sound familiar?.
this question was recently asked for the children in my congregation to answer.
i was kind of amused and disturbed at the same time by their responses.. .
gently feral
hit this link and type in your time and place of birth.
you will get a chart done within seconds.
i'm interested to see how yours fits your personality.
GermanXJW:
I do not believe in horoscope. I expected some vague expressions that somehow fit anybody at times. This came up very precise and it is very much what comes up when I do a scientific test like MBTI. Strange. But there are also two things in it that are not correct.
The same was true of my chart - everything was dead accurate except for two items: my Moon and Mercury signs.
I'm beginning to want to look into astrology after reading a book about its history: The Fated Sky, by Benson Bobrick. One striking thing I still remember from this book was about the star Algol. It presages disaster on a large scale, typically things like wars.
The Chinese call the same star "heap of corpses."
To me, that means that if different cultures can make the same discoveries about the same arrangements of stars and planets, there might be some truth in astrology. Real astrology, with all the information available, not the vapid, sketchy newspaper-column stuff.
gently feral
note: only use dry erase markers.
my son and i decided to try writing on the mirror in our bathroom with dry erase markers and we had so much fun.
we traced our faces/cups/sink fitures and ect.
Back when I was homeschooling my kids, we had a sliding glass door in our kitchen - 6 x 3 gloriously unobstructed feet of smooth glass.
My son and I did algebra on it, mostly. I did give the kids complete freedom with the whiteboard markers (or water-soluble ones).
gently feral
anyone who has ever sat at home, healthy, well fed, surrounded by loved ones, and suffering from intense anxiety will readily agree that peace of mind is the necessary condition for happiness.
but how can we possibly learn to have peace of mind when the mind is by nature restless, projecting its wants and fears endlessly into the past and the future?.
think about your favorite activity for a moment.
Hortensia,
I read a book called Active Meditation which says that some people need to meditate while active
Some library websurfing turns up two books with that title:
Active Meditation: The Western Tradition, Robert R. Leichtman
Active Meditations For Contemplative Prayer, Thomas Keating
Which one did you read?
gently feral
now don't get all excited, .
this is a research project, not in the actual act itself, but the origin of the term... from whom did the expression "missionary position" surface.
i swear to god that i believed that a missionary first used that expression.
By citing the OED and talking about religious control of sexual activity, y'all are missing belbab's point.
This paper examines accounts of the origin of the expression, provides evidence that it originated in Kinsey's (mis)reading of Malinowski, analyzes the symbolic elements of the missionary-position narrative as synthesizing modernist objections to Christian morality, ... and explores some of the functions of this myth within the academy.gentlyferal
http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/index2.html.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8222063231829676102&q=v+for+vendetta&total=10203&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3237043034856135114&q=the+best+of+v+for+vendetta&total=209&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0.
For a movie based on a comic book, the plot was complex and the characterization was rich. I liked it, but then I'm a sucker for "one man liberates a corrupt world" stories, especially in real life.
gently feral
this morning, a poster asked me why i still go on field service:.
just wondering if your conscience bothers you that you are continuing to "spread the jw gospel"?
do you have plans to stop fs soon?
If I were still a jaydub and trying to fade, going in field service would not bother me particularly. Even when I believed, when I was praying for Bible studies – even when I was auxiliary pioneering I never got Bible studies or even fruitful return visits. I got one Bible study in over 20 years of door-to-door preaching. And I was trying to bring them in.
These days, most converts are RAW (Raised A Witness); and most of those leave eventually.
The barriers to entry are already high enough that we don't really have to pull many punches – most jaydubs, whether "undercover apostates" or not, are already pummeling the air.
gently feral
here's a fun flash program.
you type one word or a short phrase telling santa what you want for christmas and he pulls it out of his sack!
can you stump the plump?
"Pashmina shawl" = siamese cat
"Tennis bracelet" = tennis ball
"Plum pudding" = plum, clearly labeled Stockphoto.com
"Limousine" came out right, with the comment: "You're not the first person to ask for one of these today!"
What yknot said. Also, check out Wikipedia. Think of it as a "Memorial Day for civilians."
GentlyFeral
my myspace addy.
www.myspace.com/avidavidoff.
tribe.net profile.... http://people.tribe.net/asherahsdaddy.
http://people.tribe.net/gentlyferal
Say, any Rimbaud groupies on here? I'm trying to poke my tribe, Temple de Rimbaud-le-Baiseur, back to life.
GentlyFeral
