[Heretic]

you know I worked hard at a post just like this and got to a point and just stopped because I really have no room to talk myself

my post was going to be called:

My god can beat up your god...

The whole point of my post was just like yours but rather long winded.

I used the religion angle because that is where most of the division seems to be other than witness & evidence interpretation. Jesus Christ is such a controversial subject right now and people are discussing/arguing in many threads about it right now. Some are preaching and hijacking threads while others are being down right rude and ridiculing others who are on a different path.

I find it fascinating that despite all of our different backgrounds and religions, we still ended up here and are talking about the SAME issues and then plugging them into our paradigms. We all come from totally unique backgrounds. It is only logical to assume that we will also have unique interpretations of the material while plugging it into our own personal and uniques paradigm. How can our views be really THAT different if we all find ourselves here, drawn together by the Project Camelot interviews and other testimony.

thats an amazing thing isn't it? We are all much more similar than different. Most of the religions people bicker over are saying the same exact thing using different ideologies to define them. Some people just cant get past the differences in the religions to see how similar they all are.

I have personal experience in walking this path for decades. And have had friends who used to be on the same page I was. Years pass and so much has happened to me to put me on a different path, and when I call my friends up to try to persuade them of my new finding, I find that they too are also into the same research themselves. They came to the same conclusions as I did, from a totally different viewpoint. It is astonishing and it still makes my jaw drop sometimes.

This is remarkable and I believe it is a symptom of the nature of the path. No matter what path we cling to, we will still end up in the same place other paths lead to given enough time.

When the human spirit is driving, all paths lead to the same place. Once you reach the top of the mountain you see all the other paths that lead to it. Some paths are longer, some harder, some more dangerous, some easier, some look almost impossible, and all seem to be independent of the other. Yet they all lead to the same summit of understanding.

We walk on a path, made of paths. We find ourselves changing views and moving from one path to another as if we have outgrown the old path towards another. The new path offers us new views that replace or satisfy a desire to know the answers we seek. No one path has all the answers.

No path is evil or misguided as long as the spirit is driving the person. I see alot of people trashing Christianity, yet I wonder how many of those people were once Christian themselves. I bet we can all relate in a exponential manner if we put aside the differences and decide to talk in the same spiritual language as others if we happen to know it, instead of focusing on the differences alone.

I suspect this has alot to do with the amount of venom in the criticisms I read, as if the person is reacting to their own past and not the person their comments are aimed at. A self loathing that is transfered onto the old path that failed them. Respect for the self is needed too I think, respect for our past and the mistakes we feel we made to get to our current paradigm. Do not forget nor hold contempt for the mistakes and errors we all made to get where we are, nor punish others for making those same mistakes for that IS the path.

people are just too damn sure they have the answers or they would not be pointing out others mistakes anyway. Yet 4 years from now I guarantee we will look back on what we know with the same disdain and rejection and we will see those who follow that path we consider archaic as foolish and misguided. Unless we have risen above such things. I say rise above it now.

I am not exempted from this phenomenon and I seriously doubt anyone else here is too.

You not only have to have respect for the poeple, but for their path as well, or we will be constantly embroiled in comparison and a need for supremacy.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. - Buddha


my 85 cents

peace