Comments on: Standing for Jesus or Demonstrating Bigotry? Resources for skeptical, de-converting, or former Christians...... Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alban Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:59:21 +0000 For me, feel the passion and try to stay on topic. You can always edit or regroup your thinking. If your piece goes somewhere other than what you had planned, save it somewhere and start over. The best part is feeling the passion. In that mode, momentum is hard to stop.

On this site, most have spent years thinking their religion thru or thinking thru their religion- mostly mormon. I discovered long ago that a lot of what we read and what were taught to think about God was very limiting.

I found the bigger picture was about my relationship with life, not in concept as much as in feeling. (I differentiate that from emotion) Once the source was experientially ‘entered’ within myself, making that entry an everyday priority, my conceptual interest of WHY others did not have the same interest launched my investigation into the how and why of what had been packaged and served in religion. For the most part, Christianity in which I had been raised was missing the most crucial element…discovery of the place where “the Kingdom of God” was said to exist.

Prior to being shown where that place is and how to get in, no one, not a single person could answer that question- if it is inside us, how come no one talks about that or shows how it is done? It seemed like an overwhelming absence. The resulting frustration stymied that particular passion until I learned how to access it from a unique teacher.

I equate passion with inspiration. You usually don’t find one without the other. Find what inspires you and there you will find passion. There are many different flavors, but the source of it all is stand alone, amazing, in my opinion. (Scripture does note that in some places as well, but our largely agreed upon interpretation is like a blind, deaf audience in a theater reviewing the show)

Absent that or unable to access any other type of inspiration, take 5 deep breaths. Focus on the in and the out, clear your thoughts. Then I bet your self expression will flow in any subject that inspires you.

Polish comes in time like shining up a diamond. I’m still working on that.

By: Alban Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:42:30 +0000 ‘A day late, a dollar short’, cag…for me. Alas, that’s why I mentioned the dinosaurs. Seems like we didn’t show up until after the ice age eradicated most of those carnivores.

There isn’t a lot that is clear and confirmed about our first appearance but by any of the propositions- the wild theory the apes (or the Yeti?) were inseminated and colonized by a superior race, we just evolved or God manifested us, the fact remains, we have either a conscious or unconscious control of our creativity.

Choosing the former not as an ideology but as a practical and enjoyable pursuit seems priceless even to the objective observer relative to the mess we have created up to this point.

So again, I’m ‘not feelin’ (as the youth likes to say) this dead end declaration either. Maybe those declarations should have a “to me” tag on the end.

By: Alban Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:11:37 +0000 Just to clarify before the piranha begin feeding…in theory only but guessing it’s not too astray, animals are affected by our energy. It’s not a question of imitation obviously. The pattern that we establish upsets what was once at least, a natural order. All species like our own bodies have to compensate when the balance gets out of whack.

We humans set precedents by our overall position at the top of the food chain. All creatures are animated by the same energy but we are the only species that can intimately know and use that unique supreme energy. As most at this point( I think that is slowly changing) are not aware of their intimate connection, (not belief) the use of the energy tips the balance of the scale heavily toward destructiveness. Thankfully it didn’t hit bottom, but it came close.

The pattern then that we established for this world including the animals has been negative, resulting in fear, mistrust, hate, manipulation and bloodshed. I’m not contending that wild animals will want to get chummy with us or lions won’t occasionally snipe and dine on a zebra if we as individuals can get a better handle on why someone once called us “the crown of creation”. Gradually though the intimate recognition of our sustaining energy will naturally turn the momentum of ‘being’ and that creativity, to a positive charge. Hopefully then WE will begin to restore that balance.

Maybe one of those legendary seers captured a future camera snapshot of a lion laying down with a lamb not realizing it was just a photo op or shop. In the same vain I’m thinking about the “end of time” world Mayan calendar phenomena. Disaster outcomes however they are prophesied do not include the variable of the wise use of free will or its origin..

By: cag Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:49:14 +0000 Alban, if your imaginary friend created all life, it also created all disease. Humans did not create germs or viruses. I, however, do not blame the “divine” as the divine does not exist.

Animals were eating each other well before humans came on the scene. The biblical lies do not change reality, we are the result of evolution, not the cause. Your message is of zero value.

By: Alban Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:02:27 +0000 cag, life is the only constant on this planet. Human life appeared after dinosaurs with expression entirely different from that largely carnivore population. So we as a race more affect our environment than any animal. And not just by a more developed brain. An aspect of our superiority thru decision making comes from our natural composite of the divine with essentially dust and water.(called hu-man) So our nature is connected to all other life. In the ignorant use of free will however, we created disease. More than the unsanitary processing of our meat, it is our destructive expression that sets the PATTERN for animals to kill each other and insects to be carriers of disease(with no sanitation). Throw in sitting bodies of water and there is an environment ripe for disease. But heavily influencing that is our diss-ease as the governing body here. We still shirk our responsibility to ourselves and to our planet by ignoring the potential benefits of utilizing our complete individual human composition.

Cannot blame the divine if we are aware of only fables about it and would not blame it if we were aware of its presence in each of us. At that point blame will be n/a.

By: cag Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:27:36 +0000 Kat, fortunately I don’t believe in silly superstitions and imaginary friends. Your god is the same as all the other over 2000 gods, the product of imagination. Belief in fairy tales may be cute in a 3 year old but rather disgusting in an adult. Read the bible thoroughly and critically, comparing everything in it to what we now know. The earth was not created before the universe.

By: Kat Sat, 08 Jun 2013 03:39:47 +0000 Each of us is doing the the best we can right now…unfortunately you are stellar proof of this fact.

By: cag Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:54:43 +0000 Ebola virus, smallpox virus, malaria, cancer, blindness, the list of blessings goes on and on.

The fact that you are breathing is evidence enough.

So you have no evidence for god, just that humans exist. Not very convincing.

By: Kat Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:36:04 +0000 The fact that you are breathing is evidence enough. Your ego is responsible for the fire you breath.

By: cag Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:29:03 +0000 Kat, newsflash: there is no god. If you disagree, be the first in history to provide evidence for any god. The bible is not evidence, it is just an unproven claim with arguments so childish that only an indoctrinated individual would read more than the first 10 words and still believe that it is anything but ancient fiction.

You do realize that your message #30 is an insult to a certain portion of the populace, yes?