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Nicco61

Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:42 am Post subject: |
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Ok let's say that there are chemicals being subversively released into the atmosphere by the government. I would assume that once released there would be no control over where they go...correct?
So they would be poisoning themselves, their family, friends etc.
Unless that's what those Breath Right Nasal Strips are for.
A secret miniture gas mask develped by the government to protect from chemtrails.....  |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: |
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Well, since this thread has gone off-topic anyway, and I've been personally attacked for my religious beliefs, I'll respond to "jinju's" characterization of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as "some fruity guy who pranced around with tigers and elk"....
As a predicted incarnation of Krishna who appeared in West Bengal, India, in the late 15th century, Chaitanya is known as the "Golden Avatar" because of his beautiful, effulgent complexion...
Actually, Krishna (the "supreme enjoyer") is always associated with his eternal consort, Radharani (manifestation of His internal pleasure potency...)
In the Lord Chaitanya incarnation, God's main external purpose was to inaugurate the sankirtana movement of chanting holy names, which he spread throughout India.
Internally, Krishna wanted to experience the intense devotion felt for him by Radharani, so the Chaitanya incarnation combined the divine personalities of both Krishna and Radharani...
He was always in the mood of feeling intense separation from Krishna, and, in His later pastimes, outwardly appeared like a drunken madman to ordinary folks (and He reportedly did induce wild animals to chant holy names of God...)
Things - and people - are not always what they seem to be...
http://www.salagram.net/parishad43.htm
http://caitanya.krishna.org/ |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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RTeacher,
after writing that little fairy tale you seriously want to talk to us about critical thinking? |
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cbclark4

Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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"Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion."
"India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire." (Sam Clemens)
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it's definitely esoteric knowledge - admittedly "far out" by any mundane standard - even most people who saw Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (in 15th century India) didn't suspect that he was an incarnation...
That kind of information can only be gotten from a pure devotee spiritual master in disciplic succession from Lord Chaitanya. The only way critical thinking figures into it is deciding whether a particular spiritual master is genuine or not (since there are a lot of bogus ones just in it for money and fame...)
Of course, there's a chance that the whole thing is based on some hallucination or imaginary wishful thinking, but pure devotees don't use any intoxication, and they only repeat what they essentially heard from their spiritual masters...
At least the chanting process recommended by Chaitanya (via my guru) was enough to inspire me to quit taking all drugs .
http://www.prabhupadaconnect.com/HareKrsna.html |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Location: Nearly in NK
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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I am always amazed at the put downs that active Christianity gets, while the other religions get respect. |
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twg

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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contrarian wrote: |
I am always amazed at the put downs that active Christianity gets, while the other religions get respect. |
No they don't. Or have you missed the mockery RTeacher gets every time he starts posting about his beliefs? Or the "Jews are evil" threads? Or the "Islam is evil" threads?
It's just that the fundamentalists here don't feel truly Christian unless they believe they're some poor minority being persecuted for their faith. Being a powerful cultural force makes a lie of this, but at least they have these dens of internet unbelievers to passive-aggressively antagonize to get their daily dose of martyrdom. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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contrarian wrote: |
I am always amazed at the put downs that active Christianity gets, while the other religions get respect. |
Uh huh. When we mock Rteacher's giant blue baby, scientology, the raelians, or Islam, I guess that's critical thinking. But when we mock Jesus and his lil apostle friends, lordy, that's a put down. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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jinju wrote: |
RTeacher,
after writing that little fairy tale you seriously want to talk to us about critical thinking? |
You know he thinks yogis have travelled in space? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:20 am Post subject: |
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mindmetoo wrote: |
jinju wrote: |
RTeacher,
after writing that little fairy tale you seriously want to talk to us about critical thinking? |
You know he thinks yogis have travelled in space? |
Its called essoteric knowledge.....essoteric knowledge always seems to be the most wacked out crap people cant prove...so they call it essoteric knowledge and pretend they are on to something. |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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cbclark4

Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:39 am Post subject: |
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. (Sam Clemens)
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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The OP believed in something stupid but something that COULD, feasibly be a possibility. What you believe in is the most stupid, absurd crap Ive ever read. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Chemtrails? I blame the internet. It's what you get when you have a tool that allows people who lack basic critical thinking skills to form a community. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Conspiracy theories are one thing, but harbouring a fixation that the sky is out to get you? Chicken Little; "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!". I remember a poem-line; 'the (beautiful sight of the) sky is enough reason to live'.
Their dreadful thinking seems to replay that moment in the movie 'The Matrix' where it's shown, and explained, how humans are kept in sleep and milked for their bioelectricity in fields of capsules under an eternally dark sky. |
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