The Passion of the Christ

Hollywood has been producing movies based on Bible stories since 1897. Starting with grainy, silent, mini-Passion stories and moving on to The Passion of the Christ and beyond, bestselling author J. Stephen Lang takes you through the blockbusters and the busts.
More than just a catalog listing, The Bible on the Big Screen gives movie buffs film credits, running times, and release dates. It answers intriguing questions about motives for making the movies, offers critics' reactions, and provides much more insider information. The book is also richly illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.
Recommend The Bible on the Big Screen: A Guide from Silent Films to The Passion of the Christ to Your Friends

In the Beginning

In the Beginning came, as they tell us, the Word.

What was the word?Was it God? Was it Light? Love? Order?

What was the "Order"?Was it "Be"? or "Let" there Be?
For these are two different things. "Be" would imply that before the "Word" there was absolute nothingness. No matter. No energy. Not even Dark Matter. But if the "Word" was "Let there Be", then, perhaps there had been "something", just waiting for the right circumstances to happen. An egg, waiting to receive "excitation" when the probabilities will allow it.What was the very first thing uttered in this universe? Was it actually a word? or a Bang? a Big, gigantic Bang, which we can hear until this very day, some 13.7 Billion Years after.
Or was the "Order", a path, or a number of possible paths, shapes, natures, attitudes and behaviors of the things to come?
Is there such an "Order", as opposed to "Chaos" and "Randomness"? Or is this "Randomness", and the tendency for this Randomness to increase, "Entropy", a part of that "Order"?
Are there pre-defined "paths" for everything to happen? Where would "our choice" fit into this? Or did such "Order" lay out zillions of "potential" paths, each presenting "opportunity to happen", "probability to occur"?
Can one "improve such probabilities"? Is that it? Is this what it is all about? That we just have pre-defined paths, and all we can do is to work really hard to make our "chosen path" more probable than others?
Can we absolve ourselves of "responsibility" then, since the limit of our responsibility is to make desired "outcomes" more probable, not more probable than "undesired" results, but more probable as compared to their original chance, if we were not there to influence such chance?
If we can accept, that the limit of our abilities, is to merely improve the probabilities, can we live and function as happier human beings, more in harmony with ourselves, with others, and with the universe which surrounds us, the universe which we can not change or alter in any significant way.
Is this something we can accept?

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OSHO, u may criticize him, but u cant ignore him

Sex and Death - 2 great taboos
Orgasm
Tantra and Sex


PART V 1957-1970 Teaching and Travelling
Osho is appointed Professor at Sanskrit College, Raipur
Osho visits his Family, his father wants him to marry
Osho’s observations on Children
Osho’s experiences in Raipur
Osho as Professor of Philosophy, at Jabalpur University
Colleagues and academics
Osho’s experiences travelling in India
Osho's Garden
Osho writes many letters to friends
Examples of letters Osho wrote
Letters to Mrs Parekh
Rekhchand Parekh
Osho’s experiences with: Medicine and 'Miracles'
Hypnosis
Remembering Past Lives
Suicide
Madness
Osho explains Meditation
Osho teaches friends meditation
1962 Osho opens his first Meditation Centres
Osho holds Meditation Camps
1964 Ranakpur Meditation Camp
Development of Osho's Teaching
Osho’s interaction with: Jainas
Hindus and gurus
Sikhs and Punjabis
Buddhists
Mohammedans
Christians
Atheists
Mystics and Disciples
Aboriginals
Gandhians and Politicians
The Rich and The Royal
The Poor and The Law
1966 Osho Resigns from the University
Osho’s impressions on Love and marriage
1968 Osho’s controversial discourse series: From Sex to Superconsciousness
Traditional attitude to sex
Spiritual Sex and Meditation
Morality
Controversy about Sex
Best-selling Book
Osho’impressions on Hippies
1969 First Talk in English to Westerners
Death
Dwarka Meditation Camp Osho’s Teachings on Death
1970 Osho’s controversial discourse series: Beware of Socialism
Osho’s New Chaotic Meditation Technique
Osho attracts Controversy
Osho stops travelling

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Jesus - His likes, His loves and His passion

When Jesus walked the sands of Galilee
He had LL&P too, as all humans do

He had temper
He whipped the money changers in the Temple

There must be some truth in the Da Vinci Code
His love for Mary Magdalene

He was tempted when He fasted 40 days in the desert
to prepare for His life's mission

Again in the garden of Gethsemane
He prayed to God, His heavenly father
to spare Him
Father, I cannot drink of this cup
But He relented in the end
Not my will, but thine be done

In His last moments, hanging from the cross
He had a crisis of belief
Father, Father! why hast thou forsaken me !



Jesus was born a Jew
He revolted, He picked flaws in the Bible (the Old Testament)
such as:
the jewish rituals on washing, etc

on diet
What u put into your mouth dont matter
what comes out of your mouth is important

on stoning the adulteress
let the man who has no sin cast the first stone

on revenge?
'Eye for an eye' said the Holy Book
He said: 'if a man slaps u on one cheek
turn the other cheek'

Old Testament
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh,a time to mourn and a time to dance,a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,a time to embrace and a time to refrain,a time to search and a time to give up,a time to keep and a time to throw away,a time to tear and a time to mend,a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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"'We are going up to Jerusalem,' he said, 'and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.'"
-Mark 10:33-34

If Jesus were to come back to Earth

I am pretty sure He wud disown the Christian Church

The church has always bowed to the State

Joan of Arc was burned as a witch by the Church
Gallileo was imprisoned for life by the Church and died in his cell

The Vatican bought peace with Mussolini

by agreeing to remain silent while millions of Jews were gassed by Hitler

The pilot of the plane that carried the Atom Bomb: destination Hiroshima

was blessed by the Bishop of America

CENSORSHIP by The Catholic Church

Every year, the Catholic pope declares a black list of books that Catholics are not supposed to read. Reading them means a certainty of your going to hell.

I was talking to a bishop in Nagpur, because a few of my books had been listed by the Catholic pope as not to be read by any Catholics; whoever reads them is paving his path towards hell. And this is not new, this is an almost eighteen-hundred-year-old tradition in the Catholic Church. Before this century, they used to burn and destroy any book they decided was dangerous for Catholics. Now they cannot do that, but at least they can prevent the Catholics—who are a great majority in the world, seven hundred million people.

I simply said to the bishop of Nagpur, "At least somebody must have been reading my books; otherwise how do they decide? Either the pope himself must be reading, or some associate cardinals in the Vatican must be reading—without reading, you cannot decide that a book is dangerous to the Catholic belief."

He was in a dilemma: he could not say yes, he could not say no. Because if he says 'Yes, somebody reads it,' that means that person is bound to fall into hell. And if that person is not going to fall into hell, then the whole idea is ridiculous; then nobody is going to fall into hell. It is just to keep people's eyes closed: no facts should be allowed to be known to them that go against their belief. splendid

- OSHO

What OSHO has to say about Christians

about me

I was a devout catholic
went to church every day to read the Epistle in church

then Benedict became Pope
He said
Rock music is evil
Gays and les will go to hell

I said bye to the catholic church
my best friends then were les
they are good christians

The church has focussed on things that are not relevant
on condemning contraception by artificial means
on condemning genetic research

Jesus said
Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars
and to God the things that are Gods

the church has no business to talk about other things that fall in the domain of Science and the State

Who is Allah?by Abu Iman 'Abd ar-Rahman Robert Squires Some of the biggest misconceptions that many non-Muslims have about Islam have to do with the word "Allah". For various reasons, many people have come to believe that Muslims worship a different God than Christians and Jews. This is totally false, since "Allah" is simply the Arabic word for "God" - and there is only One God. Let there be no doubt - Muslims worship the God of Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus - peace be upon them all. However, it is certainly true that Jews, Christians and Muslims all have different concepts of Almighty God. For example, Muslims - like Jews - reject the Christian beliefs of the Trinity and the Divine Incarnation. This, however, doesn't mean that each of these three religions worships a different God - because, as we have already said, there is only One True God. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim to be "Abrahamic Faiths", and all of them are also classified as "monotheistic". However, Islam teaches that other religions have, in one way or another, distorted and nullified a pure and proper belief in Almighty God by neglecting His true teachings and mixing them with man-made ideas.

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the Bible in hippy language

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prayer ... christians ... muslims

why i left the catholic church

Catholics Claim That New Testament Is Uninspired

Not only does the Catholic Church contend that the Bible is a "dead letter" and the New Testament is uninspired, but it maintains that the apostles appointed a "divine, infallible apostolate" to direct us. That is essentially the way the Catholic Church endeavors to make room in the realm of religion for papal edicts and the decrees of the Romanist councils. But consider this: "For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken unto us through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard" (Hebrews 2:2, 3). Those who heard the word were the ones to confirm it, and that is in keeping with the following statement of Peter, "Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection." This was said in regard to one ". . . to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell" (Acts 1:21, 22, 25). Can this so-called "divine, infallible apostolate" qualify? And after the word has been spoken and confirmed, what purpose could such an office serve?

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Jesus Christ I will survive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onLbeuEqNIE

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