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    Turning a Blind Eye

    People who like advaita can grossly misunderstand the whole: Only Brahman(God) is real all else is an illusion. It means I don't exist, only God exists. But some over eager advaita students think "Only God exists, ergo; I am God" then they developed a Messiah complex. That isn't gonna work....
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    Religion...Or Human Nature: Which is it?

    For sure
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    Religion...Or Human Nature: Which is it?

    human nature has a lot of aspects. Religion is the element of human nature to institutionalize beleif systems.(which beleifs are irrelevant ) So it is both. Because were ever there are humans there are always an indigenous institution to tell humans "how it is" The representatives of any...
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    Indra's Net and Advaita

    It seems that speaking absolutes is impossible whenever someone explains Brahman, it turns into some sort of deity, an uncreated Creator, in which all objects are but manifestations of such. But the reality is Neti neti to Creator and created. How can something wordless ever be contained in...
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    Dharma and Black Magic

    There is a story about a Sadhu who was given offerings by a local child. He offered his rosery and told him chanting will lead to liberation. The boy turned it down and asked for something practical, he said that he knew sadhus had magical powers, so he demanded him to teach him The Sadhu...
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    Dharma and Black Magic

    the abrahamic God is a person deity, which describes many laws going against nature. Magik can most easily be done with a quiet mind: when the mind is calm a body exists in harmony with nature & thus is one with nature. If you are one with nature, you are Nature & so you can manifest your will...
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    Nonpauline christian

    And such is Paul's interpretation of Yeshuas teachings, and thus his rules and stipulations for how Christianity should be practiced. The Gnostic Christian known as Valentineous(check spelling) had a very different view of the Gospels, and was almost elected Pope. Imagine the whole face of...
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    I Believe Brad Pitt Is God

    Tyler durden, the anarchist god!
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    I Believe Brad Pitt Is God

    Aren't we all?
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    Everyone creates their own religion

    Inevitably people gonna start making a lot of new religions with that kind of book laying around. It will pobably influence many future generations.
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    Nonpauline christian

    Yes, not a dogmatic right and wrong. An inner gut feeling, trust it. its all anyone can do
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    Nonpauline christian

    Your heart feels rightness and wrongness. Just have to feel it out and decide on which feels right(not which will suit you, but what feels right)
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    Nonpauline christian

    Paul gave a definate theology and based a religion on his oppinion of yeshua's message. Around the same time Gnostic theology developed to. Obviously Pauline style won out. Paul preached things that Christ never mentioned. Like how Christians should have subservient wives, how homosexuality was...
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    Could consciousness be an illusion?

    No one can seem to identify consciousness empirically, but everyone realizes its there.
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    Knowledge

    Knowledge is a big cosmic joke. We all think were the joker but we are the joke. Lol ol well
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    Could consciousness be an illusion?

    Anything is a concept superimposed upon nature. This also applies to the grander concepts (such as consciousness and energy) that allow the mind to reach such a conclusion. Same with God in Advaita. Its not thing, its a name for the irriducible, but it is not particularly needed.(the same could...
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    Knowledge

    The only real knowledge is in knowing that any knowledge you appear to have is a perspective based on experiences that are interpreted. In other words "all I know is that I know nothing" -socrates
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    Mary Magdalene

    Without Paul. The epistles can be nixed. Paul is not the Messiah, but many Christians act as if his teaching are Christs word.
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    Mary Magdalene

    He wrote the epistles, which are used to interpret the four Synoptic Gospels. In the Gospel of Philip(which is Hebrew) Mary is jesus' companion, who he often kisses. In Hebrew the word for companion often means marriage partner.
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    Can there be a Non-Theist Religion?

    At the same time their will always be someone else who disagrees.
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