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  1. ZenMonkey

    Inward reality and Outward Reality

    So, there are innies and outies, like belly buttons and gender, and here's a hush hush that reallyt isn't a hush hush at all, but rather a truth that I for one think needs to be understood. In my innie, or rather in my inner reality, the deepest and most sacred desire, and most passionate...
  2. ZenMonkey

    The Potters Wheel

    I must admit that I've never been so amazed and inspired in my entire life as I am with something I like to call the potters wheel. It has much to do with Grace, and with Grace comes so many things I never even knew were possible. So, There's Grace, the potters wheel, and all that comes with...
  3. ZenMonkey

    Exodus of Another Kind

    Exodus 31:3, Exodus 35:31 ... I've been trying to convey something, something monumentally important and necessary. I call it an exodus back to Eden, back home, back to life and everything good, pleasant, and pleasurable in life, and in doing so I've been met with such resistance that I am...
  4. ZenMonkey

    The Dogs of War

    of which I am. I have been for most of my adult life. I'm a strategist, I favor intelligence, and when I get a don't **** with me attitude, it best to take heed. So, in this world we have some who don't give a good gad damn about anyone, much less themselves. Then we have those like me who...
  5. ZenMonkey

    Think Twice ... That's my Only Advice

    Ha ha ha, bless your soul ... and a whoah turned into a hell mutha bleeping no, but then I'm not in control of what is deemed ethical or unethical in today's society. Anyway, Ethics and morality and being ok with being honest, yet also having fun with the think twice aspect of it all. Ok, so...
  6. ZenMonkey

    My Ugghh Transvent vent Thread

    Sometimes, and likely due to the way the world is at present, I fear offending people. I don't want to cause offense (typically) but then when I myself feel as if I'm being attacked, I get in my defense mode. It's a mechanism I don't yet have the control I'd like over. Anyway, I'm one who...
  7. ZenMonkey

    Am I Standing on a Giant?

    I'm asking about history, all who came before me, the collective whole made up of many giants, which is, essentially, one really really really really really big giant. We can learn a lot from giants. On a more serious note: We learn as we go and grow still, but the giants who came before us...
  8. ZenMonkey

    Comfort Zones and Respect

    At one time a few decades ago, I was young and I found comfort at home, in the woods, in drain tunnels next to my home, on the couch watching tv, catching snakes and bringing them home to mom, and sometimes while sleeping (when my nightmares were not so vivid)). I found comfort in my hell on...
  9. ZenMonkey

    The Devil Went Down to Georgia

    ....but that's certainly not where the devil began. I can say, and without hesitation, that I have honored the devil for a very large portion of my life. The question, however, is not about why, but rather who. Yes, who made who and who made you too, so who made who? God or the devil or us...
  10. ZenMonkey

    ZenMonkey's Concise Summation of His Journey

    I was born in 1970 ... about 7 years before Elvis died. I never knew Elvis, but I understand a little more than most about Grace, and Graceland, and The tender loving care and the taking Care of Business aspect to ummm ... Life. How else can it be stated? Anyway, I descended from my mothers...
  11. ZenMonkey

    When ALL Doesn't Mean All

    ... but rather all except for some. I'm not sure about you, but I've always viewed all to mean all, not all except for some. I mean, if all doesn't mean ALL, but only some then how could the gospel message even remotely be good news to any?
  12. ZenMonkey

    Without the Shedding of Blood There is No Forgiveness of ...

    That, at face value, appears to be incredibly "vengeful". It's almost as if it's saying ... I'm so angry I couldn't forgive you in a million lifetimes for what you did, so you're gonna shed some blood for what you done. It's a frightful thing to be delivered into the hands of an angry god. I...
  13. ZenMonkey

    Morning ... A Star Was Born

    She shined like a diamond in the sky so brightly that three kings found her shortly after her birth and brought her gifts. She was always protected. I guess that had a thing to do with the hit that was put on her life before she was born. They knew she was coming and would change the way of...
  14. ZenMonkey

    A Brief Testimony In Relation to My Theological Leanings

    Ok, so way back in the 90's ... say mid ninties, I decided to accept Jesus yet not accept the so called sacrifice. I feared hell for not accepting the sacrifice, yet I managed to maintain enough faith to keep moving forward and staying true to my convictions. Anyway, It was against my moral...
  15. ZenMonkey

    Heaven

    If there is one ... where is it located? Also, given the litmus tests and all the rules and policies that tend to deny happiness and pleasure in life do you really want to go? It's better than hell ... I guess right? I kinda doubt it. Your heaven is more like my hell and my heaven is more...
  16. ZenMonkey

    Christian Atheism

    I view it like good and evil, light and darkness, hot and cold, etc. It's almost oxymoronic or paradoxical but it really isn't. It just seems to be. I'm officially declaring myself a Christian Atheist, which has yet to be but has also already been clearly defined. Do you believe me, or in...
  17. ZenMonkey

    What if ...

    today I quit working for the man and say and I've had enough ... Well, maybe I can.... It's all gonna end anyway. What I mean is this: 25 years dedication to my Christian roots, and still walking, learning, sometimes preaching, as both a disciple, disciplined in my field, a student, and a...
  18. ZenMonkey

    Good and Evil

    Ok, so much talk and discussion and disagreement and not too much unity of mind on this subject to date ... err ... at least from what I've experienced in life thus far. What constitutes good and what constitutes evil and why? Easy question which should have an easy answer, but then ... that...
  19. ZenMonkey

    What Have You Done For Your Country Lately?

    Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." So, I don't do much, but try not to snap into a slim jim crazy, and attempt to establish a little joy, peace, happiness, and comfort in life. I'm speaking of my own of course. I couldn't even begin to...
  20. ZenMonkey

    How things came to be

    Like cow tipping .... How did this practice come to be? Was somebody out in a field trying to make a cow sit like a dog and got tired of trying so instead waited until it fell asleep and pushed it over? Sounds like tares and the wheat parable in the bible. I guess someone got pissed and...
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