12-17-2011, 10:58 PM
(12-17-2011, 10:53 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: This sounds to me exactly like the notion of taking on extreme ascetic practices in order to gain supernatural powers. This also gets back to some of that stuff in the Essene depictions of Jesus' words. I liked some parts, but as a whole, the document was riddled with behavior restrictions and "Thou shalt nots..."
Saying "don't murder humans" is a restriction, but to dismiss murder as being 'ok' because of it, would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. NOT saying you are doing that, just saying that the substance is more important than the form.