For my Christians Friends

Discussion in 'Politics' started by nyxtrader, Mar 23, 2008.

  1. That the world is an insignificant dream about individualism, exile, death, separation and other assorted non-sense. It cannot change what the dreamer actually is: Christ.

    Is it nihilism to "lay down your *life* that you may take it up again"? Yes, according to this definition:

    6. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, esp. as an aspect of mystical experience.

    It is the individual consciousness that "dies", over and over again within an insignificant dream. It is the totalilty that lives. To live, you must be whole and total. So, let the pseudo-autonomous "self" go [ie. "die" from your awareness/focus/attention]

    This world is totally insignificant except that it answers a question about Self...illustrating what Self is not. It has rules and institutions that teach Self is guilty, sinful and worthy of punishment and even death.

    Is is nihilistic to reject all such "laws"? Perhaps, according to this definition:

    1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.

    But to revolt in terms of terrorism or even activism is to lend reality to what is really not real. So by this definition, I am not nihilistic:

    2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.

    In a world where there is no basis for truth, merely to tell the truth is revolutionary.

    Jesus
     
    #1021     May 14, 2008
  2. stu

    stu

    ... dude, a simple YES would've been enough. sheesh.
     
    #1022     May 14, 2008
  3. The answer was yes and no. This world denies reality [Christ]. So it is nihilistic. I deny this world it's alledged reality. I deny what isn't. Is that nihilistic?

    Jesus
     
    #1023     May 14, 2008
  4. stu

    stu

    ....hmm, sounds more delusional than nihilistic.
     
    #1024     May 14, 2008
  5. Yes, to a world built on delusion, the truth will sound delusional.

    4. Psychiatry. a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion.
     
    #1025     May 15, 2008
  6. volente_00

    volente_00

    #1026     May 23, 2008
  7. thank you. in exchange i will burn some insense, pick a four leaf clover and bow five time to the east for you. may zues declare us even. amen

    here is an example of gods blessings. one must assume these people prayed to god every day for his protection:

    http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/22/daughter-of-christian-singer-chapman-killed/

    The five-year-old daughter of Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman was killed last night when a car apparently driven by one of her older brothers hit her in the Chapman family's driveway.
     
    #1027     May 23, 2008
  8. Turok

    Turok

    God works in mysterious ways.

    JB
     
    #1028     May 23, 2008
  9. he works exactly like we would expect if there were no god at all.
     
    #1029     May 23, 2008
  10. He must have known someone to get a job like that.
     
    #1030     May 23, 2008