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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Solon who wrote (12577)6/14/2002 3:01:50 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
"According to Moyer, "SS was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, a highly pragmatic, hard-nosed business man who did not believe in 'psychic' phenomena or any such nonsense." Why SS was selected for this task is unknown, but Moyer assures us that the midwayers never took over SS's mind and came only at night when SS was unconscious so as not to disrupt his life too much."

Didn't you work at the Chicago Board of Trade, Frederick? Was the "sleeping subject" still there??



To: Solon who wrote (12577)6/14/2002 3:25:28 PM
From: James Calladine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
The Urantia Book is not a part of my Path, and I am not informed on its antecedents and its authors.

I have, however, read the 2,200 page book twice and found
(despite the many seemingly different authors, with different personalities and writing styles), a remarkable consistency from beginning to end.

Is is very easy to fasten on any one paragraph, page or whatever and ridicule it. Should that appeal to you, be my guest.

I can recommend it to any Spiritual seeker with an open mind, who will take out of it whatever he or she wants.
However, I do appreciate Solon, that you do not necessarily consider yourself a Spiritual seeker (much less a Spiritual finder)!

Relative to your model of "egoity", "physicality" "death"
and so on, as an intellectual exercise I would recommend that you list your beliefs and then ask yourself (in each case):

"what would the opposite of this belief be....?"

You might want to investigate the opposites to see what credibility they have for you. You will find there is a big
range of possibility between where you are now and all those possibilities.

Then you might want to ask yourself the question:

"what if NONE of this were true?"

Of course if you are irrevocably set in your own snapshot of reality, and it works for you at this point, fine. Don't bother for a moment with posts like this from "crazies" like me.

Namaste!

Jim