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if you ever was face to face with your creator(e.g..GOD)....what would you ask him...say to him...how would you react to him etc..would you ignore him.....

An extremely short story, by me.


“If you are a ghost,” said six-year-old Noah, “why do you look like a person? If you no longer need a body, why do you still have to look like you’ve got one?” Before the ghost had chance to answer, Noah continued, “And your clothes; are they ghosts, as well? How can a pair of trousers become a ghost?”

Whereupon the ghost stopped believing in itself and vanished as quickly as it had appeared.

The End.

When God created man and man asked him, you come with me to the ground. Then God said, I can not be with you but send my form with you on the earth Then God created woman.

Hi everyone!

In his letter to the disciple Timothy, Paul wrote:'7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.'

And Saint Paul concludes: '10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.' (1 Timothy 6:7-10)

Thank you for reading,

By Dr. David Jeremiah

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
Romans 12:15


The Hebrew culture had a unique way of referring to “everything”: identify two opposite poles and let them represent everything in between (Psalm 139:8-12). There are traces of that figure of speech in Romans 12:15 where Paul writes about our need to identify with and encourage each other. The two opposite extremes are when someone weeps and when he rejoices. The implication is, “those two and all the times in between.”


If we are honest, we might say it is easier to “weep with those who weep” than to “rejoice with those who rejoice.” Another person’s pain or hardship evokes empathy and compassion in us. We ourselves have suffered and we know what the other person is going through. Rejoicing in another’s success is more challenging. Perhaps we have experienced no equal successes or joys and find ourselves envious, even jealous, of another’s good fortune. Paul doesn’t place one need above the other; they are equally our responsibility.

You will meet someone today who is at either end of the emotional spectrum or somewhere in between. Ask God for grace to identify with them—especially to applaud them in their success.

The church should be a community of encouragement.
Fred Catherwood

The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured.

Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. Wheeler's experiment then asks - at which point does the object decide?

Common sense says the object is either wave-like or particle-like, independent of how we measure it. But quantum physics predicts that whether you observe wave like behavior (interference) or particle behavior (no interference) depends only on how it is actually measured at the end of its journey. This is exactly what the ANU team found.

"It proves that measurement is everything. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it," said Associate Professor Andrew Truscott from the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.

Despite the apparent weirdness, the results confirm the validity of quantum theory, which governs the world of the very small, and has enabled the development of many technologies such as LEDs, lasers and computer chips.

The ANU team not only succeeded in building the experiment, which seemed nearly impossible when it was proposed in 1978, but reversed Wheeler's original concept of light beams being bounced by mirrors, and instead used atoms scattered by laser light.

"Quantum physics' predictions about interference seem odd enough when applied to light, which seems more like a wave, but to have done the experiment with atoms, which are complicated things that have mass and interact with electric fields and so on, adds to the weirdness," said Roman Khakimov, PhD student at the Research School of Physics and Engineering.

Professor Truscott's team first trapped a collection of helium atoms in a suspended state known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, and then ejected them until there was only a single atom left.

The single atom was then dropped through a pair of counter-propagating laser beams, which formed a grating pattern that acted as crossroads in the same way a solid grating would scatter light.

A second light grating to recombine the paths was randomly added, which led to constructive or destructive interference as if the atom had travelled both paths. When the second light grating was not added, no interference was observed as if the atom chose only one path.

However, the random number determining whether the grating was added was only generated after the atom had passed through the crossroads.

If one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths then one has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom's past, said Truscott.

"The atoms did not travel from A to B. It was only when they were measured at the end of the journey that their wave-like or particle-like behavior was brought into existence," he said.

Went to the graveyard this afternoon, not been there since my sisters ashes went down with mother, in December gone. Plan was to remove withered flower's, tidy up the grave and get it ready for spring bloom. Among the usual bits and bobs already on the grave was heart stone with the words MUM engraved along with a sentimental verse, the moment I seen it, I had a bad feeling about it.

I am the main keeper of the grave, the others never visit but nevertheless I asked my siblings all the same if any had left the stone there recently, and like I guessed, neither of the three had which means there is one remaining ... he being the prodigal son, my youngest brother.

It's a real stone/rock, heart shaped, nice imprint of the image of Jesus along with lovely words...
" two tired eyes are sleeping"
two willing hands are still
the one who worked so hard for us
is resting at Gods will.

The end of the heart is flat, designed as if to go in soil, I picked it up, there was a very rusty stand at it's back to stand it upright, it looked old and the flat part looked discolored, as if it were in the ground, but on my mothers grave it was not.

I can't prove it but I know it was stolen from another woman's / mothers grave and and that bothers me BIG TIME, not just because my own mother was very superstitious about stealing from graves but in my eyes, it's morally wrong

Now I've the task of trying to find the lady's grave the stone should be resting on...
I've no idea how the heck I'm going to do that, but I'll try
but regardless of whatever, I'm not going to be leaving the stolen stone on my mothers grave.

Just out of a matter of interest ....
Is what my brother done, forgivable?

It's a song written and composed by Sri R N Thakur....

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Lyrics Summery ....
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" If no one response to your calls ,
Don't stop... Continue your journey all by yourself...

If no one shows the courage to speak up ,
Don't stop... Speak up your heart and soul all by yourself...

It no one cares to take a look back ,
If they all refuse to accompany ,
Don't stop... Carry on walking on thorns all by yourself .....

If no one holds a light ,
If all doors are shut on a stormy night ,
Don't stop... Set your own soul on fire , the fire within you will lighten your path all by yourself , no matter how deep the darkness is.... "




The War is not outside... It's within You...
The Power is not outside... It's within You...
If you can face yourself , be sure , you are ready to face all the challenges in world...
If you be able to conquer yourself , no one else will be able to defeat you ever...

Don't wait for anyone to help you...
Don't expect that anyone will help you...
Remember , It's always You , You can be Your Worst Enemy yet You can be Your Best Friend...

Don't stop if you are Alone...
You just need to be all by Yourself...

I am wondering if the majority of the population is still at the street level?


The Shankaracharya describes the Law of Seven with the example of the quest for Self-realisation as an ascending octave that goes by the triad of refinement. The time scale of the whole progression may be a decade, a lifetime or a few moments:

Do Life at street-level.
Re Good Intention, the Right Impulse, the arising of the right desire. (Only some are here)
Mi Decision: This is the stage where rationally the person makes up their mind and can go further. There is no doubt about the Way, intention and conviction are established.
Interval: filled by the grace of the teacher, or directly by the Absolute.
Fa Effort: Certain particles of fine matters now form in the organism which cause the striving for sattva.
Sol The Pull of the Way: where sattva predominates. Influences from the Way are pulling away from the outside world of sensory impressions and pleasures, so that these begin to lose some of their power.
La Insight, which denotes that the person starts seeing themselves and other things as they really are. They get right values for everything, realising things as they are, how they are constituted and their actual properties.
Si Abundance, which is the stage where the outward pull is nearly gone, and the person is filled with abundance of sattva, divine love and happiness.
Interval: filled directly by the Absolute.
Do Turiya is the stage of the fully Realised man (or woman), when he knows himSelf; he knows all that can be known; he knows how to do, and whatever he does is just the right thing – right actions, right feeling, right thought – everything all combined.

The electromagnetic spectrum is the distribution of electromagnetic radiation according to frequency or wavelength, and energy.
Frequency is defined as the number of cycles per second (Hertz)
Wavelength is the length of a single wave or cycle.

The energy of a frequency is proportional to its magnitude, i.e.,
low frequencies have low energies and high frequencies have high energies.

All these frequencies can be present together and occupy the same space simultaneously. This is demonstrated by the presence of frequencies from the various radio and television stations being present in space. We can select a particular station by tuning in our radio or television receiver to its frequency which enables us to receive its broadcast only.

Your consciousness is tuned to the 3D wavelength, which determines what you physically see and how you interact with objects. The 4th dimension has a different set of properties, hence you cannot see anything from the 4D reality, unless you change the frequency of your body to correspond to the frequency of the 4th dimension. Each dimension has its own specific frequencies and wavelengths. Life in the universe is not limited to the 3rd dimension; it is just that we cannot see the other realities that exist, because those realities have different frequencies and wavelengths that do not correspond to our 3D senses. Therefore, our physical existence on Earth is simply one of many infinite realities in the “Multidimensional Universe.”

I believe that when we die, our consciousness, soul, spirit or whatever, enters into a different dimension with a different frequency or vibration from that which we can normally feel or sense in ordinary day-to-day life. If someone is able to tune in to that frequency range, they may receive messages or signals from that dimension. This is similar to the reception of broadcasts from various radio stations or television channels, where we need to tune in to the operating frequency of a particular station or channel.

Signals from these different dimensions or frequencies are always present around us. Perhaps certain people like a “medium” in a séance, or a shaman, may be able to tune in to those other frequencies or dimensions and to communicate with others who exist in those dimensions. However, I prefer to confine such interactions with those dimensions to different frequencies, within the electromagnetic spectrum, which can be experienced right here on Earth. I cannot quite grasp the idea of an individual, or part of an individual actually travelling in outer space to some distant planet, star or galaxy as some persons claim.

However, I can see how the idea could have originated. Shamanism was first practised thousands of years ago among aboriginal or indigenous peoples, who had no knowledge of science regarding frequencies and dimensions. In fact, such science was not even developed at that time in the Western world where it originated,(I think). Such an experience certainly must have felt like an "out of this world" experience, (which, in fact, it is, if one considers it involved a frequency dimension that is different from that of ordinary day-to-day experience). It seems natural to me that those shamans would have associated those experiences with the distant planets, stars and galaxies that are literally out of this world, i.e., planet Earth.