From: pharvey@mipos3.intel.com (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Re: Some questions for Laura. Please read it.
Organization: Jah! ... Ras Tafari!
	<1992Aug16.231225.16231@sdf.lonestar.org> <fRqfqRo@quack.sac.ca.us> 
	<1262@esl.ESL.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:54:17 GMT

In article <1262@esl.ESL.COM> 
markwc@barney.esl.com (Mark Christiansen) writes:
Sounds like we need to have a modern day prophet to help clear up
these multiple translation/mistranslation problems before we can
really discuss points in the Bible.

In article <Bsxpw5.911@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> 
pharvey@mipos3.intel.com (Paul Harvey) writes:
And that modern day prophet is ... [drumroll please] ... YOU! Only you can
interpret the written word for yourself, only your beliefs are valid for
yourself. This is what it means to be an individual. This is what it means
to be free. Now, walk that freedom walk and talk that freedom talk. Realize
the prophet and profit in you. The walls must come down, the era of strong
central government and strong central church is over. Welcome the era of the
free, self-thinking, individual. You are number 1, the king is no more!
Be seeing you!

In article <1992Aug16.231225.16231@sdf.lonestar.org> 
corey@sdf.lonestar.org (Corey Carroll) writes:
I think this whole "prophet" thing is absurd.  Suppose we have some
lunatic who claims to be a prophet...and i'm sure there is no shortage
of them...how do we know if he's crazy or if he's actually receiving
TRUE visions from GOD?!?!

In article <fRqfqRo@quack.sac.ca.us>
pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey) writes:
Well, how do YOU know? It's pretty straightforward, isn't it? Who can be
the judge of what YOU find to be revelation or absurdity? YOU do know
the answer, don't YOU? Why, it is none other than ... YOU! Why do YOU
act surprised? The creator delivered you FROM slavery, why do you cling
to the broken shackles? Surely you don't expect someone to show you the
way to freedom, do you? You are already FREE! What holds you back?

In article <1246@esl.ESL.COM> 
markwc@barney.esl.com (Mark Christiansen) writes:
So tell me, what was the purpose of having prophets in the past?

What is the purpose of prophets? What is the purpose of teachers? What is
the purpose of dogma? To learn FROM. One can not learn in a vacumn. But,
learning is not repeating the words of the teacher. Learning is listening
to the words of the teachers, the teachers as chosen by you, and reflecting
that dogma into the reality of your self. The teacher does not teach to make
copies of the teacher. The teacher teaches so that the individual can find
the way, the way of the individual, not the way of the teacher. Allow me
to be teacher and allow me to say, Follow ME and BE FREE. Will you follow me
dogmatically? If so, then you and I fail. Take my words, but always THINK
about them, always think as the free thinking individual that you are. Learn
from dogma, but please don't be dogmatic. All teachers have an aspect of
Dan Quayle as spelling teacher. You see how Quayle is wrong, but do you see
where the other teachers are also wrong? Keep looking, you will find it.
Assume it is not there and you will lose your self. You will not find the
perfect teacher, but you can find the perfect you. It is only you who knows
you. It is you who is the teacher of the student you.

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