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Sunday, June 9, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

I follow my intuition, and it leads me along the Right Path.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

Your heart is our connection with the wisdom and love of the universe. What would happen if you followed your heart and lived from that place of cosmic knowing? Would your life be filled with more spontaneity, laughter, joy, and love than you are currently experiencing? We have been taught to use our mind and focus on the rational, safe and secure path in life. Emphasis has been on fitting in to the existing model of how life should be. However, that model is proving to be a trap that leads to ultimate frustration and finally a lack of true security.

Now think of people you know who live from their heart. The ones that follow their passion and share their love of life with others. Don’t they seem to have more zest and have a more positive impact on people’s lives than those who have opted for the blandness of being “normal”? In the new energy, following your heart is not only a more exciting way to live, it is also the best way to be rewarded with true abundance in all aspects of life. It is so much easier to connect with like-minded (or like hearted) souls throughout the world that you can manifest a very lucrative lifestyle by sharing your passion with others. Just remember that the ultimate security comes from your faith in your connection with the creator and thus your relationship with all other aspects of creation.

--Ted Murray
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

Well, it's time for another SUNDAY SCHOOL VIDEO, where I post videos about ANY religious subject. I hope you enjoy this week's video.

Uploaded on Mar 20, 2010
The sixth installment of my original series, "Discovering Religion". In this episode I examine the Theory of Evolution, or rather the mechanism of Natural Selection.

Many creationists look at the comfortable world around them and marvel at the amazing work of God's creation that, according to Ray Comfort, is responsible for such things as the banana. However, Creationists fail to realize that man's own hand is responsible for why many of the plants and animals that have come under our domestication look the way they do.

Over hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of years, man has been influencing the surrounding world by selecting traits within plants and animals deemed desirable to appear in each subsequent generation. For this reason our roses smell so fragrant, our corn is so sweet, how breeds of dog like the Chiwawa and Great Dane have come to exist, and even why the banana looks and tastes the way it does.

Darwin knew the extent of man's influence in the breeding and domestication of plants and animals. However, he went a step further and applied the same concept of selection to the natural world. Darwin's five year journey led him across the globe and to a very special chain of islands, known as the Galapagos. It was there Darwin began to piece together all the evidence he had collected, coming to realize the full implications of what Natural Selection meant in the grand scheme of existence and the origins of humankind.

For this discovery Darwin is heralded as one of the greatest scientific minds to ever exist, and by creationists he is viewed as almost an Anti-Christ figure. In this episode I hope to shed light on Darwin's discovery, initially made in the attempt to understand the mind of God, but in the process revealing the true nature of our origins.

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VIDEO CITED:

The Way Of The Master Series - Season 1 - Episode 7 - Atheism
(no link available)

Meet the Super Cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmkj5g...

200th Anniversary Charles Darwin David Attenborough BBC Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwFFTx...

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MUSIC CITED:

Lady In The Water - James Newton-Howard - Prologue

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PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?p=180

WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net

FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discove...

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Education
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“Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?”
― Bill Hicks

Now, as always, I want to end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world, a song I can only describe as PURE LOVE.

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Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less.
~don Miguel Ruiz

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What is a Warrior?

I see through different eyes.

I see a bigger picture when others see only grey skies.

Though many can’t conceive it,

I stand... facing the wind.

My bravery not from fighting,

but from my strength within,

I am a Warrior.

I will walk the extra mile,

Not because I have to,

Because it’s worth my while.

I know that I am different,

When I’m standing on a crowded street.

I know the fullness of winning;

I’ve tasted the cup of defeat.

I am a Warrior.

They say I walk with ease.

Though trained for bodily harm,

My intentions are for peace.

The world may come and go,

But a different path I’ll choose.

A path I will not stray from,

No matter... Win or Lose.

If you've been in the Martial Arts for a while, you'll find many people who would like to believe in the idea that just because they practice the Martial Arts, they are some kind of Warriors.(I like to call them Wannabee Warriors).

But what exactly is a Warrior? I mean, throughout history, there have been many different types of warriors, all having different Codes of Honor that they live by (And in case you're wondering, yes, there is a Warrior Creed that I follow and try to live up to also...) . But if you really try to define what a warrior is, there seems to be no one answer to that question. In fact, there seems to be many answers, almost as many answers as people you ask.

So, what I did was provide some links to some different websites about different warriors and types of warriors throughout history. Hell, I even posted links to web sites about Dan Millman and Carlos Castaneda for you "Spiritually Aware" types. Perhaps if you look through them, you'll find a good definition of a warrior for yourself...

And for you Wannabee Warriors out there... Some of the links I put up are to Law Enforcement & Military websites. If you really want to be warriors, Check out those links and become a police officer, or go join the armed forces. They need you!!!

FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silat is a collective word for indigenous martial arts of the Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, it was also traditionally practiced in Brunei, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. As a result, it is closely related to other Southeast Asian martial arts including krabi krabong and eskrima. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws, animal-based techniques, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced. These are Ikatan Pesilat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore.

Below, I added some links to various websites and video clips so you can get a better understanding of what Silat is about.

One of the gravest disservices we have done to the people of our world is to have provided them with a poor education. We do not teach students to think.

If you do not learn to effectively process information (and it is a learned skill) then you will always be at the mercy of people promoting their favorite dogmas.

The problem is, that all kinds of people would like you to uncritically believe what they are telling you about the way the world is. Many of them pretend that such uncritical belief is "faith", which it is not.

If you do not have the tools to discover what a given person or group is really trying to sell you, then you are libel to be making some really wacky presuppositions about the world, which will in turn become the heuristics by which you operate.

About half of what we perceive as "intelligence" is the ability to process information effectively, so if you want to be "smarter" then all you have to do is improve in that area.

While this is pretty simple, it is not necessarily easy. In my experience, most people are conditioned to a way of thinking already comfortable to the individual. When a person tries to change the way they process information they run a good chance of evoking a "threat response" from within themselves.

The wonderful thing about the internet is that you have access to so much useful information. If you're reading this, then you are able to self-educate on any number of subjects to a remarkable degree, and do it almost for free.

And that's what this section is about. I added some links here so anybody with a brain can study and learn to use it.

Remember 2 things people:

"I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK AT ALL TIMES, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO."

"IF I DON'T THINK FOR MYSELF, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME".

There are over 10,000 different religions in the world, 150 of which have at least 1 millions followers. Which one is the truth? "Christianity!" someone says, but even Christianity alone has over 38,000 different denominations. So which interpretation is the TRUE one?

Religion is not the anchor-point of truth. The truth always existed. Religion is man-made, meaning that the truth existed prior to both man and religion. Religion may be an effective catalyst for some individuals who desire to invest their minds into ideological association for whatever reason, but it is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a relationship with God, and understanding of the Creator, or the inner workings of the self.

Spirituality is not a belief. It is a state of consciousness, a mental framework with which you approach the world. Spirituality is in fact what birthed religion through the attempted organization of experience and wisdom, which ended up being the hierarchical stratification of various belief systems that we call religion.

Don't let the commitments you have to a religious belief system in your mind take you away from your natural state of Being with all things. You were a human before you learned religion. God's light existed in you before you learned this through some spiritual guru. Does this mean don't read or believe what Jesus of Buddha had to say? Of course not. Just make sure you take the time and effort to experience the rose instead of just believing in the accounts of others. This is not an attack on any religion by any means, and religion has brought many people happiness and the experience of being close to one's creator, but don't let it cause segregation away from our inherent unity.

As for my religious beliefs, well...

I'm a CHRISTIAN, in the sense that I believe that personal redemption is feasible for everyone and that universal love makes that salvation possible.

I'm a MUSLIM, in the sense that I believe that there's only 1 GOD, ans that all are equal under this one GOD. And, althought I'm not jewish, I do have a respect for JUDAISM.

I'm a BUDDHIST, in the sense that the seeds of enlightenment are within all of us as an integral part of our DNA, and that we are capable of reaching the Absolute through our own efforts.

I'm a HINDU, in the sense that I believe that GOD takes many shapes and forms to reach out to mankind.

I'm a TAOIST, in the sense that I have a total belief in the reality of Yin & Yang Energies.

And I also have a total belief in the world of spirits, and what we can learn from them, so I guess that makes me an ANIMIST.

I never want to tell someone what to think, for ones spirituality is a private matter between that person and their creator.

My goal here is only to show all of you the history and traditions of the many, many ways the people of the world have reached out to god.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

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