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Saturday, January 18, 2014

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

I Honor My True Self.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011 The twenty-first installment of my original series, "Discovering Religion", and the second episode in the "Morality" miniseries. In this episode I examine the philosophical implications of ultimate accountability and how a belief in heaven/hell destroys the theistic concept of free will and makes genuine belief in God utterly impossible. ------------------------------ LINKS CITED: Sam Harris "The Moral Landscape" audiobook. Chapter 2. 1:39:15 - The Illusion of Free Will http://tinyurl.com/3en3pmd Note: You can listen to the entire audiobook on my secondary channel, youtube.com/DRCited. If you enjoy this book please purchase it for yourself! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgX2_W...

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VIDEO CITED:
Clips taken from the following movies:

Austin Powers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/

Nineteen Eighty-Four
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/

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MUSIC CITED:

"New Fish" - Track 3 - "The Shawshank Redemption" Soundtrack

"Alone in Kyoto" - Air
http://youtu.be/QJ4Pm0N8s78

"Brooks Was Here" - Track 7 - "The Shawshank Redemption" Soundtrack

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

TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?p=484

WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net

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

------------HEAVEN LETTERS------------

Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.
Heavenletter #4727 In God You Trust, November 3, 2013

God said:
There is the expression – a leap of faith. Faith is not a leap. Faith is faith, or it is not. I do not say that I have a leap of faith in you. I know you better than you know yourself, so My faith in you is intact. As sure as, in the world, as day follows night, My faith in you is. It is no leap. It is no little jump. What you might call faith is My knowing. I know Who you are, Why you are. I know you ARE.

It is not an exaggeration to say that, if you fall, I catch you. You do not know how many times I have caught you before a fall. On the other hand, from your observation post, you do see people who, to your eyes, are not caught in advance. They do fall. Events such as death of the body, considered the worst of all, happens and other such sorties as illness, accidents, mishaps, happens. How can it be said that God always catches you when, at any moment, anything can befall. There are occasions such as tsunamis and tornadoes or a car skids.

Who is safe in the world? And, yet, I maintain that you are always in My arms of love.

You turn your head, and you may think: “In terms of my life, God, death is the only sure thing. There are obituaries every day. Death is not idle. Frankly, God, I fear death. It comes announced or unannounced, and yet it will find me, and then I will be no more on Earth.”

Beloved Children, you will no longer occupy a body on Earth.

Anyway, it is not a bad trade. You have been known to cry out for death, willing and happy to be done with it, to be done with your fear of death. In fact, death of the body is a good trade for what awaits you, awaits you in its good time. It is hard for you to yet catch on that death IS life, that there is no end to life, only change in what is called form. The only life that is real is the life of the soul. Your soul never weeps. Your soul grasps everything. It is a certainty that you are soul, and that nothing averse can happen to you. What has happened to you is your faith in the body as if the body is real and your sustenance.

You are greater than a survivor. Anyway, what kind of ambition is it to survive. You really want to live, and live you do with your arguments and all.

Have trust in soul. Have trust in Being. Although death of the body ensues, I always catch you. You can count on Me. You can count on the fact that I exist, and I exist in you, and I have never not existed or not existed in you. In God you trust is not just a slogan. It is the very fact of life. Trust in love. Trust in My love. You can count on it. You cannot count on the body. Don’t confuse Me with bodily concepts. The body, no matter how precious to you, no matter how you seem to depend upon it, is only flesh and bone. Depend upon something greater than that.

At the same time, congratulate your body. It is a little car you drive for a while. Even as you drive the car of your body, your mastery lies in Our unconditional soul. You may be clueless, beloveds, yet you are never ever soul-less. You are Being.

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And now, as always, I'm gonna end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world.

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Even if your body is getting old or feeling sick, still it is doing the best it can. Just knowing this is enough for you to fill your heart with gratitude for the gift of your physical body.
~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.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

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