But what of those that cannot comprehend character as personality development? ALis lost ...
How Does your Faith Influence the Choices You Make In Your Life?
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But what of those that cannot comprehend character as personality development? ALis lost ...
jimkenney12
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Does not matter then if they believe in the Holy Mystery.
More's ... to be examined ... there's something TU ET! ET being an old Hebrew term for a tree ... imaginary? Maybe just abstract ...(a thing in mind!)
If the mind, soul, psyche complex is rendered down ... can it be consumed? Simple said character that believed they were someone ...
I remain nothing ... my parents informed me ... consequence of being nothing? Amazing where nothing can incarnate, or manifest itself ...
I've been declared nothing by religious administration! That can be troublesome ... a source of dissonance in the order! Does it resemble a great void ... cosmological womb? Fallout? Folly ... logical! Failure leads to correction of course ... comes from a gravid mass ... gravitational lens ... pho Cuss!
Out there eh! Sometimes it is good to have backed off from insane powers ... Yah Zue ... (read some Harold Bloom)!
What is a Hebrew literary scholar? Illegitimate according to Latin Laws ... too deep for the romantics!
It was all Greek toeM ... thus tiptoe critters ... Toul Epcis ... stopped to blossom!
Follows like the archer with a point to the heartlan' ... so as the experience the pain of living ... damn that's complicated! I need a break ... anyone see the dark rip ...G-rif't ... (small scale swindling)? The larger form is destructive ... avarice even ...
It was all Greek toeM ... thus tiptoe critters ... Toul Epcis ... stopped to blossom!
Follows like the archer with a point to the heartlan' ... so as the experience the pain of living ... damn that's complicated! I need a break ... anyone see the dark rip ...G-rif't ... (small scale swindling)? The larger form is destructive ... avarice even ...
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One should examine that ... as the old sage declared; "know thyself"! Few look back ...
paradox3
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I like early morning for reflecting on a bible passage. But I don't often think to combine the practice with prayer.
Everybody is different.....I just find it very calming and I'm usually surrounded by nature.
Nancy
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A lot of what I do each week is connected to my faith: Bible studies, volunteer work at the church, leading worship, church choir. Yesterday, I played cards with a group of friends, and they were talking about their busy weeks...playing bocci, pickle ball, going to hockey games, hiking. I realized then how different my weeks are.
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Faith by itself does not influence the Choices you make -----it is Who or What you have Faith in that influences the choices you make in your Life ------
If you have Faith in what this world offers ----then you will be influenced by what you ----see --hear --feel ---taste and touch ----
If you have Faith in God then you will be influenced by what God Offers in His Word and trust He will do as He promises in His Word -----
How Does your Faith Influence the Choices You Make In Your Life?
Who's Faith are you talking about ----Your own intellectual Faith or Christ's Faith --Faith by itself does not influence the Choices you make -----it is Who or What you have Faith in that influences the choices you make in your Life ------
If you have Faith in what this world offers ----then you will be influenced by what you ----see --hear --feel ---taste and touch ----
If you have Faith in God then you will be influenced by what God Offers in His Word and trust He will do as He promises in His Word -----
Always good to hear your opinion.
unsafe
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Thanks ---appreciate your statement here ----
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It is interesting how much more direct impact some faiths have on daily choices than others. I mean, in Islam, there's a fairly solid prohibition on alcohol and my son actually stopped drinking once he got involved with a Muslim (and later became one himself apparently). And both Judaism and Islam have their dietary laws that affect meal choices (e.g. no pork products, only halal/kosher beef and chicken). Some branches of Christianity have gone that route, too, with prohibitions on things like alcohol and dancing but the faith as a whole now seems to be in a place where that's all a matter of personal faith and choice. There are fewer explicit "you must do this" and more "you should but do as you will". So the impact of faith on personal choices is very much a personal one rather than actual rules.
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My "faith" is in my personal understanding of non-duality. That at the most fundamental level, we are all "One", united, in as much as science believes that the known universe originated from a singularity. That which separates us is a necessary illusion required for our perspective of the "here" and "now" to play out in linear fashion, rather than experiencing the totality of the infinite simultaneously.
This influences the choices I make in my life to some degree, insomuch as I retain the ability not to fall into reactive patterns.
Thus, I try to follow a path where I am mindful of my actions and choices, taking personal responsibility for how those choices may affect others, as the "golden rule" is easy to follow when you realize that the "others" are essentially you -- including everything in the Universe, and thus being environmentally conscious also becomes second nature.
This influences the choices I make in my life to some degree, insomuch as I retain the ability not to fall into reactive patterns.
Thus, I try to follow a path where I am mindful of my actions and choices, taking personal responsibility for how those choices may affect others, as the "golden rule" is easy to follow when you realize that the "others" are essentially you -- including everything in the Universe, and thus being environmentally conscious also becomes second nature.
They tell me that clinical ecology is also real ... could this be a lie to those that dislike anything beyond what they see as the immediate I and thee? Consider the you'se of all those out there ... pluralisms? Un goaded beings ...
KayTheCurler
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True enough. It helps to remember that we all live downstream from ourselves and each other.