By definition a church is really just a belief system. Though it does have some real bad cogitations and my hope is that we can change the perception of what a church is suppose to be.
This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond.(more)
Having autism might make one wonder how their minds really works and why some people are more creative while others are more realistic. That actually is because is left-handed person is more likely to become an artist than a rocket scientist since the left side of the brain controls creative thinking.
Ancient myth actually allowed for anomalies like Zombies, Vampires, Giants ect... Of course they didn't know it as myth, no because of the fact that ancient people (rural people especially) were unaware of the reality model handed down by The Romans, these apparent fairytales were a part of life, facts.
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture - all wrapped into one big institution - that is simple common sense!  When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath. There won't be separate powers anymore.
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Alarmist? Pessimistic? Radical? … are things so bad?
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The Christianized Jesus - the turning of a radical into a conservative shadow of his former self - explains our problem of establishing and celebrating freedom fighters today. It is important that our progressive heroes be given a deserved fame, an accurately reported fame. This is crucial in ways that impact our own activism.
Eons ago upon this living Earth
Repentant souls wanton for redemption
Mired in famine, illness and derth
Their lack of true faith, their only prevention
Though much time has past to this time of place
The yearning for forgiveness remains
But yet still lacking is their will of grace
Rending encumbrance of ills to sustain
When a life’s direction is built upon a foundation of belief or beliefs regardless of orientation i.e.; religion, politics or even a professional sport team; what happens when the principles of that belief begin to show cracks or even to crumble before you. What do you do? Where do you turn? In what or in whom, do you ever trust to believe from that point forward?
Announcing our doom and damnation? That’s as American as apple pie. We tell pollsters we believe in ghosts, angels and the Second Coming. The current style of apocalypses dates from the days of Jesus’ death 2000 years ago. The rapture was supposed to be hours away.
the sky begins at the ground
so i have my head in the clouds.
we don't seem to understand
how easy it is to pretend.
for i believe it is irresponsible
to say it's impossible
and never even try to conceive--
believe that anything is possible
across the whole world,
imagination is the essence of being
in a dream.
i don't know why we defend
the walls of limitation.
As I was fighting off my typical sleepiness in my early morning American Religions class that is usually bogged down by my Professor's slow lectures that stress our attention, I was awakened when my Professor, who is a professed Mormon, said that he believed the next big 'religious' movement in the country would be the ideas of conserving the Earth and sustainability practices, a movement that has
Suddenly I have found the power of True Belief, and now I will perform miracles. The power of GoddessGod, GodGoddess, Existence-and-beyond - the power of all that is - flows with this belief. The belief is all that it takes.
This is a massive moment. Wow.
I love you, I know you love me too - and we can perform miracles.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
