TheMeekShall

PCs as a seperate group haven't had enough motivation to create their own identity until recently. "The Moral Majority", gaybashing, and Bush's "Crusade", have motivated it recently. PCs unfortuantely, are a bit too intellectual in their values, love comes from the heart. We need to come up with ideas that create community. The Christian right has, and as people who believe in nutrurance, we'll do even better. If we're true to our values, empathy will be our strong suit, so talking to the average Joe can be easy.

It's time that spirituality became scientific. Let's stop using religion to beat people over the head and start exploring the power of prayer, near death experiences, the relationship between conciousness and quantuum physics. In a world with 10,000 nukes, and 26 storms in the Americas in 1 year, maybe the only way out is a scientific understanding of God.

There are only 2 things left, both taught by Jesus 1) Love, Love Love 2) Standing up to those who abuse wealth and power.

Intellegence is an amplifier of good or evil, I've seen it drive people into a destructive path when they have a philosophy that sees others as something to be overcome. I know, I'm now plantiff in a small claims action - the destructive corporation fighting me hired a firm that's argued in front of the US Supreme Court. I expect to lose the case, but I also expect this corporation's brutality to be it's undoing. Anyway, the most intelegent people are often the kindest. It's the mediocre minds who try to rule by subjugation. Here are some quotes from Einstein: Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Imagination is more important than knowledge... Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. [My point exactly:TMS] As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

"Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely" We have to look within to relate to God, not through a minister or Church hierarchy. Maybe God has given us such an abomoninable government to see that the best way to reach a "beloved community", is to start within, not to look to those using the patchwork of antiquated and usurped rule we call government. A loving society starts with you, not The President. If you think about it long enough, you'll realise it's great news!

Progressive Christianity has not gotten a sense of it's own identity. Not enough people are ready to say with certainty that the central tenet of Chistianity is love thy neighbor as thyself. Until that happens, progressive Christianity will remain the fundimentalists' doormat.

There is at least one way all three can be true. If the soul is indestructable, then we are only making temporary changes to it. Those temporary changes will lead to the good.

It was a lousy day for Chicago, no doubt, but not nearly enough to pass statistical muster. Now if Chicago was nuked on the same day a tsunami hit New York and a UFO crashed into the White House..... In a world of 6 billion people has at least 5000 major cities, in a Century with 100 *365 days , you'd have 5000 * 100 * 365 or roughly 180 million city-days, enough for some really weird coincidences. If any of the above happened, and anything else well out of the ordinary happened, maybe a space shuttle being destroyed, or Chechnia declaring was on America, that would be enough for one to state things had gone beyond the laws of probablity. The 26 storms, including Katrina, that hit America in 2005 certainly indicate something has changed, and probably some other things [i do believe these are the endtimes].

Chaos and randomness are very different. If atoms were random, then there'd be no order. In '89 it was odd that large earthquakes happened in the most conspicious possible situations, uniting the world in sympathy: First Gorbechev had to cancel his appointments in the UN because of one, then one happened on internataional TV - During a World Series. For about a year, I'd hear stories about how bad weather followed Bush around, snow in the Holy Land and Hawaii, 26 tropical storms in 2005. The weather is chaotic, not random, something very strange is going on. As a chaotic system gets larger, more and more order appears. We not only have more people than ever before, by defination, more human history has transpired than in the past, therefore we may find more and more patterns emerging over time.

Sometimes I envy dumb people; ignorance may not be bliss, but it may be easier to deal with the world. I've decided not to get too worked up about fools, if I don't calm down, I'll explode right now. Maybe I can learn to sleep through their bs.

I know what you mean. I live in the south and I see this all the time. It isn't unusual to see 'We support president Bush' on a church sign. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's time we accepted the nation, and Christianity has become polarised. The neocons and FoxNews have done a good job so the right doesn't lose its core constuancy, so enough people believe the election "results" after they've been tampered with. www.blackboxvoting.org There will be 2 Americas and 2 Christianities until the neocons mess so many things up, they'll fall. Before the schism, there was ambiguity, soon the truth will be obvious to everyone.

Good one. Nail her on sexism. While you're at it, find out if she's followed a Biblical marriage. ------------------------------ A. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5) B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron 11:21) C. A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed. (Deut 22:13-21).... --------------------------------

Quantum Mechanics may appear to be to small to activate a nueron, but the molucles that decide to fire that neuron are certainly small enough, all they have to do is amplify that energy enough for the neuron to fire.

I've built up a big CD collection over the last 2 years; For me music keeps me peaceful & happy. About a year ago I discovered clisscal musc. I love Vivaldi & Mozart.

The more they call us heretics, the better, as long as we don't react with hate, their hate will become ovibious, and their followers will become alienated, and leave. I once started a thead on Hannity's site, my intention was to get people to realise that they shouldn't always vote Republican, my poll question was: Who would you rather vote for Kerry or Hitler? The poll was about 50-50, and the posts really poured it on, many saying why Hitler would be a better President. I kept the thread going as long as possible, hoping that moderate donseratives would see what kinds of lunatics they were in bed with.