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I think 99% of the Bible is just made up. I think it teaches some important lessons and I also think that some of the stories are based on actual events just like all other myths in history. For the most part, though, you might as well read any other fictional book.

1) let there be light, 2) garden of eden

I'm reading a book at the moment called The God Code. It links the Hebrew name of God (YHVH) and the Hebrew name for man (YHVG) by their letters and numerical values to Hydrogen, Nitrogyn, Oxyen and Carbon. It also links this and the names to our DNA which then reads as the following message:-

The Eternal/Within

ElfMan

I dont think it is necessarily 99%, false. If you just take out all the fluff, much of what is left is based on older stories, which are most likely based on actual events, like Noah, based on Gilgamesh, based on a tale of an actual Mesopotamian King.

The search for Truth. My life long obsession that I can't brake away from. I was raised in a methodist church. I went until I was 18. I was a christian for maybe 3 years between the ages of 10 - 13. I am always wanting to do the right thing and get very anxious when I don't know how to do the right thing. Trying to be a christian only made this feeling worse. As well as that, I am obsessive about truth. From very young I could not see God and a bearded man somewhere up there. God is the blade of grass and the snot dripping from the cows nostril and the splashes of colour within a single petal as well as whatever it is that links them all together that I cant see. The people at church had put God in a box and painted a personality on it. Given it a gender and attributes that relate to humans. So I only see them doing to God what they try to do to me. If they can't figure me out when I'm standing right there doing my best to explain who I am, then I don't have much faith in their perception of God either.

I have searched for truth constantly and I want to stop but I can't. I just keep going deeper and deeper and further back and further back, searching through myths and stories. I have tried out christianity. I have been working in a Spiritual Healing Centre as a volunteer for the last 2 years. (Unitl recently when 2 of them said they didn't want to know me but wont say why). I have searched into Buddhist phylosophy (which sits well with me). In fact I wouldn't be at all suprised if Buddha was HFA.
I have run out of space for belief though. Someone said something to me about a year ago about beleif and truth and since then I do not know if beleif is real either.
About 6 months ago I realized my perseption is all in my brain, but I know that my brain does not perceive what is there correctly. (For example:- counting crosses that turn into boxes and looking at them as seeing boxes even though I had just seen them as crosses, my brain refuses to see them that way.
So if my interaction with the world is based on my perseption of it, but I can't trust my perseption where does does that leave me? It leaves me not knowing what to beleive.


(sorry if this is a bit of a rant, I'm in one of those moods)

ElfMan

Bec

My favourite Buddha quote comes from the show Monkey.

To desire not to desire is still to be caught in the wheel.

and Pigsy says to Sandy :- "your only young once, over and over again"
but I don't think he was quoting Buddha.

ElfMan

so was Adam, it was his choice to listen to Eve. Eve was naive being younger though, but still...and therefore Adam should have used his older experience and convinced her not to...now males are cursed to be more likely to listen to the what the female tells him despite his own judgement...(I say more likely as in more than half the time on average across mf relationships, which from what I have been informed of is generally so)

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