Ok...I had never seen that and it is not advertised as a blog on fhu.com that I can see. Still, there is nothing eastern there. You sound like wow now you have unmasked the wizard of Oz! Pretty comical. Roys meditation/ Be Still exercise is biblical and works wonders. Just too bad that you think your judgement is your insight by God or some such. Nothing of the sort. Have a good one! And maybe you should find a different dig other than fabie because that one isn”t working! Kind of funny actually.
empty your mind and let it be filled with sweet smelling garbage fabie- the end of which is death.
Godzilla & Daniel,
So you see how this works. Being confronted with direct evidence, evidence that would draw a conviction in court, has no effect. I think it was Elsie who mentioned it way back somewhere, there is this program called Eliza. It purports to be an artificial intelligence experiment that could make you think you were in a real conversation, but really the program was just using keywords to walk you through a very small set of possible responses. Once you realized you were covering the same ground again and again and again, talking to “Eliza” became unbearable, like being forced to watch random reruns of Gilligan’s Island, always thinking you’re about to get off the island, but it never happens.
As with Eliza, the present conversation is following extraordinarily predictable behavior. This actually follows logically from Masters’ teaching re sin. In a paradox, although the stated goal of of the practice of BS (Be Still) is to detach from the trauma of being human and rise above it to the exalted state of true objectivity, the reality is, that to accomplish this, the practitioner must become supremely subjective. The normal meaning of the words becomes perfectly inverted.
This gives the practitioner of BS an extreme tactical advantage in any debate. How can you ever lose a debate where there is no arbiter, no objective, external reference point? No way to ever be proven wrong.
So you see, the inevitable victory of the BSer is built in. Evidence is irrelevant. Only the will to keep on being perfect matters. And that guard can never be let down. If Polycarp proves the early church accepted the deity of Christ, that would shake the foundations of the perfect self image. If John and Paul and any other Bible authors say things that raise doubts, those doubts disturb the self-hypnotic suggestion that the BS follower has been sealed into God’s army by their esoteric self knowledge, and therefore those doubts must be suppressed.
It chills me to think how hard it must be, internally, to get backed into a corner where you can never grow in self knowledge, lest the mask come off. But the predictable result is a self imposed reduction of thought to predictable patterns designed to avoid contact with prohibited truths. The Eliza Sindrome, if you will.
So predictable, in fact, that for any given post you write, no matter how richly adorned with wisdom and insight, no matter how honorably offered, you could write the BSer’s response post yourself. You already know, within a small set of possibilities, what will be said, what will be ignored. Almost down to the word count.
Which is why I counsel you, my fellow soldiers for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that it may be time to consider whether our pearls might be better appreciated elsewhere. Obviously, if God has burdened you with this ministry, you have to honor that. But for me, its time to stop wasting time talking to a program. Unlike me, God is all powerful, and can open a closed heart. Nothing prevents us from praying. It is in the realm of miracles that this will be resolved. IMHO.
Peace,
SR