What a strange pond this is. Without warrant, one of its tadpoles has taken it upon itself to do everything in its power to block any frog from helping out the pond's tadpoles in their natural process of growing up. The derangement and futility of this is quite amusing.

So....you think Jim has fused with his TA??

If you aren't already, I think you are dangerously close to being fused with hatred and malice forever.

The Urantia Book is not like a McDonald's cheeseburger science experiment put up in a closet in a paper bag to see what it will look like in 20 years.

The Urantia Book is more like that same cheeseburger eaten, consumed and digested in order to help your soul exponentially grow.

How is it I wonder that some find only doom and gloom and preach disappointment and doubts???

Frogs fly to heaven if in the tadpole pond upon fusion.

For those who may have just recently discovered the book and come here out of interest to see what the Urantia Book is all about, I think it's very disheartening to see you, someone who purports himself to be an expert in what the book says, make up something full cloth that the book does not say.

The tadpole reference has to do with growth. The growth of how a tadpole eventually becomes a frog. The authors of the Urantia Book made no analogy to a frog being the same thing as a human becoming fused. Here or anywhere.

But everyone can see why you make such deceptions. Which is apparently something you don't seem to care about.

However, it is meant to be joyful and inclusive!!

So...."sharing" our "fruit" is not a commandment. Rather, it is an irresistible and inevitable expression of our religious experience. Indeed, children and barbarians demonstrate the sharing and caring of the very human expressions of the Divine Connection. In fact, the very birth of soul is proof and validation of this connection AND our personal response to that connection!!

Kindness, generosity, affection, friendship, loyalty, duty, forgiveness, love,sacrifice, service, morality, and ethics are all proof positive of our humanity, the Divine Connection, and personal religious experience and growth. None of these are possible, not one of them (!), is possible without Spirit connection and personal response to the Spirit within.

Meaning is never, and can never be, meaningless. Meaning, by definition, has and is meaning. There is no value without meaning...meaning is the very doorway to value. Or so the UB teaches us.

And of course, the source of fact and meaning is the same source of all value...and all truth...and all reality. The First Source. That which is real has meaning. The understanding of meaning delivers value. There can be no value without meaning. The understanding of meaning is the value of reality and the very essence of BEING.

All value is discovered only by our quest for meaning, as we perceive and learn to understand universe reality. Life has meaning. Universe reality has meaning. The value of reality is found in that personal quest for meaning, or the understanding of reality.

Or so I understand the UB to teach.



I truly admire all my fellow religionists who find meaning and value in the rites, traditions, ceremonies, and celebrations of all faiths, and who find comfort and inspiration and guidance along the path to Paradise. So many billions of God's faith children to admire and emulate on their personal quest to live lives of meaning!!! What value to behold and experience others' expressions of their Divine Connection!!

So...every single act of human kindness and hope and idealism is an expression of the Divine Connection and human religious experience. It is our sincerity and intentions and motivation that are measured by God assess our value as the children of time.

Any and every expression of faith has meaning and value...eternal meaning and eternal value! Every such experience and expression of faith is a treasure to embrace and to celebrate and to give joyful recognition of such meaningful value!

Wow!!!

I ...... do not criticize anybody else's struggles or progress or religious experiences or expression of that experience!!

Yes you do. Why do you persist in making false statements? Don't you see that you're ruining the spirit of this forum by so doing?

So...I am not criticizing Jim's religious experience, but rather I am criticism and disagreeing with his criticism of everybody else's personal religious experience.