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Blazn, No on all counts! I don't accept it; I don't believe in it...and I won't humble myself any more than I've already been humbled in my life. So what are you (or Jesus) gonna do about it? Personally, I don't think Jesus wants to do anything about it. I get the definite feeling he likes me...

Tao and everyone, I'm reasonably sure I know who I was in my previous incarnation before this one, which in some ways is kind of a "do-over." She was a woman and she was famous, and that's ALL I'm gonna tell you about her for now. I wouldn't mention it now, except that a few days ago I told my...

jgberg, This is just a quick note to welcome you to the interfaith.org/ forums. It's good to see another Jew here, and especially one who truly "gets" the concept of Tikkun Olam. But then I guess you wouldn't be Jewish if you didn't! Sure, you might be of Jewish ethnicity, but not really...

Dream, I just decided to repost this last exchange of notes in the "Abrahamic Religions" section of the forum so that we can all discuss it. It seems like a valid and important interfaith issue, especially between Jews and Christians. --Linda

Dream, It's a very natural, very human thing to pray for miracles, and the tendency is by no means confined to Christians. People of every religion do it, and sometimes even people of no religion have been known to do it in very extreme situations. You know, "there are no atheists in...

Dream, That sounds about right to me, but to really respond to your post intelligently I'd have to have a better idea what you mean by "miracles." Are you referring to things like the loaves and fishes story and healing the sick, or do you mean the phenomenon of metanoia--in other words, "the...

Avi, I'm sure you could talk our friend Herr Ludvig into doubling my order...if you ask him nicely, of course. :) --Linda

Nativeastral, My speculations actually had more to do with the Exodus story than with the central theme of The Hebrew Goddess per se. It was an association I made while I was reading it, but unfortunately I don't have time to get into that now. But I very much appreciate your posting those...

Brian, No, I'm sorry but I absolutely DO NOT understand his defensiveness, which seems to be his "default" posture in relation to practically everything. I mean...so what if the Torah is a patchwork quilt composed of pieces of varying ages and ethnic origins? Why would any reasonable person...

Ah, Herr Ludvig...Fraulein, is it??? Nobody has called me a Fraulein in a very long time, probably because I haven't been a Fraulein in more year than I even want to think about. What can I say? Flattery will get you everywhere...or ALMOST everywhere anyway. I'm in the process of figuring...

:D :D :D :D Damn! WHY doesn't this forum have "rolling on the floor laughing" smiley like every other forum I frequent? We NEED one! He really had me going for a few minutes there!!! I knew something wasn't quite kosher with this Ludvig character, but I couldn't figure out what it was...

A clarification: SOME human beings, inevitably a minority, have brutally opposed equality or even basic kindness as the underpinning of society. Unfortunately, they are the psychopaths and/or the very powerful ones with a vested interest in a hierarchical society with themselves at the top. Even...

Brian, Now that I've had a chance to read some of Bob X's wonderful research piece, "torah torah torah" and BB's response to it, I want to thank you for posting these links. I was up very late last night reading them...I'm not even gonna tell you HOW late! :D I absolutely shouldn't have done...

Tao, Oh...beautiful! Now that's more like it! So how can you say "there is no higher self" when your own higher self was clearly in play when you posted that note? You were looking through it and not at it...which is what you're supposed to do, of course. But sometimes it's worthwhile to...

Tao, That's absolutely fascinating, but what about it makes you immediately jump to the conclusion that "there is no higher self"? The fact that they can tell six seconds before you make a conscious decision what that decision will be suggests the complete opposite. To me, it suggests that...

Shawn, That's beautiful...thanks for the clarification. When I posted my note last night I didn't realize that although YHWH and Ehyeh are not the same name, that there is a traditional relationship between them. I like it when the meanings of these names are somewhat open-ended, ambiguous...

Dauer, Thanks for the clarification. I've read the name "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" before, probably more than once, but momentarily forgot about it when I posted my note last night. Speaking of folk etymologies, though...the one I really like and never forgotten is that "Ehyeh" is the sound of a...

Shawn, The name you're referring to isn't YHVH, though. The name God gave to Moses when he spoke to him from the burning bush is EHIEH. That's the one that can be translated either "I Am that I Am" or "I will be what I will be." I don't know where you're getting your information, but it...

Shawn, I think somebody already mentioned this, but in Hebrew you often hear the phrase olam ha-zeh (this world), which is contrasted with olam ha-ba (the world to come), which usually means the afterlife but sometimes seems to refer to the Messianic Age. In any case, the primary meaning is a...

OLAM is like the Greek AEON, right? It can mean either a world (sphere) or a period of time, possibly both. At least I think so. --Linda