Rondelle:

I hope everybody realizes that you're joking.

I don't like view things such as it's Christians against new agers.  When it comes to both, both groups are misled by people who claim to have all of the answers. I don't want to be led by anybody's false viewpoints. I want to find out for myself rather than have somebody tell me homosexuality is a sin, or nothing I see is real.

Yeah, I agree with you totally Albert. I want to find out for myself and I don't want someone using their logic or more importantly some else's logic to belittle my ideas or pompously claim objective knowledge where there is none. It's one thing to disagree, but to use what I consider mythology as grounds for crucifying someone's opinion leaves me a little cold.

But I like this board better than some of the others because of the diverse processes of thought.

And I looked at the page on those girls and I've read Fontana's account of this happening. Well... I think it was Fontana and I found it hard to swallow, but possible I guess. I really don't see how it refutes reincarnation in any way, but I guess we all will draw our own conclusions with one belief system or another, unless we experience it for ourselves.

Yours,
Beau

Berserk2 wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 8:32pm:



Wow, Don...it took a logistical leap in an interpretation of your comment to get your attention...and to prove my point.  You are seeking through every fiber of your being some level of logic, sense and analytical verification for matters of an experiential and feeling nature.  You parse other's interpretations and understandings of their own experiences and attempt to place them in your academically approved framework and pass judgment on their validity, and couch such judgment as an excercise in intellectual curiosity and critical thinking.   

It appears to me that the majority on this board are on an experiential track, and base our beliefs on feeling what is right and what resonates inside.  Your analytical bent is all in your head...it prevents any room for impressions, feelings or other methods of verification of what are essentially personal truths...if you can't verify it in accordance with established, approved and accepted methods, then it is false.

While you analyse matters of import and deep books with worthy intellectual adversaries, I'll be living and feeling my truth.

Matthew, I appreciate your considered commentary, dispute-quelling influence and reasoned approach to this and other posts.  Yours is much like my father's in that he seeks to maintain a balancing influence throughout any situation...are you a Libra also?  (an engineer client taught me the basics of astrology!) While I will seek to defend or clarify my particular beliefs, especially on a messageboard intended for the discussion of these beliefs, I understand that from your perspective I may be responding strongly to some of Don's more incendiary comments or proclamations.

My background is based in twenty years of legal practice and there is no doubt that there is more than one side to this and any other version of an individual and their opinion.  I have no doubt that Don and I would have nothing but an exceptional relationship face to face, because I enjoy diverse points of view from a social standpoint, and he is expert in his chosen field which always makes for interesting conversation, but this medium leaves us with nothing but brief written opinions through which to guage each others beliefs and intent.  What's more, I have just spent the past three years learning to feel; to depart from my analytical-based viewpoint and move toward a sense/feeling-based viewpoint, so from where I stand, I am a reformed smoker teaching others the evil of tobacco, and Don is still a three-pack-a-day guy. 

I get your point, and I will use your perspective in the future to temper my commentary...I greatly appreciate this website and the opportunity it allows to hear a divergent group of people and the experiences they care to share with the rest of us.