God
March 12, 2010
- Me at IHOP a few mornings ago. I'm the one upside down, naked and falling. I heard the calling while driving home from Philadelphia a few mornings ago. I had attended a show at Johnny Brenda’s the night before and stayed over night at a friend’s house. Mildly hung-over, I decided to treat myself to a nice breakfast on my way back to the Jersey shore. And ...
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February 26, 2010
- I'm pleased to say that my biblical short story, Dancing with Lions, is published today and you can pick up a copy here - though I'm afraid you'll have to be patient as, for some reason, the links to Smashwords take an age to click through.While you're waiting, you can read an extract from the beginning of the storyand also enjoy the book trailer. Never say I'm not kind to you, and have a ...
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February 23, 2010
- February 23 Over Troubled Water Though G-d might be everything, for a long time G-d was a resident of an unknown country; a theoretical citizen of a theoretical land. It took some time for me to spy yon distant country and longer to realize what a miracle it was that I could see my neighbor, holding my optics turned around the way they were. Turning over the binoculars came long before ...
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February 18, 2010
- Part 1Pagans aren't pagan.It's as impossible to list every pagan path as it is to list every Christian path. So help me I'm going to try, just to give an idea of how many there are. I'm not going to Google it, this is all off the top of my head.Eclectic, Norse, Celtic, Celtic Shamanism, Shamanism, Native American Spirituality, Gardnerian, Thelemic, Quabbalistic, Dianic, Wicca, Discordianism, ...
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February 18, 2010
- Not just as I do, in my own mind. Here is an author decreed to be a God because of a book he wrote. Don't people yet realize I wrote THE ELEPHANT TALKS TO GOD? Humpf!!Raj Patel: Promo of the Gods or False Idol? By Bridget Kinsella -- Publishers Weekly, 2/17/2010 8:12:00 AMOn any given day, thousands of authors are praying to their god of choice or birth for the success of their books, but ...
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February 17, 2010
- I shook a man’s hand last Thursday night and that man was dead Friday morning. I’ll call him “T.” That I hardly knew T is an understatement. I met him for the first time at a hospital on Wednesday night and the second on Thursday. We never spoke but for my own “hello.” He was lucid but weak, and while his lack of strength was no doubt appropriate to his condition, the frailty that ...
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February 14, 2010
- Great bird news this week! We've finally - after about four or five attempts and many miles covered - spotted a Great Grey Shrike on our trip to the New Forest yesterday, hurrah. Such a beautiful bird and a real pleasure to see. Especially as we'd just given up and were returning to the car when suddenly there it was. Bliss. A lifetime first. Two other lifetime firsts yesterday were the ...
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February 9, 2010
- Coming of age in the 1950s and early 1960s, Jacob Needleman was part of a generation that spent much of their lives running away from God. Even people in the God business - priests, ministers and especially seminary professors - challenged traditional Judeo-Christian ideas about the nature of God.Time magazine notoriously asked the question "Is God Dead?" in big letters on the cover of ...
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February 4, 2010
- Taboo defined as an adjective, forbidden or disapproved of; placed under a social prohibition or ban (in Polynesia and other islands of the South Pacific) marked off as simultaneously sacred and forbidden; a noun, any prohibition resulting from social or other conventions; ritual restriction or prohibition, esp of something that is considered holy or unclean; a verb, to place under a ...
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January 30, 2010
- January 30 The Was and the Is The Silent Scream that existed as a placeholder for my G-d was incomprehensible to me. I entered AA and was informed that understanding my Higher Power was required not just some far distant goal. In true alcoholic form my first move was to shun G-d. This made room for my rage which was in much need of the space. After a few fine years of dissipation ...
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