As soon as I tried to capture the moment,
it flew away.
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Today I will not give up.
I acknowledge my terror,
but I will not give up.
I acknowledge my anger,
but I will not give up.
I acknowledge my sense of hopelessness,
but I will not give up.
I will feel my terror, anger, and hopelessness,
but I will not let them be my permanent home.
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Thank you. Yes, I say my morning prayers alone too. And I have prayers I say later in the day with other people. Everyone is so un -
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Aw, thanks so much, Carol!
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Thank you so much for sharing this. If I can get my printer to work I will print out a copy and add it too my cycle of morning pr
I just got off the phone after talking with my spiritual mentor. We discussed the importance of creativity, but mostly other very heavy topics. It was challenging, though she's kind and gentle.
What made it terrifying was that, after facing some ways I defeat myself, I phoned her to discuss them with her. Though they're nothing shocking, it can be scary to disclose one's faults, no matter how humdrum and unremarkable the faults or how nice the person to whom one is speaking.
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So what? We all take ourselves too seriously; that's the Cosmic Joke. Yes it is great that our furred and feathered friends can sh -
Thomas, hi, I'd just been thinking about how long it's been since we've been in touch! It's lovely to hear from you! Thanks for re
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Our familiars are so clever! They always seem a bit ahead of the curve for what we need. Which is, truly, to not be quite so earne -
Oh, yes, we scorpios are deadly serious. Sometimes I think it can truly be deadly. Thank gods for my cat.
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That's okay, Francesca, I also take myself too seriously. It's just one of the silly traits that make me so lovable! And, like y
(Dissolving*Becoming by Jan Betts)
As promised, I’m beginning below the process of building a positive notion of the Divine, a constructive, systematic, theology. Of course, this is built on my own thoughts and views developed from my studies of science and the humanities, informed by the various theologies and narratives I have been exposed to. It is the output of that internal discussion and so I’m not constructing this as an argument, rather as something of a discursive story.
I presume your milage will vary, and well it should. I’m not writing this for you to agree with me (although you are welcome to), rather as an expression of my thoughts on the matter and as an example of one way to do this. We can debate forever, but at some point we need to make and here is my current product, ever subject to change. Frankly, you should do this for yourself, based on your own foundation. Nor do I claim the below is complete. I expect to be adding to it as time goes on and this is just the first layer. There are many issues with the Divine that need to be discussed but that won’t happen in one blog post. For now I simply invite you to read, reflect, and if you wish, respond.
Honoring the feminine divine means trusting women as full moral agents with control over their own bodies. Period.
In the past year's war on women and especially on women's access to reproductive health care, one of the hidden justifications is that women can't be trusted with their own choices, either because they're ignorant or because they're just not capable of making good choices for themselves. Look at forced ultrasound requirements before abortion: the people who make the laws will explain, time and again, that the procedure is for a woman's own good, so that she is "fully informed" before making a momentous decision. It's inside her own body - do you really think she doesn't know what's going on?
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Joseph, I have no idea at the precise moment when the fetus becomes a person. The point is that, this is mainly a women's issue, m
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Diotima: I'd have posted this as a reply to your post, but for some reason the site isn't letting me do that. So, here I am. 1. I -
Interesting point Anne. Whenever women's choices are challenged, it pushes "a handmaid's tales" button. The artificial environment
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I have always been 100% pro-choice (and still am) but can't help but ponder than this entire issue may be moot in our children's l
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I'd love to see artificial gestation as a potential solution, although it's going to become just as thorny in terms of funding and
No, that title is not a typo. I do mean theoilogy.
Theology, to quote the ever-handy Wikipedia, derives "from Ancient Greek Θεός meaning "God" and λόγος, -logy, meaning "study of." God. Singular. By its very nature, at its very root, the word assumes a single Godhead. As such, I find the term best suited only to those religious systems which are explicitly monotheistic or monistic, eg Islam, most strains of Christianity, some branches of Judaism, and some sects within Hinduism.*
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I wonder if it's the same with leprechauns on St. Patties day?
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I've often thought about this subject in terms of museums, but never thought about the Tiki connection. There's an art museum near
