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*slams Bible on ground. . . Steps onto it* I'm standing on the W-O-R-D . . Clap your hands Staning on da word, using it as a measuring stick? H-O-W?

I just feel conflicted inside. How can the Bible sort me out?

No Bibles here. . . .

*someone has to be wrong* When kids run into each other at the playground nobody asks to verify religions. No judges. *the Bible defines Christianity* What?

So and so ran over my cat Do I beat them over the head with a King James? I think a Strongs concordance would do more damage?

Are suggesting The Bible should be used for conflict resolution? How would someone use The Bible to resolve conflict?

I only know this phrase from The Way International. By "The Word" what is meant in The Way is The Bible. What is meant by The Bible is another topic. According to the article, LINK, God is not acting as a divine architect. You are not expected to make perfect decisions, ever. So what is the will of God? According to the article above, it's you. So, The Word of God is The Will of God is a phrase to take your attention off of, you, in some attempt to build the perfect machine.

When I google "The word of god is the will of god" that comes from one source. it ain't the bible to my knowledge.

Church A: The body was made in God's image. Let's use science to make medicine and build a hospital for everyone. Alleviate suffering and such. Church B: The body is wicked and evil and poorly designed. Bunch of empties floating by. Halve the population to prevent starvation. Church C: I don't believe in the body. Yeah I don't know. This more than trivial. Why does the word only resolve disputes? Why should everything agree? Isn't that utopian thinking? Nothing in the Bible states "build utopia".

scooping up the field mice and popping them on the head!

Hmmm. Maybe I don't understand religion that way . . . isn't it a reflection of the people involved? A reflection/projection of psychology? . . . an observation Shouldn't a person "know thyself"? Is attempting to understand yourself and the people around you explaining the unexplainable? christ absent / not absent - this is about people?

Ring around the rosie . . . we all fall down (because we died of the plague) Children's stories and nursery rhymes are all dark. Everything is dark. The world is Dark. . . . Back to Children's Fellowship . . . . We're Standing on the W-O-R-D . . clap your hands . . .

Speaking of dark, have you reviewed the history of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc? Dude walks up and just gropes a sleeping woman . . . . Disney's Pinocchio is symbolism in every scene. It's a good primer. Yes the original Pinocchio didn't live, they hung him for being a jerk. Raf had pointed out Jesus is present and not present. Why is something like that a contradiction or discrepancy? Why is one inclined to explain it? Is it because random writings are cobbled together? Or that each story is focused on a different aspect of reality?

There are 3 types of paradoxes. Some get solved. Some don't. There's a third. I think we evolved to instinctively solve problems. So there's that. Finding limits forces us get creative within our bounds. That might be involved. When vpw was counting cock crows was he beyond the bounds of the story? Or each of the stories? He wasn't reading. Why did Gepeto give Pinocchio an apple? Wood doesn't eat. Obvious symbolism but the science doesn't make sense. Oh no. Stories involve a suspension of belief, not unbelief. Is that reading above the story? Some get behind the story, into the mind of the author.

Are there lessons in paradoxes? First someone has to find the Paradox. Then they and others decide, hey, that kinda neat. Then try to solve it. Why? Gotta solve stuff. There's always another problem. Or play soduku. I think stories involve more emotion though. The Bible is stories, and lists, and poems, and songs and psalms which I think are something but I don't know. But it's not just cognitive. Maybe when VPW was glove-fitting that was part of the emotional suppression? now, don't be emotional when counting these cocks crowing . . . Here a cock, there a cock, . . . Boom . . .Cocks are birds with rubber gloves on their heads

I don't believe Pinocchio exists, therefore I am under no obligation to explain The Pinocchio Paradox. Personally I like paradoxes and the limits of logic. Most of us are driven to solve problems. Designing better gloves could be a good business, too.

Cognitive dissonance can be when you feel one way and know something else. Maybe by unbelief what is meant is letting go? Making a choice? The inerrantist is the lover of Victor Paul Wierwille, who did not write or author The Bible or anything else. VPW presented the problems nobody asked about and then sold the solution. So we don't play by the rules. Discrepancies are only a problem if you decide they are. If one finds meaning in a story, does that make the story a teacher? Taking you beyond? I feel there's more.

Yes I can understand that boys are not made of wood with infinitely growing noses accompanied by a personal talking cricket. And you can't fish inside a whale. That is gross. I also understand books don't write themselves, and that they exist alongside living beings. And people themselves don't exist in vacuum. There's innumerable interconnections between stories and themselves. It appears to me VPW implied this collection of books are a source. As if life itself springs from them. And by studying them secrets are revealed. And he did some other things, which involved gloves. But that is obviously a lie. It's ink and paper. The Bible may be the work of the Roman Catholics, and it may be that body of people's book. It may be made of other books that belonged with other groups as well. I don't know people who don't contradict themselves. . . So if something that originated from people did not contradict itself . . . Well my nose would grow. Your unbelief as you term it, relieves you of what? I don't think anyone is relieved of facing contradictions. Good stories reflect reality, reflect people, and point to contradictions.

There's no doubt the internal reward system appears hijacked. Being motivated in abnormal ways. I assume that's dopamine. And if you're not engaged in normal pursuits and achieving worthwhile goals the heaviness of some of the meetings, like face melting, rants, witness absolute BS to complete strangers, . . . . adrenaline The Twig face, the cult smile . . . something is misfiring.

"authority of scripture" "what the Bible actually teaches" Your belief has no bearing on what it teaches? Is this a vote that scripture interprets itself? I tend to the reader interprets what they read. Unless they don't. The Roman Catholic church claims authority over what the Bible teaches, this makes sense since they assembled it . . . unless they didn't.

I heard the phrase "putting it all together" while at HQ. Sorry I meant it somewhat rhetorical. . . . When TWI says "putting it all together" . . . put what together? . . . . . . I swear people get a literal high off of this nonsense

He says he's fully aware. Sounds like the motivation is it makes him feel good. Feelings don't care about your facts.

I would also go back to ChatGPT and AI generated images. People know it's fake. People know others look down on them for going for the couterfeit. They do it anyway.

I'll give him something to Xerox.