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I see. Ah equality.... isn't it grand? You can quit hiding behind love/ empathy/ compassion now. For you have 0 The only thing you feel sad for is yourself.

Is this love?

What is love?

This seems very similar to my understanding of Christianity Islam etc and it's mystical aspects. ------ My true being is unborn and changeless. I am the Lord who dwells in every creature. Through the power of my own maya, I manifest myself in a finite form. - Krishna 4:6 As men approach me, so I receive them. All paths, Arjuna, lead to me. - Krishna 4:11 Even if you were the most sinful of sinners, Arjuna, you could cross beyond all sin by the raft of spiritual wisdom. As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. - Krishna 4:36-38 ...with the sword of spiritual wisdom. Arise; take up the path of yoga! - Krishna 4:42

More on fasting http://thetaobums.com/topic/24867-fasting/

Do you really know?

So calling people stupid isn't considered a personal attack? and you think you are smart? Interesting.

So in other words... It is exactly the same as Buddhism.

What evidence is there to say Buddha / Siddhartha ever reached "enlightenment" Who ever said enlightenment actually exists haha May just be chasing another dream?

Can anyone tell me how this is any different to Buddhism?

I guess. One could say that knowing God (Absolute reality) is the only true happiness. Very similar to eastern thought really, Buddhism etc.

I agree Seth fantastic topic. I like Stephen Fry's thoughts... Racism is everywhere.... I don't think there is a solution. (see below) Sexism... yep Infanticide... yep https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OQRKKF3LgSM I think V.... and yourself should really push the boundaries with this one... Speciesism!! the worst thing of all and is EVERYWHERE! We are all human? that is supremacist thinking... We are all ANIMALS!! We need to extend these RIGHTS - FREEDOM TO ALL! Paul Waldau writes that the overriding of animals' interests was traditionally justified by arguing that they existed for human use; Aristotle made this claim in the 4th century BCE, as did Cicero in the 1st century CE.[4] The term "speciesism," and the argument that it was simply a prejudice, first appeared in 1970 in a privately printed pamphlet, titled "Speciesism," written by British psychologist Richard D. Ryder. Ryder had written three letters to The Daily Telegraph in April and May 1969 with criticisms of animal experiments, based on incidents he had witnessed in laboratories, and thereafter joined a group of intellectuals and writers in Oxford – the nascent animal rights community, now known as the Oxford Group. One of the group's activities was writing and distributing pamphlets about areas of concern; the pamphlet about speciesism, written to protest against animal experimentation, was one of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism Billions every year! disgusting. "Humanity" what a joke....

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Connections to Osiris? + Even earlier tales further adding to above theory I don't think the Romans had much interest in alchemy + uniting heaven and earth etc when it came to crucifixions. Crucifixion is an ancient method of deliberately slow and painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead. Crucifixion was used among the Seleucids, Carthaginians, and Romans from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. In the year 337, Emperor Constantine I abolished it in the Roman Empire out of veneration for Jesus Christ, the most famous victim of crucifixion.[1][2] It was also used as a form of execution in Japan for criminals, inflicted also on some Christians. Crucifixion was often performed to terrorize and dissuade its witnesses from perpetrating particularly heinous crimes. Victims were left on display after death as warnings to others who might attempt dissent. Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful (hence the term excruciating, literally "out of crucifying"), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal. Crucifixion methods varied considerably with location and time period. The Greek and Latin words corresponding to "crucifixion" applied to many different forms of painful execution, from impaling on a stake to affixing to a tree, to an upright pole (a crux simplex) or to a combination of an upright (in Latin, stipes) and a crossbeam (in Latin, patibulum).[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion

I always thought the image of the crucifixion interesting... it being the primary symbol. Why not the resurrection etc? Or I came to the conclusion that the cruxifix was the symbol of the Anti Christ. It was the devil, mocking God... mocking humanity. As was the church built in his name... (in progress) http://thetaobums.com/topic/26855-cannibalism-of-christ/ Cannibalism of Christ (The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ) Revelation 9:20 says that the last days would be characterized by the worship of demons. Likewise, in 1 Cor. 10:19-20, the apostle Paul associates the eating of idolatrous sacrifices with entering into communion and fellowship with demons. Partaking of the sacrificed victims of idolatry was an integral part of what Paul described as "the table of demons" (1 Cor. 10:21). In 1 Cor. 10:21, the Greek word underlying the English rendering of "table" is trapeza. Under its entry for trapeza, Thayer's Greek Lexicon says that "to partake of a feast [or of a sacrificed victim] prepared by demons ... [was to] enter into communion and fellowship with the demons." This partaking of the sacrificed victims of idolatry extended even to the eating of human sacrifices. Alexander Hislop tells us that "the priests of Nimrod or Baal were necessarily required to eat of human sacrifices; and thus it has come to pass that 'Cahna-Bal,' the 'Priest of Baal,' is the established word in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh" (Babylon Mystery Religion Ancient and Modern [Riverside, CA: Ralph Woodrow Evangelistic Association, Inc., 1966], p. 232). Satan was also worshiped under the name Molech--or Moloch, with its accompanying child sacrifice (cf. Jer. 19:5; 2 Kings 16:3; 21:6). That the priests of Baal, or Satan, were cannibals is entirely understandable. In symbolic prophecy, Satan is represented as a lower animal seeking to eat human flesh. In 1 Peter 5:8, forexample, he is likened to "a roaring lion ... seeking whom he may devour." Likewise, in Revelation 12:4 he is described metaphorically as a monstrous reptile seeking to devour the Christ child "as soon as it was born." It should also be noted that Satan's great apostate church is described in symbolic prophecy as a great human-blood-drinking whore. She is described as being "drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus" (Rev. 17:6). http://www.theologyo...oxic-shots.html // The original practice never had any such sacrament... Christianity that practices "The Sacrament of the Body and Blood" is Babylonian in nature ^ Of Baal ... There is both truth and falsehoods/ corruption of the original... What a grand deception... // Vmarco, on 09 Feb 2013 - 01:19, said: If you seriously reduce everything down, religion is the cancer,...while banking, business, media, etc are merely symptoms. Show Christianity for the meme it is, and Islam and Judeaism will crumble behind it,...thus bringing an end the disease of theism, and bring on a birthing of Human Beingness. As Buddhism and Taoism are by nature, not religions,...those who currently approach Buddhism and Taoism as belief systems, will begin to advance what Buddhism and Taoism actually point to,...a consciousness beyond sentient thinking. Banks, Gov, Business, Media (International) ^ All the same - "Religion" plays a significant part in it also. --- When I say "Religion" plays a significant part... I mean that "Religion" is at the very "heart" of it... That Banking/Gov/Media etc are all tools of this "Religion" It is no secret that secret societies are largely involved in all of the above. For example... centuries ago (+ perhaps more recently... Bolshevik "Revolution" + Others) the Vatican spent a great deal of time killing christians and doing all it could to prevent texts from getting to the general public. ^ looks like the deepest pits of hell to me? on earth... Some of the methods used... I think the devil himself ... You could say the Vatican was the devil. This devilish group are at the top of all organised everything. Christianity, Islam, Judaism are like the Blue Lodges of the Masonic Order. Once you get past a certain degree... having been selected / initiated... showing the "desirable" characterists... or born into it... The organisation starts to take on a much more sinister expression. It is not that power corrupts, it is that the corrupt are drawn to power. Religious people have no concern for power*, they have no desire to usurp God/ Nature They desire to know God and little else. Just because somebody calls themself a Buddhist... does that make them a buddhist? I believe these organisations have there roots in... "The priests of Nimrod or Baal were necessarily required to eat of human sacrifices; and thus it has come to pass that 'Cahna-Bal,' the 'Priest of Baal,' is the established word in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh" (Babylon Mystery Religion Ancient and Modern [Riverside, CA: Ralph Woodrow Evangelistic Association, Inc., 1966], p. 232) Ancient Occult practices... Edit: Some additional information to tie things together a little more... The extraction of usury (banking) is "one of the oldest professions of man." (Forrest M. Smith, III, The Regulation of Interest: Practice and Procedure, 10 ST. MARY'S L. REV. 825, 1979). First came the Temple Priests, then the Goldsmiths and the commercial bankers of today. The first use of the fractional reserve system was in the Temple of Shamash under Hammurabi -- the sixth king of Babylon Amraphel was Hammurabi, king of Babylon, the sixth king in the first dynasty of Babylon. This is now the prevailing view among both Assyriologists and Old Testament scholars. According to Rab and Samuel, Amraphel is identical with Nimrod. Some say Amraphel was his real name, and he was called Nimrod, "the chief rebel," as leader of the tower-builders, "who led the world unto rebellion" () against heaven's Ruler; others again say Nimrod was his real name, and he was called Amraphel as the one who "commanded them to cast Abraham into the fire" () ('Er. 53a and Targ. Yer. to Gen. xiv. 1). Among other fanciful etymologies the name is explained as that of one whose "commands brought darkness [destruction] on the world" (), or of one who "provoked and made sport of the world" () (see Gen. R. xlii.; Midr. LeḳaḦ Ṭob to Gen. xiv. 1, ed. Buber, i. 63, note 4; also Beer, "Leben Abrahams," pp.130, 131). See also Abraham, Nimrod. http://www.jewishenc...s/1440-amraphel ----- Problem solved Enjoy.

You may appreciate this V. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CbbevqgZIw

There is a lot of wonderful art, architecture + music thanks to Christianity. One can't deny that.

V is correct here The Vatican is Jewish.

I kinda thought Satan had already taken over... haha

Light is a transverse electromagnetic wave of which humans can see only a small portion of the spectrum. Humans are electromagnetic (as all life is), which depending on the source of light through electromagnetic radiation can either support or destroy life. Doctor Alexander Wunsch member of the German Lighting Engineering Society and President of the International Light Association since 2007 describes the biological interaction with light. The eye is definitely not the only receptive organ for light. Human skin is transparent to light. Even short wave-lengths like UV radiation reach the capillary layers and the blood inside these delicate vessels. All the pigments and molecules with chromophoric groups in our body absorb and emit photons. Each single atom has the attribute we could call photonic metabolism. Photons are the language in which all matter communicates; every jump (change of energy level) of an electron is a accompanied by photonic activity. The specific composition of sunlight as well as the properties of the atmospheric layers play important roles for the life-aiding qualities of natural light. Under today’s view-point we have to suspect that every aberration from these properties make artificial lighting potentially dangerous for health. (Wunsch, 2006) Light and Learning: "There was a statistically significant difference between the students who worked under old-style fluorescent lights and those who worked under full-spectrum, visually-efficient lighting." This controlled study verified that depression was lowered among those students who experienced learning under full-spectrum lighting. Also, depression actually increased under standard fluorescent lights among the fourth graders. As an elementary school principal, William Titoff conducted research for his Ph.D. dissertation and discovered that when the project was completed, "the teachers with the full-spectrum lighting refused to let me take it out and put back the old-style fluorescent bulbs." Harmon, l938, found that over 4000 children developed observable deficiencies associated with Malillumination. In the late 1940's conditions of the learning environment (lighting, seating and decor) were instituted in schools, resulting in the following student improvements: 65% reduction in visual difficulties, 47.8% decline in nutritional problems, 43.3% reduction in chronic infections, 25.6% reduction in postural problems and, finally, 55.6% decline in chronic fatigue. (Laurence D. Martel) Increased exposure to fluorescent light and cancer risk: Energy saving lamps emit UV-B and traces of UV-C radiation. It is generally recognised that UV- radiation is harmful for the skin (e.g. skin cancer) and the eyes (e.g. cataract). UV-C radiation, which is normally not observed in nature because it is absorbed completely in the atmosphere, is especially harmful. Several studies have found that fluorescent lights raise the risk for skin cancer . (Lytle, 1992) The following results were obtained in a 2 year pilot study by S.L Gabby MD, determining the relationship between artificial light and its effects on C3H mice (highly prone to tumour development, 98% of males and females normally spontaneously develop breast cancer): Type of Light, No. of pairs of C3H mice A. Pink fluorescent, 30 pairs Effects + Comments: 29 female mice developed cancer – the other died of liver problems. Females died 1 month earlier than those in Group B. 1-2 offspring per litter, instead of 6-15. B. Daylight-white fluorescent, 30 pairs Effects + Comments: 24 of 30 female mice developed cancer – 2 other females died of liver problem. Able to breed 2 months longer than A. Also had larger litters than A. C. Daylight through windows into basement room. 8 pairs (used as control) Effects + Comments: Developed cancer 3 months after Group A, and 2 months after Group B 2 pairs of 8 pairs carcinoma free at time of report. Source: S.L. Gabby (1961), Observations on the effects of artificial light on the health and development of mice, cited by J.N. Ott (1982), How to Stay Healthy, Devin-Adair (1982), ISBN 0-8159-61 21-9. Note: Lighting conditions were the only variable used. In a similar study, using over 2,000 C3H mice J.N. Ott demonstrated the link between light and mortality rate from spontaneous tumour development, as below: Type of Light Average Lifespan of C3H Mice Pink fluorescent 7.5 months Daylight white fluorescent 8.2 months Full-spectrum plastic glazing 15.6 months Natural outdoor daylight 16.1 months Source: J.N. Ott (1973), Health and Light: The Extraordinary Study That Shows How Light Affects Your Health And Emotional Well-being, Ariel Press, USA, ISBN 0-89804-098-1. General health: 1967, International Committee on Illumination (C.I.E.) in Washington D.C, three Russian scientists, Dantsig, Lazarev and Sokolov presented a paper stating: If human skin is not exposed to solar radiation (direct or scattered) for long periods of time, disturbances will occur in the physiological equilibrium of the human system. The result will be functional disorders of the nervous system and a vitamin-D deficiency, a weakening of the body's defenses, and an aggravation of chronic diseases (Ott, 1986) ‘The Effect of Natural and Artificial Light Via the Eye on the Hormonal and Metabolic Balance of Animal and Man’, Opthalmologia 180, No.4, pp. 188-197, Raised levels of ACTH and cortisol (indicators of stress) were found as a result of exposure to cool-white fluorescent lights, in addition to reducing immune system functioning, and mental performance. Raised stress levels can also stunt children’s growth. Cool-white Fluorescent tubes were legally banned in some German medical institutions. F. Hollwich and B. Dieckhues (1980) A partial listing of health problems and social problems that fluorescent light have been implicated as aggravating is given below: (H.E.S.E Project, 2012) Aggression ALS Attention Deficit Disorder Autism CFS/ME Cancer Reduced concentration Confusion Diabetes Dermatitis Dental caries Dizziness Dyslexia Dyspraxia Eczema Electro-hypersensitivity Epilepsy Eye irritation Eye strain Fatigue Headaches Hyperactivity Irritability Learning difficulties Lupus Reduced muscle strength MS Nausea Photosensitivity Xeroderma pigmentosum

This also connects to the pineal gland + light = health I'll have to search for that info again.

Full Spectrum ...closest thing to sunlight that isn't sunlight Sunlight is the best though

^ Pretty good comparison between full spectrum and other.