Buddhism: Karma. Your karmic debt increases the more you allow others to be good to you. The true Buddhist is willing to suffer very much for the sake of reaching zero karmic debt upon death (doesn't go into negatives, so it's very easy to gain debt) Only those with zero upon death will go to nirvana others will be reborn as some creature (goes as basic as bacterium).

mostly this is wrong. buddhhists do eschew wealth but have no problem in allowing others to do good deeds for them. Why would they have their alms bowls if they did?

also..they don't advocate suffering or deprivation. the buddha hisself, Siddarth Guatama, tried the deprivation thing when he travelled with the asthetic monks after he left his palace. He got so malnourished he almost starved and so found it wasnt the way. that there is a MIDDLE PATH between depriving and greed and opulence. THIS is what the Buddhists advise.

And the FOur Noble Truths say NOTHING about needing to suffer. Nor does the 8-fold Path.

last.....Buddhists dont believe in transmigration...thats coming back as a bug or an animal. that is the Hindus and the Buddha rejected that doctrine. they believe you only can return as a human. and one who DOES get released from Samsara (the endless cycle on Earth) and can get Nirvana, will sometimes still choose to stay behind and help others. they are called Bodhisatvas.

you should know more about this before claiming you know the religion. sounds to me like you have a lot of learning to do about Buddhism. i can help.

of course you prefer that because that fits you to a tee. at least judging by your juvenile and angry posts. too bad. I feel sorry for you. I was once angry and had nothing like you. then I was angry and had a LOT of material and money wealth, but was still dead to sin. now I am Saved and have everything in Spirit and in God. But am once again poor for material goods. which means I am really very rich!! you wont like this and will insult me with your reply. hey..its OK. I have been there where you are. Angry and bitter because I prayed and God did not deliver what I wanted like a vending machine. I can tell you that He WILL bestow you Wealth but not the kind you used to ask for. The kind that lasts forever is what you can have. but first you need to get your heart right.

its not easy...I also had to die to do it. I hope you don't have to wait that long. if you ask God to remove your bitterness, though, that He will do, if you are sincere about it. I can guarantee you this. just watch.

no Jungle really makes some valid points. and he might not be condemned! who know, he might end up being Saved like I was. when I was an atheist I acted just like he does. even worse. you should not condemn people or judge them. that is God the Creator's job not yours. you are guilty of the sin of Arrogance and judging and demeaning your brother. you better check that plank in your eye saint.

And God is destroying darkness and Satan in the end, and all of the seeds and trees born into darkness. It simply can't and won't exist when He brings His Kingdom"

thanks for the kind words but unfortunately your wrong about that part i bolded.

It would be nice if God could destroy Satan and Hell and His demons but He cannot. Not while they are roaming this Earth. As this Earth IS under Satan's domain. that should be obvious to you by know. I have seen and fought too much of His legion to believe otherwise. where God CAN deliver is from Satan is when we come into His Grace. Or in Heaven. Only then are we rescued. And this is only some of us not all.

its obvious from your picture, if thats you, that your Jewish? But i see you have converted to Christianity? What made you do this? You were raised Jewish, correct? DO your read the Torah or the Talmud? I love reading the Talmud and it explains a lot of the Torah and the meanings of those metaphors which are not literal. Rabbis know this. And you also probably know most Jews don't believe in a literal Hell or Satan? but you do. is this why you converted?

the healthiest water is the water from the Living Well of the Father and the Spirit like when Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well. sorry I don;t have the exact bible quote in front of me right now but you get the point. dont ask yourself or worry what water you should drink or what food you eat or what clothes you wear. look at the lillies of the field and the sparrow! does not God provide for them? So He will for you if you drink from His Cup.

i make my own Holy Water to use on Demons. it melts their skins like acid when thrown on them. I brew it over the course of three days and SEVEN hours (magic numbers) in a chalice I got from a Catholic Church. I have a crucifix sitting in the Challice and seven candles around the chalice while the water is brewing. and then I do bible incantations while pouring the water out into my containers. it works i can tell you!!!!

you made all good points my brother. please to forgive some of my more ignorent and narrow minded fellow westerners. they know very little of the middle east and its peoples and expecially the plight of the refugees. i hope god protects them all. i also want to say it makes no difference to me if you or they call their God Allah. I also worship the one true Creator God and He is the same for us who are Saved and in His Grace. what we call him because of our upbringing and teachings makes no difference. what matters is that He know us, right?

are you Libtard Prolifer? you sure sound like her and even your avatar reminds me of hers. and she seems the type that would like sitar music.

the only reason im not burning in Hell is because of God's Grace. and thats also the only reason anybody does not burn in Hell. Since the Fall we are all condemmed to, unless we take Jesus as our Lord and Savior. To not do that is to mock God and is a burnable offense. as far as your Dawkins, he is a bit player and no kind of Priest. let him have his science and atheism...he will one day rue it, as I rue the fact i wasted so many years wallowing in sin and atheism. while i was in jail for simply fighting evil i did a lot of thinking and praying and bible study and have come to learn than the bible is far more true and literal than i first thought. so jail was actually a positive thing and a sort of revelation to me. in fact it was all part of God's Plan For Me.

hi KN thanks for your intrest.

i was a atheist for years and a bad sinner. till i was saved about 28 months ago with a powerful vision from God. One straight outta Compton--ha! just kidding..straight outta the Bible. God burned and split a curtain in my room so to recreate the gospel account of the tearing of the Temple Veil that the Roman Guard saw when Jesus died on the Cross. most people dont understand the moral of that story. it was to show that God's world--the Kingdom was now OPEN to all! including the Romans and the gentiles and all who believe. So that was me at the time. (this is why my avatar!)

I then devoted my life to God and His work. I was going to enter the Seminary School for Unity Church next month, but they declined my acceptance after findiing out I had a brush with the law. (i was really doing God's Will and fighting Evil at the time. I burned down a meeting place for the church of Satan.)

So now i'm converted to Lutheranism, and am taking steps to enter their Seminary in the Spring of 2017. the first demon I killed was in a crack house in South Dallas, there were two of them and i got one before getting so ill (one of the side effects you get when yo come into contact with them) i had to run outside. i almost died from a heart attack, spent the night in the hospital. contrary to popular belief, while here on Earth demons can be killed by conventional weaponry--I used a 9 mil Glock I had at the time..three shots to its chest. the blood it spit out from the wound, or whatever it was--squirted about 10 feet and burned my left forearm and i still have a 3rd degree burn scar about the size of a silver dollar on it. i also still have tinntis in my ears and a 20% hearing loss. when you executioner demons your beset with a loud buzzing noise; rapid heart rate; flushed skin; nausea and vomiting. i was also so dehydrated i had to have glucose/saline IV in the hospital.

but once a demon subdues you and takes your spirit, your soul into their realm then they can't be killed anymore by conventional means. you have to get them while on the physical earthly plane. yeah i know this all sounds outlandish, but im relaying it to you as best i can and swear on my relationship with my God that all i said is true and happened as close as i can recall it. i bring no dishonesty here, and so i accept that many will mock me. that is fine. I only have one relationship that matters. i was in jail for three months, and my wife divorced me as well. yet...i wake up everyday smiling.

i cant read your gibberish so im not sure which side i posted on. and i dont care since it seems like your an idiot. ha! so anyway i know firsthand the answer to this question. I was in a professional band for three years (my username) and i can say we pro musicians all HATE those free d-load services on the net. they ARE ripping off musicians. its hard enuff in that biz to make money and places like Napster and Spotify made it worse. we figured we lost about half the money we should have made from CD sales do to those so called file sharing websites. file sharing! ha! what a joke..should be called "sharing the job of killing the starving musicians!

well i am not even sure that is a real number. i think the origin is from the Book of Revelation, but I have personally seen three demons in my life and killed one of them and never saw the Mark.

most people dont have a clue what the number signifies, but i do..i just don't know if i believe it. the number 7 is very special in the bible////called a majic number!! and also it was bible tradition to say or write something threee times to enhance it or magnify it. So like 777 would be a awesome number. so 666 is signifying one less than 777 and three times of magnitude. this is the story i read once anyway in a demonology book that i use for reference.

>>>>>>>>>>;>>>more important is what demons do to you physically when you come into contact with them. for me it was always the same. of course nobody here will believe me about demons since i doubt any of you have seen one or was tasked by God to slay them like me.

when i was a atheist i was wealthy as far as money and posessions but very poor in spirit and morals. plus i was what you call "soul sick." and now i am poor in money but rich beyond description in spirit since God is my best friend, confident, master, boss, and of course Father. the irony here is that when i gave up everything i gained everything.

and all i have to do to remain Saved and in God's Grace is do His will, which is talk with Him every day and do what i can to seek out and destroy evil. i was just imprisoned for that, like a martyr. but oh my! I got out early...gee i wonder why? oh thats right! God did it! He needed me out in the World to do more of His Bidding.

Nothing good came from atheism for me. maybe for some it does. or atheists think they have everything. till they die and wake up in Hell, then they know all along they had nothing.

i stopped using my account for 83 days due to the fact that where i was there was not internet access. and "we" figured nothing, maam. your comparison to slapsot I take as a compliment though Im not him. he might not feel the same.

revenge is mine!

sayeth the Lord.

for you and me, it depends. it may or may not be justified. if it is in accordance to God's Will than it is OK and not a sin. for example, I was just imprisoned like the early martyrs of the gospels, just for doing God's will. that's why every day in jail was fine and I was actually smiling the whole time!!! those who mocked me got a harsh lesson. you might call that revenge but it wasn't since they were mocking God when they mocked me since i am His Warrior.

I read the bible every day in jail for 83 days. I followed the "read bible in one year" plan in the back but since I read more than they suggested each day i managed to read it all twice during my time. it changed my theology somewhat, and I now know more of it is true than I thought before. i am looking forward to talking about theology and the bible here on cd.

The power and the love of God the creator will magnify you, while striving to have power over other humans will corrupt you. this is a simply thing. i used to be quite wealthy, and I had a $300,000 house in a swanky Seattle suburb. I was in a popular band and we had all them women and dope and booze we wanted. But i was poor in spirit and didn't believe in God and even mocked Him and His followers.

then i was saved with a vision right out of the Bible. Now, I really don't have a pot to piss in financially. I just got out of jail, my wife is divorcing me, and I am living in a small apartment in a crappy part of town. I only made about $20,000 last year and will make a little less this year. but I am beyond wealthy in Spirit since I turned my life over to God. I have purpose in life and wake up smiling every day. I have a mission and its successful completion will snug me even tighter into God's embrace. when I walked into my new apartment monday everything was painted and made-ready and clean and it had no flaws.

except the curtain in my BR was burned! It was another confirmation....a WINK!>>from God. all is well in my life. Gory Be.

Everybody wants something more. Whether that 'more' is more money, more happiness, or more success, it doesn't matter.

But it does matter. it matters because God want you to learn to know Him and have a relationship with Him, and love Him. As a Father to a beloved child. and if you do not heed His wishes, and instead you opt for loving temporary earthly and self-indulgent things, then you are an ungrateful child. A Serpent's tooth. and if you even think that you are a Christian, like saintno, but have a huge ego and seem to want only people to listen to you then you are still a serpent tooth because you are putting your ego ahead of god.

Jesus said it was easier for a camel to pass thorugh the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to Heaven. He meant that its not just having money that makes it hard to know God, but its the love of money, or riches, or wealth and ego. some rich people will go to Heaven, if they don't put their money ahead of their relationship with God. And some poor people will go to Hell because they wallow in their own ego. the meek will not necessarily inherit the Earth. Or the poor. Only those poor in spirit--meaning they have given up ego and strive to know God.

What you want depends on if you're saved or not.

I'm saved. I owe God. I have to do His work here on Earth. I want only to please Him and know His will for me.

People who ain't saved want to have their physical and material wants satisfied. They want to be special. They want full bellies and alcohol numbed brains and orgasms. They are as lost as animals. Worse really since animals are innocent.

I worry about you, SaintNobody. you never say anything about your personal life or history...I wonder why? and you always seem frustrated and bitter and attack other good Christians like me simply for having a different theology. It makes me wonder id you are a false prophet.

I hope you are OK, even though you are Saint Nobody the Zealot.

How's your life, SaintNobody? Are you happy? God wants you to be happy? But it's apparent from your posts you don't know Him at all. You only read of Yahweh who is NOT the True Creator God.

Why do you never seem to have any fun? Are you OK?

You are special.

Godbless.

Another aspect of Taoism I REALLY like and believe in is their concept of Yin and Yang. The balance of Nature and the world we live in. It can even apply to our emotional lives and well-being. I think there is even a scientific validity to Yin and Yang. As we all know Nature always seeks balance. As does the human body, which is called homeostasis.

Here's a bit more on the Yin and Yang. This is also another reason this Taoism is a suitable philosophy or ethos for agnostics and atheist!

http://personaltao.com/teachings/questions/what-is-yin-yang/

Well, yeah, JFK was killed in late 1963 and then little brother Bobby was gunned down in an L.A. hotel five years later in the Summer of 1968. Same year that MLK also went down.

But this is a good question by Jolie. I think the reason nobody thought about gun control was since it was such a different world, less people, less crime; no spate of mass shootings like we have had with Columbine and Virginia Tech and Orlando. America back then was still primarily and agrarian nation with a lot of farmers and hunters and ranchers. The country still had militias.

Times are very very different now, obviously, and I have little doubt that if the Founding Fathers were alive and were apprised of the gun violence we have endured over the past two decades or so that they would gladly re-write the 2nd Amendment in a New York second. Or should I say a Philadelphia second?

If you think those people who insulted you are as stupid as you say then why does it bother you what they said? This makes no sense. It's like the old saying, "when an idiot pisses you off just consider the source"

You also lost the moral high ground from the gitgo with your debate header, by using vulgarity.

Also a mentally balanced person, even a kid, does NOT suffer psychological trauma simply from what a few idiots say on a public internet debate forum. If you indeed have become suicidal over some past exchanges here, I would hazard to guess that you had some psychological problems to begin with.

You need to talk to some adults about this instead of ranting here. You probably also need to stay away from this site, and perhaps engage in one that is more suited to kids your age. Yahoo Answers might be a good start.

I apologize if I am wrong, but I somehow really doubt you are ten. I haven't meant too many kids that age who use the word "mindfucked."

I would be within my rights to report your post and have your IP address tracked down and then have law enforcement sent to your residence, by simply claiming that I am afraid for your safety. Should I so this? I will think about it. I probably will, unless you reply back to me and come clean.

As a Christian I could also suggest you pray to God and ask Him for the strength and maturity to get past whatever post comment here got you so upset.

I'll be awaiting your reply, son.

those idiots in the pictures are not progressives. They are tyrannical dictators whose ban on guns was not for the same reasons that true progressives espouse Gun Control. (NOT a total ban on guns, mind you.)

The reasons the tyrants in the picture enforced gun control of their people was only so as to eliminate any possible resurrection or resistance to their totalitarian oppressive regimes. But the reasons us TRUE progressives advocate stricter gun control laws is not for that reason at all! Rather, it is to save lives and curtail mass shottings such as Columbine; Virginia Tech; Aurora; Sandy Hook; and Orlando. Very likely if those shooters had not been able to purchase their weapons so easily, many lives would have been spared.

Saying Hitler is typical of a person advocating gun control is like saying he is a typical Christian. Or even a typical politician.

See? that argument doesn't float, does it? Neither does yours. It's another laughable Straw Man rant, which is all you seem capable of posting.

Next?

Actually my wing chung trainer is a Taoist, and we discuss it often.

So while I wouldn't call myself an expert on Taoism I could say I'm well-read on it and have spoken with several real Taoists including a few in my church who ascribe to many of its principals. I also read the Tao te Ching about as often as I read the Bible, which is a couple times a week.

The whole desire thing is sort of like how the Buddhists believe. Siddartha Gautama told us that life is Suffering, and the primary reason for much of this suffering--aside from disease and illness--is Desire. So in order to alleviate the suffering we should alleviate Desire. But not ALL desire, just that for temporary, physical, earthly goods. Material wealth, so to speak. They of course are hardly alone in this ethos, as many other religions including Christianity say the same thing, but sometimes in different words.

I hereby deny ever hurting anybody. Nor do I ever plan to.

I have said nothing about any past crimes except for misdemeanor vandalism. Other charges were dropped. I didn't even serve jail time. I am a law abiding citizen who abhore violence. My life is devoted to serving God.

There ya go old timer! Report that.