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Done Donating Member (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:20 AM
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New Portrait of Jesus
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:21 AM
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1. Jesus Christ! that's funny.
Who's that at the podium, Mitt Romney?
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thefuzz811 Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:24 AM
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2. That has to be Mitt Romney.
Edited on Fri Aug-25-06 09:24 AM by thefuzz811
He is the prime example of that train of thought. I experience the brunt of that political movement, living in Utah. All of the politicians here have an easy ride, because their constituents and brain washed already. The LDS church does a good job of that.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:30 AM
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3. Nu-Jesus needs more of a mullet, IMO ...
He looks a little too 'hippie liberal-ish' with that hairstyle.


:rofl:
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:45 AM
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4. Pure Genius!
I have nothing to add except a loud laugh!

TC
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 09:54 AM
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5. hey i saw him in his hummer just the other day -- and yes --
he was playing rush libaugh just as loud as it would go.
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 10:01 AM
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6. Was this guy the model...
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 10:02 AM
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7. I can't make out the copyright date
I read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer every day, which is David Horsey's home turf. I know I've seen this one before, but that was a long time ago.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 10:48 AM
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8. That's a pretty weenie gun there, Jesus...
You need lessons from this guy:


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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 05:39 PM
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9. I just don't think he'd have a beer belly
you know?
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dattaswamI Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-27-06 02:05 AM
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10. God (Holy Spirit) And Human Incarnation
God (Holy Spirit) And Human Incarnation

STATEMENT: - MATHEW 10: 40

Lord Jesus was the human incarnation of the Holy Spirit. The human body of Holy Jesus is like the metallic wire, which was all over, pervaded by the Holy Spirit. Veda says ‘Antarbahischa’ which means that the Holy Spirit pervades all over the body of Human Incarnation. Wherever you touch the wire the electric shock is given. Similarly the entire human body of Holy Jesus is holy. The holiness is the nature of Holy Spirit just like the shock is the property of electricity.

As the electricity cannot be separated from the wire, the Holy Spirit cannot be separated from the Holy Jesus. So here the Holy Spirit is the Holy Jesus. Holy Jesus refers this Holy Spirit as His Father. He tells that He was sent by His father as a messenger. Though He and His father are one and the same, He speaks like this for which there is a practical reason i.e.; every human being repels with another human being. A man cannot accept another man as God due to Jealousy and Egoism. Bhagavatgita says, “A man will insult Me when I come here in human form (Avajananti mam….)”. For this purpose Holy Jesus wants Himself to be called only as the messenger of the Holy Spirit by the disciples whenever He is introduced to the public. If He tells the truth the egoistic public will not hear even what He preaches and will reject Him. Therefore He is telling His disciples to introduce Him as a messenger only. Of course, the disciples are really the messengers of Holy Jesus.

Holy Spirit has taken over the human body of Holy Jesus and pervaded all over the body to preach the divine knowledge to this world. The same Holy Spirit is sending the disciples for the propagation of the Divine knowledge. Both the body of Holy Jesus and the disciples are instruments of the Holy Spirit chosen for different purposes. The Holy Spirit is preaching through the body of Holy Jesus and is propagating the divine knowledge through disciples. Therefore if you respect the disciple you are respecting the Holy Spirit indirectly. Though both the instruments exist like this, the Holy Spirit is present in Jesus and is not present in the disciples.

Due to this difference the disciple is an indirect instrument and the direct instrument is Holy Jesus. The disciple propagates the divine knowledge after hearing from the Holy Jesus. Therefore when such disciple is respected, Holy Jesus is respected first and then the Holy Spirit. But among the disciples there may be some person who cannot repeat what Holy Jesus exactly preached. In such a case the Holy Spirit will take over the body of that disciple and preaches (Mathew 10: 20). Such a disciple differs from Holy Jesus because the Holy Spirit resides in that disciple for some time only where as the Holy Spirit resides in Jesus all the time.

Holy Jesus is telling that He is the messenger of the Holy Spirit and He is also telling that the disciple is His messenger. He is giving the same status to Himself and the disciple by telling like this. The reason is that some disciple may become jealous in future if He says that He Himself is the Holy Spirit where as the disciple is His messenger only. The difference in the status may bring jealousy. Therefore He is maintaining the equal status so that no devotee becomes jealous of Jesus in the future. Due to jealousy the disciple may slip from Holy Jesus.

When He says that He is only the messenger, this shows the humble and submissiveness of Holy Jesus. He wants His disciples to be humble and submissive to the Holy Spirit through out their lives. For this purpose He sets Himself as an ideal. The Holy Spirit present in the human body of Holy Jesus is the essence of true and infinite knowledge as Veda says “Satyam Jnanam Anantam Brahma….”. Humbleness and submissiveness are the fruits of the Divine Knowledge. Therefore the humbleness and submissiveness are the qualities of the Holy Spirit itself. This means whatever Holy Jesus speaks is the statement of the Holy Spirit only.


At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org
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