opinion vs fact

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Did I tell you about the time I got hit by a car?

Voluntarily, I presume?

Originally posted by mikelom
My faith is experienced on living experience itself... That is the Buddhist way.

However, trust is wholesome, assuming you trust your neighbours. I trust mine!

As for something believed to be not happening because one hasn't experienced it, then that leaves doubts; and also leaves unknowns.

Would you assume all of my last 2 weeks posts are BS: about ...[text shortened]... land, my pictures posted, my experience; purely because you haven't experienced it??

-m. 😉

This is why you guys are always burning your body. You need first
hand experience and only then will you trust.

Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed?
Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”
(John 20:28-29 NASB)

Originally posted by mikelom
My faith is experienced on living experience itself... That is the Buddhist way.

But surely, your faith is not based solely upon life experience. Because then it would not be faith.

My faith is based on things unseen; but is augmented by real-life experiences.

Originally posted by sumydid
Voluntarily, I presume?

It was an "accident" ("There are no accidents" 🙂 ) I was jogging.
I thought it was a one way street and four buses were obscuring my view.
The car hit me travelling about 50 km/h,I rolled up onto the windshield. Not a scratch on me, the ambulance was not required. Not the slightest bit of pain , only a slight shock.
The point was that after the police saw I was alright they proceeded to give me a fine for jaywalking.
That story sums up my a karma to a tee. I got like a hundred stories like that, where I faced danger of some sort, avoided the percieved danger only to get embroiled in some other drama.
There is no messing with the Great Magnet.

Originally posted by sumydid

[b]Originally posted by mikelom
My faith is experienced on living experience itself... That is the Buddhist way.

But surely, your faith is not based solely upon life experience. Because then it would not be faith.

My faith is based on things unseen; but is augmented by real-life experiences.[/b]

Yes, but most of life IS unseen-the best things anyway, or so a bumper sticker tells me 🙂

(For example, love, friendship, stuff like that.
Stuff like that is invisible)

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Yes, but most of life IS unseen-the best things anyway, or so a bumper sticker tells me 🙂

(For example, love, friendship, stuff like that.
Stuff like that is invisible)

We need to get you a WWJD bumper sticker.


Christmas gift? 😀

My faith and testament are on what I have experienced.

Why would 'faith' not be based upon experience, or is the meaning of faith now mis-used; same as people using 'jealous' instead of 'envious', when the true meaning of 'jealous' is that one doesn't or 'may know' 'the outcome of an event'. 😉

-m.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
If I drop a brick on my foot, feel the subsequent pain, is it a fact? Bbarr?

Try it out and see, post it on youtube, you'll be famous!

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Try it out and see, post it on youtube, you'll be famous!

Not looking for fame, if you back up a few posts, you'll notice I have done it since.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
It was an "accident" ("There are no accidents" 🙂 ) I was jogging.
I thought it was a one way street and four buses were obscuring my view.
The car hit me travelling about 50 km/h,I rolled up onto the windshield. Not a scratch on me, the ambulance was not required. Not the slightest bit of pain , only a slight shock.
The point was that after the pol ...[text shortened]... nger only to get embroiled in some other drama.
There is no messing with the Great Magnet.

You sound like a very intelligent guy. 😀

Originally posted by RJHinds
You sound like a very intelligent guy. 😀

So do you! 😏

😀

-m.

Originally posted by mikelom
So do you! 😏

😀

-m.

You are becominf a regular comedian. 😀

Originally posted by RJHinds
You sound like a very intelligent guy. 😀

Define intelligence. Go on...give us a couple o lines

Originally posted by RJHinds
You are becominf a regular comedian. 😀

Well if you're in a plane crash are you going to expect Christ to suddenly appear, and save you, or will you go into the ground like a f....king dart?

Scientific answers only, please.

😉

-m.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Define intelligence. Go on...give us a couple o lines

In your case that was meant as ironic.