Protestantism

» pink101 - For Example, Brian

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One of the things I like about Kaballah, for example, Brian, is the way they are able to discuss the human condition in real time. Present day Fundamentalist (Evangelicalism) Christianity is focused on life as a script written by God and being played out. There has been an extreme movement to explain everything according to Bible prophecy including our current president's maniacal ways. You might not be one who does that; but, it is a popular past time of many populist preachers like Kennedy, Hagee, Copeland, Dobson, Robertson, and many others who use the dominant media to invluence America--even my barber talks about "Pastor" Hagee.
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Here is a quote from a Kaballah piece,
"A thought is a consequence of desire. Therefore a person thinks only about what he wants and never concentrates on something undesirable." He cannot act differently because desires control him. Our mind and properties are guided by desires. This means that contrary to widespread view, man's head is not the superior organ of the body, but the inferior one. If a person feels pain, all he can think of is alleviating the pain. Any of his desires, to get rid of pain or enjoy something, command the mind what to do.
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Like the mind of an animal, the human mind concentrates on how to receive more pleasure and avoid suffering. "For example, man never thinks about the moment of his death; on the contrary, he believes that he is immortal because such is his desire." Thus, our mind is a slave to our desire, which always dictates to it what to do. It is not just a cold and intelligent calculating machine, disconnected from desires. It conceals both truth and falsehood, and does everything that desire subconsciously demands from this mind system.
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Such statements give room for thought without the browbeating of dogmatic doctrine.
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Source: http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/translat...

-- posted by pink101