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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Contemplative Spirituality & AS |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2008, 5:44 pm
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Replies: 47
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| thanks for the post. I hope more people contribute! fondly, L |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Is Life Better or Worse Now Than When You Where Younger? |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 02 Nov 2007, 8:52 am
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Replies: 89
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| Dear Members, Its Friday. Early morning in New England. I love this topic. I love life. Some days, I feel like an unopened geode with a light on. Like my insides are beautiful, but only to me. I have a rocky exterior, and I look sort of like a potato. I have had many adventures. But all my life, I h... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Is Life Better or Worse Now Than When You Where Younger? |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2007, 5:38 am
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| worse. aches, pains, isolation, poverty, depression, loneliness, hopelessness, uselessness. i feel like i am 40 years older than i am. it is a challenge to keep on keeping on. and i have lost my looks. self pity is a b***h, too. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Do You Wear a Mask in Public? |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2007, 5:52 pm
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Replies: 41
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| Dialectical Behavioral THerapy teaches people to have a half smile - just pretend to smile a little and hold it on your face, and people will treat you better. it works. it sucks but it works. i do it all the time to handle the outside world. it makes me look less sad. and more easily ignored. i lik... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Why it is difficult to make friends in mature age |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2007, 5:44 pm
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Replies: 35
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| i thought i would never have a friend. then there was a friend. now she has been my friend for 25 years. she will be my friend for life. making and keeping friends is NOT a gift i have. i tend to attract weak people, people who life in dramas, people with severe needs. crazies. like me. |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Is Life Better or Worse Now Than When You Where Younger? |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2007, 5:33 pm
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| hi folks i saw a lot of names in this thread i recognize from the chat room. i am "happier" because i am more free at age 55. I have a smaller world, fewer stresses, fewer people. I don't allow people in my life who make me feel icky. I am more willing to accept the responsibilities for my actions. ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Inner Child Theory |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007, 9:28 am
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Replies: 17
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| this past spring, I spent a month in India. India made me think about a lot of basic definitions I have always taken as universal. Justice - individuality - free-will - morality - self-worth - and many other ideas I had went crumbling. "Inner-child"? I often thought this idea came to someone with wa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: About Christian Unity |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2007, 8:43 pm
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Replies: 54
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| I just wrote this amazing thing to you all. It was so witty, wise, and oh so well written, then a finger hit something and POOF I was humbled, once again, by the universe which seems intent on keeping me small. Anyway, I love the discussion! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Has anyone actually read the Bible? |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2007, 7:59 pm
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Replies: 118
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| What does this mean: Be kind to your enemies, for it will heap hot burning coals upon his head. If you know about the culture in which this was first said, then later written, you would know that fire is precious. In a nomadic society, losing ones fire in camp would be a terrible thing to have happe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: About Christian Unity |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2007, 6:09 am
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Replies: 54
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| what does it mean to be a Christian" Paul said somewhere "I vouchsafed when among you to speak of nothing but Christ and Christ crucified" - most of what goes for "christianity" has nothing to do with Christianity. I like JOhn 17 - we are supposed to be one with each other. hah. but it is the goal. L |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Has anyone actually read the Bible? |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2007, 6:04 am
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Replies: 118
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| I'm curious why you asked the question about the Bible. what do the answers people give you tell you? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A Question |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2007, 5:58 am
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Replies: 16
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| i think conservative means "us and not you". so the bible is used by fundamentalist conservatives to demarkate who is US and who is not us. so if your group is of one variety, then the Bible can be used to define your group.... no homosexuals, obedient women, while another group can use the Bible to... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Inner Child Theory |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2007, 5:49 am
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| hello again. maybe the question isn't really abou "inner child" but "inner adult". what does it mean to be an adult? of course, sexual maturity is the simple answer. maybe people with a "strong inner child" were raised differently. i have never read a biography of Einstein but he was, si i have hear... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Contemplative Spirituality & AS |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2007, 5:40 am
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Replies: 47
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| hello. i have been a religious (christian) person all my life. several years were spent in spiritual formation as a contemplative, and i have read a great deal on conteplative spirituality. please tell me more about your life, criss! i think the prophets, poets, priests, shamans, seers of earlier ag... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christian Humility |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2007, 11:35 pm
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Replies: 36
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| Hi folks. I am new to this stuff. (Posting). Thanks for your ardent discussion. I hope to read more from many of you. Thanks for being here. BTW "Lyetta" is my name. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
| Lyetta |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2007, 11:20 pm
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Replies: 16,117
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| hello. i have been reading some of the posts here, and wanted to say. um. well. uh. i am sort of shy here but. I was born in 1952. I think that people "of a certain age" have a different form of literacy than people born in the last twenty or thirty years. The ability to communicate abstract thought... |
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