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Post by marysara1 on Feb 10, 2024 11:22:11 GMT
Do you think are problems are our own making. Take all this talk about reparations. It'll open a can of worms. The Chinese that built the railroad were treated badly. Learn from the past and move on. Take Ye . In the old movies look how the African American were portraited as comic relief. Many studios had Jewish owners. Maybe by constantly, telling a group how they were being mistreated is adding fuel to the fire. Is Ye against the Jews or does he feel they mistreated his race?I'm sure anybody that reads this had a relative that was killed in a bad operation or accident which was someone's fault or whatever. Where does it stop? We're divided about Israel and Palestine. I'm neither, but how much is about what happened in the past and what is happening now.
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Post by intrepid37 on Feb 10, 2024 18:36:03 GMT
Our time on this Earth is brief. On average, only about 80 years, give or take.
How long will eternity be? Eleven trillion years? Is it really even possible to conceive of unendingness?
"Religions" tell us that when our earthly bodies cease to function and we can no longer engage in the world as we do now, that our consciousness continues to live on another plane of existence.
And it never ends.
If we really believe in Jesus, and that He - and we - are everlasting souls that dwell in physical bodies only temporarily, then we are taking our condition in the world much too seriously maybe. It's after that matters most.
But it is really hard to really believe in this. There is so much pain and suffering here in our earthly dwelling that we have trouble really imagining anything more important to us.
As far as I can tell, Jesus has said that we are to be peaceful - even if it brings upon us suffering that is greater than our usual experience, and death sooner than we anticipated.
If we really believe in Jesus as God, that makes all of our choices much easier.
It's the fear of pain and death - along with natural selfishness - that prevents us from making the choice to be peaceful as he advises us to be. It takes courage - enormous courage - to believe and live accordingly.
It seems that most people on this Earth can't believe in what Jesus instructs. I don't think many of the "religious" leaders even - our priests and ministers - really believe.
I guess we'll find out for sure after our lungs cease breathing any more air.
That's if we still retain our consciousness after that - if not, does anything really matter?
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