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Esoteric Wisdom,Does it Exist?
by Blueblades inthe dictionary states:esoteric,intended for or understood by only a chosen few,as an inner group of disciples or initiates( said of ideas,literature,etc.
)beyond the understanding or knowledge of most people;abstruse,hard to understand.. a large percentage of the jehovah's witnesses believe that a certain,"aura of esoteric wisdom"is existent during the governing body sessions.they believe that an unusually high level,manifesting more than ordinary scriptual knowledge and spiritual wisdom give its pronouncements an importance above and beyond that of normally accorded words of imperfect men.. the fact that the average witness has only a misty idea of the way that the leadership arrives at its conclusions adds to the "aura of esoteric wisdom".. for those of us who have come to realize that esoteric wisdom does not exist with the governing body of the witnesses,my question to you is,does it exist at all,if so,who has it?.
blueblades,and the search continues.
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I can't keep up...
by one_ugly_time inthank you all for all the great info.
the list of great posters on this site is much too long for me to remember.
i have searched and read quite a bit and recently decided to post and add a few of my thoughts and dry humor.
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Nudist colony for JW's ?!
by one_ugly_time ini found this story at --.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&e=1&u=/afp/us_nudist_offbeat.
first christianity-themed nudist resort to open in florida thu jan 22, 1:30 pm etadd offbeat - afp to my yahoo!.
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Things You'd Love To Say At Work
by Meg inthings you'd love to say at work but .... .
1. i see your point, but i still think you're full of shit.. .
2. i don't know what your problem is, but i'll bet it's hard to pronounce.. .
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Paradoxal nature of change...
by one_ugly_time ini was just noticing.... i want to spend more time with my children.... so i end up spending less time while i look for a job that will allow me more time.. i want a more consistent daily life so that i can go back to school.... so life because chaos while the schedules/events/activities are rearranged to support this.. i want better, deeper, more fulfilling friendships in my life.... so i end up with no one to turn to momentarily as i cultivate this change.. we want violence to stop in the world.... so we create more violence destroying the perpetrators before that is possible.. that is why i find goal setting and reflection so important for myself.
many times, i get 1/2 through a change and feel like i've taken 10 steps backward and can't figure out what i'm doing wrong... just as often, i'm not doing anything wrong, just forgetting momentarily the burden i placed upon myself or others in order to make the change possible... .
can you think of other changes you have tried to make that seem to take you in the wrong direction?.
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proof of a cosmic joke?
by zen nudist inthe name jesus is an english transliteration of iesus which is latin for iesous which is greek for yehoshua [joshua] which was a combination of yhvh+hosea, first given to hosea the son of nun, by moses to commerate the deliverance or salvation [meaning of hosea], by yhvh [the lord].. well in latin, lord is domino.
so the full meaning of jesus is---.
domino's delivers!
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Online Forums/Newsletters/Support...
by one_ugly_time inafter replying earlier today, i realized that i read a few on-line forums for various reasons... besides this one, i also read --.
http://www.seducersworld.com/ :: a very different outlook on social seduction.
reading through this, it shows how individuals are easily persuaded once someone has emotionally engaged you; regardless of their emotional engagement - only the insinuation or inference of such.
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Saturday's Quote of the Day
by codeblue in.
your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
codeblue
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Sacred Site...
by one_ugly_time inthe internet sacred text archive - http://www.sacred-texts.com has tons of interesting texts on-line, covering many eras, religions, and other historical readings... .
i had never heard of some of these texts, so i started clicking away to find out what all these where about.... one that intrigued me, with possible relevancy to the times at the start of russelism, is the works of thelema... here is what the intro says -- (note the dates).
these are texts relating to the philosophy of thelema, many of them written by the occultist aleister crowley who founded the organization a.'.
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Common traits of dubs...
by one_ugly_time in(this is tough - my html version of the editor isn't working) .
after reading the recent threads by defd it occurred to me that after 20 years of being out of the borg that i still exhibit some of these traits... someone make it stop - please !!!
1) illusive conversations; not willing to stay on a topic a discuss information.