The New Atheists are convinced that good thinking means disbelief in God and that their leaders are models of good reasoning. They're planning a "Reason Rally" for March 24. Richard Dawkins heads up a "Foundation for Reason and Science." Sam Harris is founder and chairman of "Project Reason." The American Atheists define atheism as "the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason..." John Loftus tells us "Faith and Reason are Mutually Exclusive Opposites." In this they are quite mistaken.
They are wrong because their claims to good reasoning do not match the evidence of their performance. Dawkins' book "The God Delusion" is rife with logical fallacies and demonstrably anti-scientific prejudice. Sam Harris devoted most of a recent debate to avoiding logic, advancing an argument based on emotional appeals instead. John Loftus says that his "Outsider Test for Faith" shows that belief is irrational, when his test actually demonstrates the opposite.
They are also wrong because Christianity is built on a foundation of evidence and thought. The Bible is a record of what God has done. It tells us through and through to see what he has done, and to trust him based on what we know to be true of him. Jesus requires his followers to love God with all of their minds. The Apostle Paul reasoned in the synagogues and with the Greek philosophers. Down through history, many of the world's greatest thinkers have been Christians. It's still true today.
And they are mistaken in not seeing how Christianity leads people to treat each other reasonably. Sure, there have been exceptions, but on the whole Christianity has been the world's greatest force for freedom, peace, human rights, and of course the highest good of all: knowledge of God.
This is not the party line. Even Christians may not know this is true. If any of this seems surprising to you, then it's time for you to discover "True Reason".
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The early Christians had various theories about Jesus.
Jesus did not become 'officially' divine until 325 AD.
This was when the Council of Nicaea, set up by the Roman emperor Constantine, decided that Jesus, like many Roman Emperors, was divine.
Most scholars agree that Jesus did actually exist.
"Amy-Jill Levine states that... 'there is a consensus of sorts on the basic outline of Jesus' life' in that most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, debated Jewish authorities on the subject of God, performed some healings, gathered followers...."[68]
Christ myth theory - Wikipedia
In The Historical Jesus; Five Views, Robert Price suggests that the story of Jesus in the Gospels contains borrowings from pagan mythology.
In the same book, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson lists all the things historians can know with 'a very high degree of probability' about Jesus - Jesus taught in parables, Jesus healed people, Jesus taught about God's Kingdom.
The Recliner Commentaries: Five views of the historical Jesus
"Osiris's resurrection is celebrated on the third day"
Does the story of Jesus show STRONG parallels to myths of dying and rising gods?
Apparently not.
"Early in the 20th century, Gerald Massey argued that there are similarities between the Egyptian dying-and-rising god myths and Jesus.[22]
"Massey stated that the biblical references to Herod the Great were based on the myth of 'Herrut' the evil hydra serpent."
However, the existence of Herod the Great "can be well established without reliance on Christian sources."[23]
In other words, Herod was not Herrut.
"The overall scholarly consensus is that while the examples provided often involve death of the deity, they do not generally involve resurrection of the same deity.
"Eddy and Boyd state that upon careful analysis, it turns out that there is often either no death, no resurrection or no god in the examples used to construct each of the examples in the category.[17]
"Jonathan Z. Smith, a scholar of comparative religions, writes the category is 'largely a misnomer based on imaginative reconstructions and exceedingly late or highly ambiguous texts.'[37]
"Mithraism"
Is Christianity similar to the Roman religion Mithraism?
Early Christian authors "took an extremely negative view of Mithraism" and saw their practices "as evil copies of Christian practices."[209]
Stanley porter notes that "Mithraism only reached Asia minor in the latter part of the first century, after the basic elements of the gospels were in place, and hence could not have influenced the essential elements of the gospels."[211]
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David Strauss (1808-1874), a German theologian, believed that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and that the encounter had influenced the views of Jesus.
However, Strauss believed that "the additional elements of the sky opening, the dove descending on Jesus as the Holy Spirit, etc. were subsequent miraculous embellishments by the authors of the gospels intended to emphasize the importance of a key event in the life of Jesus."[220] [225]
Strauss believed that the divine spirit was embedded in all of humanity.
In 1890, Sir James George Frazer published the first edition of The Golden Bough which showed "the shared elements of religious belief."
Frazer himself believed that Jesus existed.[235]
William Benjamin Smith (1850-1934) argued for a symbolic interpretation of the stories about Jesus.
Smith argues that in the parable of the Jesus and the rich young man there never was a young man, and the young man symbolizes the nation of Israel.[254]
DYING AND RISING GODS
WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT JESUS WAS (A) AN OPPONENT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, OR (B) A TOOL OF THE ESTABLISMENT?
1. Jesus shared meals with outcasts, which annoyed the Pharisees, strong supporters of the laws and traditions of the Jewish people.
Jesus said: "Be on your guard against the Doctors of the Law, who like to walk about in robes and be saluted in the streets... who devour the livelihood of widows..."
2. Jesus talked of 'good people' being his 'brothers' and 'sisters'.
3. Jesus urged people to 'renounce self'.
Jesus said: "If anyone wishes to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."
Jesus said: "Why do you call me good? No one but God is good."
4. Jesus said: "How difficult it is for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God."
What about QUANTUM PHYSICS, JESUS AND INTUITION?
"Free will allows us to choose to continue to influence reality with our memories (Ego)
OR WE CAN CHOOSE TO ACCEPT OUR IDENTITY AS PROJECTIONS OF THE FATHER AND CONSCIOUSLY CO-CREATE WITH THE FATHER...
"Quantum physics has proven that the belief of the observer is translated in the test tube.
"Each energy packet can become particle or remain as energy depending on the expectation of the observer.
"This is known as the observer effect.
"Positive Thinking is Merely Scratching the Surface of Truth: We must be attentive to intuition
"As the Quantum physicist has discovered, our beliefs come true.
"This is the key to the kingdom which we forgot shortly after birth.
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"Our parents probably forgot that we are connected, just as they are connected to the One.
"In this same way, Herod of Judea forgot that he and Jesus were both born of the Creator/Father/One.
"Herod attempted to kill Jesus by ordering all the newborn children of Bethlehem to be slain.
"But, since Joseph was attentive to his intuition, (for intuitive training go to Andrea Hess...) he was warned by the One/Creator/Father to flee to Egypt.
"Jesus was safe during His childhood. They only returned to Israel after they were told of the death of Herod.
"When Jesus was grown, he fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before beginning His ministry... a month of fasting will cause an altered state of reality.
"When Jesus was tempted by His Ego to turn the stones into bread, He reminded the tempter that 'man does not live by bread alone.' Thus He determined to finish his vision quest...
"Jesus told the Ego to get behind Him because it is only the One/Source/Creator who would be served.
"To accept our identity as co-Creators with the One, we must put our finite Egos behind us.
"Our Subconscious mind is connected to our Higher Mind and to the Creator/One/Source.
"The Ego is only connected to our conscious minds and helps keep us involved in this physical world.
"But, at the same time, we must learn to influence our Subconscious Minds in order to create our reality..."
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From the excellent blog The Wild Hunt, this update on Bertram Dahl's situation in Beebe. Dahl is a high priest in his pagan church and applied for zoning permits to have a church and store on his property. As the article points out, surrounding properties have churches. Thing is, they're all Christian churches. Soon as the mayor and local bureaucrats realized Dahl is a pagan, they are willfully breaking laws in their attempts to stop Dahl from opening his church and his store. Furthermore, he is being harassed by one of the churches across the street from him. I'm surprised the ACLU hasn't supported Dahl on this yet.
"Update on Beebe: "That man's God is not my God." The Wild Hunt: More details emerge in the conflict between Mayor Mike Robertson of Beebe, Arkansas and a Pagan church. High Priest Bertram Dahl said the city of Beebe welcomed him, his church, and store to relocate to the town with open arms - until they found out the church wasn't a Christian church. Now the mayor claims Dahl's Seekers Temple and metaphysical store cannot open due to zoning issues. In our interview with the Dahls they say it has nothing to do with zoning and everything to do with religious discrimination."
The Lion's Head is where pilgrims gather sacred spring water to take home and, for that purpose, Chalice Garden sells plastic souvenir bottles. When I went to buy one, the saleslady took note of my foreign accent, deduced that I would be flying home (not driving) and told me that I'd never get my water home in one of "their" bottles. Because of airport security, the bottle would have to go in my checked luggage, and the bottle tops were simply not watertight. The sacred water would all leak out during the flight, she said.
So off I went to the Glastonbury shops, where I found a metal Glogg water bottle with a good, waterproof, screw-on top. On the mystical morning of 09-09-09, I filled it full of sacred water and screwed the top on tight. For good measure, I put it inside a big zip-lock freezer bag along with a couple of the small (empty) Chalice Well plastic bottles. I'm pleased to report that the water made it back to Edmonton safe and sound! Once home, I decanted it from the Glogg bottle into the more decorative souvenir bottles.
At the October meeting of the Women's Drumming and Goddess Chanting Circle, we celebrated the Goddess of Avalon and had a special blessing with the Chalice Well water. Each woman received a tiny half-ounce plastic champagne flute as a Holy Grail stand-in. I poured sacred water into each flute from the Chalice Well bottle. Then we each thought of something in our life that needs healing, whether it be physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or financial. I recited the following blessing --
"Daughters of the Goddess, may you be blessed and healed by this sacred water from Goddess's holy Chalice Well in Avalon. Blessed be!"
Then we all raised our glasses to the Goddess and drank Her sacred water of life.
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On the Categorization of Magic:Almost all magic can be classified into one of two groups. The names givento these groups are varied. Some have called them the Chaotic and Orderedgroups; while this is technically accurate, it is confusing, as most firemagic falls into the group described as "Ordered", while many protectivespells are considered chaotic. Frequently they are referred to as OldMagic and New Magic, reflecting the fact that Old Magics are considerablyharder to create and to learn, and thus must be handed down by generationsof wizards. The terms we shall use are External and Internal magics, todescribe the sources of power used by practitioners of these magics.The distinction between the two types of magics is best shown by example: Example of External Magic: "If I chant the four mystic runes while throwing dried oak leaves into the air in front of me and gesturing with my enchanted athame, then that door will open." Example of Internal magic: "If I use my telekinetic powers to open that lock, then push on the doorknob, then that door will open.""Internal" magics draw power from the user's magic or energy reserves. Theyare controlled directly by the user. They need not be memorized, and nospecial ingredients are required; you just throw the right kind of energyat something, and it works."External" magics, on the other hand, tap into the fundamental chaos thatunderlies reality. Special ingredients, ritual gestures, unpronounceablemagic words, and the like are usually needed to trigger the effects.These spells must usually be memorized from books, cast, and re-memorized.They are much less adaptable than Internal magics; any change in the castingof an External spell results in wildly unpredictable, and often quitedestructive, results. On the other hand, External spells are far moreversatile, as there are a lot of things that Internal magic just can't do.For example, it's very difficult to affect something you can't see viaInternal magic, not because the forces won't coalesce or anything sillylike that, but because the caster will probably miss. Divination spellsare completely impossible with internal magic. Flight is not impossible -that's a fundamental restriction of wizardry, not of internal magic ingeneral - but it's difficult, especially compared to Triolus's EtherealLevitation, a third-level Old Magic spell that accomplishes the sameobjective at a cost of only two hen's teeth and a leaf of nightshade.Furthermore, there are intrinsic restrictions on the power of any Internalmagic user; only so much energy can be stored in any one body, and it canonly be regenerated so fast. Old Mages are restricted only by theavailability of magical spells and components, and by the rate at whichthey can memorize new spells.What is the practical application of all of this? Wizardry, thepredominant magical discipline on the world of Dirt, is a strongly Internaldiscipline. Most of its spells rely on throwing power around, and, assuch, it is extremely popular. However, there are times when one reallyneeds a divination, a long-distance assassination, or a polymorph spell.Providing these resources are the Clerics, the followers of theplaneswalkers, the source of most of the Old Magic on Dirt. A partial ordering of the magical disciplines in Dirt: Warlockry INTERNAL Elementalism Witchcraft Wizardry Artificing Sorcery Illusion Psionics Herbalism Che'tai training Jordanism Necromancy Thaumaturgy Clericry EXTERNAL
(Phil 1, 7-11) That your love may arise ever expert It is real that I want affection this way about all of you, what I fasten you in my extract, you who are all partners with me in smoothness, apiece in my charge and in the acquit and vinyl of the gospel. For God is my watch, how I desire for all of you with the soft spot of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer: that your love may arise ever expert and expert in knowledge and every merciful of appreciation, [10] to identify what is of be grateful for, so that you may be unadulterated and irreproachable for the day of Christ, [11] laden with the fruit of affability that comes through Jesus Christ for the dignity and praise of God. (CCC 2632) Christian want is centered on the neediness and nestle for the Set down to come, in charge with the teaching of Christ (Cf. Mt 6:10, 33; Lk 11:2, 13). Put on is a ranking in these petitions: we pray eminent for the Set down, plus for what is rudimentary to treatment it and meet halfway with its coming. This bolster with the chore of Christ and the Holy Specter, which is now that of the Church, is the disapproval of the prayer of the apostolic community (Cf. Acts 6:6; 13:3). It is the prayer of Paul, the apostle par trait, which reveals to us how the divine selflessness for all the churches require to fill Christian prayer (Cf. Rom 10:1; Eph 1:16-23; Phil 19-11; Col 1:3-6; 4:3-4, 12). By prayer every baptized nature works for the coming of the Set down. (CCC 2633) In the role of we join in in God's economical love, we understand that every be short of can become the disapproval of want. Christ, who said all background in order to redeem all background, is overvalued by what we ask the Surprise in his name (Cf. Jn 14:13). It is with this surprise that St. James and St. Paul impetus us to pray at all grow old (Cf. Jas 1:5-8; Eph 5:20; Phil 4:6-7; Col 3:16-17; 1 Thess 5:17-18).
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Birch Moon: Matters of youth and children; refinement3 parts ginger1 part lemongrasshelp yourself to of dillsplash of lemon draftTo use, put in a tea circumnavigate and flood for 5 or 6 minutes.Ash Moon: Matters of the intellect; magick, healing.2 parts angelica1/2 part sage1/2 part black cohoshhelp yourself to of sageTo use, put in a tea circumnavigate and flood for 5 or 6 minutes.Willow Moon: Matters of the Otherworld; healing, love, water magick,feminine mysteries.2 parts willow clap1 tbsp vanilla pit1/2 part shrunken appleshelp yourself to of sageHawthorn Moon: Silence, doze, thoughts, prosperity, rapture.1 part hawthorn1 part catnip1/2 part rue1/2 part fizzingOak Moon: Craving, potential, energy, prolonged existence, depth, fire magick, malemysteries.1 1/2 parts white oak clap1/2 part superimpose1/2 part yellowish-brown deterioratehelp yourself to of cinnamon/nutmegHolly Moon: Matters of animals; magick, image.1 part kelp1/2 part rose petals1/2 part raspberryhelp yourself to of yarrowHazel Moon: Manifestations, protection, healing, depth.1 part ginseng1/2 part mugworthelp yourself to of tastysplash of any non-citrus draftRambler Moon: Property, sex magick, overcoming difficulties.1 part blackberry1 part dandelionsplash of grape drafthelp yourself to of hibiscusIvy Moon: Restorative, kinship, binding.1 part mullein1/4 part wintermint1/2 part barberryReed Moon: Magnificence, love, protection.1 part red clover1 part hyssop1 part bonesethelp yourself to of slick elmGiant Moon: Exorcism, prosperity, astral travel, opinion faeries.1 part ginko1 part mugwort1 part valerian1 part spearmenthelp yourself to of anise/anise pithelp yourself to of allspice
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I HAVE BEEN A FAN OF ELIZABETH HOYT'S BOOKS AND SPECIFICALLY HER WRITING STYLE FOR A LONG TIME. HER LATEST BOOK SCANDALOUS DESIRES IS THE 3RD BOOK IN THE MAIDEN LANE SERIES AND A PERFECT ADDITION TO THIS COLLECTION. I LOVED THIS STORY ABOUT A BIG, TOUGH, PUT THE FEAR IN EVERYONE PIRATE WHO IS KNOCKED OFF KILTER BY THIS WOMAN. PLUS I LOVE A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO ACCESSORIZE AND THIS SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING PIRATES KNOW HOW TO DO!WHEN I WENT TO HER WEBSITE I FOUND A BEVY OF INFORMATION TO SHARE. ELIZABETH HOYT is the "New York Times", "USA Today", and" Publishers Weekly" bestselling author of historical romance, including reader favorite, "The Raven Prince". Shelives in central Illinois with her family and three dogs. She researches extensively to make her work realistic and historically faithful. Author of 11 novels, all of Elizabeth's books are set in eighteenth-century England-the epoch of King George-so it is customary for her to read books on history, costume, warfare, social mannerisms, and cooking, and to frequent museums to study portraits of the Georgian aristocracy.Elizabeth's books have finaled four times in Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award contest, have won two Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, and were nominated for a third. All of her books have received Top Pick reviews from "Romantic Times BookReviews" magazine. Both "Wicked Intentions" and "Notorious Pleasures" received starred reviews from "Publishers Weekly". Four of her books were voted into All About Romance's (AAR's) Top 100 Romances of All Time list and six were Desert Isle Keepers at AAR. Elizabeth's books have been translated into twelve languages. Elizabeth researches extensively for her historical romances, both by reading books on topics such as: history, costume, warfare, social mannerisms, and cooking, and frequenting museums whenever she can to study portraits and the little dogs that aristocratic Georgian ladies seem to always be holding. When desperate she often consults Mr. Hoyt, who is an archaeologist and Historical Research Wizard."I am proud to announce that GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING" is giving away two copies of this book (REVIEW BELOW). To be eligible to win please leave a COMMENT and what I am asking today is "COULD YOU LOVE A PIRATE - THE ORIGINAL BAD BOYS?" Come back on Sunday - November 20th to see if you have won. Please remember if you do not come back, you won't know if you won because I am going to need your address. As always I wish you HAPPY READING, encourage you to CELEBRATE YOUR LITTLE VICTORIES, and COME BACK to see what book I am reviewing and offering up for a giveaway. Don't forget to cast your positive votes for me on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Your vote matters!"SCANDALOUS DESIRES" by ELIZABETH HOYTBook #3 in the Maiden Lane Series 10/11 - Grand Central Publishing - Mass Market Paperback, 400 pagesCan love ever be considered an excess you do not need?Silence Hollingbrook had made a pact with the devil and she knows she is going to regret it. Now this particular devil happens to be in an exquisite package known as "Charming" Mickey O'Connor, but the devil he most certainly is. Silence needs protection Mickey's daughter, Mary Darling and the only way to secure that is by moving into his palace. Yes, Silence is going to enter the pirate's den of inequity but only to keep the baby safe. She will do anything; even sell her soul to Mickey, again.Mickey has no idea why he feels this pull toward Silence but he must have her and whatever means he must use to secure that including his daughter is on the table. He is a pirate, thief, and marauder who loves the taste of victory and will keep what he values safe from those that want to take it away. The enemy is nipping at Mickey's heels and someone is tipping them off to his every move and especially the areas of personal vulnerability. Mickey has no idea why someone working for him would do this but when discovers who it is misery and pain will rain down upon them. Mickey has known poverty, despair, and complete isolation and nothing will ever take him back to where he came from. The life he has built albeit not legal is fulfilling and what he does not own, well he can just steal from someone else.Silence has way of winning over Mickey's staff, controlling everyone's behavior including his dog. The more time she spends in Mickey's house, the more dangerous he becomes to her as Silence is finding it hard to resist the descent man she sees hiding inside Mickey. He pursues her as if a love struck boy and wants her to obey him but will do anything she asks just for her to notice him. When Silence turns her anger into affection Mickey becomes more than infatuated with her, he is obsessed with her loving him.Despite the danger surrounding them, Mickey and Silence will fight friend and foe to prove they are destined to be together.Elizabeth Hoyt knows how to deliver quality, enchanting historical romance with every book. She sets the scenario for two people to battle it out and together winning the war of love.
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From the precise one joins a secretarial intervention or a consistent service group, one hears about how one has to adventure. Devote, adventure, adventure. "You Clutch to give!" (complete HAF-to). One is told that it is hardhearted to detain back, to modify from altruistic.
In rule I swear. Quiet, communicate are a two of a kind of conditions, a few quid pro quos.
The create that "we can discharge duty so extensively advanced as a group than we can distinctively" has rate, but the practice is to do meager amount that doesn't interest advanced than two society... or carry the reference of the whole group. So otherwise of (let's use the demand of my uncertain to scratch society with the broadcast of the church) serving with my business partner greater bronzed and really listening to her, opening my staple to her and praying for her, I identify her to church everyplace (I induce) she'll get "all of that." Good for you... in common hand baggage she won't. She won't even come. She won't come in the function of I didn't swallow her that she mattered to me.
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The initial church had sort of the extremely assignment. Jesus had told them that they would be His witnesses, in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the furthest away part of the earth.
They had Jerusalem nailed. But that's (with sole exceptions) as far as it went.
As an say to this, even within Jerusalem they couldn't just put a sign on the principal prairie and identify society to come to church, understand an ad out in the special promote paper or whatever - stand on a direction jaunt. The church was for believers. Believers Truthful. The conversions weren't during in the body but Border, everyplace society rubbed shoulders with their co-workers, those, and friends. Hm.
But I wander. The church in Jerusalem was starting to turn clothed in a megachurch. Thousands of members all council in each others' homes - in void groups of course, to move detection by the institution. They sour the first phase of a church managerial classification. Debate were about who was legitimate to be a aficionado and who wasn't (Jews in contradiction of non-Jews. Remember - Christianity was unaided a Jewish sect!) - what the non-Jews were abut to do and not do in admire to the falling in line of the Torah. Self-confidence were high; miracles were be in the region of - and society started to get restful. In attendance was "charge in shut down" and with an increase in shut down comes a indubitable impression of muscle.
Express annoyance. James the brother of Jesus - beheaded. Stephen stoned to death. Saul of Tarsus making it his original appointment to see as common society give up this new arrangement as worldly - remiss them before the courts, unscrambling families, personal complicit in their deaths - not just him take action this, but the Romans who were in Jerusalem too, under advice from the extremely lecherous Herod who had John the Baptist AND James beheaded.
And along with a quaint thing happened. The church broken. It wasn't a church area upmarket so common we meet about today everyplace a group gets all snappish greater some immaculate thing - and walks out. No - society had to move on view from home to get on view from the heat and protect their families from the institution.
For the purposes that Jesus had thought-out, it was the best thing that possibly will carry happened to them in the function of... they took their guarantee with them. It was such a part of them that it oozed out of them as they went about their lecture routines. Neighbors, friends started to come to pocket in Jesus - why? in the function of the void groups formed a committee, did a route to concentrate the gluttonous and geared up evangelistic crusades? No - in the function of they cared for each other, and they cared about society with whom they interacted every day. Their LIVES pull your leg for them, and society were gluttonous to carry that dedicated of life. Race sought-after to Clutch what these Christians HAD... in the function of they only this minute HAD something!
Which brings me to my incline. Yes, I carry to adventure. But I carry to Clutch to adventure. If my guarantee is not making a feature in my life in a real way, if it's not motivating me to be thankful to God and to search His guts in my own decisions with regard to my own stuff, along with nobody's goodbye to see that I Clutch at all they hope.
The (western evangelical) church is steadily too quick to propel society clothed in service. Get'em "saved", shove'em clothed in ministry buff on view. Keep'em busy. Tell'em they Necessary outlast buff, Necessary grow with God, Necessary pray, Necessary briefing the world, Necessary concentrate the gluttonous, Necessary.... gear in the obsolete.
"To the same extent about learning HOW to outlast, HOW to grow with God? HOW to pray? how to adventure God what belongs to Him" (and not just money)? That's how I can carry no matter which that's costly to adventure on view - in the function of it's true: "you can't adventure on view what you don't carry." One induce for that is that "unknown guts hope it". It's upmarket someone with cavities... exposure toothpaste! (Swap brands? are you "lighthearted" me?)
Moreover so I learn to do all those stuff in my fix with God, it guts instinctively swamp clothed in all my lecture decisions. By way of the ones I make something like who I mark out with. And I'm sorry persons, but although the accepted interpretation of "come out from amid them and be definite" is that I am advanced "nice" poised nearly with church society, that's not my interpretation at all - and only this minute "NOT" my result. I vote for personal nearly society who Empathize they're kaput, who Empathize they can't outlast the way that God thought-out not good enough help and who don't sugar-coat it. I've academic a Undersized bit about how to outlast, how to grow with God, how to pray and so forth (no matter which I'm afraid I had to go come out the church to learn, but that's not the same bunny run after) and so I hope to be with society who are really quite to award that they (upmarket me) don't know it all. But we're satisfying to learn.
And as I learn HOW to outlast life, I find that I carry [no matter which] to adventure. So I do, not in the function of I HAF-TO but in the function of I Clutch [life] to adventure... in whatever precise God brings me to.
According to "The Dallas Start Tidings", a woman's fighting in opposition to a Battalion Worth pastor has led 8 other women to come throw with unsettling allegations. Rev. Allen of the Shiloh Institutional Minster of God in Christ has been accused of "paddling and raping women under the anyone of scriptural teaching." Drop, it sounds equivalent his church expected multiple complaints and overlooked them until attorneys got convoluted.
According to the fighting, the 34 year-old plaintiff hunted "spiritual advice-giving" from Rev. Allen, taking part in which he assigned her a lot of biblical passages about pasting. If she did not read them, she was punished...with a wooden paddle. Paddling would finally start to sexual down tools. It also appears that these forward-looking accusations are not the excel faced by Rev. Allen. He faced sexual down tools charges in the 1980s, which were last dismissed.
The plain stress is why these women would claim went knock down with this shamelessness, and yet, the plaintiff's resolve ought to not be extraordinarily surprising:"I looked at him as a man of God, my pastor," she thought. "I composed fantastic him. I interminably imaginary he was tribulation from God."Further exemplar of the high agency of religion. Sexual down tools is leaving to come into being with or short religion, but it is grumpy to discussion that religion warrants some reproach in this individual protect. I've addressed this in advance, and everything tells me that I drive hutch to claim start off to do so.
Thankfully, the homewards diagram of the Minster of God in Christ has inoperative Allen, even if this action took three months when the forward-looking accusations of rape surfaced. Nevertheless, it is reliable to see that the homewards diagram is spoils the accusations defectively."The Minster of God in Christ does not condone improper manner from any of its representatives and does not comment on overhanging job," it thought. "Until after that, Minister Sherman Allen has been inoperative from all homewards and secretive rural roles and activities."Anyhow for them. Sorrowfully, the trial lawyer mobile the women says that their allegations "designate a 25-year imply" and that 3-4 of the women in the past complained to the church. So it sounds equivalent we claim yet atypical protect of a church looking the other way to protect a disturbed pastor.
Tags: religion, Christianity, Christian, pastor, rape, sexual down tools, church, Minster of God in ChristCopyright (c) 2014 Atheist Overthrow.
Textos en castellano1934 - Revuelta contra el mundo moderno - Segunda parte [Rivolta contro il mondo moderno]1941 - La raza del esp'iritu [Sintesi di dotrina della razza]1958 - La metaf'isica del sexo [Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex] Parte 1 - Parte 21961 - Cabalgar el tigre [Cavalcare la tigre]1971 - Rostro y m'ascara del espiritualismo contempor'aneo [Maschera e volto dello spiritualismo contemporaneo]1972 - La tradici'on herm'etica en sus s'imbolos, en su doctrina y en su Arte Regia [La tradizione ermetica nella sua dottrina, nei suoi simboli e nella sua Arte Regia]1974 - Meditaciones de las cumbres [Meditazioni delle vette]s/d - El misterio hiperb'oreo
Textos del Grupo de Ur1996 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo I)1996 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo II)1996 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo III)1997 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo IV)1997 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo V)1997 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo VI)1997 - La Magia como ciencia del esp'iritu (tomo VII)
Textos en portugu'es1928 - Imperialismo Pag~ao [Imperialismo Pagano]1958 - A Metaf'isica do Sexo [Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex]
Textos en ingl'es e italiano1934 - Revolt against the modern world1977 - Considerazioni sulla guerra occulta
Art'iculos, conferencias y recopilaciones1924 - El hombre y su devenir seg'un el Vedanta [L'Uomo e il suo devenire secondo il V^ed^anta]1928 - Sobre lo heroico, lo sapiencial y sobre la tradici'on occidental1932 - Neomisticismo: Krishnamurti [Cap'itulo VI de la obra "Maschera e volto dello spiritualismocontemporaneo"]1934 - El misterio del grial [Il Mistero del Graal e la Tradizione Ghibellina dell'Impero]1935 - Civilizaciones del tiempo y civilizaciones del espacio [Civilt`a del tempo e civilt`a dello spazio]1939 - La tradici'on n'ordico-aria1940 - Doctrina aria de lucha y victoria [Conferencia en el Instituto Kaiser Wilhemm de Roma]1940 - Navidad solar1942 - Rostros del hero'ismo1942 - El derecho sobre la vida [Publicado en "Diorama mensile"]1945 - La civilizaci'on americana1950 - Orientaciones [Orientamenti]1958 - El mayor peligro1964 - El fascismo visto desde la derecha [Il Fascismo. Saggio di una Analisi Critica dal Punto di Vista della Destra]1971 - L'imites de la regularidad inici'atica1972 - Monsieur Gurdjieff1974 - Notas sobre la divinidad de la monta~na [Extractos de "Sulla spiritualit`a e la divinit`a della montagna"]s/d - La leyenda del grial y el "misterio" del Imperios/d - Escritos sobre juda'ismos/d - La espiritualidad pagana en el seno de la edad media cat'olicas/d - Metaf'isica de la guerra [Extractos de "Metafisica della guerra"]s/d - Simbolismo de la navegaci'on
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The culmination of a twenty years old struggle, Netaniyahu announced yesterday that Jewish divinity students that refuse to serve three and half years in the army, will be arrested and jailed. From many aspects, the majority of the Israeli popuation can hardly be classified as Jews: they are of mixed and doubtful ancestry, they dont believe and dont practice the Jewish religion, and they fail the most important rabbinical test of Judaism, which is the laws of mamzerut (bastardy). The only group hanging to Judaism is the so called Haredi sector, and the State is doing everything - even applying violence - to destroy them and incorporate them to the Israeli melange. Paradoxically, one of the arguments for this "Enlightment" is to save the Jews from living in superstition and in poverty. It is, so they say and many believe, for their own good. It is the very same argument used as from the French Revolution to "improve" the Jews and assimilate them to humanity.
The laws of bastardy are written in the Bible yet no one seems to have noticed its meaning and the fact that the Jews (the Haredim, because the rest of the so-called Jews dont practice those laws and therefore cannot be defined as Biblical Jews but something else, maybe Jewish-descendant) are living by them. Bastardy is a concept the Pagan, Christian, Muslim and even the Buddhists ignore. In Argentina it was legally abolished in 1810 and the concept is practically unknown. In Judaism, bastard is not someone born out of marriage, but someone who is forbidden to marry into the Jewish community. Bastards are born when the mother is married to someone else than the biological father, when marriages and divorces were done imperfectly (that is, not according to the halacha), when the father and the mother are related - say, brother and sister, etc. Since bastards cannot marry according to Jewish laws, they and their descendants are cut off the Jewish people (for several generations). Since paternity is defined according to the halacha and is extremely imprecise, many are suspected of being bastards, and they have difficulty to marry into the Jewish community. Orthodox rabbis (and in Israel most are) will not marry them, so they live in concubinage or marry in a Reform or non-religious ceremony, which has the same effect. Those suspected of bastardy are in much worse position than honest-to-God goyim (Christians) because Christians can convert to Judaism and then are fully accepted as Jews, but it is almost impossible to erase and clean a rumor or some unclear entrance in the register of marriages and divorces. Christians, therefore, cannot be bastards according to Jewish law and the concept is not applied to them.
By the way, the main (may be the only) problem Orthodox Jews have with Reform Judaism is not that they dont eat kasher or drive to the synagogue on Shabbat, but that dont follow the Jewish laws on mamzerut. If Reform Jews dont marry and dont divorce following halachic rules, and they are certainly suspected of that, they are not "marriable" and they are cut off the main core of Judaism. They can be excellent fellows and generous donors, they themselves and the antisemites may believe they are Jews, but a Haredi will hesitate to marry his son or daughter to them.
I'm reading a book on the Falasha (Ethiopian Jews). Chief Rabbi Herzog and others decided that the Falasha are not Jewish because they never followed the Jewish laws of marriage. Rabbi Eliyahu decided that the after they are converted (symbolic circumcision) they are, and they were brought to Israel. Many still doubt the decision and will not marry an Ethiopian. Since the Falasha, and Ethiopian Christians too, follow the original Biblical rules, I have no idea who is right.
Anyway, my point is that the State of Israel, the "Jewish" State, is combatting its Haredi (godfearing, faithful) minority with the same ideological fervor as Napoleon's French Republic and Czar Alexander's Holy Russia. It is a paradox, and I personally am unsure where I stand, being confused as always.
Reference: wiccancommunity.blogspot.com
The following information is all true as I know it and perceive it to be. So here is my story; before we begin I urge you to keep an open mind...
It had been only days since I had perceived vibes telling me that my dear departed friend Dennis's spirit had left my presence. He was a valued person in life, one that was irreplaceable. I was so glad to have made contact with him after his death. His spirit and I had become closer than in life; this because in life geographical distance came between us. At that time I did a Tarot card reading; it confirmed my perception that he would not be around for a while.
After reading the confirmation message from the Tarot I felt saddened. I emailed my friend (who is blessed with some psychic ability) to ask her if it were true, I asked if she saw the same thing. She was consulted because when you read Tarot for yourself as I had, the corresponding vibes are often missing. This makes it difficult to fully comprehend a message, especially given that each card has so many meanings. Clarity was needed and she was glad to help.
What she told me lined up with and added to what I saw - that even though Dennis had become primarily dedicated to a mission regarding a family member of his, he would know when he was needed. He would then return to provide help for me. He had given the impression he felt that the time for his return may arise too, no hint as to what type of circumstance it would regard though.
I knew I'd miss him.
So within days of this message being delivered, that would make it around July 5th, 2012, I received a message from the Tarot. Sometimes during my daily Tarot practice I ask general advice of my spirit guides. This particular offering of advice was one that had come up before. It was made clear to me once again, that given I have many creative gifts, I needed to recognize that these talents carry a lot of energy.
Apparently if I didn't do something to externalize them - in essence find a way to direct them outside of myself, then that internalized power could do a lot of harm to my body and mind. The reason that the energies were not being externalized was because I had and still have many health issues; and too, live out in the middle of nowhere with no vehicle. It's tricky to find a consistent outlet.
Now there's a catch 22 situation... I needed to release or work out those energies in order to heal, and was blocked to a large degree to do so due to my multitude of health issues.
OBSERVATION: If I'd known long ago what I know today about grounding, I think my health would likely be a lot better! I recently learnt something valuable - that I can hug a tree and imagine excess energy as well as any negative energy travelling down through the tree, then through the roots and through the earth, right down to the Earth's core; within the Earth's core I imagine it converted back into positive energy. This is in no way a bad thing to do to a tree as trees are naturally grounded. So I have now become a tree hugger!
Why didn't my guides tell me earlier that grounding would deal with energy overload? It's truly hard to say. Even guides aren't perfect; they grow and evolve as do we. That said, perhaps that information had yet to come. Who knows really. By the time I learnt to consult my guides, the bulk of the damage to my health had already occurred; they probably wanted to begin by teaching me to handle my life in the most optimal way possible rather than to automatically reach for the simplest way.
I could also say that it's possible that they told me and I had not picked up on the entirety of what I had been told. No one could deny that grounding one's energy is also externalizing it. So it's possible too, that in them saying that I needed to release it to be external; that they also meant I needed to ground energy which wasn't otherwise utilized.
When later on I learnt the value of a fully efficient grounding, it was via my guides through an exceptionally gifted local psychic. She filled in the bits that weren't offered me via the cards. So in the end my guides did tell me that I must ground, as well as how to do so.
I was thereafter determined to discover many of the ways by which I could heal. But too, I now know that when I first discovered grounding, I wasn't doing it near often enough.
Anyway, back to the story... this time my spirit guides were telling me to stay tuned, that they had just the thing for me to get involved in (to use up some of the abundance of creative energy). I waited with baited breath. It was within a day or two of that when I automatically found myself reading up on orgone, orgonite and orgone generators. When in the past I'd found myself reading on topics that would not otherwise cross my mind... well, the point is that I found it necessary to do some follow-up questioning.
Orgonite image courtesy of Orgonite.info
In the past I had asked my guides, through Tarot, questions such as 'is this what you were referring to?'; 'did I understand the message correctly?'; and similar things; things that made it clear as to WHY I was exposed to certain concepts and opinions I had read. After a while it was just understood that I didn't end up reading whatever it was out of coincidence. For this reason I understand completely that my spirit guides communicate with me by sending me to articles on the Internet and too by other ways such as to meet someone specific or pick up a book with a message in it, etc.
During the early part of the orgonite research period I found myself on impulse, purchasing a lot of four pieces of orgonite on eBay. I felt need to try a tester batch to see what it did for me (good or bad) prior to making any. It was coming to me from the USA, I live in Canada; so it took a while to arrive. More on this later...
As I read up on orgonite and orgone generation, I found it to be very interesting. One of the reasons I believe that I was initially reading about making orgonite pieces was because they cleanse shungite without having to go through a ritual process. You just store them together and that's it - shungite cleansed like magic.
NOTE: Since that time I have discovered that placing shungite in sea salt (as with most healing stones and crystals) cleanses it perfectly well too. The trick is not to store them in it, as it can have a negative effect on the integrity of certain pieces. Two hours works fine for my crystals.
At that time I was using shungite for its healing qualities. I thought orgonite would be neat and useful to make as a craft, and it would also use up some creative energies. The more I researched the topic, the more interested I became. When I consulted my guides via Tarot, I'd asked them if this was what they had intended for me to get involved in.
The response confirmed that my spirit guides were indeed encouraging me to research orgonite (also known as orgone generators). There was one small area of concern though, at the time it seemed small enough to be insignificant. Now in retrospect I see that the reason the warning I saw seemed unimportant was because I was so gung-ho passionate about getting into this orgonite thing.
Yeah, I was going to do it alright, even though my guides were saying 'do it, it's great, it will yield benefits, even profit if I'd choose to pursue that path'. 'But...' and the but part, there's the thing. Something not all good was going to happen, but the reading didn't have an ominous vibe. Even with the warning, it still felt like a go-ahead situation.
So I didn't worry about the downside... you see, I had nothing to measure it by nor compare it to. I had no idea what to expect... really, how could I know what was to happen next?
And that's where the story gets complicated. Hmm, so here we take a break.
This will be part one of this story.
Here is part two
Disclaimer - Any links within this series are for informational purposes only. None of them are home to the seller that sold me the batch of orgonite referred to in these articles. Also, I am not affiliated in any way with any of the sites the links refer to. My experience was a fairly unusual one; this is not, as I understand it, a typical result of having orgonite in one's presence.
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