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01 Oct 2019, 5:25 pm

Are you still in your class at college, Marknis?

How's it going there?



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01 Oct 2019, 7:57 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
Are you still in your class at college, Marknis?

How's it going there?


I am. I still haven’t gotten my grade on my first essay, though.

I honestly just go, do what I can in the class, and go back home after it’s done. I don’t have expectations to socialize, especially not at the “ghetto lodge.” (The student lounge)



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01 Oct 2019, 7:58 pm

That's pretty much what I did when I went to college.

I socialized more with the professors than with the other students.

Maybe it was because I was closer to their age than to the age of most of the students?



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02 Oct 2019, 1:01 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
That's pretty much what I did when I went to college.

I socialized more with the professors than with the other students.

Maybe it was because I was closer to their age than to the age of most of the students?


Most of my classmates are younger than me. Some of them just got out of high school and some are teen moms who broke up with their boyfriends or husbands.



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02 Oct 2019, 9:39 pm

Best solution to most problems is rubbing black tourmaline on your root chakra, especially if it's accompanied by something that vibrates.


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02 Oct 2019, 9:43 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Best solution to most problems is rubbing black tourmaline on your root chakra, especially if it's accompanied by something that vibrates.


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02 Oct 2019, 10:03 pm

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Then all Christians are Wiccans since they praise Pagan symbols. :roll:

They're confused between neoplatonist pantheism/emanationism by way of John and Paul and classic henotheistic judaism, though plenty of Babylonian astrotheology in both Judaism and Christianity to make everyone happy.


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02 Oct 2019, 10:09 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Marknis wrote:
Then all Christians are Wiccans since they praise Pagan symbols. :roll:

They're confused between neoplatonist pantheism/emanationism by way of John and Paul and classic henotheistic judaism, though plenty of Babylonian astrotheology in both Judaism and Christianity to make everyone happy.


It’s pretty sad, isn’t it?



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02 Oct 2019, 10:09 pm

Also to get the best of both religion and the sciences - make regular offerings to Paimon, he's the goetic king of the sciences, philosophies and arts.

I sometimes wonder at work who we should be giving offerings to, Paimon's more proper confidence, Astaroth fits the antisocial slacker - I think we have more of the later.


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02 Oct 2019, 10:12 pm

Marknis wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Marknis wrote:
Then all Christians are Wiccans since they praise Pagan symbols. :roll:

They're confused between neoplatonist pantheism/emanationism by way of John and Paul and classic henotheistic judaism, though plenty of Babylonian astrotheology in both Judaism and Christianity to make everyone happy.


It’s pretty sad, isn’t it?

Depends.

If they took it the way Manly P Hall would talk about it, ie. through a more Rosicrucian type of lens, it could at least be pretty useful for self-growth and philosophical cultivation (though it would fail for social cultivation and networking because maybe 10% or less could understand any of that), but even there - I think there are increasingly better explanations for the strange stuff in the universe than even what the Hermeticized versions of the Abrahamic faiths offer, eg. process philosophy and stuff like that.


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02 Oct 2019, 10:14 pm

I think people like Jonathan Haidt and John Gray make great points off of guys like Emile Durkheim, ie. there's way more religion in the world than we're aware of and it's awfully difficult for people to tell when their religious without it having a holy book. Secular humanism is a good example, at least per Gray and some others, of a Christian heresy that doesn't necessarily know it is one.


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02 Oct 2019, 10:15 pm

Lol, glad I changed the topic - it was overdue.


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02 Oct 2019, 11:28 pm

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Oh yeah, we should just disregard science! (sarcasm) :roll:



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02 Oct 2019, 11:56 pm

Come on guys, cool it with the personal accusations and stick to the topic.

No one is saying science is nonsense and that the earth is flat or climate change isn't real.

You don't have to agree with everyone who's trying to help, but stay civil please.


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03 Oct 2019, 12:25 am

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I think people like Jonathan Haidt and John Gray make great points off of guys like Emile Durkheim, ie. there's way more religion in the world than we're aware of and it's awfully difficult for people to tell when their religious without it having a holy book. Secular humanism is a good example, at least per Gray and some others, of a Christian heresy that doesn't necessarily know it is one.

secular humanism is a religion like not playing tennis is a sport. not every philosophy is a religion. my religion worsjhips the grammar nazi - "they're"



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03 Oct 2019, 12:31 am

cathylynn wrote:
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I think people like Jonathan Haidt and John Gray make great points off of guys like Emile Durkheim, ie. there's way more religion in the world than we're aware of and it's awfully difficult for people to tell when their religious without it having a holy book. Secular humanism is a good example, at least per Gray and some others, of a Christian heresy that doesn't necessarily know it is one.

secular humanism is a religion like not playing tennis is a sport. not every philosophy is a religion. my religion worsjhips the grammar nazi - "they're"


You have a beautiful way of putting things into perspective. :wink: People who wonder why they can’t build bridges with others should take lessons from you.