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Originally posted by racasan
reply to post by IAMIAM
Short of moving the earth, I don’t see how that can be done – however you do realise that the fact of the sun >appearing< to rise in one constellation instead of another has no real significant to us humans
Wouldn’t it be better to stop waiting for some perfect time or some super hero to fly down out of the sky to save you – wouldn’t it be better to be the change you want right now?
Originally posted by racasan
Short of moving the earth, I don’t see how that can be done – however you do realise that the fact of the sun >appearing< to rise in one constellation instead of another has no real significant to us humans
Wouldn’t it be better to stop waiting for some perfect time or some super hero to fly down out of the sky to save you – wouldn’t it be better to be the change you want right now?
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Haven't you been paying attention to me my friend?
Am I waiting?
The Son of Man is Master of the festivals.
With Love,
Your Brother
Originally posted by racasan
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Haven't you been paying attention to me my friend?
Sorry no i haven't
Am I waiting?
The Son of Man is Master of the festivals.
With Love,
Your Brother
2000+ years ago there where people just like you, yearning for the time when the sun would start rising in the constellation of Pisces instead of Aries and thinking that alone would change things
They where waiting for some embodiment of the (then) coming new age and the Roman empire manufactured one for them and then claimed to be his representatives on earth and thanks to that we got the dark ages and 2000+ years of religious terror
I fear that as long as there are people who are fooled into give away control of themselves by some superstitious non-sense then the danger is humans will never be free
Originally posted by racasan
reply to post by IAMIAM
Short of moving the earth, I don’t see how that can be done – however you do realise that the fact of the sun >appearing< to rise in one constellation instead of another has no real significant to us humans
Wouldn’t it be better to stop waiting for some perfect time or some super hero to fly down out of the sky to save you – wouldn’t it be better to be the change you want right now?
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1At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. 2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. 3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; 4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? 5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? 6But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. 7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
8For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
9And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: 10And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. 11And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? 12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. 13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other. 14Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by IAMIAM
That was PERFECT! - until you added the 2nd paragraph..!
Oh well, what can we do.
edit on 30-9-2011 by NewAgeMan because: typo
Why do you deny me, when I have said I see him in you?
If you deny me before men, I will deny you before the father.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
You cannot deny someone the son or the father who has the Lord already. Don't be absurd.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by IAMIAM
These are words on a screen my friend. You're getting passive aggressive.
Don't be absurd.
Now it is you, who would deny me?
How ironic!
C'mon buddy, lighten up.
I understand the same essential thing you do, but I'm not invested in it personally.
One slight and you come right at me in condemnation?
I already told you I love you.
All I'm saying is hey let's keep smiling, by not taking ourselves TOO seriously, that's all, you know, keep it light and loving, even playful..?
Originally posted by racasan
reply to post by IAMIAM
Short of moving the earth, I don’t see how that can be done – however you do realise that the fact of the sun >appearing< to rise in one constellation instead of another has no real significant to us humans
Wouldn’t it be better to stop waiting for some perfect time or some super hero to fly down out of the sky to save you – wouldn’t it be better to be the change you want right now?
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I therefore on bended knee, caring nothing for myself or my own identity, take the words of the Lord to heart and love as I would love, and am already loved, as me. I choose freely to be entirely human, maybe even nothing special, and only then am I exalted, but with a good healthy dose of self depracating humor! I'm pretty sure Jesus must have been a very funny and a very vary charming man, not pious, or projecting an image in the eyes of others, but wholly authentic and true to himself and to those around him. The type of guy who would make you laugh, and see and then get over the folly of your own prior ignorance.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by IAMIAM
I was trying to be self depracatingly charming, you know, a bow with a sweeping hand, that kind of thing, and in the presence of the Lord, or the love of God in him, how can ya not bend a knee!
There's no submission in it. The Lord, or the spirit of the love of God (same dif) doesn't require it, submission before himself, or even to any particular POV or mental model, his word is all about the transcendant domain of freedom and love, of authenticity.
We can only BE ourselves.
But here's the truth of the matter - no one among us can possibly know who we ourselves really are, we can only see others, as themselves.
If we can get that damn beam out of our OWN eye, then the splinter simply falls right out of everyone else's eye automatically, with a joke at the expense of their own absurdity.
Jesus must have had the desciples rolling in the isles over their own stupidity, I'm certain of it!
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I think the water may gush forth from this stone, provided we do not strike the rock.