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eve69
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Re: How did Republican Hawks get the idea they were Christians? [Re: all this beauty]
#19149582 - 11/17/13 12:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ever been to a mass at a black Baptist church? Talk about totally fucking insane. All that geeking out is truely psychotic, but people see other people emoting violently through their bodies and all of a sudden tourettes becomes a religious experience.
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Re: How did Republican Hawks get the idea they were Christians? [Re: eve69]
#19149846 - 11/17/13 01:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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eve69 said: Ever been to a mass at a black Baptist church? Talk about totally fucking insane. All that geeking out is truely psychotic, but people see other people emoting violently through their bodies and all of a sudden tourettes becomes a religious experience.
Actually, I have a good friend who's an assistant minister or something at one of those churches. I've attended services at her church and observed her and the parishioners go through the convulsions.
I have no problem with it. Native Americans have religious/spiritual traditions that seem weird to my eyes too. Lots of different ethnic/religious groups do.
As long as you're not bashing from the pulpit this or that group, however you want to give voice to your spiritual impulse is fine and dandy to me.
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Re: How did Republican Hawks get the idea they were Christians? [Re: all this beauty]
#19150064 - 11/17/13 02:36 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Overemoting isn't therapeutic. It actually promotes the rising of those feelings again. The old adage - at least I got my anger out when I got into that fight, isn't true. It's just the opposite actually. The more you express an emotion the easier it is for it to come up. Overemoting is not a spiritual experience though it may be as close to one as many people will ever come. It is just an emotional experience and many of those people just do it because they see other people do it. The whole outcome is people blathering like emotional idiots about mythical cues and convulsing with the attitude that they are choirboys. It's all just pathetic. Snakebiters.
I was a Transcendental Meditation Sidha and we used to do 'levitation.' Nobody ever levitated. We were all stuck in the first phase - hopping.
Maharishi had -levitation Olympics- where people hopped up and down foam covered halls. I never felt the impulse. But to join this one group of elitist all men yogis I had to prove I could -levitate. So I started. I did that about two years until I levitated (hopped) off of the foam mats onto the concrete floor and sprained my spine.
My point is that regardless of race this sort of autoerotic convulsion and rocking and barking and freaking right the fuck out - it's all just pathetic bullshit and has nothing to do with spirituality.
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Re: How did Republican Hawks get the idea they were Christians? [Re: eve69]
#19150262 - 11/17/13 03:20 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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eve69 said: I was a Transcendental Meditation Sidha and we used to do 'levitation.' Nobody ever levitated. We were all stuck in the first phase - hopping.
Maharishi had -levitation Olympics- where people hopped up and down foam covered halls. I never felt the impulse. But to join this one group of elitist all men yogis I had to prove I could -levitate. So I started. I did that about two years until I levitated (hopped) off of the foam mats onto the concrete floor and sprained my spine.
I was young when I went through the TM thing. Hadn't taken heavy drugs yet. Hadn't read any of the classic drug literature.
So I thought they were selling something special, and I eagerly dished out the money. You know... money in exchange for "enlightenment." The concept is very appealing.
My first LSD trip and I said to myself "fuck this TM stuff." Then they got into the levitation snake oil bullshit, and the gig was up.
There's a "seeker sucker" born every minute. And plenty of greedy bastards ready to take their money.
Ask any former Mormon or Scientologist.
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