In the observance of our reasons for being amongst all that is to be called living and with all the necessity of continuation, I have made admission to my senses an imperative in which I have found myself extinguished by want of pursuit. Am I to impoverish the body of the emotive, and receive into my thorax all the indign and egregious asperity as to what might be manufactured in my promulgating of such matters? I treat my emotions like some cumbersome instance of the phalerate, an unwanted shell, like some breed of ineffable integument in which all that is pure and important, inside, is to be deprived of singularity and independence, is to be at length myopic and of the insularity as to prevent any augmented mechanism in the utility of divulging and widening extremity. They are to leave the truth obscured, they are to encroach upon God's true temple; which is in the mind, and which is separate from the remnants of our lowliest mammalian ancestors; emotions. The body is not the temple of God; this is the most perverted notion that I have ever heard so megalophonous and without termination. The body is at one with the emotive; and it is logic in which one is to observe the workings and calculated efforts of the God-Head. The body is not the temple of God! The body is not the temple of God! If you have any humanity at all, you will deprive yourself of that mode of which breeds such an unvariation in the precept of thought! You will extinguish that, and foster new commune, you will find new meeting places with you deity! You will give the body no encouragement or means of which to manufacture preeminence over which your rationale and morale is to be absolved in process! You will say to the body, "YOU ARE NOT THE TEMPLE OF GOD!"

Ok so you think the body is not the temple of god. Fine.

I would think that some would disagree.

Put the thesaurus down and nobody gets hurt.

quote:Originally posted by Viraljimmy:

Put the thesaurus down and nobody gets hurt.

Lol QFT.

Its bad when you have to go to dictionary.com and look up every other word he says.

Did you copy and paste this from Ophidian Sumerian Dildo?



[This message has been edited by JesuitArtiste (edited 10-27-2006).]

When it is stated that the body is the temple of God, it means that we were created by God, we are one with God; our body and soul are intertwined with Him. Therefore respect your body to respect God.

I don't see what's quite so bad about respecting one's body...

We should not respect our body.

We should transcend it with the purity of the mind, the purity that it is in possession of only when it is apart from the emotive and the feeling; and so the body. We should put the body to many tests, and handle it in manners critical. Why did the shamans scar and tattoo themselves? And why does this disturb those close to religious doctrine? They scarred and tattooed themselves as a means of leaving the body, disconnecting from all physical limitation. The pain and the symbolic storage of this mental prodjection into the skin, it is truly when THE WORD DESCENDS INTO THE FLESH. There is a story, of a group of Indian tribals, they were being burned at a stake for their custom. While they were being tortured, they would suggest new and better methods of torture to their tormentors. Why? To demonstrate their mastery over the body, and to illustrate and ornament that with a gesture of disrespect; that the body is the source of all evil, that the body is of the appetite, and of all wants; and that when obscured, the mind is the temple.

SO many words, so little sense.

The body is merely the physical means that allows the soul to manifest on this plane. It is, in short, a tool.

Like all tools, it should be given some care. But when there is no longer any use for it, when the soul has passed elsewhere, it should be discarded like any other useless object, corpse-worship and superstition notwithstanding.

The thing is, there's nothing wrong with treating your body like a temple. In fact, you will tend to live longer and healthier if you do. What's so bad about that? It's a good thing regardless of whether you're religious or not.

And yes, after you're dead the body is useless. There's no reason for those expensive caskets and all the preservatives, all that does is make the body last a little longer before it decays into nothing.

Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

http://www.spiritual.com.au/articles/theosophy/gospel_stthomas.htm

Way to make yourself look like an ass.

quote:Originally posted by phoenix05:

Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

http://w ww.spiritual.com.au/articles/theosophy/gospel_stthomas.htm (http: //www.spir itual.com. au/article s/theosoph y/gospel_s tthomas.ht m)

The gospel of thomas wasn't inspired.

So get out.