Meditations on the reality of Divine Source by Eric Allen Bell:



One's own existence seems self-evident. And yet there really isn't any proof - not objective proof anyway. And if you try to prove your existence to others it raises the question of whether or not other people exist - at least whether they exist anywhere other than within the realm of your own perception.

Originally posted 2009-01-27 21:13:48 -0500. Bumped by Carol.

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

The Argument Against a Post-Racial Society

I recently read a letter to an editor suggesting that race should stop being used as a descriptive element in news stories. While I fully understand the writer's sentiment, isn't the fact that President Obama the first Black leader of the free world news? And beyond that, I don't think our goal in this country should be to do away with difference, but rather, to embrace and promote it.

The primary characteristic that makes the United States different from virtually every other country in the world is that we are a quilt as oppose to a blanket, and that very patchwork of varying cultures is what makes us more, rather than less. That isn't to say that we're the only country that's made up of different cultures, but rather, we are the only country that is defined by difference. Thus, one of the greatest gifts that America can contribute to the world is the understanding that "difference" is a good thing rather than the reverse.

On a visit over to VetVoice in an open thread there was a reply with this link that you should visit, which had this photo:

We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion's Market,' or God's control over the economic systems.

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Dear Sarah,

As a former fundamentalist, I'd like to call you on what you are doing.

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"God is subtle, but he is not malicious." -- Albert Einstein¹

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Malicious? No, perhaps not -- capricious? Maybe -- that could explain the Bush Administration, on a really baaad day.

But one thing is for sure: God (or someone) certainly appears to be watching us, and there's nothing subtle about it:

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Hey, who's that saying "I spy with my little eye"...? Photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft -- the eye of a huge storm on Saturn.

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"God does not play dice with the universe." -- Albert Einstein¹

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Seeing is believing, however, and this image of Saturn's north pole by NASA's Cassini as it whizzed by looks an awful like the type of hexagonal table surface used by role-playing adventurers and their funky-sided dice. A role-playing type of game board, or one of the dice? Another NASA/Cassini image, this time of Saturn's north pole.

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Maybe Einstein was wrong. Maybe God does play dice with universe, and uses funny, loaded ones just to spice things up a bit. Like these:

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This is an Open Thread.