Well, that figures from what I've seen from your camp. Alien abductions, secret gas chambers, unsupportable views of the Bible. It all adds up.
Posted on 08/29/2009 8:14:40 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Members of the Aetherius Society from as far afield as Australia and Ghana joined the pilgrimage to the Old Man of Coniston.
They believe the mountain is one of 19 across the world which have been “charged” with spiritual energy by extra-terrestrials from Venus and Mars.
Members of the society say their founder, George King, was able to contact religious figure heads – including Jesus, Buddha and Krishna – who they believe to be aliens. He transmitted the energy from their messages of peace to the mountains in the 1950s.
Society member David Trimble, 70, who was among those who joined the trek, hailed the event as a great success, in spite of difficult weather conditions.
He said: “It was absolutely fantastic. We divided into three prayer teams – one at the bottom, one two thirds of the way up and one right at the top. We prayed for world peace and sent energy out to all the trouble spots of the world including Iraq, Iran and the Sudan.”
According to society members, the 2,635ft Old Man was “charged” by Dr King in December 1958. Since then, it has been a place of biannual pilgrimage for society members, who hope to use the energy to alleviate world suffering.
Mr Trimble, who recently moved from Dalston to Barnsley, added: “These alien beings are trying to help mankind and, in terms of the mountains, we can generate an enormous amount of power. We’ve literally been able to move mountains and stop wars.”
The pilgrimage was led by Mervyn Smith, a former Coniston resident who now lives in London and has climbed the fell more than 500 times before.
At the same time, similar meetings were held at other “charged” mountains around the world.
Did you ever read JBPhilips’ YOUR GOD IS TOO SMALL?
Some of his theology is not mine but that point was a good one well made.
God became a lot more real and Biblical, to me, when I realized He could never and would never fit inside the confines of finite man’s prissy efforts to hem Him in.
He didn’t even stay inside the boxes He Himself designed in the Old Testament.
Thanks.
I’d guesstimate that I’m probably 88-92+% worked through with it.
I don’t observe too many incidents in an average week or even month wherein I was enslaved to knee jerk reflexive responses because of it. And what may occur seem to be pretty minor most of the time.
I can get hooked somewhat on issues I’m passionate about in terms of the END TIMES, JESUS COMING AGAIN, etc. I like to think that’s more tied to REALLY VISCERALLY HATING to see any hint that folks may miss out on God and what He has for them. Probably somewhat or occasionally pride gets hooked.
When Daddy didn’t affirm, nurture, show solid healthy affection and approval for the first 6-8 years of life—and was either absent, cold, distant, emotionally or physically abusive; alcoholic, stern, harsh, etc. then any child—and particularly sons grow up with low self-esteem, low self-respect, low confidence, etc. etc. etc. and to some degree play catch-up on major issues like that with resulting flawed relationships and life satisfaction and effectiveness in some areas [overcompensating in others] for the rest of their lives.
When the degree of such is severe, the length and severity of the problems resulting are greater as well—and that’s WITH LOTS of effort and help to work it through.
Throw in a super atypical personality, existential thrownness such as mine and it can be one wild ride.
On the other hand, some hereon are ALSO recovering [one hopes] alcoholics (&/OR other chronic ‘coping’ habits & disorders) with very serious degrees of the most destructive form of “Type A” personality types—wherein they have a “Type A’s toxic core” of negative emotions “especially the anger associated with an aggressively reactive temperament” (Smith & Ruiz, 2002; Williams, 1993). “Type A individuals are more often ‘combat ready.’ . . . “Further stress—sometimes conflicts brought on by their own abrasiveness—may trigger the altered heart rhythms that, in those with weakened hearts, can cause sudden death (Kamarck & Jennings, 1991). In important ways, the hearts and minds of people interact.” pp400-401 EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY 7th Ed. David G. Myers.
Short of being healed and laying aside such compulsions AND LEARNING A DIFFERENT WAY TO LIVE, such folks are not going to change enormously and will most probably die a lot sooner than necessary, leaving a horrid list of mangled relationships and hurt others in their wake.
It can be quite serious enough to have RAD leave one willfully blind in key theological areas . . . it’s a whole ‘nother order of problem that one horribly mangles one’s closest loved ones so much that the beat goes on and on through the generations.
We’ve been having a special 10 days of prayer at the church every evening for the church. Last night’s focus was on leaders . . . including ‘servants.’ We emphasize servant hearted leadership.
Anyway—I first felt led to pray against the 30,000 Iranian sleeper agents already in the USA to murder on signal all pastors etc. Later on, I humorously felt led to pray that all the leaders were dead—i.e. their ‘flesh,’ pride, personal agendas etc. dead—in Christ.
To the degree that we are dead in HIm, we can experience His Resurrection Life, power, authority.
Many Christian parents . . . particularly those from !!!!TRADITION!!!! bound, large, bureaucratic, etc. organizations have over-emphasized ‘spare the rod . . . ‘ and UTTERLY IGNORED ‘provoke not your children to wrath.’ DISCIPLINE WITHOUT SUFFICIENT EMOTIONALLY BONDED RELATIONSHIP WILL RESULT IN REBELLION.
95+% of prisoners have serious RAD.
In a lot of ways, clinging with a death grip to RELIGION of all stripes and forms is an immature compensation for RAD. Lots of ritual, custom, tidy little regemented categories of behavior and belief . . . all are tailor made by the enemy to enslave folks with RAD into RELIGION vs attach them as sons and daughters in LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
It takes a long time even with lots of help and effort to overcome such. Nevertheless, God has proven quite able and willing to help those who earnestly persist in a redemptive healing process.
Well, that figures from what I've seen from your camp. Alien abductions, secret gas chambers, unsupportable views of the Bible. It all adds up.
“tidy little box”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mind so tightly closed on error when I was not speaking to a leftard.
Looks like a good image to post in your mirror and on your fridge as a reminder.
I didn’t realize your world was so tiny.
Sorry, but YOU guys are wrong. Try reading the Bible for yourselves for once and see what Thesselonians and Revelation have to say. Cheez.
No one is infallible, including the Pope.
Amen, Jacky.
LOL.
His successors have always been Christian and righteous men? Nooooo, I don’t think so. The Holy Spirit must have missed quite a few on the way down.
As a rule, they read the gospels and Paul and that’s about it. As a rule.
How anyone could have followed some of those early Popes is beyond me.
Also bad psychology. Slinging around a generic “diagnosis” of RAD and tying it to a particular religion is ludicrous, unprofessional, and reflects poorly on the education of the slinger. Kind of like parlor psychology, inappropriately applied by an unqualified “diagnostician.”
Typical non-response from the ...
Theology Crowd.
More false witness.
I’ve merely tied it to a collection of persistent types of RESPONSES.
And I’ve suggested that some RELIGIOUS GROUPS
have a GREATER PERCENTAGE than average of such folks collecting with them because of the FIT of the dynamics typical of those groups.
WEDDING it rigidly to a denomination would be too much of a stretch.
Though perhaps with some groups . . . the degree of association would be a LOT more than with some others.
Sad.
Fascinating the last 72 hours . . .
if some folks . . . as is likely . . .
are as mean-spirited, prickly, out-right-nasty and as ‘flash-hostile’ with their primary relationships as they are hereon,
then they must have few durable relationships and those must be extremely conflicted and tumultuous.
“are as mean-spirited, prickly, out-right-nasty and as ‘flash-hostile’ with their primary relationships as they are hereon,”
You are the only person who has demonstrated those qualities on this thread. Period.
Probably a good look back at some of your posts would let you know what you have actually done.
And for the last time, do not freepmail me again.
IIRC, the Jewish tradition was the Bride would be taken "fetched" at a time designated by the Father of the Groom, but it was the Groom who was sent to bring her. The time the Bride was fetched was after the Bride had been paid for, with a gap between the two that could be years.
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