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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 9h

Reverend Joshua Patterson was giving his weekly homily on creation. Here is what he said: "The world of creation cannot continue to exist unless God sustains it in some way, as without God staying connected to the world,...

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emptychair Yes, just the test of time, is a sort of proof too, as these things in the bible have stayed true for many a millennia, and nothing in there has been proven conclusively false, in all of that time. And as you said, a lot of the things in the bible have been...

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 9h

Reverend Joshua Patterson was giving his weekly homily on creation. Here is what he said: "The world of creation cannot continue to exist unless God sustains it in some way, as without God staying connected to the world,...

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emptychair Thanks for your encouraging remarks. Yes, science, and God's truths, to not need to fight against each other. God's love is to be found in science too, even as animals love, especially a mother to their children. God's love is everywhere. We just need to...

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @Shiva49 We can either drown in the raging waters of life, and stop being who we are, or allow them to lift us up higher towards God, and so be all we can be for God, and for ourselves too. Life cannot harm us at the deeper level of our soul, when we stay...

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, we can take the stage, by choice, but the stage itself is not always completely of our own making, so we need to make the best of what we have, at our disposal, at times too.

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @arunima25 Yes, when we stop loving, and being nice to others, we then give birth to nasty thoughts, within us, that can then come out of us to bite others. It would be good if Earth could always be a safe place to love.

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @Shiva49 We were perhaps all made from the same mold, but each then grows separately, individually, depending on how they treat their seed, and either nourish it in good soil, or treat it badly, by trying to get it to grow with alcohol, instead of water, and...

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @Shiva49 That was a snide remark, to try to cut you with a seeming compliment, with strings attached to it. You answered him well.

17 Oct

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, my brother had to issue an official apology, and was reprimanded. God makes all souls equal but the outer covering, and attached body, and mind, are all different, l think.

17 Oct

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @arunima25 Yes, every so often, we are surprised by someone acting nicely towards us. There are still some pockets of niceness within society.

17 Oct

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, we have to second guess our speech these days. My brother was up on a discrimination charge at work, for guessing that a man came from India. The man was upset, and asked him how he guessed, and my brother, without thinking, had said by the...

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair Yes, we call it road rage here too. An acquaintance of mine drove over a pedestrian crossing, where two men were talking on the footpath, and looking as if they were not going to cross over the road. He had waited there for several minutes to see if they...

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @arunima25 People are largely selfish, and thinking only of themselves, and their own lives, and turn themselves off from helping others, and from being a nice person to others too.

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, and of course, the charges for getting a licence, and for having driving lessons is astronomical now too. The fines given out for bad driving, like speeding, and using a phone while driving, are also sky-high, but most offenders still manage to...

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair Yes, some are nasty, as well as rude, and the average person these days is not as nice a person, as the average person was, in the past. As a society, overall, we seem to be getting worse, not better.

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair Yes, in some ways the test is easier now than it was in the past. Here it's multiple choice questions, for the rules test, and the driving test is easier now too. I wonder too, how some people get a licence.

15 Oct

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair @jstory07 Here, they race around roundabouts, trying to beat each other in, and out. They don't stop at stop signs here, either.

14 Oct

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 14 Oct

[i]John was on his way to a Doctor's appointment, when a man, who had probably just dropped his kid off, at the local Catholic school, as he burst out from their gate, in front of John, cut John off, on the main road, to do...

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emptychair Yes, and it seems to be getting worse, and worse, over the years too.

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 7 Oct

[i]The old Zen master, Grotley Resposki, was waxing lyrical about love, as he had worked with the minds of his students, over the years, but still, most of them, still were missing an essential element in their development as...

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emptychair @Shiva49 Yes, moving away from love to connect solely to other desires, and emotions, is never the best way to live.

9 Oct

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 7 Oct

[i]The old Zen master, Grotley Resposki, was waxing lyrical about love, as he had worked with the minds of his students, over the years, but still, most of them, still were missing an essential element in their development as...

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emptychair That's nicely put, siva. We should never allow ourselves to be distracted away from love, and loving.

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emptychair @innertalks (23250) • Australia 7 Oct

[i]The old Zen master, Grotley Resposki, was waxing lyrical about love, as he had worked with the minds of his students, over the years, but still, most of them, still were missing an essential element in their development as...

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emptychair Yes, to use love for our own ill-gotten purposes is an abuse of love, and we should try to love, without wanting any desires to be fulfilled by our doing so. We should try to love as God loves, unconditionally, without any attachements, or wants, added to it.

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