The Random Spiritual Thought Thread

[Pionart]

Satanism teaches self-improvement, and obtaining knowledge. Christianity teaches kindness, faith, and turning the other cheek. They are opposites in many ways. I was only considering it btw. Ill probably remain how I am now.

How are you now?

Christianity teaches the seeking of goodness, wisdom/truth, and, more over, faith in God. It teaches love.

There is self-improvement being taught, surely, but the knowledge sought by each side is likely of a different genus.

 

[Maou]

How are you now?

Christianity teaches the seeking of goodness, wisdom/truth, and, more over, faith in God. It teaches love.

There is self-improvement being taught, surely, but the knowledge sought by each side is likely of a different genus.

I am the same I have always been. I have converted to like, 4 religions.

 

[Hermit of the Forest]

 

[Justin of Flavia Neapolis]

This was a masterpiece of the true story of beatified martyr Franz Jagerstatter.

 

[Justin of Flavia Neapolis]

😂😂😂

 

[Justin of Flavia Neapolis]

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

I wonder if people are so fired up against wearing protective masks because of the subconscious connection with Islam and burqas. I'm encountering such vehement rage about it which seems bizarre. Hello people, it's a pandemic so let's not sneeze on each other just in case we die or something. But I know a lot of people abstracting it into symbolic bowing down to totalitarianism, talking about religious freedom and stuff that got me thinking they subconsciously think it's like a religious symbol instead of basic pragmatic response to viral contagion.

 

[The Cat]

I wonder if people are so fired up against wearing protective masks because of the subconscious connection with Islam and burqas. I'm encountering such vehement rage about it which seems bizarre. Hello people, it's a pandemic so let's not sneeze on each other just in case we die or something. But I know a lot of people abstracting it into symbolic bowing down to totalitarianism, talking about religious freedom and stuff that got me thinking they subconsciously think it's like a religious symbol instead of basic pragmatic response to viral contagion.

These are the very same people who irrately get beligerent when asked to remove halloween masks for security purposes. Hell of a catch that catch 22

 

[Maou]

 

[Norexan]

The Devil is nothing more but conscience of God about himself.

 

[The Cat]

I figure... a lot of curses are coming due this year. @_@

 

[Hermit of the Forest]

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

— Isaiah 55:8-9

 

[Sacrophagus]

The Devil is nothing more but conscience of God about himself.

Elaborate.

 

[The Cat]

Damned by difference. Story of my life.

 

[Norexan]

Elaborate.

All comes from God so the Devil. The Devil is side of God you don't want to see. It is invention of human misery.

 

[Hermit of the Forest]

“Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.”
— Psalm 142:4

It would seem the anguished cry of the human heart remains the same through the ages.

 

[Sacrophagus]

All comes from God so the Devil. The Devil is side of God you don't want to see. It is invention of human misery.

If a misery has befallen you it is the making of the devil?
Very poor superficial thinking of those weak in spirit.

Would you like a Disney like world with chocolate palaces and rivers of honey'd latte? There wouldn't have been a trial to distinguish the believers from the disbelievers if it was that easy.

 

[Norexan]

If a misery has befallen you it is the making of the devil?

Anything what is good is comes from God. Anything what is evil comes from Devil. That's how most of people's mind work which is wrong.
Because everything is reflation of God, like the artwork is reflation of creator and good (God) and evil (Devil) are just our personal experience about certain things. What is from one being destruction of world to others is new beginning. What is from one being evil to others can be just a food. That's how I see the world as shades of gray. Oxygen is good for sure but the oxygen slowly kill your cells and make you old each breath you took. Sun is good, no life could exist without sun but too much sun on your skin can cause cancer.

Therefore Devil is conscience of God about himself and his true nature which stand behind various "chocolate places and others heavens" in the hearths of men.

Any human child could create better world then God! Any!

 

[The Cat]

So many "Christians" have forgotten the face of our Father. If we ever knew it at all... -_-

 

[Lark]

Not sure if this belongs here but I really enjoy reading eastern philosophy and history and also historical fable, I think something similar happened to the west's development of chivalry in an attempt to tame its knightly warrior class but there seems to have been more of an elegance and it seems to have been more preserved in the cultural consciousness over time until today. Or maybe its just commercial. If I'm being cynical about it.

I can see how ancient bushido resulted both in the horrors of the Axis Japanese but also how it helped them recover from utter decimation and atomic holocaust.

Anyway, I've got a couple of good sources but I was wondering if there's anyone who may be more acquainted with the sources could recommend me any reading? I'm interested in the phase in which the Samurai were evolving away from war to something other than war, not when they were repressed by modern tactics but more the election of a new peace time role for themselves.