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Originally posted by daskakik
I have to agree with Wandering Scribe. Maybe I'm jaded, but I can't help wonder what the guides would get from guiding me. If they led me one way or another would they get something out of it? How would that influence their actions?
You say that it would be benevolent, but is that certain? Can it be?
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
reply to post by Ophiuchus 13
I would choose to go through reality unguided, because it leaves open the possibility that everyone can, in some small or large way, serve as a guide when/if I need them.
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
If I had to go through guided then it would limit my experiences to only what my guide allowed/taught, which is not the way to experience an unconditional reality.
~ Wandering Scribe
Originally posted by daskakik
I have to agree with Wandering Scribe. Maybe I'm jaded, but I can't help wonder what the guides would get from guiding me.
Originally posted by daskakik
If they led me one way or another would they get something out of it?
Originally posted by daskakik
How would that influence their actions?
Originally posted by daskakik
You say that it would be benevolent, but is that certain? Can it be?
Originally posted by Pixiefyre
Originally posted by daskakik
I have to agree with Wandering Scribe. Maybe I'm jaded, but I can't help wonder what the guides would get from guiding me. If they led me one way or another would they get something out of it? How would that influence their actions?
You say that it would be benevolent, but is that certain? Can it be?
I also agree with Wandering Scribe and daskakik I would prefer to investigate, learn, and form my own opinions based on the information available.
Originally posted by Pixiefyre
I will go a step farther than daskakik in questioning whether a human guide might inject his/her own agenda into their instruction, and say that we know it HAS absolutely happened and people have died for it.
Originally posted by Pixiefyre
The Bible forewarns Christians to beware false prophets who will say that they carry my words or something similar, Easy to search out on www.biblegateway.com...
I've personally warned loved ones who profess to be devout Christians who have also seen how Charismatic those false prophets can be, and how much harm can come from falling for their seemed divine enlightenment, yet they claim their guides are biblical scholars and know everything there is to know, and leave it to them to teach them as if they are incapable of understanding and learning on their own..
a)Would you go thru Objective reality on you own if you had a choice?
Originally posted by Darkblade71
reply to post by Ophiuchus 13
a)Would you go thru Objective reality on you own if you had a choice?
I go it alone, unless there is a need for a guide, then I do ask for guidance or insight.
I have a few guides, but unless I need them for something, I figure it all out on my own.
[color=cyan]So I mix it up, unguided and guided .
Interesting OP, for most people at least, spend quite some years being guided by their parents, and older members in society and history in general, so it seems this is the natural method already, to pass information and wisdom down. At the same time, all beings go through life alone as themselves, guiding themselves
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
reply to post by Ophiuchus 13
This response presupposes that life, or being incarnated in a physical body, is somehow not fulfilling: an empty existence. That, of course, is a matter of personal perspective. If I had the chance to reincarnate and live another human life, or to advance beyond, into whatever waits as a creature of pure spirit, I would inevitably choose to reincarnate at least once, if not multiple times.
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
Life has so much to offer us in experience. Good things, like first loves, marriage, child birth, and all of those successes along the way like graduations, promotions, and the first time our work is acknowledged and published somewhere. Life also has a multitude of sorrow sewn in: deaths, failures, losing close friends and significant others, and poverty. All of those things are purely human though. They are events and experiences which can only be had if one exists at this current level of consciousness/being.
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
I think it is a greater sin to rush through one's life, to pine for the Beyond, and waste away the potential and opportunity present to all living human beings.
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
Things like love are chemical reactions, the results of brain chemistry and biology. Spirit has no chemistry, no chemical reactions (otherwise science could measure the chemical reactions of spiritual love), therefore a creature of spirit cannot experience human love. And human love is one of the most marvelous events we can experience.
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
So yes, the Guide(s) could get me through my living incarnations quicker, and deliver me to the Otherworld and help me reunite with the Godhead all that much sooner. But the Guides are creatures of Spirit. They lack the biology and chemistry of being human. They don't know the myriad triumphs and defeats that being human and living with a fleshy body has to offer. To them it is inconsequential, but that is because they lack the mechanisms for feeling and understanding human emotion and human experience.
I would, therefore, still choose the long road, with its many reincarnations, and all of the light and love and dark and sorrow that it comes with.
~ Wandering Scribe
Originally posted by daskakik
reply to post by Ophiuchus 13
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I don't agree with your concept of ALL and I'm not sure why you think "they" would automatically be benevolent.