The best little treatise I've ever read on "something" and "nothing" was Wei Wu Wei's "All Else is Bondage". Part of it is available here.
I think advanced physicists have peered all around the circumference of physicality and are now looking squarely at their own backside as a...
Religions and names for God are to spiritual growth like training wheels are to learning how to ride a bicycle--useful in the beginning but...
Maybe they're just killing two birds with one stone. Would be a economical and practical way to perform other animal baptisms too. I've even know...
The Ecumenical Fellowship of Sheepranchers [IMG]
I have one and don't really know why unless I just succumbed to advertising pressure in a moment of weakness. I never use it for anything other...
Excellent opportunity to apply the Golden Rule, IMO. Pause a moment to reflect if you were in the situation of the person you are turning, or...
I completely agree with that assessment. But imagine how loudly they'd deny it at central party headquarters!
Mine have been based/unbased on everything from unbending Southern Baptist dogma to equally intransigent Atheistic rationalism. I've found...
Now this is a great idea. Then we'd know who was actually running the country whether we could do anything about it or not: [IMG]
I voted for Reagan in 1980 and, after that fiasco, did not vote again until the undying stupidity of G.W. Bush inspired me to vote again for the...
I think we could do a couple of things to clean up most of the governmental mess: 1. Establish a doctrine of separation of Commerce and State....
When you wake up from a nightmare (or dream) by whatever means all its violence, wounds, anguish, death, desires, enchantments, longings,...
I don't know but from what I've seen it varies from church to church. Some seem to function mainly as community centers where congregants...
I don't know enough about Sharia or Islam to say much meaningful but think the economic rules I understand are suggested by some of it's earlier...
I don't think the spiritual reasons for death are all that different from the physiological ones. In both cases "death" is a way for life to move...
I must say that I've never had a cat, but many cats have had me. Wherever I go one (or more) wanders about for a while in a gradually tighter...
If God is Love and Love is ever growing and expanding then, yes, God does "learn" just like a doting parent "learns" when they see things through...
I was raised in the Southern Baptist hellfire and brimstone, no dancing, no drinking, no premarital sex, no smoking, no cussing tradition...
I think the right tack to to take on smoking, and other "social habits" that cause us all a lot of grief in the long run, is not to outright ban...
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