The Reboot wrote on Feb 19
th, 2019 at 9:32pm:
.....There is, in nature, no real difference between politics and religion.
Politics is a form of religion, both overlapping one another in a sinful rapture.
Religion is the weapon. Politics is the arena.
The only means "free-thinkers" have is to play on the battlefield, as no other battlefields are worthy in the eyes of a controlled sheeple people.
Sheeple only have enough consciousness to look to "the stage", which is the stage that those in power put in front of us.
And so the "free-thinker" must enter the arena, instantly falling into the trap of controlled religion.
This is how the hippie communist movement happened.
You don't need to believe in a "God" to be part of a religion.
So true.
Richdude said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1549526478/31#31 Quote:
Its a dangerous World - no one gets out alive.
Many/most of us will learn very quickly, that the world is a dangerous and unpredictable place.
There is no safety.
There is no comfortable and safe place, in this world.
To think that there is, is illusory.
'Its a jungle out there!'Yet, men and women, wandering, in the 'wilderness' of this world, will continually seek certainty, stability, and safety, even when it means surrendering themselves, to the greater interests of a group.
Religions, and political groups, and
all human organisations, promise to make the lives we live here more safe, and more stable, and more certain.
It is a false promise.
But the majority of mankind will always continue to 'gravitate' to, and support those leaders and organisations, who will promise certainty, and safety and prosperity.
This life, this world, is a
'bait and switch' trick.
The world will deceive you.We, so easily deceive ourselves, by being overwhelmed by all the of the sensual distractions in this place.
This world will deceive you.
Are you being deceived ?
Perhaps you believe, nothing in this life can 'move you', too much ?
After all, you are 'successful', and you have your family, and all of your associations [with others], to protect you from what this world may throw at you ?
James 4:4
.....know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you....
But if we
choose, to remain 'in the world', choose to be constantly distracted, by the things of world,
how can we ever discover what is real ?
Q.How does a magician pull off his trick ?
Q.Why don't those in his audience, see how he does it ?
Where is the 'path' ?
"....Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself."
Q.How do we
love our creator ?
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