"a plea to the gods to remain"; wow. To me that is the difference between the politician, manifest only in self-induced attachment, and the pirate, who still rides the cosmic, brawling frequency of ka sher lamkhyer (whatever arrises, carry it to the path.)
one of the things I found interesting in the Old Testament of the Bible is from Genesis. verse 1 In the beginning god. The word translated as God in the English version, in Hebrew is El Ohim, which is a plural noun, meaning more than one or Gods. At the man creation part, it says "let us make man in our image" again we have the two plurals, US and OUR. What everybody misses is that word image. In the old Hebrew, the word translated as image means a spirit, or a ghost. So the gods say let US make man in OUR spirit. That is one of the key take-ways, it is a spirit that we really are that inhabits a perishable body, but the spirit is imperishable, immortal. You can find this in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 in the 40s and 50s verses. It is how we get to be reincarnated, time and time again for some of us. You will find that I run back and forth between Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. The truth is there, all basically teach the same thing at the core. Thanks for reading.
I tried it for a bit, was not impressed, seemed to be too much garbage with it. It goes along the lines of the starseed people, which I think are mostly bunk. Music has a place in life, definitely, and many people place much stock in music, that it is/can be spiritual. I attended a charismatic church, one of those that teaches a lie, they had a good band, played pop type music to christian songs. People enjoyed the music rhythms and that was proof to them that the holy spirit was there.
What was the lie that they were teaching? How long were you involved before you realized it was a lie? Is it succinct enough to explain in a comment? I don’t wanna take too much of your time.
My involvement with these churches is a rather long story and not one of a comments section. I realized from the get go that something was amiss. I tried to convince the pastors of various churches that this was not based upon scripture, but the teaching was a money cow, the goose that laid the golden eggs and they were not about to give it up. I went over the various scriptures and showed them the false teaching, but while they acknowledged that I was correct, they still would not give up the teaching. Just for the record, I was excommunicated twice. There was a group of pastors that met weekly for pastor prayer time and they always wanted me to attend and pray with them even though I was not a pastor. They realized that my prayers were powerful and netted results, yet they did not want me to speak in the church or to teach.
One of the excommunications was for divorcing my wife. Her parents died, and she liquidated their estate, took the money and ran off with her married cousin, leaving me with her children from her previous marriage. For this I was excommunicated. The other time I confronted one of the deacons of the church for spreading gossip instead of coming against it. Excommunicated.
Whoa! I fear many places that can exude power over others, do it for reasons that serve only those that wield said power. We’re so starved spiritually that we lap up the false nonsense.
I can’t fathom someone living their children behind. Are you still involved in those kids’ lives? They’re probably adults now, but did you remain friendly?
The churches I call charismatic, like the Assemblies of God, and the Crystal Cathedral, Four Square and some others teach speaking in tongues of the angels. They tell you that all you have to do is to start babbling like a baby and the holy spirit will take over and then you will be baptized of the holy spirit and full of that spirit. Then what ever you think or do is of the holy spirit. This teaching is based upon the book of ACTS in the new testament. In the book of Acts the apostles were gathered together with many other people and the holy spirit came upon the apostles and the apostles started speaking in "tongues". the charismatic church says this is an angelic language. However the scriptures in Acts says it was known languages ( the Greek word translated as tongues just means a known foreign language), and the crowd that gathered was amazed that these supposedly ignorant fishermen were speaking in Greek and other known languages.
So the charismatic churches not only give you instant salvation exempting you from hell, they also instantly fill you with the actual spirit of god. Please pass the collection plate. Easy-peasy, but false. This is very attractive to people, instant salvation, no work, and filled with the very spirit of god, like the apostles, again no work. Sign me up!!!
the written history around this goes back to the time of Moses, he was getting inundated with problems to solve, quarrels among the wandering tribes of Israel in the desert. So he asked God to help him out and God brought forth individuals from the various tribes and said these people will be the arbitrators. At that instant, the holy spirit came upon them and they all started to speak in the angelic language. They then could judge with complete wisdom and understanding.
I don’t know about speaking in tongues, but I sing a lot. And sometimes, when my friends and I lift our voices together, there’s a sweet spot when we fall in perfect harmony that you can feel the spirit molecules hang like electric spiderwebs in the space between us. Those vibrations resonate within you and all around you and it feels very powerful.
You are a font of knowledge! Re holosync - I tried that years ago (another lifetime now) when I had a daily meditation practice. I don't remember feeling it improved the experience. I prefer quiet or if there is some sound - not directly entering my head via earplugs. As to pirate/politican difference - the clothes!
the clothes, sooo funny, good laugh. I have just downloaded the holosync and will try it, they make great promises with it, so will see if it holds true, but I think you will be correct.
so far seems like too much noise, but will give a go for a while. finding time, even though I am retired seems to be difficult. I still do my daily forays into the forest to present things to the cosmos. Then the chores of the tropics, this time of year yard work is almost a full time job and the heat and humidity is taxing. So much for what others call paradise. Liked the seasons when there was snow and just a driveway or sidewalk to shovel and not much else to do in the yard, here it is year around.
Loved the Tonto and Lone Ranger joke.
The difference between a politician and a pirate is that you know the pirate’s agenda.
Thank you for your posts. More, please.
Blessings
wonderful answer,
"a plea to the gods to remain"; wow. To me that is the difference between the politician, manifest only in self-induced attachment, and the pirate, who still rides the cosmic, brawling frequency of ka sher lamkhyer (whatever arrises, carry it to the path.)
one of the things I found interesting in the Old Testament of the Bible is from Genesis. verse 1 In the beginning god. The word translated as God in the English version, in Hebrew is El Ohim, which is a plural noun, meaning more than one or Gods. At the man creation part, it says "let us make man in our image" again we have the two plurals, US and OUR. What everybody misses is that word image. In the old Hebrew, the word translated as image means a spirit, or a ghost. So the gods say let US make man in OUR spirit. That is one of the key take-ways, it is a spirit that we really are that inhabits a perishable body, but the spirit is imperishable, immortal. You can find this in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 in the 40s and 50s verses. It is how we get to be reincarnated, time and time again for some of us. You will find that I run back and forth between Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. The truth is there, all basically teach the same thing at the core. Thanks for reading.
Curious if you’re still using holosync or if you found any benefit to it.
The difference between pirates and politicians: the type of booty that they chase. 😬
I tried it for a bit, was not impressed, seemed to be too much garbage with it. It goes along the lines of the starseed people, which I think are mostly bunk. Music has a place in life, definitely, and many people place much stock in music, that it is/can be spiritual. I attended a charismatic church, one of those that teaches a lie, they had a good band, played pop type music to christian songs. People enjoyed the music rhythms and that was proof to them that the holy spirit was there.
What was the lie that they were teaching? How long were you involved before you realized it was a lie? Is it succinct enough to explain in a comment? I don’t wanna take too much of your time.
My involvement with these churches is a rather long story and not one of a comments section. I realized from the get go that something was amiss. I tried to convince the pastors of various churches that this was not based upon scripture, but the teaching was a money cow, the goose that laid the golden eggs and they were not about to give it up. I went over the various scriptures and showed them the false teaching, but while they acknowledged that I was correct, they still would not give up the teaching. Just for the record, I was excommunicated twice. There was a group of pastors that met weekly for pastor prayer time and they always wanted me to attend and pray with them even though I was not a pastor. They realized that my prayers were powerful and netted results, yet they did not want me to speak in the church or to teach.
One of the excommunications was for divorcing my wife. Her parents died, and she liquidated their estate, took the money and ran off with her married cousin, leaving me with her children from her previous marriage. For this I was excommunicated. The other time I confronted one of the deacons of the church for spreading gossip instead of coming against it. Excommunicated.
Whoa! I fear many places that can exude power over others, do it for reasons that serve only those that wield said power. We’re so starved spiritually that we lap up the false nonsense.
I can’t fathom someone living their children behind. Are you still involved in those kids’ lives? They’re probably adults now, but did you remain friendly?
I remained in their lives up to a point that they became adults and were out on their own. Now no communications.
The churches I call charismatic, like the Assemblies of God, and the Crystal Cathedral, Four Square and some others teach speaking in tongues of the angels. They tell you that all you have to do is to start babbling like a baby and the holy spirit will take over and then you will be baptized of the holy spirit and full of that spirit. Then what ever you think or do is of the holy spirit. This teaching is based upon the book of ACTS in the new testament. In the book of Acts the apostles were gathered together with many other people and the holy spirit came upon the apostles and the apostles started speaking in "tongues". the charismatic church says this is an angelic language. However the scriptures in Acts says it was known languages ( the Greek word translated as tongues just means a known foreign language), and the crowd that gathered was amazed that these supposedly ignorant fishermen were speaking in Greek and other known languages.
So the charismatic churches not only give you instant salvation exempting you from hell, they also instantly fill you with the actual spirit of god. Please pass the collection plate. Easy-peasy, but false. This is very attractive to people, instant salvation, no work, and filled with the very spirit of god, like the apostles, again no work. Sign me up!!!
the written history around this goes back to the time of Moses, he was getting inundated with problems to solve, quarrels among the wandering tribes of Israel in the desert. So he asked God to help him out and God brought forth individuals from the various tribes and said these people will be the arbitrators. At that instant, the holy spirit came upon them and they all started to speak in the angelic language. They then could judge with complete wisdom and understanding.
Thank you for clarifying.
I don’t know about speaking in tongues, but I sing a lot. And sometimes, when my friends and I lift our voices together, there’s a sweet spot when we fall in perfect harmony that you can feel the spirit molecules hang like electric spiderwebs in the space between us. Those vibrations resonate within you and all around you and it feels very powerful.
You are a font of knowledge! Re holosync - I tried that years ago (another lifetime now) when I had a daily meditation practice. I don't remember feeling it improved the experience. I prefer quiet or if there is some sound - not directly entering my head via earplugs. As to pirate/politican difference - the clothes!
the clothes, sooo funny, good laugh. I have just downloaded the holosync and will try it, they make great promises with it, so will see if it holds true, but I think you will be correct.
Curious to hear what you think.
so far seems like too much noise, but will give a go for a while. finding time, even though I am retired seems to be difficult. I still do my daily forays into the forest to present things to the cosmos. Then the chores of the tropics, this time of year yard work is almost a full time job and the heat and humidity is taxing. So much for what others call paradise. Liked the seasons when there was snow and just a driveway or sidewalk to shovel and not much else to do in the yard, here it is year around.