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  Your favorite fictional literary character

  by daystar in

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  what is your favorite fictional literary character.

  which character do you identify with most?

  i was a well-read kid and my favorite series of books were the elric saga by michael moorcock.

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  "...'All shall love me and despair!' She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left her along and left all else dark...Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly, she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad. 'I pass the test,' she said. I will diminish and go into the west and remain Galadriel.' "

  I know I flatter myself but she's my guide and inspiration. I hope when the time comes for me to behold the raw and terrible power within, I pass the test...

  ~Brigid (struggling with megalomania! )
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  Good and Evil...

  by Brigid in

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  greetings fellow sojourners,

  i was wondering if i could elicit your input on a certain matter that i am struggling with right now.

  my question, simply put, is "does good and evil exist"?

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  OMG! Daystar, yes! Have you then studied the Genesis account from a Kabbalistic view? I think you would enjoy it very much. It's now my favorite book of the bible. Also, do you think that Moses may have been an Egyptian magician/priest? Do you think that Yud Heh Vav Heh is separate from Yahweh?

  Thanks!
  ~Brigid
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  Richard Dawkins is right

  by joelbear in

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  2. beliefs

  the world's destiny is up to the selfish gene.

  i'll just get some popcorn.

  except now, instead of physical strength or abilities its all about resource management.

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  Perhaps....but could we not create noble purposes for ourselves? That is, merely for the utilitarian purpose of perpetuating our existence.

  ~Brigid
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  "I want my God and I want my family!"

  by nicolaou in

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  Brigid

  Wow, I guess my earlier post topic is invalid--this confirms it: Good and especially evil DO exist.

  And the bible really was right--you do know these "evil" beings by their "fruit".

  "...the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law" (Gal. 5:22,23).

  Did you see the fear in her childrens' eyes?

  ~Brigid
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  Good and Evil...

  by Brigid in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  greetings fellow sojourners,

  i was wondering if i could elicit your input on a certain matter that i am struggling with right now.

  my question, simply put, is "does good and evil exist"?

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  Brigid

  "I approached the subject from a slightly different perspective."

  Would you care to elaborate, Daystar? **Brigid glances over attempting to see Daystars' answers to his test questions**

  ~Brigid
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  Good and Evil...

  by Brigid in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  greetings fellow sojourners,

  i was wondering if i could elicit your input on a certain matter that i am struggling with right now.

  my question, simply put, is "does good and evil exist"?

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  Brigid

  I still feel as you do, Kitty....I look at the "evil" perpetrated by certain people and say---bad and I breathe a sigh of relief that the "baddies" have always been thwarted. However, what if Hitler had succeeded? First of all, if I had been born at all, I would have studied world history in a far different perspective and probably in German. It may have gone something like this: There were once an evil group of people who preyed and fed economically and religiously upon the entire human species and colored the world in all sorts of evil ways with their god (the Jews). Then our Fuhror, our saviour, tirelessly and courageously and relentlessly rid the world of these evil people and we now have a new way-a "better" way of evolving. I would have been brought up with an entirely different set of cultural and historical "glasses" through which to view my world. Would I have recognized the "truth" beyond that? Then as cyclically as nature itself, generations and generations later, there would be a reawakening of a Yahweh (or some monotheistic) cult passed (as these things often are) through our eternal human archetypes...they would grow in popularity again (something "new") re-coloring again how humans see themselves in their universe. I'm babbling, I know. But what I'm struggling with is "what is ultimate truth?" Beyond facts, beyond mythos, beyond societal constructs----what is TRUTH? Is it merely perception?

  Thanks!
  ~Brigid
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  Good and Evil...

  by Brigid in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  greetings fellow sojourners,

  i was wondering if i could elicit your input on a certain matter that i am struggling with right now.

  my question, simply put, is "does good and evil exist"?

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  Thank you so very much for responding. I'm still confused as ever. My ego vehemently recoils in terror at the thought that evil does not exist--how can I "protect" myself, my children, I ask, if I do not know what evil is? But why do I need "protection"--from what am I sheilding? I still feel that the subjugation/exploitation of another human being is wrong. Yet we do it all the time. It was posed to me the other night in a philosophic circle of about 12 people that there is a region in India where it is the father's religious/cultural duty to deflower his daughters at the onset of menses (sounds like a man-made rule)--no offense to males. This "feels" evil to me. However, if the girl was of age (how do we define that), master of her own soul, was asked and conceded and no possible harm came to anyone (how do we quantify that?), I would have to say it is not evil FOR THEM. I'm terrified at that allowance in my brain for that!

  Daystar,

  "Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, Love under Will." Aah yes, Crowley's Book of the Law. I believe he delved extensively and quite fearlessly into this question. Perhaps the student is ready to read the Master's teachings? Is it going to blow my mind more than it already has?

  ~Brigid
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  How "Evolved" are you quiz

  by JH in

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  http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=3741

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  Result of Quiz :: How Evolved Are You?

  created by CervusWright To create your own quiz, click here You scored as Enlightened. "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear". People like you are a gift from the Divine. I just wish you guys would stop dying so young! Enlightened 100% Evolving nicely.. 80% You are a Sheep. 30% You're still waiting for your thumbs.. 0% Go and find a soul, please.. 0% You're kidding yourself.. 0%

  I suppose in the midst of all my inner confusion, some truth and clarity has coalesced.

  ~Brigid
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  My life - a new turn

  by InquiryMan in

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  ive been on the net ever since the miningco, old witnesses.net days and now here on jwd.

  it has been an interesting journey.

  yesterday my life took a new turn.

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  Brigid

  How can you offend anyone when you speak such courageous truth from your heart? Congratulations on coming out into one aspect of your true self. May your journey continue in light and love and truth (and may you meet someone special and may he help you continue to unfold....)

  Blessings,

  ~Brigid
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  "I want my God and I want my family!"

  by nicolaou in

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  Brigid

  Mommy!

  yea....familiar...sad....

  ~Brigid