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The Age of Reason: |
This is the age at which a child begins to think for him/her self and ask questions about what he/she is told. (typically at about seven years) Prior to age seven the child simply takes in whatever he/she is told and believes it as if it were true. Theta brain waves predominant the consciousness of a young child. |
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Be-Do-Have Versus Have-Do-Be: |
The common belief is that if I have __this or that__, then I can __do such and so__ and then I can be __something I'm not at the moment__ . For example: If I have money, I can do what I want to do then I'll be happy. The laws of the universe tell us that creation process is the reverse of the above. One first chooses to be whomever/whatever. Then from the state of being, one take the appropriate actions. And the result will be having/experiencing __this or that__ . In our example, "If I am happy as I am (accept myself as I am), I can do whatever it takes to learn and maser my chosen craft, and then I'll have money. |
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. A belief box is not a physical box; it's a person's mental mindset, and it controls his/her behavior and dictates his/her level of health. A belief box is an invisible prison made up of stories that have been accepted by a person as real, true, and factual. Regardless of whether of not the beliefs represent reality, they are accepted by the subconscious mind as real and the person lives his or her life as if their beliefs actually were real. In the Christian Bible, when Jesus referred to the "demons" which He removed via his healing, he was most likely referring to beliefs that limited the person's life. Think of a belief box as a barrier between the known and the unknown, between the possible and the impossible. Think of it as a an invisible prison you put yourself in because of a belief. 'The most pervasive (and most destructive) example s revolve around religious beliefs. For example, are you inside or outside of God? An another example.,there are three widely held, mutually exclusive religious beliefs (one-life-ism, ' reincarnation, and atheism) that dictate the behavior of billion of people. (that's billions with a "B") Only one of these beliefs can be real which leaves literally billions of people basing extremely important, life altering, Earth-altering, soul-altering decisions on false beliefs. Some even commit murder and spread mayhem in the name of a god about which they can prove absolutely nothing.When asked why they engage in vile and criminal behavior, the common answer is: "I do as I do because that's what God wants me to do." The fact that their beliefs are unsupported by the physical evidence doesn't seem to matter to these people. The fact that their beliefs are contradicted by other religions doesn't seem to matter, either.We all have beliefs that, in one way or another, limit our lives. Commonly religious beliefs dominate, control, and sometimes overwhelm the believer's life. For example, what were the beliefs that compelled the men who hijacked the airplanes that were intentionally crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001? What were the beliefs that compelled those who murdered doctors and nurses because they provides abortion services? As another example, examine the beliefs that dominate the anti-abortion movement. ' For more clarity on belief boxes, readers are refereed to: Self-created significances ' 42scs Selective Perception ' 42sp A Belief Box as a Prison ' ch101-76b An Analysis of a Typical Anti-abortion Promoter's Proclamation ' 48 and to: An Interview With "The Devil",° Topic # 23, Separation of church & State / The Beginner’s Mind and Topic # 85, More of the Same / Do the Same Thing Harder.
. If you really want to know about thinking outside the box we invite you to the website titled Paul's View - On all kinds of things at http://www.paulsview.com/thoughts.htm#Box ' Here's an example of his work. It's called: "Thinking Outside the Box" "I could never understand what people mean when they say, "Think outside the box." Where's the box? I didn't know I was in a box. If I am in a box, how did I get there? If I'm not in a "the box" how did I get out of it? Is it my box or someone else's box? Before you start thinking outside the box it would be a good idea to find out what box you are in.""From all I know, boxes are meant to put things in. We are raised from the very beginning to put our toys back in the box. When we get older we are told to put our tools back in the tool box. Everything has its box. The box may be called shelves, or drawers, or cubbyhole, or whatever, but they are still the box in which certain things belong. It's the old idea that "everything has a place and everything in its place". Things outside their box are considered to be out of place, making a mess. Do those who promote thinking outside the box really want us to make a mess with our thoughts, or have messy thoughts?""The implication seems to be that the answer will be somewhere "out there." But there is an awful lot of room "outside the box." So do we start our "outside the box" thinking by looking close to the edges of the outside, sort of in familiar territory, or far away? And what if I spend all my time looking outside the box and the answers were inside all the time?""I think that those who tell you to "think outside the box" are in the box themselves. What's more, they know the answers are in the box. They want you to waste all your time thinking outside the box so they will come up with an answer and you will not. That way they will get the promotion and not you.""Now, have I been thinking outside the box, or what ?"Reference: . |
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. In any given situation that involves a decision, there is something to gain and something to lose on each side. Comparing what can be gained to what can be lost is, in the gambling world, called the bet-to-pot ratio. The same principle applies in other areas of life. For example, would you have sex with someone for ten cents? Probably not. Would have sex with someone for ten million dollars? Probably yes. The Ben Franklin approach to decision making is an en example of how to apply this principle to your life. . |
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A Buddha Gift is a gift in disguise. We simply do not have enough information to know the long-term outcome of our experiences. If you look at everything that feels uncomfortable and ask, "Where is the blessing in this?" you’ll be amazed at what the result will be. Most people are too busy crying and complaining to see the gifts in their painful experiences, and so, they often miss them. When something occurs in your life that you'd prefer not to experience, look for a gift within that incident; look for a blessing in disguise. That blessing is called a Buddha gift. |
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Selling indulgences was an ingenious money-making scam set up by the early Roman Catholic Church. An indulgence defined: The purchase of a pardon from God for one's sins here on Earth. It secured the buyer's salvation or released from purgatory. It could be purchased for one's own use or to save the soul of someone else.*1 Here's how the scam worked: You gave The Roman Catholic Pope money and God forgave you your sins. It was a money-back-guaranteed, ticket to heaven. Indulgences had their hay day with the sixteenth-century, GAY Pope, Pope Leo X.*2 He became Pope in 1513 and is famous for his zeal at selling indulgences. In those days the governments were ruled by what was called the "established church." It ruled every aspect of European life. People had to obey the laws of the church and pay taxes that went to the church. Whether or not they followers of the faith was irrelevant. The church leaders peddled the story that without the church's blessing, God would not let you into heaven. The people, being uneducated and having no other source of information, believed the story. Thousands of people purchased indulgences. Leo was such a good salesman that he even gave the purchaser a piece of paper acknowledging God's forgiveness. Pope Leo X is also famous for sparking the wrath of Martin Luther ' who, posted his famous "95 Theses" on the church door on October 31, 1517. Luther's theses attacked Pope Leo's practice of selling indulgences and triggered the European revolution know as the Reformation. *1 Accordance with Catholic teaching, purgatory (Lat., "purgare", to make clean, to purify) is a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions. *2 Now we can't say with absolute, provable certainty that Pope Leo X was a homosexual; however, when we read descriptions of naked young boys coming out of cakes at his parties, one could reasonable apply the same criteria to Pope Leo X the has been applied to former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: "If he wasn't gay, he certainly gave a good impression of someone who was." |
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. One-life-ism is the religious belief that humans live only one life on Earth and then go to heaven, hell, or some other, undefined place after death. This is the basic belief of Christianity. It's also part of the Islamic belief system. One could also say atheists believe in one-life-ism. For a clear distinction between one-life-ism, reincarnation, and atheism, see the page titled: The Three Religious Assumptions in The Book of Timeless Truths and Wisdom®. |
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. Transferring undesirable aspects of self onto someone or something else. Seeing attributes in someone else that you can't or won't see in yourself. You need to understand that when someone is being judgmental or expresses an emotion-laden opinion about you, they are actually talking about themselves, and not about you. The concept is called projection. People tend to deny aspects of themselves and then look for and hate those same character traits in others. This concept, called projection, is clearly defined in a highly recommended book titled, “The Adjusted American” [1]* by Snell and Gail Putney. Here’s a paraphrase (one interpretation) of their description. When something goes wrong, there is the tendency to blame someone else, throw them out, and then declare the problem to be solved. It’s called “scapegoating” and it comes from an ancient Middle Eastern practice in which a ritual was conducted to cast all evil onto a goat and then drive the goat out of town. The ritual is still alive and well, today. It has; however, changed form. Today, humans use each other for their scapegoats in this ritual. In psychological terms, the practice is called projection. It stems from the findings that, “Men [and women] hate in others those things -- and only those things -- which they despise in themselves.” It stems from the tendency to disown aspects of one’s own personality. It’s a form of denial and self-deception. "I
would never do this or that, but look at that son of a bitch Projection is at the core of bigotry and prejudice. Bigots tend to lash out verbally and/or physically at their targets and then, to justify their own otherwise unacceptable talk or behavior, they claim themselves to be the victim of these evil people they hate. They then lash out verbally and/or physically at the so-called bad person. They commonly to get stuck in the negative and repetitive, destructive cycle which is required to justify their own behavior. On the reverse side of projection, people tend to see in others, those desirable characteristics that they feel are lacking in themselves and then love and adore the other person. The healthy approach to one’s own self-image is to acknowledge, in one’s self, the potential to be, do, and have all the characteristics and behaviors that one sees in others, regardless of how desirable or repugnant those attributes may be. [1]* Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1964 . |
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. The Reasonables is a label we've coined to describe ourselves because we tend to think outside the box.° We combine reason and emotion. We combine head and heart. We don't fit exclusively under any traditional label, such as liberal or conservative. We refuse to ignore that which counters our present beliefs. We refuse to duck the tough questions. We refuse to live in denial. We examine as much evidence as is possible. We examine all sides of issues and then offer reasonable solutions -- solutions that are based upon what the presently available evidence indicates. We examine trends and propose making changes before disasters happen. We speak up even when what we have to offer isn't popular. A good place to start looking for us is in what the carved in stone traditionalists call The Lunatic Fringe.° Here's a quote describing "A Reasonable." "I approach both religion and politics with a combination of head and heart. I call myself "A Reasonable" which means on some issues I'm conservative, on others, I'm liberal, and on still others, I simply don't have enough information to hold a strong opinion one way or the other." . |
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