Markfromcali
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Thinking Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by whyamihere indoes anyone ever think of the saying ..."bad things happen to good people"?.
i was making chicken noodle soup for my daughter for lunch and i had an hypothesis on this!
i know the subject did say crazy thinking!
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Does the WT owe faithful fulltime workers a retirement income and care?
by frankiespeakin inwhat do you think?
do you think the wt owes it to these long time fulltime workers some kind of retirement care reguardless whether they still hold to wt dogma or not?
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When You Try To Reason With Someone About The "Truth", What's Your Focus?
by minimus indo you concentrate on the lack of love, the doctrines, the flip-flops, the un debacle, child molestation-----what??
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Everlasting Life desire born from ego??Why the mind blindly grasps for it.
by frankiespeakin ini've been reading alot about physics and the mind.
i think perhaps the reason why everlasting life in some form,,, be it in heaven or on earth... appeals to people,, not so much that they think they would enjoy it, it is more like the self protecting ego wants some calming reassurance that death is not the end of "identity",, so the mind(that can now think about the future) is in pain over the idea of eventual death,,this pain blinds the mind as to what "is" and in an effort to relieve pain is often tricked and laches on to false hopes since a main function is to find answers it gets a measure of fullfillment if it thinks it found the answer.
which leads to acceptance without much critical attention.. the ego being this non material force(more like a conditioning of thought) we have devolped through evolution which seeks the survival and comforts of the individual,,and which has been responcible for our survival as a species.
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Leaving the Watchtower -- Prolonged Adolescence?
by logansrun ingreetings folks,.
i'm in a bit of a fritz so bear with my free style.... sometimes i feel that, for the last two years since leaving the organization, i've been in a period of prolonged adolescence, filled with the confusion, second-guessing, mistakes and insights that go along with it.
i'm now 28 years old and feel like i'm in my early twenties sometimes.
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Peace as a state, or permanent trait/structure
by Markfromcali inokay, here's one for those of you interested in consciousness and such, or maybe those who happen to find it interesting at the moment.
if not of course you are free to click away and return to your regularly scheduled programming.
i was reading some ken wilber and was thinking of the point about different stages of development, that different consciousness can be a temporary state, an experience or basically a stable structure of consciousness.
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When are book studies held?
by little1 ini would like to know if there is a certain day that book studies (i.e.
the group reading of the book of daniel, etc-all jws together) are held.
when i was dating the jw he always told me book studies were on friday nights and so he couldn't see me on friday nights (unless he wanted sex on a friday night.
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Are some physicist modern day gurus?
by frankiespeakin inwould you concider someone like david bohm or david peat a guru of sorts?.
here another link:.
http://www.fdavidpeat.com/bibliography/essays/nat-cog.htm#bib1.
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The essential David Bohm,,editied by lee nichol.
by frankiespeakin ini'm reading "the essential david bohm,,editied by lee nichol.
" it is about the physicist david bohm.
an extrodinarry mind.