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I'm sorry, I don't understand. Does this have something to do with the filoque clause?

From Merriam Webster: 1 a : designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone *a body of esoteric legal doctrine — B. N. Cardozo* b : requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group *esoteric terminology* *esoteric strategies*; broadly : difficult to...

The Excorcist.

Life of Brian.

I mean tools that are not physical objects. Mental tools as opposed to physical ones.

Perhaps an examination of the connection between moralistic sexual repression and sexual deviance would suggest an enlightened approach to reducing paedophilia.

What is the essential difference between Christian esoterica and Christian mysticism? It would seem that the elements of esoterica are merely the insubstantial tools of the mystic experience, at least to some degree.

Sunny

I don't have a stake in the sola scriptura debate, so I'll be withdrawing at this point, but I appreciate your responses, and I didn't want to leave you hanging. Do we agree then that the geneologies do not represent an actual bloodline, but rather function as a literary device? This seems to...

Well, I think that as we gain perspective we can put entertaining things like TV in their place. Use them for our pleasure when and how we want. I want to live large in the world. I just don't want it shagging me.

I love it when I get off work Friday. I feel like Fred Flintstone sliding down the back of that dinosaur. Yabba dabba dooooooooo! Sunny

Yeah, that sucks I guess. But there are a lot of worse things. Like, oh I don't know...being a straight siamese twin with a gay brother- and his boyfriend is coming over tonight. Try walking a mile in his, er their moccasins.

I think I'll check out here. I enjoyed this, thanks. Sunny

Yeah. It demands contemplation by virtue of it's sheer irreducibility. Dark energy, dark hungry chaos, and dark matter. It is the object of emptyness.

Spit, spit, spit. That's all you do. Where'd you find that pic of Buddy Jesus?

I don't go to church. I had a lifetime's worth of church when I was a kid. But if I did I would let child molesters in so long as they were trussed up like Hannibal Lechter. The Deacons could wheel them in and out on appliance dollies.The recidivisim rate for child predators is way up there...

I know Brendan gets it. I like what he's saying so much think I'm going to invite him over to my house! :) He'd fit in great with our little conversation group. I think what we're really talking about is gaining perspective. We need to be able to separate what we know from what we don't...

[SIZE=4]Pow!!! OK, here's my qualification: If we are going to truly embrace uncertainty and abandon the world of identity driven appearances, we have to also become aware of the mechanisms of power and control that place the programming into us in the first place. "embracing uncertainty"...

That would account for the Walled Garden references?

I like it! And I agree with most of what this guy is saying. Actually all of it but with a couple of qualifications. I'm still thinking about how to write about that. Words don't come easily for me. I'll get to it... Thanks again! Sunny