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LOL- I have no idea what this holiday is... should go Google it. One of our friends uses it as an excuse to have a day-after-Christmas pizza party. He has a wood-burning pizza oven at his house. :)

Alex- somehow I missed this one. Looks like it was a lovely wedding and you guys look great together! Belated congratulations- may you have many happy years. :)

That is just super fascinating to me. I'd never heard about something like that. I've seen faith healing and even Christians enter trance states (Pentecostal movements by the Spirit are often much like trance states anyway- the same sorts of things happen in Vodun and other religions) but I'd...

I was just about to say... I love it when I wake to snow on my birthday, and my world is covered in its soft clean scent... And I love it when someone loves what I do- yay for you, Grey!

Last night I celebrated the Solstice with my Druid grove (yep, a day early- we meet on weekends for the convenience factor). The ceremony turned out to be really lovely (not to mention darling, since some of the members' little ones blessed us with fire and water and presented us with...

Merry Christmas to you, too, Wil! And Happy Solstice! :)

Aw- thanks! :) My plans for tomorrow are to shovel manure for 3 hours (literally- I work at my boarding stable on Tuesdays- great exercise LOL), then a nice day at the stable, and wrapping up with dinner with my two favorite men in the world- my husband and my dad. Really looking forward to...

Well, I'd say if you're actually anti-Christian, it would be a bit unethical. Plus, after a bit of time you'd probably be uncomfy and they'd sense you were annoyed with furthering Christian ideology. BUT, if you are just not Christian, but have an understanding of the religion and empathy...

That's fascinating. I hadn't seen/heard of Christian healing that involved soul-journeying. Though I have seen it involve trance states. Where do they say they journey to and who are they talking with? I'm very curious how it gets put into a Christian framework. Very interesting stuff, G2G.

If you mean Christian faith-healing... I would say the mechanism is different, but the underlying process is similar. Christian healing largely uses a laying on of hands and prayer. Shamanic healing largely uses soul-journeying, but it is often paired with more materialistic treatments, such...

One of these things is not like the others... and that is what takes this statement from the obvious to the opinion. Unless one is infertile or doesn't want children. This is all your belief and opinion. I think this is not a bad idea- in terms of having a family mission statement and...

I mean that the way the structure of the brain was described is largely how gender is constructed in modern Western culture. It doesn't speak to the actual cross-cultural and cross-temporal variety found through the ethnographic and historical evidence. Much of psychological theory is actually...

Salty- your post is very interesting, but isn't it a bit culture-bound? That is, gender is the cultural construction of sex. Sex in humans is more than dichotomous, encompassing a continuum of possibilities in terms of hormones and their effects as well as various "abnormalities" that occur...

Yep, I agree. Assuming any kind of intimacy leads to the others is setting oneself up for disappointment. I think one of the big problems leading to divorce is that people expect their spouse to fulfill all types of intimacy and be everything they need. This is ridiculous because even the...

Is this proven by anything, or only assumed? Of course it is. But that's not what you were saying in your original post. As I understand it now, you were mostly being poetic and metaphoric, not literal, which changes the meaning. Can you explain exactly how, and separate out what is...

Very interesting, Dondi. Thank you for pulling this together- quite a bit of work! I think what is particularly fascinating is that Matthew, Mark, and Luke emphasize action and attitude, while John emphasizes belief. The former three seem much more Jewish in their assessment of salvation to...

None of this is required only of a spouse. Other humans in general provide all this for us as well. All humans allow us to grow and expand our heart. All humans allow us to feel the feminine and masculine natures of God. Humans, by the way, are not uniformly two gender categories and all...

So what happens if a child dies at 2 years old?

Me too. :)

I think separation is neither good nor bad, but it is illusory. A lot of problems come from the wholesale acceptance of this illusion. If we are aware of being in God's presence, the separation is like a canvas. It is a space for creating art, for exercising God's creativity as it shines...