B-dawg
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I'm not sure if Don is going to answer this question, Brendan. I think he is still upset at his last clash with Dude and the "New Agers" here. This is a pity because, no matter what he says, I think this forum is probably the best place to express his research and views. I have one or two new threads that I am working on myself, and it would be great to have his input along with everyone else.
I can only hope that his quest for knowledge will overcome the little barbs that flew back and forth like so many bee stings - that I laughed off.
I would venture to say though, that your myopic view of armies of Satan vs. armies of angels/God is way off from what he has stated on the board. Don did discuss Malachi Martin's "Hostage to the Devil," and his belief in the demonic. True. But to extrapolate that into your other assertions does not go along with his posts as I read them.
Many who concentrate on the nature of consciousness believe that some people who feel unworthy after life make themselves into demons, feeling that they can not face God for the way they led their lives. Dave-MBS has recounted personal experiences where such discarnate souls were shown that they still have a spark of God within them, and encouraged to leave their hellish ideas and go back toward God.
Are there beings who were never human and only have ill intent for man? I don't know personally.
Don posted questions about whether mediums were channeling real deceased people or demonic imposters pretending to give the right information by telepathy, etc. These were questions - he did not appear to state it as a fact that ALL spiritual communication was from the demonic.
I hope Don answers your questions/rant himself. But to me Chum, it all comes back to your having a very anthropomorphic and limited understanding of God as a white haired Zeus-like man on a throne with a long flowing beard. You say it would be his fault if there are demons in the world anyway. Haven't you figured out yet that God is bigger than that? That all consciousness consists of a part of God's essence? That to portray him as a Superman type character is to diminish God and the universe (and your part in the divine scheme of things)?
M-man **************** So, Doc... you mean to say, that ol' Don can't handle a bit of his own medicine? He comes on here and basically tells the "New Agers" that they are full of baloney. (What is a "New Ager" anyway? Their ideas are of no more recent vintage than those of most American Christians, whose theology dates back to the 1920's with Billy Sunday, Aimee Semple MacPherson and so forth.) And the whole "demonic influence" stuff is closely related to Roman Catholic theology (The Roman Catholic Church being nothing more than, and nothing less than, the world's oldest money- making corporation..!) Don's inability to handle the barbs (i.e., take a punch after he has dished one out) is reminiscent of the behavior of a schoolyard bully. Ever notice how a schoolyard bully just loves to swagger and throw his weight around... Until someone gives him a bloody nose. THEN watch him run blubbering to the teacher..! Now me, I know that I just MIGHT be full of fertilizer, so to speak. But I ACCEPT this. I also LOVE a good argument, just like Mike Tyson loves a good brawl... (Maybe I should have been a lawyer..?) The "bully" behavior I mentioned is SO typical of Abrahamic religionists, Doc. When their limited powers of persuasion fail them, either they cop out, or resort to fear tactics... OR they get violent. (Look at history.) But they NEVER admit that the other side might be right, do they? They will go to the ends of the earth to dig up "evidence" to try and make their case (and end up looking silly in the process) but in the end, it's "my way or the highway" with them. And they are ALWAYS arguing from a top-down, hierarchical, from-the-elite-down-to-the-goobers viewpoint. "A place for every man, and every man in his place... and YOURS is at the bottom, boy." Perhaps this is why I'm not a Christian, nor indeed a member of any other hierarchic, top-down, absolutist faith. I wouldn't fit in... either in their churches, OR in their "Heaven"..!
B-pariah
P.S. The idea of beings which were "never human and have only ill intentions for mankind says two things, Doc... -#1. The afterlife must be a really lame, "get-a-life" sort of place, if said beings have nothing better to do than to #^%$ around with humans. (I've stated this previously.) If "demons" exist then, I have one more reason (at least indirectly!) to seek annihilation, do I not??? -#2. Most humans sure have a bloated sense of their own self-worth, they must think ourselves to be the very center of Creation itself! To think, that "demons" find messing with US, to be their "raisons de etre." Apparently, beings who were never human, must find us WAY more important, than humans (at least humans like myself!) find THEM...
Think about it!!!
Cheers...
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