudimentary understanding of basic human life cycles.
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BalanceFX writes: However the accepted versions of heaven I have heard have no basis in reality and seem very unlikely.

I’m not sure that you have heard them all. For example if you compare my understanding of heaven and the afterlife to other religious descriptions, you will notice that I am not advertising a place of peace, I am not asking anyone to put faith in BEing comfortable, I am not promoting a judgmental God, I am not promising happiness, glory or holiness, the only thing I am depicting is that the spiritual realm is different from a physical existence. It is simply a place where everyone goes after death, a place where one can “hang their hat”.

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I have nothing to lose in believing, except the belief itself.
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BalanceFX writes: Is that a fair interpretation?
I wouldn’t advise anyone to interpret anything until the understanding of the belief comes to a full stop. Then one can decide if they want to stay or get off.

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BalanceFX writes: How did you then prove your belief about heaven? Not to me, but even to yourself?


I didn’t prove this belief yet. This was the understanding that was specified to me.

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And you have provided a valid scenario. My belief and understanding of the afterlife extends the decision for an individual to (a) stay in the spiritual realm, (b) reincarnate into another physical existence and it even offers the individual the choice to (c) permanently terminate one’s existence altogether. The choice is yours.
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