Hey guys! Its time for me to move on.
Feel free to drop me a line anytime and keep in touch.

Bye Ruth. It was really nice meeting you.

We're losing our host and our Smiless.



Oh well, I've been thinking about moving on myself. I guess maybe it's just time to move on.

Im thinking of moving on from the religion forum at least. Im getting tired of being accused of being this big "Christian basher" when about 85% of what I draw from is taken from the bible. The last straw has been that Hitler thread in whcih all I did was utilize historical data that is public access meaning anyone could go to a library and find this information. But no, Im a Christian basher.

Poor Christians. They are so abused.

But where is everybody going? To another thread or are you weening yourself from your computer addiction?

I don't think I can do it. I'm addicted. Now all my friends are moving on.

I guess I could go to www.acrochallenge.com/ and play games. My sister plays those word games. Abra you would be good at it. I have not done it yet but I think I'm going to learn. You have to down load some software. My screen name is black-cat.

The only reason I every posted in the religion forums in the first place is as a public service.

The biblical myth is so absurd from the very idea that Adam would need a help-mate when God had never even given him a specific project to work on in the first place, to the utterly insane idea that God would be appeased by having his 'only begotten son' nailed to a pole.

But I suppose that anyone who is naive enough to believe such nonsense in the first place has already proven that they are beyond reason.

It just makes my skin crawl to realize that this is the very mindset that it takes for people to do horrible things like torturing innocent midwives as 'witches' in God's name.

To think that so many modern people are still stuck in that insane mindset is truly a horrifying thought.

It's just extremely difficult for me to accept that the masses are so profoundly unintelligent.

Atheists are probably the most intelligent people of all.

I don't want to believe in atheism because I want to be romantic.

But the biblical picture is far from romantic. It's a serious horror story of a truly undesirable God.

If I could freely choose between atheism or the biblical picture to be the truth of reality I would choose atheism as a far prettier picture.

However, there's always a hope that some other type of picture might be true. Like some sort of pantheism or animism.

I think the biblical picture has turned atheists off to spirituality to the point where they'd just rather atheism be true than to think that any supreme life force could stand by and let things like Christianity even exist.

I mean the mere fact that Christianity exists is pretty solid proof that no intervening all-knowing God can possibly exist.

Clearly if the biblical God exists it would be a demon of demons.

But just the same, if some other God exists that could intervene it wouldn't be much better for merely having allowed Christianity to exist.

So the mere existence of Christianity has pretty much proven that no intervening God can exist.

I think that's rather ironic but it's true. Christianity is the greatest proof of all that atheism is the most likely truth of reality.

They've pretty much proven that no truly compassionate intervening God can exist. For if one did exist it surely would have intervened in the Burning Time, and for the Cathers, and during the Crusades, and during the Holocaust.

The fact that any God (whether associated with the Bible or not) would permit such atrocities to be carried out in the very name of the supreme creator of this universe is clear evidence that no such intervening supreme creator exists.

The atheists do indeed have a rock solid point.

Christians argue that God can't intervene becasue mankind has free will, but that's clearly hogwash because the Bible had God intervening all the time.

And it's these kinds of utterly lame claims that Christians make that blatantly reveal how utterly insane their belief system is. They absolutely have no choice but to claim utterly absurdly contradictions to their very own dogma in total desperation to try to justify it.

They continue to beat a dead horse beyond recognition and that's scary because that's precisely the kind of mentality it takes to torture innocent midwives in the name of God.

It's just utterly insane. There's no hope for these people.

I know and guess who the "usual suspects" are.

Abra
Krimsa
JB

But a real God does not intervene.

The biblical God has proven that. He intervened and made a mess out of it.

So, is it not better to believe in a God or Goddess, knowing he/she will not take part of the going on on earth, than in a God that sees fit to kill his own creation because it was not to his liking?

Well, you're right. It is an addiction. Especially for someone like me who lives alone in a cottage. I just don't have the resources to go out into the real world to interact.

My car's on it's last legs and I'm not in a position to be buying a better one right now.

I joined Penczak's witchcraft forum in the hopes that there would be some action there, but that place is deader than the spirit world.

I'm starting to build my web page now, so maybe that will keep me busy for a while. It's like an art project. Building the web page also incites me to do other 'real-life' projects (like writing songs and poetry or making paintings) so I can put them up on the web site.

My sister just bought me that book on Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. This is something I want to do, not just for the sake of Art, but it's supposed to help with shamanism and psychic powers too.

I've also been using shamanic drumbeats that cross back and forth between using the right and left sides of the brain. Although I'm not convinced that going back and forth all the time is so great.

The idea there is that the beat is a right-handed beat, followed by a left-handed beat, back-and-forth.

It seriously takes a lot of energy and I haven't been able to master it fluently yet. There were a couple of times that I did fall into it and I must say that for those short moments it was kind of a 'mindless' experience.

I think the idea is that to do it properly you can't 'think' about it at all. It has to be 100% intuitive.

That's why it's hard to do at the beginning because in the beginning you have no choice but to think about it (because you are just learning the beat). So first you have to think with your left brain, and then your right brain, back-and-forth.

But after you start to learn it to where it's just automatic, then you don't need to think about it anymore and it takes you into a purely meditative place where you are just existing in intuition without conscious thought.

So those drumbeats are something that I continue to work on.

I'm using bongos right now, and I'm having physical problems with them. I hold them between my legs and I can only do that for so long before my legs start falling asleep and I lose circulation.

So maybe owl get out the conga drums and set them up. I have to stand up to play them so that will be a whole different experience.

I'm also working on the song for the Goddess. I wrote some guitar music for it. I really like the potential, but it's just hard for me to perform it. I need lots of practice.

I might record what I have so far, but it's such a horrible performance that I hate to let anyone hear it in this stage. It's kind of like a painting that has only been roughly sketched out. But it could take me months to get it right. I'm truly a terrible singer and it take me a long time to train my voice for each and every individual song.

Looks like I'm not leaving after all, but due to circumstances at home I will be on here a lot less. Did you guys know there are Mingle cops who will come get you and drag you back if you try to leave? Don't ask. It's a scary story. No wonder no one ever leaves this place.

Its an addiction, I wont deny that. I live in the middle of nowhere. Well practically. About a half hour into the closest small town for food and supplies. Its a farm here. Thats my excuse. Though its not a good one. I could be doing work on the farm even with the snow. I just plowed my drive with the backhoe.

Welcome back, Ruth.

Since some people have decided that they will harrass me (lovingly, of course ) until I came back I will simply put myself on a time limit. I just can't keep neglecting my studies.

Thanks. Long time, no see. I made it for more than 12 hours.

Welcome to Hotel California.

No sh!t.

I know

Been there, done that, and I have the T-Shirt to show for it

Well, there may be some truth to that A, but wouldn't that blow a hole in any hope to have prayers or 'spells' answered?

I mean having prayers or 'spells' answered is a big part of the attraction of spirituality.

Otherwise it would almost be kind of like a form or atheism where during life itself God is unreachable. But only in death would one survive to move on to another life.

I mean without the possiblity of intervention, any appeal to any gods would seem futile if the Gods can't intervene.

Consider this.

Let's assume that a consciousness could intervene (even a divine higher
self).

Surely that higher-self would have interevened in the personal lives of those two idiots who wrote the Malleus Maleficarum beliving that they were doing God's will.

That's the kind of subtle intervention that a spirit could do.

No need to kill anyone. Just fill them with feelings that what they are doing is horribly worng until they are discouraged from doing it.

Just having stopped the writing of the Malleus Maleficarum would have avoided the entire Burning Times. It was indeed the printing of that book that incited people to go witch hunting in the first place and it was also that book that told people what to do with the witch after they accused one.

So all a Holy Spirit would have had to do was to discourage those two idiots from having written that book.

Now if we are to believe that a Spirit can guide us intuitively why should it be so hard to imaging that same spirit helping misguided people to do the right thing. Especially when the idiots who were writing it were supposedly wanting to do the will of God?

That's key right there. Those two idiots were supposedly extremely 'religious'. Well wtf? Surely they were doing their praying and what not, asking God for guidance.

So where the hell was the guidance?

Just stop those two idiots from having written the Malleus Maleficarum and the entire Burning Times could have been avoided.

So simple.

Would that be too much to ask of a divine spirit?