I too like the idea of Zen living. I would love to be at peace with myself when my time time comes and I think the attitude that Zen teaches would help.
eyeslice
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Zen living part 6 (summarized): When Bad Things Happen
by JimmyPage inyou aren't in charge of anyone or anything, and when you realize it, you will set yourself free to really live.. humans tend to categorize, label, and set up expectations.
cultivating a zen attitude means simply living, experiencing, and being without categories, labels, or expectations.. "tragedy" is only "tragedy" because we label it as "tragedy".
removing the label and simply experiencing the experience can help negative feelings pass and can turn a "tragedy" into a learning opportunity.. when humans experience catastrophic loss, it is more difficult to put things into perspective, but as with less serious losses, major loss is difficult because we attach our expectations and false sense of ownership, fears, and regrets to the things we have lost.. letting go of the attachments to our feelings of pain, grief, and sorrow can help us move through any experience..
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Does eating a rare steak = eating blood?
by neverendingjourney ini always wondered about this when i was still a jw.
i just assumed that it was improper for a jw to eat any meat that wasn't thoroughly cooked, especially steak.
i though everyone could see that the red juice contained blood, which, if eaten, amounted to a violation of the prohibition against eating blood.
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eyeslice
The whole problem with the JW stance is that they fail to recognise that abstinence from blood was symbolic. They, therefore, need to have to have a rule for everything and continue to make up pointless rules and regulations, such as you can eat rare steak and have blood components.
Remember, that the rule on blood was originally symbolic of a life taken - God wanted the majority of the blood symbolically poured on the ground and not reserved for consumption. After that it is irrelevant that a small amount of blood is left – you done the symbolic bit. Taking blood from a live person to save the life of another has absolutely nothing to do with the Old Testament symbolism, where you probably killed your animal yourself and poured out its blood to remind you as an individual that a life was taken to sustain you. -
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Very Moving memorial to Michael. First class all the way
by StoneWall inglad i decided to watch it.
i was afraid it would turn out to be a circus and i was very pleasantly surprised at how.
dignified and honorable it turned out.. thanks to the jackson family for allowing many to see all the good things michael will be remembered for as well.
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Puppeting the Message
by Hope4Others inquite a few years back i had various pioneer friends who were asked to give experiences at the circuit conventions.. they were to write up there experience first give it to the elder and they would go over it.. however, when it came time for this the elder who was giving the part decided to change their experience and it did not.
and was not even truthful now, it was not how it happened.
my one friend in particular was very upset about this because.
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eyeslice
Part of the problem with these assembly parts is that there just aren’t the ‘encouraging’ experiences out there. So the brother giving the part either embellishes the truth or re-cycles old experiences.
I must have heard the same experiences from a former missionary couple half a dozen times. The reality is that they left the country they were serving in in the late 60’s and have never been back since. -
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eyeslice
Watching it now - it is so surreal! The picture of him above the stage with his arms stretched out in a Christ like crucified pose was just creepy.
The guy had a great talent as an entertainer but he was certainly screwed up mentally. And now they are treating him like some sort of saint. Yes, he might have done some humanitarian work but who of us wouldn’t do the same given the time and money he had.
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...New Study on Vegetarian`s...Not as Healthy as Some may Think...
by OUTLAW insydney (afp) - people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, australian researchers said thursday.. a joint australian-vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher tuan nguyen.. the issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were six percent weaker, nguyen said.. there was "practically no difference" between the bones of meat-eaters and ovolactovegetarians, who excluded meat and seafood but ate eggs and dairy products, he said.. "the results suggest that vegetarian diets, particularly vegan diets, are associated with lower bone mineral density," nguyen wrote in the study, which was published thursday in the american journal of clinical nutrition.
"but the magnitude of the association is clinically insignificant," he added.. nguyen, who is from sydney's garvan institute for medical research and collaborated on the project with the pham ngoc thach university of medicine in ho chi minh city, said the question of whether the lower density bones translated to increased fracture risk was yet to be answered.. "given the rising number of vegetarians, roughly five percent (of people) in western countries, and the widespread incidence of osteoporosis, the issue is worth resolving," he said.. .
article taken from yahoo news ...........................outlaw.
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eyeslice
I think that Jaguarbase just about has it right. Today there are still a few bushmen left in Africa who hunt much like our early ancestors did. They stalk an animal, running it down for many hours, until they eventually chase it down and kill it. These skinny men and their families probably still only eat meat once or so a month. Driving to the local McDonald's for a greasy burger bares no resemblance to what our meat eating ancestors did.
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Ambition in older age - watch out you thirty somethings
by eyeslice ina couple of topics recently have made me think.
first, there was snowbird's "i think i am getting old" and the news that farrah fawcett has died at the relatively young age of 62.. also, the economic down turn has started older people wondering if retirement as we used to know it will be a thing of the past.
i am 56 years old but somehow never see myself retiring in the traditional sense of the word.. i am beginning to think that we are beginning to the time when older people will become more and more ambitious.
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eyeslice
A couple of topics recently have made me think. First, there was Snowbird's "I think I am getting old" and the news that Farrah Fawcett has died at the relatively young age of 62.
Also, the economic down turn has started older people wondering if retirement as we used to know it will be a thing of the past. I am 56 years old but somehow never see myself retiring in the traditional sense of the word.
I am beginning to think that we are beginning to the time when older people will become more and more ambitious. Older people today enjoy unpresidented levels of good health. And, free form the responsibilities of children, the burden of mortgages and needing relatively little in terms of material things, could free up older people to become entrepeneurs, starting up new businesses, to become more educated (degrees, PhDs, etc.) and to devoting quality time to public services and charities.
So I say watch out you young ones, the age of the older person is here!
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An Open Letter to Jehovah's Witnesses
by AK - Jeff indear jw's -.
i was, not too long ago, one of you.
i loved jehovah, and his organization.
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eyeslice
Hi Jeff
Your letter expresses exactly my feelings.
I grew up a witness and spent the majority of my adult life working hard for the organisation. I too would have died for my beliefs or willingly given my life for others. But the reality is that sincerely believing in something is not going to make it true. Rather than teaching the simple true of Jeus, the society has focused on an end of the world doctrine and a 'ministry' that is unclear and ill defined, certainly not the ministry of the good news of the Christ. How sad.
Eyeslice