bernadette

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  Just posting a few pics here - I hope you don't mind!

  by tim hooper in

  1. social
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  i'm a bit of a newbie here i suppose, but i've been fascinated by the photo threads that pop up now and then - notably leo's, purps and sparks.

  so i thought i'd do my bit for posterity and bring you some pics from the uk that i've taken over the last few years, if that's all right with you that is!.

  although i'm fully digital these days, my early work was film-based so, as a result of that training i tend to just use photoshop in the same way that i used to use my darkroom - ie.

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  bernadette

  beautiful panoramic shots, Tim - thanks for sharing them.
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  Without Any Observer Can The Universe Exist?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what do you think?

  it is kind of like the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a noise as it crashes to the ground?

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  bernadette

  Gill

  Our perception is simply that, how we perceive, but it does not alter actions as we are not in control of the universe in any way, we just perceive.

  I would argue that the fact that each individual is unique and each creature is unique demonstrates that we do have a certain degree of effect on the universe albiet a minuscule one.

  bernadette
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  Without Any Observer Can The Universe Exist?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what do you think?

  it is kind of like the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a noise as it crashes to the ground?

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  frankie

  By the term "reality checks" do you mean what the human collective presupposes reality to be based apon our middle world senses?

  but yes - staying open though -

  as humans we have such a propensity and imagination for weaving stories around kernels of truth
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  Without Any Observer Can The Universe Exist?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what do you think?

  it is kind of like the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a noise as it crashes to the ground?

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  bernadette

  Just as we can play observer to the world and then by some strange means also be an observer to our own thoughts, can there be a "Ultimate Observer"? Some thing that observes everything, every thought, every feeling, something that encompases all consciousness?

  Have been reading a bit re the above. Its a good way to make sense of life - so long as we understand that it is subjective experience and would need reality checks.
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  Without Any Observer Can The Universe Exist?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what do you think?

  it is kind of like the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a noise as it crashes to the ground?

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  bernadette

  As for example: How does an Ameba know the uninverse? I'm sure it's view point and perspective is as valid as ours, as well as different.

  Yep, i agree - it would seem that there is a place/contribution/whatever for everything that exists and also for its perspective in the larger frame of present day existance. Completely hypothesizing here. Wouldn't it be amazing if one day we could understand/perceive the whole picture and all its parts - or at least more than we know now.
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  Without Any Observer Can The Universe Exist?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what do you think?

  it is kind of like the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a noise as it crashes to the ground?

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  bernadette

  Probably not in the way we know it - so can we say then that we are part of its bringing itself (as we know it) into being?
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  lurker for seven years

  by snowbird in

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  2. friends

  i am new here so please bear with me.

  i have been a lurker for the past seven years.

  i am waiting until.

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  bernadette

  Hi snowbird welcome, glad things have turned out so well for your daughter. As you have been lurking for 7 years you don't have as much catching up to do

  bernadette
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  "knocking" discussion at pbs

  by candidlynuts in

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  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/knocking/ .

  the above link is to the discussion.

  the below link is to the main "knocking' page.

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  bernadette

  Hi Candy, thanks for those links. I seem to remember that here have been threads about the knocking film but I haven't opened any of them because of time constraints.

  Wonder if what impact it will have - suppose I'll have to wait and see
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  First Date Etiquette

  by Crumpet in

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  so i am going on a blind first date this weekend?

  i havent done any dating really - well ever.

  i just end up with people for years and years by accidents of fate i guess.. what should i and shouldnt i do on a first date?

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  bernadette

  wow crumpet, what an amazing date in such lovely surroundings - sounds magical - understand why you want to take some time to recover.
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  Since I left...

  by RollerDave in

  1. jw
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  since i left.... so there i was, a disabled single dad bereft of all he had known or believed for 30 years.. i had moved a good 45 minutes away from the area where the events in my introductory post went down, but was now living in an area where i had resided some ten years earlier and still had a few stale connections with the organization.. i was lonely, depressed, pissed off, and really disgusted with the god i had been shown in my years of unfruitful association.. in my mind, he had made me the way i am, which apparently entailed being unable to meet his 'righteous requirements', and was going to kill me for it.

  he had endowed all of us with a natural human nature (apart from our fallen sinful nature,) and now expected us to conquer our every natural impulse or desire, even the healthy ones, to survive the big a.. hold off on marriage or kids, no college, no success, no normalcy... the big a'll get ya if ya don't watch out!.

  so i railed against him, defied him to just take me, do anything to show he even existed or had any power at all.. i went around saying 'god is an a$$h*le' and the like, but then i realized something that shook my world..... i was just as much a witness outside the organization as i had been inside!.

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  bernadette

  Hi Dave

  I lived in a handicapped building that took up one city block and was attached to another city block that was a public park. In the dead of night with the stars all spread out across the sky I would get on my power chair and make my way to the top of a little hill in the middle of this park, away from what I perceived as the 'interference' of all those other human minds stuffed with turmoil, and poured out my heart to the heavens.

  I love open spaces too - your experience definitely resonates with me

  I confessed my worthlessness, my inherent sinfulness, and the utter waste my life had been up to this point. I begged for guidance, wisdom, for faith. I pleaded for him to help me to be the kind of person I wanted to be, competent, just, reasonable, and strong. I marveled at the immensity of his creation and my insignificance within it, and the almost impossible realization I was coming to that he actually was there and cared about me!

  thanks for sharing your experience - it is very moving and inspiring

  bernadette