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It's No Secret, The Christians Guide to God's Law of Attraction
There are four basic areas in life that all must remain in balance. Those four areas consist of your Spiritual life, your Physical life, (fitness), your Relational life. And your Financial Life. It is important to realize that we are never in perfect balance. We will always be leaning one way or another what I am getting at here is that in today's world we tend to be tilted more than is healthy. That is the purpose of this website and my mission to help people gain a sense of balance in their live's…..
 
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Oh dear ... another commercial adventure in Christianity!
 
Thomas, same thing happens with most other Religions, philosophies, and psychologies. As Bernum said, "ther is one born every minute".
 
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Anyone got any idea when the first commercialization of Chrisitanity occurred??

If we searched could we find it in Paul's letters?
 
And these seem to ask...without commercialization....where would Christianity be?

a little yin/yan within every 'evil' there is good?

or in my vernacular...there is no evil...it is always good, as it is all of G!d...it is just waiting for us to realize it.
The "first Christmas" was a simple time of beauty and wonder. The birth of Christ was less about celebration than it was about family. Though many today may grow tired of the commercialization of Christmas, in reality it has opened the door for Christ to once again become the focal point of the season, and for family, especially children, to be at the heart of the celebration.

ACE COLLINS, Stories Behind Great Traditions of Christmas

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Little Women
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wil said:
And these seem to ask...without commercialization....where would Christianity be?
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Are you saying the good cannot exist without being commercialised? Or the obvious that it would be in a better place than it is now?

wil said:
a little yin/yan within every 'evil' there is good?
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Really? Can you show me what the good in evil is, I wonder?

wil said:
or in my vernacular...there is no evil...it is always good, as it is all of G!d...it is just waiting for us to realize it.
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So rape is good? Slaughter is good? Persecution is good? Wil, it seems to me you have a very odd idea of the good. Can you explain it? :confused:
 
I don't know.... American's slaughtered millions of Indians to create what is now the US...

Evil or good?

Without Hitler there would not be Israel....evil or good?

millions of animals are slaughtered daily to b put on plates around the world....evil or good?

Should we abolish Israel, the US and all carniverous humans?? Would that be good since they are the results of what some would deam as evil??
 
So if commercialization of Christmas reminds people to be nicer, to respect their fellow man, to provide random acts of kindness...if movies and adverts all raise folks spirits...is this evil or good?
 
Today we celebrate thanksgivng....a holiday in honor of the pilgrims that invited the natives in appreciation of making it through last winter and for the bounty that would make it through the next...

yet how did we honor those natives in the next 400 years?
 
Happy Thanksgiving, wil!
Since I think good and evil are human concepts to define the world around us, I'm with you on this one wil.
 
wil said:
.. American's slaughtered millions of Indians to create what is now the US ..
Without Hitler there would not be Israel ..evil or good?

millions of animals are slaughtered daily to b put on plates around the world ..evil or good?
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Slaughter is never good; except to put on plates, that is why evolution gave us incisors and discarded appendix.

'Jeevo jeevasya bhojanam' (one life is food for another). :)
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There are four basic areas in life that all must remain in balance.
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Kama (sex), Artha (Earning), Dharma (Society), and Moksha (Understanding of life).
 
wil said:
I don't know.... American's slaughtered millions of Indians to create what is now the US...
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Without Hitler there would not be Israel...
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Hi Wil —

I have always found dialogue with you frustrating. I used to think we were very close, opposite but in reality just a degree apart, as it were. Latterly I have become more insistent in my challenges to find that common ground for meaningful dialogue.

I was contemplating my answer, and these comments, on a long drive today, so plenty of time to think. Seeking out that elusive 'common ground' ... and then I had my eureka moment ... there isn't one.

Not sure what else there is to say ...
 
No worries Thomas. Those examples are obviously extreme...I took them for the extreme nature.

While folks are constantly pushing me towards 'everything just is' not good not bad and I understand the sentiment...

Among the people who lived close to the border, there was a man who led a righteous life. Without reason, his horse escaped, and fled into barbarian territory. Everyone pitied him, but the old man said : "what makes you think this is not a good thing?"

Several months later, his horse returned, accompanied by a superb barbarian stallion. Everyone congratulated him. But the old man said: "what makes you think this is cannot be a bad thing?"

The family was richer from a good horse, his son enjoyed riding it. He fell and broke his hip. Everyone pitied him, but the old man said: "what makes you think this is not a good thing!"

One year later, a large party of barbarians entered the border. All the valid men drew their bows and went to battle. From the people living around the border, nine out of ten died. But just because he was lame, the old man and his son were both spared.
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For me it is all good. I can't see it while I am in it. I cannot explain away rape, war, or anything else...I just know it is all moving us forward, it is all divine, G!d's involved in everything that is and it all leads us closer to spirit, all takes us through what we need....despite what we think, despite our perception.
 
William Bradford, THE chronicler of the Plymouth Planation (and its head five times covering about thirty years between 1621 and 1657) wrote in his Of Plymouth Plantation about his “Proclamation of Thanksgiving”:

"Those that scaped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatche, and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stincke and sente there of, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to inclose their enemise in their hands, and gave them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enimie." This is what Cotton Mather said, "It was supposed that no less than 600 souls were brought down to Hell that day". At the same time he gives us an insight into the society and character of the Puritans. “…yet all this could not suppress the breaking out of sundry notorious sins.. Especially drunkenness and uncleanness. Not only incontinency between persons unmarried, for which many both men and women have been punished sharply enough, but some married persons also. But that which is worse, even sodomy and buggery (things fearful to name) have broke forth in this land oftener than once. I say it may justly be marveled at and cause us to fear and tremble at the considration of our corrupt natures, which are so hardly bridled, subdued and mortified.....But one reason may be that the Devil may carry a greater spite against the churches of Christ and the gospel here.”

The thousand “brought down to Hell” are not Pilgrims, but peaceful Pokanoket tribe (who welcomed and save the colony in the first three years) which was the headship tribe of the many tribes that make up the Wampanoag Nation.

See also History of the Modern American Thanksgiving and
THANKSGIVING: A Day of Mourning.

What do you think about “Thanksgiving” now?
 
Don't we know that thanksgiving isn't what it was once portraid as? Isn't it something else now, something we(you) are proud of?
 
Most Americans still celebrate it as a gifting of the Pilgrims with survuval by the Pokanoket. However, that was NEVER the reason for Thanksgiving. It was founded as a celebration of victory over the heathen in King Phillip's War. Is the difference important? In terms of service to truth and justice, and as a reminder of the American Holocaust, I certainly think so.
 
Yes our patriotic and religious fervor often blind us to reality...we prefer the sanctity of our mythology, be it national or theological.
 
I think US should change the Thanksgiving date to something else. Massacre and treatment of the survivors of Amerindians was shameful.
 
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