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We grieve deeply—not for the departed, but for ourselves because we can no longer be together physically. It matters not that the departed are closer, more accessible as Spirit than when they were weighted down by body costumes.
If everyone in a class becomes prosperous—and no one outside a class does—then, and only then, can we logically conclude that the class was the cause of the students' prosperity.
Several Bible scriptures, including Revelation 7:1, Isaiah 11:12, and Job 28:24 and 37:3, tell us that the Earth is flat. Eyes open, brains in full throttle, do we embrace these scriptures as Truth (the Word of God), or as insight into what ancient people believed was true?
Today, instead of that sunny place we enjoy when flying above the fluffy clouds, heaven sits in the dark, in a void. How divine! Who wants to spend all eternity there?
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As souls, Davis and Crowe have been alive forever, and have different karmic histories, which naturally results in different scripts with different outcomes.
With every highly publicized act of inhumanity such as this, it's beginning to dawn on us that our primordial behaviors are just as beastly now as they were then. Were it not for souls such as the one who came to play the role of Troy Davis, we might still be brutally clubbing each other for sport, and offering the bodies of dead innocents as live sacrifices to imaginary mountain- and sky-dwelling gods.
The story of the Great Flood taught us an indelible lesson: God would rather drown us than forgive us. Perhaps that's why forgiveness is so tough for us.
We're told to demonstrate our faith by praying to an outer space Being who looks like us. Sometimes the Being gives us what we want, sometimes not. But, with a few adjustments in our technique, we can get what we want through prayer—every time.
Thank you, New York lawmakers. Thank you for overturning the ancient Mosaic Law that is at the root of our hate. Slowly but surely, Americans are shedding their blind belief in ancient misconceptions about human sexuality. The weary “Bible makes it very clear” defense for homophobic belief and behavior is losing its hateful grip on otherwise reasonable people, folks who believe that the Bible is “the Word of God”—with notable exceptions.
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