Isaiah 1-4

[wolfpurplemoon]

Apparently this book is the vision of a guy called Isaiah, I'm guessing he's a prophet?

God is back and he's pissed with his people for turning away from him. And he doesn't want those animal sacrifices any more that were apparently so very important in Leviticus. Make up your mind!

The holy land will one day be the place that the people of the world will stream to for moral instruction and it will inspire peace amongst all people, I think we're still waiting for that one. But also all the people who don't follow the lord will face his dreadful and terrifying judgement, again, doesn't seem to be happening.

2:22 says we shouldn't trust humans or give them special consideration, so get lock yourself in your underground bunker and see how long you manage without trusting or relying on a single other human being.

God is going to leave the people of Judah and Jerusalem to their fate, and lots of nasty things will happen to them when he does.

Those who remain after all these horrible events will be holy (survival of the fittest?) and will get to live under that mystical cloud that hangs around the mountain and glows at night. They will also be protected from the rain and heat by a tent.

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Re: Your mission

[hypatiaslore.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering where they're all coming from and why they're posting anonymously? I get it if they don't have LiveJournal accounts, but if they don't, how did they find out about your project? I didn't think LiveJournal was all that big of a thing. LOL

I never know what people expect when they proselytize. Like, when you're teaching someone something, its a whole different approach, because there's no "faith" involved. You know what you're teaching and you can prove it, you can reason it. If they don't "believe" you, you either didn't explain it well, or they are not willing to learn the subject material for whatever reason. But with something that requires you to believe something that has no evidence or proof it's a much different animal.

First, I have to accept that this alien thing exists, I have to figure out which interpretation of its will to obey, I can't disagree with it's politics, I can't disagree with it's instructions, I have to raise my children the way it tells me to, and make sure they follow it also, even if I don't agree with it, I have to give part of my money to it, I have to substitute it's judgment for my own, even though I've never had a conversation out right with the thing and I can only guess that at some future time. Then, hopefully, if I do all the things I'm supposing will make it happy, even if I'm uncertain the entire time, and I have no way of getting even the slightest verification one way or another, after I die, I will still get no free will or choice as to how I will get to spend all of eternity; in fact, the opposite. What will happen is I will get to be completely subservient to it, my individuality will get stripped away to the point where all of my inclinations toward objecting to it, or to any behavior that was against this beings directives (which at this point will be made perfectly clear), and I will now be a mindless, blissful servant, exalting this being unto infinite time as it really won't exist at that point in any meaningful way; I don't have any way of working with that.

I think if it were any other area of people's lives they would have trouble accepting it either. But for some reason where death is concerned, they'd rather hand over the keys to their will, just so that someone will take that fear away. It's like, if there were a god, and he gave me a brain, why would he then tell me to shut it off as soon as I got it? Is free will just a temptation to ignore? *shrug* If that's the case? I'm good. I see why Eve wanted to get the hell out of there. ;oP


"Give me the storm and stress of thought and action rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

Re: Your mission

[wolfpurplemoon]

I have actually been linking to these posts from a bible reading website that also provides my reading plan, and I'm autoposting to Twitter too, so that's where they are mostly coming from. I'm just impressed that quite a few have actually made LJs to comment here!

I think you've articulated the basic problem with religion there, and it's such big one that I can't understand how anyone ever gets over it. I think that the bottom line is that when you've accepted that nothing that makes up your personality and character will survive the death of your brain, and that there's no need to invoke a higher power to explain the origins of the universe or life on Earth, then religion just becomes totally meaningless apart from the fact that it manages to remains a major influence in world affairs.