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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

a mood moment...

Winter Is Blue... Bleak and grey the winter day... Fire stubbornly won't start as if its heart ain't in it. Like mine, this dreary day, it would rather be away. Insisting, I bend down and breathe the glowing ember a-flame. Who will do the same for me? Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 28, 2008

The First Stone

Nautikos and Lindo are engaged in a fascinating debate in Naut's religion blog. I highly recommend a field trip over there. They demonstrate what two intelligent, adult people can do with discussion of differences. To put this post more fully in context, that is the place to begin. This started as a comment in one of those items, but I have edited a bit and added a bit, and want to share it more widely as it goes so well in hand with my most recent posts on God, belief, and packaging. It is an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

What the hell are you voting for?

In my third grade mock election, I voted for John Kennedy because he was nicer-looking than Richard Nixon. In choosing that guy with the Robert Redford's Little Brother looks for his running mate, George Bush the Dad stated flat out that he figured this pretty fellow would engage the American woman's vote, as a reason for the choice. That would have made sense, and would have gone right by me when I was 8. Oddly enough, it seems to have gotten by a lot of others who were also no longer 8.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Joy!

I went to the movies today... saw THE BUCKET LIST. I heartily recommend it to anyone feeling the least bit old or getting on, or past it. With Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, you know it is not going to be syruppy or maudlin... and it does get you thinking. Freeman's character asks Nicholson's the two questions that were mythically asked of the dead trying to get into Egyptian heaven: Did you have joy in your life? Did you create joy in someone else's life? What is Joy? To be able to answer... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The Passing of a God: Being Born Again

Xeno-x left a great comment in the previous post referring to the 'mythical god' of the past several thousand years, and how that concept of God is now going through changes based on humankind's advancement in knowledge. Thinking further down this road, I suggest that we make a distinction between the traditional Mythic God and the new concept: the Quantum God. This is not about changing God. It is about changing our concept, our understanding of the nature of that force in the Universe that we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

What does God have to be, to be God? 1.2

This was the title of one of the first posts in this blog, a couple of years ago. This is not that post, but an update and continuation of those thoughts. I was taught, directly and indirectly, that God is the Supreme Being, the greatest force in the Universe, the master and sulitmate Source of all that is, the First Cause of every effect, the absolute Absolute. It is all there in the simple assertion: Nothing is greater than God. Well, here is Everything. Did it just happen? Did it grow out of... Sign in to see full entry.

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"...On the Twelfth Day of Christmas..."

Okay, counting from Christmas Day, today is the 13th Day of Christmas, and I missed by one... what an epiphany! Have I had it wrong all these years? Or does the count begin the day after Christmas? Regardless, I have been thinking lately that it would be a fine thing to shift the gifting part of the Christmas season to this traditional day for it. Could we do this? I don't see why not... And save Dec 25 to celebrate quietly, perhaps even with some reverence for the birth of one who, whatever... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 4, 2008

Is it stupider to believe there is, or is not God?

In a comment in the previous post, Gepruitt brought this up: that there is a general idea, even assumption, that people who believe in the reality of God are shallow. I have noticed that on people on both sides of the argument frequently have disdain or pity for those deluded, possibly even stupid folk on the other side. I have looked at people who believe that spirit is real, and at those that, as adamantly as any evangelist, believe that it is not. What I see in the most interesting of those... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

p2008 asked via email about afterlife in relation to the Astral,

and here is my response which I think might be of general interest. Perhaps other readers will have other comments to add, as well. There are so many variations on the 'where-we-go-after' theme, including the one that we go where we have ourselves decided we will go. No one knows better than ourselves what we deserve, no one is more likely to punish us for the sins we know we are responsible for, regardless of what we admit to in life or in consciousness. In fact, I don't think it is God's... Sign in to see full entry.

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smarter than a bag of hammers

It is evident that the majority of people, especially in this country are getting dumber by the school year, by the generation. Not because they are poorly educated, but because they don't care. And vast numbers of dumb do not add up to smart. Have you caught as many minutes as you can bear of the 'reality' show AMERICA'S MOST SMARTEST MODEL? Have you heard the one that flatly, with perfect certainty mentions that elephants are close relatives of dinosaurs? I define 'smart' as capable of... 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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