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Post by goz on Jan 17, 2020 9:12:56 GMT
For the religiously inclined, just what does this mean?
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Post by Isapop on Jan 17, 2020 9:27:24 GMT
For the religiously inclined, just what does this mean? Recently, it means making Donald Trump president.
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Post by goz on Jan 17, 2020 9:52:08 GMT
For the religiously inclined, just what does this mean? Recently, it means making Donald Trump president. TBH I was thinking more ….reflectively….
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 10:18:27 GMT
Doesn't mean anything to me 🤷♀️
Assuming you mean like why do earthquakes happen right? God's will? No, it's tectonic plates.
Why are some people well fed, while others starve? God's will? No, it's human greed.
Why does someone die in a car crash? God's will? No, it's mostly driver error.
God's will is that I love God, Love everyone, do good deeds, and live a life of kindness and compassion (in which I include all God's creatures). That to me is God's will. It is my covenant.
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Post by general313 on Jan 17, 2020 15:22:53 GMT
For the religiously inclined, just what does this mean? The phrase is usually used when something bad happens.
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Post by thefleetsin on Jan 17, 2020 16:23:27 GMT
all hail the power of jesus shame
on a jail of one through ten excluding for the moment the mesmerizing power of all things zen when it comes to making life long friends nothing says roll me over and do me nasty quite like a religion propped up to defend one more recycled blood letting leading to an illuminated living end.
sjw 01/17/2020 inspired at this very moment in time by peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in a pot encrusted with what looks like mold. . .
from the 'bewitched series' of poems
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 17, 2020 19:05:14 GMT
God does not have a will apart from the stuff people in power made and makes up.
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Post by Huxley on Jan 17, 2020 19:25:06 GMT
I take it as for lukewarm Christians.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 23:22:06 GMT
Doesn't mean anything to me 🤷♀️ Assuming you mean like why do earthquakes happen right? God's will? No, it's tectonic plates. Why are some people well fed, while others starve? God's will? No, it's human greed. Why does someone die in a car crash? God's will? No, it's mostly driver error. God's will is that I love God, Love everyone, do good deeds, and live a life of kindness and compassion (in which I include all God's creatures). That to me is God's will. It is my covenant. And that's where I find God's will as well. It is what I get from the message of Christ.
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Post by buckyv2 on Jan 18, 2020 13:34:23 GMT
For the religiously inclined, just what does this mean? It means he saw a lawyer to draw up a Last Will and Testament of what He/She want to pass on when death comes.
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Post by gadreel on Jan 20, 2020 20:15:54 GMT
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Post by Rodney Farber on Jan 22, 2020 22:09:53 GMT
It's double talk. It's an excuse for why bad things happen. The expression attempts to create the impression that an authoritative and/or meaningful statement has been made, when, in fact, only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated, enabling the specific meaning to be denied if the statement is challenged.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jan 23, 2020 17:46:58 GMT
It's the religious version of "it is what it is." Basically a way of accepting whatever happened/happens.
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Post by goz on Jan 23, 2020 20:19:22 GMT
It's the religious version of "it is what it is." Basically a way of accepting whatever happened/happens. Logically, it is not quite that, as saying' it is what it is' has a neutral causative connotation. Saying it is God's will means that God was the cause or otherwise of the event.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jan 23, 2020 22:05:57 GMT
It's the religious version of "it is what it is." Basically a way of accepting whatever happened/happens. Logically, it is not quite that, as saying' it is what it is' has a neutral causative connotation. Saying it is God's will means that God was the cause or otherwise of the event. Exactly what I meant, hence "the religious version."
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Post by drystyx on Jan 28, 2020 18:48:04 GMT
If you look deep inside your heart, you will know that it is GOD'S WILL that you send me an organic blueberry pie with organic sugar, and an organic cheesecake with organic ingredients, and an organic vegetable lasagna, and other stuff God will reveal to us soon.
Oh, no strawberries or cherries or other junk on the cheesecake. Those are an abomination to God, and he snorts at them.
As for the generic "God's will", that is a sick non Christian fundamentalist excuse of convenience for what demonic principalities perform. A third of the angels that opposed God are already in their jail, but another third that are even more sadistic have been given too much power over the centuries, making a blockade against what is truly God's will. Given power by maniacs all over, including those who claim that horrible events are "God's will" for the greater good. Lets not forget that while Jesus used his power for the Holy Ghost to heal and revive and improve, one of the first things Peter used power for was to call upon a spirit to murder two people who had doubts about his use of power. Well, he proved them correct, and no sane person can say that was the same Holy Ghost that Jesus had.
Since then, even more horrors have been falsely attributed to the Holy Ghost and the good God, and that gave even more power to the worst stewards in the realm of principalities. How thick that blockade must be by now.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jan 28, 2020 19:25:49 GMT
If you look deep inside your heart, you will know that it is GOD'S WILL that you send me an organic blueberry pie with organic sugar, and an organic cheesecake with organic ingredients, and an organic vegetable lasagna, and other stuff God will reveal to us soon. Oh, no strawberries or cherries or other junk on the cheesecake. Those are an abomination to God, and he snorts at them. As for the generic "God's will", that is a sick non Christian fundamentalist excuse of convenience for what demonic principalities perform. A third of the angels that opposed God are already in their jail, but another third that are even more sadistic have been given too much power over the centuries, making a blockade against what is truly God's will. Given power by maniacs all over, including those who claim that horrible events are "God's will" for the greater good. Lets not forget that while Jesus used his power for the Holy Ghost to heal and revive and improve, one of the first things Peter used power for was to call upon a spirit to murder two people who had doubts about his use of power. Well, he proved them correct, and no sane person can say that was the same Holy Ghost that Jesus had. Since then, even more horrors have been falsely attributed to the Holy Ghost and the good God, and that gave even more power to the worst stewards in the realm of principalities. How thick that blockade must be by now. Watch for the term “natural law” as a substitute Christian Rightists will use where they can’t use “God’s will,” as in homosexuality is against natural law. And there's PaulsLaugh again, trying to keep the world safe for sodomy. It's all so unnecessary, as the filthy practice is in no danger of dying out.
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Post by goz on Jan 28, 2020 19:29:36 GMT
If you look deep inside your heart, you will know that it is GOD'S WILL that you send me an organic blueberry pie with organic sugar, and an organic cheesecake with organic ingredients, and an organic vegetable lasagna, and other stuff God will reveal to us soon. Oh, no strawberries or cherries or other junk on the cheesecake. Those are an abomination to God, and he snorts at them. As for the generic "God's will", that is a sick non Christian fundamentalist excuse of convenience for what demonic principalities perform. A third of the angels that opposed God are already in their jail, but another third that are even more sadistic have been given too much power over the centuries, making a blockade against what is truly God's will. Given power by maniacs all over, including those who claim that horrible events are "God's will" for the greater good. Lets not forget that while Jesus used his power for the Holy Ghost to heal and revive and improve, one of the first things Peter used power for was to call upon a spirit to murder two people who had doubts about his use of power. Well, he proved them correct, and no sane person can say that was the same Holy Ghost that Jesus had. Since then, even more horrors have been falsely attributed to the Holy Ghost and the good God, and that gave even more power to the worst stewards in the realm of principalities. How thick that blockade must be by now. Watch for the term “natural law” as a substitute Christian Rightists will use where they can’t use “God’s will,” as in homosexuality is against natural law. Well, for me it is quite obvious that the term ACTUALLY mean 'the believer's will' with God as an excuse.
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Post by gadreel on Jan 28, 2020 20:50:05 GMT
And there's PaulsLaugh again, trying to keep the world safe for sodomy. It's all so unnecessary, as the filthy practice is in no danger of dying out. And what’s your sick little kink, Herald? Because everyone has got one...even if it never leaves the confines of your head. His sick little kink is self hate, he is actually gay, his refutation of the naturalness of homosexuality and the lack of choice in sexuality that people have is that we all have a choice and he chose to be heterosexual.
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Post by drystyx on Jan 28, 2020 23:09:15 GMT
If you look deep inside your heart, you will know that it is GOD'S WILL that you send me an organic blueberry pie with organic sugar, and an organic cheesecake with organic ingredients, and an organic vegetable lasagna, and other stuff God will reveal to us soon. Oh, no strawberries or cherries or other junk on the cheesecake. Those are an abomination to God, and he snorts at them. As for the generic "God's will", that is a sick non Christian fundamentalist excuse of convenience for what demonic principalities perform. A third of the angels that opposed God are already in their jail, but another third that are even more sadistic have been given too much power over the centuries, making a blockade against what is truly God's will. Given power by maniacs all over, including those who claim that horrible events are "God's will" for the greater good. Lets not forget that while Jesus used his power for the Holy Ghost to heal and revive and improve, one of the first things Peter used power for was to call upon a spirit to murder two people who had doubts about his use of power. Well, he proved them correct, and no sane person can say that was the same Holy Ghost that Jesus had. Since then, even more horrors have been falsely attributed to the Holy Ghost and the good God, and that gave even more power to the worst stewards in the realm of principalities. How thick that blockade must be by now. Watch for the term “natural law” as a substitute Christian Rightists will use where they can’t use “God’s will,” as in homosexuality is against natural law. The obvious aspect of "natural law" is that by definition in Christianity, all human flesh is fallen and against "natural law" no matter what. Not one of us has any merit, be (s)he hetero, homo, bi, neutered, spayed, eunuch, stud, whatever. Since no human flesh can be in natural law, it is pointless to identify any single weakness, since all humans have weakness in flesh. It's just simply best to be all you can be without hurting anyone else, as long as we know as it is our weakness of flesh, and don't cling to it, because when one leaves the flesh some day, clinging to it will be clinging to the unnatural. By "clinging", I mean making it our idol. I'm not sure if making it our spiritual identity is also dangerous, but I suspect it does keep us from being all we can be in spirit.
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