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Union Seminary has gone full bore pagan
Union Seminary Twitter ^ | 9/18/2019

Posted on 09/18/2019 10:23:23 AM PDT by Gamecock

Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.

What do you confess to the plants in your life?



TOPICS: General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: flora; flowers; forbes; fruits; houseplants; idolatry; insanity; liberals; millet; nuts; palmsforthepoor; parlorpalms; plants; pottedplants; trees; unionseminary; vegetables; vegetation; vines; wallflowers
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“I remember the plants that sensed things back in the early 1970s.”

Was that before or after you stuffed their skinny little leaves into your bong?


21 posted on 09/18/2019 11:00:37 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Gamecock

A mockery of ancient aboriginal cultures where the knowledge of plants can mean the difference between life and death.


22 posted on 09/18/2019 11:01:04 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Gamecock

Sheldon Cooper is sitting in the back.


23 posted on 09/18/2019 11:03:03 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Gamecock

Bonhoeffer was similarly dismayed by the students at Union Theological Seminary. The students “are completely clueless with respect to what dogmatics is really about. They are not familiar with even the most basic questions. They become intoxicated with liberal and humanistic phrases, are amused at the fundamentalists, and yet basically are not even up to their level.... In contrast to our own [German] liberalism, which in its better representatives doubtless was a genuinely vigorous phenomenon, here all that has been frightfully sentimentalised, and with an almost naive know-it-all attitude” (pp. 265-66). Again, referring to Union Seminary: “A seminary in which numerous students openly laugh during a public lecture because they find it amusing when a passage on sin and forgiveness from Luther’s de servo arbitrio is cited has obviously, despite its many advantages, forgotten what Christian theology in its very essence stands for” (pp. 309-10).


24 posted on 09/18/2019 11:06:46 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Gamecock

To make it even worse, some idiot thought it was a good idea to bring potted plants additional loose dirt to stand in. Should have brought some water for the half dead plant.


25 posted on 09/18/2019 11:09:24 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: moovova

Some one back in the late 1960s got the idea that if you hooked up a lie detector to a plant you could get an electrical reaction.

If you went into a room and destroyed a plant, the other plants would go into measurable stress.
If several other people walked into the room, the plants would go into extreme stress when the person who destroyed the plant walked in. They wondered what would happen to the plants if a murder had taken place. No one tried it.

Measurable plant stress was quite the rage back around 1970 in popular scientific magazines. Mother Earth News even picked up on it.

And I have NEVER smoked anything.


26 posted on 09/18/2019 11:12:34 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“And I have NEVER smoked anything.”

Good for you!

As for the rest...I learn something new everyday at FR.


27 posted on 09/18/2019 11:14:36 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Gamecock

Did the plants grant absolution? Or is that only for Catholic plants?


28 posted on 09/18/2019 12:26:29 PM PDT by Marchmain (peace...pax)
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To: Gamecock

Wheres the weed killer?


29 posted on 09/18/2019 12:44:29 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I ran a biofeedback lab back then. I want into the lab to try it out and they discovered I could control my heart rate, brain waves, and everything else very easily so they hired me. They asked me what I did to control those things, and I said I just talked to the machines and told them what I wanted the readings to be.

Just for fun, I tried killing my philodendron to see what other plants did. Didn’t work, they survived just fine.


30 posted on 09/18/2019 1:14:30 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Veto!

“Just for fun, I tried killing my philodendron to see what other plants did. Didn’t work, they survived just fine.”

Could be they are just pursuing a very long-term revenge plot. Plants might just be very, very patient.


31 posted on 09/18/2019 2:51:59 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: fishtank

That looks more like a seminarian from Mundelein, lol.


32 posted on 09/18/2019 3:21:08 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lucky)
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To: Gamecock

Frankfurt School. Long March.


33 posted on 09/18/2019 5:39:02 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

God’s Creation is a miraculous thing. One does not have to be a leftist to consider that it is far greater and deeper a mystery than we suspect.

And I have NEVER smoked anything.


34 posted on 09/18/2019 5:41:17 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Gamecock

From Wikipedia

“Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (UTS) is a non-denominational Christian seminary[2] in New York City. It is affiliated with neighboring Columbia University. Since 1928, the seminary has served as Columbia’s constituent faculty of theology. In 1964, UTS also established an affiliation with the neighboring Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

UTS is the oldest independent seminary in the United States and has long been known as a bastion of progressive Christian scholarship, with a number of prominent thinkers among its faculty or alumni. It was founded in 1836 by members of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.,[3] but was open to students of all denominations. In 1893, UTS rescinded the right of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to veto faculty appointments, thus becoming fully independent. In the 20th century, Union became a center of liberal Christianity. It served as the birthplace of the Black theology, womanist theology, and other theological movements. Union houses the Columbia University Burke Library, one of the largest theological libraries in the Western Hemisphere.”

Columbia University. Mr. O’Bama’s alma mater.


35 posted on 09/19/2019 1:06:44 AM PDT by Norski
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PFL


36 posted on 09/19/2019 2:00:43 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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PFL


37 posted on 09/19/2019 2:00:47 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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