you'd be telling that to yourself, without knowing. you might even hurt your feelings.
gitasatsangha
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Do you think God would mind if you called him an @sshole??
by frankiespeakin innow i don't know if there is a "god",,but if there was one,, would he get mad like the jehovah in the bible if you slighted him in some way??.
i know many people are afraid to call down evil on jehovah or jesus,,they feel god might hurt them in some way if they take up his name in a less than respectful way.
i personal would not be inclind to view "god" to be like that at all.. if this god made everything in existance he must have intelligence that is vastly greater than ours,,he certainly wouldn't have the same emotions as us,,like fear,,anxiety,etc...they would only get in the way of good clear judgements,,and screw thing up for him just like they do to us sometimes.. to think that this 'god" would get angry at us for blaming him for something and calling him names is rediculous,,example: would you get mad at an earthworm because it didn't like you,,or because he swore at you when you stepped on his nieghborhood ant hill??
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Signs of an Awakening Kandalini!!
by frankiespeakin inpaste and clip:.
http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/ksigns.html.
signs and symptoms of awakening.
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gitasatsangha
LT:
How far do you trust "what you want", though?
Good question, and there is one of the biggest dangers, as you will possibly agree, in a spiritual journey. What do we want? Enlightenment, a Morgan Plus 8, our hair back.. I have found the question, while not exactly answered, to be at least put in a forward spin so to speak, by a Rosicrucian (Mystic Christian) teaching tradition, that basically has you realize the bigger goals are there, but that they can be broken down. Ergo:
I want enlightenment.
Well, who don't. Try getting it in the next week or so, and only that, and just about anyone can become fazed and upset. I would, anyway, and have. But breaking it down into what we know we want, by constant self analysis, be it through contemplative prayer, vipassana, tarot meditations, jogging what have you, helps.
"In time a weariness develops for the work" -Alestair Crowley.
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Just a thought
by dorothy inhey, i just got an idea from a joke of pinned blouse.... what do the dubbies think they're doing when they pass around the bread and wine?
jesus said to eat and drink of it but they pass it around and intentionally don't eat or drink, like an outright act of defiance or something.
hmmm....
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gitasatsangha
Rejection of the sacrament is basically what it is. It's hard to define someone as a Christian who willfully denies both the divine nature of Jesus AND does not take part in the "body" and "blood". I am saying this as someone who is not a christian, but looking from the outside in. There has to be some way to define a person of religion. With that in mind, I don't think you can call JW's Christian at all. If anything they are antichristian, and have a belief system that seems to have more in common with the Dualistic spiritual struggles of Zoroastrianism, with a bit of doomsday cult gingerbread tacked on.
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What Was Your Opinion Of Ronald Reagan???
by minimus indid you love him, hate him or not care one way or another because at the time you were "neutral"?
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gitasatsangha
I was just a kid then, but it seemed like those were happier days, even with the cold war. I guess in the light of history, you can see Reagan as the man who spearheaded the end of the coldwar by making the Russians try to compete in SDI and other endeavours they simply could not afford. A dangerous game, but he won a world war, essentially without firing a shot. That makes Reagan one of the best presidents in history, to my thinking.
He pandered to the religious right a bit, but not much, and certainly not wholesale like the current horror we have in office. Flawed or not, Reagan probably was the right man at the right time, for America.
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Signs of an Awakening Kandalini!!
by frankiespeakin inpaste and clip:.
http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/ksigns.html.
signs and symptoms of awakening.
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gitasatsangha
markfromcali:
I could not agree more. Phenomenon vs. pneumenon I suppose. Samadhi Vs. Sati. I have been reluctant to try chakra meditation (did it once, with an instuctor) do to the possibility of getting caught up in side effects. The old maxim "know thyself" comes into play, I guess. You have to know what you want out of whatever you are doing.
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DF'd, what do I say????
by Pinned Blouse inwhen i wrongly df'd 5 years ago i never went back, there are jw's at my job and i sometimes see jw's on the street.
if they smile at me i smile back since they do not know.. question - what am i officially to tell those that innocently say hi to me?
(i would never tell them that i was df'd because i think it is wrong) but i an curious since it has been so long.. .
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gitasatsangha
Pinned,
A bit of a late responce from me, but this is how I take it. I'm DA'd from the society not from it's members, therefore I'm not going to be prejudicial against any of them. My "status" within the watchtower society means nothing outside of that organization, and obviously I don't want back inside the organization.
But the elder's and others do such a good job of socializing us into this idea of disfellowshipped persons as being "Spiritually contagious" that the mind wants to compell us to feel as if we have to somehow alert the poor dubs for their own well being. It's really quite the opposite. I'd rather be seen as a person then a "disfellowshipped person" or a "spiritual brother". Old mental pathways break hard against the waves of change.
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Who is the most famous person you know or have met?
by confusedjw in.
just wondering what experiences you good folks have had with the the famous (or infamous)?
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gitasatsangha
I've met some famous people from various backgrounds, and been friends to a couple, but I don't like talking about celebrities because this kind of celebrity "E: channel" adulation disgusts me.
But I will say, just because he was a true friend growing up, that I did go to school with a director you will probably hear more from in the coming years. Brian Avenet-Bradley and I went to the same small rural high school. He just got a lot of acclaim for his recent film, "Ghost in the Needle". Growing up, he was the only person I knew that seemed transparent to all the little barriers which children and teenagers throw up around themselves in a sad sort of caste system. Brian was beyond that, and he was truly talented. As an semi-pro filmmaker in high school, he was as comfortable on stage, (but not in his desk.. he fidgetted too damn much), as he was in front of his old videocamera.
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gitasatsangha
I have given up any concrete idea of "Truth" from an absolute vantage point. We live by the subjective senses and this is to some degree the ox the pulls our wagon of thought. That said, yes I think some things are true, and in concrete matters its much easier to find one's way. Then we get to religion or philosophy or whatever one wants to call it. . With that it is becoming increasingly hard for me to accept any wild claims outright without some proof. Be it, some sort of explanation that makes sense to me, or just good old experiential knowledge. I know, to a reasonable degree, that when driving a car, when I press the brake pedal, the car will evenutally come to a stop.
If a preacher just came and told me I could also stop the car in a safer manner simply by reciting some "Car Stop mantra" I would be wary, without seeing it demonstrated.
So I can say, I am neither here nor there on whether there is a creator god. Don't know, and frankly the answer, while it holds a certain academic curiosity for me, wouldn't change my life much one way or the other. Most forms of Abrahamic religion depends on some form of monotheistic god. Can't call it the truth, if I can't believe it, but it might work for many. It might be true to their experiences. I don't know much.
As some know, I am a Buddhist. Everyone's got a journey. That, and suffering, are some of the only things you KNOW you get. Kindof like death and taxes.
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Blacks can't speak English - Bill Cosby
by closer2fine insorry if this was already posted, i did a search & didn't see it.. .
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=38565.
minority report.
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gitasatsangha
This is basically off topic, but when have I ever been on topic (or had posts replied to for that matter). I could listen to a woman say ANYTHING, even recite grocery lists and the Federal Tax Code, in English with a French accent for days.
I apologize if this is offensive. :)
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Blacks can't speak English - Bill Cosby
by closer2fine insorry if this was already posted, i did a search & didn't see it.. .
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=38565.
minority report.
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gitasatsangha
It's too bad we can't all just speak esperanto.
Estas tre malbona ni ne paroladas la esperanton.