djewlew said:
OK, thanks for suggesting reading. I like reading books, and have read thousands over the decades of my life. Have shelves here full of books! But if an interested party has to read SEVERAL books to then apply for membership here, my goodness, how many members would you get in a year?!... Just kidding. I will surely read some of that stuff, thanks.
It's not really per se about having to read several books to then apply for membership here, I for one have been a member here for more than a year and have been active for some time at casschat before and I have only read pieces from some books and have studied them for several periods but have not really finished reading any of them and now I'm busy just doing that.
The thing is, one can read thousands of books, but if you don't apply it in some way, I'm not sure if it's going to benefit you at all, especially when you think that you know yourself.
Again, it's not really about reading the books that much, it's imo, more about being sincere, for example in what you search here. Do you search for truth? Well then maybe this could be a way to the truth, I'm not sure. For all of us to figure this out, right? Do you search a place to just share opinions and chat a little about this and that, well I'm not sure that's really what we do here. We try to keep on searching and connecting and especially Work on ourselves. Only then we can think about other things, such as ''the truth'' or how we can help others best, our first goal, imo, should be to help ourselves first.
And the recommended books give us a base to work on, we need something to work on, otherwise we'll only base our ''opinions'' and thoughts on air. We read, we apply and we try to connect it to other things we read and then apply and so much more.
Yes, the Bible has caused quite many things, hasn't it? But that's I guess what a 3d STS world looks like. It's part of it I guess. And loving God for what God is, is to be able to look at all God's faces, including the ugly ones. And I'm not sure, if burning them, would help at all. There are other ways to show people that they can choose. But, again, before we can try to help others, maybe we should first help ourselves.
This might sound all strange to you and that's why you might be a bit confused, which is okay, and which is why some members have advised you to read some first, so that you may have an idea on what we do here. And if you are sincere, I don't think that would be a problem. After all, reading is fun, especially if you can use the information or knowledge to help yourself and eventually perhaps also others.
(Just to give you a different perspective. There are also some good things about the Bible (could be wrong on this one), but I remember how for example prisoners or other people keep themselves strong, when they're going through difficult times, by having a Bible or reading it. How their faith keeps them strong.
Somehow I find that fascinating.)
