Fata Morgana. Just enjoy the effects and don't worry about the causation. (IMHO)
gitasatsangha
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Centering Prayer
by Introspection init is a christian contemplative practice, i guess it's taught by a father thomas keating.
in the blurb i read it mentions that phrase "clouds of unknowing" which was first used by an anonymous christian mystic, i always thought that's a good way of putting it.
anyways i'm interested to know what it involves.
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How many DFed go back?
by els inmy son just got a letter from my mother saying how glad she is that he didn't stay in the army.
i told them a month ago that he didn't go to iraq cause he's still in school.
i don't know how to do a link but i posted "phone call from my sister" on april 3rd.
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gitasatsangha
Counting all classes of X-JWs (Submarines <they pop up at memorials>, Faders, Inactive Ones, DA's, DF's, Publishers who just stopped coming, True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses, children who went but never got baptized) I would not be suprised if there might be almost as many X's as there are JWs. Certainly the X-JW community is the most vocal. There are x-Bahai, X-Mormon and other x-whatevers, but it seems like X-JWs make more noise and put more pressure on the group they left.
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Stinkypantz, Capone, SheilaM, Thunder-rider.....Tornadoes!!!!
by Robdar inyesterday in kansas city, we experienced the largest outbreak of tornadoes in over 20 years.
i am concerned about other members of this forum in the kansas and missouri areas.
did the twisters cause you any damage or heartache?
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gitasatsangha
We had a tornado touchdown at about 1230am abot 15 miles east of our home. It was touch and go for about an hour. I'll be glad when this storm system goes away. The streets are getting flooded.
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Centering Prayer
by Introspection init is a christian contemplative practice, i guess it's taught by a father thomas keating.
in the blurb i read it mentions that phrase "clouds of unknowing" which was first used by an anonymous christian mystic, i always thought that's a good way of putting it.
anyways i'm interested to know what it involves.
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gitasatsangha
Its good these are becoming better known. The Church did a big disservice in the middleages (dark ages?) of making its meditational methods more for the clerics and less for the laity. Other groups like Hermetics, that also had meditational methods, had to keep them quiet in light of the fact that a good many people became human torches for unorthodoxy.
When eastern meditational methods became available to the west, the big spiritual shift east occured, and I think in large part this happened because of the fact that meditational education was not given out by the Church at large. Nowadays, there are methods being offered in an attempt to make up for lost time (with some Jesuits even being trained in zazen at Zen monastaries, for instance), but I have to wonder if its too little too late. Any meditational instruction is good though, as long as its not some corruption of the idea (like the Watchtower's horrid attempt to turn meditation into more Watchtower and Asleep! Study time.)
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How many DFed go back?
by els inmy son just got a letter from my mother saying how glad she is that he didn't stay in the army.
i told them a month ago that he didn't go to iraq cause he's still in school.
i don't know how to do a link but i posted "phone call from my sister" on april 3rd.
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gitasatsangha
Onacruse, that figure has to be taken into historical context, because 1975 was coming up like a jail on wheels to the faithful. A lot of DF'd people might have been scared into reinstatement.
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Epilsepy may B sign of demon possession
by badboy in.
so says the latest awake or was it wt.. mentioning the case of the demon possessed boy in matthew ????.
hearing voices isn't neccessary demon possession!
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gitasatsangha
If any JWs who have epilepsy remain in the organization after this, or if they have children who have this condition and remain, then they are self-hating cowards.
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What Do The Americans, Canadians And Australians Think Of The British?
by Englishman intell us, please, we wanna know!.
also can you get your head around the the british isles, the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and just plain ole england?.
(with apologies to minimus).
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gitasatsangha
As an American I kind of think of all English people as Andy Partidge-esqe, Candians as Cold Filtered Americans, and Austrailians as New Zealanders with attitudes.
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Christians force Wal-mart to ban British 'lad mags'
by ignored_one inhttp://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=403863
eugh.
i hate the idea of someone decided what i can and can't read.
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gitasatsangha
Publically traded companies have a responsibility towards free society. WalMart has long had a Christian agenda. It's very obvious. The best thing, of course, would be to fight back and shop at a locally owned, but that is easier to talk about then to do. I shop the place, so I really can't complain as much as I'd like to.
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Famous Last Words
by Blueblades insooner or later it happens to all of us.the time comes for us to draw our last breath and pass from this life into the next.over the years history has recorded some fascinating "famous last words"...here are a few.. "i've never felt better".douglas fairbanks,sr.,actor.. "iam about to----or i am going to-----die;either expression is correct".dominique bouhours,french grammarian.. "don't let it end like this.tell them i said something.
"pancho villa,mexican revolutionary.. "all my possessions for a moment of time!
"elizabeth 1,queen of england.. "everybody has got to die,but i have always believed an exception would be made in my case.now what?
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gitasatsangha
my last words will be "Listen.. carefully.. I buried .. the gold.. in.... aerhhgggg"
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How can 144,000 be a literal number?
by Pleasuredome inhow does the wts explain that the sum total of symbolic numbers equals a literal number?
rev 7:4-8
logic says that if the sum parts are symbolic, then the total can only be symbolic.
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gitasatsangha
I thought the sang "A Day in the life" by the Beatles.