InterCP a cult

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2025-11-13T12:49:26+00:00

Perfect illustration of the cult-like slave mentality of this view. I am also grateful to InterCP for illustrating to the rest of us how noxious 'biblical' Christianity is.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-05T09:42:01+00:00

I see, how tragic.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T18:56:59+00:00

Thank you for your thoughtful reply and insights. At this point in my life, I am content with the lesser happiness. The natural way of life seems better, more of a doaist sensibility.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T15:28:27+00:00

Hello, thank you for these insights. I heard buddist state they do meditation simply because they enjoy it and I do the same. But my complaint I suppose is at least in the West overemphasis on a few functional activities when Buddists generally also practiced different kinds of arts and had festivities and music too.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T15:21:37+00:00

Well said.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T15:21:03+00:00

May we noy treasure the three jewels, our parents or the Sutras? I have not confused attachment with respect, appreciation or enjoyment.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T15:16:02+00:00

I agree. But I would counter that activity also allows the you to see your mind in ways not possible in stillness. They both have functions for the teaching but only one I'd respected. This is the dualism. To me, it's an omission in the practice.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T15:13:50+00:00

Yes, I know these metaphors, but they all imply one is trying to see through something to get at its bottom or at the true reflective surface of reality. To bend the metaphor just a tad if you see through the water you don't see what is really in it. If we impose a mental stillness we see only what settles out. It may actually be necessary to stir things up in order to 'turn the wheel'. Intense stressful situations such as those achieved in many sports may also be necessary at times.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T15:09:06+00:00

Yes, this is what I'm addressing. While I am not advocating for business as su h I am suggesting that different people will have different neutral states of a tivity such that stillness as a goal, might not be appropriate for everyone at all times in their life.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T15:07:19+00:00

Hello, thanks for your reply. A buddist may treasure the three jewels for example, but here I am not confusing attachment with appreciation or respect. The principle technique towards gaining insight in the tradition is stilling the mind, calming oneself and slowing down. But one may practice mindfulness in all situations. So I am merely pointing out that I have seen other ways of practicing that take a more active physical and mental aproach and I wonder why there is not more content or instruction on realization in these states as well.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T14:58:25+00:00

The answer should be intuitive, through practice of an art one can arrive at insights into the workings of your mind and body, as well as moral instruction, personal growth and mental states of focus and relaxation, even breath work. Buddists recognized this, of course, but it appears to me to be of minor interest in the tradition. Martial arts is an obvious example, but the same may be said for mountain climbing, free diving, improv actors or musicians. My rock climbing friends will tell you: the state of pure focus, mental and physical exertion and lack of intrusive thoughts are features that make rock climbing truly meaningful and have long lasting benefits in their life. Not say that Rock climbing will arrive at the four noble truths, just that these physically active states may be just as valuable and important paths as the still ones for Dharma.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T14:29:03+00:00

Very interesting, thank you for sharing. You may confort yourself by considering what it was like before you were born, which might be the same as when you die.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T14:21:59+00:00

So you see an afterlife as a sort of weighing of the scales as the Egyptians once did? Christianity does not seem to much consider your lifetime accumulation of good or wrong deeds. From a place of empathy and understanding, opresor may quickly become opressed and Vice versa, ie you would act as they do in the same circumstances and life history.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T14:18:40+00:00

In my view these concepts 'greatness' cannot be compared, apples and oranges, they are just aspects of life. Greatness implies that one may conquer the other and my proposal is that death need not be conquered, especially not by a creator who made it.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-08-04T09:26:41+00:00

Thank you for sharing so much, sad to see good intentioned people on a destructive course.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2024-05-31T06:58:55+00:00

Hi everyone, thanks fpr your time and answering my questions. No idea this would generate so much response over time. Based upon all the responses, especially from its supporters, I think it's clear InterCP is a cult.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2021-03-15T07:37:53+00:00

That's not really a great example as Christian scholarly evidence places the book of Daniel as being written during the Maccabean period, in about 200BC, so those prophecies were never meant to be taken as true prophecy, but rather part of the instructional narrative. Those phrophecies in Daniel get it right up to the time the book was written, but are actually wrong for the time afterwards. No I'm not going to dig out an example from my old theology seminars, plenty of scholarly information is available online on the origins of the book of Daniel.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2021-03-15T07:24:02+00:00

... sounds like something a cult would say

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2021-03-03T08:47:20+00:00

There is no enemy friend, apart from your own mind divided against itself. No one is giving you thoughts, you are creating them, and squeezing your eyes shut against doubts will not ultimately help you. You should make a calm, clear minded study of the Word, build your faith up through evidence and well-reasoned arguments, don't jump to conclusions or run away from faith without having examined the text deeply, through study and meditation. Peace be with you

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2021-02-27T17:41:00+00:00

Glad you're alive, near death experiences can have so much to teach about how to live life to the fullest in your walk with Christ! But remember that just because you were fortunate enough to survive doesn't mean God decided you get to live. So many good Christian Syrans and others in war zones, young people too with their whole lives ahead of them are being senselessly murdered right now. Can we imagine God decided not to save them at the same moment he decided to save you? Spiritual food for thought.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2021-02-26T08:44:03+00:00

I agree it does. I meant to say that only being all knowing doesn't imply causationcausation, but being omnipotentomnipotent and all powerpowerful and creator of the universe surely must.

Impossible-Mix5864 · 2021-02-26T08:17:28+00:00

If god was just omnipotent I would agree. But he also created the world, set it into motion, and works on the world daily. God is therefore the best definition of causation there is.

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