I don't agree with Abaddon about tomatoes. I remember my mother (born in 1910) telling me that her family believed tomatoes (love apples) were poisonous when she was a little girl. In the south where I was raised (Louisiana) it was the custom to sit up with the dead to make sure that they really were dead and to help them should they wake up. The custom persevered even after embalming became fashionable. Our catholic friends would do it in groups with copious amounts of liquor and they called it a wake.
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Some true facts about england
by stillajwexelder inthe next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water.
temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.. .
here are some facts about the 1500s:.
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I'm not a Buddhist, but...............PART 2
by Dansk inas i can't post to the original thread started by nicolaou, i'm doing so here:.
hi fleur,but the part that really, well, frankly creeped me out for lack of a better term, is that he left his wife and child, then starved himself nearly to death before he realized that this wasn't the way to go, and he lived as a homeless person, begging food as he went on his path to enlightenment.
that's a rather simplified version of events.
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I agree with Dansk that Buddhism is a religion of "common sense". Both the Religious Science and Unity movements in the USA have been heavily influenced by Buddhist philosophy and thought. My Unity Pastor frequently reads the morning scripture from the teachings of the various Buddhist Masters.
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Are we to be Angels or merely mankind?What did Jesus mean?
by ko38 inthat is a question i would have never asked even a month ago.being raised a jw how could you not know the answer?they told me time after time after time that we have an earthly hope.we can live forever in a paradise without sickness or death.
(that sounded great to me).as i'm sure all of you are aware the wtbts has some rather selective interpretations of scripture.these are easily proved to their captive audience, i mean their followers by using their own translation of the bible.. what i'm having a problem with is understanding who goes where?.
the jws believe that the annointed go to heaven and the great crowd benifit by being associated with these annointed by gaining eternal life on earth.thus they are saying that the entire greek scriptures apply only to the annointed.
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According to A Course In Miracles the universe exists only as a place to experience separation from God. How can you do your "own thing" without a place to do it? When we come to our senses, the universe will disappear. There is a very interesting book called "The Disappearence of the Universe" by Gary Renard which makes that point very well.
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Under the Ocean revisited
by Haereticus inwill there be earthquakes in the new world?
today it is held that the majority of earthquakes are caused by slipping of large sections of the earth along faults or cracks in the earth, while others are due to volcanic activity or the collapse of limestone caverns.
among the theories advanced to account for the slippage of faults is the strain caused by contraction due to the cooling of the earth.
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Earthquakes are repeatedly mentioned in the Scriptures. It is apparent that some of these were caused by Jehovah, or timed by him. Among these can be numbered the one that swallowed up the households of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, and the ones that occurred at the time of Jesus? death and resurrection.?Num. 16:31-33; Matt. 27:51-54; 28:2.
Good Lord! Don't believe everything you read. It seems ridiculous to me to suppose that God has anything to do with natural disasters. The bible writers had a tendency to attribute all natural disasters to God as a punishment for wrongdoings. That doesn't make it so.
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I understand the toll is over 33,000 now and disease from polluted water will likely double that number.
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Does God Really Care
by Undecided in.
when i read of the many natural calamities that have killed billions of people over the centuries i wonder if god is interested at all?
when i see the importance that the bible makes of just one death of god's sons, when he was resurrected and given a higher position just 3 days later, what about all those millions of human sons.. i guess we are like an ant hill to god, if you happen to step on it, who cares.. ken p.
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Why does God let these terrible things happen? The question can only arise if you think of yourself as a body with a limited lifespan on a rather unpredictable planet completely separated from God. God is not responsible for our dreams of separation and death.
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Are we to be Angels or merely mankind?What did Jesus mean?
by ko38 inthat is a question i would have never asked even a month ago.being raised a jw how could you not know the answer?they told me time after time after time that we have an earthly hope.we can live forever in a paradise without sickness or death.
(that sounded great to me).as i'm sure all of you are aware the wtbts has some rather selective interpretations of scripture.these are easily proved to their captive audience, i mean their followers by using their own translation of the bible.. what i'm having a problem with is understanding who goes where?.
the jws believe that the annointed go to heaven and the great crowd benifit by being associated with these annointed by gaining eternal life on earth.thus they are saying that the entire greek scriptures apply only to the annointed.
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First of all I have to say that the bible(IMO) is not entirely reliable or consistent when it comes to describing an "after-life". Nor do I accept the this earth was created by God. If it had been, then it would have been created perfect and perfect it is not. We wouldn't have tornados, floods, hurricanes, meteor hits, etc. if God had been the designer. The Gospel of John says that the earth was created by the Logos (The Word) or Son of God (and apparently in a separated state for the purpose of experiencing separation for God). The story of the Prodigal Son is illustrative of this concept. Our Hindu breathren speak of our existence on this earth as "Maya" or illusion and they may well have it right. I believe Jesus came to remind us that "separtion is merely a dream and death itself is an illusion. Since we are made of "God stuff" how can God lose any part of Himself? Eventually, like the Prodigal Son, we will come to our senses and be willing to return home. No one is going to be lost. However, like the Prodigal, our remembrance of our wasted opportunities to express God's love may be painful. Life on this earth is no more desirable than that which the Prodigal experienced when the land which he journeyed to fell on hard times. Our home is Heaven and nowhere else.
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A Badger's Tail, Episode IV (and final)
by Badger inepisode iv: a new hope
?where are we going, man?
?i don?t know, but we gotta go.?
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Thanks for sharing!
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A Badger's Tail, Episode I
by Badger ini won?t pretend this will be as interesting as little toe?s or any of the other stories?this is just mine.
i?ve told it in bits and pieces over the last year, with and without a few self-aggrandizing embellishments?so here goes:
prelude: badger meets world
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Damn Badger! You quit just when it was getting good!
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A religion with nothing to Celebrate
by eyeslice inhow sad that the witnesses have nothing to celebrate.
the more i think about it since i stopped going to the meetings, the more i feel that spirituality and religion are about opportunities to give thanks and to celebrate life with family and friends.
christenings or name giving ceremonies celebrate the gift of a new life to a family.
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MJ-Apparently you are not "of the body". lol