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Re: Corbin
Congrats
posted by
Shams-i-Heartsong
on June 17, 2018 at 5:26 AM
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Re: Shams
I agree totally
posted by
Shams-i-Heartsong
on June 17, 2018 at 5:25 AM
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Shams
Even if we collectively are God, in some kind of bizarre Unity, we are all the more responsible to discipline ourselves and others, to limit the use of our "free will" when we are tempted to use it to prey upon another. Instead, one of the best and highest uses of our "free will" is to stop the predators that are actively abusing and destroying others. They are staining and corrupting any Godliness that they may possess. Don't fall for the many false arguments for "peace", "love", for non-involvement and passive pacifism. Those messages are from the dark ones, and serve them well. Of course the Destroyer does not want to be stopped or hindered from his destroying.
posted by
GoldenMean
on June 17, 2018 at 1:37 AM
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We need both.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 12, 2018 at 10:22 AM
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Corbin
Thanks! I have been away too long, to read and to write. Too many distractions in life. But one distraction was pleasant... I went with my wife on a week's trip to Reno, Nevada, which included a Yanni concert. It was fabulous! The trip and the concert. Cheers 
posted by
GoldenMean
on June 12, 2018 at 10:15 AM
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Re: Shams
GM....It's good to see you stop in...hope everything is going great for you!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 12, 2018 at 7:12 AM
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Shams
I do not think that dualism is a false understanding. There are good loving people, and there are evil hating predatory people. For some reason that I do not understand or agree with, the one God allows "free will" to an obscene extreme. On the evil predatory side, there is the free will to enslave, torture, murder, commit genocide in the millions, etc. And that is just what we see in the physical world, per Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Taliban, ISIS, etc. Just imagine the predatory evil that may exist in the spiritual world, to dominate and enslave our souls.
God does not stop predatory evil here, and apparently he does not stop it in the spiritual realm. Thus the stories of Satan rebelling against God, and taking one-third of the angels of heaven with him (and not being stopped by God), to bring their predation to us on Earth, rings true to me, in principle if not in details. God should put limits on "free will", to keep the horrors of predation to a minimum, but He does not. We are free to murder one, a dozen, a thousand, or a million. We are free to enslave a billion. This dark side of "free will" is my greatest upset with concepts of God.
If God does not stop the extreme evils of free will, then he himself is effectively granting "God" status to the most successful predators, such as Satan and his followers.
posted by
GoldenMean
on June 12, 2018 at 6:43 AM
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