The Psycology of Fear
 

The Fear and Reverance of the Lord is the beggining of wisdom. So Fear itself is not nesessarily a bad thing. When we fear something we imedietly react by either embracing it or rejecting it. The type of fear that is to be embraced is like a stealth bomber. We know it exist and we know it can do great harm, only there is nothing we can do to stop it's destructive intent. So we embrace it and realize it's a weapon of defence. Like fire if we use it the right way it's a good thing. The type of fear that is to be rejected is like a lying tounge, nothing good can come of it so we fight it tooth and nail until it fleas.
Having a war on terror is like fighting off this lying tounge. So what do you fear? Stick your hand on a hot stove and it will burn you. Tourch a block of Ice with a flame thrower and it will melt. Don't fear the one who has the power to murder you fear the one who has the power to cast you into hell.

Loves The Cellar. You never know what you're going to get. I was hoping for a discussion of deBecker's The Gift of Fear.

Yup - is good, the cellar.

Better with pictures though.

I'm cold and frightened.

The OP highlights one of my pet peeves - religions that are fear based are responsible for more destruction in society as a whole and to individual psyches than just about anything else.

What kind of god demands that you "love" him or you will burn in hell? What kind of god is pleased by the Christian inquisitions and Islamic jihadists and all the rest?

Every person without fail whom I have met who was raised in some hell fire denomination is messed up to a greater or lesser extent. This includes strict catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses (an especially nasty sect), many Mormons, baptist fundamentalists and more.

A human father who told his kid that unless he was "loved" and obeyed, he was going to throw the child in the fire place would be arrested for child abuse. If the father actually carried out the threat, he'd go to jail for a very long time.

Never mind about us meeting god's standards. How about god meeting OUR standards?

As the Buddha taught:

Hatred does not vanquish hatred.
Only by loving kindness is hatred dissolved.
This law is ancient and eternal.

:rant:

Saints be praised ... they're there for you.
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Aww, bless his little whiskey bringing heart. :luv:

Brilliant.

the truthful tounge would say.. fear is not the end of this... I kind of see it more like the lion king... the dad dies and the boy runs away.. then the boy comes back and retakes the mountain...

teach a child to love and he will love to obey- Tim Boone

A former friend had a St. Bernard. That was the most loyal, loveable, slobberingest fool of a dog. Evah! Josh was his name, the dog not the friend. He weighed an even 280 when he died/was put down, again, the dog not the friend.

what was the name of the last bible-passage-spewing trollbot? I'd forgotten them until now..... The last one spelled better, though.

I don't think Klyde's a trollbot. I think this is just the stuff that plays on his mind.

I learn something new every day. The Lion King was a Christian recruiting film.
Glad I never saw it now.

A god that tells one of his followers -Abraham- to kill his son Isaac as sacrifice, and then tells Abraham 'haha, only kidding' at the last second is not the kind of god i want to follow.