Monday, September 19, 2011

Prayer = empirically-duplicatable results?


Prayer either produces empirically-duplicatable results, or is BS opiate-of-the-masses, as I believe 80% of all religion is. And it seems that the empirically-duplicatable approach to prayer is being independently discovered & experimented with by adherents of different faith-groups, hence different labels for the same thing. It's like an idea whose time has come. 

Seems that 
Glenn Coon's Christian ABC approach, is the same as 
SGI-Nichiren-Buddhist Daimoku approach, 
Noetic-Sciences approach, 
NewThought approach, 
The-Secret approach, & 
What-the-Bleep-do-We-Know approach.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Taaffe

Thank u for all the quotes. Yes, I’m more than intimately familiar with all those contexts, and not only in English, but also in the original Koine-Greek (which I also had to learn for my Theology-Bachelor’s and Religions-Master’s). And I also spent decades in Christian apologetics defending and defending and defending Christian atrocities and the scriptures they were based upon. But as much as one may wish to believe only the best about one’s own chosen religious path, an unbiased mind eventually has to admit to itself that facts are facts no matter how much one might wish to explain them away. And the facts of history are that Christians have committed more atrocities than ANY other faith-group (including the Islamo-Nazis). There’s just so long that a fair-minded individual can close his eyes to the facts and keep trying and keep trying and keep trying to explain them away. Facts are facts.
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“Jesus was … telling the disciples that they had a rough road ahead of them“

So did Buddha and his disciples, and Nichiren & his disciples -- also “had a rough road ahead of them,” (all new movements do), but what a DRASTIC difference as to how Buddhists, once in power, treated everyone else and different denominations within Buddhism.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
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“they were being protected by the Father despite the hardships they would endure at the hands of other people. “

Hmmmmm?!? And just how did that work-out for them as they burned alive?
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“He was emphasizing that his presence would lead to non peaceful situations and that they would make enemies of their own household.”

So just how is THAT conducive to “PEACE”?
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“you have to understand the culture of Buddhism, the culture of the times during Christ in the middle east needs to be understood.”

Having a 2ndary major in college in history, one might suspect that I just might have some little understanding of
“the culture of Buddhism, and the culture of the times during Christ in the middle east.”
Is it really being objective to keep-on and keep-on and keep-on making excuses for the BLOODIEST religion of all time?
Compare OBJECTIVELY the atrocities of just 1700 years of Constantinian-Christian dominance
and all 2500 years of Buddhism.
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“when God [Allah] would order people to be killed. He had given all of the people plenty of times to repent and [convert to Islam].
Many of these people were not free of sin. They performed malicious sexual crimes.”

Notice that with just 2 slight detail modifications, this statement sounds just like today’s extremist Islamist Nazis?
Should Christians today also go and kill all who are not “free of sin, who performed malicious sexual crimes”?
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“The New Testament is all about Grace and what Christ had done on the cross to atone for the sins of mankind.”

Hate to disillusion u, but this story was not new with the New-Testament.
It was a retelling of a number of ancient pagan myths (with 1 name-change),
of ancient pagan deities who did the exact same thing.
“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
  Edmund Burke (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)

I am not writing-off the awakened—born-again teachings of enlightened Yeshua Ha-Mashiach (Jesus-Christ), or of the saints of the 1st 300 years. I am taking issue with the next 1700 years of Constantinian-Christianity which has been a holocaust.
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“I would actually love to go to a Buddhist get together. It would be interesting to learn more. I will also ask Joe if he would like to come.”

Please do come visit.
The next get-together is the 3rd Mon = 19Sep 7-8:30pm
@ a residence
1794 Harbor Cir W, 33770-4562
Largo
when my wife Smantha will be presenting a topic for discussion.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Purpose of Life = GNH = Gross-National-Happiness

"We were all born to become happy
and to bring happiness to others."
World Tribune 02Sep2011, p1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zqdqa4YNvI




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"The main purpose of life is to learn to live happily."
3:00--3:32 section of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyHLZgdc06U





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‎"The point of this whole thing is to keep getting smarter, to keep growing
[physically, mentally, socially, financially, recreationally & spiritually],
to use as much of your brain as possible."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQmJl1CQx2o

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Quantum-Vinnieosopy-Evolvers Creed 07Sep2011

Quantum-Vinnieosopy-Evolver (Happyist) Creed 07Sep2011
(perpetually under construction)

We believe that both not having a creed and having one which is not amendable is counterproductive. Therefore we do have one, but it’s 1st point is that change, advancement, growth, increase-in-knowledge are desirable.

We believe that to be effective in correcting the downward-spiral towards an Easter-Island-like calamity on a global scale, what’s needed is joint cooperative action of at least 1% of Earthlings. 4% or 20% would be even better, but no single organization should ever exceed 1% Earthlings in membership. That would encourage a stifling monopoly which (historically) always results in abuse.
So every time we reach 1%, we amiably mitosize (de-monopolize) into 2 organizations.

We believe that to be effective in correcting the downward-spiral towards an Easter-Island-like calamity on a global scale, what’s needed is lightning-speed recruiting of the top 1% of the big-brain-geniocracy, the best entrepreneurs, scientists, leaders, economists, achievers, Mensans, etc into our powerful action-thinktank building toward sustainable-progress in unison.

Every time a vote is taken on some position, the minority vote is saved to later become the position of the new organization which mitosized from its parent org.

In mitosis, nuclear families are to be kept together according to the home-head’s convictions. General membership is polled on strength of convictions one way or the other and divided accordingly, which is usually c. 20% one way or the other. The 60% in the gray-zone are divided so as to come as close to 50-50% mitosis as possible.

All leadership positions are to be presided over by a triad,
president (age 30-65), 1st counselor (age 65+), and 2nd counselor (age <30).
Until females prove themselves actually equal to males
(50% of Olympic-records, Nobel-Prizes, & Forbes-Richest-Lists),
the president and either 1 of the counselors must be male
while the other counselor must be female.

We accept (until proven wrong) the Drake-Equation,
the Human-Potential-Movement “HPM,” and Quantum-Physics.

We believe that all bring upon themselves the natural effects
of causes they put, or fail to put into motion.

We believe that through the At-one-ment of many Great-Eternals
(e.g., Jacque-Fresco’s Venus-Project,
Peter-Joseph’s The-Zeitgeist-Movement-“TZM,” etc),
Gross-National-Happiness "GNH" of all humankind may be improved,
by cooperation with natural-laws (doing what contributes to happiness,
and avoiding what detracts from happiness).

We believe that the prime-directives of the Good-News are:
first, Quantum-Faith in what the Great-Eternals started;
second, Letting-go of stupidity which causes un-happiness;
third, Ritual-washing to demonstrate leaving behind stupidity and reaching forward toward Gross-National-Happiness "GNH";
fourth, Laying on of hands as symbolic acceptance of Quantum-Physics.

We believe in organization.

We are open-minded about investigating psychic abilities talked about in the movie Men Who Stare at Goats; e.g., talent for languages, premonitions, intuition, distant-viewing, quantum-touch-healing, etc.

We believe that various sacred books are limited human words attempting to describe progressive civilizing concepts, which may be used as starting points
for ever-ascending-spirals up-the-bridge of eternal-progression.

We believe that many great and important things pertaining to the Commonwealth-of-Good will continue to be figured-out.

We believe that the earth can be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.

We claim the right of worshiping Good
according to the dictates of our own conscience,
and allow all the same right,
let them worship how, where, or what they may.

We believe in cooperating with kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates,
in cooperating with just laws.

We believe in being honest, true, benevolent, virtuous,
and in promoting the happiness of all;
We hope all things, we endure all things.
If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praiseworthy,
we seek after these things.

Some of the books & publications we consider worthwhile
(but not to be taken as infallible word of God) are:
Healing of America,
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight,
Conscious Evolution – Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential,
Reworking Success,
Celestine Vision,
Politics of Meaning,
Future of Love,
Diet for a New America,
Conversations with God 1-3,
Forbes Magazine,
Sunstone Foundation Magazine,
All books by Donald Trump,
Quantum-Touch: Power to Heal,

Some orgs we believe to be in amity with:
Venus-Project,
Zeitgeist-Movement-“TZM,”
ReCreation,
Emissaries,
Natural Law Party,
American Renaissance Alliance,
Foundation for Conscious Evolution,
Mensa,
Sunstone Foundation,
Nobel Prize Awarding Institutions,
Zero Population Growth,
Institute of Noetic Sciences,
SGI,
UUA,
INTA,