I never took my ideas from any one source and none of the ones you listed. My ideas are my own through my own experience and a multitude of other people's ideas but even without their ideas, my thoughts are based on my nature. This is who I am.
I have read the Bible. I have several copies. A NASB for casual reading, a KJV for a Protestant lean, an e-text of an original DR so I can get a solid Catholic lean and an Orthodox for the other books as well as a direct Septuagint translation. The Bible is not a very good book. The Qur'an is actually of higher quality, which I have also read. I've also read the main texts surrounding Hinduism (Upanishads/Bhagavad Gita). At one point I gave modern religions a chance but none of them did anything for me. The OT and NT clearly don't jive very well and many people try to find their own way to make it work. Even the parts about Jesus aren't very consistent. Paul sounds like he took a bunch of mushrooms before he wrote some of his parts. Absolutely nothing in the Bible is useful to me. You can get a glimpse of how terrible the Bible is in the fact that there's thousands of different takes on it made into sects and even among people of the same sect, everyone has their own take. When you have to read between the lines on absolutely everything written, that's not a good thing. Good to have read it though to understand where men like yourself and others are coming from. There's a lot of cultural nuances in our society from the Bible. Did you know the reason bankruptcies only last on your credit for 7 years is because that's what God commanded in the Bible? Lots of cool little things like that which make the bible worth reading. As for teaching one how to live? It's a worthless book.
Yes, I did try to be Christian one time and found it worthless. Christianity cannot get me what I want out of life. Very good job on zeroing in on exactly what I want. If I were a better Genghis Khan than Genghis Khan himself then my life would be complete. I would be happy and I would die happy and that's all that would matter. There is no purpose to life except to live until you die.
I never took my ideas from any one source and none of the ones you listed. My ideas are my own through my own experience and a multitude of other people's ideas but even without their ideas, my thoughts are based on my nature. This is who I am.
I have read the Bible. I have several copies. A NASB for casual reading, a KJV for a Protestant lean, an e-text of an original DR so I can get a solid Catholic lean and an Orthodox for the other books as well as a direct Septuagint translation. The Bible is not a very good book. The Qur'an is actually of higher quality, which I have also read. I've also read the main texts surrounding Hinduism (Upanishads/Bhagavad Gita). The OT and NT clearly don't jive very well and many people try to find their own way to make it work. Even the parts about Jesus aren't very consistent. Paul sounds like he took a bunch of mushrooms before he wrote some of his parts. Absolutely nothing in the Bible is useful to me. Good to have read to understand where men like yourself and others are coming from. There's a lot of cultural nuances in our society from the Bible. Did you know the reason bankruptcies only last on your credit for 7 years is because that's what God commanded in the Bible? Lots of cool little things like that which make the bible worth reading. As for teaching one how to live? It's a worthless book.
Yes, I did try to be Christian one time and found it worthless. Christianity cannot get me what I want out of life. Very good job on zeroing in on exactly what I want. If I were a better Genghis Khan than Genghis Khan himself then my life would be complete. I would be happy and I would die happy and that's all that would matter. There is no purpose to life except to live until you die.
I never took my ideas from any one source and none of the ones you listed. My ideas are my own through my own experience and a multitude of other people's ideas but even without their ideas, my thoughts are based on my nature. This is who I am.
I have read the Bible. I have several copies. A NASB for casual reading, a KJV for a Protestant lean, an e-text of an original DR so I can get a solid Catholic lean and an Orthodox for the other books as well as a direct Septuagint translation. The Bible is not a very good book. The Qur'an is actually of higher quality. The OT and NT clearly don't jive very well and many people try to find their own way to make it work. Even the parts about Jesus aren't very consistent. Paul sounds like he took a bunch of mushrooms before he wrote some of his parts. Absolutely nothing in the Bible is useful to me. Good to have read to understand where men like yourself and others are coming from. There's a lot of cultural nuances in our society from the Bible. Did you know the reason bankruptcies only last on your credit for 7 years is because that's what God commanded in the Bible? Lots of cool little things like that which make the bible worth reading. As for teaching one how to live? It's a worthless book.
Yes, I did try to be Christian one time and found it worthless. Christianity cannot get me what I want out of life. Very good job on zeroing in on exactly what I want. If I were a better Genghis Khan than Genghis Khan himself then my life would be complete. I would be happy and I would die happy and that's all that would matter. There is no purpose to life except to live until you die.
I never took my ideas from any one source and none of the ones you listed. My ideas are my own through my own experience and a multitude of other people's ideas.
I have read the Bible. I have several copies. A NASB for casual reading, a KJV for a Protestant lean, an e-text of an original DR so I can get a solid Catholic lean and an Orthodox for the other books as well as a direct Septuagint translation. The Bible is not a very good book. The Qur'an is actually of higher quality. The OT and NT clearly don't jive very well and many people try to find their own way to make it work. Even the parts about Jesus aren't very consistent. Paul sounds like he took a bunch of mushrooms before he wrote some of his parts. Absolutely nothing in the Bible is useful to me. Good to have read to understand where men like yourself and others are coming from. There's a lot of cultural nuances in our society from the Bible. Did you know the reason bankruptcies only last on your credit for 7 years is because that's what God commanded in the Bible? Lots of cool little things like that which make the bible worth reading. As for teaching one how to live? It's a worthless book.
Yes, I did try to be Christian one time and found it worthless. Christianity cannot get me what I want out of life. Very good job on zeroing in on exactly what I want. If I were a better Genghis Khan than Genghis Khan himself then my life would be complete. I would be happy and I would die happy and that's all that would matter. There is no purpose to life except to live until you die.