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Posted: 5/17/2009 1:05:37 PM | msg 26 "halo" person ---> religious propaganda you say???? good grief ...the poster was only stating an opinion! in an "open" forum. the secular world is much too quick to throw God-fearing people to the Lions, much less cast the First Stone.
I really truly am not happy that I have replied.
The answer I received is so A-Typical. IMHO.
Most often, tis best to turn the other cheek.
I believe that I have "read" that, somewhere, before.
Why????? spend gobs of hard-earned money on the spoutings of New Age authors,
when you can read the best book in the whole wide world (www) for FREE! IMHO.
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Posted: 5/17/2009 3:49:10 PM | mis~fit, you failed to answer my question - but that's ok. I didn't expect you to stand up and answer it.
Also, I'd rather love "God" than fear "him".
Either way, this is not a religious forum, if someone wanted to discuss the spituality in this man's book, then they should have taken it to the appropriate forum. And yes, religious propaganda fits quite nicely; sorry you disagree. | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 4:03:20 PM | Newsflash. The POF religious forum was deleted.
That's why the whack jobs are circulating aimlessly in other fora looking for themselves..... | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 4:33:17 PM | I think Eckhart argues that if you are able to live in the moment, you do not need anyone else, so maybe that is why he keeps his partner in another place. The other thing is maybe his partner distracts him from being in the presence of whatever he want to be into.
On a more serious note, Oprah should do a show on "Men who love Bewbs so much they will grow their own no matter what lengths they have to go." I have being reading the threads and one poster is so ready for it that he plans to take hormone pills. (Personally, I think someone should talk him out of it.)
Apparently, reading between the threads, once he gets a set, he will be like Narcissist in Myth and admire his reflection all day long while the Eagles fly overhead echoing things about female hormones not be good for your balds.
It is amazing what you can learn on a Sunday afternoon. Who needs Eckhart or Oprah when we have POF. | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 11:15:54 PM | Winter Wren
Newsflash. The POF religious forum was deleted.
Not to be contrary... it was only the link from the global list that was deleted.
You will still find "Religion/Supernatural" in the drop-down search list and will find the forums section here:
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingForum12.aspx
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Posted: 5/18/2009 1:11:41 AM | I stand up, and answer. Oh yes, every single day. To the One whom is deserving of my love and obedience. To those who may mock or scorn, with closed stubborn minds , I remain silent. Surprise!! --> not a Bible Thumper!
... to "love" God, is to fear Him. One cannot "be", without the other
I say no more on a topic that has been repeatedly mentioned to be not suited for this thread. Why the baiting? ..... the luring? .... unless it means one is really truly interested. Thumbs up, there!
And Thumbs down ... to linking together the Religious and Supernatural threads.
Why, does that not surprise me?
On topic: IMHO those who pour adulation and glory on today's false prophets and seers (New Age or not): a Fool and his money, are soon parted (quote)
Those above have my deepest empathy, and compassion.
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Posted: 5/18/2009 8:30:23 AM | Sit back and think for a moment or two about these types of books that are out there(including the bible if you must) and why they are so popular(including the bible if you must). Each one is taking aim at certain individuals, their weakness', their lack of confidence, their "fear", their thoughts that their lives are not going the "way they should",etc,etc,etc. They then throw a "cure" at ya, and if you FOLLOW, your life will be all better,,,so the books say.
Hate to break it to ya,,,but the "cure" is within. It's just that majority need some form of revelation because they don't have the skills, nor the confidence to know how to find that "cure",,,,thus these books(including the bible if you must).
I have no problem with the books themselves,,,,but,,,,,,do NOT try to jam them (including the bible if you must) down my throat because this is "the way" you have found yourself or the path that you have decided to FOLLOW. The message in them all is relatively the same, just being shown to you differently. Whatever works for ya, go for it(including the bible if you must).
I "got it" years ago, but I was lucky. I had an excellent teacher, no books needed. | |
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Posted: 5/18/2009 9:23:42 AM |
I stand up, and answer. Oh yes, every single day. To the One whom is deserving of my love and obedience.
Mis~fit, apologies but you really are deeply off topic. The original post might be off-topic for the BC forum, except that Eckhart lives here, so it gets a bit of a pass. The original reference to the bible might have been on topic in a compare-and-contrast sort of way.
Your protection of Christian rights to speak is irrelevant to the topic. Please feel free to not thump the Bible and instead turn the other cheek, preferably silently.
Cheers,
Mike (As the Dom said to the Sub, "Turn the other cheek.") | |
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Posted: 5/18/2009 8:55:56 PM | | ^Well done. Good post, OP! You remind me of myself, only smarter. Yes, Eckhart does live here and mentions Stanley Park in "The Power of Now". | |
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Posted: 5/19/2009 2:15:52 AM | urban guy : ^^^ got to ya, didn't I? a little bit? it certainly appears so, a little bit?
but ..... sorry to say .... silencing me is a feat extraordinaire.
 it may well be a tough job for a mere mortal
walts: your post is well-written, and well-thought.
and jane infers that wow! an author who lives in one's hometown is deemed worthy then, to purchase his book Well, the plus side to that is the opportunity to also get it autographed! Lucky lady.
I am tired. Being a misfit is not easy. Tis very hard work
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Posted: 5/19/2009 6:37:38 PM | To you all:
Eckhart and Oprah often refer to higher powers and Eckhart quotes the bible and other teachings in his books. This is why God was brought into the conversation. This is about Eckhart and Oprah right?
To surender to God is probaly the most difficult thing I had to do in my life. It took me 48 years. I reason I didn't surrender before is because I was weak and thought I would lose my freedom and would have to stop all those things in life that I had a weakness for. The opposite has happened and after I surrendered I have more freedom and strength then ever before(not perfect) and now I truely Do Think for Myelf more than ever and with my good teacher(god) I plug along in life just looking for a mate like evryone else. Gees you people what is wrong with a good mentor in life. | |
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Posted: 5/20/2009 1:23:20 AM | I haven't read Echharte as of yet, however, I have been reading Gabor Mate. What an awesome writer. Poignant and without compromise yet still seems to invite the reader in to make their own decisions. Currently reading "the March of the Hungry Ghosts"
It is not a self help book but more a self/community understanding book.
( Read the secret.....I don't know what the big deal was...It is Karma the author talks about...What's the Secret?)
Have a good day
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Posted: 5/20/2009 6:59:46 AM | I have just struggled through A New Earth and while I appreciate Eckhart's philosophies, he does make it hard to get through a book. I had the same problem with The Power of Now. I loved reading it up until a certain point and then it gets all twisted and unrealistic. That might be my $20 brain trying to absorb all those $50 words. lol.
As for Oprah, she's gotten tiring. I like some of the topics she presents but the way she presents them is a bit too sensational for me. She's gotten tiring.
However, having said that, she is a media goddess and anything she says is good is usually scarfed up by the "unenlightened" masses. Eckhart was smart to glom onto her for media exposure.
Based on the teachings of the book, that is not such a bad thing. More enlightened people in the world might make it a safer one.
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Posted: 5/20/2009 9:51:28 AM | Am curious about ‘The March of The Hungry Hare’. Love reading books RE: Community.
Might be an Idea to start a POF Book Club….
As for Oprah, she's gotten tiring. I like some of the topics she presents but the way she presents them is a bit too sensational for me. She's gotten tiring.
Personally, I think when something or someone loses flair or attractiveness….
….it really is saying that …that something or someone does not fulfill personal expectations anymore….lol
Now that is tiring and limiting at a personal level.
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Posted: 10/28/2009 3:05:36 PM | I was just recently made aware of Tolle and his work so no judgements yet, but what I have read and heard so far it seems to be rebadged Buddhism. To understand Buddhism deeper it is not enough to read or to listen but to immerse oneself. Bit like looking at water, your only going to get wet if you dive in.
Had to laugh at some posts here coming from God fearing atheists 
Relax Buddhism does not speak about or of God nor does it claim a God, Buddhism is based on self realisation. Ah the bliss of stup ah ignorance. | |
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Posted: 10/28/2009 6:21:42 PM | My EGO doesn't like Eckhart Tolle...and yah Oprah is starting to act like she herself is some kind of great prophet.
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Posted: 10/29/2009 3:51:43 AM | oh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
what a cunning play on words!
oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
you might not like oprah but she gives away a whole lot of money to people that don't have any, as opposed to someone like...
Jerry Springer? who cares who acts like a prophet as long as they share the wealth, eh? profit - prophet - jacked up - jag off - jerk bag - what's the real issue?
what's the real problem with oprah? does alot of good - gives away alot of money - great philanthropist...hmmmm i wonder...hmmm i really do...jack bags. i'll bet you watch cnn - just like the rest of the tw@ts that can't read...
I think you meant "STOP IT". THE REAL ISSUE WITH OPRAH IS THE SAME ISSUE AS WITH OBAMA - CORN-FED JIMMY CRACK CORN B.S. AMERICAN RACIST BULLSHITE. I REJECT IT - I PROTEST IT. go twist.
as a Cdn, i refuse to stoop to it. if you can't fit here, go back down south, church girl. i doubt your congregation would approve of pof forums, somehow! LOL...what hypocrisy i could take a bath in it and come out smelling like a whore in a slaughterhouse! Yee ha!
douchebags...grrrrrr
AND BY THE WAY! WORD UP! IF PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABOUT GOD WE WILL END UP VISITING THE CREATIONIST MUSEUM WHILE THE POPULATION DEVOLVES INTO DROOLING CATATONIC IGNORANCE!
This is Canada. People came here to get away from religious b.s. keep is to yourselves - along with your sex lives, your implants, and your viagra/cialis/have to take a pill to get it up american BULLSHITE! arrrrrrgh! dignity, remember? we're canadians for god's sake at least try to preserve the MYTH that we haven't dumbed down to the level of American Pieholes.....
The PMS "will we soon be as stupid as the yanks?" Pie-hole | |
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Posted: 10/29/2009 11:37:21 PM | Dont watch Oprah ----- overblown sense of self importance , pretentious and misguided easily led down any garden path way of thinking , too much pollyanna crap
skimmed the book you are referring to---- over complicated, self help, make a quick buck by telling people what they already know ...but don't know ....they know ... it's crap
 ...and for the record celebrities like Tom cruise and Oprah deserve each other ...... | |
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Posted: 10/31/2009 8:39:09 AM | worse than ever
quick throw some holy water .... just kidding
you might not like oprah but she gives away a whole lot of money to people that don't have any, as opposed to someone like...
so does the CIA but it doesnt make them a humanitarian organisation
nothing to do with money, giving it away, sharing or what ever. If that was the measure of importance then we would be in real trouble...Ah I mean more trouble than what we are in.... is that possible? Perhaps it is.
I came across a quote recently..."Feathers fly high, the bird flies low."
It may be good insight to see past the feathers.
just a thought. | |
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