tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.comments2023-10-02T07:35:55.947-05:00Love MinistriesRichard S. T. Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16074991032201855959noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-38045252887151826822009-08-15T12:10:10.724-05:002009-08-15T12:10:10.724-05:00Please update status?Please update status?VirusHeadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17628414258776643739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-51401128768873480242009-03-17T16:36:00.000-05:002009-03-17T16:36:00.000-05:00For me, it's all about freedom. I am 26 years old ...For me, it's all about freedom. I am 26 years old and have never felt free. Ever. Here are my 10 things:<BR/>1. Freedom to accept people as they are and to respect their point of view without feeling obligated to tear it down.<BR/>2. Freedom to set my own priorities in my life.<BR/>3. Freedom to appreciate wonderful, loving gay people and respect their relationships as wholesome and worthy.<BR/>4. Freedom to use my Saturday mornings as I see fit.<BR/>5. Freedom to get my college degree without feeling ashamed of my untheocratic reliance on Satan's world.<BR/>6. Freedom to laugh at what I think is funny, not worrying about whether it is chaste, of serious concern, etc.<BR/>7. Freedom to learn about the viewpoints that I was never allowed to investigate for myself before. <BR/>8. Freedom to think for myself as it relates to morality and spirituality.<BR/>9. Freedom to wear what I deem to be attractive, presentable and appropriate.<BR/>10. Freedom to accept lunch invitations from co-workers who really want to get to know me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-43812582557343344342008-12-09T05:01:00.000-06:002008-12-09T05:01:00.000-06:00Hi VictoriaI have just read through your words abo...Hi Victoria<BR/><BR/>I have just read through your words about benefits of being free from the JW organisation and found them to be very poignant. I have been an x-witness for about 18 years having been a witness for 20 years and still find it difficult to get on with my life and feel free from the past! Your words have helped me this morning to put some of my thoughts into perspective as I agree with you on most of your thoughts. Thankyou. Your Mum sounds a very lovely person too, I have two furry friends of my own(dogs) Dougal and Jasper - love them to bits<BR/><BR/>Kind regards Suefoxysuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620248626509576905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-76038152648230445062008-10-20T10:58:00.000-05:002008-10-20T10:58:00.000-05:00Richard,I enjoy your blog and I would like to send...Richard,<BR/>I enjoy your blog and I would like to send you updates regarding similar important issues. May I please have your contact information? Thanks.tws1615https://www.blogger.com/profile/03150157623788332021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-67876244581703639552008-10-06T18:43:00.000-05:002008-10-06T18:43:00.000-05:00No, he won't 'take your guns away..' Just sic the ...No, he won't 'take your guns away..' Just sic the ATF on everyoine in the firearms supply chain, like Carter and Clinton. Just meke is harder to buy anything but the most innocuous Wal-Mart peashooter, and when everyhting else is unavailable, the stage will be set for those to go too. Marxists always take the long view...the expoect their goals to take years, one step at a time. And that, my UMWA friends, is elimination of the gun culture -- your culture. But not to worry. You probably will eventually develop a taste for arugula over venison....oldcorps76https://www.blogger.com/profile/09281783473995122671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-58162227505572881602008-10-02T21:17:00.000-05:002008-10-02T21:17:00.000-05:00this is a tragedy, but just for the record jeremy ...this is a tragedy, but just for the record jeremy is the middle son of the shank'sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-30155335670936407332008-08-26T13:05:00.000-05:002008-08-26T13:05:00.000-05:00I am sorry to read such a smearing blog misreprese...I am sorry to read such a smearing blog misrepresenting Christian Science in such a profound way - and demonstrating a gross mis-understanding about its teachings. <BR/><BR/>I would encourage the author to afford me the fairness of publishing my response to correct some (but perhaps not all) of the inaccuracies implied. <BR/><BR/>For those readers of this blog, I would like to say that: #1. Christian Science is not a cult. I'm confident most would agree that a cult includes a group of people that worship and follow blindly some personality who deludes them into acts foreign to their natural inclinations.<BR/><BR/>On the contrary, Mary Baker Eddy, far from someone that we deify, is valued greatly by Christian Scientists as the revelator, the discoverer and founder of the science of Christianity - which might be defined as the practical nature of the divine law demonstrated by Jesus in his healings and works. Mrs. Eddy herself asked her followers to follow her only as far as she follows Christ; - a humble sentiment that couldn't be more opposite to that of a cult leader. <BR/><BR/>Her revelatory textbook illumines the Biblical teachings and makes feasible Jesus' command to "heal the sick", "go and do ye likewise", and "greater works than these shall ye do because I go unto my father", etc. It shows the science behind the actions of Jesus, therefore revealing how ANYONE (not just a those attending its church) can learn to heal. <BR/><BR/>#2 The author of the blog also seems to cast Christian Science in the same light as positive thinking or any of the other systems like it that rely upon the human mind as a healing agent. Indeed I would concur with the author that positive thinking has little benefit beyond hypnotizing the sick or suffering into a false sense of well-being, usually resulting in some rude awakening later that no healing has actually occurred. <BR/><BR/>On the contrary, Christian Science appeals to divine law, the divine Mind, or God - as opposed to the human mind. It is this same divine law that was taught and practiced by Christ Jesus to heal in his era.<BR/><BR/>I would encourage readers of this blog to read the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and decide for themselves if this practice works. I would also encourage anyone to pick up a copy of the book "Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Healer" which might explain why spiritual healing became so much more prevalent in the late 1800's as the author references. It can be obtained at any Christian Science Reading Room.<BR/><BR/>Contrary to the authors comments, I and those whom I know that have grown up in Christian Science for four generations, have always been found more healthy than our peers; missing school or work with much less frequency than others, and often eliciting comments from acquaintances "how is it that you are never sick" and "how is it that nothing ever seems to fluster you?". <BR/><BR/>In the authors comments about his beliefs that had Christian Science healing worked, the world would be converted and no one would ever died, I have to respond with the obvious retort. It need not be stated that hundreds of thousands die yearly under medical care, and yet doctors are philanthropists and humane doers of good globally. We are asking only to be judged on a level playing field. <BR/><BR/>For any who have an interest in learning more about what Christian Science TRULY is in a more accurate way, I would encourage them to visit www.spirituality.com or www.christianscience.com.<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033140705272838713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-77987805833169538392008-07-24T11:59:00.000-05:002008-07-24T11:59:00.000-05:00"In ancient times, this Supermind was called "God,..."In ancient times, this Supermind was called "God," and nature was called "Goddess." (Early Christians had a goddess they called "Sophia.") God,the infinite Mind of Love, lives within and through the Goddess. They<BR/>are not "two beings," but God is one with Goddess."<BR/><BR/>Shi - I have never thought about the God and Goddess this way... I can see then the way the binaries might have lined up and started to be associated across unlike domains - light/dark, spirit/material, mind/heart, male/female, good/bad. <BR/><BR/>The interpenetration of supermind and nature as the love of the God and Goddess is a beautiful thought. Thank you so much for sharing this - do you remember how you gleaned it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-55998943636232704052008-03-28T14:51:00.000-05:002008-03-28T14:51:00.000-05:00One other tragic side of this story often gets mis...One other tragic side of this story often gets missed: The Shanks' oldest son Jeremy was killed in Iraq in 2006, in the midst of all of their health care struggles.<BR/><BR/>Can you imagine?1UP RPGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00068793836666132237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-89551586771905432432007-11-20T20:23:00.000-06:002007-11-20T20:23:00.000-06:00I wish you both off to the French corn fields...Wi...I wish you both off to the French corn fields...With a one-way ticket you American-hating, commie bastards! You don't deserve the freedoms you DO have!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-29289599605902165572007-11-19T06:47:00.000-06:002007-11-19T06:47:00.000-06:00There is no evidence to support this idea that Job...There is no evidence to support this idea that Job was Asian in the sense that you mean. His cultural context was Afro-Asiatic and so naturally there will be some points of contact with religious ideas in Hinduism and Buddhism. The ancient Afro-Asiatic Dominion extended from the Atlantic coast of modern Nigeria to the Indus River Valley, but the rulers of this vast Dominion lost power when the rivers and waterways they controlled began to dry up about 7,000 years ago. You may read morea about this here: <BR/>http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2007/11/linguistic-evidence-for-afro-asiatic.htmlAlice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-37051194720317149392007-11-07T09:52:00.000-06:002007-11-07T09:52:00.000-06:00I love your blog..hopefully you will get your webs...I love your blog..hopefully you will get your website up and running again soon...because i would like to order a book.(i am currently reading: "Love is God, The Jehovah Myth, The Mystic God, and The Mystery of Suffering".<BR/><BR/>Okay, as to the blog: this did not start with Bush. All the american presidents within my lifetime have been war criminals..this started way back when the federal government was hijacked by big business starting in the mid 1800s.<BR/>read Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket"..<BR/><BR/>The hijacking culminated when the Federal Reserve Bank was installed, and the organic common law constitution began to be replaced by Universal Commercial Code...statute law.<BR/><BR/>IF you take an unbiased look at history, the US government has been one of the largest progenitors of evil, terror and bloodshed in the last one hundred years..all over the globe.<BR/><BR/>The US government have murdered heads of state, armed uprisings to overthrow democratically elected heads of state that are threats to their business interests, and have sent death squads committing terroristic acts all over the globe...this doesn't include special ops where CIA or Brit intelligence pose as arabs and blow up buildings...(happened in falluja)<BR/><BR/>America has never been a shining land of peace simply because the political machinery is run by smiling sociopaths..it has ALWAYS been this way...the least fit, the least able, the least wise always in positions of power...that is The Way of the World.<BR/><BR/>Bush is simply more blatant than previous presidents.<BR/><BR/>When Satan was showing Jesus all the kingdoms of the world...Jesus did not dispute that Satan owned them all..He did not say yes, all but the United States...now we both know this is probably allegorical. Satan is usually the ego, but there are also evil dis-carnate spirits and lost souls in this world which could be satans i suppose.(spirit is different from soul)<BR/><BR/>ALL governments througout time are satanic..they are in fact institutionalized ego...everything any government touches turns to evil..,.ALWAYS...this never fails.<BR/><BR/>Look at the history of government over the last 6000 years of written history.<BR/><BR/>IF most governments were incarnated people, they would be locked up for being criminally insane.<BR/><BR/>This is the way it has always been.Don't store up your treasures on earth where the moths can eat them and rust can destroy them..<BR/>You know what real treasure is and you will not find it in this world.<BR/><BR/>Bighugs, and Blessings to you<BR/>ErikaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-83475949643603926812007-08-11T13:17:00.000-05:002007-08-11T13:17:00.000-05:00I've always found it interesting that Buddhists ar...I've always found it interesting that Buddhists are so much more open to Christianity than Christians are to Buddhism...sometimes I even think i would much rather get to know a Buddhist monk than a Christian evangelist anyday...<BR/><BR/>As a Christian let me say I truly enjoyed this entry, kudos.David B. Beaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02960481246957399159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1144283904429947022007-07-25T04:06:00.000-05:002007-07-25T04:06:00.000-05:00I find your particular concept of reincarnation ve...I find your particular concept of reincarnation very interesting.... Now, I am a PanDeist, and PanDeism is not inherently a reincarnation-heavy belief system (you can look up PanDeism on Wikipedia for more info on that), but I have some beliefs about reincarnation that I find fit in with PanDeism, with the idea that we are bits of the energy temporarily dispersed from God.... it is my strong suspicion that whatever energy goes into what could be called the human soul is indeed recycled, but not necessarily all at once.... <BR/><BR/>Picture this: you have three cups of gatorade, one lemon-lime, one fruit punch, and one riptide rush (which is basically grape and therefore is a hazy purple).... these are the souls of some existing persons who die.... now, pour those three cups into a bowl and they will run together (and the color will probably be some unappetizing dark greenish-brown, but unimportant in this analogy).... now, pour out the contents of that bowl into three new cups, and you have created three unique new mixes, although you might be able to figure out how much of each original flavor went into each of the new blends, perhaps by taste alone!! But instead of a bowl we have an ocean, and a few billion cups (constantly going out and coming in), and you have the human race.... <BR/><BR/>Of course, with the population constantly expanding you have "new" material (i.e. additional energy) being added to the mix all the time, mixed in with that of the old souls, which are getting stretched thin).... ultimately, every one of us has some drop of most every person who has lived before-- there's a little bit of Jesus in all of us, a little bit of Buddha, some of Moses and Muhammed and Confucious....<BR/><BR/>Perhaps bits and pieces of the previous memories and personalities survive, which would explain a lot of things, deja vu, strange dreams, some internal conflict and turmoil, even mental illnesses.... but I also think that some personality aspects would blend to make a particularly strong mix.... the point of such a process would be to improve the quality of these bits and pieces through mixing, cooking in the oven of life experience, then remixing and cooking some more.... like the folding and refolding of steel to cauterize impurities, perhaps the stuff that souls are made of is similarly purified, rarified, led to the point where it is worthy of rejoining God when the Universe meets its end!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-42379307322801014472007-04-21T15:17:00.000-05:002007-04-21T15:17:00.000-05:00Is not "God is love' a doctrine? I agree that Chri...Is not "God is love' a doctrine? I agree that Christians have gone overboard with doctrinal anal retentiveness at times but you seem to be setting up a false dichotomy in reaction.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://mattstone.blogs.com" REL="nofollow">Matt Stone</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-55309947497054914182007-04-19T16:54:00.000-05:002007-04-19T16:54:00.000-05:00Good read I applaud your blog.A heads up on the Je...Good read I applaud your blog.<BR/><BR/>A heads up on the Jehovah Witnesses<BR/> <BR/>The core dogma of the Watchtower organization is that Jesus had his second coming 'invisibly' in the year 1914.Their entire doctrinal superstructure is built on this falsehood. <BR/> <BR/> There is good and valid reasons why there is such an outrage against the Watchtower for misleading millions of followers.Many have invested everything in the 'imminent' apocalyptic promises of the Jehovah's Witnesses and have died broken and beaten.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-84918013638861777982007-02-24T11:24:00.000-06:002007-02-24T11:24:00.000-06:00I heard this discussed on National Public Radio th...I heard this discussed on National Public Radio the other day. There is still one problem with these kinds of bulbs - they contain a very small amount of mercury. Mercury is very toxic to humans. Be sure to research safe disposal options for these bulbs in your area - and be extra careful not to break them!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1153387087077894252006-07-20T04:18:00.000-05:002006-07-20T04:18:00.000-05:00Interesting read and interesting idea. I agree wit...Interesting read and interesting idea. <BR/><BR/>I agree with some of it but im not sure all. <BR/>I as a psychic and a dream walker who's psychic gifts alow him to interact with the me's of infinity... lets just say my dreams tend to be alot more vivid when im traveling then when i'm not. When i'm traveling I not only see and hear but i feel as the other me's feel and think as they do and know what they know while i visit them. so thats a little differnt. ordinarily "dreams" however i don't know what they are, I have them too (to travel every night is exausting) i guess mental relms perhaps that we visit or stuff from our deep mind... i realy don't know. i just know they arent as "real" as when i dream walk with alternate me's ... not by a long shot.<BR/><BR/>I do know this... you are right about 2 key facts... <BR/>1. there are a certain number of souls that are here... these souls apear over and over and over again across the infinite realities that i dream walk and they are all human (or a reasonable facsimily following the universal patern) with "human" souls. <BR/>I just wrote a long post on it called "Infinite US" part 1 & 2. <BR/><BR/>the second thing i know is that nothing is back and white there are many shades of gray. this is expecialy true of the relms of the mind.<BR/><BR/>take care<BR/><BR/>Ping aka PucxPucxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17250489036461723289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1145208051976188752006-04-16T12:20:00.000-05:002006-04-16T12:20:00.000-05:00The writings about the Antichrist are, like religi...The writings about the Antichrist are, like religious scipture in general, vague and leave much to speculation. You're probably right that the Antichrist is not one man - he could be many men, or a whole nation, or a piece of technology (I blog about this <A HREF="http://captnsaj.blogspot.com/2006/04/anti-christ-machine.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>).CaptnSajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10048356789388047033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1140231745870748262006-02-17T21:02:00.000-06:002006-02-17T21:02:00.000-06:00Donald - Richard created posts to answer your comm...Donald - Richard created posts to answer your comment. Please view them <A HREF="http://loveministries.blogspot.com/2006/02/evolution-and-philosophy.html" REL="nofollow">here </A> and <A HREF="http://loveministries.blogspot.com/2006/02/god-and-world-reflections.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1138639125877196102006-01-30T10:38:00.000-06:002006-01-30T10:38:00.000-06:00it sure is a food for thoughtmynewsbot.comAre you ...it sure is a food for thought<BR/><BR/><BR/>mynewsbot.com<BR/>Are you a news Junkie ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1134430516015358602005-12-12T17:35:00.000-06:002005-12-12T17:35:00.000-06:00I am not sure what mystic is, but I do agree with ...I am not sure what mystic is, but I do agree with you on the satan myth. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1132523353813601222005-11-20T15:49:00.000-06:002005-11-20T15:49:00.000-06:00Timely reminder - thank you!Timely reminder - thank you!VirusHeadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17628414258776643739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1132522539829815062005-11-20T15:35:00.000-06:002005-11-20T15:35:00.000-06:00you are the nicest person a person can haveyou are the nicest person a person can haveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089106.post-1132200148357625902005-11-16T22:02:00.000-06:002005-11-16T22:02:00.000-06:00I really got a kick out of "I think we all agree, ...I really got a kick out of "I think we all agree, the past is over." :)Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13438462446034169553noreply@blogger.com