Just got back from work. So fucking tired. The church wasn't so bad. A lot of young ladies there, so while everybody else was praying, i was looking at the babes. It was mercifully quick too. Just one guy who talked for about an hour. He had some good points, but I've got my own ideas about the whys and wherefores. I thought he was a little hung up on the crucifixtion/resurrection thing to the point that he missed the point. That's one of the things that i don't like about church, they get hung up on the letter but not the spirit. There's other things too, church just isn't for me. I'll take the pepsi challenge against any of them and I bet that I would come out pretty good morals wise. Well, at least the important ones. Part of the sermon talked about doing certain things with boys and girls you're not married to and ingesting certain substances and looking at particular websites. Meh, so i'm hellbound. I think the worst part (which fortunately we were late and missed most of it) was the music. It was a 4 piece rock band doing jam style hymns. Nothing very wowing instrumentally but it was with that fucking awful contemporay christian shit. Jesus fucking christ i hate that shit. "Our god is an awesome god! Blah! Bla-bl-bla-blah!" As you may know I like the old timey stuff. Gimme that old time religon music!
So i'm pretty beat and i'll probably go to bed soon. Adelina, you'll be getting a response eventually (because i loves to babble about zen almost as much as conspiracy theories) but to tide you over here's a few points. 1) I did say that paradoxes are involved 2) Just pay attention to details and the big picture simultaneously with a certain detatchment and things will start to be noticed naturally, practice is required and ponder what you observe 3) i just meant that certain things you can only do for yourself. Nobody can poo for you and nobody can directly experience it for you either.
So i'm pretty beat and i'll probably go to bed soon. Adelina, you'll be getting a response eventually (because i loves to babble about zen almost as much as conspiracy theories) but to tide you over here's a few points. 1) I did say that paradoxes are involved 2) Just pay attention to details and the big picture simultaneously with a certain detatchment and things will start to be noticed naturally, practice is required and ponder what you observe 3) i just meant that certain things you can only do for yourself. Nobody can poo for you and nobody can directly experience it for you either.
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see here is a list of (insert shrill ghostly cries) HOW SATAN GAINS POWER
First, Satan gains power over people because they lack gospel knowledge.
Second, Satan often gains power over people when they become learned and rely on their own knowledge
Third, Satan uses his deceptive influence to change peoples' perception of evil.
Fourth, and closely related to the third point, Satan is stirring up people to anger against that which is good.
Fifth, Satan teaches people that there is happiness in iniquity.
Sixth, Satan spreads abroad the rumor that there is no devil.
Seventh, "the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray
Eighth, Satan uses apathy or the "all is well" approach.
Ninth, "Satan will justify in committing a little sin".
Tenth, Satan uses contention and rumors to stir up strife.
Eleven, Satan uses pride, power, and riches to lead away the hearts of the people.
Twelve, Is a catch-all: all the ways and means Satan uses to drag us down cannot be numbered. King Benjamin declared: "And finally, I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I cannot number them"
the first and second ones make me laugh because the only knowledge that is "good" is the gospel kind, supposedly the rest of it is EVIL!