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| Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | |
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| _10:20 pm_[thelucyfurr] |
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| Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | |
| _10:14 pm_[violetmonk] |
so everyone who reports this including the nationalgeographic society is not merely heretic but also just flat out stupid (which is odd because they are really good atbeing stupid, really good). they are saying things which are entirely the opposite of reality. i leave it to you [the 1 or 2 people who read this] to go and look for yourself and see what i am talking about [it's almost worth actuallylooking at]. basically, it's like this, the text which was discovered hasJesus laughing at his traitor and indicating the paradox of treachery,which is simply that if you know that youare being betrayed, especially by someone you have loved, then there is a certain amusing quality to Knowing Their Victory is Not Going to Last Ultimately, but will stillbe fairly damaging in the near-term. This is like saying, oh, hey wife and girlfriend, cut off my arm while I'm sleeping and I'm still amused and telling you howgood a job you did of providing me with my ultimate victory, which you think is either crazy-talk or me indicating that i'm happy you have actually totally fucked me.well, i'm not happy you totally fucked me by cutting of my fucking arm, and 10 years from now i'mgoing to kill you and your children and everything, OR BETTER YET, see that everything which has ever proceeded from your existence and plans ceases tobe. Well, in this case, Jesus was pointing out to his little traitor that thetraitor was going to bethe foreground of aeons to come where competition and treachery would be rewarded, butthat such time periods would be swallowed up sort of all by themselves and cease forever to be, etc, etc. Well, the crazy people who are trying to get more people to readnational geographic have made all these claims on the news andother media that this sort of Deep Understanding of Tactics and The Future and Possibilities and Potentials [metaphysics] was some sort of affirmative congratulations meant to say that the traitor-enemy-fuckface was actually an ALLY which IS NOT TRUE. |
| Friday, January 21st, 2005 | |
| _7:11 pm_[graytooth] |
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| Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 | |
| _12:10 pm_[graytooth] |
hi! i've decided to start a new ACIM discussion group from google/usenet.this one will be moderated.the discussions will be limited only to ACIM related topics.Trolls will be expelled.managers and members needed.anyone interested?email me at clark_kent_712000@yahoo.comonce again email me at clark_kent_712000@yahoo.comgraytooth |
| Wednesday, January 5th, 2005 | |
| _3:08 pm_[soul_inside] |
Dharma Sholom/salam/hare Krishna/namasdai/salutations which ever you would prefer: Figured I would peep my head in and introduce myself. I am 'merely theistic' although I have my leanings. Looking forward to some good dialectic discussions. This email I wrote to my friend sort of explains where I am at theistically. ( Letter to Arie regarding IslamCollapse ) Where are you theistically? What theologies or philosophies are you most interested in learning more about?  Dancing to a mysterious tune |
| Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 | |
| _5:07 pm_[zheza] |
The Faithful Heart's Crusade Good day- from one person who believes in something Greater than herself, to all the others:I need people who believe, with all their hearts, in the existence of something greater than the "scienfitic view of reality", as the materialistic, scientific establishment has described it to mankind.I need people who believe this, and who have the will and the learning to back it up.I need those people to join this community:http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=faith_vs_reasonIf you have just a little extra time per week to participate, I would be very grateful.Thank you very much. Find peace.RKZCurrent Mood:  contemplative |
| Thursday, December 9th, 2004 | |
| _4:28 pm_[virgohippy] |
X-posted in my journal i sense power around me. wind is a force i cannot command, nor imitate. i cannot create the many lights in the sky, though i may take in, or describe, their brilliance. even the water that flows through the pipes in my home is something foreign to me. i am different from all these things - a nothingness that somehow finds shapes, and uses, in them to suit my purposes. yet in doing so i am a force rivaled by all. each acts independent, and seperate, influencing one another. i am the common connection. through my eyes i see relations and differences; i know how one affects and is affected by the other. i take wood and subject it to fire and create air, ash, and heat. i plant seed, insure it's supply of water, light, and earth and i am responsible for life. and yet, though i am responsible for heat and life neither is a force i created. i am merely the bringing together and shaping of other forces. the only form of creation at my disposal is to give away what connections i know, to pass on my influence, or lack of such. the power of my energies lie in what i can transfer from self to another - the knowledge of fire and wood, seed and water. i am neither the wood nor the fire, the seed nor the water. i am not the freedom, i am not what nurtures, i am not the insight, i am not the home. i am the collection of all things. i am the awareness that seeks to understand what is, because i am seperate. i am the inherited conciousness that comes to know these other forces; and so i sense the need to learn how to communicate with other forms of awareness.in silence i take in wisdom. through whispers i hope to share it. |
| Friday, December 3rd, 2004 | |
| _1:22 am_[quirkyblogger] |
Introduction Hi there. I s'pose since I joined this community, I should introduce myself. I'm Steph, and I'm currently...undefined. I'm seeking, I guess. |
| Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 | |
| _8:50 pm_[nonentityb] |
i have a question that is specifically for those who have a strong faith in the Divine:how would you respond to the idea that spirituality is a symptom of mental illness (one that, apparently, the majority of people in the world have in some degree), and that spiritual experiences are basically just dillusions or psychotic episodes?please don't misconstrue...i'm a religious person myself, so i definitely don't mean this as an attack or challenge to anyone's beliefs. i just want to hear some other people's thoughts on this subject.(cross-posted) |
| Monday, November 29th, 2004 | |
| _4:27 pm_[lil_jeof] |
intro hi there. i wasn't raised with any religion; my dad was raised presbyterian and i think he became quite disgruntled. spirituality for me has been inventing a religion with my friends in middle school; feeling a strange comforting presence after the worst trauma in my life; and now exploring spirituality as it is defined by the Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book." (very similar to what this group is about - finding a "god" of your own conception to heal you and help you grow spiritually)The writings of CS Lewis are also very helpful. He uses a lot of religious symbolism in his books, both fiction and nonfiction. He has a great respect for Christianity (like me) but in it's original, untarnished form (NOT televangelism, etc). ^_^ I'm currently reading Mere Christianity (nonfic), which was recommended to me by my psychology professor. It's very good. Also I'm reading Out of the Silent Planet. A lot of moral/spiritual issues are addressed in this (fiction) story as well. Fun stuff. |
| Thursday, October 7th, 2004 | |
| _1:08 am_[kittydribble] |
Im new and to say hello.... I will let you know a brief outline of my beliefs and thoughts...im from the uk, and my parents are catholics, i was sent to a catholic primary school, i had to take communion etc...etc... I remember laughing during mass, thinking how mad all this was...i was being taught by nuns and "normal" people, yet it would be the nuns who caned me for doing wrong...At the age of 11 i was sent to an all boys catholic school, i was taught by nuns...and brothers...i began to get a sense of identity...i rebelled...i got expelled...religion took a back seat till i was 18, at 18 i went into rehab for the first time, one of the steps of the program referred to an "higher power" i was ill and unwilling to change, yet saw some glimmer of truth in the higher-power stuff....after more spells in rehabs...police cells...prison...i finally ended up in a bed in a rehab at 27 broken and torn...a drug addled zombie, I knew deep down that i had to make this program work for me...it was widely spoken about me and my life that this was going to be my last chance, i spent 9 months in there, i woke up one morning to find a good friend i had made dead, he had hung himself....i looked at his body hanging there...he was the same as he was the night before...only it seemed someone or something had taken the batteries out, i began to look at life in a different way, combined with the program i understood that my recovery...and ultimatly my life and quality of it would depend on me getting to grips with sprituality...and finding what would work for me...and only me...I cannot sign up to just the one religion, i take bits of what suits me from various sources, i have created my own personal belief system, it works...i havent been let down by it, for me i strive to live each day like its my last, and i embrace death...it will happen one day...thats 100% for sure, so i have no fear....for me its important that i have left my mark on the human race, my experence shows me my future...yet i dont have to be rigid....flexabilty, adaptation, improvisation, internal tools that i had overlooked in days gone by are used by me to make the lifes of me and those connected with me a better and more productive place...i think this is a good community...and i have got a glow from finding it!!! So good luck all and keep it up x |
| Saturday, August 14th, 2004 | |
| _9:33 pm_[artsclub] |
Personal Revelations we've all had them..those moments that come upon us, or that we call to our experience..personal revelation, where we are conscious of our communion with the divine. these moments make me both grateful and humbled..aware of both how far i come, and mindful of how much farther i need to go on my road to self-enlightenment. i was 16, the first time i was truly conscious of the presence of an active force. prior to that, i prayed every day with my family, went to service, and went to a religious school. i had faith, but it was learned, rather than experienced. the god i grew up with had a man's face, and was as distant as the stories my grandmother would tell me as a child.i'd spent the day painting the outside of my house. it was summer, hot, and i was suffering from both dehydration and plain exhaustion. it was just after dusk when we called it quits for the day. mum asked me to do one last errand, to take the trash into the lane. i was dizzy from the paint fumes. i remember lugging that plastic bag the hundred paces, heaving it into an aluminum can, and trudging back towards the house. halfway across my lawn, i flopped onto my back and lay there, spread-eagled, staring at the sky. i'm from a prairie town, where the only things in nature separating earth and sky, are trees and people. we had a tornado warning that night, a rare thing in our parts, and as i gazed before me, clouds rushed by, covering the distance of my sight, while the periphery of my vision showed trees thrashing back and forth with the wind.lying there, the clouds seemed to race towards me and away. i almost believed they were going to lift me up, throw me around, crush me into tiny pieces and scatter me into the wind. i was terrified and exhilarated. i felt so insignificant, but somehow connected. i knew that wind. i knew those clouds. they were a force that i was part of, but never understood. it was in that moment that i knew what it was to feel awe.. it did help to bring out the pantheist within..but, while i do not deny the connectivity of all things of this universe, i believe this connection stems from a higher source, a potential, an idea, a dream. who is it answering my questions in my sleep? what is my subconscious? and if i believe what i do believe, that i will one day be self-aware, then moments of personal revelation are, for me, communion..not only with the divine, but with myself..both as i am, and as i will be. Current Mood: good |
| Friday, August 13th, 2004 | |
| _10:56 am_[virgohippy] |
karma and reincarnation two terms that imply a measure of self-directed control over the spiritual journey of an idividual. i've often pondered if the physical universe we choose to live in isn't really just a place to learn. assuming there is a form of life beyond our fleshly holdings, there must be a reason we're here. perhaps we're here to absorb; a being that can only be described in terms of energy would surely not have any direct understanding of what it is to be a beind described in terms of matter. if that is the case, perhaps our purpose in life is to experience. but this rationale implies that we originate as spiritual beings and decide to inhabit fleshly bodies. perhaps it's the other way around. maybe we came from matter, and are on a journey towards energy.here's where i put the puzzle pieces together: whether matter or energy, either form of being would desire to be the other. life (or lives) isn't the transcendence of one form into another. it's learning to blend the two. for that reason i cannot deny my spiritual self in my daily life because seperating the two puts me into a position to forget the principles of "Balance and Evolution". (quoted from you artsclub *wink*) |
| Wednesday, August 11th, 2004 | |
| _2:26 pm_[virgohippy] |
here's one of my personal entries written recently. it was written in anger, but i share it hoping it might inspire conversation. i don't mean to establish my beliefs as true. thoughts and criticisms are more than welcome:i can't tell if im losing my "youthful nievity" or if the world around me is just growing darker and more sinister. i can't help but see malicious intent and motivating factors - pain creating pain; but so very few recognize it, and are willing to come away from that turmoil. i suppose denial must be an effective defense mechanism, otherwise it wouldn't be used so much. i just want to see love in the world. i like to think i create more love than pain... but i'm sure most people only see the love they create. am i like most of these other people i see? am i an ignorant hate monger bent on denying the destruction i cause on my path through life, only creating more because i refuse to recognize? things just shouldn't be this way... we can have paradise... it's always been available to us. we've got everything we need; it's what makes us the spiritual beings we are. what is everyone waiting for? why do so few accept their role? i believe no massiah is going to come and fix everything for us. we are the demons... we are the angels... we are the gods that determine how we shape the world around us.sometimes i feel as though i'm one of the only few awake in this place... drifting through everyone elses dreamland. can ripples on the surface change what lies beneath? a god who deny's his/her own powers is no god. a man who calls himself only a man will be nothing more than a man.are you a god? or are you just human? |
| _2:17 pm_[virgohippy] |
introductions and salutations hi all,i was raised with multiple dogma's and faiths; bounced around from more than a few environments. i have no faith in organized religions, nor do i believe that any one religion has all the answers. i do believe in a higher power, but not one seperate from our spiritual selves. for me, the spiritual journey is the most important; questions of faith yeild greater answers than answers without questions.i'm young, i'm naieve, i'm inexperienced, but i've learned truth comes from within. i'm happy to be a member of this community and i hope to find more questions.love,a virgohippy |
| _6:42 pm_[artsclub] |
introductions.. my beliefs were based on a strict upbringing and a rigid routine of prayers, service, and (what i call) blind faith. i went to a religious school, read our sacred texts as bedtime stories, and prayed with my family every night. somewhere along the way (puberty), i started questioning things i'd always held as sacrosanct. certain beliefs, things given as dogma, did not, and COULD not make sense to me. given the chance to question my authorities, i received no satisfactory replies. over the years, i've developed my own relationship with this higher power, trying to find my version of the truth in centuries of searching. ultimately, i've learned that listening to my heart is good. and that love (real love) is all you need.happy to meet you!a |
| Thursday, July 22nd, 2004 | |
| _8:05 pm_[discoveringjewl] |
From Robert Anton Wilson http://www.rawilson.com/trigger1.shtml:_"Since we all create our habitual reality-tunnels, either consciously and intelligently or unconsciously and mechanically, I prefer to create for each hour the happiest, funniest, and most romantic reality-tunnel consistent with the signals my brain apprehends. I feel sorry for people who persistently organize experience into sad, dreary and hopeless reality tunnels, and try to show them how to break the bad habit, but I don't feel any masochistic duty to share their misery. "_Right on. Current Mood:  Neutral |
| Saturday, July 17th, 2004 | |
| _4:10 am_[discoveringjewl] |
Not bashing just opinionating (is that a word?) Yeah I was just in abstract thought... what is abstract about religion? oh shit, let me get my thoughts here... this dude is sitting there spouting about the end of times... and here we are in them...peace to him, however I get so angry at some people. I believe that we as humans are a part of a large consciousness, when thoughts are presented to the consciousness it travels on the different webs of thought till it feeds sub-consciously to all around it... thus it is easy to fall into a group when many people around you are a part of the same... thus religion. Some people speak of the tingly sensation they get when they hear a particular idea or when they attend church... all of the sudden they start believing the messages being fed to them from the whole group consciousness. They feel it is an original feeling, however it is more of just an echo of an old thought... There are new thoughts out there spinning on the web and I meet those people often I attract them and they attract me, just like books, movies, or even tv programs that just so happen to be about exactly what I have been pondering. When the universe knows there is a desire for knowledge or action... it helps and lends guidance to make this happen...Here is the flaw... there are many people who believe in the end times... could they be creating this reality due to the group consciousness set up since Genisis... Trippy. Current Mood:  crazy |
| Monday, July 5th, 2004 | |
| _3:39 pm_[identiless] |
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| Monday, June 7th, 2004 | |
| _8:37 pm_[liquidcadmus] |
Hello, thought this could be interesting.. |
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