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If it is to be, it is up to me. We have a choice how we respond, how we react to any given situation. I am not the top in my class when it comes to my actions, words and behavior defusing, de-escalating situations. But the choice is always there.

Harumph...bangs cane in virtual support.

Zero clue what you speak of. One question would be to what end? Are.you exploring? Mapping? This has only happened 4x or 4.unis over how many years, how many attempts? What have you learned that has benefitted in this life, what did you learn here that you used for good there, and how do...

This is the thread I was looking for and Juan yours was the name I scratched my stroke addled brain trying to find. We and one other member made the trip to see our friends from io get married a number of years ago. Greymare got ahold of me to say Quahom1 had passed, may he rest in peace. Q...

Well I for one am glad that kept it around long enough for me to find my way enough to discard it. I mean allegorically fascinating and valuable, something I need to be real history, not even. I guess that's your American Christianity for ya we can thank the writer of the Declaration of...

Jehovah Witnesses have createe a number of threads that have discussed this extensively over the years.

I thought we had a specific thread for those of "us" that have made our transition from here to....there. I can't find it. So if anyone can DM me we will start a new in the proper thread. But I just received a message from his ex, from Greymare downunder that she got the message from his...

RIP brother.

Universal salvation?

There is some groundwork (school) to get thru for most belief systems eh?

I still don't understand the "darker side of things" how does that show up in practice? Ps enjoyed my couple trips to the cape! Went whale watching outta P-town and then watched the parade into town at a sidewalk Cafe eating dinner after the boatride.

It reads like part of s masters thesis (to uneducated me) and it felt like a paradigm shift and read (again to me) as something more Fransican than Orthodox. I have not read David Bently Hart but if I were to believe in G!d, I would have a hard time believing in a G!d that isn't a loving G!d...

Sounds more fransiscan, did I miss where this is coming from?

I was similar in my loss for years, I felt called yet disappointed in every place I tried. Capitalism, hypocrisy and Sunday fashion show seemed to reign supreme, I didn't feel welcomed, quite the opposite. I developed into my own thing, but what is always missing without "organized" religion...

A dark pagan Christian shaman....well that flipped the script! Where abouts are you located?

Interesting history...but what of a conclusion? Is the path of lucifer divinely inspired, man's mistranslation, accidental, intentional or devine?

So dark means....? Like what kind of tools are in your toolbox?

When my cardiologist sent me to the cardiac.surgeon (my second open heart) he grabbed my hand, bowed his head and said a prayer. It was without consent without warning and I felt offended, no...pissed off. He is not my cardiologist anymore. This does not matter the form of the prayer or the...

The issue is preferential treatment with those that are in the prayer group and peer pressure to join the prayer group for the perks. Similarly back when they banned smoking in the workplace....folks would go outside to smoke. If you had chosen to shorten your life by smoking, you got multiple...

Now back to what a dark pagan practitioner is/does, believes. And shaman? How is that title attained? Side note, I was up at Standing Rock in Oceti Sakowin during the pipeline protests...was referred to by an old native as an elder.... I said not me, and we got into a conversation, I asked...