Point counterpoint, you say what you believe, they say what they believe. You state how you differ...this is called discussion.
Looks more like conflict to me, I have not come here to argue with everyone, I have come to try to show how there is nothing to argue about.
If all are disputing what you have said, and all have been here for a while, is it you or them?
If the whole world agrees that grass is triangle colored, does it make it a truth?
It is a discussion forum. When you enter the Christian area and dispute Christian thought...expect a response from a Christian viewpoint....same in the Buddhist section or Islam etc.
In truth, I do not appreciate the segregation between the faiths here to the different forums. Forum etiquette says you post in the most relevant forum to your topic, it started as a discussion on a book in the Bible...
I usually stay in "Belief and Spirituality" because for me this is more a common ground.
It is hard to discuss with someone who knows everything, but if one does, then as I see it communication is the responsiblity of the communicator.
This is the whole problem I have reacted to here, it is that ignorance is mistaken for knowledge - people are shaping things to their own liking, and are quite rude when you bring them back - this isn't what I am here for either. I do not claim to know everything, but I have been quite frank about my condition to allow others to trust deeper and yet it is a wasted effort - it seems people are on an interfaith forum to pack their heads with more idiocy, it is bizarre.
Religion is not a pursuit of mind, this must be understood. Religion is a pursuit of trust, of love, of let-go. This is how the splits in philosophy have began in the first place: religious people began going into depths that the thinkers could not fathom and of course there is the impossibility of such people arriving because it is an attack on the information, they are not interested in what is conveyed.
I would think that one who has arrived would have patience for those that haven't.
I have had much patience here, I have spent a couple months trying to communicate how every faith is teaching the same, how it is ego which insists there is difference. It falls on deaf ears though, people are too much stuck in what they think they know.
It is not that I am special because I have arrived, that is why it is so frustrating. In the time it takes to read a post you can look upon the face of what is called God, but people go on deciphering the words instead of permeating in what is said.
Have you ever taught a child to read, or ride a bike?
No, I have no children.
Getting frustrated and quitting is bad parenting, and not the fault of the child. Also different folks learn at different rates, and have different levels of accceptablity of teaching, hence why G!d sent Buddha for some, Moses for others, Jesus for some, and on and on.... could be you haven't found here those that are ready for the lunitik?
This has caused a chuckle!
In the child, you can observe a growth, I see none just constantly going around in circles. This is something though, acceptance... I don't even want acceptance because this is a mind pursuit again. I want people to actually pay attention to what is said, experiment themselves. There is no need to accept or reject, I am speaking on something which can be experienced directly.
I guess I should have kept reading...we can agree there. Surely you are not disagreeing that as you are chastizing others about being disagreeable. There are those that gravitate to this site and stay. And those that show up like flash in the pans and leave. There are those that come to preach and get upset if they can't find smiling nodding congregants. Its all part of the soup. In my time however I've yet to see anyone come and insist that everyone else change or leave...and actually be successful at that.
I am not preaching, I am not threatening anyone's current faiths - I can simply explain their own faiths devices so they can arrive through it. I have been very accommodating in this way, but always they ignore the device and start intellectualizing how they conceive of it. What I say always has a purpose, nothing I say is ever not conveying the ultimate, but I understand it as the writer will have, not how the mundane humans that have gained power decided it should be read.
Most if they find the participants of discussion here are not to their liking move on, but many of those have moved here from sites that they've had the same issues...reminds me of the story....
A story which may actually be on topic to this thread....
There is very little interfaith dialog on the internet, I have looked. Mostly, everyone wants to keep to there own, I have no interest in that at all because for me individualism is holy... groups are what cause every evil.