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is your religion a team effort?
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Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Yes. Most definitely. Body of christ doesn't mean one person. The bible always written that people are chosen as a group. That's why I like the church (most liturgical denominations) in that respect. You confess you want to be christian to the body of christ not just yourself. You're baptized in the body of christ-the church-not just your spirit. You confess your sins to the church as one body not just to jesus.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Makes it sound as if you need to get a ball to the end zone and score a touchdown.
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
so how to make a team from such disparate elements, that could say unanimously "all for one and one for all' and then give their utmost to make it so.....in this age of apathy and malaise ...with the blatant industry of self-interest we are surrounded by at every turn except for inside?
First we must acknowledge our oneness as a human species and agree all have the right to live with their basic needs met and to be educated.
We need motivation to pursue these goals.
Regards Tony
MNoBody
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given the results seen over time in this place, which should be a sort of vanguard for just that kind of social progress, does not really provide any evidence that would generate optimism [so far in any case]......same old arguments rehashed to no happy conclusion, with most abstaining from getting involved, just onlookers.....and who could blame anyone..... most of these threads go nowhere.
Conservatism! Turn back the clock to the prosperous '60s.
The corporate taxation and regulation, plus the helpful social programs worked, back then, then we undid it all. If we did it once, we can do it again, we can re-establish the programs that Made America Great -- again.
Easy-peasy?
It works one person at a time. It appears it takes catastrophic events for people to do it together.
May a lot are waiting for such an event, before they choose to do it of their own free will?
Regards Tony
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
by then it is too late and the cycle is already repeating
no point in closing the gate after the horses have left the corral.
There are cycles within cycles, so the long term aim is possible, we have been getting better at it for 1000's of years.
RegardsTony
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
...you call all this "getting better"
now that's some kind of "faith" right there, that is....
your optimism is simply staggering
...you call all this "getting better"
now that's some kind of "faith" right there, that is....
your optimism is simply staggering
I can be optimistic because I have read a Message that tells about the symptoms of this age and how they will unfold and what it will eventually result in.
All we can do is live unity now and in that way show others it can be done.
Regards Tony
My religion is both. "The group helps the individual, and the individual helps the group. So it's a dynamic dance between the two, not just one, or the other. There are very few grea tteams without some strong individuals with in.
In religious practices themselves, the Hindu will spend time alone meditating and doing personal practice, and then in the evening go meet with 10 000 people in some celebration.