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I am vain? Who is vain, one who claims to have high morality, or one who knows he is not the judge of morality? Who is cruel, one who holds his idea of morality over all others, or one who loves all others regardless of their morality?
Originally posted by dontreally
And whats wrong with that? You talk as if this is the same as what the Nazis or communists did, or Orwellian in nature.
Originally posted by dontreally
Let me explain something for you. Man is a creature of Habit. Those forces which exist in him unconsciously, in the greater "man", which is the vast totality of Human culture, influences which guide and compell him to act in certain ways, this is what the Torah means by the fall of Adam. Adam was a DIVINE creature because he possessed a level of consciousnness called "conscience". When Adam sinned, he exposed his angelic level of consciouness to lower, physical, animalistic impulses. These are what the Torah refers to often as "Nephilim" or in other places as Shedim etc. These forces took root within Adam, and thus within mankind. Instead of being guided by their logical capacity - their Neshama, Man began acting carnally, and emotionally, and using his higher level of consciousness to serve, and worship his desires: Hate, Lust, Envy, Rage, Delirium, etc...
Originally posted by dontreally
Man fell, and he remains fallen because the old and current governments of the world, the pagan world, have never seriously made an effort to extripate these elements from the human condition.
Originally posted by dontreally
They never wanted it, because they use these lower passions to exploit men. Cain build a city for his son Enoch, and enoch is Hebrew for indoctrination. The masses assemble like "one mind" and become like clay in the hands of an artist. They are unable to rise above their controllers, because knowledge is power, and the ones controlling them shape their knowledge, and thus their world. This is Maimonides explanation of sorcery: one who manipulates another persons Da'at - knowledge.
Originally posted by dontreally
So, man must unlearn these terrible traits. The elohim of the nations, the 'passions', will be destroyed, as the Prophets predicted. These forces can only be uprooted through habit, repitition of behavior. This is something we should all do through our FREE WILL, not because some state who has deified itself demands it, like in communist russia, but because it is truly good.
Originally posted by dontreally
Murder, is Objectively bad. We should thus cherish life
Theft is Objectively bad. We should honor others peoples property.
Adultery, and sexual liberalism is objectively ignoble, and leads to excess. We should cherish and sanctify the sexual act, in privacy, between man and wife.
Respect Nature. Respect animals and all of creation. Do not harm them
Originally posted by dontreally
Idolatry means the projecting and objectifying ones own thoughts or beliefs. Personal philosophies often become "idols:" who people worship. Anything that contradicts the unity, sovereignty, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence and providence of G-d is idolatrous. Ascribing power to anything but G-d is also idolatry. This is respecting the true nature of reality. That we all exist to serve G-d, and G-d alone. No man is a slave to any man, but only to G-d. We are all equal in his eyes. Christian, Jew, Muslims, or Easterner.
Originally posted by dontreally
Do not blasphemy G-d. Respect the power of speech, and G-ds name in this world.
Originally posted by dontreally
And btw, there are no calls for 'decapitating' people for any law other than conscious murder.
You can say whatever you want. Its a lie. Read those above books i recommended or shut up. Cause what im saying is the truth.
Law remains in the hands of the gentiles, with no capital punishment in any matter other than murder.
Originally posted by dontreally
These laws are only in place to promote good behavior. We discourage idolatry, but in the beginning men will not be fine or face a corpeal punishment. We dont want to fill prisions up, but on the country, have people live freely, and in joy and happiness. These laws are only strictures to keep society functioning in a healthy, and holy way. Nothing i listed was wrong. Laws, yes. There has to be a threat of punishment otherwise people will take advtange, as their wont to do. But laws will be administered with humanity and carefulness. Repeated offenders will be judged more harshly, obviously. But first time offenders, in theft for instance, will probably be forced to make recompense the way the Torah itself prescribes. To pay double that which you took.
Originally posted by dontreally
you have no clue what you are talking about; ever it seems.
How is Jewish law political? LOL? How ?
Originally posted by dontreally
And btw, Jewish law doesnt apply to non Jews.
Originally posted by dontreally
Those "G-ds" laws, which you say should be preserved, are never preserved, and have never been observed in Christian societies. What are G-ds law? the 10 commandments? Someone should have informated the christians of the Crusades, inquisitions, and conquerers of America, Africa and Australia, and elsewhere, that they shouldnt be murdering and pillaging people.
Originally posted by dontreally
In anycase, nothing in Jewish law, or its 613 Mitvot applies to gentiles. Why are you even mentioning them?
Originally posted by dontreally
What Jewish kingdom? Israel belongs to the Jews, and that is just the land of the nile to the Euphrates. That is small compared to the world. It is just the central part of the middleast. That is like 2 % of the worlds landmass.
Originally posted by dontreally
The Jewish kingdom is not the world kingdom. True, the world will be guided spiritually by the Jewish people, as G-d commanded. Just as a priest leads a congregation. There are always leaders, who nonetless have great responsibility and obligations towards the mass; in this case, to the world, as the Torah, the bible you apparently revere says "You will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation." A kingdom of priests implies a congegation. The congregation of nations. There is no Jewish superiority here. I am a non Jew, and i understand, because for one i know Jews, that this is merely a relationship between Jew and gentile Each has their purpose, neither is more important. The Jews were entrusted with a task. Thats it. The task is to lead the change in mankind. The end, is US, all of us, turned together in worship of G-d.
Originally posted by dontreally
Yes, ive heard that cliche. Unfotunately it doesnt mean anything.
Originally posted by dontreally
You really are clueles. Secularism is a pagan concept. The separation, the DUAL separation between a law of the heart, and a law of the state, that is IRRELIGIOUS only creates a dichotomy, and a struggle, as we know from history, between the state and the religious follower.
Originally posted by dontreally
The state becomes "god" and it has no compunction about transgressing G-ds laws, which they always do. So, really, you giving power to the state is similar to christians giving power to the devil. You are stuck in a dualistic universe, where another force exists because you allow it to exist, not considering or anticipating the devastating consequences of that tension between state and belief.
Originally posted by dontreally
A truly religious belief in G-d makes G-ds laws - the 7 commandments of Noah, compulsory, as aprt of society. Where the leader is religious, and his government made up of G-d fearing men and woman. This would be good because it encourages a unity in belief, and a common relationship between the governing classes and the masses.
Originally posted by dontreally
On the other hand, secularism always brings evil wolves into positions of authority. As Machiavelli prescribes, they make the effort to come off as religious, for appearances, but in truth are unscrupulous relativists with pagan values. Power becomes their sole concern.
Originally posted by dontreally
A nation governed by the laws of G-d would be a just socieity.
Originally posted by dontreally
If you properly understood the noahide laws, you wouldnt believe them to be in any way harmful. They are logical, and liberal in many ways. People may think what they want and sports, activities and all sorts of other things would continue to exist as they do today.
Originally posted by dontreally
What would change is the promotion of sordid depravity in favor for religious integrity. Faith, love, honor, trust, Humility. These values would be exalted, and thus men will strive for these values because they recognize the inherent truth in them. They would be guided by their minds, and perception of truth, rather than their lower animal drives.
Originally posted by dontreally
Ok.
I dont have time for your #.
read any of the above book on Noahide laws that i mentioned. They will help your paranoid mind help better.
Originally posted by dontreally
Also, as for "all persecutions being brought on by modern Zionism"..
Wow. Stupidity. Read Constatines Sword, or read "judeophobia" read "In Ishmaels House", or "the legacy of Jihad", or "from time immemorail". Jews sufferred 2000 years of religious persecution. Dont imagine that zionism is all of a sudden the cause for antisemitsm, when 2000 years of it existed before Theodre Herzl articulated it in political terms.
Originally posted by dontreally
Also, Judaism is a land centered religion. The Torah has laws that apply only in Israel. Judaism thus = Zionism, in that the Jews have been anticipating to return to Israel since their formal expulsion by the Romans in 150 CE.
Originally posted by dontreally
What are you talking about? Please read carefully.
I am obviously a very religious person.
Originally posted by dontreally
The laws im talking about are specifically negative in nature. Forbidding murder, theft. How do you get
"What you propose is to say screw the divine, Man will rule Man. I am here to tell you, no he will NOT. "
From that? So in order to follow the divine, man isnt supposed to institute laws to keep society running with organization and civility?
Originally posted by dontreally
This is all im saying. The 7 noahide laws are these laws. They prevent all the evils that can arise in a society by notifying the person that he will be punished in THIS world aswell. One who murders will be punished in the next world. In order to allay the severity of that punishment, this soul will be taken from his body. He will be killed physically. Spiritually, his punishment will have become greatly reduced. He has been dealt what he deserves. He took someone elses right to life, so he forfeits his aswell. A law of cause and effect.
Originally posted by dontreally
It is in your world, but not ours. It can only be in yours by restricting behavior, correct? You cannot be a good person without doing that which you know you should not do. Your feelings are not G-d. The mind rules the heart, and so lives above it, and by it.
The only way to incarnate the kingdom of Heaven into this world, and include this world within G-ds divine domain, is to hate evil with as much ardor as we love Good. As solomon says "be not too righteous", ie; do not be merciful to merciless people. And as the Talmud says about Purim "on purim one is to drink where he doesnt know the difference between "Cursed be Haman" and Blessed be Mordechai", which means that one should see both these actions as equal, G-dly injunctions. Those who are evil, and do evil deserve to be cursed. They destroy creation. Likewise, one should love good, and do good.
This is all incredibly sensible, and righteous.
Originally posted by dontreally
Only people with very strange and warped concepts of morality think differently. I already know that you would look at the greatest disfunction and see beautiful order, despite the pain and sufferring of such a life. So, your gnostic, irrational philosophy is really cruel, and enormously vain. It also make absolutely no sense.
Originally posted by dontreally
I am not innocent. I have offended G-d in many ways. I lie often, im inconsistent with my studying, i surrender to feelings of lust, envy, anger etc... But i dont steal, and i dont kill. The point is is that there are varying degrees of evil. One can do alot ie; cause harm to many people, or he can do a little. The punishment, is commensurate with the damage caused. Just because we all sin, which i never said we are beyond, but infact is an inherent part of our human condition, doesnt mean should not struggle against it. Theres no reason why we can do good, and seek good, but when we fall, we gather ourselves together and resolve to make a better effort. Just like riding a bicycle. You dont just dont give up and say "evil is good" or good is evil, and neither make a difference, and none of us are responsible. That is just a brazen axcuse to do as you please.
Originally posted by Lemon.Fresh
Are you what some label as a Messianic Jew?
Originally posted by dontreally
How bout we analyze this idea in terms of consequences.
Yours
"or one who knows he is not the judge of morality'"
"or one who loves all others regardless of their morality?"
Lets say a little girl is kidnapped and murdered by a sex offendor. Are you to say that this person would prefer your morality, of his action having no real moral meaning, over mine, which clarifies and separates good from evil? Therefore i would condemn, and call evil this mans behavior, recognizing the injustice that was committed.
Originally posted by dontreally
Your mentality rejects separation, and distinctions, even though they exist as much as the unity of G-ds existence. TRUE unity is knowing when to act when and where. If i am with a group of people and were talking about spirituality, the aim is obviously to speak of oneness and feel at one with G-d. But if im rendering a legal decision i sure as hell better be able to make distinctions between right, and wrong, just and unjust. This is an issue of particularity, where the ultimate oneness of all things is to be put aside, and this victim be avenged for the wrong done to him. Real time. In the here and now where the balance in creation can be made correct.
Originally posted by dontreally
Normal people function this way. And yes i do think it is quite incredibly vain to deny a blatant reality we all experience. Evil is wrong, and causing sufferring is wrong. My condemnation of it affirms my conviction towards good. So indeed my position is not cruel. Why would you, someone who doesnt even acknowledge morality even use a moralistic type word like "cruel"? It implies value, and apparently to you there is no such thing as value, because there is no such thing as not valuable. Your world denies qualities, and thus denies anything but your fixed and rigid 'everything is the same' fanaticism.
Originally posted by dontreally
Your position is self righteous to a negative degree. How can i say someone is wrong? What a ridiculous question which deserves to be shot down because if its obscene simplicity. Why do people kill? Why am i spiritual, yet others materialistic? Why are my values and understanding better than most? Everyone thinks differently, and no one is required to approach G-d in the same way. But, Natural, logical moral laws must be instituted to preserve the quality of life for all. To prevent murder, we shall punish it. To prevent theft, we shall punish it. Also, we should teach good spiritual values that encourage respect for life, and for other peoples property, and the spiritual significance of these things.
Originally posted by dontreally
You have this very ackward almost schizophrenic inability to make distinctions IAM.
Originally posted by dontreally
I am vain? Who is vain, one who claims to have high morality, or one who knows he is not the judge of morality? Who is cruel, one who holds his idea of morality over all others, or one who loves all others regardless of their morality?
How bout we analyze this idea in terms of consequences.
Yours
"or one who knows he is not the judge of morality'"
"or one who loves all others regardless of their morality?"
Lets say a little girl is kidnapped and murdered by a sex offendor. Are you to say that this person would prefer your morality, of his action having no real moral meaning, over mine, which clarifies and separates good from evil? Therefore i would condemn, and call evil this mans behavior, recognizing the injustice that was committed.
Originally posted by dontreally
Your mentality rejects separation, and distinctions, even though they exist as much as the unity of G-ds existence. TRUE unity is knowing when to act when and where. If i am with a group of people and were talking about spirituality, the aim is obviously to speak of oneness and feel at one with G-d. But if im rendering a legal decision i sure as hell better be able to make distinctions between right, and wrong, just and unjust. This is an issue of particularity, where the ultimate oneness of all things is to be put aside, and this victim be avenged for the wrong done to him. Real time. In the here and now where the balance in creation can be made correct.
Originally posted by dontreally
Normal people function this way. And yes i do think it is quite incredibly vain to deny a blatant reality we all experience. Evil is wrong, and causing sufferring is wrong. My condemnation of it affirms my conviction towards good. So indeed my position is not cruel. Why would you, someone who doesnt even acknowledge morality even use a moralistic type word like "cruel"? It implies value, and apparently to you there is no such thing as value, because there is no such thing as not valuable. Your world denies qualities, and thus denies anything but your fixed and rigid 'everything is the same' fanaticism.
Originally posted by dontreally
Your position is self righteous to a negative degree. How can i say someone is wrong? What a ridiculous question which deserves to be shot down because if its obscene simplicity. Why do people kill? Why am i spiritual, yet others materialistic? Why are my values and understanding better than most? Everyone thinks differently, and no one is required to approach G-d in the same way. But, Natural, logical moral laws must be instituted to preserve the quality of life for all. To prevent murder, we shall punish it. To prevent theft, we shall punish it. Also, we should teach good spiritual values that encourage respect for life, and for other peoples property, and the spiritual significance of these things.
Originally posted by dontreally
You have this very ackward almost schizophrenic inability to make distinctions IAM. Tell me, have you ever talked with spirits? I find those of you which make have daily spiritual sessions with abstract intelligences, "angels" if you will, to have a very unhealthy attitude towards this world. Many come off as downright insane.
People with that attitude in a sense want to kick G-d out of the world. Man, wants to be G-d, in a sense, and not subnordinate himself to a rule of law that is beyond his own frail, and subjective perspective. Conscience, and thus justice becomes distorted because some men prefer to come to counter-intuitive conclusions to justify their god of 'necessity' or whatever other idol they supplant the true G-d with.
Originally posted by BenNoah
The point you miss is that, in Genesis 4:6, God explained to Cain that one can overcome sin by repentance, no Jesus necessary.
The religion of Christianity is a gnostic religion. Why would anyone want to follow Gnosticism?
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by IAMIAM
Says the guy who knows nothing about Judaism.
Originally posted by dontreally
In the most optimistic sense, Yeshua sincerely wanted to spread the teachings of the Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach to the gentile nations.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Originally posted by dontreally
Later on at the Nicean council Christianity took on a distinctly obvious Gnostic flavor. Anyone who has studied gnosticism can see this. Rome acted shrewdly by "adopting" Christianity as the official religion of the empire, even though most pagans merely absorbed the new myth which they well knew contained their core beliefs. Saturnalia was practiced in Rome for instance up till the 15th century. And in Asia minor Saturnalia (or dionysian rites) remained popular. If you read the Talmud they comment on the depravity of these christians. Later Rabbinic writers like Maimonides mentions that the Ishmalites engage in acts of egregious depravity - like sodomy, which of course remains popular in Muslims countries to this day (which is why i find it so ironic that people think Islam disapproves of this. Maybe in some countries, but many others, like morocco, tunisia, alegeria, this remained perfectly legal)
Originally posted by dontreally
Also take into account political realities like the Romans seeing a threat in Judaism and the vast number of roman citizens (some say as much as 10% of the empire) converting to Judaism. Horace, Seneca, Domitian, Tactitus and Juvenal all make mention of this. Gentiles were converting to Judaism, or atleast becoming what these authors called "G-d fearers" ie; Bnei Noach. They had to control and displace this gain made by the Jews whom they understood represented the opposite of the exploitive pyramidal model of society which the Romans inherited from the Egyptians (hence why the obelisk standing in St Peters is a 4000 year old Egyprian obelisk from Heliopolis). How else could they accomplish this other than supplanting the Jewish religion?
Originally posted by dontreally
The gospels speak in a Jewish manner, but the philosophy and theology is manifestly pagan ie; shows greater consonance with Neoplatonism than it does with Torah. No where are there any explciit physical actions commanded by Jesus. On the contrary, he gave 8 abstract principles which sound more eastern in origin than Jewish.
Originally posted by dontreally
Nonetheless, the overal consensus among Rabbinic authorities is that Christianity represents a viable path to HaShem, as does Islam. But some aspects need to be extirpated in each religion.edit on 23-4-2011 by dontreally because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by _Del_
HaShem means "the Name" and is used to avoid writing the tetragrammaton.
Now if the being is the being and "The Name" is the label of the being, isn't treating "The Name" with such reverence a bit like idolatry, since "The Name" isn't the being, but merely a symbol which represents the being?
Originally posted by dontreally
This whole process is called making distinctions between one thing and another.....Something i know you dont have much respect for.
The Legal definition of Idolatry (In Jewish law) is a visual representation of G-d, or any force in an anthropmorphic, animal or any material form.