This is part of a discussion a friend and I were having:
Kat: There are no coincidences, no accidents. But there's no Fate, either. Wrap your brain around that one!
Torp: I had already come to that conclusion. I'm of the opinion that the Universe acts in a mostly deterministic manner...
Why must it be a choice between either creationism or evolution? Why can't it be both? I sure believe in both. The world was created, yes, but it was done over time, and God is still creating. How could God be the Creator if S/He is not still creating?
Kat
My love is more powerful than my lust, and I do not love for shallow reasons. I can be "crushing" on someone for their looks, but if I find that their personality is distasteful, I lose all interest. The same goes with my friendships... if I still make an effort to be your friend, it's because I...
There are rules, you know, about how to debate. Fail to follow them, and you can and probably will look like a fool. The rules can be accessed here:
http://www.truthtree.com/debates.shtml
http://www.bookrags.com/articles/31.html
And the following are fallacies of debate. If you want to have...
This is a good example of the mistranslations of simple religious texts that I've been talking about. It's a concept most people don't seem to comprehend, which bothers me: anyone who's ever tried translating anything from, say, English to Spanish to French and back to English again with...
The coolest revelation in The New Revelations by Neale Donald Walsch, for me, has been that everything and everyone is an avatar of God, because God is all there is. Everything and everyone is a local manifestation of God.
God is like air in a house, and everything that exists is like the air...
I'm beginning to think I'm a liberal Christo-Pagan, because though I am a New Age Pagan, I believe that Jesus's philosophy was so right and is so misunderstood. Jesus was the original hippy, he would have been a liberal (probably a member of the Green party, if any party), for he was a leader in...
True Satanists revere life and do not sacrifice animals or children or engage in ritual abuse. They oppose all that Christianity has become, and yet some Satanists would make better Christians than the so-called Christian fundamentalists, because they despise hypocrisy.
Satan is not...
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked,
"Who would like this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up.
He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.
He proceeded to crumple up...
So many parents fail utterly to raise their children because they have been trained by society to treat children the way they would treat cattle or a misbehaving dog: as an animal in need of training. This fails not only because of the resentment of this treatment, but also because adults tend...
I can't decide if I should join the Theist group or the Atheist one. My philosophy is such that one can call it God or Life or whatever they want to.
Kat
I've been reading up on indigo children, and found something fascinating and scary, especially considering that many people have children because they think it's expected, but are not good parents. If they can mess up the old form of children, these new kids will be even worse for these people...
A quote from "Tomorrow's God" by Neale Donald Walsch:
Neale = How about our children? What will be the impact of the New Spirituality on them?
God = Much will change in the life of your offspring. For one thing, they will no longer be ignored.
Neale = Ignored? Who is ignoring them...
Why is it that some people scream bloody murder against violence on TV, but subject their kids to the violent imagery, pornography, death, and torture of the Bible? Why subject children to images of the crucifixion and of martyrs dying violently? Why put the fear of death in them with that...
God, in "Tomorrow's God" by Neale Donald Walsch, said - and I think Jesus would agree - these words:
"Even those you consider the worst among you are expressions of God."
Now think on this. God, in the same book, also said that the words "Life," "Change," and "God" are all interchangeable...
Hi, I am Indigo Child. Usually I am online as Kaliko Kat, but as I am an indigo child, I thought I'd come here as Indigo Child. :D
And no, indigo children are not blue. I suggest you Google the term. It means I have an indigo aura, and that among other gifts, I can see right through people...