i have no issue with a person having a spiritual dimension, but i wonder why people have difficulty accepting that the religion that an individual makes up inside their head is no more or less worthy than the ones other people have made up in their heads.. why do people feel the need to have others tell them what to believe and how to think?
simplistic though this may sound, this is at the basis of all religion.
does religion scratch the itch of our insecurities?.
Why religion?
My thought... I feel that religion is the "tool" in which societies evolved a moral conscience. I think the "need" is gone for most societies. There are laws in place to replace need for "god rules". Religion was an infantile need... it has stayed around because of people's need for emotional attachment for comfort.
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we are also a jewish nation, a muslim nation, a buddhist nation, and a hindu nation and a nation of non-believers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjr-n0qz14.
They told me that he will say whatever he thinks you want to hear to get votes.
C'mon Mulan...to be fair THEY ALL do that to one extent or another.
What bothers me... I know a lot of you are my age (in late 50's) and remember that history... Obama is riding the shirttails of JFK and Martin Luther King. And now the sacrilege of John Lennon's IMAGINE? Oh mon dieux! What next??
I want to see him debate ISSUES and be SPECIFIC.
come on southerners, sing with me now.... and for all you yankees, and cannooks/snowbirds.... sunny and 66 degrees f today.... visibility of 10 miles.... .
we have just enought winter here in athens, georgia, home of those beloved university of georgia bulldawgs, for me to want it to go away, and usually when i'm getting sick of it, here comes the sun..... how's it where you all are?.
more snow on the way here this afternoon and into Wednesday.... another 8-10"... That will bring our total up close to 6 feet this winter..
has anyone else heard of a funeral memorial talk done on a sunday evening?
also, this person was not active in field service or a regular mtg.
attender.
Thanks to all of you for your words.
S4 was on target according to your own experiences.
Juni
i'm back from a quarter year break from the web.
well i lie, not a complete break.
i've kept tabs on you in the background.
Dang Matt.... it's good to hear from you!
You said it so brilliantly... I can relate totally to your words. I'm exploring my options...and deciding what I want to do w/my life.
Thanks for stopping in ... I remember you telling me after I announced I was leaving the forum... you said, "You'll be back." hee heeeee so right you were! But not much these days.
Take care of yourself!
Peace, Juni :)
has anyone else heard of a funeral memorial talk done on a sunday evening?
also, this person was not active in field service or a regular mtg.
attender.
Thanks Denise and S4 for your help.
Actually the BOEs are a bunch of a holes, but besides that fact... yeah I believe that special allowances were made for her. She has been an inactive one for many years and had started going back and as I had mentioned this past year became anointed ... and well the rest is history as they say.
Juni
has anyone else heard of a funeral memorial talk done on a sunday evening?
also, this person was not active in field service or a regular mtg.
attender.
Has anyone else heard of a funeral memorial talk done on a Sunday evening? Also, this person was not active in field service or a regular mtg. attender. Is this unusual to have a hall memorial service for them?
The deceased's wife is of the "anointed" as of last year... would this have any bearing on the flexibility... Sunday opposed to Saturday?
Juni
come on southerners, sing with me now.... and for all you yankees, and cannooks/snowbirds.... sunny and 66 degrees f today.... visibility of 10 miles.... .
we have just enought winter here in athens, georgia, home of those beloved university of georgia bulldawgs, for me to want it to go away, and usually when i'm getting sick of it, here comes the sun..... how's it where you all are?.
hey dawg...
We won't have those temps for at least another 2 months.. Our official snowfall so far this year is over 5 feet. More on the way tomorrow and Wednesday... ish.
Juni
recently we seem to have had a few different dramas and subsequent fallout on the fourm which i feel has detracted from its purpose.
with this in mind we have decided that we need to bring the forum back on track and as such we will be clamping down on a lot of the aggressive / insulting posts which have begun to become the norm for a few people.
we will also be clamping down on the paranoid assusation type of comments against newbies, if someone joins the fourm and you do not believe everything they post - so what, why do we need to hound them away with shouts of troll and fake etc, just ignore them if you dont beleive them.
Thanks for the laughs tonight; made me feel sooo much better after such a wickedly depressing day.
recently we seem to have had a few different dramas and subsequent fallout on the fourm which i feel has detracted from its purpose.
with this in mind we have decided that we need to bring the forum back on track and as such we will be clamping down on a lot of the aggressive / insulting posts which have begun to become the norm for a few people.
we will also be clamping down on the paranoid assusation type of comments against newbies, if someone joins the fourm and you do not believe everything they post - so what, why do we need to hound them away with shouts of troll and fake etc, just ignore them if you dont beleive them.
I believe it should read "Its" humor..... you are partially right...
Take care.... Juni :)
