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  1. JonSL

    Sacred Texts - Resources

    Kemet, meaning of Egypt? I like Egyptian history. And I have read the Egyptian Book of the Dead and other texts. I find the mysticism there to have similarities to Greek mysticism and other ancient mystical practices.
  2. JonSL

    Bible Prophecy as Evidence of a bible writers trustworthiness

    There is plenty of professional, historical scholarship indicating the accuracy of various things in the Bible. When Israel was founded in the late 40's, the Israeli military used Biblical passages to find certain obscure mountain trails, that helped them develop security for the state. The...
  3. JonSL

    Jesus loves you.

    To me, Michaelangelo's sculpture of St. Peter looks like someone being showered with love. To me that must be the love of Jesus. He looks so gentle and filled with bliss. to some degree what we feel when we see a cat sleeping in bliss, but deeper.
  4. JonSL

    John Coltrane - on religion

    John Coltrane quote: "I believe in all religions." Reggie Workman played bass for Coltrane. I used to work for his sister. Only met him once, but such an amazing presence. All the folks I met from the John Coltrane circle, were truly amazing people...all filled with a great deal of peace...
  5. JonSL

    Sacred Texts - Resources

    there is a website specifically dedicated to this, with extensive resources: Internet Sacred Text Archive Home
  6. JonSL

    If God existed would there be proof?

    there is proof. but we have to do the work. If you want to prove, beyond a doubt, that a surgical procedure is effective, you can take the time, study in college and medical school and become a surgeon. And then, when you engage that surgical procedure, you will have direct proof. The...
  7. JonSL

    Don't Look Up

    Great movie. Pope Francis Encyclical and Climate Change Pope Francis’s encyclical on ecology, Laudato Si, says that climate change is real and mainly “a result of human activity.” Pope Francis Encyclical and Climate Change | Catholic Climate Covenant
  8. JonSL

    Gnostic Atheism and its gods

    many of the early Church fathers were considered gnostics. There writing has been preserved in The Philokalia.
  9. JonSL

    Bible Alone.. For Catholic's

    Just so folks know, we can all access the Vatican website. It is extensive and certainly includes the teaching of the Church. The monastic community has long recognized that the authority of man and the institution of the Church is not the same as the will of Jesus. Both St. Francis of Assisi...
  10. JonSL

    knowing you are "saved"

    Saved from what? Well, if you are an alcoholic, you can be saved from substance abuse. If you live in anger and hatred, you can be saved from those feelings. There are many ways in which people can be saved. And it certainly includes be liberated from all the negative human experiences we...
  11. JonSL

    Christian Classics Library

    more links from that website: Early Fathers of the Church Early Church Fathers - Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  12. JonSL

    Difficulty Meditating?

    You can make meditation more effective by doing a warm-up period. Just like exercise, helps to make the exercise experience itself better, if there is a good warm-up. So....come home at the end of the day. Yes, you can just sit right down and go into meditation. But, you can often make it...
  13. JonSL

    Meditative Movie

    Into Great Silence... Less like a movie. More like a visual meditation... An impressionistic and meditative chronicle of a year in and around the Grand Chartreuse, a monastery in the French Alps. Working alone without crew or artificial lighting, director Philip Gröning records the monks'...
  14. JonSL

    Some Heresy....The Expanse...Better Than Star Trek & Star Wars

    Astronaut Garret Reisman was interviewed. Said The Expanse has some of the most realistic descriptions of what space life would be like. I liked it a lot, but the setting was so clinical and dark...started to almost feel claustrophobic without the trees, mountains, sky, etc.
  15. JonSL

    Christian Classics Library

    good online source of Christian Classics (all free). Includes: The Little Flowers of St. Francis the writings of St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence Early Church Fathers... and more... Work info: Little Flowers of St. Francis...
  16. JonSL

    ‘Free will’ is not an excuse for God allowing atrocities.

    If you work hard to try to disprove the existence of God, you are going to come up with many convincing lines of argumentation. However, they exclude lines of argumentation which support the existence of God. Rhetoric as a logical construction can be an inquiry into the truth. Or it can just...
  17. JonSL

    ‘Free will’ is not an excuse for God allowing atrocities.

    What we do not see is the long history of our lives, prior to this one. We don't live one life, but many. Justice is displayed over the long course of many lives. We see a "perfectly innocent" person murdered for no reason. And we wail against God for being so unjust. However, what we don't...
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