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    Confucius somewhere around 300-400 BC, Israel established way before that. Gotta get your timeline right. yes, proverbs from areas other than 'promised' land but Israelites spread around pretty good at that time too. IIRC Seneckarab had some good sayings too. Then the accounting tablets (Urals area ) from 9k BC. And the Ashkelon city gate, which is huge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by popper View Post
    Confucius somewhere around 300-400 BC, Israel established way before that. Gotta get your timeline right. yes, proverbs from areas other than 'promised' land but Israelites spread around pretty good at that time too. IIRC Seneckarab had some good sayings too. Then the accounting tablets (Urals area ) from 9k BC. And the Ashkelon city gate, which is huge.
    I did not say that Confucius predated Moses, I said he predated Jesus made man. Moses lived a millennia before Confucius. Wisdom did not originate with Jesus, it already existed. The writings of Moses are only know thru copies and memories. Confucius' writings have contemporary copies.

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    The more I think about Confucius, I don't see any real proof that he really existed, probly just a fictional made up by someone.

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    Confucius was a very bright man, and had much knowledge and wisdom. But he never claimed to be a God. Never. Not once. He was good to his fellow man, but that won't take you to Heaven, according to my reading of the KJV of the Bible. Will Confucius be in Heaven when I get there? Who knows. Christ can do as He pleases, and He never claimed to have left us with ALL we might know or find interesting or instructive. But He left us ENOUGH to find our Salvation. His wisdom is far greater than ours, and His ways VERY much more calculated than ours could ever be, because He knows where we're all headed and why. He knows the beginning, the middle and the end - things that are unknown to us mere mortals. But He left us ENOUGH to guide our lives and behavior, and to find Salvation. Personally, I'm just thankful for that. So very thankful! Pelple who argue all the time and seem to love to create dissention cannot be very thankful for so very much that we've been given. I'll keep my gratitudes, and leave that other stuff behind me.

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    I finally got around to going to the link in Post#1 and reading it:
    https://medium.com/mind-cafe/7-mindf...k-977a095488cc

    I especially liked:

    "5. “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”

    Consider this: If you’re sitting in a movie theatre and you’re watching a horror movie, how will you feel? You’d probably be tense and afraid.

    Now, if we were to keep you in the exact same seat, but change the film that is being projected onto the screen and play a comedy instead, how will you feel? You’d be much more relaxed. And if that motion picture that is being projected is funny, you’ll laugh.

    Here’s what I’d like you to realize:

    The projector in the theatre is your mind projecting thoughts.
    The series of thoughts is the motion picture that you are watching on the screen (and thus evoking emotion in you).
    What you feel as a result of these thoughts is the reality that you experience in real life."



    The above reminds me of a thinking that "Life is but a dream."
    When we dream during sleep, some dreams seem so real!
    We see ourselves interacting in situations much like we do while awake.
    Such that one may think that what we experience during our wakefulness is actually a dream itself.
    God projects (like a movie) His Dream of Creation to us and we have a dream within that dream movie of our physical existence.

    How can all of this material world come out of nothing?
    In a dream it can.

    Thanks for the link provided.
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    gee tim...lighten up!

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    Quote Originally Posted by LilyPaige View Post
    As every history graduate, I was in love with Confucius when I was studying Chinese history.
    I believe ol' Confuseus is credited to say a lot more than he ever said. I have to wonder how many self-made "wise men" have managed to get their own quotes injected into his mouth.

    Anyway, no matter what anyone thinks of him, study/contemplation of what's attributed to Confuseus is by no means any kind of "theology", deep or shallow; Goggle it.

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    Lilypage is a possible spammer, please ignore her post.

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    We've been having some bad problems with spammers, trying to figure out who is who before hand is tough. Can't always get it right.

    Truth is where you find it, there have been far worse people on earth than Confucius, seems to me.

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    Yes, I took CompReg. I enjoyed "To Bone An Ox".

    China has a covenant with Confucius.
    America's founding fathers made a covenant with God.

    In America you are free to study Confucius.
    In China Christianity is "discouraged".

    So which has a better system?
    Their covenant is old and has stood the test of time.
    Our covenant depended on moral Christians to save our nation.
    Oops. We lost. Unless...nah, we lost.
    This is just damage control now a days.

    Look up Confucius' attitude toward women.

    Paul thought women should be quiet in church
    good advice for anybody
    and Greek women were likely the reason.
    Although my Pastor is a man, women operate my church.

    Study Lao-tze, Buddha, Confucius, they were men trying to make sense of this world. You are sitting in a deck chair on the Titanic listening to the band play "Nearer My God To Thee" watching the deck tilt while America's covenant is being broken. God does not forget. We forgot.

    My God made math so we might understand His works.
    His math predicts a paradigm shift, a phase change, a sudden change.
    We like gradual change so we can get used to it. Not this time.
    Tomorrow or the next day, this year, on a day
    God will call time on America
    remove His grace and protection.
    Next time that you see him ask Confucius what to do.
    Confucius would say we need a wise king.
    We had our Lord. We rejected Him.

    I evangelize and apologize. Sorry for the rant.
    Repent
    Redeem
    Renew
    Get ready for that day.
    We might save America by revival.
    We might not, too.

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    Berg runter schieben alle Heiligen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LilyPaige View Post
    As every history graduate, I was in love with Confucius when I was studying Chinese history.
    That proves the USA is a very rich country; only a society with much more time and money than it really needs could afford to waste either one on such an education.

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