--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@> wrote: > > > > Just to kibitz a bit - > > > > You don't really seem to vacillate between "believing and > > non-believing". > > After all, you seem to thoroughly believe in yourself. > > > > You just don't seem able to totally dismiss this fairy tale theology > > you've > > been told by your "betters"- probably when you were too young to know > > it was nothing but a sales job. > > > > Welcome to Christian guilt obsession, even if just in latent form. > > You enslaved mantra-demon worshiper! > > Yep, and whatever else I believe or don't, I do really like meditating. I > get all those benefits we talk about. It is good stuff. So, when something > works so well, it is easy to believe in to the other ideas tht go long with > it: enlightenment, maybe reincarnation, higher states of C, the Vedas, > jyotish. > > I heard various fairy tales growing up - mainstream Christianity, then TM > when about age 19. And was always very interested in world religions and > spirituality, even as a young child (interest in such things is thought to be > very much due to genetics). I don't think it is guilt exactly that I feel - > maybe a bit obsessed with wondering which version of Reality is the realest. > And wishing I had that 100% belief in something that I once had. Being > enslaved is, in some ways, easier!!
Oh, so Bill was addressing you Susan, it wasn't clear to me. Thanks for inadvertently clearing it up for me by addressing his question. > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@> wrote: > > > > > > Good to know I am not alone on this back and forth between believing > > and non believing. Stay well. > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: > > > > > > > > Thank you Susan. Â I got it. Â I will put the two responses > > side by side. Â I have a "believing" and "non-believing" mode also, > > and you articulate yours quite well; it's interesting to compare. Â > > Have a nice day. Â Regards, Emily. Â > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: wayback71 wayback71@ > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:20 PM > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Is Jesus=God? > > > > > > > > > > > > Â > > > > Hey Emily, > > > > I wrote a post in reply to you and did not send it until this > > afternoon. Post #31992o. It was in response to your question about > > what I believe when I am not in my "believing in spirituality mode." > > Delayed reply, sorry. > > > > > > > > > >
