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daystar
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How do you feel about Tatoos?
by Fisherman ini feel very offended and distrurbed when i see people covered with tatoos.
some people have tatoos all over their bodies, even on their faces.
there are also tatoo programs on the tlc channel that children can watch without a forewarning before the show comes on.
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The Judeo-Christian premise for our destroying the earth?
by daystar in"far from having made 'all objects sacred' christianity, in the wake of the bible, has emptied the world of every sacred dimension.
the biblical and christian idea of a divine transcendence manifested in the creative act of god, the very idea of god the creator, disenchants the whole world, and the world remains only an object created by the voluntary will of the lord.
from such a perspective, the world is only a 'sign' of a presence, the 'other.
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daystar
Further...
"Judeo-Christianity therefore entirely reverses the pagan problematic. Whereas this latter tends to believe that the world is eternal, while gods, like men, are not, Judeo-Christian monotheism asserts that God is eternal, but the world began and will end. [...] Asserting the primacy of space is, let me repeat, indirectly exalting man's power. Also, behind the opposition of time and space emerges another that is equally fundamental, between the time-eternity over which Yahweh rules and human time, which is a specifically historical time. This opposition is the classic one from Antiquity between intensity and duration. Unable to master time by very reason of his own finite existence, pagan man masters it through the intensity of his actions -- and by the resulting 'intensity' of the constructions specific to it." - Benoist.
(These are quotes an acquaintance of mine has posted in another forum. I'm taking it in a different direction than he. I think I really need to pick up some Benoist.)
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How do you feel about Tatoos?
by Fisherman ini feel very offended and distrurbed when i see people covered with tatoos.
some people have tatoos all over their bodies, even on their faces.
there are also tatoo programs on the tlc channel that children can watch without a forewarning before the show comes on.
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daystar
troubled mind
Well, an eight-pointed, flaming sun, red, orange, yellow, with a hole in the center. A blue pentagram within that with flames intertwined. Within the pentagram, a gold, or perhaps black, unicursal hexagram with the astrological symbol for the sun at its center. If room, I'd like the other signs of the zodiac around the hexagram, but that's not quite so necessary.
On the hexagram, something like this:
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The Judeo-Christian premise for our destroying the earth?
by daystar in"far from having made 'all objects sacred' christianity, in the wake of the bible, has emptied the world of every sacred dimension.
the biblical and christian idea of a divine transcendence manifested in the creative act of god, the very idea of god the creator, disenchants the whole world, and the world remains only an object created by the voluntary will of the lord.
from such a perspective, the world is only a 'sign' of a presence, the 'other.
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daystar
"Far from having made 'all objects sacred' Christianity, in the wake of the Bible, has emptied the world of every sacred dimension. The biblical and Christian idea of a divine transcendence manifested in the creative act of God, the very idea of God the Creator, disenchants the whole world, and the world remains only an object created by the voluntary will of the Lord. From such a perspective, the world is only a 'sign' of a presence, the 'other.' The sign of another world or hidden world (Nietzsche). It can no longer be intrinsically the site of the sacred. It becomes a simple object appropriated by human reason, in conformance with the injunction in Genesis, which enjoins man to rule the earth. What the ancients called the 'soul of the world' suddenly disappears. In this way the slow process of 'disenchantment' of the world begins, as described by Weber."
- Alain de Benoist (from "Reply To Milbank," Telos, Spring 2006)I try to get to the core of things. I tend to question, not only the surface of things, but also the questions themselves, the "why"s themselves. What some people take as self-evident, I most often do not.
I look at Christianity and what I see is a religion that, at its core, detests the material world. Why not allow it to be plowed against its nature, raped? The earth is something to be put into submission, to be ruled. God creates man in his image and then directs him to subdue the earth. And we certainly have done so.
Broad strokes to be sure. On an individual basis, I'm sure there are plenty of Christians who, with their own interpretation and understanding of their religion, care about the environment. But at its core, you still have that instruction from God to bring the earth and the animals into submission rather than partnering with our home and our fellow earthlings.
By contrast, you have other non-Christian belief systems, native American as an example, that do not hold such basic contempt for the world, and have much more respect for it.
Does a biblical premise for Judeo-Christianity actually set the stage for environmental catastrophe? Self-fulfilling prophecy?
Thoughts?
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How do you feel about Tatoos?
by Fisherman ini feel very offended and distrurbed when i see people covered with tatoos.
some people have tatoos all over their bodies, even on their faces.
there are also tatoo programs on the tlc channel that children can watch without a forewarning before the show comes on.
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daystar
I like tramp stamps... gives me something to shoot for.
CHL - Nice tat!
I am still completely un-inked. I need to just suck it up and visit a shop and have them draw up what I want. Of course, I want something very specific and meaningful to me.
Any artists out there wanna help me out? *hint, hint*
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Fluff - Men: What do you think about women ...
by serendipity inok guys, time to weigh in.. what do you think about a woman asking a man out on a date, especially a first date?.
good idea?
bad idea?
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daystar
I think that it depends entirely upon your "audience". Find out if the guy is more traditional. If he is, just drop subtle hints and let him do the asking. If not, go for it!
Most of the women I've dated have been the ones to ask me out first. I like it. It says something about the person she is; that she has a level of confidence that I prefer in a woman; that she goes for what she wants, and that I'm what she wants, for whatever purpose. That's not to say I'll accept. And I have turned women down before.
However, I have known women who don't like asking guys out to drop hints to me. If I'm not interested, I just don't take the bait. It saves their self esteem having not been turned down outright.
So, there is a risk to a person's ego perhaps, in being the one to ask. If you can take the hit to your ego when turned down, why not?
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Christianity - a thoroughly pagan religion
by Norm init is quite amusing to read watchtower publications where they with badly hidden scorn criticizes the catholics for willfully adopting pagan holidays and customs into christianity.. pagan beliefs christianized.
*** w84 4/1 p. 9 insight on the news *** in a.d. 601, pope gregory the first, known as gregory the great, issued an edict to his missionaries concerning the native beliefs and customs of the peoples he hoped to convert, states a recent issue of natural history magazine.
instead of trying to obliterate peoples customs and beliefs, the popes instructions were, use them.
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In love with a witnesss....
by city girl inhello, i'm new here...but i've been reading the forum for some time, but this is the first time i've posted.
i am stuck.
i am a non witness and have been seriously dating a witness for about a year now.
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daystar
Is it possible to convert to JW in the same way couples convert to Catholicism/Judaism for each other....?---meaning more for ritual/title and less for deep conviction?
Not really. They expect a serious, committed buy in. You'll be considered "weak" if you don't go to all three or four meetings a week, go in field service regularly, comment at the meetings regularly, etc. You can't really have any sort of a social life outside the Witnesses and then only if you're not labelled as "weak".
I would suggest absolutely do notever consider "converting".
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Discrimination
by sandy inhave you ever experienced it?
if so please let say why you know or feel you were discrimated against.
was is gender, age, race, sexual preference, religion?.
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daystar
Fe2O3Girl
I am a white woman (and pretty much heterosexual).
In the words of Lloyd Christmas "So you're telling me there's a chance."
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UN Asked to Recognise Jedi Knights as Official Religion
by Clam intwo self-styled jedi knights are stepping up an intergalactic campaign for formal recognition.
umada and yunyun, also known as john wilkinson and charlotte law, want the un to acknowledge "the force" is worthy of being called a religion.
the couple claim to be part of the uk's fourth largest religious group, after 400,000 people recorded their faith as "jedi" in the 2001 census.. full story link: .
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