Amen Donni. :smiling:
Yin Yang?
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Amen Donni. :smiling:
I am SO crazy late with this response lol, but anyway...
I was speaking for the symbol overall without pointing at any one single use of it. One person will think it to be this, another will think it to be that. I was saying "false" because it's not exactly thought of in that perspective by everyone who sees or sees a meaning behind the symbol. I'm pretty sure I left out this valuable point that I wanted to clarify, so my comment seemed a bit...offensive. That, I apologize for.
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a little offtrack, but here's some more eastern thinking - Brian Weiss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - reincarnation and such - came to mind because of someone mentioning coming back as a goat.
I am SO crazy late with this response lol, but anyway...
I was speaking for the symbol overall without pointing at any one single use of it. One person will think it to be this, another will think it to be that. I was saying "false" because it's not exactly thought of in that perspective by everyone who sees or sees a meaning behind the symbol. I'm pretty sure I left out this valuable point that I wanted to clarify, so my comment seemed a bit...offensive. That, I apologize for.
MY post is late too. I don't have the same email
anymore so I depend on memory now as to which
threads I commented on. And I see your point,
sorry if I didn't see it before, I apologize.
It is the same at my school. No one thinks a
regular bandana is offensive. They can be useful.
But when kids wore them as a gang symbol, the school
banned the use of bandanas.
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The yin/yang symbol is a great symbol to express any dichotomy...and there are many. God vs. Satan, a juxtaposition of darkness and light, and good vs evil being the most obvious of course.
I can also see the similarities of reincarnation and resurrection. If you really take these to their logical conclusions, they are far more similar than different. The word "reincarnation" comes from the Latin, literally meaning, "entering the flesh again". Resurrection, from Latin resurrectio, refers to the literal coming back to life of the biologically dead, normally in the same body. So, realistically, if you look at the resurrection of Jesus, while he didn't enter the same physical body, he came back as the same entity of the same name, and consciousness.
Where the lines blur is in the lingo and concept of 'life after death'. For, if you die a physical death, yet your consciousness/spirit is really what makes you the same entity, and you reform into another body but with the same consciousness, then it isn't really life after death as your life as that entity just transfigured..not changed into another entity. Same 'lifeline', just a different host for the spirit.
I can also see the similarities of reincarnation and resurrection. If you really take these to their logical conclusions, they are far more similar than different. The word "reincarnation" comes from the Latin, literally meaning, "entering the flesh again". Resurrection, from Latin resurrectio, refers to the literal coming back to life of the biologically dead, normally in the same body. So, realistically, if you look at the resurrection of Jesus, while he didn't enter the same physical body, he came back as the same entity of the same name, and consciousness.
Where the lines blur is in the lingo and concept of 'life after death'. For, if you die a physical death, yet your consciousness/spirit is really what makes you the same entity, and you reform into another body but with the same consciousness, then it isn't really life after death as your life as that entity just transfigured..not changed into another entity. Same 'lifeline', just a different host for the spirit.
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What is the deal with people on this forum questioning other believers salvation...an even their saved date?? Are we just going to totally dismiss all other opinions apart from our own here? I certainly hope not. Personally speaking, I enjoy reading other people's opinions, even when they differ from mine. Let's be a bit open minded and tolerant as Christ taught us.
Awww, come on now. There are plenty of teachings outside the bible that are true. In fact, the Golden Rule itself was taught in various forms long before Christianity. So is the Golden Rule false when it is outside the bible? Of course not.
Is teaching math or the law of gravity also false? They aren't in the bible lol. Is teaching basic reading skills also false? How could we even read the bible if so?
On morality, did Jesus not even say that Heaven is within us? Do we not interpret the Holy Spirit within us? Therefore, to say all teachings that say morality come from within are false is pretty non-scriptural.
On the same note, morality isn't exclusive to the bible teachings. I do think it is a product of what God instilled in mankind, but it certainly didn't come from the scripture itself as an original product. So, are we really to believe there were no moral people before Christianity/Jesus and his teachings?? Clearly this isn't true or no civilizations would have grown to create the very people that became Christians themselves, or Jews, or even Pagans.
There is no threat to Christianity from the yin yang symbol as people do not worship the symbol as an idol or deity. Its just a symbol used to express a meaning, just as individual letters of an alphabet are symbols.
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finally, thank you
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LOL, my pleasure. I understand the value of having a familiar voice of reason in a sea of nonsense lol. :wink:
I was a religion and Philosophy major in college so I'm pretty familiar with Eastern and Vedic religious and philosophical concepts and symbols. In so many cases, they are quite similar to Christian concepts, far more than they are different.
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true, what you say. and it is indeed a pleasure having made your acquaintance
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I'll just add my two cents to the mix. I have a tattoo on my right shoulder of two guitars encircling a yin-yang.
The guitars were there first, because it's something I like doing and listening to. The yin-yang was placed there later because, for me, it's the epitome of what happens around us.
I can play one song and have it make me smile and bob my head one day, but if I play it another day it can literally bring tears to my eyes. Because of this, the yin-yang represents the fluidity of emotions. One day you're singing in the rain, the next you're crying in it.
Also, I suffer from bouts of manic-depression. If you look at the symbol itself and imagine one is chasing the other, eventually the one on the upswing will turn down, and vice-versa. A never ending change as one brings with it what the other has diminished.
The guitars were there first, because it's something I like doing and listening to. The yin-yang was placed there later because, for me, it's the epitome of what happens around us.
I can play one song and have it make me smile and bob my head one day, but if I play it another day it can literally bring tears to my eyes. Because of this, the yin-yang represents the fluidity of emotions. One day you're singing in the rain, the next you're crying in it.
Also, I suffer from bouts of manic-depression. If you look at the symbol itself and imagine one is chasing the other, eventually the one on the upswing will turn down, and vice-versa. A never ending change as one brings with it what the other has diminished.
