on@hpda.UUCP (Owen Rowley) (06/05/85)
I would like to share these "rules" of examination with the fine
folks who peruse net.religion.......
Three Rules of Examination for the Seeker ....
(To be applied to ANY system in question)
1. What you are REQUIRED to BELIEVE.....
is what the system cannot prove.
2. Anything that you are asked to keep secret is of more value
to the teacher than it is to the student.
3. Any practise that is forbidden offers something that the system
cannot succesfully replace with an alternative.
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Refuse to have anything to do with anything
(whether it be a nation, person, organisation
corporation,or religion...ect)
That seeks to Grow WEALTHIER INSTEAD OF HEALTHIER
or
That seeks to get LARGER RATHER THAN TRUER.
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Dr John Lilly .................
"What you believe to be true .....IS true,or becomes true,
within the limits of your experiments, and experiences.
These beliefs are further limits to be overcome.
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In the realm of the Mind there are no Limits."
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ALL IS ZERO BEFORE THE GREAT ONE...........
...............GONG
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I would like to see less bickering about who's system is more valid, or
more historicly accurate, on this net. Today I began to write an extensive
diatribe regarding the posting "Evidences of Religion"... I spent an hour
of my time scraping my brain for refutations of what I considered an immensly
silly piece of Dogma. After reading what i had written I realised that I had
merely mirrored the sillines and Dogmatic approach of the original writer, and
that I had accomplished nothing and only worked myself into a trap of
YOU or ME thinking....
I am committed to a spiritual course that takes me into the heart of hearts
and in that heart space only YOU and ME thinking brings peace and comfort. So
I dug into my personal notebooks and extracted the above material for sharing.
They are derived from sources other than myself , and I take credit only for
having the smarts to keep them in mind in mydaily life.
On another note I want to thank the person who has taken his discussion of
Mormonism to net.religion.christian and hope sincerely that others who
have ignored net discussion of the appropriatness of extensive dialog about
matters Xtian here in net.religion will follow that example. I would hope that
as intelligent and responsible beings we can all respect common netiquite,
as well as each others opinions. I suspect that posting voluminous material
detailing the historical precedence, and the posters personal devotion to VMS
in net.unix would meet with swift and decisive responce..Lets be fair and
put it where it belongs guys...OK>>
I promise to go there and read it now and then myself, I'm not afraid of
investigating alternate points of view.
So I also feel thats it is appropriate to put out the call to folks to start
posting some positive spiritual material here in net.religion .Some things
that will inspire our spiritual nature to reach new vistas , and to challenge
dogmatic restrictive traditions to open up to new ideas. If enough good high
quality stuff starts showing up here then we can really make a difference in
this world, I don't know about you, but thats why I'm here!
LUX ...on
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Owen Rowley......Santa Cruz, Ca.
"Happiness is my natural state, I do what I enjoy, and an abundance of all
good fortune comes to me for it."