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I'm not a believer anymore but, I was raised as a Christian Scientist. So, if anyone has any questions about that particular branch, feel free to ask.
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WilliamAnderson posted:I recently went to a party of a family of Christian Scientists. We had a long discussion about theology and church structure, as a former Catholic it was fascinating, but also incredibly strange. The notion of the idea that the miracles of Jesus were actually a "science" is certainly out there. What do you think about their reluctance to trust doctors? I think it's a bad idea. I mean, sure, the human mind can influence the body in ways we don't always realize. No amount of perfect understanding, though, makes a tumor go away. That's really only a big thing with the more devout ones. My mom wouldn't take me to the doctor for anything minor but, if I had a fever of 103 and I was vomiting, yeah we'd gof to the doctor. I think the whole idea behind the sect was to take some of the beliefs of primitive Christianity and, reframe them in scientific terms. What I obviously didn't realize as a kid was the beliefs are actually kind of Matrixy. The idea that physical world is an illusion and, when you know the truth, you can accomplish anything.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:The Matrix (especially the first movie) is almost explicitly Gnostic -- the material world is a prison and its very existence is the result of a horrifying cosmic error that separated the divine spark in man from its source. (And Christ / Neo's purpose is to come into the material world and retrieve it, not through faith so much as by knowledge -- hence the emphasis on knowing the truth.) As I've read more about Gnostic Christianity, I've realized that Christian Science borrowed alot of it's ideas. The major difference being that instead of an evil god creating the physical world as a prison, it's an illusion created by an error in our understanding of our true relationship with God. Christian Science is big on the concept of error.
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Tias posted:May I present you with this trophy to commemorate the dumbest opinion ever uttered on actors: I thought he was pretty good in Flame and Citron.
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Senju Kannon posted:immanuel kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable And Renes Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefore I am."
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