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The bible mentions that some would be a law unto themselves. The context was that they would know love in a pure way and be accepted into heaven on that basis alone.
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Hey K been a hard road...still fighting but winning...
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we make manifest our world, our Gods or God. In the end what we believe is true, with all it's variations.....
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God is Love, couldn't be simpler..
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we all change moment by moment, why not change names too...?
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You can no more win a war than you can win an
earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty,
and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up
some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato
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if you take the bible as a whole, old testament leading to the new testament you see a maturing, a realization of a progression from one set of actions to another, the latest dealing with a lot of love and compassion.
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I hear ya Gragg, just trying to see how there is hope in this world...a future that does not have us hiding under our desks half our lives...
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Honestly my country, America lost it's Soul when Lawyers replaced Philosophers and Dreamers in our freely elected governments, locally and Federally...
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Christianity also says it is ok to sell others into slavery, to kill disobedient children, that women are to be subservient to men at all time...or else!
-Gragg.
have to be mentally adroit enough to read the bible in it's cultural context, what was 'Normal" behavior in countries, wars and the like....all religions have had their Intolerance Factions...and enough idiots to run with it....but you can't go wrong with act of compassion towards all sentient beings...
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it all comes down to, in truth do what you can do on a personal level, recycle, vote for Peace in all elections, smile and pleasant to your neighbors..don't waste fossil fuels etc....
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Even Christianity tells ya to work on your on self well before you attempt to work on another's, there is a reason Monks took to long times in solitude, they were taking the rock thing out of their own eyes..
Is Iraq any better off then it was under Saddam?
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If the U.S were really as altruistic as it claims there would be a lot less Genocide and Starvation in Africa, Tibet would at least be a Truer Autonomous Country and we would all be driving cars fueled by hydrogen....
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Iran's statements show the Western World a little something called Independence...as a country Iran has the right to do what ever they can get away with, it seems to be the way things work...America works that way on a global level, so does China now that I think about it..
Free Tibet.....
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It comes right down to personal responsibility... to be responsible for our actions in general and also responsible to the point of realizing what our tax dollars do...when we realize that the lions share of our dollars fund murder and such things we reali8ze we share the weight of such things.. it's our unified Karma
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to see and end to war would need to see and end to waring countries, first blow out USA and see if any one nation wants to carry on after they have been removed
-Scythian Witch..
We need to clear our own hearts of these needs to violently express ourselves, to clear our hearts is to clear the world....
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we are not surprised at the latest findings of the FBI miss using the Patriot Act in a very Illegal fashion but not aware enough to do anything about it, we are run down by the duplicity we are subjected to
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this country, the U.S is lost in untruths, half truths and useless truths all set out by our government hiding facts and figures about their real happenstance...
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there seem to be truths out there in this world that we are not privy too...the war on terror is set on
a stage of clouds with a smoky back drop....
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3) Any attack on legitimate military objectives must be carried out in such a way that civilian populations in the neighbourhood are not bombed through negligence;
-Scythian Witch..
only if your infpormation is write about who is a non military person or not, with the U.S we have no idea in truth who we are fighting...
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3) Any attack on legitimate military objectives must be carried out in such a way that civilian populations in the neighbourhood are not bombed through negligence;
-Scythian Witch..
only if your infpormation is write about who is a non military person or not, with the U.S we have no idea in truth who we are fighting...
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check your messages it will explain....
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hehehe, hold it for a bit....been doing a bit of time elswhere..., it's all good though deary, it's all goood..
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The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Buddha
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
~General Smedley Butler
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Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
~Winston Churchill
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Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
~Winston Churchill
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
Longchenpa
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Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in
the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first
place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human
beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.
The Dhammapada
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What we think, we become.
Buddha
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have to lay back again, will be back later...hey Angel...it's all good....
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yes I see your right on things, a bunch of people sued over the movie, those southern ladies did also...then scene where he said that one of the wives was not that attractive...I guess satire has been forgotten, do you get John Stewards the Daily show over there, comedy central, amazing satire
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funny thing about Borat, the college boys who sued over the flick saying the were being misrepresented as drunks had their case thrown out when pictures of them from their MySpace showed them being drunks..go figure....
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K it was scripted and edited...but hey we are a bunch of assholes at times but look at the world, Borat makes us out to be to stupid to be harmful...
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I like Conors simplicity..sometimes theres a bit of genius spurting out there when ya don't expect it....
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ya know your all in My dream, not the other way around, that's my story and I'm sticking to it..
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-sand I think our time, our moment in history cause us to question a whole lot. We know too much yet we don't act in accord with that knowledge and our present troubles in the world are showing us to be pretty dysfunctional. It's showing us in a way that leave little in question about oiur cultural stupidy, Irag is a Perfect example...
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-karen, it always about you, giggle giggle snicker snicker giggle spit...
-Tony
forgot to add the hehehehehehe
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I think our biggest problem today is the lack of intellectual adventure....
-Tony
Not any more... my interlect is on fire... so many tangents to explore! ; )
-karen, it always about you, giggle giggle snicker snicker giggle spit...
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The thing with me K the moving out Idea has always been a given...I never doubted for a second that we would move out and beyond, I guess that's what happens when you grow up on Heinlein and Star Trek
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And beside Irag this administrations biggest crime has been to kill our intellectual diversity...
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I think our biggest problem today is the lack of intellectual adventure....
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