Re: Becoming an Elder

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Zephyr in 50+ stars~a half century & more on earth!

I came accross this speech given to uni students and thought it worth sharing here University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009  Paul Hawken When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if... More »

Re: Evolution and Enactment 2.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

David: “Whether some sort of body transmigrates is another question, and that isn't necessarily a goodie, though perhaps it could be.” Is: David … that'd be the ultimate goodie of all good goodies. I just... More »

Re: "The Worst is Yet to Come: If You're Not Petrified....

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by mike S in Fully Engaged

Domus, Most Americans are republicans? Actually, you will need to look through party lines and platforms, based on mainstream media's need to perpetuate spectacle, and you will see that the U.S. is primarily a country... More »

Re: To what extent is "enlightenment" useful and relevant today?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by andrew in What Is Enlightenment?

yeah but god could be the source of matter, not that anyone knows what god is if 'it' exists.......... state experiences are real enough, drawing definite conclusions about reality from the many state experiences is... More »

A Night Fear: Night Terrors

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Jody in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

It's not true, what my mother said.  That there's nothing there in the dark that isn't there in the light.  She said it thinking it would comfort me.  She turned the light on and then... More »

Re: Down memory lane

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Lizzyl in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

Has anyone here besides me attended Cornerstone Fest in Bushnell Il.? I used to go every year. It was a chance to get my kid out of Chicago and I got to go for free because... More »

Light flowing to refugees in Swat Valley

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Meenakshi in The Power of Light

To all those displaced by the continuing conflict in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Images source: Slide Show at Times Online 1.Refugee children, fleeing military operations in Buner, sit in a van as they arrive at a... More »

Re: Coherence for Sri Lanka

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by martin_k in Global Coherence Initiative

Hello Siona, thanks! There are latest news on this item as just found in e.g. german Spiegel online from May 14th, alert email from amnesty international group in (amnestyusa.org) which I received yesterday.. Two women,... More »

Miracles @ Mt. Adams

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Ryan in Starseed Sanctuary

I've been having extra-terrestrial experiences lately. James Gilliand's ranch in southern Washington is full of orbs, lightships, and underground crystal cities. We are let on the land for very cheap, and are met by u.f.o... More »

Re: For the Price of a Bear

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by SillyOldBear in Talespinner's Tavern

:::standing by the fire, tankard of ale in hand, clears throat::: After resting for a day by the river, thoroughly enjoying ourselves fishing and cleaning both ourselves and in my case, my clothes, we continued... More »

What's your most vivid childhood memory?

Posted on Jun 21st, 2009 by sunshine

Let me share this childhood story, on this Honey Moon of the summer solstice :) And I will share a song in the blog later today. Alan and I created a new one for this... More »

Obammer* wows 'em in Cairo

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Cinc

  Introduction: President Blacque Obammer's* speech in Cairo has been highly praised, mostly by people who haven't actually read it. Today, I will analyze some of Obammer's* text. For over three years, my contention has... More »

Are you happy?

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Pausha

I worked in the garden yesterday. For about three hours I dug in the dirt, planted flowers, arranged rocks, spread wood chips. I had my gloves on at first but I soon took them off.... More »

History, freedom, friendship, children of tomorrow, fathers...

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Asteri

History... Today I was sitting in line during my lunch break to send a book to a friend which is missing freedom... I usually talk very soft, my voice is soft, do not raise my... More »

Measuring and Achieving Goals

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by ~Matthew

On February 7th, 2009, I made a body fat % goal for myself.  According to a pair of $3 calipers--that I purchased for the express purpose of keeping track of this goal--my body fat at... More »

Continued...

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Heethersays

I had to switch computers...the other one was driving me crazy. Anyways, I'm so frusterated at the doctors that my mom still isn't feeling well. She lost fifteen pounds in 3 weeks because she can't... More »

Awe-filled, while thinking about Joshua's Journey

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by JOYOUS

This is Sunday, Mother's Day.  I find that lately Saturdays and Sundays though not much different from any other of these days of the "Sparkling 70* Stars +",  they bring me into a different awareness. ... More »

DO U KNOW SEKONDI-TAKORADI-GHANA?

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by SWEETMORRIS

  POSITION SEKONDI-TAKORADI AS A TOURISM DESTINATION CENTRE IN GHANA INTRODUCTION Western Region of Ghana has integrated, complex, beautiful and safe beaches with an African touch. It has the largest collection of European trading forts... More »

Snakes and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails...

Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Mamakat

Let me tell you about my son Jordan Ryker, celebrating his 21st birthday today. He was a ten pound baby, nearly as large as his twin sisters were combined. He was born four days before... More »

Sprinklepot: Part II

Posted on May 6th, 2009 by michaelsits

I stayed home from school one day five years earlier with a slight stomachache. Really, I just didn’t feel like going.  I can assure you Karma took care of that lie big time. The early... More »

From the collection of Lincoln's papers in the Library of America series, Vol II, pp. 520-521. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, . . . to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the rivers and seas, with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while he has opened to us new sources of wealth, and has corned* the labor of our working-men in every department of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, he has been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial . . . into which we have been brought by our adherence as a nation to the cause of freedom and humanity. . . . Now, therefore, I . . . do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may be then, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe. And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations. *preserved

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not; whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not; whether blood will have to be shed we know not; whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.

Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is.

By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered, and confidently waiting come what may, we know that God is with us night and morning, and never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented, still evil days bring burdens hard to bear; Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

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