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Forrest Curo's Blog – 5th mo. 2009 Archive (4)
One of Those Externals....
Just a suggestion... but how long does it take a typical Quaker to get tuned in?
My impression is that it takes longer than an hour.
I know we've had some groups experimenting with at least occasional longer meetings. Even considering the fact that these would be self-selected, unusually spiritually-inclined members in the first place--I understand that the results have been generally good.
Over an hour is not unusual for a church service.
Among other… Continue
My impression is that it takes longer than an hour.
I know we've had some groups experimenting with at least occasional longer meetings. Even considering the fact that these would be self-selected, unusually spiritually-inclined members in the first place--I understand that the results have been generally good.
Over an hour is not unusual for a church service.
Among other… Continue
Added by Forrest Curo on 5th mo. 23, 2009 at 7:31am — No Comments
red lotus
Yesterday I got a strong sense of why traditional Quaker preachers were so keen to suppress their own personalities.
I still think it was an error, from applying a crude theology to reality: the notion that we are a Christ spirit tangled within an unruly animal self--within a personal self that must be murdered to let Christ rule in us all alone.
But I had this responsibility to not blow it, to pass on the Transmission with the cleanest possible signal.
I'd just… Continue
I still think it was an error, from applying a crude theology to reality: the notion that we are a Christ spirit tangled within an unruly animal self--within a personal self that must be murdered to let Christ rule in us all alone.
But I had this responsibility to not blow it, to pass on the Transmission with the cleanest possible signal.
I'd just… Continue
Added by Forrest Curo on 5th mo. 21, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments
San Diego Meeting May Newsletter
Added by Forrest Curo on 5th mo. 8, 2009 at 1:13am — No Comments
This Matter of God
Many of the difficulties of atheists... come from the way God has been described to them.
They start wrestling with the question, "Can an infinitely good being be in charge of, be responsible for, this universe full of Historical Events and other forms of suffering?" They see some Christians in terror of this allegedly good and loving being, whom they are told intends to inflict eternal suffering on many people for having turned out Bad--or merely turned out impolite to deities, too… Continue
They start wrestling with the question, "Can an infinitely good being be in charge of, be responsible for, this universe full of Historical Events and other forms of suffering?" They see some Christians in terror of this allegedly good and loving being, whom they are told intends to inflict eternal suffering on many people for having turned out Bad--or merely turned out impolite to deities, too… Continue
Added by Forrest Curo on 5th mo. 5, 2009 at 7:07pm — 1 Comment
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