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The whole book is worth a read. It's not very long. There are loads of translations into English. The first one I read was the Penguin version which is just the text translation without comments, leaving the reader to form their own opinion. (IMO :>))

The Bagavad Gita is a part of a larger writing, The Mahabarata(The Great War). The BG is a conversation between a fighter(Arjuna) and his charioteer(Krishna), Krishna being the incarnation of Vishnu, the Supreme Being(God). Arjuna is questioning the justice of the war, particularly because he...

I just watched a good documentary that some here may be interested in. It's on BBC IPlayer Here's the introduction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lpk70/storyville-the-trials-of-oppenheimer J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy...

So, I found this series on https://www.angel.com/watch. I'm half way through series 3 and loving it. Excellent acting and brings the whole story down to Earth.

Several decades ago, when I was peaking in my search for Truth, I became a renunciate(monk) in the religion I was in. I had already given up all 'wordly' things, or rather had no more desires for those things. I left everything(worldly) joyfully and didn't feel I was running away. I stayed in...

Glad to hear you are mending.

Cruising thru space

I've had three MOIs of which I met two. All wonderful people to know.

You may find this link useful(if haven't already seen it) https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/62221/jewish/The-7-Noahide-Laws-Universal-Morality.htm

I have known and dialogued with many JWs. I also have met a few who are 'almost JW' but won't join the jw.org because they feel the ruling body is not divinely inspired.

Gordon Bennet!!! :>) I had similar stuff happen a couple of years ago when I was hit by a car. Lights everywhere, probably from all the morphine I was given!!! May your recovery complete.

A nice reading. Pretty much which most of my Christian friends have said. Sounds sensible to me.

You have shown exceeding patience. Kudos. :)

An addendum to my post #9 To cut a long story short, I took up the claim and received said knowledge. I was shown how to meditate and immediately began to have strong experiences and experienced love like I have never before. When I was shown this knowledge of God , I shown quotes from...

Congratulations. My daughter just received her Phd and also has a second book published

@talib-al-kalim I grew up in Judaism, had a Jewish education but was only religious for a short periods of time. I was taught that God is unknowable, beyond everything, so I never really formed an image. At the age of 26(1974) I heard the claim of someone that they had 'Knowledge of God' and...

When I read that, I immediately thought of a line in a song by Jimi Hendrix(Purple Haze) which says "Excuse me while I kiss the sky". So, I called upon Google which yields: Hendrix claimed this was inspired by a dream where he was walking under the sea. In the dream, he said a purple haze...

Here is an article on the subject https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/dining/larger-customers-restaurants.html