This article says that the exigencies of this world compel some folks to seek escape from it; that some escape into psychosis, others seek escape into neurotic ideals and some escape into drugs etc. The paper says that escape does not change anything and that whereas the advanced spirit cannot go back to living like the normal person who does not even know that the world is absurd that the best solution to the problem is to study science and technology and use them to make the most of this world while recognizing that it is an absurd world.
This paper points out the physical, social and spiritual (existential) roots of human beings tendency to be addicted to mood altering agents. It says that to heal addiction all its causal factors: physical, social, spiritual etc must be addressed, not just one. It says that human beings are spirits that seem separated from their unified spirit self and as long as they seem separated from their real self feel biological and existential pain. Feeling pained they seek escape from pain. Addictions are means of escaping from pain.
The Bible is made up of the Old and New Testaments, and is the canon of the three branches of Christianity: Roman Catholic, Greek and other orthodox sects, and the Protestant groups. Judaism and Islam put premium on the Old Testament, which came from a wide range of ancient manuscripts written in archaic Hebrew, Aramaic, and Chaldean languages, with their problems of modern interpretations.
To continue their tradition of deceiving the world, the next edition of the Bible would, of course, claim God’s approval of homosexuality. In an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, conducted by David Van Biema and Catherine Mayer, and published in the US ‘Time’ weekly magazine of June 18, 2007, entitled ‘Holy War,’ it was reported that global Anglicanism may be veering toward a schism. That “a clash over homosexuality threatens to tear apart the worldwide Anglican community.
This essay is an after thought to my essay of yesterday on whether Jesus was masochistic, suicidal and psychotic; you cannot understand this essay unless you have read yesterday’s essay. The essay clarifies the nature of God: one being that operates in seeming different states.
If we superficially look at the teachings of Jesus that we should not fight back but forgive those who attacked us we would say that the man was out of his mind. This paper offers a different rationale from which that teaching of Jesus makes sense.
This paper, drawing from A course in miracles and the writer’s experiences working with the mentally ill, points out that whereas in all personality and mental disorders there are objective biological disorders that seem to cause those disorders that the actual cause of personality and mental disorders is our separation from God. It says that whereas the normal person is not overly aware that he is separated from God that some persons feel that separation very acutely and feel as if their earthly selves, the separated selves housed in bodies, are not who they are, and are not good enough
In the last few weeks there have been many articles posted on this forum to prove that prayers, religion and spirituality are of no effect. That science is all, that is the beginning and the end. That is obviously a view from one sector. We agree that there are many perspectives to view from. It may be possible to show in the course of this discuss that there is a strong relationship between prayers, religion, spirituality and science.
This paper is an attempt to summarize my weltanschauung, my worldview. Simply stated, my view is that at root we are love and loving creatures; that we are our true self when we love each other and are the opposite of our true selves when we hate one another. If it makes sense to you please practice it for we become what we do. Our characters, aka personalities, are shaped by our behaviors, not just by what we talk about. What we do makes us who we are, in fact.
A course in miracles aims at leading folk out of this world, what it calls a world of dreams, to what it calls the real world and, ultimately, to the awakened state of unified spirit living. The paper says that whereas that is a legitimate long term goal that in the here and now world the course does not show folk how they can survive. The paper says that in as much as folk must live on planet earth that they must seek ways to adapt to its physical and social exigencies, illusory as those exigencies are. Therefore, the paper says that the Course must be modified to make it cope with the realities of this world while retaining its long term goal of leading folk back to their creator.
It is imperative that we are not distracted by the celebrated ill-health of Yar’adua, the lame duck president, whose recalcitrance as regards obeying constitutional provisions may hopefully become another useful ingredient in the much awaited socio-political re-engineering of our fatherland. It is definite that a nation, and a people, can only ever endure so much for a limited period of time only. Just as it is with Yar’adua, so it is with you Helen.
This article questions the existence of a loving God in a world where natural disasters, such as the earthquake in Haiti, take people’s lives. The atheist-existentialist tells us that God does not exist and that we live a meaningless, purposeless and worthless existence, except the fictional meanings, purposes and worth we give to ourselves, to make our lives seem worthwhile. The theist, on the other hand, says that God exists and that his existence gives our lives meaning, purpose and worth. The paper asks who is right: the atheist-existentialist- materialist or the religious idealist.
According to testimonies, the Talmudic tradition, and A.C Celsius, an encyclopaedist, there was a Jesus ben Panthera between (100 – 50 BCE.) He was the son of a Roman soldier and a Jewish prostitute. He claimed to have been a miracle worker and briefly plied his trade in Judea. He may have been stoned to death for impersonating Horus, the ‘Divine One,’ and claiming to be his reincarnation, when everyone knew his family background. The Talmudic tradition’s vague memory is not identifiable with the Gospel figure.
This must be a very difficult time for Nigerians and Nigeria itself, especially with recent events such as; Bauchi crisis (Kala Kato), the attempt to blow up flight 253 by Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, the second Nigerian who caused a security concern on the same flight no 253 to Detroit (though he was truly sick), the bomb blast at the Superscreen Television Station, our sick president, fuel scarcity, fire at African Independent Television (AIT) station and farmers/herdsmen crisis in Nasarawa State (a lot of people died while many were displaced).
Francois Lenormant in (Histoire Ancienne des Phoenicians) believes that Arabia is the land of Punt and of the Queen of Sheba. Punt, in fact, was one of the sons of Ham placed in Arabia by Biblical tradition. Lenormant says: “A Kushite (Kush is a Jewish word meaning Black) Empire originally existed throughout Arabia. This was the epoch personified by the Adites of Ad, grandsons of Ham, the Biblical ancestor of the Blacks. Cheddade, a son of Ad and builder of the legendary “Earthly Paradise” mentioned in the Koran, belongs to the epoch called that of the First Adites.
There is this lie that alien religions worship only one God. This is not true. What the Christian and Islamic religions did was pick Yahweh from the ten Jewish intermediary gods and substitute the remaining nine: Hokhmah, Binah, Hesed, Gevurah, Tifereth, Netsah, Hod, Yesod and Malkuth with Jesus, Muhammad, Saints, Anubis, Angels etc. Yahweh is only one of the ten Jewish attributes of En-Sof. Yahweh is a tribal deity and claims to hate Africans (i.e. Amorites, Philistines, Canaanites, Jebusites, Hittites.)
There is too much religion in the developing world right now, too much pre-occupation with spiritually false and ineffective money spinning religious enterprises of con-artists, especially in the hapless African world of abject poverty and ignorance; resulting in the colossal loss or waste of precious and productive energy and time that all of mankind could have jointly harnessed to move civilization significantly forward.
Africans invented religion from which all the religions of the world took their bearing, ideas, dogma, structure, symbols, architecture, rituals and traditions. African Osirianism was founded by many, consolidated by Ausar in 4100 BCE. Africans created several Gods and do not worship the ‘One Source,’ which they revere and which in modern time, we call Tu-SoS. No religion or spiritual movement worships the ‘One Source.’
In the age of celebrities and cheap popularity, it is hardly surprising that the real heroes of our times are often left unnoticed or unacknowledged. Celebrities are celebrated to a very ridiculous extent while those who ‘made’ or ‘nurtured’ them may not be recognised. Even the church is not free of this; we celebrate some ministers of God who suddenly jumped into fame and popularity while we fail to acknowledge those who have worked and laboured tirelessly in very humble manners for the sake of the Gospel.
There is this lie that alien religions worship only one God. This is not true. What the Christian and Islamic religions did was pick Yahweh from the ten Jewish intermediary gods and substitute the remaining nine: Hokhmah, Binah, Hesed, Gevurah, Tifereth, Netsah, Hod, Yesod and Malkuth with Jesus, Muhammad, Saints, Anubis, Angels etc. Yahweh is only one of the ten Jewish attributes of En-Sof. Yahweh is a tribal deity and claims to hate Africans (i.e. Amorites, Philistines, Canaanites, Jebusites, Hittites.)
For the people and parishioners of St John’s Anglican Church, Oba-Ile, Ondo State, Nigeria, the month of September 2009 is a very historic month and unlike any other September in recent years. It is the celebration of the centenary of the introduction of the Christian faith to the community and also the birth of St John’s Anglican Church. As the prophet Isaiah foretold ‘The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined’ (Isaiah 9:2).
This paper says that each of us chooses what happens to him; that he does so in an effort to make his body hence what the body houses, his separated self, the ego, seem real to him. It says that sometimes the individual chooses pain or pleasure in his effort to make his body and ego seem real in his awareness. It says that Africans mainly choose pain and suffering to make their bodies and egos seem real to them. Since they chose it they can choose differently; they can undo what they did and in that ability to choose differently lays the justice of God.
What is therefore reasonably expected of Helen Ukpabio is sincere contrition and atonements for her misguided teachings and the untold hardship same has induced. Helen would have done better by apologising to Nigerians in general and the people of Akwa Ibom and Cross River states in particular. She would have won the hearts of many by showing sincere commitments to efforts at restitution. Helen could have done better by encouraging and supporting charities committed to wiping out the evils implanted by her teachings.
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