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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 24648161  United States09/30/2012 01:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22089462  Netherlands09/30/2012 01:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | maybe you are a christian because you are desperate for answers and out of the options its the least offensive. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5073178 The research and evidence, have been collected over many years. It's not solely based on NDEs. I may present more later. Why don't you respond to arguments that totally go against your "NDE research and evidence"? The only "argument" I have seen you make is essentially "NANANANANA I caaaan't hear you, you arrrree wrong. Now go answer how life started, if you can't then I'm still right". -Why are Hindu NDE's not consistent with Western NDE's? -Why do not all NDE's have these blue eyes you are talking about? -What makes you so certain an NDE isn't just a break down of the brain? Have you ever tried LSD or shrooms? The weirdly perceived reality can be quite similar to such an experience. Also for your sake I do hope your "research and evidence" is of significantly higher quality then what you presented here, otherwise your conclusions are surely in error. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10858311 United States09/30/2012 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | so lets see, you gave up being I AM THAT I AM and labeled yourself first a new ager and then a dark christian? whatever for? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24358110 stop the need to follow and define yourself by any paradigm other than your own. Yes, I had this view once, and still incorporate to a degree. When I was a non-Christian, I had a dream of Bruce Lee. I was then curious and studied his fighting system. In his system, Bruce borrowed from various systems, and ultimately used what actually worked. When we give labels to say his fighting system. It now has rules and forms. This can limit, the growth of the system. Likewise, if we give labels to ourselves, we can them sub-consciously limit our growth, perspective, and views. So even with new agers, this allows much freedom for growth and exploration. But, I found at the highest level, it still limits your perspective. Therefore, I dropped even this label. To even more fully explore without any restrictions. This led me to other evidences. But now, one can now reach a point, where if you refuse, to accept and acknowledge evidence, since you don't want a label. Ironically, you can then limit yourself. But like I said, I still incorporate, this mentality to a degree to further my learning. I was once very sick in hospital and told I was dying. On top of all the other phantasmagorical experiences during this episode, there was an utterly bizarre cable TV system with only a few channels, whereupon I happened to see nothing but things that seemed specifically and very painfully to address my spiritual emptiness and terror. One of these was Dragon:the Bruce Lee Story. That film was definitely part of a turning point in my life and couldn't have affected me more deeply if it had been a dream sent me by a deity, or a bad acid trip, or an NDE vision of "Hell". So I was interested to see you mention Bruce Lee and what you said above re "New Age". I have to quit now ,but will write more later. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 23579473 United States09/30/2012 02:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I get a kick out of the fact that on the internet, everything that is not distinctly Christian-oriented is conveniently branded and dismissed as 'New Age'. It's like if you resist the programming and indoctrination of the mainsteam religions and buy into anything other than those religions, you must be a NEW-AGER! If you pursue spirituality outside of the religions you must be a New Ager because spirituality is certaintly a new concept in our history, right??? A popular topic among New Agers is NDE's? Where did you come up with that crap? NDE's are a popular topic among ANY individual who is curious about exploring experiences that people have when they are close to death. You conveniently failed the mention the countless NDE experiences in which the individuals have no 'hell experience and are only greeted by past family members and no religious deities. What say you of these experiences? Why did they get a glimpse of the afterife and see family members absent of any details that could be tied to Christianity or any other religion? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 20541213 United States09/30/2012 02:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Naysayers, atheists, let go of your pride. God created you to know, love and to honor Him and one day to be with Him in Heaven. The plan hasn't changed, God is consistant, saying the same for 2000 years and previously in the Old Covenant. Read a current message from St. Michael, the Archangel. Get right with God. Repent from the heart and confess your sins to God. He is waiting for you with open arms.  [link to www.catholicbinder.com] Messages to Pastor Enoc Quench not the Spirit; despise not prophesyings; prove all things; hold fast that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 American Standard Version SAINT MICHAEL’S CALL TO HUMANITY OH MORTALS, DO NOT CONTINUE TO WALK IN DARKNESS, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CONVERSION FOR LAST MINUTE BECAUSE YOU COULD LOSE YOUR SOULS BY THE PASSAGE OF DIVINE JUSTICE! September 27th, 2012 Official Translation Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory to God. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his mercy is eternal. May the peace of Almighty God be with you all men of good-will. Seed of God Most High, inheritance of my Lord, abide in the love of our beloved and Holy Father Yahweh. Siblings, the days of your liberation are near, do not tire to praise the glory of God. The power of praise collapses all strongholds and gets you closer to my Father's mercy. Night will soon fall upon humanity and there are very few who are ready with their lamps oiled with prayer. Oh mortals do not continue to walk in darkness, do not leave your conversion for the last minute, because your souls could be lost by the passage of Divine Justice! Oh souls who are in mortal sin, if only you knew the pain of the condemned souls, I assure you that you would come back to the love of God. Remember that the will of my Father wants your salvation, do not continue with your spiritual deafness, stay away from sin and wickedness, and reconcile as soon as possible with God, that you may attain His mercy. Brothers, ask for our protection and intercession, we are here to serve you and help you in all your needs and spiritual battles; our Father has given us the grace to be in common union with you to protect you during these times of so much darkness and guide you along the path of salvation. Be not afraid to ask for our protection, we are your brothers, summon us and willingly we will come to your aid. Earthly brothers, I your brother Michael, along with Gabriel, Raphael, and my other brothers from the kingdom of my Father, the Archangels and Angels, want you to count on us, our mission is to protect you and take you safely to the glory of God. Brothers, be prepared for the arrival of the Warning, so that you can withstand the presence of our Father and upon returning you may do his Holy Will. All souls in God's grace will be entrusted with tasks to be fulfilled during the time of the Miracle, all missions aimed at reuniting the flock of my Father here on earth. Every mortal will know the state of his soul and will have a clearer picture of the existence of God, of the existence of heaven, purgatory and hell. Those souls who walk in this world of darkness or in spiritual warmth, their path through eternity will serve them to realize the state of condemned souls and the state in which lie the souls in purgatory. My Father wants to show them the existence of the afterlife for them to be made aware and repent of their sins and be new men and women when they return to this earthly plane. Those souls which due to the lack of love do evil in this world, but are not consecrated, nor have they sold their souls to the prince of darkness, my Father will give them one last chance during the Warning to convert. It will show them the underworld and they will feel the fire which burns the condemned souls and they will see their torments. Their tenure through eternity will show all the damage they have caused, it will be painful, but necessary for conversion. The souls consecrated to the prince of this world and who have said no to the mercy of God, will not return, they will be lost forever in the depths of the abyss. Reconsider brothers and repent at once, because the time of mercy is about to be fulfilled. Do not turn away from the love of God and count on us. We carry the Father's Will, our mission is to protect you and take you safely to the glory of God. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, we are your brothers: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and other luminaries who shine with love to do the Will of our Father. Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to men of goodwill. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 13788939 United States09/30/2012 02:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was a new ager for many years. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24648161 A popular topic among new agers, is near death experiences. Now, most people assume near death experiences (NDE) are merely a hallucination, a part of the person's imaginations, or, a construct of the subconscious. But, this is false for one main reason, and this is due to what's called 'veridical information'. What's veridical information? During the near death experiences, people will come across information that was impossible for them to know about, but after having the NDE and returning to their bodies, this information can verified to be true down to A woman has a NDE, she then floats to the top of the hospital, and sees a single shoe. After the NDE, she verifies that the shoe was indeed there. A woman is taken out of her body, and sees a heavenly place, with those who were deceased. She finds out information, from these people that she didn't know about. But after returning to her body, she was then able to verify the information with the deceased person's family members. The information was highly detailed and specific. The family members of the deceased person, verified that what the woman stated was true down to the exact details. And there's many more cases, of NDE's, that contain veridical information. Now, going back, the NDE that are mentioned in new age books. In these NDEs, we only learn of postive NDE's. This is typical, a person, leaves their body, goes to through a tunnel of light, has a life review, see deceased relatives, and may go further and see an actual heavenly location, which may even include trees, river, park, etc. So, most will assume these people were merely imagining this, but, again, due to 'veridical information', this gives strong evidence that it was impossible for them to merely imagine this. So, again, if one merely studies positve NDE's, we can then assume, everyone will go to a wonderful afterlife, meaning there's no hell. And therefore, most religions are false. But A book, was recently released by the International Association of Near Death Studies. In this book, one learns that there's both negative and positive near death experiences. In addition, there's many other sources, where one can learn about negative NDEs. What can one learn from these negative NDEs? That there's indeed a fiery hell, with various levels of punishments. Now most state, these are only a product of the mind, or, that these merely correspond to the person's level of consciousness. But, again, due to veridical information, people coming across information that was impossible to know about, but, was later proven to be true down to the exact details, this again gives strong evidence that this is indeed a real reality. Do only Christians who believe in heaven and hell see this? No, there's Christians, many atheists, and non-Christians who are also seeing heaven and hell. So now that we have evidence of a heaven and hell. This still doesn't narrow down the religion, since many religions also believe in heaven and hell. Again, the recently released book by a non-Christian organization, shares two NDEs. One by an atheist, and one by a non-Christian. In both of their NDEs, they both see hell, and both see Jesus. What about the Christian belief that the soul sleeps in the grave until the Ressurection, and thenJesus returns and everyone rises up out of the graves into new bodies and is judged and then either thrown into an eternal lake of fire or lives on new earth with Jesus for 1000 years. Where do you fit that in? |
Kirk  User ID: 10818676 United States09/30/2012 02:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One may now state, the above NDEs could also be describing the Islamic view of the afterlife. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24648161 But, there's two more NDE cases, that I want to share that further proves Islam is false. In both of these NDEs, the woman and the boy, both come across information that was impossible for them to know about, but, was later proven to be true down to the exact details. Again, this is very strong evidence that they didn't merely imagine this. In both NDE's, the boy and woman both see Jesus. In addition, they also see the wounds where he was crucified. In Islam, it's believed that Jesus was never crucified. they don't even know why he was crucified and don't want to know why. Government is a body largely ungoverned. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24358110 United States09/30/2012 02:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One may now state, the above NDEs could also be describing the Islamic view of the afterlife. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24648161 But, there's two more NDE cases, that I want to share that further proves Islam is false. In both of these NDEs, the woman and the boy, both come across information that was impossible for them to know about, but, was later proven to be true down to the exact details. Again, this is very strong evidence that they didn't merely imagine this. In both NDE's, the boy and woman both see Jesus. In addition, they also see the wounds where he was crucified. In Islam, it's believed that Jesus was never crucified. they don't even know why he was crucified and don't want to know why. he was crucified yes, but he did NOT die on the cross and your bible tells you people. Yet you believe a fairy tale. these bodies don't go to heaven. He lived and he met his pals and then boarded a craft and went to Syria, met Saul there 2 years later, and then went to India. He lived to well over 100 years of age, or rather he checked out of his body then. the body is buried in srinagar |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24358110 United States09/30/2012 02:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I get a kick out of the fact that on the internet, everything that is not distinctly Christian-oriented is conveniently branded and dismissed as 'New Age'. Quoting: ANHEDONIC It's like if you resist the programming and indoctrination of the mainsteam religions and buy into anything other than those religions, you must be a NEW-AGER! If you pursue spirituality outside of the religions you must be a New Ager because spirituality is certaintly a new concept in our history, right??? A popular topic among New Agers is NDE's? Where did you come up with that crap? NDE's are a popular topic among ANY individual who is curious about exploring experiences that people have when they are close to death. You conveniently failed the mention the countless NDE experiences in which the individuals have no 'hell experience and are only greeted by past family members and no religious deities. What say you of these experiences? Why did they get a glimpse of the afterife and see family members absent of any details that could be tied to Christianity or any other religion? very good. If was still a member, big green thumb would be coming-Candace |
| Morganite User ID: 11765896 United States09/30/2012 09:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is just the thing, though. No one has ANY proof of what happens after death. No one knows. You don't know, I don't know. But what I DO know is that the Bible is false. It was not written by God. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20657814 You really need to do more investigation and make sure your "I Do Know" is fact because this decision has eternal consequences. Chariot Wheels Found In Red Sea [link to godssecret.wordpress.com] Pyramids egypt/ [link to 2010rapture.org] Mount Sinai Discovered With Evidence Thread: Mount Sinai HAS BEEN DISCOVERED!!!!!! Scientific and Mathematical Proof the Bible Prophecy is Accurate [link to www.youtube.com] morganite |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10858311 United States10/02/2012 10:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | so lets see, you gave up being I AM THAT I AM and labeled yourself first a new ager and then a dark christian? whatever for? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24358110 stop the need to follow and define yourself by any paradigm other than your own. Yes, I had this view once, and still incorporate to a degree. When I was a non-Christian, I had a dream of Bruce Lee. I was then curious and studied his fighting system. In his system, Bruce borrowed from various systems, and ultimately used what actually worked. When we give labels to say his fighting system. It now has rules and forms. This can limit, the growth of the system. Likewise, if we give labels to ourselves, we can them sub-consciously limit our growth, perspective, and views. So even with new agers, this allows much freedom for growth and exploration. But, I found at the highest level, it still limits your perspective. Therefore, I dropped even this label. To even more fully explore without any restrictions. This led me to other evidences. But now, one can now reach a point, where if you refuse, to accept and acknowledge evidence, since you don't want a label. Ironically, you can then limit yourself. But like I said, I still incorporate, this mentality to a degree to further my learning. I was once very sick in hospital and told I was dying. On top of all the other phantasmagorical experiences during this episode, there was an utterly bizarre cable TV system with only a few channels, whereupon I happened to see nothing but things that seemed specifically and very painfully to address my spiritual emptiness and terror. One of these was Dragon:the Bruce Lee Story. That film was definitely part of a turning point in my life and couldn't have affected me more deeply if it had been a dream sent me by a deity, or a bad acid trip, or an NDE vision of "Hell". So I was interested to see you mention Bruce Lee and what you said above re "New Age". I have to quit now ,but will write more later. Sorry I didn't write more, like I said I would. I will, if anyone wants to know. Wrote the above and then waited patiently for cat to get off keyboard, then found I had run out of steam. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10858311 United States10/04/2012 01:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24358110 stop the need to follow and define yourself by any paradigm other than your own. Yes, I had this view once, and still incorporate to a degree. When I was a non-Christian, I had a dream of Bruce Lee. I was then curious and studied his fighting system. In his system, Bruce borrowed from various systems, and ultimately used what actually worked. When we give labels to say his fighting system. It now has rules and forms. This can limit, the growth of the system. Likewise, if we give labels to ourselves, we can them sub-consciously limit our growth, perspective, and views. So even with new agers, this allows much freedom for growth and exploration. But, I found at the highest level, it still limits your perspective. Therefore, I dropped even this label. To even more fully explore without any restrictions. This led me to other evidences. But now, one can now reach a point, where if you refuse, to accept and acknowledge evidence, since you don't want a label. Ironically, you can then limit yourself. But like I said, I still incorporate, this mentality to a degree to further my learning. I was once very sick in hospital and told I was dying. On top of all the other phantasmagorical experiences during this episode, there was an utterly bizarre cable TV system with only a few channels, whereupon I happened to see nothing but things that seemed specifically and very painfully to address my spiritual emptiness and terror. One of these was Dragon:the Bruce Lee Story. That film was definitely part of a turning point in my life and couldn't have affected me more deeply if it had been a dream sent me by a deity, or a bad acid trip, or an NDE vision of "Hell". So I was interested to see you mention Bruce Lee and what you said above re "New Age". I have to quit now ,but will write more later. Sorry I didn't write more, like I said I would. I will, if anyone wants to know. Wrote the above and then waited patiently for cat to get off keyboard, then found I had run out of steam. And besides, in the interim, that Wolfy-Head Thing, Anhedonic, loomed up again, looking not-amused, yet endearingly fuzzy-headed,yet intimidating. |
