what are some of them?
i think sometimes those are funnier than any joke, after all it actually happend!.
well off the top of my head, one thing that happend to me was i slipped going in to my history class in hs, and ended up looking like i was doing a split.. i know that's not much but my class and teacher got a kick out of it at the time.
What are some of them? I think sometimes those are funnier than any joke, after all it actually happend!
Well off the top of my head, one thing that happend to me was I slipped going in to my history class in HS, and ended up looking like I was doing a split.. I know that's not much but my class and teacher got a kick out of it at the time.
i know this seems like a dumb subject.. but i often wonder if many of us still believe and feel the need to worship - and not the borg either .
so here is a poll.... what religious orginization - if any - are you affiliated ( this does not mean you had to join it)?.
or - do you feel that everything is wrong due to the borg..and will you ever consider going to an organized religon again??.
Well, I suppose the closest thing I have to any kind of religious affiliation is I do a little bit of part time work at a meditation center which is based on Buddhism. In terms of practice I haven't been doing sitting meditation much because of a hip rotation, but rather I've tried to make daily life practice.
But the problem is, there are not only different ideas about religion, but also different ideas about specific ones, or whether it is a religion, or a person may actually have no idea at all. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who has as their image of Buddhism fat Asian guys in robes lighting incense and sitting around doing nothing, but that's hardly what it's about. If you've never meditated chances are you don't know specifically what I mean by making daily life practice, just as an example.
I don't want to say too much about it here, but lets just say that for some of us simply accepting a set of beliefs and a set of people who accepts that is an obsolete practice.
hey i am just wondering again - ( i know i might just get lost ..but????).
has any one here done any research or ever practiced homeopathic medicine??.
i am looking into it and would lve any input on it..
It would depend on what you're trying to treat. Based on the condition, you can see if the theory behind it makes any sense, and then there's the matter of whether it works in practice, and how good the practitioner is. I understand that in classical homeopathy only one remedy is chosen to fit the person's constitution and such, the practitioner does a detailed intake to try and figure that out.
One thing that I find significant is that I have been told by a health care professional (not one that actively practices homeopathy, just someone who knows about it, though they're not against it) that a homeopath will withhold certain information from you in terms of what they think you're like, your constitution etc. indicating a belief that your opinion of their assessment of you will have an impact on the results. Now we know about the placebo effect, but whether it's perceived or real change, if the mind makes a difference why not work with that? If it doesn't, then this wouldn't be necessary.
So it seems to me this points to the role of the mind, which is something I think is important. Frankly on a behavioral level we know that bad habits in your lifestyle can create chronic problems of different types, and a lot can be changed if you can change those behaviors. We can also talk about stress, yet another function of the mind, so there's a lot that you can impact there. But what it comes down to is the individual rather than a substance or something external.
Homeopathic "remedies" are usually harmless, but their associated misbeliefs are not. When people are healthy, it may not matter what they believe. But when serious illness strikes, false beliefs can lead to disaster.Well, if there's not a molecule of the stuff left the remedy itself can't do any harm, and considering the remedies really cost very little money isn't really an issue as far as the stuff itself is concerned. What is an issue is failure to seek other treatment, which the author here fails to explicitly state. Beliefs have to do with the believer, not the stuff you use. If you want to spend a few bucks on the side just to see if it works it's probably not going to do any harm, but common sense dictates that you consider all treatment options if you don't want to or can't afford to use yourself as a guinea pig. For some people, especially those who've exhausted conventional treatment options, they can't afford NOT to seek alternatives if it is a serious illness. Naturally you'll want to make an educated decision in all cases, but I tend to agree with the guy that said "to regard our ignorance as knowledge, this is mental sickness."
insight - what is it?
it seems that most of the time people talk about insight into other things, for example the witnesses have the publication "insight on the scriptures".
but what about insight within yourself?
Here's something funny, taken from the same book cited above.. The author was talking about how for all of us practice is key, (and with any activity really) and he related the story of a Tibetan yogi Milarepa. Toward the end of his life Milarepa took his foremost disciple up to a mountain to convey his secret teachings. Upon arriving at the top of the mountain his disciple reverently asked him for the teachings. At this, Milarepa turned around, exposed his rear and pointed to the leather-like callouses on his butt from years of sitting meditation.
insight - what is it?
it seems that most of the time people talk about insight into other things, for example the witnesses have the publication "insight on the scriptures".
but what about insight within yourself?
Something encouraging for those who may be feeling guilt and self-doubt..
Another thing to remember as you deepen the systematic exploration of your mind in practice is the fact that though the unwholesome qualities of consciousness appear to be getting stronger, in fact they are not; you are only becoming more aware of them. As practice deepens, we can feel overwhelmed by the multitude of different mental hindrances that arise. We see restlessness, laziness, anger, doubt, greed, conceit, envy, and all the rest, and it sometimes seems that mind contains nothing but these afflictive(from the book Insight Meditation - The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein)
emotions.
Another point to consider is even if they are there does it really mean that it's you, you're just this way and nothing can change it? Frankly we all get in certain moods but it's temporary, it doesn't warrant labeling ourselves a certain way as if we're the personification of any of these qualities.
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funny that it's called awake!.
check out their website:.
http://www.godsmack.com/.
I can't remember but either Lars Ulrich or James Hetfield lives in my town, I thought it was Lars but on second thought I'm pretty sure it's James. In any case, if the one that lives here is a witness I'm sure I would have heard about it, unless it's something that happend in the last few years.
as an active jw, did you really ever believe that you would survive armageddon?
with me, i served as an elder, regular pioneer, was over the book room at district conventions, but i always felt it was not enough, i was never real sure i would survive the big day of god almighty!!
the reason i ask y'all is, i don't think you can feel real sure in a organization that is legalistic and work orientated .
Actually I thought maybe I wouldn't make it but it didn't matter, I should try to do what I can anyways because I thought I was doing the right thing, I wasn't in it just to save myself. However nobody really cares if you're a nobody in the congregation, in my hall there were a lot of pioneers and that of course is better than any sinceritiy which they probably couldn't see anyway.
gospel of thomas verse 11: the dead are not alive, and the living will not die.
during the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive.
when you are in the light, what will you do?
Here's something that occurred to me when I read this fellas, this may seem like it would have nothing to do with any of the gospels, but consider simply on the basis of what it has to say:
Tao gave birth to One,-Tao Te Ching, 42
One gave birth to Two,
Two gave birth to Three,
Three gave birth to all the myriad things.
gospel of thomas verse 11: the dead are not alive, and the living will not die.
during the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive.
when you are in the light, what will you do?
Hi Thinker, I'm wondering what you mean when you said "one single soul without a body" as it relates to the passage about one becoming two - do you mean the soul of an individual or a sort of collective soul? Because notice what verse 4 points out:
For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one.This sounds to me like one big collective soul of sorts. What do you think? Could it be that rather than the immaterial soul and the physical body being the two it is simply talking about separating from that "super soul" or whatever thus becoming two? It seems to me it's the beginning of a subject/object duality..
do you believe that two people are just meant to be, no matter the circumstances involved, or the differences that keep them apart?
this has been a question that i have been living with for some time.
actually, i guess it's been what i have been living for--the dogma, i guess, i'll call it, that i have hoping for: "if two people are meant to be together, they will find their way back to one another.".
Well, even if you do believe in fate how do you know when it is the person you're fated to be with, I mean REALLY know?
It seems to me the key thing about the lasting power of any relationship (could be friendship or whatever) is that both parties need to be able to grow together, or even help each other grow. In the case of a witness (this guy's a JW right?) or any restrictive religious group, it simply seems unlikely. The thing that keeps two people in a restrictive group together would logically be that it keeps both of them from growing. It sounds like you're not on the same page as it is though..
