Best posts made by pe7erpark3r

Even as a christian I must say your life should not revolve around religion or liturgy or things like that (unless you're a nun or something). But it should revolve around God, meaning that true (christian) religion is a RELATIONSHIP with this someone, who's always with you and really cares for you, like noone else. And you treat Him like He's really there, which He is. That is christian faith at its core.

@Caffine said in What was your weirdest dream..??:

@Hero_Hunter also have dreamt as being followed by old women or a person out of mental asylum. A few times I was floating in air in dreams

I love flying around in dreams, those are the best. And sometimes I do telekinesis in my dreams, and then the next morning I always try it irl and nothing happens :joy:

@SassSSSKE-Monday said in Do you like death?:

@petrapark3r my question is why death is not Scary for u now ?

I should add, that I still do fear certain ways of dying though. It's not like I'm a fan of pain. But I wouldn't fear a headshot or something similarly effective...

@Indrid-Cold said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

I skimmed these pages and @spaceboy should probably get most kudos just for staying on-topic. But I'm not criticizing. As a veteran of debates like these, I can confirm that everyone has their own hobby-horse to shoe-horn into the debate. Would we really have it any other way?

Who would not :joy:

Me, I long ago had my head turned by the books of Barbara Thiering, whose forensic, ultra-scholarly writing took in both the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Hammadi and contemporary apocrypha, to suggest the J-Man was 'just' part of some Jewish-cult-to-end-all-Jewish-cults. The research not only seems detailed enough, but it also fits my personal level of pessimism about a tangible, interventionist God.

But you have read up on her critics in the meantime, like a good boi(ntellectual) I suppose :yum:

But if there's one thing I hate in religious debates (and sorry to the above users who've done it), it's when people draw a parallel between fictional characters like Batman, Spider-Man, etc, and Jesus / God. God, if He / It exists will necessarily transcend context. So if there's a story where Batman breaks down the fourth wall and boldy presumes to give the reader religious instructions (and even with the freak-out stories of Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman, I don't think there has been), you can legitimately compare him to Jesus. But not until then.

Good point yeah. Why do you always come up with points I'd never ever think of?

Also, I stand with @AllAboutGay on the existence of The Gays in ancient antiquity. This prehistoric skelington has the same distinctive gap in his teeth as John Inman:

I love your humor! And yeah, totally. Maybe we all descend from a gay couple after all...

@DEAD_ said in Does religion play a significant role in your life??:

Does religion matter to you?

As a civilisational and cultural bond, yes. On a personal level, no.

Do you believe in a supernatural entity?

I dont believe, but neither do I disbelieve

How do you view religion then? You once said you don't like how the abramic religions think about what religion is... what does that mean to you? Should I make a topic about this? I should make a topic about this... but I'll wait for your reply first....

@Connor27 said in WHERE IS THE OLD TWS:

@petrapark3r Don’t find my old posts like @DAD_ 😭😭😭 they’re so cringey :(

:joy::joy::joy: gotta thank the weirdo above there :yum:

@depin said in Do you like death?:

@petrapark3r i started hating it since last time when it came unexpectedly... rest everything was fine till then

Do you mean when someone you loved died unexpectedly? Yeah, I can definitely relate to that. I don't like the death of those I love to be honest. And I am more afraid of their death, than of my own. Well I'm not afraid of my own but you get the idea...

@spaceboy said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Vex-Man said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

I mean @pe7erpark3r here and not an apostle. And my thoughts were relates about Jesus mentioning in early Christian's apocrypha. And the ideas of these texts are far different from the official version. Fog cannot appear without a fire. That make me think, that someone existed. Yeshua or maybe he had another name. Someone was crucified. It was very popular type of execution in Rome of those time. And the execution of these man, became a start point of Christianity religion. That what I mean under words 'Historical Jesus'.

A very good point, and I like the analogy (fog + fire).

P. S.: Unfortunately we won't know the truth about those events. I mean the real story-line, the real chain of events.. Maybe Zarathustra will know, or Abdul Alhazred.. But not we..

You will see, that there is quite a bit of evidence, that the ghospel's accounts (in large parts) are in fact historical, when the debate procedes. I hope @Vex-Man returns :sweat_smile:

@DEAD_ said in Looks like you have some misconceptions, and im happy to clear them :):

This honest mistake is made, a lot of times by westerners.
You see, one cant compare monotheistic principles with that of polytheistic, so before reading this, I will urge you to change the metaphorical lens, with which you perceive things :joy:

This is a very interesting subject. It's allways a good exercise the switch lenses, and I appreciate understanding the metaphorical hinduistic lens better.

I can give you the equivalent with the monotheistic lens if you want, because the world view people are brought up with and the actual metaphysical ideas of christianity tend to differ. Things are often simplified or just not known well to people...

In Hinduism, a person's body, is just their vessel for soul. It serves not much more purpose than being a career of your ataman(soul). This soul, which is you, has unique traits, which distinguishes it from rest of the individuals. And eventually, your body becomes a resemblance of your soul(your innate behaviour, learned behaviour, temperament, and so on).

Like; when a person has a lazy attitude in life, his body will resemble his attitude. Similarly, a 'healthy' mind, will be represented by a healthy body as well.

In christianity a person's body is much more than a vessel for their soul. In fact soul and body are an intimate unity and when a person dies, and that unity is broken, they are incomplete until soul and body are united again. And because of this intimate unity, in the christian world view, your body also becomes the resemblance of your soul (innate, learned, temperament and so on). So a healthy soul lives in a healthy body, they are one.

@Brazilian-Guy said in Looks like you have some misconceptions, and im happy to clear them :):

What's up with Kali?

Kali, in the mythology, is meant to depict the embodiment of a strength and aggressiveness, in the feminine nature. She has had quite a past, which made her that way, which will help you get things into perspective, when you read more lores and mythologies regarding her!

Here is an important difference to christianity. Like in all polytheistic religions gods have stories, they develop, just like human beings. In fact one might be tempted to say that they are nothing but archetypical images of human behaviour... and it seems you share this view... how would you not? it makes perfect sense.

is she a normal hindi deity? or is she the equivalent of satan to christians?

I see this a lot; so this might sound strange to you, but hinduism doesnt have a concept of evil person. It's the actions combined with the intentions, those actions were committed, which we find wrong.

for example; Ravana, a brilliant sage, isn't an evil being, but in many respects more knowledgable than many sages, but yet the scripts antagonise his actions, which were 'ego driven kidnapping and killings'. So, the sin is evil not the sinner.

Christianity does not have a concept of an evil person either. In fact you hear this phrase – the sin is evil not the sinner – a lot if you go to mass. To christians people are not black and white, they are all grey. Nobody is evil, or good. They are just doing good or doing bad. But just like the hindu gods they can be on a good path or a bad path, humans don't switch paths all the time...

So how come that satan is seen as evil? This is not rooted in monotheism itself. It has more to do with the christian concept of eternity.

First of all let me give you the defintion of good and evil from a christian point of view. God is the definition of good. Evil is nothing but the absence of God. This is similar to light and darkness in the physical world (this comparison is from Albert Einstein): We can measure light, light is real. Nobody can measure darkness. We measure darkness as the absence of light. Period.

So @Brazilian-Guy satan in the christian world view is not at all one side of the same coin. He's nothing but a creature, like you or me, just (quite) a bit more intelligent... So is satan evil? Lets return to the christian concept of eternity:

When you die, you leave time. This means, that you do not change any longer, all that you have done will be inside time and when you leave time, it is fixed (this is a simplification to be completely accurate: you can still, like God, act in time from outside of time in a way). Then comes judgement. Judgement is viewing everything you did, viewing yourself, through the eyes of God. Then you have a choice, to accept His mercy and let Him bring you into a complete – eternal – unity with Himself (this is the definition of heaven), or to say: "You have no right to judge me" and thus choose a complete – eternal – separation from God (this is the definition of hell).

Satan, as a spiritual being, has made his eternal choice against God. He was never subject to time, thus through all of time he acts against God, just as you become either completely good (with God) or completely evil (without God) when you leave time. So satan is not the embodyment of evil, its just his non-changing choice, his eternal negation of all that is good, which we see.

@Connor27 said in WHERE IS THE OLD TWS:

@petrapark3r :(

Aww don't look so down, I only responded because I found the fact funny that even in the beginning of TWS people missed the old times :joy: It's not to pull you down. Now smile :grimacing: :grimacing: :grin:

@Lurker said in Imagine you knew your future:

@petrapark3r

I think if ppl would know their future and destiny there would be alot more suicides tbh :sweat_smile: I mean, if you didn't like what you saw what would you do? Keep hoping it would get better? Well no... It wouldn't... So yeah, it would lead to that eventually. It would either be ppl super happy or supper sad! So i think it would be boring.

Yeah, you might be right :joy:. If it was all determined that might be the case indeed :disappointed_relieved:... But say it isn't (you could also run from your destiny) and say you love that person and say the purpose scares you, but it isn't so bad :shrug:

tomorrow will be ten days after palm sunday. this prediction is around nine months old. tomorrow there will be lemons if I have interpreted it correctly. I like lemons. or at least the one that'll reappear tomorrow. Bittersweet lemons...

Will you start?

@OliveOlivia said in What was your weirdest dream..??:

@Caffine When I was younger I used to have dreams about being at school naked and I would get scared or embarrassed. Now when I have dreams that I'm naked in public I just walk around and own it 😂😂

Then be careful, you might one day be a little dizzy thinking you're dreaming and actually walk to the convenience store, owning it :joy::joy::joy:

@Lurker said in Imagine you knew your future:

@petrapark3r said in Imagine you knew your future:

@Lurker said in Imagine you knew your future:

@petrapark3r

I think if ppl would know their future and destiny there would be alot more suicides tbh :sweat_smile: I mean, if you didn't like what you saw what would you do? Keep hoping it would get better? Well no... It wouldn't... So yeah, it would lead to that eventually. It would either be ppl super happy or supper sad! So i think it would be boring.

Yeah, you might be right :joy:. If it was all determined that might be the case indeed :disappointed_relieved:... But say it isn't (you could also run from your destiny) and say you love that person and say the purpose scares you, but it isn't so bad :shrug:

Isn't that the same as how we live now? :joy:
Or you know what's gonna happen and you can either avoid it or live it? Is it something like that? Cuz if that's the case it's really boring as well :p

Fine, I respect your opinion Ms. Lurker...

So let's start this finally :joy:

I'll use @spaceboy's analogy, to begin this debate:

There is a huge column of smoke (Christianity, the greatest column of smoke in human history :yum:). Thus it is perfectly reasonable to assume that there was a fire (Jesus). Ergo it is reasonable to assume that Jesus did in fact live a human life, unless you can provide a great enough amount of evidence, that shows clearly, that he did not.

With this in mind, please note that to say "Jesus' human existence is impropable" is an assertive claim, and requires convincing evidence. It is not enough to show that some of the evidence for his human existence can be doubted.

@WtfJudith said in Should the death sentence still be a thing?:

@trose18 quoting the bible doesn’t mean anything here

That is really sad. Because what Jesus said and did there is really worth considering. He actually made a pretty good argument...

To me personally a death sentence really doesn't make much sense. After all, isn't suicide called the easy way out? Sure it hurts to know that you're on death row, and it might scare you alot. And the execution itself may be painful too depending on how it's enacted. But it is just a moment, a short time.

I don't mind being dead you know? Instead if I knew I'd have to stay on this earth forever, that is something I'd call hell.

If you ask me, having your freedom restricted, and knowing you'll never get out, is a waaaay better punishment. Most people wouldn't want to be in prison. Even though I guess there are a few out there who have that kind of fetish :shrug:

But back to the Bible: Our culture is built on the idea of individual freedom and responsibility and yes, even though it has gotten out of fashion, of repentence and forgiveness. The judicial system however fails in many instances terribly (especially in the US) to enable people to change. Instead most people go in and out and in and out again...

@JessicaLou said in What is the worst pickup line you have ever heard?😵:

@petrapark3r because she's sweet (diabetes) and hot (give tan).

Oh, now I also understand why it's bad :sweat_smile:

@sarah_the_magpie said in The shroud of Turin:

@pe7erpark3r
i don't personally think that it's real, but it's definitely the most interesting piece of cloth in the world. i think that everyone can agree on that :D

Yeah it is the most curious thing, so much is for sure. There is another also quite interesting piece of cloth, the tilma of guadalupe:

Another inexplicably created image (irreproducible so far) on a cloth that should have rot away in 25 years and is now 500 years old.

@Anastasia-Smith said in On the Apollo 11 moon landing...:

abuzz

Lol, a-buzz