Thanks for this.
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DL
Neither… I think that is simply what it means to be human, all too human.
Be a law/a god unto ourselves, as not even parents or kin can often show us the way, let alone think or feel for us, but some guidance is good.
As we grow up, indeed, we need and want guidance and education to be available to all.
At some point in time the individual will compete against others to try to show himself the fittest.
If individuals do not at some point in time decide that they are able to lead themselves and others, those individuals are what I would call sheeple.
As you might know, many are called to show their fitness by standing tall, alone, and masters of themselves.
Few hear that call. This is why most sages have pointed that out.
To Gnostic Christians, like the Cathars and their Parfait, the word god is synonymous with the fittest humans. This has to be so given that we hold no supernatural beliefs.
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DL
Solely reserved for males? I think this comes naturally to many males, it seems hard-wired into the male psyche, sometimes to the point of self-destruction.
I’ve not heard that word here in a long while… I guess the term speaks for itself.
Is there a process to follow, to achieve this aim? guidance, if you will…
When you say supernatural beliefs, what do you mean exactly… beliefs of and in what?
Faith based talking serpents and donkeys and a genocidal god that is still somehow good, are a couple of examples of supernatural and childish thinking.
Quite immoral teachings as well.
As to the guidance or salvation you seek, if I might be allowed to use a fitting analogy, here is what my mantra Jesus taught as the way to your salvation.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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DL
It’s ridiculous.
When young, such concepts are biblical fairytales, which we grow out of with age… along with our childhood and believing in Santa and the Tooth Fairy.
Why can’t we believe without believing the impossible biblical sentiments? A test of faith, perhaps, of loyalty?
Matthew 6:22 is a fitting analogy for my East/West mindset, as it is in-keeping with an Ignostic outlook on any Spiritual practice.
Perhaps we were all Ignostic, before the creation of religion and Polytheism and such? so just prior to us looking outside of ourselves for guidance, on all aspects of our lives.
Then there’s the external world and the secrets residing there, which may for all we know contain Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
Or most likely, God.
We have had temples and nature worship for at least 57,000 years. That is how old the oldest serpent temples are.
I can see why we would want to invent gods, as the epitome of being the fittest humans, but to invent gods and then let them rule over us is stupid.
We are to rule over them and not them over us.
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DL
Let us pray that the religious recognize fantasy from reality soon.
Their fantasy god, Yahweh, is a satanic god, and Christians and Muslims should learn the difference between good and evil.
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DL
Unfortunately disbelief does not constitute fact. When talking about things that can exist in the external world, things can indeed exist regardless of whether one believes it or not.
I was not disputing the reality of Yahweh even as I know he is fiction.
I was pointing out that Christians see their genocidal Yahweh as good when he is obviously evil.
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DL
You know that he’s fictional; I suppose that’s it then.
If foolish enough to think Yahweh is real, and you still kneel to that genocidal prick, you show how he can make moral people do immoral things.
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DL
What part of the world was that? and why serpent worship? were these poisonous ones by any chance…? to kill thine enemy with a snake bite or toss them into a pit full of snakes and so into an agonising death…
…or coexist in a harmonious union? One dominating over the other, has proved not to lead to the furtherment of humankind, but hinder it by the struggle of power and wills.
Unless man’s relationship with God is a “Duck Amuck” situation, with man being Daffy Duck and God Bugs Bunny.
I goofed on the timing. It is not 57,000 years. It is 70,000. It does not matter much but accuracy is good.
Is a python poisonous?
apollon.uio.no/english/arti … glish.html
Even if it is, you might remember that physicians use the snake as a part of their symbol and the bible shows that when the serpent bites, he give life and not death.
I think the serpent is revered world wide due to it sheading it’s skin and being reborn the way many want to be in heaven after their death.
To your last.
Cooperation is good, but if we do not compete for the best and fittest who have the best ideas, we will go extinct.
We are a hierarchical species and must have leadership. It is in our nature to want to be the fittest or to follow the fittest.
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DL
Not all humans are fools, and not all gods would be wise but simply well-equipped tech wise.
That ultimately depends on the actual state and content of the external world.
Morality wise, we have never changed.
We have improved on our understanding of some things but are still the same as when we left the trees and caves.
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DL