?Spiritual? Politicking Sathya Sai Baba Style. An India-UK Nexus
2009-11-04 19:22:00 After our urgent, co-ordinated actions, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were within minutes prevented from visiting Sai Baba at Whitefield near Bangalore. They were ten minute?s drive away from his ashram when, heeding our representations, British High Commission officials were able to dissuade Blair and his wife from visiting Sathya Sai Baba.
Links Critical of Sathya Sai Baba: India?s Most Famous Living Guru
2009-11-01 22:09:00 Links to websites and blogsites critical of Sathya Sai Baba, India's most famous living guru, who claims to be God fully incarnate, come to save the world, effectively in his own lifetime
Inner Ignoring of ?Warning Flags? Prior To Dissent From A Sect
2009-10-28 22:12:00 There is an ignoring, while one is still a member a questionable group, of what apostates, looking back on their process, have called 'warning flags'. The rationalising and psychological denial factors loom, but not so large as to cause deeper questioning and leave-taking. These are phenomena widely encountered in the reports of dissenters from sects. I have written of this aspect in an article, where I wrote: "Since leaving Sathya Sai Baba in October 1999, I have counted around 10 major ?flags? that I myself ignored. The realization of most of these resistances only occurred over time. Coming out of the spell?s grip is a painful, arduous process". See: A Cult?s Powerful Grip. (Sathya Sai Baba Sect Example) Posted by Barry Pittard on June 29, 2009
Reputed Media and Other Agencies Decried By Sathya Sai Baba?s Defenders
2009-10-27 00:21:00 Those who defend Sathya Sai Baba and his global cult would tirelessly denigrate and defame all who seriously question him and his Sathya Sai Organization. Quite apart from former followers and other critics, their targets include leading journalists and broadcasters of repute who have investigated Sathya Sai Baba and his sect. This fact alone suggests the cultic mind at work. Being one of those centrally involved in approaches to Interpol, media, UNESCO, and other agencies in attempting to bring third party scrutiny to the Sathya Sai Baba and his core accomplices, I have repeatedly seen how demanding journalists and officials of these professional organizations are. Media include the BBC, DR, CBC, ABC, SBS, India Today, Times of London, Telegraph, the Guardian, the Age, Gatopado, West Australian, (Adelaide) Advertiser, and newspapers in Europe, Canada and and still others.
Alexandru Marinu: Faith guitars acoustic glory
2009-10-25 21:10:00 FGS216 - ALEXANDRU MARINCU - Acoustic Glory - Faith Guitars - Shadow This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Thiago Trinsi: Faith guitars Acoustic Glory!
2009-10-25 01:51:00 Wow really cool to see Thiago Trinsi in this competition! Here I am taking part in this competition with a piece of my song " Through the Light" I used a webcam to do that so the Quality is very poor, but I hope you enjoy this piece and get to know more about "another me "with the Acoustic Version... I thought I would show up things like this only on my CD, but then I saw this opportunity for... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
David Bailey and Thomas Wiehe. Transcript Of Phone Link: Sathya Sai Abuses
2009-10-24 23:44:00 This article contains the link to the mp3 format phone conversation in which David Bailey, an enormously important early exposer of India's leading guru Sathya Sai Baba, explains his and his wife Faye Bailey's stance. In 1999, the extensive document 'The Findings' by David and Faye Bailey appeared. This document caused enormous damage to the Sathya Sai Baba's credibility and that of his worldwide Sathya Sai Organization. Here was the case where persons previously very close indeed to Sathya Sai Baba spoke out, and in no uncertain terms. Faye had been a noted leader in the Australian Sathya Sai Organization well before the guru, much to the astonishment of them both, chose them to be husband and wife, and presided over their wedding. In their speaking out about the untold corruption they and others had uncovered, and the consequent great shock and sense of spiritual betrayal, the unique role in the organization of the Baileys stood in marked contrast to the situation in which...
Daniel John Wardrop: Faith guitars acoustic glory
2009-10-22 19:54:00 Entry for the faith guitars competition, this is the final section of my composition Magicians Code. To here the full song go to my youtube account. This is a segment from a live performance at the Musician in Leicester, England. www.myspace.com/danieljohnwardr-op FGS206 - Daniel John Wardrop - Acoustic glory - Faith guitars - Shadow Electronics - Monkey Lord This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Lord Paul Swarj Under British Police Investigation
2009-10-12 23:45:00 I have written of the Sathya Sathya Sai Baba-implicated and high-profile British Labour Government Minister, Tony McNulty MP, and police investigations into allegations of rorting the British taxpayer. The very wealthy Lord Paul of Marylebone (See Wikipedia note below) is now under police investigation for the same reason. In probing Lord Paul, the British media might like, while investigating, to see whether Paul has been assisting the Sathya Sai Organization, as has been Tony McNulty. Both have long been powerfully influential in the British Labour Party.
Victor de Andres: Faith guitars acoustic glory competition
2009-10-08 20:06:00 Another exciting piece by Victor de Andres: Great competition good luck to all guitar players. VdA. "FGS183" Faith guitars and Shadow electronics competition/ Victor de Andres entry. This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Nicklas johansson: Faith Guitars acoustic glory competition
2009-10-08 20:03:00 Some really tasteful entries being posted for this awesome competition. Full list http://www.youtube.com/video_re-sponse_view_all?v=CY1ruSvY7Oc FGS180-Nicklas johansson-Acoustic Glory-Faith Guitars-Shadow This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Michelle Goldberg, US Author-Journalist, on Sathya Sai Baba (1)
2009-10-07 23:53:00 It is one of the gambits of pro Sathya Sai Baba activists like Indulal Shah (when he was active), Dr G.Venkataraman and his virtual counterpart Gerald Moreno, to portray highly reputed media journalists as sensationalist, and so on. In their offensive and denunciatory style, they fail to credit world leading media journalists, and the researchers as well, ...
Rob Chappers: Faith Guitars acoustic competition... top 3 front runners for
2009-10-06 01:35:00 Three of the top runners for sure... in no particular order! All videos FGS151 - Martin Tallstrom - Acoustic Glory - Faith Guitars - Shadow FGS131 Maneli Jamal - Acoustic Glory - Faith Guitars - Monkey Lord FGS167 - My original composition for Faith Guitars - Chris Goodchild This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Thorbjørn Meyer: Is Democracy Such A Good Idea?
2009-10-05 00:06:00 My regular readers will have noticed my use of - not uncommonly - phrases of the sort: Sathya Sai Baba and certain of his core leaders. Worthy leaders have their assistants or followers; oppressive ones have their henchmen. Thorbjørn Meyer, European Central Coordinator of the Sathya Sai Organization, is regarded by a number who know him well as being of the henchman variety. Meyer's lack of accountability is great. Abandoned are essential values of democratic accountability, as if they had never been heard of. This is of course true in regard to various other key Sathya Sai Baba leaders; however, Meyer is one of the foremost of the guru's leaders, and his accountability the greater. He is right at the hub of the cover up of Sathya Sai Baba, and of his monumental spiritual betrayal, and of the suppression of serious crimes that would, were India far more properly democratic, be investigated as a matter of course. Robert Priddy, when head of the Sathya Sai Organization, knew...
Concerning Attempts To Contact Former Sathya Baba Followers
2009-10-04 01:11:00 Concerning Attempts To Contact Former Sathya Baba Followers In the case of these approaches, carefully vetting is performed so as to screen off the proven attempts of Gerald Moreno and others to infiltrate or otherwise undermine former devotee work to bring about proper third party investigation of Sathya Sai Baba and core components of his international Sathya Sai Organization. It has been important for us to take advice from outstanding abuse professionals, lawyers, and so on. The temerity, and in some cases the naivity, of some requests to us for even the most sensitive information might stagger those who had not become used to it.
Sathya Sai Baba and Dr G.Venkataraman: Will They Disavow Their Idi Amin Fon
2009-10-01 23:09:00 Deputy head of the international Satahya Sai Organization and Head of Sai Global Radio G. Venkataraman?s ?Mr Idi Amin? Report (/Journals/Vol_05/01JAN07/11-pr-asanthi-diary) stands as an appalling affront to those who suffered at this monstrous dictator's hands. Note how Venkataraman, on Sai Global Radio, refers to Mr Idi Amin. I may add that it is interesting that Amin claimed to have a direct line to God. Did he have in mind, specifically, Sathya Sai Baba? Perhaps Amin scholars may have something among their files, and can let us all know. Here is what G. Venkataraman wrote:
Dr G. Venkataraman, Sathya Sai Baba?s Nuclear Boon Companion
2009-09-29 00:18:00 Robert Priddy is the former long-time head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway and a retired philosopher in the Social Sciences, University of Oslo. He has written insightfully on the extraordinary, often procrustean efforts of Sathya Sai Baba's head of Puttaparthi propaganda programs to rationalise his beliefs in Sathya Sai Baba. Though not a physical (actually, nuclear) scientist like Dr G. Venkataraman, he has an abiding interest in the sciences, and how a certain variety of scientists, in a great minority but with unfortunate influence far beyond their importance, falsely use science to buttress up their religious claims. The following information may be of particular value for journalistic and scholarly investigators, and also those institutions and agencies which the Sathya Sai cult in many countries attempts to influence - but without portraying their real agendas. For those who may like to hunt and peck among Priddy's writings on G. Venkataraman, I have excerpted fro...
Most Former Sathya Sai Devotees Respond Without Hatred
2009-09-26 01:40:00 Here is a quite typical note from a defender of Sathya Sai Baba, and the reply from one who is no long partial to him. The writer had written a number of emails to the recipient, who did not retaliate to any of the points. Some of the language of the other emails was couched more unkindly than anything in the following. The former devotee responded because of the basic decency and sincerity of the person who wrote:
?The Secret Swami? ? BBC Film Footage and Transcript
2009-09-22 00:29:00 VIEW THESE EXCERPT TRANSCRIPTS AND VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE BBC TV DOCUMENTARY 'THE SECRET SWAMI':
Reply To Sathya Sai Baba Defender
2009-09-21 02:22:00 A former devotee received a note from one clearly upset at dissent from Sathya Sai Baba. Its mood is fairly typical of emails former followers receive. It may be noted that, apart from a minority of former Sai devotees who don't know their manners, there is a strong commitment to courteousy (just as, indeed, there is among Sai devotees too). The recipient responded as follows:
Rob Chappers: Faith guitar visit I
2009-09-20 21:58:00 A hint, a clue of a future prize in a future competition... endorsements? Rob Chappers does the business at the world renowned Faith guitars... look out for the competition soon! Chappers visits the home of Faith Guitars - Part one I went to Oswestry to Barnes & Mullins - Owners of Faith Guitars, for a meeting about many secret things of which I may not speak m/ Chappers visits the home of... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
German Sathya Sai Baba Expose Website Re-gears
2009-09-19 10:08:00 We congratulate the editors of the new German Sai Baba expose site to have their old url again, which is: http://www.exbaba.de
Susan Boyle: ?Wild Horses? Won?t Hold Her Back
2009-09-15 02:00:00 Duty can have its own beauty, though it is far from an absolute form of it. There are, of course, more beautiful things in life than writing about Sathya Sai Baba and his movement. Though the thought of my own engagement in anything significantly-other courts disbelief among a prominent Internet detractor and gross defamer, my work on Sathya Sai Baba constitutes but a minor part of my frequently delightful and deeply fulfilling days. Working quickly, and having other life interests, is native to a number of former followers of Sathya Sai Baba who have stood forth to call for media and government investigation of Sathya Sai Baba and certain of his core leaders. Last April, deeply moved, as was so much of the rest of the world, by the singer Susan Boyle, I wrote of her in relation to having been the target of ageist discrimination not, in essence, unlike that shown by the Sathya Sai Baba proxy defender on the Internet in relation to Robert Priddy, Brian Steel and myself.
?BILD? Story. ?Guru Wants Sex? (Sathya Sai Baba)
2009-09-13 02:24:00 The article below, in which Jens Sethi recounts being sexually abused by Sathya Sai Baba, is from the magazine 'BILD' of Munich on 21st August, 2000. Wikipedia states that 'BILD' is "the best-selling newspaper in Europe and has the sixth-largest circulation worldwide". About a year earlier, NEXUS Magazine (Australia), August-September 1999, featured three articles on Sathya Sai Baba, containing serious allegations. One of these was the testimony of a German husband and wife, Jens and Gurprit Sethi who had been devotees, but had left him.The other articles were the testimony of Terry Gallagher, (who, on principle, had resigned as head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Australia) and Hans de Kraker, also Australia, who had likewise investigated allegations of Sathya Sai Baba's serial sexual abuse of boys and young men. Kraker was, for a number of years, head of the Western Canteen at Puttaparthi
Twin Towers disaster & Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-11 10:20:00 Today it is 11 years since the Twin Towers disaster. The International Chairman of the Sathya Sai Organization made a claim which is an offense to those who died in the 9/11 disaster and their families, stating that none were devotees of Sathya Sai Baba who only saved those of his followers who should ...
Fearless ~ LWG Fall 2009 Giveaway
2009-09-08 13:00:00 Material from Kitty Designs’ kit “Dream of a Blue Sky” Click on the image above to get to the giveaway And he said to them, ?Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?? Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. ~ Matthew 8:26 They’re talking layoffs at work, ...
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?What about the miracles?? Response To One Drawn By Sathya Sai Baba
2009-09-06 03:53:00 Recently, a writer, who had witnessed inexplicable phenomena occurring at a Sai devotee venue, asked me: what about the (Sathya Sai Baba-related) miracles that are happening around the world? I responded in terms close to the following. I shall now include some relevant links: The question is fair. It is one that many who have left Sathya Sai Baba have pondered over. I have not seen any satisfactory explanation. Typically, there is a quality of manifestation that cannot be explained. In my view, these phenomena are far removed from phenomena of the Ouija board type, what to mention many another variety studied by parapsychologists. I think that neither devotee nor non-devotee explanations can do justice to phenomena about which, in the scientific, rational sense, we can say very little. There is that arresting statement in the philosopher Paul Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus': "Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent".
Thankful Thursday ~ Peace
2009-09-03 07:18:00 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. ~ John 14:27 (ESV) In the month of September, my friend Laurie at Women Taking a Stand is hosting Thankful Thursday — come join ...
By: Sting My Heart
Donors and Would-be Donors Beware (Sathya Sai Central Trust Example)
2009-08-30 01:34:00 As the years pass, more evidence emerges of the very non-divine manner in which Sathya Sai Baba and his financial wing collect vast funds - particularly from wealthy donors. As with scams the world over, there are methods of 'spotting' - in this case, by ashram staff of visitors most likely to donate large sums. The admixture of 'miracles' - such as Sai Baba's 'materializing' of expensive rings or pendants etc., for the wealthy - is central to setting up of these traps. This operation involves the participation of the registration office, as well as Sathya Sai Baba's close servitors, many of them wealthy or those who have given away their wealth to him. Criminals and police forces often refer to this type of spotting as finding the 'mark' or victim to be set up. Donors and Would-be Donors Beware There are two classes of individual, and in some cases institutions, who have every reason to be looking at these issues. First, those who have already been donors to Sathya Sa...
Gerald Moreno?s Attacks On Individuals and Institutions Critical of Sathya
2009-08-28 14:57:00 How could any Sathya Sai Baba devotee - of those many who are decent and sincere - bear to read Gerald Joe Moreno's writings? The constant welter of the latter's constant, strident, vituperative and demeaning posts to the Internet can, even at a quick glance, be gauged by the titles of but a small portion of his links, which, for convenience, are posted here: Partial List of Gerald Moreno's Vast Postings Contra Sathya Sai Baba Critics. See also: About Gerald 'Joe' Moreno's Chameleon and Deceptive Websites
Work-A-Day Buddha
2009-08-26 20:57:00 Because of a meeting at work, I spent the last two days with a Buddhist priest.In our forty eight hours together, I asked him a lot about his faith.Fundamentally, he saw the world as a borderless garden where everyone is welcome and invited to plant seeds.He suggested that each of us find our best, most compassionate selves when we help nurture the seeds that others plant, when we recognize the good in others and help them.He said he believed that love and compassion existed within every person, that it was universal.?When you recognize the good in another person,? he said, ?they go on to recognize the good in someone else. It creates a ripple effect for a more peaceful world. In seeing the good in others, you polish the goodness in yourself.?The priest said he tried to approach every human interaction as an opportunity to help."How can I help you?" he liked to say.I got home late the first night, and kept K up late talking about the idea of trying to recognize the good in others a...
By: Oh, The Joys
Brian D.Steel Updates References To Kevin R.D.Shepherd Writings
2009-08-25 03:25:00 Brian D.Steel, who has written in-depth on matters of Sathya Sai Baba-related bibliography, has just sent a note. I think that these references below can be read as a resource in company with my blog of yesterday: Kevin R.D. Shepherd Exposes Sathya Sai Baba Defender Gerald Moreno Brian Steel writes: I have just amended 2 articles to include references to 3 more of Kevin R.D. Shepherd's contributions, the latest from his splendid new website: http://www.kevinrdshepherd.info-
R.D. Shepherd Exposes Sathya Sai Baba Defender Gerald Moreno
2009-08-24 01:43:00 I refer to the independent British scholar Kevin R.D. Shepherd. His older website - http://citizeninitiative.com/ - cites academics of renown who have supported his work, such as the eminent British psychologist, Robert H.Thouless, (1894-1984)who wrote the best-selling "Straight and Crooked Thinking". Shepherd has just put online another website - www.kevinrdshepherd.info. It deals with topics on which he has written widely - philosophy, religion and psychology. Although Kevin Shepherd has never had affiliation with Sathya Sai Baba or his worldwide movement, nor friendship with former followers of Sathya Sai Baba, one section deals with Gerald 'Joe' Moreno, a highly aggressive, vituperative, defamatory pro Sathya Sai Baba defender, who works with assistance - they in the background - from prominents well as rank-and-file Sai Baba personnel in different parts of the world.
Building Bridges
2009-08-21 10:00:00 “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace… My sweet friend Lori (Lori’s Reflections) ...
By: Sting My Heart
Thankful Thursday ~ Friends
2009-08-20 03:33:00 “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” ~ John 15:15 (ESV ~ emphasis mine) Did you know that Jesus calls you ‘friend’? Isn’t that ...
By: Sting My Heart
New Zealand Lawyer Exposes Official Cover Up of Killings In Sathya Sai Baba
2009-08-20 01:33:00 Long before worldwide allegations of Sathya Sai Baba?s serial sexual abuse of boys and young men began to surface in earnest ? circa AD 2000 ? notable individuals shocked by signs of cover up ? started to analyze situations, and leave the Sathya Sai Baba camp. For an example of early investigators, see the article by Warren C. Pyke LLN (Hons.) LLM (VUW), Barrister, New Zealand 3-3-1993: Sathya Sai Baba Murders Evidence (A New Zealand Barrister Analyses Police Evidence). Another earlier investigator of various serious allegations against Sathya Sai Baba was Terry Gallagher, an agricultural scientist and businessman who, in consequence of his findings, resigned as head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Australia. See: Terry Gallagher?s Testimony
Sathya Sai Baba Man Gerald Moreno and Fact-Changing
2009-08-19 01:44:00 I direct my readers to an article just posted by Robert Priddy, retired academic of the University of Oslo and former head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway. He writes: ... "the pro-Sai extremist Joe Moreno claims that ?anti-Sai activists? withheld the transcript of the second part of a phone conversation which David Bailey had with Thomas Wiehe of Sweden. This is entirely untrue. Both parts of the phone conversation were transcribed from the start. Surely one of the worst cases of Internet libel is that of the Gerald 'Joe' Moreno. It is known that he cooperates with those around Sathya Sai Baba, both prominent and rank-and-file individuals. That Sai devotees would support one who so constantly uses language of a kind that Sai Baba's own discourses abundantly inveigh against more than suggests a desperation by many of his devotees to see their guru defended at any cost.
faith no more - be aggressive
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Sathya Sai Baba On Magnetism. Science or Sai-ence?
2009-08-12 02:39:00 Sathya Sai Baba is wildly at odds with some of the most basic scientific facts. His jumping between from physical to metaphysical notions, vague at best, are at grave odds with the physics being taught in his colleges and universities - and in any respectable classroom. In an early blog of mine in 2007 - A Great Deceiver ? Laughable But Still Dangerous - I wrote: "Sai Baba?s many scientist followers must have to block their ears or don magical-thinking hearing aids when he opines on matters scientific. Some of his pronouncements are comic, to be sure. But the smile disappears from one?s face when considering that Sai Baba?s devotees number many leaders in the top power echelons of politics, government, the sciences, the judiciary, diplomacy, industry, finance, the arts, medicine, and so on. He speaks, for example, of the nature of magnetism" ..... Since then, Sai Baba's critical commentator's have noted many past and current absurdities .....
The Faith of Children: How Do We Know Our Children Are Saved?
2009-08-11 20:03:00 My friend Seth McBee over at Contend Earnestly, has a great post today entitled “How Do I Know If My Child is Saved?“. Here are a few excerpts from his post, for starters. Confession of Christ means just what the Bible continually points to. Confession, or faith in Christ, means that you believe that you are ...
Faith of King Jayamal - Story of Krishna
2009-08-09 05:12:00 There was a king named Jayamal. Jayamal had intense faith in Lord Krishna. He never missed a single day spending in devotion and rituals performed through love towards his deity Shyamsundar (Black beauty). He worshiped Lord Krishna as Shyamsunder.Although a king, with many duties towards the kingdom and the people of his kingdom. His faith was great. He spent the time in devotion and worship from early morning till midday. He would not leave the sacred shrine, where he spent the time in devotion, even if it meant losing his kingdom and all the wealth.There are always people taking the devotion towards God as a weakness. So knowing that the king spends half the earlier day in devotion, a neighboring king decided to attack his kingdom in the early hours of the day and capture it the easy way. It was an easy meal for him. Thus, one early morning, an attack was made on king Jayamal's kingdom. All with the bright hopes of acquiring a new kingdom.The soldier's of Jayamal had no other o...
Nigerian Chuch Leader to Congregation: ?Prepare to Die [for your Faith]?
2009-08-08 19:23:00 3 Nigerian pastors were recently beheaded. In the aftermath of that tragedy, according to The Daily Sun, church leaders addressed their congregations: Also delivering a sermon during the funeral rites for late Rev. Sabo Yakubu, slain COCIN Church pastor, the speaker, ...
Creative thinking and living
2009-08-08 12:45:00 It is held by some that a persons’ minds and attitudes reflect the environment in which they are brought up and live. That is no doubt true of many who have not yet developed due to lack of education (or mal-education) and the means to enlighten themselves through travel or experience, and of those who ...
Senior Indian Policeman (Rtd) Speaks Out About Sathya Sai Baba Murders Cove
2009-08-07 12:11:00 As the years have passed, the Government of India and the Government of Andhra Pradesh have not been able to silence all police personnel. One who has refused to shut up is a senior, retired policeman V. J. Ram, whose work as a detective won him a Presidential Medal. He has spoken out against the massive cover up of the police killings in Sathya Sai Baba's private quarters, when Sathya Sai Baba and his brother (the late) Janaki Ramaiah (who was on the Sathya Sai Central Trust) had charge of events soon after the slayings occurred.Those who wish to know more about V.J. Ram's work are welcome to contact me (my details are obtainable by clicking on the tab - Barry Pittard
Part 2: Crossan on the Meaning of Christ?s Sacrifice
2009-08-06 18:16:00 The following is excerpted from John Domonic Crossan?s book, ?God and Empire?: “THE MEANING OF SACRIFICE” Apart from narrativity, let alone historicity, there is the deeper question of the theology within which Jesus’s execution is understood then and now by Christian believers. For The Passion of the Christ and millions of Christians, it was a theology of ...
By: Sharp Iron
Thankful Thursday ~ Joy
2009-08-06 03:09:00 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” ~ Romans 15:13 (ESV) Today I heard a marvelous quote on my way home from work…”Happiness is depended on our circumstances; joy is in our bones”. Per the radio ...
By: Sting My Heart
Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Christian faith has been a confession of e
2009-08-02 14:43:00 Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Christian faith has been a confession of events in human history It is 9:10 AM Sunday morning in the flow of life. I feel weak. I am feeling a lot better this morning. Carol and I took Rudy for a walk down by Window on the Waterfront this morning. I got up this morning around 5:53 AM. Carol was already up looking through the Sunday morning newspapers. ...
By: BackBeat
Sathya Sai Baba?s Slurred Speech Due To Old Age. ?Eenadu? News Report
2009-08-02 12:26:00 That Sathya Sai Baba has made egregious historical and scientific blunders does not inspire confidence in his statements about pre-historical events. See my article: Huge Sai Baba Gaffes Various commentators have pointed to Sathya Sai Baba's 'turkey throat' and other signs of ageing in him, his episodes of falling over (one of which I have observed at quite close quarters along with many shocked observers at a Puttaparthi darshan), his uttering of inanities, his fits of crying, his walking round and round in circles, his blank stare and mask-like face, and so on.
Avoiding delusion (Maya)
2009-07-29 13:24:00 CULT ENTRAPMENT BY SOCIAL AND PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL MEANS My researches, based not least on long personal experience ‘Spiritual Doublethink’ Reactions to this crisis of faith The ‘Mirror Trap’ How traditional gurus operate Conformity to the core belief system Beguiled by Sathya Sai Baba Fundamentalist guru trap Gurus and Authoritarian Power Complex confusion – the labyrinth trap The psychology of belief and doubt How ...
I Forgot to Tell You Something Last Easter...
2009-07-22 01:40:00 As I mentioned, we went to church for the first time in over a year last Sunday.The children pointed at the stained glass windows in recognition and elatedly remarked,"Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus!"[They know all about Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus because we routinely pass a ceramic, household Garden Mary forever praying over the sad state of the zoysia and, at Christmas time, there is a giant, plastic, light-up creche two doors down.]The Mayor, my most earnest child, concentrated fervently throughout the mass, trying with all his soul to understand the meaning of the service.As usual, he asked a lot of questions.[Which would be less of an issue if he didn't speak in ALL CAPS.]"WHO'S THE GUY IN THE ROBE?" he yelled.[That would be the Priest.]"WHAT ARE THOSE KIDS DOING UP THERE ON STAGE?"[Alter girls...]"WHAT IS THE PRIEST HOLDING UP AND BREAKING?"[Bread. The body of Christ.]"WHAT? HIS BODY? WELL... I'M HUNGRY."During a particularly quiet moment, when the parish was deep in silent p...
By: Oh, The Joys
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