Will America become Hindu by the end of the century?

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#421

A weakness is not necessarily a sin. A weakness could be a tendency, but if that tendency is not indulged, it’s not a sin. I tend to like women. It is a weakness of mine that if I were in a situation where it would be easy to commit adultery, I might do so. So I stay away from those situations, knowing my weakness. That’s not a sin.

Why am I weak? We are all weak? It’s because of the fall of Man. We all have weak wills and dulled intellects.

But awareness is the beginning of mastering them and dominating the passions.

Your strategy of “left handedness” and totally yielding to them does not lead to “getting it out of your system” but to addiction and greater weakness.

#422

So basically you are stopping yourself from sinning? You know given the circumstances you would sin, so you avoid those situations. In that case whenever the situation presents itself you would easily buckle. This then clearly is a weakness. As we cannot control what happens to us in life, situations often come to us than us going to situations.

My strategy is different to rid myself of the desire altogether, so even if the situation does present itself I will not buckle. First of all I do not deny myself my desires. The desires that I can safely fulfill I do, just so that I can know what happens when I fulfill my desire - what it actually feels like. Then, if I am honest with myself, I realise it’s not all that great. I will give you an example. I feel a desire for sex, and I decide to fulfill it, but when I do get that thrill I realise the anticipation of it was actually more attractive than the feeling itself. I then start to become more real about what it is all about and develop some dispassion for it.

I have had so much sex in my life that if tommorow I had no sex ever again I would not miss it. This is because, because I have had it so many times I have developed dispassion for it. I still do it occasionally, but only because I can. Your strategy obviously does not work, because the desire always remains there - and it will always remain there if you don’t work it out. You’ll be on your death bed regretting why you did not work it out(which will bring you back to explore it in a new body :wink: )

#423

[QUOTE=thomas;48621]No, I don’t mean that, because most Christians I know are striving to live good lives, and are not striving to see how much they can get away with. But there are a few who are like SD and are living the an immoral “left handed” life, and find a way to rationalize it in the same way SD does.[/QUOTE]

Provide evidence that SD has ever rationalized his purported “immorality.”

#424

[QUOTE=thomas;48645]A weakness is not necessarily a sin. A weakness could be a tendency, but if that tendency is not indulged, it’s not a sin. I tend to like women. It is a weakness of mine that if I were in a situation where it would be easy to commit adultery, I might do so. So I stay away from those situations, knowing my weakness. That’s not a sin.

Why am I weak? We are all weak? It’s because of the fall of Man. We all have weak wills and dulled intellects.

But awareness is the beginning of mastering them and dominating the passions.

Your strategy of “left handedness” and totally yielding to them does not lead to “getting it out of your system” but to addiction and greater weakness.[/QUOTE]

Lol, so typical of a Christian. They admit they are weak and yet, indulge in sex and drugs, and “rationalize” it by citing Adam and Eve and other myths. Then they go to Church on Sundays and grovel at the feet of a mythical figure by begging him to forgive his sins. Then they repeat the process until the next Sunday.

This is why Christianity fails. Christians admit that they have weaknesses and instead of training the mind to resist these desires, they let it ferment and crystallize in their minds and avoid the incriminating situations themselves. But life isn’t like that and sooner or later, they WILL encounter the situations that causes them “to buckle.” And what will happen then I wonder? It is no small wonder that you hear way too many stories of child molesting and sexually active priests and clergymen.

No, as an aggregate, humanity is not weak and its constituents do not have dulled intellects. The Christian white man that has caused the most suffering and pain in the world. Doesn’t that mean it may be the Christian white man that has dulled intellects and a higher susceptibility to debauchery?

#425

Is this thread STILL going!!! lol… we already know the answer… it’s ‘extremely unlikely’

#426

[QUOTE=YogiAdam;48739]Is this thread STILL going!!! lol… we already know the answer… it’s ‘extremely unlikely’[/QUOTE]

If you had been paying attention, you would see that the discussions nowadays are not even about this topic.

#427

[QUOTE=YogiAdam;48739]Is this thread STILL going!!! lol… we already know the answer… it’s ‘extremely unlikely’[/QUOTE]

C’mon, you know that as long as SD & MonNeecheeechee love to keep giving each other the ol’ Hindutva reach-around every time one of them posts, threads like this will never die.
They have to take a break sometime, right? right? :lol:

#428

yogiadam…SD has become a new ager since you left!

#429

[QUOTE=kareng;49006]yogiadam…SD has become a new ager since you left![/QUOTE]

Lol, really?? But I though he already had the truth already Ahhhahahahaha… Did I correctly see a comment from him like “I’m part of 1% of the only genuine spiritual such and such… Bulls^%t… Bull&%t”… or did I read wrong. Looks like no matter what nonsense you believe, you can always apply the same arrogance and self absorption to all walks of life. By the way sorry if I read it wrong, but I just skimmed over it as I was doing something else… being male, I can’t multi task at all lol