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David001 Wrote: (2024-03-12, 11:05 PM) -- There is also the reverse of that. For long periods of time people were led to believe that lovers having sex outside marriage were committing a mortal sin. ...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-15, 05:32 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-14, 10:56 PM) -- On further thought I don't think this example means too much in context. It appears that souls may sometimes choose very much much greater "challenges" tha...
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-11, 06:36 PM) -- It appears to me that we actually agree that human physical life from the human perspective can sometimes be in fact hellish, a seemingly endless valley of...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-15, 04:51 AM
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-11, 04:36 PM) -- I've never really liked the idea of blue-and-orange morality, since it sets itself as supposedly "alien" when a lot of examples would just be Evil und...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-11, 11:28 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-11, 01:20 AM) -- I do think there is something more to our perception when we are not physically incarnate, but I think it would make me sad to learn that the sufferin...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-11, 02:17 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-10, 06:32 AM) -- I think this would quite the leap in assumptions though, that all evil can be explained away because this world is essentially "virtual" in that it ha...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-10, 11:24 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-07, 10:19 PM) -- What I mean is religions often will say that some action is actually bad, whereas in some mysticism - especially the more modern stuff where you choos...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-10, 11:15 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-07, 07:00 PM) -- It strikes me that many of your recent descriptive explanations in our discourse regarding the soul and the soul/human relationship (derived from your intu...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-10, 11:05 PM
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-07, 01:37 AM) -- I think the challenge is religions do try to offer some avenue to make sense of Evil, if only in recognizing Evil *as* Evil. Mysticism can make Evi...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-07, 07:36 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-06, 11:43 PM) -- For myself I don't think I can take the diverse, even contradictory accounts of how souls supposedly choose to suffer and whatever supposed plan "God"...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-07, 12:02 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-05, 10:53 PM) -- I think this is the most difficult to overcome argument, a forced confrontation with the stubborn real existence of the worst sort of experiences that huma...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-06, 11:30 PM
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-04, 05:30 PM) -- Yes, I recall an US Air Force veteran once saying that the idea people have soulmates is ridiculous because it implies some poor child ending up disab...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-06, 11:20 PM
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-03, 05:56 PM) -- Thanks again for the thoughtful response. I guess I have just one remaining arrow in my "quiver", the last-ditch option of bringing up an extreme but reas...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-06, 11:08 PM
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Typoz Wrote: (2024-03-01, 11:32 AM) -- I realise I'm stepping into the middle of a dialogue with  yourself and @nbtruthman here, I apologise for the interruption. -- If something inspires, speak aw...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-03, 01:49 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-01, 05:23 PM) -- I appreciate your thoughtful and thorough responses. I think your undoubtedly wise replies come from having somehow attained partial consciousness of yo...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-03, 01:43 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-02-29, 05:20 PM) -- Your response is deep and seemingly convincing, but is founded on an automatic ignoring of the extreme importance of the real moment in time after moment i...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-01, 08:05 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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David001 Wrote: (2024-02-27, 10:45 AM) -- Right, but of course, you can still understand yourself back when you were 7 - you have simply matured. I think a good analogy is with the way children start...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-02-29, 04:03 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-02-26, 06:16 PM) -- Concerning the book, I just was intrigued by a few excerpts I encountered in another forum and realized the clear parallels.  It would seem according to s...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-02-29, 03:51 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-02-25, 06:08 PM) -- Everything you have written concerning the relationship of the human and the soul seems to me to at least indirectly imply a temporary real separation occu...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-02-29, 03:32 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-02-24, 11:02 PM) -- I just ran across what appears to be an amazingly similar explication to yours of the nature of the soul and the reincarnation process, in a book by Dr. Ol...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-02-25, 03:38 AM
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