Ex-Cracker
Bluelighter
Someone who needs a drink of rum, a few lines of cocaine and my scripted medication, thats who i am 




You are correct in all but your view of the N.T.It has so many contradictions. The old testament is so punishing yet the new testament shows love and compassion. I personally just try a few not rules but ways to live my life that allow me to connect with my own spirituality and my higher power. I think any supposedly God given man made religions just don't appeal to me at all as I don't think it's a case of black or white.
Babygirl. X
Ditto.
What did you conclude?
Are we good, or evil, or both, as our dualistic reality demands of all concepts?
I say that we default to our good side, cooperation and love, and do not go the other way, competition and it's evil, a loser, unless what is love is being jeopardized or needs protecting.
Science has shown this in baby and children experiments.
We default to love so as to make friends so that we can eventually rule over them.
We are all born thinking that we are the best of breed and top of the line and act like it, until proven otherwise.
We used to look for such in religious thinking and the seeking of God, but such Divine Councils no loner exist. Unfortunate that.
Ditto.
What did you conclude?
Are we good, or evil, or both, as our dualistic reality demands of all concepts?
I say that we default to our good side, cooperation and love, and do not go the other way, competition and it's evil, a loser, unless what is love is being jeopardized or needs protecting.
Science has shown this in baby and children experiments.
We default to love so as to make friends so that we can eventually rule over them.
We are all born thinking that we are the best of breed and top of the line and act like it, until proven otherwise.
We used to look for such in religious thinking and the seeking of God, but such Divine Councils no loner exist. Unfortunate that.


How we handle our climate crisis will determine just how alright or collectively dysfunctional we are.~~~~
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for
the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are
now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
― Konstantin Josef Jireček
Yes And .... energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.I think we are pretty much alright !!
How we handle our climate crisis will determine just how alright or collectively dysfunctional we are.
We cannot change the past. We can only try for the best possible future.

Honor is life's purpose.Wow this thread has blown me away. I don't believe I just know that we're all connected to one another and something's I do will go out into the universe and affect others, although I don't know who or how. Didn't Jesus say that not one sparrow falls to earth without the father in heaven knowing about it. That's the connectedness I'm talking about.
I feel that sometimes my light shines brightly to attract like minded people but at others it hardly shines at all and that's when less enlightened beings enter my space.
But I love the thought that I'm a star maker, is that right. I felt very powerful when I read that. And yes, I am the Goddess and she is me. We coexist as without one of us neither would exist at all. I really do feel you Mr. Peabody.
Babygirl. X
I detest Neil, but his vision is underselling things, because it relies on the atomistic view.. a view which imposes borders on a scene that has none. It's like the Victorian landscape painters, framing an image of a landscape to convey beauty, but in doing so they lose the ties to the whole movement in the landscape. That's the establishment way, trying to impose a vision upon a scene that already is - a garden doesn't end at its borders or fencing.
Simple question but not answered by the Podmaker. To get it right.As a Roman Catholic from the UK/Eire, it needed the luck of this channel recommend to understand what living with the Good News means for the US...