dick baby
11-15-2003, 07:27 PM
quite often in this discussion group i see quotes and references from
the bible.
my question basically is, are we attaching a little too much importance
to a series of books that we know has been re-written, tampered with,
and 'interpreted' throughout many hundreds of years?
when reading these posts i always come back to a quote i think from a
david icke book, but not his words, which goes, "the king james version
of the bible has a documented 36,191 errors in translation alone".
accordingly i find it increasingly difficult to even read these kind of
posts that quote from the bible. i'm not asking anyone to stop, or to
do what i want (hehe, the thought...), but does anyone else have this
opinion, that because the majority of subscribers to this list are of
western origin and therefore predominantly christian in their
upbringing, if not always in their current belief system (including
myself), that we may tend towards the idea that 'our' book is the one
from which we should be quoting?
in other words, i don't see much from any other major religious tomes,
when according to most research these days all the current day
religions share basically the same origins and have in many cases
simply re-hashed old myths (ie, the flood)
i thought our duty in these end times was to construct a new philosophy
and religion of spiritualism that binds different cultures and creeds,
not separates them.
perhaps i am just retaliating to a lifetime of having to walk away when
the 'b' word gets mentioned, cos frankly, most of it just does not ring
true with me. right here i should add that i have never sat down and
really read the bible - as a teenager i tried but it just didn't
happen, for whatever reason. i got beaten over the head with it enough
times as a youngster that it didn't take long to see that this book was
never gonna float my boat, so to speak.
i go with my intuition on this, and don't really see the need for
returning to a book that has never really been proven to be what it
purports to be. please, i don't want to start a war of words with any
christians - free will is of course paramount, and i am merely
expressing mine here, but if we are gonna quote from these religious
works should we not be a little more open minded and include the tora,
the qu'ran (did i spell that right?) etc etc?
in any case, with the law of one, the seth material, and david's
wonderful writings i have all i need right now anyway.
peace and love
richard
the bible.
my question basically is, are we attaching a little too much importance
to a series of books that we know has been re-written, tampered with,
and 'interpreted' throughout many hundreds of years?
when reading these posts i always come back to a quote i think from a
david icke book, but not his words, which goes, "the king james version
of the bible has a documented 36,191 errors in translation alone".
accordingly i find it increasingly difficult to even read these kind of
posts that quote from the bible. i'm not asking anyone to stop, or to
do what i want (hehe, the thought...), but does anyone else have this
opinion, that because the majority of subscribers to this list are of
western origin and therefore predominantly christian in their
upbringing, if not always in their current belief system (including
myself), that we may tend towards the idea that 'our' book is the one
from which we should be quoting?
in other words, i don't see much from any other major religious tomes,
when according to most research these days all the current day
religions share basically the same origins and have in many cases
simply re-hashed old myths (ie, the flood)
i thought our duty in these end times was to construct a new philosophy
and religion of spiritualism that binds different cultures and creeds,
not separates them.
perhaps i am just retaliating to a lifetime of having to walk away when
the 'b' word gets mentioned, cos frankly, most of it just does not ring
true with me. right here i should add that i have never sat down and
really read the bible - as a teenager i tried but it just didn't
happen, for whatever reason. i got beaten over the head with it enough
times as a youngster that it didn't take long to see that this book was
never gonna float my boat, so to speak.
i go with my intuition on this, and don't really see the need for
returning to a book that has never really been proven to be what it
purports to be. please, i don't want to start a war of words with any
christians - free will is of course paramount, and i am merely
expressing mine here, but if we are gonna quote from these religious
works should we not be a little more open minded and include the tora,
the qu'ran (did i spell that right?) etc etc?
in any case, with the law of one, the seth material, and david's
wonderful writings i have all i need right now anyway.
peace and love
richard