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Katzs
Hi, it must be morning for you there! I have another post up. I will be reading you guys shortly. Thanks!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 15, 2007 at 7:00 PM
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True, true, true. We are so busy, we fail to meditate and pray. We often rush out without saying our prayers first or even starting the day without asking for wisdom and guidance.
posted by
katzs
on October 15, 2007 at 5:16 PM
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.Dave
We suspend our power of judgement at our own risk. Whether it is weaving through traffic, or through the human maze, analysis, evaluation and choices or decisions must guide us. Judging is discernment. When it comes to people we usually keep our judgements to ourselves, letting our observations guide us! Thanks for comment and pint!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 15, 2007 at 7:51 AM
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Ophelia
LOL! Those bad guys like me? Thanks!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 15, 2007 at 7:42 AM
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Antonio.......
Thanks Antonio, I tried!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 15, 2007 at 7:41 AM
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Decshak
Thanks Guy!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 15, 2007 at 7:39 AM
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I judge people all the time. I don't want to love them all. I'm happy for people to continually judge me too. As you know by now (probably) I don't believe in a judgement day, except for the fact that every day is a judgement day where I hope that everyone will judge me and that I too will judge myself. I'm happy for believers to reference their gods when judging me and I will reference my notion of what 'good' is when I judge them. Evil, for me, is a graded notion that we all have within us to some degree.
Tara for now, Dave, and here's a pint from the jackdaw... 
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 15, 2007 at 7:06 AM
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Interesting reading :) (p.s. the LLamas read it with the utmost interest - I think they like you
)
posted by
opheliablue
on October 15, 2007 at 6:42 AM
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Yes, it's a difficult subject, well-covered!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 15, 2007 at 12:17 AM
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OK.
posted by
WindTapper
on October 14, 2007 at 9:01 PM
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Richinstore
Thanks Rich!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 14, 2007 at 8:47 PM
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Jacenta
Thank You!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 14, 2007 at 8:46 PM
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soul
thanks for sharing.
posted by
richinstore
on October 14, 2007 at 8:30 PM
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Soul_Builder101
posted by
jacentaOld
on October 14, 2007 at 8:02 PM
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riri.....
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 14, 2007 at 7:31 PM
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AandB
You are right. The Hindus fast on Thursday. Christians have lent and Fridays. The moslems have Ramadan. More important is to fast from things that detract from your spiritual progress. Certain behaviors, doings, and seekings keep the spirit in servitude, unfree! Materialism embroils us in a world of illusion, we cannot take it with us. How is giving it to our descendants going to help us? Yet, we must take care of business! Living in the spirit, things are handled for us, by us! This is understood when you are in it! Thanks!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 14, 2007 at 7:30 PM
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Barkinggirl
When so much of life includes minute by minute judgement, judge not seems a redundant lesson. Even if it applies to people, we have to judge, in the interests of safe living. Would you refuse to judge a sexual offender, and allow him within close quarters? You will be judged anyway, that is the promise of Judgement day. In life your power of rational judgement has its role. To neglect it would compromise your safety and seeking! Thanks!
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Soul_Builder101
on October 14, 2007 at 7:22 PM
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posted by
riri0322
on October 14, 2007 at 7:21 PM
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KaHae
Very well reasoned. Maybe this will help with explanations......
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/NewTestament.html
While the Bible is what it is, we are guided by papal employees, who give us their own slant! When people get stuck in the obvious inconsistencies, the soul is constrained by its inability to penetrate the blocks. Its freedom has been compromised by inconsistency and fogginess. As you sow you reap, which is karmic law, becomes compromised by dubious and spurious methodologies of salvation. A righteous person always comes in front of a thief. The loyal son comes before a prodigal son! Inconsistency is revealed! Putting anomalous information before the intellect, subdues it! Which is why many reject Christianity. No one wants to be in something suppressive of the soul. This is just a glimpse of basic papal repression. Your comments on fasting and meditation were excellent. In some past posts, I alluded to this. There is a science to spirituality which is commonsense. Religion was not founded by the Messengers but by their followers, hence the insistence on dogma, not on Tips for living. Thanks!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 14, 2007 at 7:14 PM
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Christ as role model
What I find interesting about the Christ represented in the New Testament is that he responded to circumstances in such a
rich variety of ways. Sometimes he seemed to tell people to obey the law - "Render unto Caesar..." At other times he seemed to say that the law should not always be applied (the aborted stoning incident). Sometimes I wonder if what he really taught is that laws and belief systems are simply man-made constructions which are socially convenient, but also serve to cocoon us, to absolve us of the need for understanding or compassion or direct experience of life. That no judgment is ever predetermined in God's eyes. That we need to respond afresh to each moment in all of its rawness, richness, and complexity, again, and ever yet again, without relying on pre-existing thought patterns or filters, on old accretions of being or thinking. Being open, not blind, to the possibility in each moment.
Can we release judgment (of ourselves or others) without being blind to ourselves or others? And if we can, can God be any
less compassionate than we are capable of being in our best moments? The thief on the cross had not spent a lifetime doing good deeds, he had not scourged himself or done penance, yet merely through committing himself to belief, in those last moments, he qualified himself to enter the Kingdom. To be able to commit himself in this way he had to
believe that Christ thought him worthy of being saved, had to release all his self-judgments, everything he thought he knew about life. And (as the Bible presents it)
that was all. That said, few receive such a road-to-Damascus-like experience. It is difficult in life today
not to be caught up in the swirling waters of one or other belief system, social, religious, political, personal.
Each are based on particular forms of judgment about life. "This is the way it is/should be!" "No,
this is the way..." Fasting - not necessarily in relation to food - maybe in relation to the mass media, popular music, certain deeply-held beliefs, whatever one's addictions happen to be, may be one way of loosening this grip. Similarly meditation quietens the mind and the heart, allows them to relinquish their obsessions and judgments for a brief period. Maybe that was the function of Lent in the old days, and is perhaps the function of Ramadan for some even today?
posted by
KaHae
on October 14, 2007 at 6:34 PM
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There are different types of religious fasting. The R.C. fast on Friday abstains from meat.
posted by
A-and-B
on October 14, 2007 at 6:04 PM
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judge not
Hello,
The verse Judge not that you be not judged has always seemed like a warning to me. Perhaps because I take it that way - it seems like I always get chastised when I judge others and in one way or other find myself in a situation where I can 'feel' what they may have felt. Make sense? ;0) Thank you for sharing. Bonnie
posted by
barkinggirl
on October 14, 2007 at 5:38 PM
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