The interpretation of this verse by Christians is all wrong. They think it means that in order to get to "the father" they must profess that they accept and believe that Jesus is their savior. That is not what this passage means at all.

If Jesus said this, as the voice of God, and if "God" is "Love" then that is what this means.

Love is the way, the truth and the Life. No one comes to the father except through Love.

"God is love." If Jesus is God, and God is Love then Jesus is love.

LOVE is the way.

Jesus was a man and if he was God then he spoke for God and if God is Love then he spoke for love. Don't worship the man. If you worship Jesus the man then you worship false idols.

I am aware of what most Christians believe. (Or are told they must believe, or claim to believe.)

But if you skip over all those "IFs" and stories and look at what Jesus was supposed to have been trying to TEACH people, I think that is where you will find true Christianity.

And that is what is important.

Take the path of Love and Compassion. Do everything in the name of Love and Compassion, and have no fear. That is the message of Jesus.

The rest is Church dogma, and rules about what Christians are "supposed to believe."

If they believe these things, and they are not leading lives of Love and compassion, then they have missed the boat and the message.

Christians have been distorting the meaning of Christianity for centuries.

I think it is time for non-Christians to figure it out for them since they haven't been able to.

I can't tell if you are serious or joking.

If you are serious, then I will say that it has nothing to do with how one deals with any particular Bible stories. I have no problem believing in miracles or of people coming back to life after having been dead. I actually know of several factual cases where this really happened.

Even if I said I believed that there was a spiritual man named Jesus and that he died and then came back to life, I don't think it is necessary to then have to believe that he died for the sins of mankind, or that he was the only begotten son of God, born of a virgin and all the other religious trappings they made up about him.

If Jesus really did make a deal with God or the Devil and exchanged his life for the lives of all mankind or humans on the earth, I am deeply grateful to him for that. I can't imagine why it would have been necessary to do that, unless there was some evil God that had decided to destroy the earth and all of mankind for their sins and Jesus stepped up and said, "Wait! Take me instead." Let them live.

Okay so he died and mankind was spared. But now some religious priests are telling us that we MUST now worship him and accept him as our savior IF we are going to be saved. Really? Another bargain? With priests and churches? Didn't Jesus already die for mankind? Now you want to round up volunteers to join your cult and worship him?

This just sounds a bunch of alien overlords fighting over the human slaves. It makes no practical sense.

Instead, I think I will just follow my own heart and experience my own relationship with the divine and walk away from the trappings of religious dogma and all of their perceptions and rules.

I am saved. I saved myself. Love, compassion, and faith will engulf me. There is no room for fear, doubt or evil.

Yes. It is something scientists call "false certainty." They are certain they are right and you are either a lost soul needing to be saved or that you have willfully chosen an evil path.

Smuggness is a good word. When they realize that you don't want to join their cult, then they separate themselves from you out of fear that you will "corrupt" their faith.

This is to TawtStrat



True, and everyone is somewhat responsible for their own orgasm.




The statement was ... if you are really good, then you KNOW YOU ARE GOOD. If you have to wonder if it was "good for her," and you don't know, you are probably 'not good.' (You need lots of experience.) If she fooled you by faking an orgasm, you may only think you are good.

Women know that men's egos are huge, and many will fake it for that reason because sometimes a man won't give up until he thinks she had her orgasm. ...And she just wants it to be over. Some men don't care or are just clueless or maybe they just assume it was good for her.






If you think its a myth, then you have been with a lot of fakers.
Its NO MYTH.

I am giving you a piece of brutal honesty here, so don't go into denial.

You can have love, as no one can stop you from loving them.

You can have happiness and joy when you let the love flow.

Both happiness and love are yours for the taking.

When you follow your purpose of these things, abundance is yours and the universe conspires to give you what ever you desire.

Yes this is true. Religion is personal. Consciousness is personal.

But it's not just Christians who think they are 'right' and everyone else is 'wrong' - and going to hell, every cult, every sect and denomination I have looked at have the delusion they they and they alone have got it right.

Perhaps it makes them feel special. If your religion makes you a better person then that is a good thing, but you should never go around with the idea that if a person does not buy into your particular dogma or religious book that they are lost souls not worthy of God. That is the ultimate arrogance in my opinion.

I don't buy into all that kind of symbolic thinking put forth by Biblical texts, but I understand the concept of being enlightened or finding enlightenment.

If you are or become truly enlightened, you realize that "self" and "God" are one. If you are enlightened and you have gone from ignorance and fear (evil)and you live in compassion and love, then you are "born again" in spirit and you are one with God.

A "sinner" embraces fear and disrupts and goes against the natural nature of life and joy with wrong thinking and wrong acts that stem from fear.

Love is the opposite of fear. Faith is to accept what is and live in serenity.

Also, and this is a "no brainer" if you are not good with one night stands then don't have sex with a woman on the first date!

I don't care how many life stories you swap. That does not take the place of building a relationship.

Okay I think its time for a dose of brutal honesty from the High Priestess of the Universal life church of brutal truth and honesty.

That would be me.

This is going to be hard for a lot of men to take and they will all probably think it does not apply to them. But...

Did you give her mind blowing sex? Do you know what you are doing in the sack? Did you know that most encounters that women have are a huge disappointment? Do you have a clue how many women fake orgasms? Most men are clueless on how to please a woman. The ones who do, KNOW THEY ARE GOOD. If you don't KNOW YOU ARE GOOD, and I mean KNOW it, then you probably are not.

Women do get horny, and that's a fact. How frustrating do you think it is for a woman who is horny to bed a guy who only frustrates her more? Why do you think women buy vibrators? Because most of them end up having to please themselves.

If a woman is only wanting sex, and the sex is not good, she ain't coming back. On the other hand if you take the time to develop a relationship, she might have more patience and teach you a few things.

This post is for all men.

It is time for smart people to expose the stupid idiots who are supposed to be the "authorities" in this country.

Get them on video and upload them to youtube.

Black is classy, Red is HOT.

The amount of stupidity in the world astounds me.

This book might be a little difficult to understand, but you can download it for free. I just found it yesterday. It is called "The crack in the cosmic egg." It talkes about how our minds create our experiences and our reality. I'm not finished reading it yet. It seems very interesting.

This is not a clickable link, but if you copy and paste it you can find this book.

http://selfdefinition.org/psychology/Joseph%20Chilton%20Pearce%20-%20The%20Crack%20in%20The%20Cosmic%20Egg.pdf

She said it worked for her. It is the power of the mind and the belief given to the ritual that causes it to work. Plus, salt is a purifier. When you petition the universe for something it will conspire to give it to you. Ask for protection and you will get it. You are more powerful than the attacker.

Ask a firewalker how they walked across hot coals without getting burned. It's not a 'trick' it is the power of the mind's state of consciousness.

First of all it's a crime? No chit Sherlock!! ASSAULT AND BATTERY.

WHY THE HELL NOT?

That's frustrating. FILE CHARGES.

Does anyone care to join the discussion about free will?

Where have all the thinkers gone on Mingle?

I don't believe in determinism. Some people claim that free will is an illusion. I think that is crap. It absolves everyone of all responsibility. Its crap.

I believe that a person is intimately involved in every event and experience he has an is a co-creator of that event and experience.

You may not be conscious of how you are responsible, but you are responsible on the subconscious level. This is where people want to place the blame on something else and claim that it is not their fault. I suppose it makes them feel better.

Here is what I think of Sam Harris's talk on Free will being an illusion:

http://mingle2.com/topic/377043