Quoted: So Mohammed was a 7th century Jim Jones, Charlie Manson or David Koresh?  Makes sense to me, but what do I know...I am just and Infidel.

Strike 2.....

Quoted: Quoted: Who is this Adams reactionary? Ban him! BAN HIM! I know what you mean. I'm sure this "Adams" fellow is well on his way to having his account locked by one of our dutiful moderators.

Adams was apparently able to read and understand the english language. Course if there had been an internet he could have spent his days on it whining about the british, that woulda made them surrender.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: So Mohammed was a 7th century Jim Jones, Charlie Manson or David Koresh?  Makes sense to me, but what do I know...I am just and Infidel. Strike 2..... What was "strike 1"???

The first "Hey I found a quote from a president about how crappy islam is thread!" I have to admit he resisted the urge til page 2.

I, and others like me,  hold a firm belief that most of us have lived many lives here on earth before, and will continue to live more lives as human beings, always returning and always growing in spirit and power with each passing life.

Clearly, to me,  there are those who have been this way many times before, and they have profited
greatly from their vast experiences,  and have achieved a level of awareness and insight that the
less experienced of us have not yet achieved.

These vastly experienced and wise old souls are the great figures of history,  the leaders,  the founders
of our own country, and of many others.     I believe John Quincy Adams,  like Benjamin Frankin, Thomas Jefferson, and the other major figures in the founding of America,  to be this sort of wise,
vastly experienced spirit.

I'd guess that our country's founding fathers probably had all been this way before,  enough times
to have racked up several centuries' worth of experience.   And though they would have no conscious
knowledge of previous lives,  their spirits grew with each life and infused them with a wisdom far
beyond that of less experienced men.

It's hard to argue with their wisdom, after all,  is it?

I can just hope that those spirits will return to us once again to lead us again before they have
completed their earthly journey of enlightenment and return to the next realm for good.

CJ

Quoted: Quoted: So Mohammed was a 7th century Jim Jones, Charlie Manson or David Koresh?  Makes sense to me, but what do I know...I am just and Infidel. You infidel you

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