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Metta -- yep -- that's the point
and I wonder if the same people involved in this so called pursuit of "truth" fully understand the ramifications of what they are trying to prove? Moreso if they fully comprehend what proving that their chosen religion is the only faith sanctioned by God precurses, or what notions it instills? Immediately the individual on this quest to prove the unprovable must reconcile reality with the conclusion they are trying to attain. And that is exactly what they are doing, not actually proving anything but trying to arrive at a foregone conclusion. It cannot be an objective quest if one is trying to prove their own religion as the sole faith sanctioned by God. From here it is but one small micro-step to a superiority complex pertaining to worship. After all, the individual can now say "my religion is the only correct one, you other people are worshipping a false God." That is why I mentioned the skinheads and the KKK, the resultant mindset has exactly the same parameters as the notion of white supremecy. Only the vehicle has been changed from race to religion.
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gomedome
on July 17, 2005 at 9:10 AM
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avant-garde -- that is the key in it's entirety - people are capable of
convincing themselves of anything, capable of viewing a body of evidence so selectively that the conclusion is foregone. So called Biblical prophecies are a good example. People that fervantly want them to be true skip right over the pitfalls or inherent innacuracy in what they are doing. Taking a work that predates the historical event that it is being applied to by hundreds of years then doing a post event reconciliation is hardly a prophecy. It is even a misuse of the word prophecy. A list of events with no ridgid timeline or specific details is in effect sitting dormant in the bible until a corresponding historical event can be matched up with it. Some prophecy, yet there are people that insist that every bit of it is "truth".
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gomedome
on July 17, 2005 at 8:57 AM
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some very good points.... people make religions, God doesn't...
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Metta
on July 17, 2005 at 7:21 AM
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gomedome
this belief does fly in the face of reason. but the mind is a strange and fascinating thing. it can look directly at the truth and not see it. it sees what it wants to see. i am thinking of a run we made on friday, in which a natural death appeared to look like foul play. no matter what the veteran officers told us, we held to our contention that it was a crime scene. only much later did i reexamine my thoughts and realize that i was in denial about what i was looking at.
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avant-garde
on July 17, 2005 at 2:55 AM
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