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I've given blogging a rest for some days now(filled by kids and work anyway). I've read some articles here and there and one thing that stares me in the eye is the efforts of some pro-materialist science, anti-religion people to force questions and answers that are valid in science but irrelevant in... Sign in to see full entry.

A person with no inclination to make elaborate meaning giving and playfully creative conceptual and emotional themes part of life will look at a scene in a way dependent on his/her interests in the objects purveyed. A person with a given and accepted elaborate meaning giving and playful (hopefully!)... Sign in to see full entry.

If we simply assume someone elses' point of view fits into our own knowledge gained through our own experience we are in danger of masking something meaningful by blocking the relaying of the experience and with that the possibility of having the same kind of experience. The old "throw the baby out... Sign in to see full entry.

When two or more of us stand in exactly the same place, we do not look at the same world. With this I mean to say our experience of the same setting differs. Why is this so? Our minds are constantly busy making associations. Each chain of thought that comes to our minds have different content in... Sign in to see full entry.

Our minds are comparable to a vast expanse of water. The thoughts and feelings that drift into our conscious awareness are not the sum of the rest but are more like bubbles on the surface. If we get overly attached to these bubbles we stay on the surface and never get to experience the depth in... Sign in to see full entry.

As a religion spreads into new areas it encounters the local belief system and cultural myths of the locals. Usually the locals don't just convert to the new player and if the administration behind the spread of the new religion is well organized and equipped with skillful staff, they draw up a plan... Sign in to see full entry.

A person who has abandoned anthropomorphic theism in favor of either agnosticism, atheism or pantheism can never look at reality with the eyes of anthropomorphic theism again. Similarly someone who has come to gnosticism through mystical experience can never look through the eyes of any of the... Sign in to see full entry.

When Yeshua left the world of humans, He assured us that the Holy Spirit will be here to guide us after He has gone. While He was alive on earth and walked amongst people, he was the only person who could show the people around Him at that time the way to God, now that He is no longer in our midst,... Sign in to see full entry.

One angle of attack on the historicity of Yeshua, the World Messiah from Palestine, is that the texts of the New Testament reflect a lot of other believes that predate the time usually given for His lifetime and there are many parallels shared with other figures who are mostly acknowledged to be... Sign in to see full entry.

I have read a quote by the current or a fairly recent pope that I wanted to comment on but can't find it right now, so if it is worded slightly different, my apologies: "The greatest threat to the Catholic Church is Gnoticism" I agree. "The greatest threat to Gnosticism is "put whatever you like in... Sign in to see full entry.