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I do believe it is still available through the store.
is this what you are talking about Dorian?
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thiest is a pretty broad term, but it does fit. Might find yourself at home among the unitarians as well.
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I know the feeling. It does make me wonder, though, whether it is the ability to learn from making dumb decisions that mark the man who is responsible enough to make his own decisions...?
even a toddler learns from poor decisions. They don't always learn the right lesson. But neither do adults.
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Dorian Grey;
Thanks for your links! I read them, and from what I can understand (legal-ese isn't a language I'm very fluent in!) According to case law in Virginia, I am not legally allowed to perform marriages, BUT if I got lucky & gave my paperwork to a clerk that either doesn't know or care about this information, and they approved me for performing such celebratory rites, I *can* do it, and it would be legally binding?
Not sure if I want to put those in my lifestyle at risk for legal headaches or worrying about the legality of their marriages. What a shame. :-(
Form a state organization, have an annual gathering, or every millenia.. the law says regular, not frequent.. done and done.
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I am really curious how people are defining important here. Just as an example, when I was quite young, I decided to sun tan on the mattresses my neighbors had put out to air one summer day. They were on a picnic table. I rolled over, and over, so as not to burn, and fell off, on my head, onto concrete. An important decision, in that I could have been seriously hurt, or killed, if no one had been around to notice. I am sure I mad tons of important decisions at very early ages. I suspect you all did too.
So, then how is one judged responsible enough to make a choice?? That it doesn't go badly? That it leads where we expect? I find the whole idea confusing..
(and intriguing. good topic..)
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How old were you when you became responsible enough to make the important choices in your life?
if they are choices, which I doubt, they are all important.
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old post reply.. ignore
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Has anyone ever been to a service at the headquarters??
kinda far away.
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looking at that home, obviously, I am running my church incorrectly...
But this guy, according to my net sleuthing, runs a web site creation business, so, that may be where he pays for the house.
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Well, that will complicate my work again.
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while I don't condone BrDevons response ( I think it was harsher than appropriate for a new member who seemed to genuinely present an opportunity for some who might be interested) I think he has a point. This is a community, with its own cultural mores. I would encourage you, if you have not already left, to continue to follow, and participate in the topic, understanding that some who are here may take umbrage of your approach. There are a lot of people here, many of whom don't ever post at all, but only lurk, and some of whom may still be interested in your offer, and might meet your expectations. We are a complex, diversified group.
Still, I think his point is valid, in that it would have been much classier, in my opinion, if you had entered, engaged the community, learned a bit about us, made relationships, and then sought out potential contractors. Yes, a more cumbersome process, but it would make me feel less like a human resource you were looking to harvest, and more like a peer with whom you might be interested in collaborating. Directing me to your site to learn more about you is simple, but lacks any personal commitment to the relationship. Now, I am not your target audience - I neither live in your area, nor like to do weddings - but one or the other of those factors probably applies to most here.
At any rate, I wish you luck.
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I am not a mod, but, based upon this, I think you are on safe ground..
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there are probably more than two options. how do we measure if a greater good was achieved. does it matter if the result was intentional?
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I would also like a definition of violence.
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However, ULC Modesto isn't very tech savvy.. kind of traditionalist..
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A lot of the newly ordained join the forum because they think that it is part of the process, and with no real intent to become involved, I suspect. And most all forums have more lurkers than posters.I clicked on the Members tab a couple of days ago and saw member after member, after member, date joined and 0 posts. I got to page 46 or 47 and gave up. Obviously people join and quickly find out that this is not the forum for them.
I was a bit intimidated by those active members that site reference after reference to bolster their points and tend to say disparaging remarks to those of us that do not. Maybe newcomers think it is too highbrow for them. I know from experience that people who use wikipedia as reference are often thought of to have an intellect lower than a snake's belly. Although I cannot cite the exact post, there were words to the effect that If you cannot back up your post with references, you may as well not waste your time posting. I, personally, continue to muddle along and ignore a lot of folks here and do what I do no matter if I am lower than a snakes belly or considered too lazy to look past wiki but I know there are other who are surely put off by that attitude.
We had a member here in the not too distant past who was such an extreme Christian fundamentalist, that rather than just saying that he had the right to his beliefs and opinions then disengage, he was attacked at every turn and after a short time left the forum.
I know the forum cannot be everything for everybody but there is a real private club feeling to it.
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well, yes, it might be. I was being a bit facetious.. of course.. but quite right. Hard to predict how a non human human is going to think.. in the long run. perhaps a writer could create some speculative fiction based upon the idea. Perhaps they might credit me for a tiny percentage.. Not really going to expect that..It would be interesting to see how much that remains true with the biological factors taken out of the equation?
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on the internets, 4chan might be seen as this kind of establishment.Many businesses run successful models built around attracting loud, obnoxious drunks who cause a lot of trouble. While these are places I do not choose to frequent, there are obviously lots of people who want to do so. So the question is not necessarily about what it takes to be successful so much as what kind of success you want to have. Because a successful dive bar, a successful chain restaurant, a successful night club, and a successful church will all be doing very different things to attract the sort of customers who will be interested in the services they provide.... In terms of this forum, we would have more posts and more posters if the conduct standards were looser, but the majority of those posts would be things that Brother Kevin does not want to store on the servers he pays for. So, in my opinion, quality is a better goal than quantity.
There are lots of them.. actually.
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Your kink is not my kink but your kink is ok.. my biggest concern is that old people tend to get more conservative, and that the number of old people will sky rocket. Progress will stop. mmm explains a lot of star trek episodes with super advanced civilizations slowly dying out.
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I don't think we have a choice, actually.. we will do as we will do.. but recognizing that we are not certain on things of which we are not certain, seems important.So we should take no stand, teach and believe nothing for fear that we may be wrong?
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See, there is the bugaboo, ain't it. (bolding mine.. ^^) Of course, if you are wrong, you could be damaging their immortal soul with that logic.. I mean, we have pretty good evidence about the impact of dental care on teeth, but we hold religious beliefs without much actual supporting evidence. People who believe as THE TRUTH that their race is inherently superior to others wil teach their children the same, and probably they will "not depart from it". But it really isn't doing them any favors..I agree with you Bro K. And while I don't know helpful this is in the pagan context, I remember having this same conversation with an older relative (back in my pre-parent, free wheeling hippy days) and she just laughed at me. She asked if I planned on making my kids eat right or brush their teeth the right way or just let them choose to do it whenever or however they felt like it. I said of course I'd make them eat right and brush their teeth. She said, as I recall, that I'm an idiot then, because a persons immortal soul is way more important than their teeth or bellies. Being a parent means always being a parent in the big ways and the small ones. Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." A parent who thinks they've found the truth has a duty to share it and not let their children have to stumble around with no direction. But then, like I said, I don't know how applicable this is to a pagan parent. Free advice...free for a reason.
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understandable, assuming that you believe that the thing you believe is true is the only thing that is true.. A number of faiths hold this position. But if one believes that many paths can be true, it is less important which path is chosen.If I have a heartfelt belief that something is true, then I would consider it my duty to try to pass that along to my child. If I am just playing at having a belief system then my children would be welcome to play whatever games they wish.
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killer angels about gettysburg and The Marsh Arab Raji Hakkan.. a very old travel memoir about time spent with a Marsh Arab Trader in Iraq early in the 1900s.. And various game rules.
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I think it is bundled with a starter pack now. Includes a cert and some other things..