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If Hell was a place of eternal torment brought out by the finite sinning against God in our one life, then I'd say that either God is not who He says He is, or He is who He says He is and there is something wrong with Him. That said, are there any places in the Bible that it explicitly states...

Thank you. I wasn't aware that it had such a distinct meaning.

Well, they were referring to rebirth as being obviously true because peope have had past life experiences. I heard that about the Dalai Lama, but science is too relative to re-evaluate things constantly IMO. It really depends on what you mean by science, I guess. I suppose I will try to stop...

I see, thank you. Would this be any kind of energy or specifically energy as it pertains to the etheric body? The ingestion of blood is more understandable in that context than in the context of psychic energy, IMO. I take psychic energy to refer to the astral body, but I could be wrong.

Why did you say maranatha?

Sufism is way too unknown in the West to gain a significant number of followers. I hardly know anything about it myself. It would probably help if there was some key book or doctrine that was readily available to people...there isn't one, is there? Because I totally missed it.

A sort of OT question: The Buddha never said that his way was the right way did he? I was just reading some stuff on that BuddhaNet website and that's sort of the way I feel it was presented. They were justifying Buddhist beliefs because they are supported by scientific "facts." Also, slightly...

OK, I can understand the first part, seeing as it is more plausible in separating him from others. The second part, however, doesn't make much sense to me. I suppose it doesn't have to though, it would just make me feel more comfortable. I don't see why things can not always have been, seeing...

I was asking someone that actually knew, but I think your perception of "path" 1 is erroneous.

OK, I have a question then: If the Buddha answered questions according to the capacity of his audience, then what makes his judgement on the absence of a creator deity/entity so final? If there are other deities I don't see any reason why there is not some creator deity, or at least a...

What do you mean by vampirirc path exactly?

My future memory is like my past memory; basically everything is extremely vague and I'm not sure if it really happened (or will happen). I do get a moderate amount of deja vu and a general feeling that what I am doing now is what I was supposed to do. If my memory functioned more normally, I...

The Ghost in the Shell series is better than the first movie, IMO. The second season is particularly thought-provoking for me, although I have not seen the second movie yet. Anyway, there is a woman who claims that the Wachowski brothers actually stole the idea for the Matrix trilogy from her...

No, I was asking in context of the article, and the usage of the term false, i.e. a religion of falsity vs. a false religion. For instance, is Judaism part of the false religions? What about Mormonism? Anyway, it's irrelevant I suppose, but I just wanted to know how it was used in the article...

By the way, there is a good book that approaches these kind of creatures from a practical point of view. I'm not going to say scientific because there is no scientific evidence for them, but it is approached in a way that is like practical science. It's called Monsters and it's written by...

I'd have to say I follow them all, but none at the same time. Well, not all, but the major ones like Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, esoteric, alternative, Gnostic etc. I don't really anchor myself to any one in particular, but I am more partial to Gnostic Christianity, Hermeticism...

Are you saying that truth does not transcend logic? I agree that absolute truth is absolute, but then again I don't think it is possible to ever know absolute truth. You can look at the sky and call it "blue," but there is no way to ever know if people see the sky in the same color as you or as...

Vajradhara, what is a kamma? And also, what is the explanation for bad things happening to good people like the Dalai Lama and the Buddha. If the Buddha was outside of karma does that mean he purposefully allowed himself to die? Snoopy, what's so insulting about karma in past lives affecting...

How do you know it was a succubus? Did it try anything...naughty? (I don't want to know the details if the answer is yes) Flow, if there was a physical sensation, I would be more liable to say it was something like hypagogic sleep paralysis or Dab Tsog. I forget the English name of the...