My life is a weird movie ...

Jesus - the one you don't believe - said to love your neighbor as yourself. People are not loving their neighbor as they would love their own life. They are racist, bigoted, selfish...

Ghana said (do you believe him) "“Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.”


Broaden the lens and have some faith that there are good people who care about other humans.

I think we distance ourselves from our wealth and good fortune. Most Americans simply do not fully understand how incredibly lucky we are to be born in America, and we semi intentionally just shut down our grasp of the human condition by simply conceptualizing that it is too large and impossible to cure.....that would be wrong. I think it is incumbent that we elect leadership which recognizes that America must do its part, and certainly individual contributions help most situations......but I believe there is an element of cognitive dissonance which ultimately controls.

SheWrites wrote:Jesus - the one you don't believe - said to love your neighbor as yourself.  People are not loving their neighbor as they would love their own life.  They are racist, bigoted, selfish...

Ghana said (do you believe him) "“Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.”


Broaden the lens and have some faith that there are good people who care about other humans.

I applaud the sentiment expressed in that saying, but there is nothing of substance to prove that Jesus ever said it. Check out who wrote the story .. and then check out if the writer actually lived during Jesus's alleged life span. More than one so-called Gospel tell the same story?

Of course there are good people, plenty of them. Very few are politicians or people in authority. Reality.

Wordslinger wrote:

SheWrites wrote:Jesus - the one you don't believe - said to love your neighbor as yourself.  People are not loving their neighbor as they would love their own life.  They are racist, bigoted, selfish...

Ghana said (do you believe him) "“Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.”


Broaden the lens and have some faith that there are good people who care about other humans.

I applaud the sentiment expressed in that saying, but there is nothing of substance to prove that Jesus ever said it.  Check out who wrote the story .. and then check out if the writer actually lived during Jesus's alleged life span.  More than one so-called Gospel tell the same story?

Of course there are good people, plenty of them.  Very few are politicians or people in authority.  Reality.

Hmmm...say you wrote a book about a historical figure, Word. Perhaps you have quotes from that person. Did you live in that alleged life span? Is there more than one story about that historical figure?

Reality.

SheWrites wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

SheWrites wrote:Jesus - the one you don't believe - said to love your neighbor as yourself.  People are not loving their neighbor as they would love their own life.  They are racist, bigoted, selfish...

Ghana said (do you believe him) "“Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the whole ocean doesn’t become dirty.”


Broaden the lens and have some faith that there are good people who care about other humans.

I applaud the sentiment expressed in that saying, but there is nothing of substance to prove that Jesus ever said it.  Check out who wrote the story .. and then check out if the writer actually lived during Jesus's alleged life span.  More than one so-called Gospel tell the same story?

Of course there are good people, plenty of them.  Very few are politicians or people in authority.  Reality.

Hmmm...say you wrote a book about a historical figure, Word.  Perhaps you have quotes from that person.  Did you live in that alleged life span?  Is there more than one story about that historical figure?  

Reality.

You're right, of course. But the facts are, we have no idea what parts of the Bible are real, or pure fabrication. Much of the New Testament was written as though the stories were just taking place, although the writers were living decades after events which they didn't live through, just heard about. Some of the incidents were total bullshit, constructed by editors for propaganda purposes, hundreds of years later than the events they purport to tell.

Based on my experience dealing with history and historical research, it's clear that facts frequently become muddled, altered and shifted within a few months of an incident. And the shift in reality continues thru time.

Hell, we're unsure of the real story of John Kennedy's assassination and that was only 53 years ago.

You have every right to believe what you want to believe about Jesus. I just don't find it necessary. Without belief, the whole tale is preposterous and bizarre.

As with everything, it's all a matter of perspective.

SheWrites wrote:

Broaden the lens and have some faith that there are good people who care about other humans.

Those would be Doctors Without Borders. Unfortunately we saw what other humans do to them.

Wordslinger wrote:My life is a weird movie

Make that a Double Feature cause mine is too.