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  I command you to PRAY TO THIS JUG OF MILK

  by kwintestal in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ilzaaami&eurl=http%3a%2f%2fprofile%2emyspace%2ecom%2findex%2ecfm%3ffuseaction%3duser%2eviewprofile%26friendid%3d150028037.

  kwin.

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  daystar

  Pretty good. But I disagree that prayer never works. It does work to help to focus the mind towards a particular purpose. And I have seen documents that seem to provide evidence that positive mental attitude will affect a postive physical reaction in a person, individually. However, I've never seen that praying for someone other than a person's own self does much of anything directly.

  My personal experience and experimentation is that prayers, or ceremonial activities, etc. can effect changes within a person, and through those changes external effects may be seen. However, I cannot necessarily attribute those changes to the power of some unseen entity "out there". In fact, I don't see how such an entity needs to exist at all.

  Anyway, at least thought-provoking.
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  How polite are you?

  by JH in

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  often i'm following someone into a building and entering the same door, and most of the times, the person in front won't even try to keep the door open so that it wont close in my face.

  knowing that someone is right behind me, i'll even wait a second or two and hold the door open for that person.

  i guess it has to do with being well educated.

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  daystar

  Good idea to change the subject.

  I think it's a regional, cultural thing. We hold open doors for everyone around here. It would be rare for someone not to.

  I don't know that it has anything to do with the level of education, unless you think Texans generally are better educated than Canadians.
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  "The Secret" - Movie

  by Bstndance in

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  oy vey!

  so my friend made me watch the "movie" the secret last night.

  it's basically a movie about the concept of visualizing and how we can achieve anything we want if we just picture it and not think about the negative.

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  daystar

  Oprah's Dirty Little Secret - http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/03/05/the_secret/index.html

  After describing the "Secret" ernterprise as venal, this article goes on:

  Why "venality"? Because, with survivors of Auschwitz still alive, Oprah writes this about "The Secret" on her Web site, "the energy you put into the world -- both good and bad -- is exactly what comes back to you. This means you create the circumstances of your life with the choices you make every day." "Venality," because Oprah, in the age of AIDS, is advertising a book that says, "You cannot 'catch' anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought." "Venality," because Oprah, from a studio within walking distance of Chicago's notorious Cabrini Green Projects, pitches a book that says, "The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts."

  Worse than "The Secret's" blame-the-victim idiocy is its baldfaced bullshitting. The titular "secret" of the book is something the authors call the Law of Attraction. They maintain that the universe is governed by the principle that "like attracts like" and that our thoughts are like magnets: Positive thoughts attract positive events and negative thoughts attract negative events. Of course, magnets do exactly the opposite -- positively charged magnets attract negatively charged particles -- and the rest of "The Secret" has a similar relationship to the truth. Here it is on biblical history: "Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Jesus were not only prosperity teachers, but also millionaires themselves, with more affluent lifestyles than many present-day millionaires could conceive of." And worse than the idiocy and the bullshitting is its anti-intellectualism, because that's at the root of the other two. Here's "The Secret" on reading and, um, electricity: "When I discovered 'The Secret' I made a decision that I would not watch the news or read newspapers anymore, because it did not make me feel good," and, "How does it work? Nobody knows. Just like nobody knows how electricity works. I don't, do you?" And worst of all is the craven consumerist worldview at the heart of "The Secret," because it's why the book exists: "[The Secret] is like having the Universe as your catalogue. You flip through it and say, 'I'd like to have this experience and I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that.' It is you placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy." That's from Dr. Joe Vitale, former Amway executive and contributor to "The Secret," on Oprah.com.

  I have access to a copy of the Secret, but have only watched the first few minutes, so I can't give a truly informed opinion. However, in talking about the film with others, I get the idea that beyond breaking the news that ideas and thoughts influence the material world (duh!), there is not much to it.
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  Simple life, which is better?

  by avidbiblereader in

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  is living a simple life without debt or very little better than trying to have it all and having it now?.

  i see this all the time in my line of work and the toll it takes on people, marriages and families.

  abr.

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  daystar

  I think this skit from SNL says it all:

  Don't Buy Stuff you Cannot Afford! - http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/41738/
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  Do you think that you've made lifelong friends on this forum?

  by JH in

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  well, i've been posting here since many years, and i'm sure that there are some that i met here, that i'll still talk to 10 or 20 years from now.

  i'm sure that others also made life long friends on this board.

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  And I met the absolute love of my life who I see myself with forever.

  Dear gods you know how sincerely I feel the same.
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  Competition Between the Ex-JW boards ?

  by JW_Researcher in

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  please excuse my ignorance regarding this.. i posted a solicitation for this little survey i'm doing here .

  http://kent.steinhaug.no/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4910.

  a poster named "queen beetle" got all excited because the title of the survey referenced jwd which she couldn't (evidently) bring herself to type out (using "xxx" instead).. i explained why i named it jwd but...i sensed some animosity (color me sensitive).. do some folks have a problem with jwd?

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  daystar

  There are people who've been kicked off JWD for various reasons. And some people, as we all know, can hold one hell of a grudge.
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  Just When You Thought You've Seen It All!

  by onesong in

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  don't know if this has been posted yet but my uncle sent me this link.. what next!

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  http://www.jsealremoval.com/.

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  daystar

  Smells an aweful lot like Scientology, "clearing" "body thetans" and all.
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  You were an atheist, but now you're not. Why?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i've spoken to a number of people that used to be atheists, but became believers.

  not all of them in christianity, and not all of them in a personal god of any kind, but believers of some stripe.

  what belief did you wind up with, and why?

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  daystar

  Hmm... I suppose I was more atheist at one time than I am now.

  I've not quite believed in the objectivity of any dieties for a very long time. However, as I learn more about myself and what I am at my core, I begin to wonder. Who I am, my being, is very... elusive. It seems as whisps of vapor to me. I can, by force of will, set myself, and yet that alone tells me a lot. I am not so much myself as I am what I want myself to me.

  What I am is what I think. My being, who I am appears to be made simply of mind, of thought, and nothing more. If I seem to be made of something as elusively defined as Mind or as Thought, and I certainly feel like I exist, who am I to say some entity devoid of material body doesn't exist in some way, in the nature of pure mind?

  Anyway, my jury is still out, as it always is, as to the nature of such things. I will probably need to go back to studies, lay though they may be, of quantum physics again at this point. But, in any case, I am less certain.
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  I get this nagging feeling something big is about to happen ?

  by 5go in

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  i don't know what wether the watchtower is going to implode or the begining of ww3 is about to happen.

  something big !.

  but something makes me feel weird, not afraid but ready for it.. maybe it is the psyco in me..

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  I stopped going to the meetings when I was 18 years old. For the next few years after, I had this very strong, persistent feeling that something big was just over the horizon.

  I realize now that this was just part of my journey out of the WBTS. Armageddon didn't come, life went on...
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  Guardian I try to keep an open mind, many don't

  by skyking in

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  james randerson.

  thursday february 22, 2007. the guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2018675,00.html.

  over 500 pages of previously classified secret documents from the uk have been released in response to a freedom of information request from journalism professor david clarke and it is shocking.. ufos - or unidentified aerial phenomena that ufo advanced technologies exits.

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  daystar

  Sad. Open minded? Dont make me laugh. I'll leave you to this one.

  ROFL!!! You are judging me right now based upon the few statements I've made here, are you not?

  I am familiar enough with David Icke. If this guy's even remotely similar in thought, etc., then I feel fairly certain in my judgement.

  (P.S. - Don't mistake, as so many people do, gullibility for open-mindedness.)