In article <QcoCf.6479$rH5.898@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Istlota
says...
>There is an old adage which says that no one can ride your back unless
you
>first bend over to let them climb on. Consider the case of Nelson
Mandela.
>Some of his fellow South Africans attempted to enslave him, even to the
>point of slapping him into a physical prison for 27 years. And, yet,
Mandela
>ended up as President of the country. This is the power of spiritual
>maturity. It does not require guns or bullets or stones. It requires a
deep
>abiding belief in, knowledge of, Self.
I'm pretty sure my ancestors knew who they were. That didn't stop some
Black
people, then some Arabs, then some White people from enslaving them.
Knowing yourself won't stop somebody from kidnapping you by force. Having
the
ability effectively shoot, move and communicate often does.
>Notice what we are saying. There is Power, spiritual power, in Unity.
Unity
Spiritual power won't stop somebody from putting you in chains and
whipping you
if you won't work for free.
That takes a strong sharp sword or a firearms that shoots where you point
it.
>is the All. God is the One who exists in All. Know Self, so that We, the
>All, can recognize the One in All. We can then advantage of the
omnipotence
>and omniscience of the One, within us All, to bring Peace On Earth.
God is the excuse you use when you want to keep slaves, beat women or talk
people into flying planes into buildings. More people find it convincing
than
"because".
>This message is not that hard to grasp. It is not other-worldly, or
I grasp the message of "intelligent design" too... I just don't believe
it.
>My answer to your question. Yes, there have been times when I have
enslaved
>someone. There have been times when I have stooped low, allowed someone
to
Unless you're that guy in Pittburgh who kept the retarded women under his
basement, or at least a pimp, I'm thinking you've never REALLY enslaved
anybody.
>> Strange, I ALWAYS say I DON'T. And just WHO is this alleged "god"?
>Horus?
>> Zeus? Ahura Mazda? Yaweh? Jesus? Allah? Cthulhu? Daehok?
>
>And, yet, you persist in what I suspect has been a life long struggle to
>seek justice, to make sense out of this world, to forge ahead in the
>direction you think to be the direction which leads to Truth and Justice.
>What is God, if It is not Truth and Justice?
God is whatever his wor****ppers say he is, be it an elderly Jewish guy
sitting
on a cloud, or a Japanese marine biologist with astigmatism.
Truth and justice are truth and justice. They don't involve imaginary
friends
or magic. They're what makes life better than a knife fight in the
exercise
yard at Pelican Bay. Life is always better when you feel you can turn
your back
on most people for a couple of minutes without getting a ****v in it.
"Do unto others" doesn't require a burning bush or big titted German girls
riding flying horses. It just requires first of all, an absence of
malice.
>Change "God" to "religion" and we are in agreement.
"God" IS religion. Religion was created to exploit the imaginary
figure(s) to
whom some abdicate their personal responsibility.
Don't get me wrong. I'd kill to sup****t your right to believe in Amun, or
Odin
or Baphomet. But make no mistake, I wouldn't step over a crack in the
sidewalk
in the name of "god" OR "religion".
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Gun control, the theory that 110lb. women should have to fistfight with
210lb.
rapists.
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