Urantia Book Poll

[Jodie.Lynne]

1 hour ago, MERRY DMAS said:

Morontia

Having read sections of this tome, I always wondered two things:

1 - Is 'morontia' the proper plural of 'moron'?

2 - Why would anyone waste their time reading more than one or two chapters of this dren?

[XenoFish]

Can we just call it a blender bible, as in someone made a 'bible' by blending a bunch of dumper stuff? Not worth calling it a frankenstein text. At least that would be a patch work that resembled something functional. 

[+Not A Rockstar]

1 minute ago, XenoFish said:

Can we just call it a blender bible, as in someone made a 'bible' by blending a bunch of dumper stuff? Not worth calling it a frankenstein text. At least that would be a patch work that resembled something functional. 

Nah it isn't Franknstein, someone put a lot of work into it. Just, I don't think it was dead, let alone an ascended anything.

[Piney]

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The primitives feared sickness because they observed it was often a harbinger of death. If the tribal medicine man failed to cure an afflicted individual, the sick man was usually removed from the family hut, being taken to a smaller one or left in the open air to die alone. A house in which death had occurred was usually destroyed; if not, it was always avoided, and this fear prevented early man from building substantial dwellings. It also militated against the establishment of permanent villages and cities.

This isn't true. I've been on dig sites in North America and Asia that were continually inhabited for thousands of years.

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The dead were supposed to use the ghosts of the tools and weapons that were theirs in life. To break an article was to “kill it,” thus releasing its ghost to pass on for service in ghostland.

This practice was actually used to prevent grave robbers.

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Ancestor worship was originally more of a fear than a worship, but such beliefs did definitely contribute to the further spread of ghost fear and worship. Devotees of the early ancestor-ghost cults even feared to yawn lest a malignant ghost enter their bodies at such a time.

In Asia and North America it was about "showing respect. Not "Fear" or "Worship".

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Only in recent times has bathing become a sanitary practice.

To Native Americans it was always about sanitation.

@MERRY DMAS  more to come.....

 

Edited January 3, 2019 by Piney

[Piney]

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http://bigbluebook.org/90/  Shamanism

Everything is wrong with this. It's a total "White Man's Burden" 19th Century description. 

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The children of Badonan developed a belief in two souls, the breath and the shadow. The early Nodite races regarded man as consisting of two persons, soul and body. This philosophy of human existence was later reflected in the Greek viewpoint. The Greeks themselves believed in three souls; the vegetative resided in the stomach, the animal in the heart, the intellectual in the head. The Eskimos believe that man has three parts: body, soul, and name.

The Eskimos believe what the pre-Christian Baltics, The Siouian and the Algonquians believe. The Soul itself has 2 parts or 2 souls that flow in seperate directions

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The names of the dead were never spoken. In fact, they were often banished from the language. These names became taboo, and in this way the languages were constantly impoverished. This eventually produced a multiplication of symbolic speech and figurative expression, such as “the name or day one never mentions.”

Although the dead weren't mentioned. Hunter-Gatherers had and have a far richer language than American English. They were never "impoverished". 

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The Iroquois Indians made many reforms in funeral waste. And this conservation of property enabled them to become the most powerful of the northern red men.

This statement is so false in so many ways it's idiotic......

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5. Cremation, a later-day invention to prevent ghost trouble.

Cremation has been around for over 35,000 years.

@MERRY DMAS  

[Piney]

32 minutes ago, Jodie.Lynne said:

1 - Is 'morontia' the proper plural of 'moron'?

It was stolen directly from the Mormon Moroni so I would say "yes". 

[Piney]

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The early food taboos originated in fetishism and totemism. The swine was sacred to the Phoenicians, the cow to the Hindus. The Egyptian taboo on pork has been perpetuated by the Hebraic and Islamic faiths. A variant of the food taboo was the belief that a pregnant woman could think so much about a certain food that the child, when born, would be the echo of that food. Such viands would be taboo to the child.

The swine and pork taboos were for sanitation reasons because pigs ate rotten dead bodies as was their purpose and the Semites didn't borrow it from the Egyptians. Phoenicians were Semites and the Hebrews were a branch of them. Swine weren't sacred to any of the Semites.

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The early food taboos originated in fetishism and totemism.

Food taboos among Native Americans and Asians had nothing to do with fetishism and totemism. They had to do with poisons, diseases and parasites. 

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Many apparently hygienic customs of the early tribes were largely ceremonial.

  This is........no...just no.....

ok.....

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As the savage mind evolved to that point where it envisaged both good and bad spirits, and when the taboo received the solemn sanction of evolving religion, the stage was all set for the appearance of the new conception of sin. The idea of sin was universally established in the world before revealed religion ever made its entry. It was only by the concept of sin that natural death became logical to the primitive mind. Sin was the transgression of taboo, and death was the penalty of sin.

Most "primitive" ( which I think this ******* means "not Christian") beliefs are non-dualist. African, Asian, Native American, Polynesian and Indigenous Australian

[Will Due]

 

Here are some things that were written in the Urantia Book that to me, are the most significant. 

 

Erroneous Ideas of God

4:5.1

Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of the God-knowing men of past ages, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father. Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive man was a mythmaker.

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One of the greatest sources of confusion on Urantia concerning the nature of God grows out of the failure of your sacred books clearly to distinguish between the personalities of the Paradise Trinity and between Paradise Deity and the local universe creators and administrators. During the past dispensations of partial understanding, your priests and prophets failed clearly to differentiate between Planetary Princes, System Sovereigns, Constellation Fathers, Creator Sons, Superuniverse Rulers, the Supreme Being, and the Universal Father. Many of the messages of subordinate personalities, such as Life Carriers and various orders of angels, have been, in your records, presented as coming from God himself. Urantian religious thought still confuses the associate personalities of Deity with the Universal Father himself, so that all are included under one appellation.

4:5.3

The people of Urantia continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood—these are the gods of primitive religion; they are not the Gods who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination of the whims of such imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that he lives in a realm of comparative law and order as far as concerns the administrative policies and conduct of the Supreme Creators and the Supreme Controllers.

4:5.4

The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine wrath.

4:5.5

The Hebrews believed that “without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin.” They had not found deliverance from the old and pagan idea that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though Moses did make a distinct advance when he forbade human sacrifices and substituted therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial sacrifice of animals.

4:5.6

The bestowal of a Paradise Son on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; it was inescapable, and it was not made necessary for the purpose of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final personal act of a Creator Son in the long adventure of earning the experiential sovereignty of his universe. What a travesty upon the infinite character of God! this teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw his blameless Son bleeding and dying upon the cross of Calvary!

4:5.7

But the inhabitants of Urantia are to find deliverance from these ancient errors and pagan superstitions respecting the nature of the Universal Father. The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God. 

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The Acme of Religious Living

100:7.1

Although the average mortal of Urantia cannot hope to attain the high perfection of character which Jesus of Nazareth acquired while sojourning in the flesh, it is altogether possible for every mortal believer to develop a strong and unified personality along the perfected lines of the Jesus personality. The unique feature of the Master’s personality was not so much its perfection as its symmetry, its exquisite and balanced unification. The most effective presentation of Jesus consists in following the example of the one who said, as he gestured toward the Master standing before his accusers, “Behold the man!”

100:7.2

The unfailing kindness of Jesus touched the hearts of men, but his stalwart strength of character amazed his followers. He was truly sincere; there was nothing of the hypocrite in him. He was free from affectation; he was always so refreshingly genuine. He never stooped to pretense, and he never resorted to shamming. He lived the truth, even as he taught it. He was the truth. He was constrained to proclaim saving truth to his generation, even though such sincerity sometimes caused pain. He was unquestioningly loyal to all truth.

100:7.3

But the Master was so reasonable, so approachable. He was so practical in all his ministry, while all his plans were characterized by such sanctified common sense. He was so free from all freakish, erratic, and eccentric tendencies. He was never capricious, whimsical, or hysterical. In all his teaching and in everything he did there was always an exquisite discrimination associated with an extraordinary sense of propriety.

1,102

The Son of Man was always a well-poised personality. Even his enemies maintained a wholesome respect for him; they even feared his presence. Jesus was unafraid. He was surcharged with divine enthusiasm, but he never became fanatical. He was emotionally active but never flighty. He was imaginative but always practical. He frankly faced the realities of life, but he was never dull or prosaic. He was courageous but never reckless; prudent but never cowardly. He was sympathetic but not sentimental; unique but not eccentric. He was pious but not sanctimonious. And he was so well-poised because he was so perfectly unified.

100:7.5

Jesus’ originality was unstifled. He was not bound by tradition or handicapped by enslavement to narrow conventionality. He spoke with undoubted confidence and taught with absolute authority. But his superb originality did not cause him to overlook the gems of truth in the teachings of his predecessors and contemporaries. And the most original of his teachings was the emphasis of love and mercy in the place of fear and sacrifice.

100:7.6

Jesus was very broad in his outlook. He exhorted his followers to preach the gospel to all peoples. He was free from all narrow-mindedness. His sympathetic heart embraced all mankind, even a universe. Always his invitation was, “Whosoever will, let him come.”

100:7.7

Of Jesus it was truly said, “He trusted God.” As a man among men he most sublimely trusted the Father in heaven. He trusted his Father as a little child trusts his earthly parent. His faith was perfect but never presumptuous. No matter how cruel nature might appear to be or how indifferent to man’s welfare on earth, Jesus never faltered in his faith. He was immune to disappointment and impervious to persecution. He was untouched by apparent failure.

100:7.8

He loved men as brothers, at the same time recognizing how they differed in innate endowments and acquired qualities. “He went about doing good.”

100:7.9

Jesus was an unusually cheerful person, but he was not a blind and unreasoning optimist. His constant word of exhortation was, “Be of good cheer.” He could maintain this confident attitude because of his unswerving trust in God and his unshakable confidence in man. He was always touchingly considerate of all men because he loved them and believed in them. Still he was always true to his convictions and magnificently firm in his devotion to the doing of his Father’s will.

100:7.10

The Master was always generous. He never grew weary of saying, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Said he, “Freely you have received, freely give.” And yet, with all of his unbounded generosity, he was never wasteful or extravagant. He taught that you must believe to receive salvation. “For every one who seeks shall receive.”

100:7.11

He was candid, but always kind. Said he, “If it were not so, I would have told you.” He was frank, but always friendly. He was outspoken in his love for the sinner and in his hatred for sin. But throughout all this amazing frankness he was unerringly fair.

100:7.12

Jesus was consistently cheerful, notwithstanding he sometimes drank deeply of the cup of human sorrow. He fearlessly faced the realities of existence, yet was he filled with enthusiasm for the gospel of the kingdom. But he controlled his enthusiasm; it never controlled him. He was unreservedly dedicated to “the Father’s business.” This divine enthusiasm led his unspiritual brethren to think he was beside himself, but the onlooking universe appraised him as the model of sanity and the pattern of supreme mortal devotion to the high standards of spiritual living. And his controlled enthusiasm was contagious; his associates were constrained to share his divine optimism.

1,103

This man of Galilee was not a man of sorrows; he was a soul of gladness. Always was he saying, “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad.” But when duty required, he was willing to walk courageously through the “valley of the shadow of death.” He was gladsome but at the same time humble.

100:7.14

His courage was equaled only by his patience. When pressed to act prematurely, he would only reply, “My hour has not yet come.” He was never in a hurry; his composure was sublime. But he was often indignant at evil, intolerant of sin. He was often mightily moved to resist that which was inimical to the welfare of his children on earth. But his indignation against sin never led to anger at the sinner.

100:7.15

His courage was magnificent, but he was never foolhardy. His watchword was, “Fear not.” His bravery was lofty and his courage often heroic. But his courage was linked with discretion and controlled by reason. It was courage born of faith, not the recklessness of blind presumption. He was truly brave but never audacious.

100:7.16

The Master was a pattern of reverence. The prayer of even his youth began, “Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.” He was even respectful of the faulty worship of his fellows. But this did not deter him from making attacks on religious traditions or assaulting errors of human belief. He was reverential of true holiness, and yet he could justly appeal to his fellows, saying, “Who among you convicts me of sin?”

100:7.17

Jesus was great because he was good, and yet he fraternized with the little children. He was gentle and unassuming in his personal life, and yet he was the perfected man of a universe. His associates called him Master unbidden.

100:7.18

Jesus was the perfectly unified human personality. And today, as in Galilee, he continues to unify mortal experience and to co-ordinate human endeavors. He unifies life, ennobles character, and simplifies experience. He enters the human mind to elevate, transform, and transfigure it. It is literally true: “If any man has Christ Jesus within him, he is a new creature; old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.” 

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And lastly:

 

 

To “follow Jesus” means to personally share his religious faith and to enter into the spirit of the Master’s life of unselfish service for man. One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it. 

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In my opinion, that last statement is the main purpose for the UB. 

And also to mitigate any and all confusion surrounding the things that are most important in life.

 

 

Edited January 4, 2019 by Will Due

[XenoFish]

I think I'm going to need to perform a lobotomy on myself tonight. With a railroad spike. Thanks Davros.

[Piney]

1 hour ago, Will Due said:

Here are some things that were written in the Urantia Book that to me, are the most significant. 

"Religion is a distortion, Blind faith unrealisitc, dualistic thinking a mental illness"- Lao Tzu

I'm sorry but the Chinese concept of Tian and the Algonquian concept of Kiitaanittuu (The Living Universe) is far more in-line with a developed society than your primitive concept of the personified male Abrahamic god.

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All ancient clans and tribes had their sacred stones, among the red men it was usually a circle of stones.

This is a complete lie . There is no Native American tribe in North America that has a sacred circle of stone for ceremonies and the Medicine Wheel is just a calendar. 

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The Patagonians still worship trees, as did the early Semites. Long after the Hebrews ceased tree worship, they continued to venerate their various deities in the groves. Except in China, there once existed a universal cult of the tree of life.

The Patagonians don't worship trees. Neither did the ancient Semites. There is no "cult" of the Tree of Life in China but the 'World Tree' is recognized worldwide. But it was not worshipped.

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Even now in Mongolia there flourishes an influential river cult.

No there isn't. They acknowledge Tengri ( see my post about Tian)

Do you need me to find anymore outright lies about Non-Christian non-Americans @Will Due

@MERRY DMAS  Here's more. I think I showed enough outright athropological lies.....

[freetoroam]

4 hours ago, Will Due said:

 

Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship

Paper 86 - Early Evolution of Religion

Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults

Paper 88 - Fetishes, Charms, and Magic

Paper 89 - Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement

Paper 90 - Shamanism—Medicine Men and Priests

Paper 91 - The Evolution of Prayer

Paper 92 - The Later Evolution of Religion

Paper 93 - Machiventa Melchizedek

 

When you click any of these links, go to the top of the page and click the Part 3 ^ link if you'd like to see the table of contents.

 

 

Oh here we go. Will is he to add some more to the UB bucket.

@MERRY DMAS

We have seen this all before.

Here is my vote

Edited January 4, 2019 by freetoroam

[Mr Walker]

I don't have the knowledge to KNOW, and any guess would be prejudiced, so i do not guess, or believe/disbelieve.

It is a very fascinating /interesting book, esp the part about Christ's family life,   whether it is fact or fiction, and it DOES coincide with the personal experiences  of many of those who have contact with the cosmic consciousness  and its governance of our galaxy and have written about their own experiences.   

[Mr Walker]

11 hours ago, Piney said:

This isn't true. I've been on dig sites in North America and Asia that were continually inhabited for thousands of years.

This practice was actually used to prevent grave robbers.

In Asia and North America it was about "showing respect. Not "Fear" or "Worship".

To Native Americans it was always about sanitation.

@MERRY DMAS  more to come.....

 

While i appreciate your defence of native Americans and their culture i am not at all sure you are correct in your points 

If we take Australian aboriginal peole and what we know of many early peoples, the points are valid  eg  in the minds of such people there was no division between the spiritual and material world.

Death was caused by malignant spirits, and indeed, even today,  tradition has it that one does not speak the name of an aboriginal  person for a period after their death.

  Modern people create  modern reasons for such customs (such as respect)  but indeed they DID originate in primitive fear of death and a lack of understanding of it  nature. For example to early aboriginal people death was NEVER  simply a physical thing with a physical cause, and death came about from the interference of a spirit in a person's health or life 

Maybe native Americans were actually a bit more advanced then truly primitive people 

MAny barbarian people would not inhabit the ruins of roman buildings because they did not understand their construction or origin, and believed they were haunted by spirits 

On the other hand,almost every "house", in some of the pueblo dwellings in north and middle america, had multiple burials, just below the surface of their rooms 

[Mr Walker]

7 hours ago, Piney said:

"Religion is a distortion, Blind faith unrealisitc, dualistic thinking a mental illness"- Lao Tzu

I'm sorry but the Chinese concept of Tian and the Algonquian concept of Kiitaanittuu (The Living Universe) is far more in-line with a developed society than your primitive concept of the personified male Abrahamic god.

This is a complete lie . There is no Native American tribe in North America that has a sacred circle of stone for ceremonies and the Medicine Wheel is just a calendar. 

The Patagonians don't worship trees. Neither did the ancient Semites. There is no "cult" of the Tree of Life in China but the 'World Tree' is recognized worldwide. But it was not worshipped.

No there isn't. They acknowledge Tengri ( see my post about Tian)

Do you need me to find anymore outright lies about Non-Christian non-Americans @Will Due

@MERRY DMAS  Here's more. I think I showed enough outright athropological lies.....

I think you might be bringing your modern perspective to the defence of your  people.

  EVERYTHING was worshipped by early people There was no division as exists now between material and spiritual  It was a different form of religion and worship to modern  ones, but still religion /worship. Ask WHY the calendar was so important  that stone circles were used.  It wasn't JUST to know and measure the yearly changes and cycles,  but the important causes, effects and cermonies around each period (this is also true for all megalithic buildings and henges , which combined practical purposes with religious and spiritual ones.

The y were only built because large groups of people were united in a common belief and purpose 

American shamanism evolved from  "siberian/Mongolian shamanism, and you can still find a few of them who practice traditional shamanism,  although most have adopted it to our modern world and knowledge 

http://www.inspirationforthespirit.com/native-american-symbolic-circles/

https://www.welchdakotapapers.com/2011/12/sacred-stones-and-holy-places/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_wheel

 

An Indian “priest” would find it an advantage to know when summer offered the best work climate, marked by the summer solstice, and when the season was drawing to a close and cold weather was on the way (the fall equinox).

A leader who noticed how points on the mountain marked these calendar moments and could predict, with a rock “clock,” these dates, would be a “genius” to his tribe, Hranicky said.

Such times would be natural days for social celebrations of some type, he added. “They visited this place for a reason, like going to church.”

https://www.nativetimes.com/43-life/culture/6360-rock-circles-linked-to-ancient-indian-site

 

Meaning and significance

Although archaeologists have not ascertained the purpose of each medicine wheel with certainty, it is thought that these structures had ceremonial and/or astronomical significance. Medicine wheels and sacred hoops have been built and engaged ritually for millennia, and each one has enough unique characteristics and qualities that archaeologists have encountered significant challenges in determining with precision what each one was for; similarly, gauging their commonality of function and meaning has also been problematic.

One of the older wheels has been dated to over 4,500 years old. Like Stonehenge, it had been built up by successive generations who would add new features to the circle. Due to the long existence of such a basic structure, archaeologists suspect that the function and meaning of the medicine wheel changed over time, and it is doubtful that we will ever know what its original purpose was.

Stone structures as sacred architecture

Intentionally erecting massive stone structures as sacred architecture is a well-documented activity of ancient peoples. Native Americansalso constructed sacred stone structures. However, unlike the grand and towering stone monoliths and megaliths like the Pyramids of Gizas or Stonehenge, the indigenous peoples of North America and southern Canada laid down stones on the ground in certain arrangements and patterns. The medicine wheel is one distinctive structure of this type, patterned in the shape of a wheel, circle, hoop or disk:

Scattered across the plains of Alberta are tens of thousands of stone structures. Most of these are simple circles of cobble stones which once held down the edges of the famous tipi of the Plains Indians; these are known as "tipi rings." Others, however, were of a more esoteric nature. Extremely large stone circles—some greater than 12 metres across—may be the remains of special ceremonial dance structures. A few cobble arrangements form the outlines of human figures, most of them obviously male. Perhaps the most intriguing cobble constructions, however, are the ones known as medicine wheels.[1]

Cultural value and meaning

Often located at the summit of a hill, medicine wheels were well positioned for both astronomical and spiritual meaning. Medicine wheels have been used to mark the geographical directions and astronomical events of the sun, moon, some stars, and some planets in relation to the Earth's horizon at that location. These rock sites were also used for important ceremonies, teachings, and as sacred places (like the High places of other cultures) to give thanks to the Creator, Great Spirit, or Gitchi Manitou in the Ojibwa or Anishinaabe language. Other North American indigenous peoples also made these circular petroforms. Medicine wheels can be seen as similar to circular turtleshaped petroforms, where the legs, head, and tail point out the directions and are aligned with astronomical events.

 

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Medicine_wheel

 

 

Now maybe I am preaching to the converted or maybe i misunderstood your post, but it is clear that stone circles had both practical and religious/spiritual meaning to native americans 

Edited January 4, 2019 by Mr Walker

[Davros of Skaro]

@freetoroam I would appreciate it if you voted. You too @Will Due

Only NW voted yes because of the reliability of the sources. 

Will left out the "Lucifer Rebellion". That's like talking American history while leaving out the Civil War. Much knowledge of the Seven Universes can be gained with the UB.

[Davros of Skaro]

9 hours ago, XenoFish said:

I think I'm going to need to perform a lobotomy on myself tonight. With a railroad spike. Thanks Davros.

Don't do that. Your body is a Temple for the indwelling Thought Adjusters.

Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

^{"107:0.1 (1176.1)} ALTHOUGH the Universal Father is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of the universes, he is also actually present on the worlds of space in the minds of his countless children of time, for he indwells them as the Mystery Monitors. The eternal Father is at one and the same time farthest removed from, and most intimately associated with, his planetary mortal sons.

^{107:0.2 (1176.2)} The Adjusters are the actuality of the Father’s love incarnate in the souls of men; they are the veritable promise of man’s eternal career imprisoned within the mortal mind; they are the essence of man’s perfected finaliter personality, which he can foretaste in time as he progressively masters the divine technique of achieving the living of the Father’s will, step by step, through the ascension of universe upon universe until he actually attains the divine presence of his Paradise Father.

^{107:0.3 (1176.3)} God, having commanded man to be perfect, even as he is perfect, has descended as the Adjuster to become man’s experiential partner in the achievement of the supernal destiny which has been thus ordained. The fragment of God which indwells the mind of man is the absolute and unqualified assurance that man can find the Universal Father in association with this divine Adjuster, which came forth from God to find man and sonship him even in the days of the flesh.

^{107:0.4 (1176.4)} Any mortal who has seen a Creator Son has seen the Universal Father, and he who is indwelt by a divine Adjuster is indwelt by the Paradise Father. Every mortal who is consciously or unconsciously following the leading of his indwelling Adjuster is living in accordance with the will of God. Consciousness of Adjuster presence is consciousness of God’s presence. Eternal fusion of the Adjuster with the evolutionary soul of man is the factual experience of eternal union with God as a universe associate of Deity.

^{107:0.5 (1176.5)} It is the Adjuster who creates within man that unquenchable yearning and incessant longing to be like God, to attain Paradise, and there before the actual person of Deity to worship the infinite source of the divine gift. The Adjuster is the living presence which actually links the mortal son with his Paradise Father and draws him nearer and nearer to the Father. The Adjuster is our compensatory equalization of the enormous universe tension which is created by the distance of man’s removal from God and by the degree of his partiality in contrast with the universality of the eternal Father.

^{107:0.6 (1176.6)} The Adjuster is an absolute essence of an infinite being imprisoned within the mind of a finite creature which, depending on the choosing of such a mortal, can eventually consummate this temporary union of God and man and veritably actualize a new order of being for unending universe service. The Adjuster is the divine universe reality which factualizes the truth that God is man’s Father. The Adjuster is man’s infallible cosmic compass, always and unerringly pointing the soul Godward.

^{107:0.7 (1177.1)} On the evolutionary worlds, will creatures traverse three general developmental stages of being: From the arrival of the Adjuster to comparative full growth, about twenty years of age on Urantia, the Monitors are sometimes designated Thought Changers. From this time to the attainment of the age of discretion, about forty years, the Mystery Monitors are called Thought Adjusters. From the attainment of discretion to deliverance from the flesh, they are often referred to as Thought Controllers. These three phases of mortal life have no connection with the three stages of Adjuster progress in mind duplication and soul evolution."

https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-107-origin-and-nature-thought-adjusters

[Timothy]

Where can I find it please? 

[Davros of Skaro]

1 minute ago, Timothy said:

Where can I find it please? 

Ask the indwelling Thought Adjuster for guidance, or Google.

[Timothy]

2 minutes ago, MERRY DMAS said:

Ask the indwelling Thought Adjuster for guidance, or Google.

Isn’t there a Nigerian bank account I can be connected with?

[Davros of Skaro]

@danydandan

I'm looking forward for your vote.

2. Universal Nonspiritual Energy Systems 
(Physical Energies)

^{"42:2.1 (469.1)} It is indeed difficult to find suitable words in the English language whereby to designate and wherewith to describe the various levels of force and energy—physical, mindal, or spiritual. These narratives cannot altogether follow your accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such paucity of language that we must use these terms in multiple meanings. In this paper, for example, the word energyis used to denote all phases and forms of phenomenal motion, action, and potential, while force is applied to the pregravity, and power to the postgravity, stages of energy.

^{42:2.2 (469.2)} I will, however, endeavor to lessen conceptual confusion by suggesting the advisability of adopting the following classification for cosmic force, emergent energy, and universe power—physical energy:

^{42:2.3 (469.3)} 1. Space potency. This is the unquestioned free space presence of the Unqualified Absolute. The extension of this concept connotes the universe force-space potential inherent in the functional totality of the Unqualified Absolute, while the intension of this concept implies the totality of cosmic reality—universes—which emanated eternitywise from the never-beginning, never-ending, never-moving, never-changing Isle of Paradise.

^{42:2.4 (469.4)} The phenomena indigenous to the nether side of Paradise probably embrace three zones of absolute force presence and performance: the fulcral zone of the Unqualified Absolute, the zone of the Isle of Paradise itself, and the intervening zone of certain unidentified equalizing and compensating agencies or functions. These triconcentric zones are the centrum of the Paradise cycle of cosmic reality.

^{42:2.5 (469.5)} Space potency is a prereality; it is the domain of the Unqualified Absolute and is responsive only to the personal grasp of the Universal Father, notwithstanding that it is seemingly modifiable by the presence of the Primary Master Force Organizers.

^{42:2.6 (469.6)} On Uversa, space potency is spoken of as ABSOLUTA"

https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-42-energy-mind-and-matter

[Davros of Skaro]

1 minute ago, Timothy said:

Isn’t there a Nigerian bank account I can be connected with?

Typical concerned with the flesh response. 

[Timothy]

@danydandan, good luck mate.

[Timothy]

1 minute ago, MERRY DMAS said:

Typical concerned with the flesh response. 

As opposed to a non-flesh response? 

[danydandan]

2 minutes ago, MERRY DMAS said:

@danydandan

I'm looking forward for your vote.

2. Universal Nonspiritual Energy Systems 
(Physical Energies)

^{"42:2.1 (469.1)} It is indeed difficult to find suitable words in the English language whereby to designate and wherewith to describe the various levels of force and energy—physical, mindal, or spiritual. These narratives cannot altogether follow your accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such paucity of language that we must use these terms in multiple meanings. In this paper, for example, the word energyis used to denote all phases and forms of phenomenal motion, action, and potential, while force is applied to the pregravity, and power to the postgravity, stages of energy.

^{42:2.2 (469.2)} I will, however, endeavor to lessen conceptual confusion by suggesting the advisability of adopting the following classification for cosmic force, emergent energy, and universe power—physical energy:

^{42:2.3 (469.3)} 1. Space potency. This is the unquestioned free space presence of the Unqualified Absolute. The extension of this concept connotes the universe force-space potential inherent in the functional totality of the Unqualified Absolute, while the intension of this concept implies the totality of cosmic reality—universes—which emanated eternitywise from the never-beginning, never-ending, never-moving, never-changing Isle of Paradise.

^{42:2.4 (469.4)} The phenomena indigenous to the nether side of Paradise probably embrace three zones of absolute force presence and performance: the fulcral zone of the Unqualified Absolute, the zone of the Isle of Paradise itself, and the intervening zone of certain unidentified equalizing and compensating agencies or functions. These triconcentric zones are the centrum of the Paradise cycle of cosmic reality.

^{42:2.5 (469.5)} Space potency is a prereality; it is the domain of the Unqualified Absolute and is responsive only to the personal grasp of the Universal Father, notwithstanding that it is seemingly modifiable by the presence of the Primary Master Force Organizers.

^{42:2.6 (469.6)} On Uversa, space potency is spoken of as ABSOLUTA"

https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-42-energy-mind-and-matter

I think it's an lsd induced social experiment. Was the book on your library a first edition? If it was you can compare the first edition to the newest edition and see the corrections made. So much for it being Gospel and Devine inspired if a simple human can edited it. Eh?

[Davros of Skaro]

6 minutes ago, danydandan said:

I think it's an lsd induced social experiment.

Could be?

6 minutes ago, danydandan said:

Was the book on your library a first edition? If it was you can compare the first edition to the newest edition and see the corrections made. So much for it being Gospel and Devine inspired if a simple human can edited it. Eh?

I don't know what edition, but it had a downloadable cd in it's inside cover.