Seasons

you know I have a big problem with you generalizing a whole race. There is no such thing as all the members of one race being one way and all the members of another race being the other way. The Jewish people are neither worse or better than anyone else. I do not think that discrimination is a justifable reaction.

you do realise that the more people get uptight about christains and jews the more I believe that the bible is true, simply because you are proving it to be right. BEG

Ladydyke--I was not seriously making a generalization about all Jews. I was gently poking fun at Colonel's reasoning--I hope he was not offended. I never implied that discrimination is justifiable. I just wanted to make Colonel say that all Jews are not the same and that you cannot generalize.

Also, the only person getting "uptight" about Chirstians and Jews is Colonel, and he says he's Jewish, so I'd take that with a grain of salt. I think he is trying to critique religion in general, not just those two religions.

Colon--about people trying to feed me: they just happen to be Jewish. They used to work with me, and they kept bringing in cakes and bagels and things and telling me "You must eat--look at you, you're so little." I am not actually "little" so much as short. The cake would only make me round, not tall--but you try telling that to a woman with baked goods in her hand.

hi what is the meening of life,
i think monty python but there may be a reason for that

oh for gods sake do you really think he likes being talked about behind his back
god i meen................if he exiswts.......or she.....or it..................or a phenomenal function of the decimal system

d-42.
I don't think it is possible to talk behind god's back. If god is all-knowing, (s)he knows what you said. If god's spirit is in all of us, it knows what we say and do (and feel...ect). If god responds to names (names being very sensitive in many religions, (s)he shows up when we start typing "god". BTW Have you read Small Gods?

well actually I was talking to the colonel720 Because I thought he was discriminating against them. I did not know he was jewish.

I am sorry

I am sorry too. No hard feelings.

the only reason that I was talking in such an agressive way about the Jews is that throughout my life, the Jews that I have associated with, have been almost tyrants to me, pretty much enforcing their way of life onto me with an iron fist, although thankfully I have broken free and discovered that a lot of Jews aren't like that.

I can also find a lot of good things about my people, such as the average intelligence level among Jews- The average 10 year old can study and comprehend the Talmud - ancient scriptures written by the geniouses of their times.
Reproductive rate: the hassidic sects of Judaism have approximately 8 - 12 kids per family! Amazing!

Brotherhood - Jews are amazingly well networked and will stand up for eachother.. I can go on for hours

but my point was that I have found a lot of flaws in the general jewish mentality, sorry if I got too discriminative.

hey a flying banana

Charles -- Okay, resurrection. Yes. That is definitely a Hebrew idea. But between the time of death and the time of resurrection, is the consciousness nonexistent? Here's what Jesus said on the subject:
whoa, whoa! Jesus, power hungry? Didn't you read the passage where the people were going to seize him to make him king, and he went and hid, so they couldn't? John 6:15. look it up. Comparing Jesus with Hitler? How can you compare a savage man who killed millions of people with someone who said to love your neighbor as yourself? I think you need to do more research on Jesus' life and Hitler's human experiments. Yes, they are disgusting, but I don't think you know much about Hitler at all.
And colonel...
It was foretold that after the disciples died, an apostasy would set in. You know what that means, right? And after that, the church started to go against bible principles, and started instituting practices that had no basis in scripture. And I admit, some horrible things have been done in the name of Christianity, the crusades, the inquisition, etc, because they claimed to be christian, but weren't. As Ghandi pointed out, if the whole world lived by christian principles, the world would be a peaceful place. Don't blame the crusades on Christ. Bad idea. Look up Matt 26:52 - Jesus urged his disciples not to use weapons, even to save him from his adversaries. Could there be any higher cause for his disciples to use weapons, than to save the Messiah from capture by his enemies? And yet he told them not to use weapons. Crusades blamed on Christ? What are you thinking?

anyway...is the consciousness of a person nonexistent at death? If you claim to be christian, you might refer to Ecclesiastes 9:5,10. the dead are conscious of nothing at all.

I missed that good discussion on faith. Actually, what it came down to, before Jesus came to the earth, was...If you were doing God's will at that time, you would be 'saved', which means he would remember those ones and resurrect them later. And those Bible characters had faith in the promised messiah that would come. throughout the scriptures, God made promises to different ones, that referred to the Christ coming. and these ones showed faith in those promises by doing God's will, whatever it was at that time. For the Israelites, it was keeping the law.

Man, I been gone a while. 62 posts to read through!

Here's a paradox: To hell with hell