Essenes and the Virgin Birth

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  1. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yup…. a better way…… basically what near death experiencers report about orbs or wheels or circles…. could well fit with Super Waves/The Divine Feminine… and something to do with Strings or rays…. would have more connection to the Divine Masculine……….


    (Christian Andreason, chapter 2)

    http://www.allaboutchristian.com/spirituality/
     
  2. NightSwimmer

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    Why bother?
     
  3. Incorporeal

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    Well, once again, you like another poster in this thread are leaning on the interpretations given by another human who has been able to excite the emotional with the intellectual and combine them in such a way as to provide to you the warm fuzzy feelings that your ego requires for acceptance as being real or closer to real than what you have experienced before. INTERPRETATION of data... purely subjective.

    I will however take the necessary time later this evening to review the material at the website you linked.
     
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    Please give me an example of objective evidence that requires no mental processing by the observer?
     
  5. Incorporeal

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    There is none; And that is my whole point. Everything we (mankind) experiences is experienced subjectively. There is no other method or means of cognition or re-cognition available.
     
  6. Incorporeal

    Incorporeal Well-Known Member

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    To show evidence or argument that would compel the mind of others to accept what you present as true.
     
  7. Finley99

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    Subjective opinion LOL!

    Did you know that the world's outstanding scientists are working diligently to recreate our own big bang in miniature? Probably not! Some people believe the collider could create a black hole and engulf the earth. The scientists have assured us that it will not happen. Can't you just imagine that trillions of years ago in another universe scientists were working diligently to create their own big bang and VOILA!! All of a sudden the big bang. I told god not to be messing around with that stuff.

    home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider

    CERN
    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
    The LHC was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.[3] It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
     
  8. NightSwimmer

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    I'm reminded of Matthew 7:6.
     
  9. tecoyah

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    Might I recommend the path most have taken with this one?

    Accepting it as a form of entertainment allows for a limited enjoyment of it's fascinating use of fractured knowledge as well the amazing ability to ignore anything that is counter to that which it spews by sidelining all discussion and debate into arbitrary and pointless topics that carry no baring on the initial topic.

    The typical shift usually involves a request for an absolute truth, which must be that which it has decided upon in its own mind and is unavailable outside it. You will then be asked to equate this unobtainable "truth" to something hidden behind the new goal post which is firmly planted on the field down the street.
     
  10. Incorporeal

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    At the highlighted text. In other words, 'in their opinion'.
     
  11. Incorporeal

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    Then are you admitting to the truth and validity of that scripture?
     
  12. Finley99

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    Truth...LOL!

    I suppose you mean like virgin birth, that the earth is 6000 years old? That a chosen few will meet their ghost pal floating on a cloud then fly off to the promised land on gossamer wings. enter pearly gates and live behind walls in a restricted compound for all eternity floating around singing hymns of praise while those who disagree with their myths burn in hell. What about a flood that covered the earth to a depth of five miles and evaporated within a year, that big fish puked up live men, that seas separated for the good guys and drowned the bad guys who were chasing them, and walls fell at the sound of a trumpet, that a human was turned into a pillar of salt in her tracks, that men lived through a 1200 degree furnace, that the earth stood still, that the ten commandments were presented to one man by god in the form of a burning bush, etc. Also virgin birth, walking on water, feeding five thousand plus women and children who also ate with two fish and five loaves then gathering 12 baskets of leftovers, turning water into fine wine, healing by touching, raising from the dead, etc......

    Any individual who accepts the Christian bible as truth really needs to get a new grip.....that one is about over.

    This is the kind of bullschit folks don't want to argue about because it's more ridiculous than accepting Humpty Dumpty and Cinderella as factual.
     
  13. Incorporeal

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    Such bitterness toward the views of others. It is really nice to be able to express OPINIONS.

     
  14. NightSwimmer

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    It is truly and validly a scriptural verse. I never denied that. I only stated that I am reminded of it whenever you begin to play your little game of dodge-ball.
     
  15. Incorporeal

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    Well, I don't know where you think you might know me from, as I have not played dodge ball since around the time I was in the 9th grade. Sorry, you must have me confused with someone else.
     
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    Here is the 'virgin' birth and other jesus myths explained:

     
  17. NightSwimmer

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    I couldn't possibly have you confused with someone else. I've never even met someone else.
     
  18. Incorporeal

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    Well, you must be living a very lonely life.
     
  19. NightSwimmer

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    Prove it.
     
  20. Incorporeal

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    No need for proof.. you admitted in your last post that you "never met someone else".
     
  21. NightSwimmer

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    Who is this "someone else" anyway?

    Maybe I have met them. I meet a lot of people.
     
  22. Incorporeal

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    Now you are attempting to discredit your own words. Again... you stated that you had never met someone else.
     
  23. Finley99

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    The last time I witnessed a back and forth like this I had taken my kids to the zoo and we were at the monkey cage.
     
  24. Margot2

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    Did you fail to get the words "someone else"????
     
  25. RevAnarchist

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    IC gets it DON'T FEED THE TROLL(s). So now the prima donna hounding IC is starving. Who started this insult camouflaged as a thread anyway? The tone as well as the insinuations about Christanity are disrespectful and is therfore flame bait. Flame bait not a worthy subject for PF or any forum short of a national enquirer type forum.


    reva
     

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