A serious question that I hope will generate some thoughts and good answers.\n\nDon't give the standard of letting all see him or her walking on water!\n\nMy opinion only the whole world has too many self appointed leaders and all [AGAIN IN MY OPINION ONLT]is progressing deeper and deeper into the hole of complicated requirements to accomplish even the simple tasks. More and more are having less and less of the good things in life such as peace, happiness, and contentment. Millions even lack food to eat, water to drink, and clean air to breath. All this has been replaced by worry, antisipation, discontent, and doubts about tomorrow. Fear is every where and people are even afraid to communicate with one another with the excuse that BIG BROTHER may be listening and what is said may be used in evidence for their harm.\n\nWHY? What state of existance is present today and in fact a way of life?\n\nJust a thought from cjkeysjr@yahoo.com.ph
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For me it was odd. I use to be a simple Christian man. I went to church and I loved the Lord.  I knew the bible somewhat.\nOne day i was at a christian meeting and I was called by God. At first I thought I was hearing things or going crazy. But when I got called I started to get a deep yearning to preach and I was answering complex biblical questions for others around me. \nI went home and the feelings I had at the meeting never went away. Next thing I know I am studying to be a Reverend.\n\nSome people think they are called but they don't really do the job well. They don't really get the bible and they use it for profit. They can't counsel people very well and they never have the answers.  Most likely these people got tricked by the devil into preaching.
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What he meant is that people around the world are UNCONCERNED. We all know that there will are evil people who will do evil deeds. But what are we going to do about it? The world is dangerous because people are unconcerned about these things.\n\nHe is persuading us TO CARE and BE COCERNED about what is happening around us and DO THE RIGHT THING.
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Boy, bungiebabe woke up on the wrong side of the political coin this morning, eh? Too bad about his approval rating, btw. Finally proves what people like me have been trying to tell you for years now: Little King George and his tyranny cannot be tolerated. It is about time that people start calling a spade a spade. Guess what, King George followers - The emperor has no clothes! \n\nSo keep bowing to his smirking, bobble-head approach to leadership. After all, isn't making others feel insignificant how you types manage to feel so good about yourselves?
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siamsalem007: are you serious or are just that dumb? it is by leaps and bound easier to follow the herd so you don't have to formulate original thoughts or have an individual opinion.  i don't mean to bash or berate, but come on! jeewhiz! <---hehe that rhymes with jesus. HA!\n\nand for all of you christians supposedly being supportive and caring, you sure are a bunch of ravenous close-minded religion-mongers. what makes you think you deserve eternal paradise? because some book written by the hands and fingers of men tells you so? at the very LEAST, practice what you freaking preach! so few of you do.
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Are you surprised by that?\nThey just can't accept that not everyone thinks like they do.\nBrainwashing works on them, so why not on everyone else?\n\nOsama is having a BIG PARTY today!
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There's a good majority, Mixed with the created hormonal emotions from the processed food we eat, of humans that  define their reality in pain and suffering. They can't ever be happy. And their thoughts and Ideas, which are quite subjective, of what a perfect world should be, is always wanting to be put into effect. Like Hitler. His perfect world consisted of only blonde-haired blue-eyed germans. He was also beaten severly as a child, and i'm guessing a bit repressed. There are a lot of factors that go into it. Fear leads to anger. anger leads to hate. hate to suffering. It's true. Perphaps the key to fear is reverse paranoia. Instead of everyone expecting everyone to do wrong unto them, perhaps if they expected only the best from them. It's my personal experience that thoughts, whatever they may be, good or bad in perception, that they'll come to life and be seen most by the mind of that who thinks most about it. Your brain has a way of blocking out things it sees regularly from your memory. Only things that are of perceived importance, (things being thought of often) stay in memory, or in notice, on sight. Awareness is created by change. Things that are normal occurances always blend in. Therefore if you make a note of thinking most of good positive things, you'll find that you'll become a good positive person in essence. Likewise if you define your reality through narrowminded beliefs and generalizations, and only feel reality though existance in pain, always paranoid around those whom you don't know personally, then yes, you'll become old from the stress, twisted, maladjusted, and another force generating more negative energy for the world to pick up. Good begets good. Evil begets evil. If the world is to have full and thorough peace within it. There's going to have to be a LOT of accepting going on. Personally, I don't believe that'd be very possible due to the very natures of certain personalities. I believe everything must balance. There is no all good or all evil. Good wouldn't be good without evil. People cannot live without killing and consuming another live being or object. Whether it be plant or animal, the world was destined to always have some form of evil or another in it. I believe it's just the balance of society and of the universe. Otherwise, it'd just be our ego's driven by emotions telling us that death and dying and killing is bad or wrong. Our emotions tell us that, but universally, you'll notice the universe completely indifferent to all emotion. Perphaps just a mechanism to keep us alive, just like lust is a mechanism to keep us reproducing. If it wasn't for our minds ability to believe anything and to perceive purpose, i think we'd all go insane for being like puppets in the grand scale scheme of things, being strong along by our emotions and feelings towards certain things, embedded in our genetics and brains to make it all but most difficult to do anything but what the brains automated reaction had in mind. All in all, stepping out of human persona, and perception of derived purpose, in the grand scheme of things, without human aspect of good or evil, one could possibly say everything is perfect as is. But somewhere somehow, perphaps this is just a good form of entertainment to another entity larger than ourselves, or perphaps our perceptions. The beat goes on da-da-doom-da-doom-da-da. It's going to continue whether we like it or not, so we may as well know our roles and shut our mouths. That's my 2 cents.
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I have been studying the course for 8 years. I have been through the book 5 times and I never saw your quote anywhere in the book.  \n\nIt seems as though you are trying to paraphrase, but you did not understand the concept and came up with a misconception.\n\nThe course is not saying that your life is not real. In fact it says just the opposite. What it is saying is that you create your own reality with the thoughts that you think.\n\nYour dream of terror pain and suffering is the result of the way you choose to look at the world.  This works the way it does because God gives us what ever we want. \n\nIf we want something different we need to change our mind about the world we see around us. \n\nWhen we do God gives us that new world instead. \n\nEach of us gives the world all the meaning that it has for us.\n\n I don't see the world as scary or evil. I see a peaceful and loving world. \n\nIf you would like to discuss this feel free to email.\n\nlove and blessings Don
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I've never really thought about it that way, but you have some really deep and profound points. You're absolutely right. Mankind's health and quality of life is going to you know where in a handbasket. It's going down hill everyday. I could set for heaven knows how long trying to think of all the people that I'm connected with in some way or the other that have something wrong with them. You sound a lot like my father.  He should have been born 100 yrs ago. He would be perfectly content in a cabin in the woods somewhere about infinite miles away from everything and everybody and honestly wouldn't care if he ever saw any one again. My dad is pretty extreme, but I'm just saying that you remind me of him because he's constantly talking about dependent society is in general and how people should learn to be self-reliant and live off the land. Kind of in a pioneer sort of way. My parents live on a farm and grow a lot of their own food. My dad hunts also for meat. Sorry if that offends anyone. I'm just saying the way it is. Sorry for rattling on so much. Talking or in this case, typing is my speciality. LOL. In answer to your last question, no I'm not happy with how reliant I am on civilization and other people just to exist everyday and I hate how much I need other people to feel validated as a person. But what do we do about it? Guess I should post my own question on that one. Just trying to share some random thoughts with you. Thanks for listening.
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What you said doesn't sound like the statement of someone living in a dream world to me.  It sounds like common sense.  I think our leaders need to take a refresher course in preschool and kindergarten, because they've clearly forgotten fundamental early life lessons -- like two wrongs don't make a right, the end doesn't always justify the means, and just because all your friends are jumping off a cliff doesn't mean you should too.  I think its our responsibility as citizens to voice our displeasure, tell our politicians to start behaving, and if they don't then get them the heck out of office.
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Why? Where to start, how about that everything is allready so F.U.B.A.R. that trying to change it is impossible, just a little fish fighting against the overwhelming current of ingnorance and distaste. Some people just don't think for themselves beleive it or not, like little robots, you input info and they never question anything for themselves.
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Oh, I've noticed. And not just here. It goes on all over the world. People "defending" the truth. What from? I have no clue. It looks to me as though any truth that would need someone to guard it and keep it safe is a weak truth indeed. The TRUTH should need no guardian, no protector. It should be strong enough to stand on its own, even when people deny it. It should be able to out live it's detractors. It should be true ALL the time, and not just part of the time. Hmmm ... Maybe its not the truth that they're guarding. Maybe its their own lack of faith in it, or their own lack of understanding what it really is. Maybe they're not trying to guard the truth at all. Maybe what they're guarding is their own insecurity. ;-) ~ Peace & Blessing ~
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These are really good points. I mean it's about time someone proves to the world that we don't make this all up and that they need to broaden their horizons. Thanks for making the world a little easier to live in.
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Oh I know.  People are in too much of a rush these days.  Most are in a rush to get nowhere.  I think people give themselves too much to do.  It seems that the more conveniences we get, the less time we have to enjoy life.\n\nWe need to enjoy life while we have it.  Tomorrow is not promised and it can be taken while we spend our lives trying to be better than the next person.
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Funny, there was this one guy 2,000 years ago who said love everyone, don't judge, and follow the Golden Rule. It's a shame that "leaders" don't listen to him anymore.
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I feel your burden, this world has changed a lot in a short period of time. I am a believer in Christ, my faith is stronger as the world gets worse. You can feel the dark looming heaviness of things getting worse before getting better. I thank God for my faith. My husband is not a believer and I continue to pray for him. He is aware of the ads we see for upcoming movies, they are all so gory and evil. He is wondering as well as so many of us with what is going on in this world. I can only believe more people will receive salvation as time goes on. We live in such an obnoxious world that I don't think the rude people are laughing as hard as they used to. Just keep your eyes on Christ and everything will fall into place. God Bless to you and yours.
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I agree, the people of this world have forgotten that God wants us to LOVE one another. No matter what religion or race. We all came from the same place. Our world is really a mess. I guess all we can do is Pray for things to get better. GOD BLESS YOU, for caring..
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Humanity has yet to fully recover from the Christian movement. While the Bible does contain a lot of good messages for people to care for one another, other parts of it are a bunch of garbage. I mean think about it, assuming God exists, why would he only grant "authority" to some administration centered in the Vatican? It's A Scam. We don't need fancy stories or mundane, repetetive procedures every Sunday. We need love and respect for one another.