posted April 07, 2013 11:01 PM            

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Originally posted by felngfrogy:
I do not live by mountains! I live in pancake kanses that does have hills and valleys maybe! Lol

I do go out at night and star gaze, have done that since I was little...im learning a little about sun gazing as well. For healing benifits of others and for my own body. I also see alittle auras and I've seen orbs...once in a chorch I seen an orb that when I looked at it it had an orage color around it...so I am at my sons confirmation classes(he chose me as his mentor, I couldn't of been more proud) and im focusing on the preacher when a round light appears, I look in its direction and it went from a bright small light to an orange ball floating, this happend twice that night! my vision is starting to emerge but its hard to find quiet time with a house full of 5 boys and a husband!

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What a blessing!

posted April 07, 2013 11:10 PM            

I don't really believe it plays tricks on me...its just sometimes im wowed by glimpses of what ones mind can percieve when the boxes have been removed!

posted April 07, 2013 11:13 PM            

How can I put this?

-Consider it this way, one is opening a door, what is on the other side of it one never really knows, and evil can do a great good imitation to achieve it's purpose.

posted April 08, 2013 12:01 AM            

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Originally posted by Padre35:
Nah, I've read their philosopher's works, I don't say that w/o knowledge

Starts out great, by there for each other, be there for the community, at the end of it all though..not much to base even that upon.

For example, toss out the old covenant, even proverbs, toss out the gruesome, but real lessons from that period in time, toss out the Crucifixion etc etc

Join a Optimist Club, it will spare one the supposed supranatural covering.

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It depends on which church you go to. In my experience they have a lot of beliefs, but they don't judge others for theirs, at least outside a broad framework. The one I visited for awhile had speakers from many religions show up who shared, and generally speaking people listened for what was useful and learned from it and the rest "wasn't for them." From time to time one of them will get a bit dogmatic on the others, but that usually doesn't go over as well as they like.

And one good thing is I've yet to encounter UUs bearing false witness and getting hysterical the way too many Christians do (example)

Also, I can't think of any religion offhand that doesn't ignore parts of the Bible they don't like. For example, how many Christian women cover their heads (and the Bible also says they should wear their hair long, and also men short, Samson excepted, though enough overlook men with longer hair today and even show Jesus with long hair just as they overlook women with pixie cuts) or stone disobedient children these days? Plenty wave signs condemning gays but not shrimp, and want to ban gay marriage because Jesus implied it was between a man and a woman but not crack down on divorce despite Jesus EXPLICITLY saying in that same chapter that divorce was invalid for any reason other than the woman cheating on the man (though I suppose there's enough wiggle room to make the assumption that a woman could divorce a man who cheated on her as well, but that still means a lot of divorcees are living in sin and adultery, even when they marry someone else, which is at least as forbidden by the Bible as gay marriage). Of course the more liberal churches instead ignore other parts of the Bible while embracing the parts that the fundies ignore, and so on. And some even invent fanciful tales, like saying Jephthah didn't sacrifice his virgin daughter but instead sent her to a non-existent nunnery.

The church wars behind the pine curtain (that is East Texas Bible Belt) were quite fascinating, too. And many in the various denominations could wax long on what the other denominations were missing out on and why, more often than not, that they weren't really saved, having missed some element of salvation or living in defiance of the Bible. Though for all their devotion and outright fanaticism, I never even heard of a local Pentecostal willing to handle snakes.

posted April 08, 2013 12:10 AM            

Fair clear to me that one knows jackola about what the scriptures have to say, and what to make of them, but a simple reading of you 1,000 word essay simply confirmed it.

posted April 08, 2013 12:13 AM            

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Originally posted by Padre35:
Care to summarize for the benefit of all?

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Summary: I see your claim that the UUs have "no real belief" as wrong and that they ignore aspects of the Bible to not be significant given that most (all?) Christian churches do as well (though which parts get ignored vary from church to church).

posted April 08, 2013 12:21 AM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
Summary: I see your claim that the UUs have "no real belief" as wrong and that they ignore aspects of the Bible to not be significant given that most (all?) Christian churches do as well (though which parts get ignored vary from church to church).

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Eh, once upon a time I read a UU's book on theology, the first part was fine, more or less a call to communal action

The back half was so blatantly tripe even my open mind was..uhm..yeah..they believe in nothing at all.

1985's David Robinson's Unitarians and Universalists iirc

posted April 08, 2013 07:23 AM            

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Originally posted by Padre35:

My one caution is, test the Spirits and keep what is good, reject what is evil.

How can I put this?

-Consider it this way, one is opening a door, what is on the other side of it one never really knows, and evil can do a great good imitation to achieve it's purpose.

Evil does not come with horns, it comes with a smile and as a friend.

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We can agree on that, dear friend.

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