I forgot to add..... My first wife's mother who was a divorcee and a christian was run over and died while walking home from church one night. Praise the lord, jesus saves.
After reading your posts again I deleted my input because you solved it. 1. Being a Christian is all fun and games till someone gets hurt. 2. Bad things happen to good people, who would have thought? It’s like we were brainwashed and ignored the suffering of everyone else because God don’t let people experience injuries and injustices? Interesting though, most of the religious people I knew were doing great until shit happened, not the high level Job pain all at once but more like a bankruptcy, family drama or health issues individually. I don’t recall many members in euphoria discovering atheism, that was kids in college being tricked by professors? “Habb 1: This is the message that came to the prophet Habakkuk in a vision from God: 2 O Lord, how long must I call for help before you will listen? I shout to you in vain; there is no answer. “Help! Murder!” I cry, but no one comes to save. 3 Must I forever see this sin and sadness all around me? Wherever I look I see oppression and bribery and men who love to argue and to fight. 4 The law is not enforced, and there is no justice given in the courts, for the wicked far outnumber the righteous, and bribes and trickery prevail. 5 The Lord replied: “Look, and be amazed! You will be astounded at what I am about to do! For I am going to do something in your own lifetime that you will have to see to believe. 6 I am raising a new force on the world scene, the Chaldeans, a cruel and violent nation who will march across the world and conquer it.7 They are notorious for their cruelty. They do as they like, and no one can interfere. 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards. They are a fierce people, more fierce than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry move proudly forward from a distant land; like eagles they come swooping down to pounce upon their prey. 9 All opposition melts away before the terror of their presence. They collect captives like sand. 10 “They scoff at kings and princes and scorn their forts. They simply heap up dirt against their walls and capture them! 11 They sweep past like wind and are gone, but their guilt is deep, for they claim their power is from their gods.” 12 O Lord my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal—is your plan in all of this to wipe us out? Surely not! O God our Rock, you have decreed the rise of these Chaldeans to chasten and correct us for our awful sins.13 We are wicked, but they far more! Will you, who cannot allow sin in any form, stand idly by while they swallow us up? Should you be silent while the wicked destroy those who are better than they? 14 Are we but fish, to be caught and killed? Are we but creeping things that have no leader to defend them from their foes? 15 Must we be strung up on their hooks and dragged out in their nets, while they rejoice? 16 Then they will worship their nets and burn incense before them! “These are the gods who make us rich,” they’ll say. 17 Will you let them get away with this forever? Will they succeed forever in their heartless wars? “Luke 13 Repent or Perish 1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Last year I met up with a former evangelical cult high roller playa-member who was honky dory during the 1980s-2008 real estate market. Jeff was worth at least $200 million, a lot of cash to me. In 2008 he almost blew up, lost his wife because she wanted to feel young again. He developed a genetic disorder(Slow Huntingtons?). Shit got real to him, no God because that don’t happen to the faithful! Ok, Jeff is now 67 in a wheelchair and a full blown God and Jesus hater. The anger and rage, all his recuperated cash plus interest can’t extinguish. He’s still pissed at his wife because she left to recapture the teen years the religion robbed her. A 49 year old woman clubbing, partying and chasing tail trying to find youth. Life is brutal, been happening to billions of people but different when it attacks us because the lies we were fed. I think we all-both got robbed by these religious con artists!
The Jewish religion + Christianity portray God as an outside force, a different being, a parent father, someone you pray to and worship, someone you sing praises to, someone superior. God becomes a type idol. Just my own personal opinion, the description is deceiving and creates the worldly issues we have. God imo, is not; 'out there'. God is us, God is every molecule in the universe. There is nothing in existence which isn't God. If there is anything to praise or worship or sing praises to it's life, and even a rock is life. By worshiping some 'God' 'out there' we are shifting responsibility to something other than ourselves. And imo, the bible is like Shakespeare, its brilliant but it's just human thoughts, calling itself God's word is just fiction if you believe it 100%.
Jeff told me “I prayed for a bread and fish, God gave me stones and serpents!” He was a role model, a kind man deceived by a lying religion that failed to educate him-us that it is all chaos, no order.
I hope trading distracts you a little, you went through Hell! it’s the quiet time and thinking about all the years squandered-wasted on cults that drives me insane! My religious family is evil, they left a path of destruction I am still trying to recover so I hope you find something that works. I traded a pump NXL(.$90-$1.60+) on Thursday, it was up your alley. Monday $2.74 or $.70?
Just an opinion of mine again. Life serves up all sorts of issues, but perhaps, most likely, bad results are a result of bad decisions. Religion for the most part imo is a bad decision because it comes from or authored in delusion. Religion is good on the one half because it brings about a sense of community, but bad from the sense of superiorty, exclusiveness, cliques, entitlement. Lets take Biden as an example. Biden sets out to do good, to be sincere, helpful, but his religious delusion has created huge conflict, pain, war crimes, terror which will reverbeate for years. If America does not see a major terrorist attack soon which affects other innocents I'll be very surprised.
I'm expecting this next quarter (next 3 months) copper and gold to fly, maybe also uranium will continue another jump, am expecting crypto to disappoint.
Once one understands how to read the bible (most won't), they'll find it's actually a psychological drama of man's evolution off this earthy round sphere of hell hence the difficulties with translation and the inability to work out what the hell is going on. Mickey's right that most Christians are cult followers but totally wrong on the bible being "bullshit".