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My apologies. I will certainly do so from now on.

Impressed by your previous feats, you are now my go-to person when I suspect a sock puppet.

@Apech hmm ... this "most defiantly" sounds like Maddie, same malapropism.

Hi writer, hello to you too. Enjoy exploring. Welcome to the fourm.

Thank you for the informative link. And for the helpful explanation, I will adopt that as my interpretation.

Hi Wandering. Lots of experience there. I guess you deserve a 'gong'. Jokes aside, welcome to the forum. Enjoy.

Thank you.

RC beliefs what has a beginning (e.g. my soul), can become eternal.

Thank you for replying. I agree that “context” is everything. No further comment from me, I’m gathering info.

RC has no “cosmic cycle”, the ‘staying with’ is for all eternity.

I hope so, I’m RC. RC is dual - no “merging” but staying with God in union as friends.

Elsewhere @Mark Foote talked about “one-pointedness".

I agree. I see this a lot in the church I go to: the householders are unaware of what they do not know and start bullying the renunciaties, ‘teaching’ them how they should be (like them ). Historically a lot of the mystics got excommunicated.

I agree. Even the mystics still have their own self as well as the union with God.

Huh … ? c. 2 millennia later? dates? John is more like 2 decennia later (synoptic gospels c. 70-85 AD, John c. 90-100 AD)

hunter-gatherers!

You can’t eat money. “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last stream poisoned, will the white man realize he cannot eat money." - Native American Proverb

waves on the water God’s spirit is moving it constant creation

I totally agree.

Look, no money! Historical and anthropological evidence suggests that bartering was the primary form of trade for a very long time before the widespread adoption of money.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! (Audrey Hepburn)

Hi CD, nice to see you. What about the Buddha? Did he not live without money? ~~~ qian2 bu4 shi4 wan4 neng2, dan4 shi4 wu2 qian2 shi4 wan4 wan4 bu4 neng2 money does not make everything possible; but without money absolutely everything is impossible

Me, I don't like it when people pretend to ask a question (in the thread title) while actually they have an agenda.

Hi. Welcome to the forum.

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