Posted on 04/28/2022 8:05:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Anyhow, you answered my question.
I was just wondering because you were so hostile in your comment 30.
“If you had been brought up and lived in Pompeii at the time, you would have understood it in a much deeper way than your ‘new religion’ has taught you to understand it now.”
You don’t understand that’s purposely hostile and demeaning.
No, sorry; I don’t.
“No, sorry; I don’t.”
Not surprised.
You're not understanding my point. "Sex" (the act) was never considered shameful of obscene....it was the *depiction* of sex on the artifacts that was shameful and obscene.
Helps to have an editor who knows what words mean.
Maps of Meaning.
The importance of myth figures prominently in Jungian thought.
Good read, thanks.
‘Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?’
Sounds very plausible.
‘I don’t think it’s possible for God to ‘move on’.’
fine, and your position is a widely held one, but the true deist believes that the creator, after having done his creation, removes his hand from the actual governance of it...and, as such, is not accessible to such outward blandishments as worship and prayers...
it is an affirmation that man is responsible for his own course in life, but, unlike an agnostic, does not attempt to rationalize creation, but simply accepts the theist supernatural explanation...
They read it for the articles.
I did not know that.
The Western Empire. That is where Pompeii and Herculaneum are.
Wow, thanks for positing that video! I’m glad I wasn’t there!
But I expected a little more sex and violence! Just kidding!
Well, first, I believe that Creation was perfectly rational - (or rather IS, as I don’t believe that Creation, or the Creative motivation of God, ever ends). It’s the product of a rational Mind that we don’t understand because we haven’t yet evolved to understand it. I’m not sure that we, in our ‘Earthly being’ mode ever will. But it seems to be rational, and our science appears to prove it so with every discovery, as science is so far willing to go. (I don’t believe that anything is ‘SUPERnatural’. If it happens, or has happened, it’s Natural.)
And ‘prayer’ and ‘worship’ have to be defined. I don’t think that God is so small that He requires ‘worship’ in the way that we generally understand the word. I think the greatest forms of ‘worship’ are Recognition and Gratitude – these, and the exercise of them, are the most powerful abilities that humans possess.
Prayer:
Many people see it as a beseeching or begging of God. But I don’t think God responds to that – and why should He, when He has already given us everything we need, and many of the ‘prophets’ He has sent us have told us so, including Jesus?
They’ve essentially said that everything we need is already here FOR us; we just have to RECOGNIZE that: ‘Consider the lilies of the field’, etc. We just don’t take those pronouncements seriously. We allow material circumstance to decide what we think and we prefer to wilfully worry and fret, and believe that some power outside of us can solve our problems.
One of our most famous prayers is what we call the ‘Our Father’, or ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, from the Sermon on the Mount. As I understand, in the original language of Jesus this prayer is in the imperative mood – it’s not a plea, it’s a statement of fact and recognition of what is already there for us, or what, as the author and lecturer Neville Goddard once described as basically a command, which would be a ‘brazen impudence’ in the minds of many mainstream Christians. But it’s no different, really, than ‘Let there be Light’. God made us ‘in His image’. This means, to me, that we can do on our micro scale what He did.
I think Emmet Fox expounded very well upon this:
https://www.nevillegoddardbooks.com/uploads/4/0/9/5/4095367/emmet_fox_-_the_lords_prayer.pdf
Have a good evening.
Wow. Incredible video... thanks for posting.
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