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@Kevin-Eleven
So your teaching everyone now from your studies, new found wisdom and application of. This combined with your small true understanding as meant to be understood. The word is also the living word as it’s always changing to guide one through life through different situations. What you know one day might be different the next from a passage.
The Bible teaches many things that are very helpful going through life and it’s different challenges if you believe or not, just as a roadmap. Of course faith, prayer and spirituality leading to growth will be needed to travel some directions.

What are examples for the things not practical to you that actually relate to the leading of ones life?

Are there any positive you find?

What decides the value of your opinion of these things as a non believer.

Can you talk about all the practical things your belief system teaches for life or just in general for comparison?

What would you tell me as the convincing words to convert one to your ??

Thank you in advance.

Like if that didn’t look like an intentional way out. You can pm me we’re still good and just talk like adults without the pride of the forums to protect.

@mike69
Seems you had other questions also anyway?

@K sorry

Most humans, they seem to prattle on about this and that, not even really seeming to care about what they are saying so long as someone is listening. 

~ Shanon Mayer

Dewdrops,
let me cleanse
in your brief,
sweet waters
these dark hands of life.

- Basho (1644-1694)

#62

Tao is source of the ten thousand things.
It is the treasure of the good man, and the refuge of the bad.
Sweet words can buy honor;
Good deeds can gain respect.
If a man is bad, do not abandon him.
Therefore on the day the emperor is crowned,
Or the three officers of state installed,
Do not send a gift of jade and a team of four horses,
But remain still and offer the Tao.
Why does everyone like the Tao so much at first?
Isn't it because you find what you seek and are forgiven when you sin?
Therefore this is the greatest treasure of the universe.

translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English

Death and life are looked on
As but transformations;
The myriad creation is all of a kind,
There is a kinship through all.

- Huai Nan Tzu (2nd century B.C.)

I was hoping for a puddle
but today I had to settle
for a lichen patch wherein to put
a jade frog (it's just resin tbh).
None of this really happened
but I hope Rookie sees it.

“What is freedom of expression?
Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”

―Salman Rushdie

A curtain of cloud hangs
Before the meditation seat
An ice wheel of moonlight
Turns through the railing
Don’t say I have erased
All trace of attainment
Behind me there are still
Heaven and earth.

- Muso Soseki (1275-1351)

note to self
read this again


Your notion that thoughts arise
Leads to a notion that you
Must prevent them
From arising.
These conflicting ideas
Are both wrong.
Look well at the source
Beyond mental activity.

- Daito (1282-1334)

The man of contentment
Seeks nothing that
He doesn’t have and
Understands that
Whatever he has
Isn’t his to own.
~Wu’hsin

“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

(Philippians 4:11-13)