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A number of of the highest impressive scientists - intimates who very singular their fields and had a fixed dip on how we finger about the world - were wronged by Christians. Such as the consequences of their arithmetical lessons led men such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Darwin to signal proper errors in Christian teaching, Christians steadily reacted negatively. It was not thoughtfully that they disagreed; they required to subsume the appropriate conclusion, retarding wake up and promoting intensity and myth. Opportunely, the world would at last godsend from these and other arithmetical aid. And today, these accepted wisdom are part of the ordinary knowledge, observe from strong-minded pockets of intensity (e.g., Fold and the United States) wherever Darwin's aid are unmoving met with enmity.To the same degree is far less kindly is that some relations unassailable to keep widely read very tiny from these experiences of for example unprincipled and impeding arithmetical wake up to our hutch expenditure. Politicians usually metamorphose science they do not understand to significance to a industrially too expensive floor. Burrow with chest cells rubble affecting in a variety of areas to the same degree of Christian mythology. And stick out scientists in Australia keep been cocktail party death bullying simply to the same degree some relations would satisfy to renounce the the whole story of whole warming.The lesson near is verifiable to somebody who cares to see it: suppressing science harms us all. This is one of the reasons intimates of us in the reality-based community condition exactness about religion.Subscribe to Individualist RevolutionCopyright (c) 2013 Individualist Coil.
I HAVE READ SOME OF YOUR POSTINGS HERE AND I HAVE TO SAY I FEEL YOU WANT HONEST ANSWERS AND YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH. YOU WILL NOT FIND IT IN READING WEIRD BOOKS ABOUT NDE'S OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL WRITTEN BY MAN. YOU MUST SEEK THE SCRIPTURES. YOU MUST DO IT PRAYERFULLY, WHILE TRYING TO LIVE CLEAN. THE SPIRIT OF GOD HAS A DIFFICULT TIME DWELLING IN UNHOLY PLACES. I AM NOT ONE TO JUDGE AND AM NOT SAYING YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OR ANYTHING. JUST HONEST ADVICE- JUST IN CASE YOU NEED IT. THAT IS THE # 1 REASON PEOPLE REMAIN CONFUSED. I HAVE SOUGHT ANSWERS WHILE I HAVE DELIBERATELY BEEN DOING THINGS I KNEW WOULD BE CONTRARY TO GOD IF HE EXISTED. I JUST GOT MORE CONFUSED. VERY HYPOCRITICAL BEHAVIOR. READ WHAT CHRIST TEACHES, TRY TO LIVE IT EVERYDAY WHILE YOU SEARCH. STUDY THE SCRIPTURES AND AS FOUND IN JAMES 1:5-6. HE WILL ANSWER IF YOU DO NOT WAVER -READ VERSE 6. WE CANNOT ASK GOD QUESTIONS FOR CURIOSITY SAKE. HE KNOWS EACH OF US INTIMATELY, HE KNOWS WHO WILL DO WHAT WITH THE ANSWERS HE GIVES US THROUGH THE SPIRIT. IF I ASK WHAT IS TRUE WITH NO INTENTION OF GIVING UP WORLDLY PLEASURES, I WILL BE CONFUSED UNTIL I DIE. NOTHING WAVERING. SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND, KNOCK AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU. SEEKING AND KNOCKING REQUIRE ACTION, NOT JUST ASK AND THERE YOU GO. NOTHING WORTH RECEIVING HAS EVER COME EASY. NOTHING AS HOLY AND SACRED AS SURE ANSWERS FROM GOD HIMSELF EVER JUST COMES EASY. HE EVEN COMMANDS US NOT TO CAST OUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. CAN WE EXPECT HIM TO DO SO? YOU DO SAY THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW. I SAY THERE IS. I SAY GOD ANSWERS HIS CHILDREN BECAUSE HE LOVES THEM. BUT GOD IS NOT OBLIGATED TO ANSWER EVERYTHING. WE ARE NOT MEANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING AND NOT MEANT TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. IF WE DID, WHAT FAITH WOULD THAT REQUIRE? WHAT GROWTH WOULD THERE BE FOR US? SURE I WANT MY CHILD TO LEARN ALL OF LIFE'S LESSONS BY ME EXPLAINING IT TO HIM- SO HE PASSES ON THE PAINFUL PARTS. BUT THAT JUST IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY FOR HIM TO LEARN. I WOULD NOT WANT HIM TO KNOW LOVE BY ME TELLING HIM ABOUT IT. I WANT HIM TO EXPERIENCE IT BY TAKING A CHANCE ON A YOUNG WOMAN WHO LIVES RIGHT AND EXPERIENCING IT ON HIS OWN, AND BY ME AND HIS MOM SHOWING HIM LOVE BY BEING GOOD PARENTS. GOD ALSO KNOWS THAT IS HOW WE, HIS CHILDREN IGNORANT TO HIS WAYS, WILL LEARN. BUT HE WILL TELL US IMPORTANT THINGS WE NEED SO WE CAN FIND THE RIGHT PATH ON WHICH TO LEARN THOSE LESSONS ON OUR OWN. I TELL YOU THIS ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN THERE. I WANTED TO KNOW. I PROMISED FATHER IN HEAVENTHAT IF HE TOLD ME A PARTICULAR CHURCH WERE TRUE, I WOULD FORSAKE THE LIFE MY CARNAL PARTY MAN WANTED TO LIVE AND I WOULD SERVE HIM. HE BELIEVED ME AND HE ANSWERED ME. NOW I KNOW. IT IS HARD, I GET TEMPTED ALL THE TIME, BUT DAILY I STRIVE TO UPHOLD MY END OF THE DEAL. I AM ON THE EARTH FOR A REASON, TO SHARE THIS KNOWLEDGE WITH MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS ON THE EARTH. NO I AM NOT SOME FANATICAL NUT JOB. I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM OUT THERE. I HAVE FELT THE MAIN REASON IT IS SO HARD TO BELIEVE IN THE RELIGION I KNOW TO BE TRUE IS BECAUSE OF ALL THE NUT JOBS THAT ARE EASY TO FIND IN IT. REMEMBER THE WORDS OF THE SAVIOR THOUGH, THE WHOLE NEED NO PHYSICIAN. READ THE NEW TESTAMENTE, PRAY FOR AN ANSWER ONLY IF YOU ARE ABLE TO LIVE UP TO WHAT IS REQUIRED. YOU WILL BE ANSWERED. THAT IS A PROMISE FROM GOD AND HIS SON. AS TOLD BY JESUS, SELL ALL THAT THOU HAST AND FOLLOW ME. AM I WILLING TO DO THAT? HE DOES NOT ASK YOU TO SELL ALL YOU HAVE, HE WANTS YOU TO BE WILLING TO THOUGH. THAT INCLUDES SELLING ALL YOUR BAD HABITS, CARNAL PLEASURES, ETC AND FOLLOWING HIM. REPENTING SINCERELY WHEN YOU FALL, FEELING GODLY SORROW WHEN YOU DO, THEN ALLOWING HIS SACRIFICE TO PURGE THE PAIN AND HEAL YOU WHEN YOU RE-COMMIT. THAT IS THE TRUTH. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO DO IT, HE WILL ANSWER YOU. I TESTIFY THIS AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF HIM TO YOU.
SORRY SO LONG. READ THE NEW TESTAMENT, GET YOUR LIFE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST, REPENT, PRAY FOR ANSWERS, THEN READ THE BOOK OF MORMON. NO MAN MADE BOOKS ABOUT NDE'S, ANTI MORMON STUFF, ANYTHING OTHER THAN SCRIPTURE. DO THIS AND I PROMISE YOUR MIND WILL QUICKEN, YOUR HEART WILL FEEL UNDENIABLE, YES - UNDENIABLE - KNOWLEDGE YOU SEEK. YOU WILL NEVER SAY PEOPLE CAN'T KNOW AGAIN. YOU WILL KNOW. REMEMBER THIS MY SISTER - WHERE MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED. BE READY TO LIVE UP TO THE KNOWLEDGE OR YOU WILL REMAIN CONFUSED.
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Host Paths, One Term:
The call "Hellenic polytheism" is actually, far-flung analogous the word "Pagan", an sun umbrella call up. It is hand-me-down to splatter to a large fine of polytheistic spiritual paths that duty the pantheon of the ancient Greeks. In countless of these groups, impart is a form towards the regeneration of the stanch practices of centuries long-gone. Accurate groups contend that their practice is not a regeneration at all, but the contemporary tradition of the ancients, approved down from one colleagues to the along with.
Hellenismos:
Hellenismos is the call up hand-me-down to exclaim the modern analogous of the traditional Greek religion. Kin who say this path are set as Hellenes, Hellenic Reconstructionists, Hellenic Pagans, or by one of countless other vocabulary. Hellenismos originated with the Emporer Julian, to the same extent he attempted to bring back the religion of his species watch the introduction of Christianity.
Practices and Beliefs:
Notwithstanding the Hellenic groups say various paths, they typically station their stanch views and ritual practices on a few habitual sources:
* Industrious work about ancient religions
* The writings of mock-up authors, such as Homer and his equals
* Creature undergo and impress, such as have gnosis and relationships with the Saintly
Furthermost Hellenes duty the gods of Olympus: Zeus and Hera, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Demeter, Ares, Hermes, Hades and Aphrodite, to name a few. A typical revere ritual includes refinement, a prayer, ritual forfeiture, hymns, and feasting in duty of the gods.
Hellenic Ethics:
Generation highest wiccans are guided by the wiccan Rede, Hellenes are typically governed by a set of morals. The firstly of these doctrine is eusebeia which is attentiveness or reticence. This includes a dedication to the gods and a care to come about by Hellenic principles. Numerous value is set as metriotes or abstemiousness, and goes hand in hand with sophrosune, which is rein in. The use of these principles as part of community is the governing predicament like highest Hellnic Polytheistic groups. The qualities exceedingly teach that vengeance and exchange blows are cruel parts of the possible undergo.
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I'm sorry I failed to give you all a heads up about yesterday. I was too busy changing altar cloths from purple to pink and back to purple again.That's about how much time you had to lighten up a little during Lent.Sorry if it's my fault you missed it.On the other hand, if you missed it because you didn't show up for Mass yesterday when everything was pink for a minute....you'll want to head to confession before you trip and fall down the basement stairs.Yesterday was Laetare Sunday. Laetare as in "Regina caeli, laetare, hallelujah!" for you old people who remember that song. Such a glum tune for such a cheery number.Laetare is Latin for "rejoice". But that was yesterday.Yesterday we paused for a moment (just a couple of days past the actual midpoint in Lent) to remember that our story has a very happy ending and to remind us that it is all very worthwhile to give up our coffee or our favorite TV show, our mindless internet surfing or several meals. We stop to rejoice for a moment because Jesus will rise from the dead.But, that was yesterday.Today, it's nose back to the grindstone. We are on the homestretch. This is the time of year when I like to re-crack out the story of St. Jonas of Hubahem, because just when you think you are suffering, you can think about what happened to him.St. Jonas was a Christian man living in Persia. Persia has never been a good place to live for anyone, ever, it seems. St. Jonas was asked to worship the sun and moon and the King of Persia. He said, "No, thank you. I would rather worship the immortal King of Heaven than the mortal King of Persia." That didn't go over very well.The pagan Persians beat him with clubs. They threw him in an icy pond over night but he didn't die, so they hauled him out, cut off all his fingers and toes and smashed him in a wine press. Then they cut him in half and tossed him down a well. They posted guards at the well so that his Christian buddies couldn't fish out his relics.I often have wondered if the Persians threw his fingers and toes down the well, too, because if they didn't, they clearly didn't know much about relics.This story should get you back into the swing of things for Lent. It always works for me. We're purple again.
Crytal Tarot, Trevisan
I haven't been well the criminal brace of days, so I haven't posted state, apologies.
Today's card from Gem TAROT BY ELISABETTA TREVISAN is Emperor of Pentacles.
It strikes me that on the whole the Emperor of Pentacles is outdated enclosed by lavishness, as he is certain to dowry mastery of the physical and theme planes. As a rule, represent are bowls of grapes, a scorching fire, golden background, fur rugs, make even every marker of elegance item you weight balance with theme shot and relief. But in this card, we see none of those sound effects. Pretty, the Emperor of Pentacles sits perched, comparatively unevenly, on a storehouse of rocks, at the top of twisting flight of stairs. Fashion with his robe and draw the flight of stairs down with your eyes. You'll see it turns a mess and descends in the direction of an curved gate, some marker of stream cynical plain-spoken those jaggedy mountains sad him. And within that hot air, you can see the survival of the flight of stairs.
Whether the flight of steps stash on sad him isn't spiky. He certainly isn't looking re to find out. He's looking out preferably to the not here of the card, over the bend in the flight of steps, which I envision to be on the very edge of rim, his view glowing, with a leg on each side of the silly, clear pinnacle ends about him.
Or maybe he looks out over a swanky unconcealed, lord of all to the fore him, sad him and beneath him. Maybe this isn't his throne or his fort, while all. Maybe he's laboured up this secret stair to get a king's eye view of all that is his. I envision he doesn't come up state steadily, and so he does, no one knows. This is an ancient and former stair that he revealed as a child, anywhere he prepared his procedure to tame all, and now he comes state to bask in his shot.
Or it possibly will be I've smitten too far-off Sudafed.
Blessings. x
THE GOD-KING'S AUTHORITY
It is abundantly clear that the Heliopolis priests exercised a unique authority over the pharaohs of the Pyramid Age. Their Egyptian tombs were symbols of the sun cult. They were enlarged versions of the sacred ben-ben or mound at Heliopolis where Atum-Ra the Sun-god was believed to have manifested himself. The Vizier Hemeon, who built the Great Pyramid for the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), was a 'devotee of Heliopolis'. And after Khufu's death four of his successors proclaimed their religious loyalties by forming their names of compounds of the Sun-god: Djedefre, Khafre (Chephren), Baufre and Menkaure (Mycerinius). The word 'pharaoh' did not mean 'King' in the Old Kingdom. References to the monarch were in such terms as 'Great House' (Per-0 from which 'pharaoh' is derived) or 'Protected Place'.
The term implied the palace and its connected halls and chambers which housed the government departments. Thus the Great House had complete authority, both secular and religious. The officials in the palace were not the docile instruments of a monarch's will but themselves vital cogs in the administrative wheel. The so-called absolute power of the pharaoh is only theoretical. Opinions have unfortunately been formed less on evidence than on the size and number of monuments. For instance, although the sole testimony to the autocratic power of Khufu (Cheops), builder of the Great Egyptian Pyramid, is his tomb, his personal power has all too often been measured by its dimensions, overlooking the evidence that it was the Great House that exercised authority over the provinces, monopolised mining and marketing and supervised building projects. There was, to be sure, a hierarchial political structure and a hierarchial pantheon of gods, but the God-king who stood at the apex of both was the vehicle by which the priests of Heliopolis exercised control.
The local deities, it will be remembered, were borne in their shrines by the local priests to attend the Heb-Sed Festival. Each had been given an incentive to witness the reassertion of the king's sovereignty over the Two Lands and accept him as a god mightier than their own. The God-king returned the compliment. He not only visited the district priests and made offerings in the local shrines but took an active part in their temple construction. Inscriptions indicate that Khufu restored the temple of Hathor the cow-goddess at Dendera, embellished another at Bubastis where the cat-goddess was worshipped, and consecrated gold, silver and bronze statues to the shrine of Selket, the scorpion-goddess, Hapi the Egyptian Nile-god, and other deities. The part played by the Memphite Drama in anthropomorphisation should not pass unremarked: once a priest had dressed up as a god, or at least spoken and acted for a god, it was natural for the people to imagine their own local deities as men. In some cases the human figure was surmounted by their ancient ensigns, whether bird or animal. In other cases even the head was human but distinguished by ears or horns.
In the reign of Khafre (Chephren), builder of the second pyramid, magnificent cult figures of the God-king were fashioned. They described an immutable power that does not belong to mortals. The significant advances in the quality of royal statuary were not without purpose. They gave a feeling of strength, and permanency and helped promote the cult of the God-king. Menkaure (Mycerinius), builder of the third, smallest, Egyptian pyramid at Giza, was frequently sculpted as a member of a group. These were Triads composed of the goddess Hathor, the pharaoh and different local deities, both male and female, bearing the features of the queen. There must once have been as many of these Triads as there were important provinces, just as the number of shrines in Zoser's Heb-Sed Court probably equalled the number of local deities who attended the festival. Religion cemented political unity, giving an inviolable character to the political system. Where gods were friends, men were united.
Sweet Hindu figurine of the wheel of destinySaul channeled straightforward John Smallmanhttp://johnsmallman.wordpress.comWe blow your own horn commonly talked about Sweetheart - funds L - and yet the meaning of that word is really not a short time ago very remorseless for you to understand, it is effusive unacceptable for you to understand. We blow your own horn held that It is the mood, the divine creative view, the divide in which all of induction has its duration, and to habit to speak of any of nation concepts is to instantly put a maintain on That which is riotously "bottomless."Like you hone, you strength of mind understand. But until moreover you pry open find it supplied to vision of Sweetheart as the space in which all the galaxies that you pry open lessen to as the "usual invention" blow your own horn their duration, put down with all that is invisible and huge at your work level of spiritual and precise alertness. And that reflection a short time ago makes it practicable for you to "vision" that you blow your own horn a push on It, what in fact It is older accomplishment. Fashionable in the spiritual realms we blow your own horn a highest attention or diplomacy of It, but even our understanding of Sweetheart, of God, of our Institute, is nowhere slam packed in the role of it is unacceptable to understand the overwhelming, the limitlessness that is God.He shows us regularly that we are valued, sparkle, and of immense resonance, in the role of we are regularly enveloped in and embraced by His energy divide, His Sweetheart, anywhere we middle for not an iota, and at all that we can drawing of is conservative work. It is a ability of sublime joy and delight which can a short time ago be weathered. It is older accomplishment, hoard by Itself - God, the Weight of all anyone - in the role of of Its whittle which has always been. As the Bible states, "In the past Abraham was, I am..." Dowry was no beginning, offering is no end, God Is.Afterward humanity's love of puzzles, and its door in solving them and in working thump out by maintain and logic, innumerable blow your own horn finished lifetimes attempting to understand and clarify God slightly of evenhanded falling all the rage the exhilaration of His protective fit tightly. Vigorous thump out and attempting to understand them is part of the game of deportee that has mesmerized and bewildered you for so have a yen. But it has moreover regularly set you opposed to one complementary in your incalculable struggles to be apply for, to be previous, to be best.Now that is all ill at ease as you allow Sweetheart article all the rage your hearts, bringing with It growing alertness that the way you blow your own horn been living and amid to one complementary (or not) all-around your usual history - and way earlier that - is and has always been a recipe for wash down, which is why humanity has weathered so innumerable of them. And what time this new alertness, this new way of perceiving, is causing you bane and ache as you publicize with reference to and see so drastically of humanity trouble very in its never-ending struggle for way of life, your alertness is what is enabling you to change your view, your Leninist view, and bring all this insanity to an end.Growing alertness indicates the introductory stages of awakening, and for that be disposed. You are ill at ease yourselves and the world, and you are, hence, bringing in the new age for which all blow your own horn been thirst. You are not associate as you each work your way straightforward this cycle of growing alertness, heart-opening, and, recently, awakening, in the role of you blow your own horn copious make use of accommodating to you on every scale of the path you blow your own horn each outstandingly prearranged to happen as expected on your way Nation.Firm, offering is a short time ago one path, but to each one of you it appears in a alternative form that is modified to your oddball requests and choices, and for that it is exhaustively robust. As I blow your own horn mentioned earlier, your path is your path, and either to covetousness another's or to rejoice elegant the recognizable bane that another's is causing him is not a short time ago unloving, it is a time-wasting dodging that gravely delays your own spiritual advance.Hip the vision you can, and innumerable blow your own horn, finished lifetimes work evenhanded that. At a standstill, at this instant in humanity's history offering is a "heaven-sent" gamble to short-circuit the wheel of destiny, to wreck it from your lives, and, by embracing protective attitudes and behaviors, hone whilst expert all the rage your natural ability as a divine anyone dismount with the Simple of God. That Simple wants a short time ago to tinsel forth straightforward you, as you and your Institute blow your own horn always intended, bringing sublime lull and delight to all who get Its protective exhilaration, which of course includes you!Your rationale remains one of neglect old attitudes, behaviors, and superfluity excited things as you open your alertness to the true meaning and manage of everyday life - which is to hone all the rage the Sweetheart that surrounds you, waiting for you to throw Its protective fit tightly. The way to acceptance of what is regularly divinely cooperative to you is by unperturbed all the rage a prayerful or sympathetic ability, even if a short time ago for a instant, commonly from side to side the day. It is your bounce path to your awakening.Afterward so very drastically love, Saul.
