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Monday, October 25, 2010

Should Christians Celebrate Halloween? > Amazing Facts > Inside Report

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Please check all that apply. This year for Halloween, I'll probably:

1) Dress the little ones up in costumes and escort them around our neighborhood to collect candy.

2) Check out the local haunted house.

3) Get together with some buddies to watch a scary movie.

4) Dress up in a devil suit and scare the neighborhood kids that knock on the front door.

5) Turn off the porch light and hope nobody finds me eating the three bags of Snickers bars I bought for trick-or-treaters.

Most people see nothing wrong with the activities listed above. They consider Halloween festivities to be a harmless way for their children to have an evening of "fantasy and fun."

But does this standard hold true for Christians? Is dressing up like ghosts, goblins, and witches really "no big deal"? Or is it glorifying and empowering Satan?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Life Transformation Now - Awareness - Abundance - Success

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Man's Duty

"The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light." Luke 11:34-36.

This privilege is presented before every soul. Each may have heaven's light to guide him. If we discern the truth, and obey it, our whole course of action will be in accordance with the truth; for the truth sanctifies the receiver. But if men refuse to search for the truth as for hidden treasure, if the mind is pleased with the theories of error, the soul will remain in darkness. The course of the life, the development of the character, will be corrupted by false sentiments. Error never sanctifies. It can do no good. And how full of darkness is the soul that receives error as truth, and shapes his course of action in accordance with it.

By: Ellen White

August 23, 1898

Review & Herald

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

About Not-A-Guru

Make Your Dreams Bigger Than Your Memories

Not-A-Guru is:

not a guru
not a pastor of any church
not a catholic priest
not a bishop
not a clergyman

Not-A-Guru just wants to share his Precious Gems of Thought, Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Wins, Realizations and more that he picks up along his life's journey. From his own personal experience and what he had gained from other people's experience. Recommends some reading materials and also write some reviews.

To some people Not-A-Guru is:

a son
a brother
a friend
a life coach
a minister
an educator
a preacher
a speaker
a nobody

Not-A-Guru is just an ordinary individual with an extra-ordinary passion: sharing practical philosophy and coaching practical tools that can help anyone who would receive them. He respects every individual for what they believe in: their opinions, beliefs and faiths. He has dreams bigger than life: Making his world a little better one person at a time.

Not-A-Guru wants one to become aware that one has the power of choice. The power to choose Life or Death; that every single moment of everyday one make choices, whether one is conscious about it or not.

Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

That what one is today is largely the result of one's choices made yesterday.

That what one will become tomorrow will be largely the result of one's choices today.

That one would choose Life and not Death.

He is he.

Not-A-Guru can be reach at not-a-guru.blogspot.com

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Action

"And a man is as sick as he will not act. That makes sense to you, doesn't it? He's as sick as he won't act, and he's as mediumly sick as he'll think about it.

"His feeling about action should be such that his computation is taken for granted and the action is sure, competent and certain. He says to himself, 'Act!' and he acts. And he acts with good sense, with a good estimation of effort, with good placement of his force and so on. He acts."

— L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture Illusion Processing and Therapy delivered in November 1952.

This lecture can be found in Volume 12 of the Research & Discovery Series on page 281.

Spiritual Awakening

The World is experiencing a massive, collective spiritual awakening. Evidenced by changes in laws & governments to be more open and friendly towards global integration. Encouraging personal empowerment.

Governments that continue to be restrictive tends to become stagnant and risk falling behind in all areas of human progress: In economics (the more obvious), education, information technology, wellness, entrepreneurship, group dynamics and social networking and social media, spirituality and spiritual awareness or consciousness.

Never in the history of man was information readily available in one's finger tips at a push of several buttons and keys in a computer keyboard, than today and is freely and readily available.

Man's hunger and thirst for truth has set the momentum at a growing and increasing pace. To find the truth and set man free. As it has been said: "The truth shall set you free."

The collective consciousness of humankind is awakening to the absolute truth.

Will man embrace the truth?

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Luck

Are there people who are lucky? Do you believe in luck? I ask a handful of friends these questions including myself.

It seems luck is happening to certain people. If so, wouldn't it be nice if we know what kind of people? Is it a certain race? Creed or religion? And why would I be interested?

I do not know what is luck. I mean, I do not have an immediate answer when I ask myself this question. So I look into myself and ask what have I learned from my past experiences about luck.

From my experience, I gathered luck is a favor to the undeserved. Then, I came across few more words: mercy, grace and favor. I continue this line of inquiry about myself--couldn't be mercy, grace and favor for these can come from someone. Can luck come from someone? Grace can come from someone, but there is also someone bigger than life who can give us grace. Can luck be a result of that grace from someone bigger than life?

Does luck happen to certain people? Are certain people favored? And I'm back to the question: Why would I be interested in what it is? And What is luck?

My friends' answers were:

You won the lottery.

You found 500 bucks on the way.

You won the game.

You got the most beautiful girl on the block.

You got the favorable situation.

Do you believe in luck?

And these are the answers I got:

Yes. Of course, I do.

It depends on the situation.

I closed my eyes and ponder upon the questions: How do I came to understand luck as I understood it now? Am I right in my understanding? What beliefs have I formed from my understanding of the word? How is it shaping my world?

By this simple inquiry I came to conclude that the belief or unbelief of luck plays an important part in our consciousness, and so are the words grace, mercy and favor. And for the most part we carry it from the past experiences and bring it forward automatically--unconsciously. And formed our new beliefs on top of existing beliefs we have already formed by it.

Now, I'm back to square one. And I realize I didn't have clear understanding of what luck really is. Everything I have learned about it are based from the past experience with the assumptions that it is true. I have never really questioned the integrity of my sources until now and I have arrived at square one again. So I decided to consult google.

This is what I got:

fortune: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Luck or fortuity is a belief in good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or chance, and attributed by some to reasons of faith or superstition, which happens beyond a person's control.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck