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Evidence? What is evidence? External evidence or, evidence from within? Hence you can come up with all the external evidence in the world, and even study the scriptures day and night, but unless you can come up with the evidence within, it won't mean anything. This is how we lead people...

I think more than anything it comes down to what you believe. And yet you can't have anybody telling you how or what to believe.

Sorry, I couldn't help construe by what you're saying (below) that you didn't believe in God. Any man can speak for God, if God has so ordained him. Whereas the Church - in reality - is supposed to represent God. This is conjecture. So far this is only an accusation. But does it really stand...

Says who? You've obviously come here to argue against religion, so why should my mentioning it be construed as a personal attack? The only thing this proves is that people are suggestible and can be duped into believing just about anything - even if it were "the truth." ;) "And Jesus went...

These are all misconceptions. While something else that's not commonly known - and I hope Brian doesn't mind me bringing it up here :) - is that the Roman Catholic Church is referred to as Babylon the Great Whore (aka, Lucifer), and The Reformation is referred to as the Great Red Dragon in...

Sounds to me like you don't believe in God, period. Says who? Do you believe that evil people exist? If so, and there is an afterlife, then these are the very ones who become evil spirits (demons) when they pass on. In which case the rest of what you say only corroborates it. However, I will...

How about about a "controlled riot?" Of course people should be required to abide by certain guidelines. I just thought it would be a good opportunity to allow some of them to present their viewpoints - some of which may be a bit contentious - and give them a chance to converse with knowledgable...

Brian, Why don't you start up an "Atheist's Corner" or something like that, and invite all the folks from Physics.Forums.Com to come over and have look? It'll probably be riot! :D Also, how about a board on Greek Mythology, or mythology in general? :)

Indeed, there are no doubt a lot of questions as to the origins of Christianity, and yet there's too much about it which smacks of a religious nature - which clearly gets the message across - that you can't help but conclude it's a bona fide religion. Thus when a person starts to attack...

Lucifer is the opportunist ... Satan is the liar ... and the Devil is evil ... And what do you get? ... LSD! ... LSD! ... LSD! And here, where Lucifer corresponds to the "world of spirits" that exist between Heaven and Hell, Satan and the Devil correspond to the upper and lower regions of...

The book of Revelation refers to the "consumation of an age," in reference to the end of the old church and the establisment of a new church - which, was supposed to occur in the year 1757, according to Emanuel Swedenborg, the gifted Swedish scientist, theologian and, mystic. In which case...

Yeah, it's funny how I just started a new thread about man's estrangement with nature at PhysicsForums.Com. It's called A Flaw in the Theory of Natural Selection? And here I bring up the Spiritual Timeline mentioned in my book which suggests we've only been here as a species for about 10,000...

Recommeded reading: Emanuel Swedenborg's - Heaven and Hell. Might consider posting a couple of excerpts at some point? ... While here are a couple of good links on Zoroastrianism: Encyclopedia Mythica - Zoroastrianism / Ahriman Why Ask Why? - How Persia Created Judaism

What does one do when one gets angry? Isn't this basically the form condemnation takes? Or, where it begins? And yet I think the worse thing you can do is repress it. Whereas quite often, at least initially, the anger is justified? I guess what we need is to learn how not to let our anger...

I don't particularly care for lengthy posts myself. I think it would be better if they were broken up. For the most part I think 15,000 characters is more than reasonable. :cool:

Actually it has less to do with being cerebral than it does with everything just into falling into my lap so to speak, more as a "witness" to an event. At least this is what I'm trying to convey, and in a way that allows people to make up their own minds about it. Perhaps it's not the best...

Yeah, my line of reasoning does tend to bounce around a bit, although as I mention in chapter 14 ... I know that when people read the title -- The Advent of Dionysus -- they probably expect to find themselves surrounded by the persona of Dionysus, rather than someone's personal viewpoint and...

Here we are again, Chapter 11 is primarily auto-biographical, and is used to express the twenty year period -- and hence Odyssey -- of how I came about discovering my spirituality. This is why I've illustrated it in accord with Odysseus, and indeed, it seemed like I was in a power struggle...

Hello again, I'm going to begin by mentioning chapter 5, as this was the main experience that ties everything together. Basically everything stems from this one experience. The first three chapters, including the page on About the Cover, speak about the lineage of The Church, beginning with...

Hi Brian, I tried doing something similar to this with my Overview Page, but never quite got around to finishing it. Shame on me! Yet the thing of it is, I have spent so much time and money and resources on this project -- with very little response from others -- that quite frankly, I've been...