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POPSThe Challenge of Freedom Part I
a desperate struggle, conducted in the defiance of inevitable defeat. As a religious and spiritual people, we have a tendency to regard the triumph of the righteous as assured, and see victory as the destiny of virtue. The evidence of history says otherwise. No one would have given the American patriots winning odds at the outset of the Revolutionary War, fought against the most disciplined and well-equipped military force of the era, by men who marched through the snow in the tatters of disintegrating boots. Even patriotic Americans of today don’t always appreciate how special our achievement is… not just in its success, but its endurance. Most victorious “revolutions” end with a new class of slaves cleaning up the victory celebrations, beneath the whips of a new set of tyrants. As Binyon points out in his Times Online article, grisly regimes like North Korea remain in power, despite decades of poverty and manifest failure. The image of a lone, unarmed man standing against
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POPSTiger Woods to be Deployed to Afghanistan Asked by one reporter how building golf courses would contribute towards US counterinsurgency strategy, Woods replied: 'It's about winning hearts and minds and connecting with the people. Most of the Taliban are not fighting for ideology, but out of sheer boredom. I believe the spiritual and healing qualities of golf can succeed where bullets and tanks have not. '
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POPSHoly Pujas, Homas, Havans, Online Holy Pujas Puja is the act of showing our faith and respect to God, spirit, or another aspect of the divine through invocations, prayers, songs and rituals thereby making a spiritual connection with the divine.
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POPSYantra, Shri yantra, Sri Yantra, Yantras yantra literally means "instrument". A Yantra is a geometric design acting as a highly efficient tool for contemplation, concentration and meditation. Yantras carry spiritual significance, and point the user to higher levels of consciousness
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POPSWhy is the modern view of progress so impoverished? The trouble is that a belief in progress is more than just a branch of accounting. The books are never closed. Wouldn’t nuclear war or environmental catastrophe tip the balance into the red? And the accounts are full of blank columns. How does the unknown book-keeper reconcile such unknowable quantities as happiness and fulfilment across the ages? As Adam traverses history, he sees material progress combined with spiritual decline.
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POPSRumi's Sufism A guide on spiritual path is somewhat synonymous with Intercession, which in both Christianity and Islam, is a prayer to God on behalf of another person.
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POPSGOP'S NEW PRAYER GURU "Engle's role as leader of TheCall has now received some mainstream media notice but the source of his influence is still largely unknown. Lou Engle serves, alongside Sarah Palin's prayer group leader Mary Glazier, on the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, one of the key leadership groups wielding influence over a sprawling, global new incarnation of the religious right known as the New Apostolic Reformation. Peter Wagner was advisor for Rick Warren's dissertation for a Doctorate of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. In a mid-December statement from Rick Warren, Letter To Uganda's Pastors, Rick Warren lied about his connection to Wagner."
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POPSIdeagasms Student This blog is about an Ideagasms student and his journey through life as a spiritual student who truly wants love in his life
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POPSPeople Get Ready The tropics have made momentary Bob Marley fans of Lucy and I. Which leads to "One Love." Which leads to "People Get Ready."
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POPSHeaven and Nature May the force be with us. Or more like, let us be with the force. The great wave of the Tao, even as it breaks. Time to start surfing.
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POPSIndians vow to marry sex workers This story is really unconventional. Adds to the syncretic traditions of the continent. The group contains multi-religious members, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims. The leader's name is Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (Ram is a common Hindu name, Rahim is a common Muslim name and Gurmeet is common Sikh name). The group mostly offers community services, social welfare and spiritual leadership. And taking on prostitutes as wives - en mass - is unheard of. The Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Wow.
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POPSSanta Claus vs. Krampus... TO THE DEATH! (By yours truly) More: These stories involve strong language, violence, sexuality, drug use both recreational and spiritual, and fairy-tale subjects on the darker side of the "Bruno Bettelheim" scale , the ones where bad & lazy servants gets tarred and feathered, and the wicked are forced to dance themselves to death wearing red-hot iron shoes. Disney has been driven from the building. This page will serve as a central list for links to the the collected stories as I finish them and their links go live. Not sure how many it's going to take, but I know how it ends for sure. I also, from time to time, blog about the writing process . As with any journey, getting there is most of the fun. Hope you'll take this one with me. As with any journey, getting there is most of
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POPS The Obscene Bird of Night, by Jose Donoso Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.
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