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Yea when I was younger I was sick of hearing how nice and how good I was, so I became the rascal you guys now know so I wouldn't have to hear that crap any more.

Enjoy your Holiday RabbiO? Is there like a Mardi Gras type period where Jews go a little bit wild and let their Kippahs down before the Passover Season

My soul is only imprisioned by the illusions I create and ignorance. Redemption for me comes from simple knowledge and understanding. Sacraments are merely tools to help one focus their minds more pointedly towards a single focus.

Some Biblical textual scholars will point to the J, E, P, D Hypothesis as the reason for this. Two different source texts the J and the E which were combined. In the portions where God is pluralized the word for God was Elohim and in the other portions the word for God is Yaweh. The flood story is a perfect example of where these two sources were merged from the two disctinct kingdoms of Judah and Israel to form one text when the Jews were in captivity in Babylon. Up until the captivity the Jews were not a book based religion. Everything was centered around the Temple. After the temple was destroyed they needed something and hence writings were all they had to go with what probably was a myriad of differing oral traditions. RabbiO can correct me if I am wrong

Being a bit skeptical, hearing the speaking entity use the name "Jesus" instead of correcting and using Yeshua's real name gives me even more pause. In Karen Armstrong's book "Great Transformations" she goes through great depths to show that almost all those religions mentioned branched off from the area of the Russian Steppes, if I am not mistaken. So while i don't discount the information you posted there seems to pratcical Earthly explanantions for the one source as well. Of course we both know that anywhere on the planet almost any mystic who encounters the Divine is going to walk away with the concept of 'Oneness" firmly entrenched in their mindset.

What an evil thing to do! Wish that all someones wishes come true, do you know how much heartache that can bring That's why you only get one wish on your Bday HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER KEVIN!!!

One thought that has entered my mind since first hearing of these texts is how spiritual or in tune with All That Is could the writer of these texts be, seeing as the text are written in lead. Whoever worked with the lead codices probably suffered lead poisoning to some extant and maybe even died as a result or suffered brain damage. If they were highly in tune with The Source of all phenomena, one would think they would have written the material or a more suitable and less toxic source.

Hurray!

Sending warm loving energy to all involved. I watched a nature show the other day where a baby fawn was just born and stood on it legs a few moments later only to be eaten by a lion. Makes one wonder about life and purpose.

Holy Mary Mother of God, how could they do such a thing !!!!

Yes it would seem that each tribal community would need their own invisible secret mojo God to help lead into warfare against their neighbor and the ones who won out not only would have become more popular by outcome but because the losing mojo would have lost many and sometimes all of their followers in the fray. Each group or tribe would have been considered special in the eyes of that Mojo as well which would be only natural thinking if the Mojo was going to help you kill and conquer other peoples. The Mojo couldn't love all peoples equally or why would he help you at al against your neighbor. One look at the Middle East and one still sees these barbaric ethnocentric tribalistic Bronze Age concepts in full swing.

You got it!

But they have pottery shards with the words Yaweh with his Asherah I do believe. I tried to attach photo but wont let me for some reason

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42154769/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001 I wonder if after the divorce if she gets half the property?

Dou you throw darts at it or run headfirst into it to generate new ideas

Contemplating a pile of horse poo on the hiking trail with flies on it and realizing sometimes God stinks!

I've been praying with my whole being that the nuclear reactors don't make a very bad situation even worse.

My prayers and well wishes will be added as well

Pegs maybe they are so extroverted on the subject because they are fighting those very urges inside of themselves like we have seen here from some of our own.

Yea the wole conversation was funny to me, I would have loved to had been the moderator. I once had a fellow Pentecostal member come over and lay her hand on my shoulder and tell me she saw 99 demons come out of me. A few days later I saw her again and said "Rita someone knocked on my door today and you'll never guess who it was" she responded seriously "Who was it Frank" I then told her " It was the Demon of Lust and I asked him whered he'd been the last few days and that I missed him and to come on in!" lol One thing I do find a bit scarey is that those people don't seem as downright ignorant and uneducated as one would expect. Fred Phelps did get admitted to West Point and earned a law degree before he got disbarred.

I hope they have a website so I can join up? They have many websites and were hacked while argueing with the hackers on-line lol

I know it is a very nice intent behind the parayer, but without my blights how am I going to learn anything and why did I punch my ticket to get on this darker version of "It's A small World After All" in the first place! Don't take away my blights, just pray that I learn everything I need to know from them the first time unless I consider them fun and want to ride the Karmic wheel repeatedly.

Well mine will be added for their speedy recovery. Do 4 out of 5 doctors still recommend lots of ice cream after the surgery?

Sounds kind of like my nephew and me playing chess against each other on-line in two adjoining rooms. We're both watching seperate channels on TV most the time while we play.