newfie
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which one was guilty of plagerism?
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which one was guilty of plagerism?
wkmac
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wkmac
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I don't think this study was very scientific.
newfie
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regular children have the same struggles
tourists24
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Bill Nye would say it is
newfie
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an atheist god?
tourists24
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No.... very scientific... it depicts Christians negatively so he'll agree with the results
tourists24
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Wait just a cotton pickin minute. He said that eventually you had to "believe" that the math is correct.... that cannot be... can it?
Actually I think it speaks to the limited ability for mankind to comprehend the concept of infinity in both science and religion. The "sum of all infinite integers" apparently has practical applications in physics even if it really doesn't make logical sense. The same can be said of God.Wait just a cotton pickin minute. He said that eventually you had to "believe" that the math is correct.... that cannot be... can it?
wkmac
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"The original Gnostics emerged as a result of interaction between Greeks and Jews in Israel in cosmopolitan Alexandria, Egypt. They also absorbed a central idea in pagan mystery religions, such as Orphism and the Hermeticsism, which declared that each individual had a portion of the divine within, giving them the potential to become god-like in a blissful hereafter.
The Gnostics sought experiential insight into the ultimate truth, called gnosis, by connecting directly with the divine and through using psychologically therapeutic rituals which would restore them to a sense of wholeness.
“The Gnostics were the first to view traditional religion as the opiate of the masses, the drug that keeps people satisfied to serve the gods and their kings as obedient slaves and vassals,” wrote April DeConick, a biblical studies professor, in The Gnostic New Age. “They were convinced that the traditional religious communities had been duped by trickster gods.”
continuing:
"The Gnostic worldview was reintroduced through the revival of interest in the ancient Hermetic tradition during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. The noted literary critic Harold Bloom wrote about Gnostic tendencies in the rise of interest in alternative spiritual paths, from the Kabbalah to Mormonism in The American Religion. The depth psychologist Carl Jung had mystical experiences that caused him to recognize that human beings had spiritual potential that wasn’t acknowledged by the reductionist theories of Freud (see the lectures at www.gnosis.org and Stephan Hoeller’s The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead, which discuss striking parallels between human psychology and Gnostic mythology). Popular culture is now infused with Gnostic elements, from Dan Brown’s bestselling novel The DaVinci Code to “The Matrix” films which grossed $1.6 billion."
The Case for Christian Gnosticism: The Ultimate Heresy
The Gnostics sought experiential insight into the ultimate truth, called gnosis, by connecting directly with the divine and through using psychologically therapeutic rituals which would restore them to a sense of wholeness.
“The Gnostics were the first to view traditional religion as the opiate of the masses, the drug that keeps people satisfied to serve the gods and their kings as obedient slaves and vassals,” wrote April DeConick, a biblical studies professor, in The Gnostic New Age. “They were convinced that the traditional religious communities had been duped by trickster gods.”
continuing:
"The Gnostic worldview was reintroduced through the revival of interest in the ancient Hermetic tradition during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. The noted literary critic Harold Bloom wrote about Gnostic tendencies in the rise of interest in alternative spiritual paths, from the Kabbalah to Mormonism in The American Religion. The depth psychologist Carl Jung had mystical experiences that caused him to recognize that human beings had spiritual potential that wasn’t acknowledged by the reductionist theories of Freud (see the lectures at www.gnosis.org and Stephan Hoeller’s The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead, which discuss striking parallels between human psychology and Gnostic mythology). Popular culture is now infused with Gnostic elements, from Dan Brown’s bestselling novel The DaVinci Code to “The Matrix” films which grossed $1.6 billion."
The Case for Christian Gnosticism: The Ultimate Heresy
MrFedEx
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Just like religious adults?
MrFedEx
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moreluck
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you forgot "nerdism"
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