Serving reality.......
Serving reality.......
I "skimmed" over your post and found the same stale rhetoric.
'Skimming' doesn't facilitate a genuine discussion, let alone merit respect towards a fellow board member. Such does not constitute a true dialogue. Perhaps you haven't yet stimulated the creative intelligence or intellectual versatility to engage, which has so far been pretty apparent in our exhanges. Courtesy demands I accept a change in that direction.
The
Internet information about the UB kind of sheds a very dark shadow
over it.
Ample resources and links have been provided here for those interested in the UB. The only 'dark shadow' is the one you're pre-conceiving, looking only for the 'negative' criticism, ignoring the good. Besides not even reading at least the first 5 papers,...which is not a very difficult undertaking. To engage a discussion upon a book, its only fair and logical to read it first,....at least significant parts of it.
You or Caino said, The Urantia Book has a million followers.
I don't know how many UB readers there are really,...one can research that for themselves,....
besides, the number of followers doesn't really prove the validity or truth of a religion, book, or cult-ure,...add to that there are often many different branches or denominations within any given religious tradition. I'm eclectic at this point in my journey, recognizing truth, wisdom found in many various religious traditions,...because 'God' is the sole fundamental universal 'reality' at the HEART of all. Hence the UB calls The Universal Father the First Source and Center. From that divine center radiates forth all dimensions of space-time creation, every possibility and potential of existence.
I can't believe a million people could be
so naive.
It takes courage to think for yourself, and follow that inner light 'God' placed within you, to search out truth for oneself, instead of just believing what you've been handed down by tradition, or what your family/church programmed you to believe, etc.
The UB is just one religious book of epochal significance, a catalyst for a broad range of discussion, since its subjects are essential to man's origin, progress and ultimate destiny.
If its not your cup of tea,...find another coffee shop. - just respect this 'coffee shop', as you would your own.
Although, Scientology has a huge following.
There is really no comparison here, as we've already covered....
you're just sloshing up anything you can find to deride or ridicule the UB. Scientology claims to be a 'religion',...its organizational-structure is 'church-like'....its a whole different animal than any Urantia organization. There is no official UB church or 'religion' per se,...just the
Urantia Foundation which is the custodian and publisher of the book. There are educational networks and groups that study and help share the message of the UB,...in the sense that all religious groups have a natural desire to help and serve their fellow man.
If you start a new thread on Scientology, you'll have to research it fairly well, educate yourself on the essentials, then you can engage in an informed discussion on it. As far as the UB is concerned,...you haven't done enough reading or research (as so far it appears),
but I keep the space open for anyone willing to engage in a 'creative dialogue',...one who has the courage to at least engage in an
'explorative discusison'.
Its all about expanding consciousness. If one is not interested in that, I don't know what they are doing on a 'theology forum', let alone a discussion board.
pj
