It was an animated movie about Indians...how did that get associated with Christianity?! LOL...
Bahmaboy just said it was boring...LOL, I guess if he opens his mind to a spirituality other than Christianity, all movies that he finds boring will become entertaining huh? :p



i think i am pretty open to other spirtualities, religion, and christianity. at least compared to the extreme baptist i grew up with, i still try to figure out how i escaped that mode of thinking. i think the story was told better in the Emporers New Groove

Bahmaboy, I was pointing out to Vicky that her post was a bit off. I understood your opinion, and was not criticizing your opinion...I just wanna make that clear :friday:

Oh....and Emperor's New Groove was a great movie!.

"Uh-huh....uh-huh....uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh..."

:dancer:

The Garden of Eden was/is a metaphor for human consciousness. This is why there are so many religion with simply themes in their creation stories because human consciousness is universal so there's no surprise that many of our stories are similar.

At an early age, before the age of two, humans can't dissociate themselves from their surroundings. As long they are in this state, everything is beautiful like a garden. They don't feel pain. Well, they do feel pain but they don't know that it is them feeling the pain, because they can't distinguish themselves from other consciousness. They don't feel remorse, guilt, joy, or pride. These emotions come from the egocentric predicament, it happens when we finally discover ourselves.

This happens during the terrible twos. Which is why they're called the terrible twos because they world seems so ugly and painful and harsh. Adam and Eve began their terrible twos when they realized that they were naked. They became self-aware. Now they can feel guilt for the things they did wrong. Now they can sin. Now they can be accountable for their sins. Because now they realize that they can cause pain on others. If Adam was alone in the Garden and realized he was naked would he have hid himself?? No. But he hid because he realized that there was another consciousness present that could see him. Children do the same thing.

The Garden is real. The Bible is real. It is our story about us, told in such a way that we can understand it. Denying the truth of the Bible and God is denying that you exist. And you can't deny your existence if you don't exist...

....can you??



Exactly....it is about human consciousness, and when we became intelectualy aware of our surroundings and sadly when we lost that ability to not only relate to God, but to be able to have the capacity to look deep into ourselves!!
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Bahmaboy, I was pointing out to Vicky that her post was a bit off. I understood your opinion, and was not criticizing your opinion...I just wanna make that clear :friday:

Oh....and Emperor's New Groove was a great movie!.

"Uh-huh....uh-huh....uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh..."

:dancer:


i never thought you were critizing my opinion, sorry if my post came off that way. any way even though i know the following has no place here, i have to mention this movie i just saw last night called SAW. if you havent seen it see it. i just found out part 2 coming fall 05, so i cant wait