The power to cure people of disease, or repair injury, in order to save life is certainly helpful to people, but Doctors have to make a living. If real psychic powers did exist, the psychics would still have to pay for their tea and biscuits.
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The power to cure people of disease, or repair injury, in order to save life is certainly helpful to people, but Doctors have to make a living. If real psychic powers did exist, the psychics would still have to pay for their tea and biscuits.
Cris
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I'll explain later why it has to be charitable or free of charge.
Cris
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according to the new testament Jesus healed for free.
arthwollipot
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That's because capitalism hadn't been invented yet.
xterra
So far, so good...
How much time do you need? All of my questions were about things you stated as fact.
So if you know the facts, you should be able to answer the questions.
If they aren't facts, they are your opinion. What would that be based on?
Also, if you would like to provide evidence for the existence of Jesus that DOES NOT depend on the bible, that would be interesting.
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And it doesn't work unless you can spit. Vidé: (Mark 7:33). (Mark 8:23). (John 9:6).
JayUtah
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It also says he was a carpenter until he was 30, which he presumably did not do for free. So is the determining factor that it's what Jesus did, or that it was a healing act? Or that it was a healing act supposedly achieved by supernatural means?
Butter!
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Okay, how general should it be? And should it be about the future or the present? Could I say something like, "Will my life improve after I finish getting this degree?"
Cris
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I quoted Jesus, just as an example.
The medium should use this gift to help people for free. You should never require money to help people.
JayUtah
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So did I, to point out how it was a poor example.
Ever? Regardless of the nature of the help? If I have a skill that you don't, and you would benefit from that skill, I'm obliged to provide the benefits of that sklil to you for free?
I can't think of any profession that does not think that it "helps people".
Why is this profession any difference? Other than the fact that they don't actually help people.
(I can't believe I am defending the right of a medium to charge money!)
Cris
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Another thing is an acquired talent
study and work, which is therefore a property of the
which of course is allowed to take advantage. But mediumship does not
It is neither an art nor a talent, so it cannot become a profession.
It's just my opinion.
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Cris
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Alongside the moral question, there is a consideration
no less important, which is linked to the very nature of the
college. Serious mediumship cannot and never will be a
profession, not only because it would be morally discredited, and soon
compared to lucky readers, but because a material obstacle to
this is opposed; it is an essentially mobile, elusive and variable college,
with the permanence no one can count on. It would therefore be for the
explorer, an always uncertain resource that could be lacking at the moment
where it would be most needed.
no less important, which is linked to the very nature of the
college. Serious mediumship cannot and never will be a
profession, not only because it would be morally discredited, and soon
compared to lucky readers, but because a material obstacle to
this is opposed; it is an essentially mobile, elusive and variable college,
with the permanence no one can count on. It would therefore be for the
explorer, an always uncertain resource that could be lacking at the moment
where it would be most needed.
When you copy/paste from Google translate, please check the formatting in the "Preview post" area.
JayUtah
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Whatever you're using to translate between English and your native language is making it difficult to understand you.
I agree with this sentiment. If one applies himself to learn a skill, he is justified in being compensated for exercising it on behalf of others. But the rest of your post is nonsense.
Mediums very much claim both that it is a talent and that it can be a developed skill. In the more general sense, why does the source of the skill or talent matter? If you can do something, and I would like you to do that thing on my behalf, why can't we agree to an equitable exchange of value? The recipient of the benefit of someone else's actions certainly has a say in how much that benefit is worth to him. Whatever happened to make that person's actions valuable is largely immaterial.
It's not a very well considered one.
xterra
So far, so good...
Cris, this is a quotation. Please give us the source, a link if it is online, or the name of the book or article if it is not online.
Cris
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JayUtah
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You're bouncing between incompatible arguments. Your first argument was that mediums, like Jesus, shouldn't charge money to help people. This sort of implies that the help is genuine. Now you've inexplicably changed horses and are arguing that since mediumship carries a high risk of failure, it is unconscionable to take money for it. This implies that the help is ineffective if not outright fraudulent. What's your real argument?
Cris
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mediumship cannot become a profession. that is my opinion.