The Four Agreements is a nice read. He also wrote a book called The Voice of Knowledge, which puts a whole other spin on what the story of the tree in the garden of eden and that whole scene means, in his opinion of course, but was excellent. Also I just heard he wrote a book called The Fifth Agreement. These books are short and easy to read. If your a reader you can read it in a day.
awildflower
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HELP ME REPAIR THE WORLD
by Terry inlet's roll up our collective sleeves and repair the world!.
world repair is a central idea of judaism, after all.
you leave this world a little better than how you found it.. most of us spend our lives busy with our own self.
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The Awakening
by AK - Jeff ina time comes in your life when you finally get...when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out...enough1 enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on.
then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes.. .
you realize its time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, safety and security to magically appear over the next horizon.. .
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I remember my "awakening" moment. I had to go way, way down into despair for it to happen, but it has since changed my life. I might add you let go of judgments and attachments as well. Funny thing is you can't make it happen, it just does when it does. It's quite amazing and it's like a surrendering. You stop looking outwardly for answers to anything and realize that you have all you need right with yourself and always did. That's the paradox. And to me if you've found the paradox in the matter, you've found 'it'. And all the things that start to come into your life are unbelievable!
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The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness- No need for religion in spirituality
by OnTheWayOut inreading tmj4477's thread about religion after jw's and reading perry trying to counter ak-jeff on a thread about god and suffering, both of these made me want to post some eastern thought that doesn't fall into the category of "religious" but might help nonetheless.. .
excerpt from the wisdom of no escape (with subtitle: and the path of loving-kindness).
chapter 8: no such thing as a true storyin taoism there's a famous saying that goes, "the tao that can be spoken is not the ultimate tao.
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Jeff, you'll love it. I bought Wayne Dyer's Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. He took a year of his life and gave away everything he owned and lived the Tao. He would read a verse and meditate on it for four days and then write up his thoughts on it. Of course the Tao will speak to us individually, it just helped to have someone explain to me, at the time, what some of those verses were talking about. But it is one of my favorite books. To me it's way more powerful than the Bible and it was written 2,500 years BEFORE the Bible! 81 verses of 'enlightened' information! The Tao on it's own is great but people made a religion out of it and in my opinion ruin the Tao. It's better to let it speak to us individually. Just like people should let the Bible and other writings speak to them individually and not make religions out of them! Therein lies the problem.
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Borg court: 1st session
by sd-7 inrecord of committee meeting #1. after prayer, proverbs 28:13 was read: "he who is covering over his transgressions will not succeed, but he who is confessing and leaving them will be shown mercy.
" the need to confess to jehovah was emphasized.
as jehovah's representatives, the elders said we therefore needed to confess to them.
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It wasn't even an affair, cyber. He AND HIS WIFE had sex before getting married. YEARS AGO!
Are you kidding me? This is what this is all about?? Christopher, you sound like your handling this ok and I'm glad, but this is ridiculous. My advice to you is to visibly record the next meeting or visibly take notes, or better yet get a lawyer to sit in with you (or someone who looks like a lawyer) or a couple of witnesses to these "proceedings". Or better, better yet, don't meet with these idiots again! I know you must realize by now that these are just men. The only place a scene like this can play out is in a cult! This kind of thing wouldn't even fly in your neighbors back yard let alone a court of law! God this whole thing just makes me sick! But hang in there friend.......
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Handbill for 2010 District Conventions
by dozy inthe wts has announced the usual handbill invitation "campaign" for the conventions this year.
i haven't seen a copy but i assume that it will be similar to the one for congregation meetings and from previous years.
the usual 30 per publisher allocation.. i seriously wonder about the efficacy of these campaigns.
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awildflower
I have an idea, when you get yours in the door, or anywhere you see them for that matter, mail it back to the hall. I'm going to...
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This is hysterical!!
by WingCommander ini'm not one to post youtube video's on forums like this, but i came across this well-made one by someone on youtube.
i think we can all relate to this comical commercial:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87-ueqwfjr0.
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awildflower
I remember hearing these while I was active, it was going around the hall. We would crack up forever!! They are soooo funny. Btw, I love the real commercials to, there's tons of them and they are so funny!
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HELP ME REPAIR THE WORLD
by Terry inlet's roll up our collective sleeves and repair the world!.
world repair is a central idea of judaism, after all.
you leave this world a little better than how you found it.. most of us spend our lives busy with our own self.
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I think Terry those are excellent ways to start!
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Favorite catch phrases from movies, the ones you actually use.
by John Doe inthe old wierd guy on "princess bride" who says "have fun storming the castle!
" i've used that line more than once.
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My son and I use a ton but I can't think of them off the top of my head, they have to come to me in the moment!
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Just write something completely goofy!
by awildflower inso this is inspired by my favorite poet edgar allen john doe!
sometimes we just need to say something completely goofy to relieve tension and have fun.
the pineapple king, with a feather in his hat and a spring in his step, finally helped the chicken cross the road!.
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JW's and home schooling?
by semelcred ini don't wish to offend any that are teaching their kids at home, but today i was again confronted by a situation where a jw family were home schooling.
the kids had little structure to their routine and without putting the mum down, she was no teacher in an academic sense.. the subject is close to my heart because my parents who are witnesses, took my younger brothers out of school and home tutored them.
the were subjected to below standard education and limited in social skills, particularly as my parents are crap at these skills themselves.. i have grown to hate home schooling except in the situation of medical or logistical situations.. what are your comments good or bad and do you think the option to home school is abused by the witness community?.
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awildflower
I don't know if it's "abused". I home schooled my son from 5th grade-8th, then he did 9th grade at regular school because he thought he wanted to go back, turns out he didn't so 10th-12th he did the American Home school program, which worked out really well. My daughter has been homeschooling for three years now but now that we are not jw's she wants the hs experience so she will start next year and I totally encourage it and can't wait.
IMO, it's for some kids and it's not. BUT the big issue that I have with home school is that most of the parents I know don't take it serious enough to give there kids a proper education. THAT bothers me a lot. And jw's who home school seem to do it all for the wrong reasons like keeping their kids away from "the world" or for them to be fully groomed for missionary, bethel or pioneering. I don't like that.
On the other hand, grade school and hs are pretty easy to study well and get through with a decent education. To me the important stuff is after hs, like college or community college. I always encouraged my kids to do their best at school but the fun stuff is when you get to go to college for something you really like. I was a great homeschooling parent. Taught my kids everything I was suppose to when I did the curriculum. Fortunately my daughter does a private school at home with the curriculum furnished which is good for me because to do it right is hard work!
IF I could do it over though, having said all of that, I would have wanted my kids to go to public school even if it were private. They need the experience and kids their age and they need to be exposed to the real world. My son especially suffers socially. And they really do end up getting a better education. Just my two cents..........wf