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Originally Posted by SeekerSA
You mentioned my name but I cannot seem to connect the dots so I will comment on your post
Unless you play the alternative scenes out in your mind, or subconscious, you only have the benefit of rash decisions. Waiting induced by prayer waiting for an answer, the answer comes from within much like decisions as to what to wear to an interview, you use common sense. More complex decisions like buying a car or house requires deeper deliberation, I have made bad impulse decisions on cars more than once. Had I waited a day or two, the bling factor would have diminished and the rational would have returned saving me wads of wasted money.
IMO we create our own destiny and take advice from peers and even peer pressure. The wisdom to think things through comes with age and usually learning the hard way.
Asserting an invisible external influence is merely a placebo for your own thought processes. The voice you may hear in your head is your own.
Many times I saw folk buying real expensive cars, boasting how god blessed them then awhile later they lose the job, business goes sour and they lose the car. What did they do wrong in the meantime? Nothing!
They were impulsive much like I was. Of course, seen as being blessed materially helps with the self image and with selling the concept that god provides. In fact, you still put yourself in debt and that is contradictory to scripture that suggests you sell up everything and give to the poor and not become enslaved to lenders.
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[quote=SeekerSA;18627251]You mentioned my name but I cannot seem to connect the dots so I will comment on your post..
Blue ...then it doesn't matter. Truly.. no concern.
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Unless you play the alternative scenes out in your mind, or subconscious, you only have the benefit of rash decisions. Waiting induced by prayer waiting for an answer, the answer comes from within much like decisions as to what to wear to an interview, you use common sense. More complex decisions like buying a car or house requires deeper deliberation, I have made bad impulse decisions on cars more than once. Had I waited a day or two, the bling factor would have diminished and the rational would have returned saving me wads of wasted money.
IMO we create our own destiny and take advice from peers and even peer pressure. The wisdom to think things through comes with age and usually learning the hard way.
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Blue...in principal... determinism is not out of the picture ....as, survival installs limitation in all possible paths. Without obstruction to free will.
save..self destruction which can be interpreted as a surviving matter in self and social dignity .
In so far as example offered......Kirk Douglas to helpless women beneath wagon in the event of conquer.....save the last bullet for yourself baby....while under seige by ...hoodlems.
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Asserting an invisible external influence is merely a placebo for your own thought processes. The voice you may hear in your head is your own.
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Blue: I'm not one of the privileged seer's. That is what suggesting direct voice's... amount to.
(not talking about dynamics in emotional mode for thought or influential "tone of heart" in result of a good interior life and prayer)............History is littered with such events. Caused in self need in address of...buried guilt. Suggesting to self that they are accepted , negating rejection ...either improperly imposed in life or a peculiarity of charactor...but none the less.....guilt.
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Many times I saw folk buying real expensive cars, boasting how god blessed them then awhile later they lose the job, business goes sour and they lose the car. What did they do wrong in the meantime? Nothing!
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Blue says....We went over this before....they did lots wrong. Fancy frills have nothing to do with blessings. This approach in above management of
sincere Spiritual participation is a stall tactic. The believer with the fancy stuff ...use's the distraction to...lay off attention to what he knows is the true idea in Spiritual life. More importantly though... a dist ration from ones ....mortality. A huge temptation. mostly a learning process...were not perfect.
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They were impulsive much like I was. Of course, seen as being blessed materially helps with the self image and with selling the concept that god provides. In fact, you still put yourself in debt and that is contradictory to scripture that suggests you sell up everything and give to the poor and not become enslaved to lender
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Blue : Enjoy your posts. To be honest..I don't think were expected to be perfect ...its almost impossible to not think to oneself...thank God or the like for a fancy ....something. Alot of discussion suggests placebo or...
people are imagining prayer or whatever to be used as a crutch.
You need the false pillow to rest your tiresome head says the argument.
If we need food it is here, if we need water it is here...if we need others ..they are here..
So...why wouldn't this pillow be here as well if, unanimously it is well known through consideration that we need it ...Just tossing out some possible thinking
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