What is a god?
This is imperitive in order to know if god is real.
In order to understand at all we must define things unfortunately.
Otherwise the crusades and jihads start.
Ive asked what is god for a long time.
What is god in reality than the highest ideal. Gods are ideas in their highest...
Ive read many people who strive for gnosis who take the early christian gnostics accounts of the demiurge to mean that judaism has no divine inspiration.
This i honestly take as just nitpicking.
Its kind of like how neopagans talk about "the All" or whatever that pagan wants to call it, and...
As someone who delved into several versions of christian theology.
Whether people agree or not i see paul as the actual creator of christianity, and reject him fully.
(No offence meant to pauline christians)
After reading it sounds like Yeshuas reform movement was an offshoot tradition of the...
I know what you mean
Im just not tryin to be ungrateful.
Idk e what to alot of people probably mistake me for a junkie.
Ive ignored everything physical like a radical and grandma crys because she says shes worried about me dieing
Its been a long time since ive been on here.
Ive even lived with some other people who were on the site.
I dont know what to do.
Ive lived in what i call "god mode" for so long when i look back i dont know what ive done.
There are so many names differant re ligions call it.
But there is what...
shankara lived in the 8th century of course their were dvaita before that but it didnt get organized into a school of thought til later.
unless the history books are inaccurate
different philosophies resemble diffent religions.
advaita resembles buddhism
while dvaita resembles christianity.
i say dvaita schools of thought resemble christianity in the same way advaita resembles buddhism.
Krishna is in full realization of Brahman since birth and is thus called Avatar.
most humans are not and are thus arent on the same level as krishna.
but through yoga can be in their final lifetime.
who the hell is this guy.
ya know dvaita philosophy started after the introduction of christianity and islam.
advaita philosophical school started in the 8th century,
philosophical schools aside. gurus who preached these philosophies can be traced back.
the earliest accounts of strict advaita...
"hinduism" is not necessarily vedik, although the majority of hindu religionS draw authority from the vedas.
Hinduism includes a vast array of philosophies and points of view, i personally dont care about sai baba, but many devout "Hindus" do.
i remember going to temple and my teacher liked...
im absolutely not looking for consistencies....
you kinda made one of my points is that the people who listen to the "spirit" or whatever they want to label it, all have different opinions on it.
geez people even fight over what gender to reference a genderless being. God or Goddess?
i think of...
you talk to him and get to know him. PRAY, this way people build a real relationship with him rather than a fake relationship made through book study.
God speaks to us in our hearts, can you hear him?
i could read someones facebook profile, i still dont know him. its not till i sit down maybe...
dear christians and everybody else...
doesnt it get old debating over inconsistencies both large and small in the bible?
doesnt it get old having your spirituality so easilly undermined because your religion is so easy to pick apart?
but i see that God helps people, that God can be cool...
why...
hmm... i suppose you could look it up. its a well known phenomenon that neopagans tend to practice eastern religions for a time before going back to paganism with increased enthusiasm.
im pretty entrenched in the pagan community in ohio and indiana. so like clockwork it tends to happen with...
funny new religious trend, the majority of Pagans ive met in america study Hindu upanishads & other texts
neo paganism has gotten a major leg up from Hiduism which is very similar to todays "neo"paganism(s)
many wiccans study shiva-shakti philosophy and advaita.
Paganism has become "Hinduism...
i had a best friend, we were the same when we were six.
then we spent time apart, he grew up into a gangsta thug, and i grew into a punk rock squater.
we grew apart
this can be reasoned out logically.
if their is a consciousness outside of time, it would have to be intrinsic to whatever exists outside of time, this has over reaching metaphysical implications(but thats for another conversation)
learning has to be done in Time, because learning is a process...