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Forever forth, you shall grow, learn, love, and hate. You may only hope that you do more of the former, than the latter.

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Savage.  There’s a word I hadn’t really thought about in a while.  I settled into the role of the docile beast.  The pet.  The zoo animal.  Fuck that shit. I’ve been listening to a few friends talk lately, without responding.  A few friends who helped me define what Savage meant long ago.  They too have [...]

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Many of you that know me well, know that my favorite book, and the start of all my personal spiritual beliefs, is Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach. Skimming through the pages today, I stumbled on a piece of conversation between the main character(the author) and Don Shimoda, the messiah from [...]

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I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a lover — and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you… -Dr. [...]

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… in purgatory you knew that you were going either to hell or to heaven, and it was up to you where you went. With the joys and freedom of heaven as a carrot, you strove like hell in purgatory. You knew the theory of how to get the ticket to heaven. But the practice… [...]

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The way of the Sufi is to embrace the joy of the essence of God in everything, and every aspect of everything. The best times and the worst times. Rumi expresses this supreme joy: I am a lover of both His benevolence and severity! Amazing it is that I’m in love with these opposites! Jack [...]

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It’s what you can’t see that will make you blind.

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The purpose of these articles. I get this a lot. Why do I write about religion, philosophy, ideology, and the like? In hopes of opening some minds. Maybe clear away some obstacles for some one. Any one. The idea is to give you all of the information you need to create your own world-view. An [...]

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What is Ideology? In the simplest of terms, ideology is the study of ideas. In the previous philosophical series, Developmental Theology 089, we talked about very basic ideas that can help develop an open mind, and teach us how to create our own philosophical views, overlooking prior prejudices. You can read the entire Developmental Theology [...]

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When I asked the community for an inside view of Humanism, I never expected to get such a rich and detailed version like the one Ryan provided for our last lesson. In this lesson, we’ll talk about Humanism, using the information that is generally available across the net, and some of the remarks Ryan made. [...]

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