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Friday, April 20, 2007

Duet A new poem for fans of Tolkien and hobbits

Contest time again... the challenge was a costanza, which is this form, and the theme, Merry and Pippin. Duet Merry to Pippin You are a menace, Pippin Took, the way that mischief follows you, as impulse prompts the things you do-- Sometimes, you're begging to be shook! Oh, Pippin, you are such a lad! You're never meaning to be bad, You're into every niche and nook without a thought of what comes next, and when it does, you're so perplexed! You can't not touch, you can't not look! You'll burn... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

some ponderings on effects vs goals

Some of us design our lives after our hopes of getting into Heaven: laying up karmic points, being Good, keeping score, looking for eventual reward and salvation as the future pay-off. Life then is more about getting paid back for suffering losses and deprivations in life--as if seeing pain, injustice and frustration as an investment makes sense of the hardness of life, and makes it other than futile. Investing in a future Heavenly reward is a positive thing if it comforts in hardship, but not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 7, 2007

It took me an hour to write this response to Kripayne...

Something in his blog and comments pushed a button... I daresay it was more important to me to say this, than needful from his perspective! I am not the source of anything but my own interpretations-- I certainly did not mean to suggest anything begins with me! What I am trying to convey is that we all have an ability to perceive a much wider spectrum of energy than is commonly believed. We have to get around our own filters-- beliefs, investments, programming--to distinguish one energy from... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 6, 2007

Failure

In response to Paige's blog regarding personal failure to live up to the standards she set herself as a 16 year old avowed Christian, ( http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/paigeandreligion/ ) Iwrote this comment, and I think it may be worth sharing more generally: It's easy to have the highest of standards at 16-- Then you start coming up against real life in the real world--if you've spent several years in college, that's still a pretty protected time, so it takes several years more before... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 1, 2007

How do you know you are loved?

We all have our own personal criteria for deciding what's what, and what's real, especially those things that are ephemeral in nature, or non-corporeal, like emotion. Like knowing when we are loved. We rely on indirect cues and clues to be sure of something that has so many counterfeits and substitutes, that springs so easily from wishful thinking and fear-based feeling, that is identified and defined so variously. For many of us, much turns on the question of love: of truly loving, and truly... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Blogit got into my dreams last night...

It was like a dream adaptation of the latest blogit soap-opera, wrapped in some of the weirdities of my own subconscious. We need not go into details of either. The gist of it was this: Sometimes, people don't fit into their social scene neatly, but live in their own worlds, disconnected from the 'normal'--which is to say, on the bell-curve of behavior, belief, and belonging, they dwell closer to the edge of the bell than the big, central dome. We all, to some extent, in some area of our lives... Sign in to see full entry.

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"It's 5:00 yesterday..."

My daughter just had a call from her husband who flew to Seattle on business a day after I arrived at their home in Singapore. I asked her what time it is there. Time has so many natures, depending on where we are seeing it from, especially from what state of mind. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

For Tolkien afficionados

(clipped this from someone who clipped it from the Wall Street Journal some time ago) Lord of the Office. (from the Wall Street Journal) Aragorn is the white knight in Sauron's hostile takeover, putting out and lighting fires as the case may be. Life coach Mr. Grey helps out team leader Baggins from the Hobbiton group. Grey battles The Balrog worm in security level 8. CHairman Elrond won't let Arwen manipulate her stock portfolio into Aragorn's risk territory, while Pippin and Merry stage a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Agnostics and atheists: what god do you disbelieve in?

I know some of you disbelieve in any sort of personal divine entity creating and guiding the Universe. Most of you probably disbelieve in the patriarchal sort of diety. Many of you probably think of the God of the Bible and dispbelieve pretty specifically in that one, and some very likely disbelieve in any sort of mindful entity existing non-corporeally, including lesser diety-types like the spirits of a shamanistic world-view. I base this on what I disbelieved when I was agnostic and atheist. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Some links to the world beyond Blogit

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm This is for you if you are into comparative religion, philosophy, history, classics, anthroplogy, ancient religions... A wonderful resource well worth supporting and adding to. http://monotheism.us/ If you want to know what the Founding Fathers really intended by way of government and religion. No masonic secret symbols here! http://iconomy.addr.com/those_other_sticky_valentines/creepy.html Okay, this is purely recreational, and about a month late, but... 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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