QuoteThe Anticultuh, all ways of funding Wikileaks were blocked by government pressure. Not true. It's been possible to donate to Wikileaks all the time via Wau Holland Foundation. People have also sent Assange money to the mansion where he resides and some people have given him money on the street. According to the Wikileaks site you can donate by credit card, paypal, cheque, bank tra
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”Free Assange” is on the thread title. Demands to ”free Assange” appeared after he was wanted for questioning by Swedish prosecution on the allegations of two Swedish women, both working as volunteers for Wikileaks at the time of the alleged assaults. ”Free Assange”, but free him from what? From the allegations, of course. Mr Assange told the media that he was innocent, and it was all just dir
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I'm not sure if this has already been linked to here, but Vinstonas Wu has written a piece called Debunking the Law of Attraction and "Thoughts Create Reality" Concept. The contents of the article are Introduction Common sense and ordinary examples that logically refute this teaching Beware: Whatever you expect to happen, will happen! And whatever you fear will manifest! Or will
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QuoteSamiEMy concern right now is the way this group is preying on those who suffer from mental illness, especially those with severe psychotic disorders. Advising them that they will not see "unicorns, vampires, etc" if they stay on their psych meds and then providing a list of all of those meds seems like a criminal activity. Yeap, it does seem like a criminal activity. But is there
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QuotecorboyDeceit & Misrepresentation The Techniques of Holocaust Denial The "Science" of Denial,the Denial of Science Thanks, Corboy, for bringing this article here. I was very much upset to find this holocaust denial by Friedrich Berg forwarded and mostly blindly accepted on a yahoo group site "dedicated to spiritual ascension" last December. Here's the
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Quotenewagesurvivor There's first 30 minutes of Religulous to be seen in Google video. Sorry, that link went to the trailer. Anyhow, there's 30:53 min Religulous (2008) by Bill Maher to be seen at least in my country in Europe. It's in the list if you can see it in your country.
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QuoteVera City The movie is hysterically funny! I hope it comes up on Hulu or Joost soon so you can see it for free on the internet. There's first 30 minutes of Religulous to be seen in Google video. I too am waiting for the whole video. Religulous first 30 min
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I've had terrible trouble with advaita philosophy. Reading about it and reading a little bit of Nisargadatta's 'I am that' did serious damage to my emotional side. So the best thing to do would be to deal with it with purely analytical reasoning, I think. I think they use very confusing language and concepts in advaita. Very big words like 'absolute truth', '
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QuoteamiryetiByron Katie International Inc 287 S Montgomery St, Ojai, CA 93023-2762 Contact Phone: (805) 646-6855 URL (web address): Business Category: Religious Organization in Ojai, CA Industry (SIC): Religious Organizations Religious organization? I didn't know that. I don't think many people in my country (in Europe) know that either. Are the teac
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QuotequackdaveActually, I felt that my flippancy about the four questions was a little arrogant... There was nothing arrogant there. If you're using Byron Katie's weapons (the four questions) for anything, use them so that they work for you, and not so that they work against you. Better yet, if you can come up with something of your own, like what you've written here so far there&#
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QuotequackdaveYou know, sometimes I feel like I'm just going insane. All these connections are so intertwined and particularly in my life. For example, at a support group meeting years ago (where we got kind of brutally honest with ourselves and each other) I confessed to having just realized that I was STILL terrified of a Supreme Judge who might torment me for eternity if I didn't get
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I posted the message below on the 29th of December, but since it still hasn't appeared here and there were apparent technical problems in this forum at that time, I'm reposting it now. Please don't let my few observations interrupt or distract your ongoing discussion. So here's what I had to say some time back: Phew! I finally read this whole thread and I can tell you it to
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QuotepegasusI am trying to reconcile living a spiritual life which entails doing certain things, with the belief that I am unconditionally ok right now. If I know I am accepted as I am by God/whoever/whatever, and that I really dont have to do anything, this unconditional love wont change, what would I choose to do with my time? Mostly I did practices out of fear, to get somewhere else or be a b
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Some common phrases in new age that make no sense but that can make you crazy, if you believe in them. “Nothing is what it seems like”: If so, the bird is not the bird, the human being is not the human being, the sun is not the sun. You are not you, humanity is not humanity. And if you’re convinced there’s God, there isn’t, and if you’re convinced there is no God, there is. What is the u
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Phew! I finally read this whole thread and I can tell you it took me two whole weeks working full time on it. Of course I did research links and some other stuff on this RR-site, and checked every piece of information on this thread that I could check by google. Thanks everyone for this incredibly enlightening info that I could find through examining the things mentioned in this thread. For in
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QuotebeseeI read somewhere on the net about "the onesidedness of oneness" and now I can't find the reference The One-Sidedness of Oneness is one chapter in a book called The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad (North Atlantic Books, 1993). Thanks Besee for your post. I googled 'the onesidedness of oneness' and found an excerpt fr
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QuotecorboyWorse, in NA circles, even trying to talk about power is often considered negative. Try it some time. You'll be made to feel like you've ripped a fart at a society party. In my country farting at a society party would either be totally ignored (everybody pretending politely that nothing happened) or joked about (fart is fun! mentality). But maybe I get your point (I
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That things are interconnected is self-evident. Things are not, however, interconnected quite arbitrarily – except for in ‘new age mumbo jumbo’ (well, of course there are other examples of making arbitrary connections and claim them to be ‘the truth’, e.g. all sorts of tyrannies do that). That mind has the capacity to affect body is self-evident, but in more humane approaches than ‘new age mumbo
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In my case with enduring health problems it turned out that I had been living with toxic molds for years. I had been developing more and more allergic reactions and a hypersensitivity: I could smell mold. But nobody believed me, not even my husband, and this went on for years. He said I was just imagining things and that I should just pull myself up and stop being hysterical. We were living a
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QuoteJudyThe idea that people are responsible for everything that happens to them makes no sense and easily results in blame and self-centeredness. The world doesn't revolve around any one person and going back to the mail carrier example, if the mail is lost, is it because of my "faulty" thinking or anyone else involved, including the sender of the mail (who maybe didn't want
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