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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

God by any other name

This is a response made in Naut's Tidbits, and I want to file it among these posts, so am repeating it here. I have been saying for a liong time that God doesn't mean what most people think it means. That to be God, it has to be something most people don't imagine, have not been taught to expect it to be. Also, that some of us believe there is nothing worthy of being called God; others believe there is. But everyone believes something: I don't believe in non-believers. In the New Testament you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

A further note on the previous topic...

I offer the perspective in my previous post that as important as loving one's self is, being loved by others is just as essential to a whole and healthy human life. Comments to that lead me to postscript: We cannot be loved until we love our selves: not because no one will love us, but because we won't be able to receive it. We, finding insufficient reason to love ourselves, will simply not believe anyone else truly can: they must be mistaken; they don't know who we really are, so their love is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

They say the most important thing is to love yourself

as if being loved by others means nothing. They say, the gurus of personal enlightenment, that all the validation we get from others is insignificant, if we cannot validate ourselves. They say it, and I have said it... And now I am ready to rephrase and reframe. In fact, it is entirely true, that we must love and validate ourselves before our core will believe what anyone else praises or appreciates about us. But it is not true, what some surmise out of that first fact, that we can live a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Starting the year with incendiary dreams

Elsewhere, someone offered a challenge to write a poem about fireworks, and like a Roman candle, this leapt from my head... Burst! with joy and thunder...! Crack! across the starry sky! Glory for a moment, dainty showers falling, winking out spark by lambent spark... The dark, the sullen, the suffering, the cold cannot remain unmoved, unchanged in this sudden cascade, this blossoming of lights upon lights, enormous unexpected flowers-- stamped on the vision, impacted in the soul with the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

To All My Blogit Neighbors and Friends--

Joyous Day! Whatever your beliefs in this season, whatever your circumstances, I wish you light in your life, the realization of love in its many forms, and that you find happiness and a miracle or two! Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 22, 2008

Death hovers over Life

We have such a complex relationship with this fact of life, this inevitibility, this passage onward, or final sleep. In Western culture, we have taken the point-of-reference of the body and the bereaved: death is the worst thing that can happen. We look at the body with life extinguished; we feel the loss of one whose presence in the world we have cherished and felt the need of, or simply gotten deeply used-to. We grieve, when we have to, and the rest of the time, we deny. In other cultures,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 8, 2008

"In the east we have seen a star..."

I have my own take on astrology, considering the relative positions of the planets and constellations as a kind of energy-reading of the physical world. Its effect is on the same level as energy-channels and chakras of the body, and the ley-lines of the Earth which are the same thing, but of the planet itself. My perception is that these spread out from the planet into space, that the universe itself has energy-lines and that each planet and star is a nexus where lines meet and cross. And energy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Something for Nautikos...

Naut, you made a comment in Troosha's blog today that reminded me of this. I offer an exerpt only, for your pleasure, of Algernon Charles Swinburne's The Triumph of Time. I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and none other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me; Cling to her, strive with her, hold her fast: O fair white mother, in days long past Born without sister, born without brother, Set free my soul as thy soul is free.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Perhaps the delirious joy with which some of us welcome Obama's election

may in fact be the immense relief we feel that a degree of what we recognize as reason and sanity has been offered us, in place of years of insanity and the ongoing destruction of many things we value. You who are assuming that the response to Obama is pathological, insult many of us who are intelligent, cautious in our trust, and feeling deeply wounded by the long, long betrayal of our dreams of America, of what it could be, of what it should be. I know that he is human, and that he cannot act... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

There are some who give God credit for everything

and some who blame God for everything. Their final answer for everything is "Because God wants it that way." The fatuousness of these people doesn't mean that there is no God--It means they don't understand what God is. It's the same with psychic stuff: many people are fatuous about it, will believe anything, attribute many things inappropriately to it, to that particular sort of 'magic.' In fact, our minds are capable of amazing things that happen outside our conscious thought processes. We... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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