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Mar 27

ERR ON THE SIDE OF SAFETY………

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WHEN IN DOUBT, THINK IT OUT. @35 educated, mnstr of greatess church; @45 Registerd Rep, $100,000 income: rejected for $1mil insurance, health failing; @55 Crashed, manic depressive; @65 cancer. Lost everything, began to err on side of Good; @71 cancer in remission, living each moment aware of the Spirit of the Universe in my inner being.

If there is anything I wanted to share with you it is what I am sharing with you now from 1st hand experience.  Although no one agrees with everything one person shares, I hope there is something here that will light up a part of your life as many have done mine.-mackie +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

‘I had some business on the North Shore one morning last month, and decided to go a bit earlier to watch the waves and shoot some pics. As it always happens, the surf the day before was epic, with a Hawaiian-scale 10′-12′ WNW swell firing up the outer reefs. I’d heard that Pipeline was in all-time early season form. But this day, a new and increasing N swell was competing for space with the declining westerly component, making for huge, but gnarly and crossed up surf. The trades were blowing hard side offshore, making for deep rib-like chop across the giant wave faces. Every break from Laniakea to Uppers were just washed out whitewater cauldrons. “Boy,” I thought to myself, “I’m glad I didn’t bring my board today. You’d never catch me out there!”‘ (#1)

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“I’m a pretty safe driver. I’m a safe driver for a lot of reasons. One reason is that I hate the idea of getting a ticket. I’ve gotten pulled over for speeding before, and it sucks. It’s expensive. It’s a pain. You know that feeling you get when you drive past a squad car going a little over the speed limit, and then you look in your rear view mirror, hoping it doesn’t pull out? I hate that feeling. This, combined with the simple fact that I don’t want to die, is the reason I drive safely. I get passed a lot on the interstate……..The Bible can be interpreted a lot of ways. With any given issue, people of faith can go to the same Bible, pray to the same God, seek out the same Holy Spirit, and come up with very different answers. Take any issue: homosexuality, immigration, the treatment of the poor, abortion, gender roles, warfare, capital punishment, gun rights, euthanasia, the environment, education, etc. and people of faith will come to very difficult conclusions.

Some try to group these things into neat little packages like liberal and conservative. I’m not a fan of those labels, or of any labels really. I think most people are more complicated than our labels. I know that the world is.” (#2)

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“If something smells fishy it probably is. You should make a habit of simply choosing the ethical high road if you have any doubt in the matter. Don’t wait. Do it quickly before you talk yourself out of it. How much mental and emotional energy do you spend in mind games and moral debates when you should have just said “no” in the first place?” (#3)

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#2- http://fatpastor.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/erronthesideofgrace/

#3-  http://www.character-ethics.org/articles/erronthesideofgood.htm

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Mar 04

LATEST NEWS-WOMEN & YOU….

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MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE | Unbiased TRUTH http://j.mp/ACvAZi God of Bible decrees man over woman? or 2 become 1? Up 2 U,OK?

http://biblebabble.curbjaw.com/women.htm God of the Bible? of Your concept of eternal truth? My wife, mother, sisters, etc. women! GLORY BE TO MOTHER OF GOD!?>
http://nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible7.htm men love women. WO-MEN IF THEY DON’T! MORE IMPORTANT: 2 = 1 AND FORM SPIRITUAL UNION. FOLLOW YOUR ETERNAL “I AM-NESS”!
Women are more influenced by how a man smells rather than how he looks.
More Young Women Having Strokes http://abcn.ws/x2ElJR
Men, we got to be kind and respectful to all women. U came out of a woman, right?
Daily Kos‏@dailykos
Women of color in women‘s history: Part one—Native Americans http://bit.ly/wIYlv6
A #waronwomen “is being fought around the country — and in much of the country, women are losing.” – @NickKristof http://bit.ly/Ak9FiC
ICYMI, When States Abuse Women-my column on forced vaginal ultrasounds on Texans seeking abortions http://nyti.ms/xLJLig
WOW (Women Occupying Wall Street) | Forum | I think the militant …: WOW stands for Women Occupying Wall Street… http://bit.ly/xxHjfK
Tell Rush Limbaugh‘s advertisers: Stop supporting Rush’s unforgivable attacks on women: http://bit.ly/A9rZcf @CREDOMobile
A bit last-minute, but qs for 2night’s #PHTwitJC on- low income mothers, nutrition & health – now up http://bit.ly/AfitXv All welcome.
Bunker was complaining about Jews: Dingbag: “Archie, Jesus was a Jew.”  “ONLY ON HIS MOTHER’S SIDE!” replied Archie.
more later-mackie
Mar 04

MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE

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Which is more correct: “THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD?”  or “THE GOD OF THE BIBLE?” Even more exact:
“THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT?” or “THE GOD OF THE NEW  TESTAMENT?”
Even deeper:
“THE GOD OF LAW?” or “THE GOD OF LOVE?”
Is it better to tell people what to believe? or Ask them if they would like to share with you what they believe?
I’m almost done.  Everything you believe is your decision.  No one else.  I will leave you with a couple of statements to consider, if you want.
When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of knowledge of Good and Evil… Who got the harshest of punishment? Eve! Adam’s punishment was that his herbs would sprout thorns and he would get to rule over Eve, is that really a punishment? Then Eve got pain in childbirth, pain in conception… and became a servant of sorts to Adam. Not to mention the official punishment for Adam was for listening to his wife. (Genesis 3:16-17) #1
The God of the Bible decrees that woman must submit to the dominance of man.
“The social and legal position of an Israelite wife was inferior to the position a wife occupied in the great countries round about… all the texts show that Israelites wanted mainly sons to perpetuate the family line and fortune, and to preserve the ancestral inheritance… A husband could divorce his wife; women on the other hand could not ask for divorce.. #2
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It’s not up to: Your friend, husband or wife, your parent’s, pastor, etc. 
IT’S UP TO YOU AND YOUR CONCEPT OF YOUR HIGHER POWER, GOD, ETERNAL TRUTH, ETERNAL SPIRIT THAT LIVES IN YOU, etc.
more later-editor
Jan 08

STILL MISSING REVOLUTION OF 2,000 YRS

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If you are seeking for more of the ETERNAL FORCE THAT CREATED AND IS CREATING AND CARING FOR ALL GOOD THINGS THROUGH THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THIS “ETERNAL SPIRITUAL I AM“, HE IS ALREADY LIVING WITHIN YOU. Some of you are already experiencing it. IF NOT, NEED A VERSE?
 
“Don’t waste your time about when, who, or what may happen; THE KINGDOM OF GOD, HEAVEN, I AM, etc. ALREADY LIVES IN AND THROUGH YOU TO CONTINUE TO LOVE AND CARE FOR ALL CREATION AND THAT WITHIN” (luke 17:21).
 
Also, “But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you” (John 16:17 and ff). We all have doubts. Jesus was human and confused when he asked on the cross: “MY GOD, MY GOD! WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?” Jesus died and went on to be with the Holy Spirit and now lives in us.
 
After 2,000 yrs many people still worship the Bible as the word of God, instead of understanding that the Spirit of God lives within us and wants us to seek His guidance in truth and worship. So, what are we to do? Are we to stay in the first grade with those 66 books as the words of God, or as a history of what the writers thought about who their gods were? No more excuses: We are to sense, feel, seek after the Eternal Spirit in our hearts, not in an outdated misunderstood 66 books. We are now told and sense that the Holy Spirit wants to teach us new things about ourselves and the one and Only true ETERNAL SPIRIT as Jesus has done and wants us to do.
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There has been a shift in many religious groups historically where people followed after a person who was telling them new things about hope that they had never heard before. The true hero kept telling the followers that he was only human, but believed in things never heard before. There crowds grew larger to the point where the people in power saw the hero as a threat to their religion or way of living. They begin following the crowd, questioning this hero whose answers threatened them. So they plotted to kill the hero by using some of his wayward followers to find out his journeys and a proper time to kill him. As the threats increased the hero became afraid and stated that he must leave. But, as usual, the hero waited too long and was slaughtered, stoned, crucified, etc. Of course, the faithful followers began to hide to avoid being murdered. They began to have visions and hear new things about their hero, but to no avail.
 
However, there is one hero that is unique: Jesus. Although he didn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus, Thomas Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen.
 
ONE OTHER UNIQUE THING ABOUT JESUS. HE IS THE ONE HERO KNOWN IN HUMAN HISTORY WHO PRAY AT HIS KILLING:
 
“FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.”
 
 
 
 
To know more about the “ETERNAL I AM” get in a quite space, relax and sense this presence in your breathing, blood flow, your entire body and listen as Jesus and many other Holy people have done and do because:
 
Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,
 
who lives in you and was given to you by God?
 
You do not belong to yourself. 1 Corinthians 6:19
 
Nov 08

THE LATEST ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION?

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In almost every subject in the universe someone studies, wonders, sweats over, etc. trying to answer many questions that are on their minds until finally they breakthrough. ELAINE PAGELS has done that for us in Revelation. Of course, not everyone will agree with everything she says, but almost everyone will find something that gives them a better understanding about Revelation.-mackie
 
ELAINE PAGELS is a Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University; Author The Gnostic Gospels; Beyond Belief; and Revelation (forthcoming, January 2012).
 
“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible. It’s the most controversial. It doesn’t have any stories, moral teaching. It only has visions, dreams and nightmares. Not many people say they understand it, but for 2000 years, this book has been wildly popular. Why would anyone bother with a book that rationalists love to hate, I was thinking that from Epicurus to Richard Dawkins. Many people assume what I learned from my father, who converted from Presbyterianism to Darwin and became a biologist, that religion was nothing but a compensation for ignorance, and would soon die off. In fact, I thought I heard Steve imply this yesterday when you included in modernity, science, but not religion.”
 
 
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Sep 17

WAR OR PEACE? IF EACH OF US LIVED BY THE GOLDEN RULE WE COULD LEAD THE WORLD IN PEACE.

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BELOW ARE JUST A FEW OF THE BELIEF SYSTEMS WHO BELIEVE IN THE GOLDEN RULE. WE COULD LEAD THE WORLD IN PEACE……
bullet Bahá’í Faith:

bullet “Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which thou doest not.” “Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself.” Baha’u'llah
bullet “And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself.” Epistle to the Son of the Wolf. 1

 
bullet Brahmanism: “This is the sum of Dharma [duty]: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you”. Mahabharata, 5:1517 ”
bullet Buddhism:

bullet “…a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?” Samyutta NIkaya v. 353
bullet Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” Udana-Varga 5:18

 
bullet Christianity:

bullet “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12, King James Version.
bullet “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Luke 6:31, King James Version.
bullet “…and don’t do what you hate…“, Gospel of Thomas 6. The Gospel of Thomas is one of about 40 gospels that circulated among the early Christian movement, but which never made it into the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).

 
bullet Confucianism:

bullet “Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you” Analects 15:23
bullet “Tse-kung asked, ‘Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?’ Confucius replied, ‘It is the word ‘shu’ — reciprocity. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.’” Doctrine of the Mean 13.3
bullet “Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.” Mencius VII.A.4
bullet Ancient Egyptian:

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“Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.” The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, 109 – 110 Translated by R.B. Parkinson. The original dates to circa 1800 BCE and may be the earliest version of the Epic of Reciprocity ever written. 2
 

 
Many more are mentioned. Click on: http://www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc2.htm
IT’S UP TO EACH OF US.  I RECOMMIT MYSELF TO IT.  WILL YOU GIVE IT A TRY?
Aug 27

ACT OF GOD? means

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SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF HUMAN CONTROL

The phrase is used religiously and legally.  The Bible and other ancient texts cite the Acts of God.  Legally, there are lawsuits against God.  When a cow breaks through a fence, goes out to a road and is hit by a car, it is legally called an Act of God.   One can’t sue the ownerof the cow for damages, unless the driver of the car can prove that it wasn’ t an act of God, but the act of the cow owner that caused the accident.  Example: if the car owner can prove the cow owner did not use proper care of maintenance the fence, the cow owner will have to pay damages to the car; unless the cow owner can prove the car owner was reckless in his driving.   Sense we believe that everyone that is agrieved should have their day in court to find justice, many times it  takes a long period(see #1).

ARE HURRICANES, ETC., CONSIDERED ACTS OF GOD?

The two essential ingredients in every hurricane are warm water and moist warm air. That’s why hurricanes begin in the tropics. Most Atlantic hurricanes start to take shape when thunderstorms along the west coast of Africa drift out over warm ocean waters that are at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius), where they encounter converging winds from around the equator.
Hurricanes start when warm, moist air from the ocean surface begins to rise rapidly, where it encounters cooler air that causes the warm water vapor to condense and to form storm clouds and drops of rain. The condensation also releases latent heat, which warms the cool air above, causing it to rise and make way for more warm humid air from the ocean below.   This continuing heat exchange creates a wind pattern that spirals around a relatively calm center, or eye, like water swirling down a drain.

Some scientists believe that the increase in global warming is a result of  pollution caused by humans, corporations and countries through out the world that generates more hurricanes. etc.  Others believe its just natural causes of the survival of a vibrant earth.

It’s interesting: the more we find out through science  the causes and effects of humans, the earth and the entire universe, the less we BLAME GOD.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God

2- http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/a/hurricanecauses.htm

Oct 15

LIVING IN THE ETERNAL PRESENCE……

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( this message is for anyone who believes in the power of the good, whether you are religious or not.  I only use quotes from the Bible because many believe that is the only source of truth.  I know of many different sources of truth that have convinced me nothing dies, it just changes forms, like mist to clouds to ice or rain to moisturing the earth and repeating.  Just read the following and translate it into your belief system).
 
In the OT there were rituals, rules and laws that are complicated and hard to understand.  Believing that that God wrote every word in all the books of the Bible is dead wrong, even blasphemous. There are other people besides God who are reported to have said things in those books chosen by men.
 
Thank God, later on the prophets began to greatly simplify this.
 
“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Mh 6:8)
  
THE ETERNAL ONE DOES NOT CHANGE, BUT HOPEFULLY OUR FAITH CHANGES AS WE COME TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS BEING THROUGH STUDY, SCIENCE, PRAYER AND MEDITATION.
  
The WORD OF GOD is not words written in a series of books called the Bible, but:
 
 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
 
Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.  John 1:1
 
 
Then comes this Jesus who is reported to be the Son of the ETERNAL ONE who by his life, words and actions in human form points us to the ETERNAL SPIRIT. 
 
AND WHO DOES GOD LOVE AND GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO?
 
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
  
He loves the WHOLE WORLD AND EVERYONE AND THING IN IT.  And what does it mean to believe in Him?
 
Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of
 
heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.  Matt: 21:7

 
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?
The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.  John 14:10
 
It’s not the going to church, smiling, singing, giving a little money, etc. that gets us into the kingdom of God; 
 
IT’S LETTING THE FATHER (The Eternal Presence, The Holy Spirit, etc) LIVE IN YOUR WHOLE BEING (mind, soul, body, work, play, etc) SO HE CAN DO HIS WORK THROUGH YOU.
 
“The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, 21nor will people say, ‘Here
 
it is,’ or ‘There it is,’
 
because the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:21
 
 Did we miss that? 
 

7 the LORD God formed the man [a] from the dust of the ground and

breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living

being.

 
In conclusion, to live in the Kingdom of God (Heaven, Eternal Life, etc) RIGHT NOW AND FOREVER is to:
 
FORGET ABOUT WHO WE THINK WE ARE AND WHAT WE THINK WE WANT, AND:
 
Letting the Father, already living in us, doing his work. 
 
Every morning, 1st thing, before anyone else is up:
 
Sit it a chair quietly.  Empty your mind.  Be aware that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.  As you breathe Him in deeply, breathe out all your cares, worries, resentments, etc. to make more room for Him.  Repeat this until you are totally relaxed and sense His presence.  Ask Him to live in you and do His work through you today.  Remain quite and silent being aware of what He might want to do through you that day, and then let Him do it.
 
St. Paul states how he did it:
 

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

To be continued.  editor@unbiasedtruth.net  

 

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not hearsay, rumors, or falsehoods.
Sep 08

GREAT!!! K’S PAIN IS GONE!

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9/8/2010

 FYI. K has gone to see the Neurosurgeon today and have the stimulator installed permanently tomorrow.  Isn’t amazing what they can do now to help people like K with the pain and make it go away. When the temporary one was installed, I will never forget the expression on his face when the pain was gone, in fact it brought tears.

 Thanks for your thoughts and prayers, Your Brother, C.

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 Just as sincere ministers and believers search to understand and experience their God, thanks to the committed people in science and medicine, etc. who study the Works of the Ultimate Cause to benefit us in our everyday lives.  I believe that as we share our spiritual energy to those that need it wonderful things can happen.  THANKS TO THE ETERNAL PRESENCE!  You raised a wonderful person named Kevin.  I’m also thankful that we can be open and honest with each other AND FOR LETTING US SHARE IN K’S SITUATION.

 ALSO, THANKS TO ALL MY UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS WHO WERE MINDFUL AND CONCERNED ABOUT K.

M.  —————-

8/27/2010

 WOW K!   I ADMIRE YOUR TREMENDOUS COURAGE AND BELIEVE THAT THOSE WHO HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM TO HELP WILL, WITH COMPASSION AND EMPATHY, BE OPEN TO THE ETERNAL PRESENCE THAT HAS ENLIGHTENED THEM TO THIS POINT, WILL SUCCEED.  

Opposite the title page of Darwin’s Origin of Species appears the following quotation:

‘To conclude, therefore, let no man … think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God’s word, or in the book of God’s works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.’

The author is Francis Bacon, and the quotation is from his 1605 book The Advancement of Learning. Here is the classical statement that there are two ways of understanding the character of God, through the Bible, and through the world he has made.

 Sending my energy through the ETERNAL PRESENCE to you,

 Uncle M. (editor@unbiasedtruth.net)

 

Sep 08

BIBLE MORE VIOLENT THAN KORAN? CODE RED ALERT!!!!!!!

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BURNING THE KORAN COULD CAUSE MORE TERROR AGAINST US SOLDIERS AND AMERICANS!
WILL WE ALLOW EXTREME FUNDAMENTALISTS ON BOTH SIDES TO TERRORIZE MORE PEOPLE?
 
(source cited)
In the minds of ordinary Christians – and Jews – the Koran teaches savagery and warfare, while the Bible offers a message of love, forgiveness, and charity. For the prophet Micah, God‘s commands to his people are summarized in the words “act justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). Christians recall the words of the dying Jesus: “Father, forgive them: they know not what they do.”

 But in terms of ordering violence and bloodshed, any simplistic claim about the superiority of the Bible to the Koran would be wildly wrong.

 In fact, the Bible overflows with “texts of terror,” to borrow a phrase coined by the American theologian Phyllis Trible. The Bible contains far more verses praising or urging bloodshed than does the Koran, and biblical violence is often far more extreme, and marked by more indiscriminate savagery. The Koran often urges believers to fight, yet it also commands that enemies be shown mercy when they surrender.

  Some frightful portions of the Bible, by contrast, go much further in ordering the total extermination of enemies, of whole families and races – of men, women, and children, and even their livestock, with no quarter granted. One cherished psalm (137) begins with the lovely line,

 “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept”; it ends by

 blessing anyone who would seize Babylon’s infants and smash their skulls against the rocks.
 

Read much more at: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/08/dark_passages/

 

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