FuglyDuck

The law of Moses demands she be stoned, right?

Like it didn’t require they not be without sin to enact punishment.

I should apologize- Magdalene was never identified as the adulteress. Some things still hold over from a fundie upbringing.

Where does it that? The “Law” with the big-L there is The Law of Moses.

It’s mat 5. I dropped it up there.

the authors of the New Testament didn’t have basic cultural understandings that Jesus or the Pharisees would have. They made a mistake. Oops.

So now you have people changing the meaning of words to explain how their scripture isn’t a hodgepodge of contradictory statements.

Statements that were written by Greek-speaking people whose knowledge of Jewish scripture comes from translated works and interpreted with broad influence from Greek philosophy.

writing about an illiterate carpenter in Galilee and Jerusalem, who grew up speaking Aramaic and may have learned Hebrew.

And to be perfectly clear…. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” is one of the commandments. It’s the seventh. So even if you’re right and that’s what Jesus was talking about… he still changed the law.

I mean it’s a death cult. Basically he has to separate and isolate his followers or else they’d start to catch on that he was taking advantage of them.

I think he rather said that with a cheesy car salesmen grin and a hand out.

“You have a problem. But I’ve got a solution… gimme yo money and just don’t be rich!”

Doubtful.

His culture was not kind to anything other than the approved gender norms.

Built up gasses lead to flatulence.

I apologize, but I'm not the best to explain it, particularly to the specifics of Buddhist meditation. But really, mediation is a catchall for any sort of mental discipline or conditioning. Like practicing mindfulness or simply maintaining a state of calmness, right?

What OP asked specifically about is samatha and vipassana, which are forms of meditation from buddhist teachings. They're inherently buddhist. Samatha is itself not particularly offensive; it's basically a technique for mindfulness and focus. But vipassana? it's the pursuit of enlightnement through meditation and gaining insight into 'reality'.

I'm not particularly surprised by the OP reporting the encounters with "spirits". Deep meditation places you into an altered mental not entirely unlike that of psilocybin. Except meditation is lighter, doesn't last as long, and one has more control of where one's experiences go while on the trip.

I have no reason to believe the OP's encounters with spirits was anything other than their brain falling into an altered state and doing what it could to oblige their beliefs and expectations. not like I can very well interact with their spirits in any meaningfully or tangible way.

They’re supposed to.

It’s all part of the service, right? Also losing internet could be dangerous in the same way a landline phone cable is. (Ie preventing someone with VOIP phone service from calling for help.)

It can also cause harm for people who work from home, etc.

The part that this particular form of meditation isconnected to Buddhist religious and spiritual practices.

There are perfectly secular or non-spiritual forms of meditation. This is not that.

Ned is a good bed! But a better doggie!

Yeah. Christian’s usually do.

They tend to only read the parts they like rather than the entire law as laid out in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

The law is more than just 10 commandments. But even if it weren’t, “You shall not commit adultery” is pretty self explanatory.

Dueterony 22:20-21 is pretty clear:

But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

It goes on to have rules for just about every variation. The only time that a woman who has sex out of wedlock is not to be out to death is if she was raped.