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  1. TheLightWithin

    How would you share the Good News to the Self-Entrapped?

    What exactly are you trying to convey? What you present here is a little too abstract for anybody to work with I think, esp if you are looking for answers or ideas. This sounds more like a situation where someone who is trapped in negative thinking goes to see a therapist and after some time...
  2. TheLightWithin

    Honor thy Father and thy Mother

    This is where I thought you might have been ironic - if taken straight it's really lame and irresponsible advice. Well, but that's not what you believe, right? What? In light of the other post I quoted, it has me scratching my head.
  3. TheLightWithin

    History of Philosophy | 18 Middle and Neo-Platonism

    Debates about the Trinity almost always center on Christology. Once in awhile pneumatology figures in (But usually only if someone brings up the idea of Binitarianism by contrast) Almost never is Paterology mentioned. It's almost as if God as he might have been known or thought of amongst the...
  4. TheLightWithin

    Death is an illusion

    The forum isn't going anywhere in the foreseeable future AFAIK. See the thread "Interfaith is doing fine" or ask @iBrian if unsure.
  5. TheLightWithin

    Death is an illusion

    Hunh?
  6. TheLightWithin

    Death is an illusion

    Define woo
  7. TheLightWithin

    Honor thy Father and thy Mother

    It doesn't logically follow that each individual must have children. Which is what I thought you were implying. Having children with the explicit idea someone else can raise them? What the hey? Sounds irresponsible. Poor planning in many if not most cases where someone does this, and certainly...
  8. TheLightWithin

    Honor thy Father and thy Mother

    Hunh?
  9. TheLightWithin

    Honor thy Father and thy Mother

    For all their problems, my mom and grandparents are the mainstay of what I remember from early life. Our relationship wasn't perfect, and maybe not entirely healthy, but by and large I got along with them most of the time. I have my criticisms of them, my frustrations, but if I was ever really...
  10. TheLightWithin

    Shiva vs Shiva

    Sorry for the loss of your friend. 😑
  11. TheLightWithin

    Death is an illusion

    Sorry for the loss of your friend 😑
  12. TheLightWithin

    Shiva vs Shiva

    It did seem like a good question though, from @wil to wonder whether there were any etymological links in the deep past, between the two words and concepts. I've wondered that two but never found any link yet. I didn't dig deeply on this topic in particular though. As you said, they may just be...
  13. TheLightWithin

    Does God really exist?

    there are choices to actions. most of the time there are dozens of things we could do next.
  14. TheLightWithin

    Does God really exist?

    Something like that, that I learned as a teen, is pretty foundational to my understanding of other worldly matters
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    Does God really exist?

    Whether you think something is true or not is not really chosen. A lot of things I think are true don't have anything to do with how I think they affect me. I think water is wet. I think that whether or not I'm at risk of getting wet. It's just in alignment with reality as I know it. Now if you...
  16. TheLightWithin

    How to meditate for beginners?

    I'm not a medical doctor either, I'm a mental health counselor. I'm not sure what the exact development of the square breathing vs the 7 breathing methodology is, I just intuited from experimenting. It's manageable to breathe in to a count of 4, then hold your breathe, then exhale, then hold...
  17. TheLightWithin

    What is it like where you live?

    Almost forgot, we also have some Mormon churches and I have located some churches that are not unlike my grandfather's (Armstrong) church. And there are a couple of SDA churches here, along with the other numerous denominations, including several historically African American church denominations.
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    History of Philosophy | 18 Middle and Neo-Platonism

    It seems the ideas about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit must have all been early ideas, but without anything in writing left by Jesus to clarify, it took centuries of philosophical development in order to reconcile the ideas. And then centuries defending them to get most people satisfied that...
  19. TheLightWithin

    History of Philosophy | 18 Middle and Neo-Platonism

    Which makes me wonder how serious "heresy" can really be... nobody can avoid it for even a minute.
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    What is it like where you live?

    State capital in the Northeastern United States, several colleges including one of the bigger State University campuses, several other colleges, another very prominent college in this town closed down last year I think due to poor fiscal management. Numerous houses of worship, including...
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