[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-12-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
, Russian Transcendentalism.. ‘The highest wisdom and truth is like the purest dew, which we try to hold within us,’ said he. ‘Can I hold in an impure vessel that pure dew and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I bring that dew contained within me to some degree

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-06-12 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
French Origins of American Transcendentalism French Transcendentalists.. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1414105?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/1414105?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking Dear Col. Leed, Thanks

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-04-11 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
11 minute video…about Thomas Merton… https://emergencemagazine.org/ story/on-the-road-with-thomas- merton/ https://emergencemagazine.org/story/on-the-road-with-thomas-merton/ .. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Buber In Ten Minutes"I am Thou" This is fascinating,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-03-28 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buber In Ten Minutes"I am Thou" This is fascinating, 20th Century.. https://youtu.be/16Cr82mLhkw https://youtu.be/16Cr82mLhkw .. Russian Transcendentalism.. ‘The highest wisdom and truth is like the purest dew, which we try to hold within us,’ said he. ‘Can I hold in an impure

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-03-22 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
To everyone, MMY may have understood that human beings are co-creators of the multiverse, which is infinite in the past and the future. Being or the unified field, as understood by science, may be using human consciousness to "collapse the wave function of the multiverse. If not, the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-03-21 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Russian Transcendentalism.. ‘The highest wisdom and truth is like the purest dew, which we try to hold within us,’ said he. ‘Can I hold in an impure vessel that pure dew and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I bring that dew contained within me to some degree of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-02-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A great narrative in Freethinking. Any of us who had up and moved to Fairfield, Iowa to be part of this high minded superradiant experiment could be called free thinking. But here is a stand out with some others for some kind of an award given as The Free Thought and Orthodoxy Meritorious Award

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-02-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freethinking and Orthodoxy.. Of Free Thinkers and Orthodoxy, An essay, About our Church Building in Fairfield, Iowa: Here's the history about our church which is technically called the "Church of the Holy Spirit Charitable Trust." We use the name Fellowship of the Holy Spirit

Fwd: [FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking MY thanks Doug H> 4 sending this 2 me Bill Leed, & now Via me 2 share with others in our spiritual circles well as other becoming so!

2019-01-26 Thread William Leed wle...@aol.com [FairfieldLife]
-Original Message- From: William Leed To: dhamiltony2k5 ; doughanfam Sent: Sat, Jan 26, 2019 3:13 pm Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking MY thanks Doug H> 4 sending this 2 me Bill Leed, & now Via me 2 share with others in our spiritual circles well as other beco

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-01-25 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Of Free Thinkers and Orthodoxy, An essay, About our Church Building in Fairfield, Iowa: Here's the history about our church which is technically called the "Church of the Holy Spirit Charitable Trust." We use the name Fellowship of the Holy Spirit because there are too many churches named

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking again Doug 4 well reintroducing to my Society of Friends heritage! Thanks

2019-01-01 Thread William Leed wle...@aol.com [FairfieldLife]
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2019-01-01 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Dear Col. Leed, Thanks for this appreciation. I particularly enjoy the link below to the published paper that is written as a 'tongue in cheek' orthodox indictment of free thinking. The particular names of free thinkers given in its text are interesting to follow up on in context. These

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-12-22 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freethinking and orthodoxy.. Fundamentalism.. “We have to remember that fundamentalism is . . . a reaction to the natural progress of society. And so when I see fundamentalism surge, I know that what is really happening is that the natural progress of society is surging. And fundamentalism

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking thanks $ THIS EXCELLENT POST! Doug my friend Its given me greater respect 4 my Quaker,Mennonite PA heritage & Wm. Penn

2018-12-16 Thread William Leed wle...@aol.com [FairfieldLife]
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-12-15 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freethinking and orthodoxy.. A great ‘freethought’ listen, on your cell phone or computer.. Manley P. Hall, an interesting 20th Century mystic freethinker. A lifelong lecturer he gave a biographical lecture presentation on 17th Century William Penn’s free thought ‘Holy Experiment’.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-12-11 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freethinking and orthodoxy.. Whitman "Whitman believed in the Inner Light. In 1890, he told Horace Traubel, who recorded Whitman's conversations from 1888 until the poet's death, that he subscribed to Hicks's views of spirituality." Anecdotes about Elias Hicks (1888) by Walt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-27 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freethinking and orthodoxy.. Anecdotes about Elias Hicks (1888) by Walt Whitman https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anecdotes_about_Elias_Hicks https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anecdotes_about_Elias_Hicks Whitman and Elias Hicks

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-23 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
An Orthodox Indictment of L. Mott Reguler, The Orthodox indictment of spiritual regeneration movement: The case of L Mott. http://quakertheology.org/issue-10-mott-CEF-01.htm http://quakertheology.org/issue-10-mott-CEF-01.htm .. .. “And this power flowed through him -- he became

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-23 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
“And this power flowed through him -- he became its agent -- whenever he put himself in a position to receive it. It had drawn him also to the Quakers of New Bedford, who were having a schism and revival in 1828. He visited them often, especially Mary Rotch. “What is this Inner Light?” he asked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-23 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Creeds Creed..a set of beliefs or aims that guide someone's actions, a brief authoritative formula of religious belief. a creed is a set of beliefs, principles, or opinions that strongly influence the way people live or work creed is a religion. any system, doctrine, or formula of religious

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-21 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
“In the 18th and 19th century, many thinkers regarded as freethinkers were deists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deists, arguing that the nature of God https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_nature_of_God_in_Western_theology=edit=1 can only be known from a study of nature rather than

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-20 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
W. E. Channing, in Channing’s sequence of time in the coming on of Emerson and others, bringing a closure to Puritanism in New England.. “The divine attributes,” Channing writes, “are first developed in ourselves and hence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-17 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freethought, Vs. the true believer.. true believer. noun. One who is deeply, sometimes fanatically devoted to a cause, organization, or person: “a band of true believers bonded together against all those who did not agree with them” ( Theodore Draper ) : a person who professes absolute

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-17 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
“On the other hand, according to Bertrand Russell, atheists and/or agnostics are not necessarily freethinkers. As an example, he mentions Stalin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin, whom he compares to a "pope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope": what I am concerned with is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Freethinking

2018-11-08 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Freethought is the philosophy that man rules his own destiny, rejecting the notion that there is any kind of divine intervention in life. Belief centers on the idea that nature and Natural Law guide mankind and that the use of reason, epistemology, and science are the means by which life