I have a nick name for mine. Its called the Octagon, but I also nick named my testes - my left one is James Westfall, and my right one is Doctor Kenneth Noisewater...
You ladies play your cards right, you just might get to meet the whole gang.
I don't know why that posted twice. If you have someone that can do hypnosis, the more sessions prior to the date, the better....it can also help with nervousness.
I don't know the show you're referring to, but I do know television's business is to sell advertisements. The higher the ratings on a show, the more the Ad slots are worth. There is almost nothing they won't exploit if the money is right.
A good book on the subject: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
I didn't necessarily mean it in the religious sense. Keep in mind that I am not a fan of 'religion'. I brush my teeth religiously, but I think that has little to do with spiritual awareness, or the existence of God.
Can I prove that God exists?
Maybe
I'm working on it. I believe the title Existence of God v Science to be a misnomer, because I personally don't find the two in opposition. However, in such discussions it is difficult to avoid certain terms, and the Pud often becomes Muddled by varying uses of such terms.
"Meanings are not in words, they are in people." ~ my speech professor in college
The American Jonathan Edwards, was one of the few, willing to take on scientists, and philosophers on their own turf. It's a shame that he's primarily famous for the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", because he wrote so much more enlightening works.
He was also a man that did not fear learning, and was reputed to spend 18 hours a day in his study. He paid careful attention to exercise, and made notes on what foods made him feel drowsy so that he could dedicate his alert attention to learning.
Mike, I believe in God, just not necessarily in the "Sky Daddy" sense. (I don't remember who called it that on here, but it explains alot)
There is much, that Puddle and I differ on, and have yet to discuss fully. But it does no harm, to be open to views that seem to oppose our own.
I'm sure you've heard of Charles H. Spurgeon...he lived during the time that humanity had become disillusioned with the concept of God, and began gravitating toward science. He was a voracious reader, and made it a point to read 6 books every week, in addition to his Biblical studies. His personal library contained over 30,000 volumes when he died, and he had already given away thousands to libraries and schools because he simply didn't have the space to store them all in his home.
In Spurgeons book Lectures to My Students, he encourages the study of science and every other subject. These things simply do not, and cannot exist apart from God. And, the more we learn about the different facets of existence the more we can know God.
I'm really not all that smart, it's just easier to appear that way in writing, as I'm not a very skilled impromptu orator. (but you should hear me with a speech I've rehearsed)
Our emotional, mental, and physical bodies are already apparent and developing simultaneously from the moment of birth, there is a specific path that our individual awareness uses to move consciously into them.
I've said that the first stage is emotional, because as infants we are mainly emotional beings. The next stage then would be mental, even though earlier I seemed to suggest that the physical comes second. But, the mental aspect of our experience begins to show before our physical development. We demonstrate this when as infants, we deliberately use our emotions to achieve a particular outcome. (A skill we use throughout our lifetime, regardless of our 'awareness of it) As we begin to do this, then emotions are no longer a reflex, but become a way to direct our experience. We use giggling, or crying as a tool to achieve a particular outcome. We are now mentally participating in our experience.
We enter the physical realm when we learn our first word. We name something that we recognize. We name what we recognize, because we recognize it. It no longer appears to us as energy in motion. We name it because it 'matters' to us. Our experience is moving away from a continuous flowing of energy to what appears to be solid, dense, and staionary matter.
Soon we learn the word I, or our name, and begin to equate that with who we are. We begin to name everything else, and percieve it as separate from us. We now have an ego. The ego is what enables us to perceptually enter into and have seemingly solid, physical experience, in a paradigm that at the core is really waves of energy in motion. In order to enter a physical experience we must create the "illusion" of stopping the world. That is that, this is this, I am me, they are they, and so on.
So in a sense, to describe the ego as a child seeking attention, is correct(Mr. Muddle). But I do not believe that this is what Jesus was referring to when he said that to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we must become like children. Not like the attention seeking behavior of children who have already begun to develop the ego, but closer in the evolution of our experience, in perception of our connection to the whole. Children, are more free, imaginative; even their brain waves differ from adults'. This is why children are able to 'sense' aspects of their external experience that they still lack the cognitive ability to conceptualize. They are not yet completely absorbed by the ego, they still see possiblility where many adults see obstacles, 'faith' (different from belief) is still a real thing that exists within them, and has not yet become a concept that seems out of reach. I don't even know if I'm making sense anymore
(The Pathway of Awareness is from Michael Brown's The Presence Process: A Healing Journey into Present Moment Awareness)
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I don't even know if I'm making sense anymore
RE: Who's your hoo hoo ?
Yeah....Cuz in my imagination we're naked in the shower.