last night i went to my first meditation class, conducted by a nice young man, teaching a yoga-type meditation.
it is my first venture into meditating, and i thought i would share a couple of interesting points.
i was with an old friend, who also happens to be an ex dub, but only out about a year.
Mulan (Marilyn),
I love yoga exercise--something I never allowed
myself when I was a jw cuz it was supposed to "bad."
If you want to try a yoga video:
The best yoga video is:
Yoga Journal's
yoga for energy
with Rodney Yee
Also you might try something
by Lillias Folan. Maybe find
them at the library. She's
for the 50+ group.
All the above videos are available at:
I have a few books I can recommend
also, if you are interested, I'll go dig
out the titles/authors for ya.
Quester
for those who chowed down for years on the watchtower's "spiritual food" (who was that talking about schit on a schingle in an earlier post?
) and thought you were getting christianity, and have now left the table of jehovah-of-the-watchtower... .
and purged what you consumed.... and still haven't given up on christianity - (hey, jesus did warn of counterfeits).
I am relatively new to the writings of C.S. Lewis.
He has some very good information on the
Bible as myth and what that means.
Here's a really good website with tons of info on his writings.
Quester
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Into The Wardrobe
A website devoted to C. S. Lewis
for me that is a hard question to answer.
it seems like when your in the borg it is always pounded in your head that you need to do more so they made you think you were never doing enough.. the last five years that i was in it i guess you could say i was pretty gung-ho, i regulare pionered for almost three years as well as served as a ms, i used my home for book study as well as saturday field service.. but you know what all that does not amount to a hill of beans, you know why?
because the whole time i was a doubter, i never liked it from the time i was a kid.
bboyneko, That was hilarious!
I was super duper jw, lived, ate,
breathed, slept, watchtower everything.
I eventually got burned out, fell
flat on my face, and well, here I am
Quester
last night, i found myself wondering aloud about something i never thought i would consider: purchasing a gun.
previously, i had very strong anti-gun sentiments.
i felt, and still do to some extent, that freely available guns in this country are an immediate threat to children and add to the violent perception others have of americans.
I didn't see anyone mention taking a
self-defense class. That is something
I'd like to do. Who carries a gun
around with them 24 hours a day?
But if a person gets training on how to defend
yourself anytime, anywhere, in any situation,
I think this would empower a person and they
would feel less fear if in a high crime area.
Quester
what if you as an unaffiliated christian went to a pastor, elder, or apostle of a church and after his service you went up to him and said, im one of those unaffiliated christians.. what would his reaction be?.
would he look very startled?.
would he even view us as a real christian?.
D wiltshire,
I have been checking out the different religions
in my area. What I did was go to
* http://www.religioustolerance.org
and get a list of christian religions ranging from
conservative to liberal. I'm checking out the
liberal ones. I want to stay away from the
extreme fundamentalist high control religions.
So far all have been very welcoming and no pressure
to join or anything. I don't think I will ever become
a member of a religion. But I do want the spiritual
association.
I also check out the websites of the different religions.
Some of the more liberal religions are:
Presbyterian
Methodist
United Church of Christ (not to be confused with other
churches with similar name).
* http://www.ucc.org
Quester
just a bit of fun.. open microsoft word and select a new document then 'cut & paste' or copy the red text into it.. press enter and wait 3 seconds... .
you will instantly be elevated to almost godlike status if you can explain this!.
nic'.
Hey, like that colored "fun!" text.
Let's see if I can do that...
FUN!
Quester
some have asked the about the effects of being sexually abused as a child, and how this may compare to those abused victims who manage (or seemingly manage) to lead normal productive lives as adults, or what real effects are there on victims of childhood sexual abuse.
in the following, i will briefly address some of the common questions.
following this i am providing a more detailed discussion which cites source references:.
Gee, those questions look awfully familiar.
Haven't read my email yet.
Reply coming later.
Quester
as soeone raised in the truth my whole life i am struggling with a basic doctrinal issue.
the issue has to do with universal sovreignty and the ransom sacrifice.
let me try to illustrate by way of analogy:.
Wow! Great thread.
The ransom is something I've been struggling with
for a long time. Getting his son tortured to death
was God's plan for saving us?! And I'm supposed to
feel good about that? That is suppose to show God's
love for us? Doesn't make any sense to me.
Mulan, you brought up some very good questions.
I am saving all the posts to read offline.
Here are some clues about the ransom doctrine
that I am currently researching.
1. Adam and Eve as myth--by "myth" I mean not literal.
2. There are several different atonement theories, not just
the one we all know about.
3. Jesus as sacrifice is a metaphor, not literal.
Just like "Jesus is the lamb." We all know that is not literal,
but is symbolic. Jesus is not literally a sheep. So what
could it mean that Jesus is a sacrifice? What did Jesus
accomplish?
Also, I recommend the book:
"Meeting Jesus Again For The First Time",
by Marcus Borg.
Quester
hi gang,.
those who claim that morality is subjective have painted themselves into a corner.
how about this, kent, big jim, seeker, a.f., j.h., troglodyte trilobyte, hippo the dippo, lisa baby, mulan, ldh, boynenko, et al?.
LisaBObeesa wrote:
"My question is this: Why do we all agree that
to kill someone is wrong? Or more to the point:
Why do we all agree that causing harm to another
is wrong? Doesn't just that agreement alone point
to some universal law outside ourselves that we
all try to follow?"
Good point.
C. S. Lewis develops this thought at length
in his book, "Mere Christianity." He has
some very good reasoning points for the
existence of God.
Quester
david and nancy both carry a recessive gene for a disorder called zellweger syndrome, a disease for which there is no cure.
against 1 in 100,000 odds, they had a child who was born with the syndrome.
they named her hope, who struggled with life for 199 days.
Maybe the question to answer is not
WHY did this happen?
We can drive ourselves crazy with that one.
But
How will I respond?
Sometimes we need to learn how to live
in the questions.
Quester
