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Post by matador on Dec 19, 2014 23:42:24 GMT -6
I always have a bit of depression this time of the year, not for what I have but for what use to be. The trip to mid-night mass with grandparents and parents, now at best it is a trip alone. What remains the same does overshadow what has changed.
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Post by samsara15 on Dec 22, 2014 19:26:08 GMT -6
I remember just staring at the Christmas tree for hours on end. It seemed so beautiful.
But I do not miss youth. The happiest time of my life has been my adulthood, not my youth. With my lifelong companion and best friend, my wife, Sara.
Youth was a hard time. Teenagedom and young adulthood was the worst.
What I do wish is that I could again experience that time, when I was young, with adult wisdom and eyes. A mature mind could have handled it all so much better.
I wish I could have been a much more loving child to my parents and my one remaining grandparent. I also wish I could see them as as young as they were then.
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Post by samsara15 on Dec 23, 2014 5:22:26 GMT -6
One of my favorite quotes is the old Mark Twain quote that went something like this; 'When I was 14, I thought my Dad was the dumbest man that had ever lived. By the time i was 18, I was amazed by how much the old fellow had learned in just a few years'
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Post by tomline on Dec 29, 2016 8:48:42 GMT -6
Christmas is pagan and not of Yah-El
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Post by matador on Dec 29, 2016 23:26:54 GMT -6
Christmas is pagan and not of Yah-El Christmas now and for the past few years has become commercial and less Christian. The very people who are now complaining it being called happy holidays are the same people who are making it less Christmas and more materialistic.
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Post by tomline on Dec 30, 2016 17:09:13 GMT -6
Christmas is pagan and not of Yah-El Christmas now and for the past few years has become commercial and less Christian. The very people who are now complaining it being called happy holidays are the same people who are making it less Christmas and more materialistic. It has never been Christian.
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Post by rdlb on Dec 31, 2016 9:39:01 GMT -6
Even the Christmas tree has pagan origins. God Who is One, descended and became Man to effect the redemption and could only redeem man through His incarnation. This incarnation was the son of man who was crucified, His glorification as the Son of God, His return as The Spirit of Truth into those who would receive Him. Same God Who is One did all of that. Although December 25 has become the celebrated date for the Birthday of our Lord, (and some may disagree as to that date), it becomes irrelevant in comparison to the real reason of the incarnation. The Apostle John indicated in probably the most quoted scripture, John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. This time of year and all year long perhaps we could remember God’s gift as we share in the gift giving of this most Holy of Seasons. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. May you all have a wonderful Holiday. While of historical pagan origin the season has come from, I have never considered this time of year from a paganish viewpoint. I will never do so, nor would I enter into a debate for or against it. I honor the Christ within me every day of my life as best that I can. A thorough study of the pagan roots of "christmas" has not deterred me from honoring through prayers, song and for me an "anointed" reason for this season.
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Post by carpathianpeasant on Jan 1, 2017 16:37:30 GMT -6
I believe that way also. Why let them steal your joy. The very earliest Hebrew Scriptures say that God had a wife (Asherah). There was also mention of other gods as well, over time the scribes edited nearly all of that out of scripture. 'Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the world of truth."(2 Tim. 2.15) Like you I have studied and I know what I believe. How could God be supreme if God had a wife?
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Post by carpathianpeasant on Jan 1, 2017 20:42:56 GMT -6
Well, that's interesting, BUT, I wasn't denying a feminine aspect of God. Some theologians have long believed (I heard it many years ago, maybe as much as 50) that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the "three persons in one God" notion, is the feminine aspect of God. In other words. There is a God. And, there are three "Persons" in that God, the Father (the Creator), the Son (the Word better known as Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. "Persons" there doesn't mean person like a human person but more like a personality. The article speaks of God and Allah be the same thing. That is highly debated. Spirit exists on a natural plane as well as a supernatural one. Consider "school spirit." That's not the school itself, nor is it any teaching in one. To say that God had a wife (a feminine counter-part) is a primitive notion that denies a supreme God.
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Post by lowell on Jan 2, 2017 15:52:03 GMT -6
The creation myth is Babylonian (Mesopotamian) with elements from Persian myths. The eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, law was "borrowed" from the Mesopotamian King, Hammurabi.
Goddesses were not absent in Sumerian and Mesopotamian creation stories.
Neal Robbins says "The Sumerians believed that the first thing that existed was the primordial sea (associated with the goddess Nammu), from which emerged heaven (An) and earth (Ki), united as though they were a large mountain in the midst of the sea. An and Ki produced within or between them Enlil, air, and as the air began to stir in the darkness within the mountain, it separated sky and earth.
Then to see better, Enlil begot the moon-god Nanna, who in turn begot the sun-god Utu, presumably to make the light brighter. By this time the world had come into being, for the sky (An) by expansion of air (Enlil) had reached a great height, and the earth (Ki) had made a solid floor below, with sun and moon to bring light.
When air moved above earth (or when Enlil united with his mother Ki) and received the aid of water (Enki), plants and animals came into being. Finally, man was created by the joint efforts of Nammu, the primeval sea, Ninurta mother-earth, and Enki, the water-god."
Today we still refer to the Earth as mother Earth.
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Post by carpathianpeasant on Dec 25, 2017 11:14:12 GMT -6
Another Christmas has rolled around, funny how that works. MERRY CHRISTMAS to all. Well, the card I sent you is about the best I can do at this time.
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2017 19:54:13 GMT -6
Merry Christmas from Admin, with wishes for many many more.
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Post by carpathianpeasant on Jan 3, 2018 16:24:09 GMT -6
Belated Merry Christmas to all. (I've had more problems develop, or I would have posted sooner.)
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Post by carpathianpeasant on Jan 4, 2018 8:41:56 GMT -6
Belated Merry Christmas to all. (I've had more problems develop, or I would have posted sooner.) We understand. BTW what's happened to Lowell, has he run away from home? I'd say Lowell's still around. He just "Liked" one of my facebook "shares" a few hours ago.
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