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Sunday, October 22, 2006
3:27:06 PM CDT
Feeling Quiet

Flags of our fathers

My wife and I just saw Flags of our fathers.  It is a first rate film about Iwo Jima and what constitutes heroism in our society.  The film is very graphic in its violence but it is not gratuitous.  It is the story of the men who raised the flag over mount Suribachi.  It is  very moving and does not glorify war in any way.   On the way out of the theater I saw a man in a wheelchair and I wondered if he had been there.  An old man in a marines cap approached the man in the wheelchair and asked him if he had been there. The man in the wheelchair said "No I was in Korea ten years later. How about you?" the man in the Marines cap nodded and began to cry.  The movie addresses the issue of what is a hero and the answer is that no one fighting feels like a hero when they're fighting. Hero's are for the people at home to help them get a handle on the war.  That is the message of the film. 


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Saturday, October 21, 2006
12:17:34 PM CDT
Feeling Hopeful

My thoughts for today

Today I think about the body.  How is it that inspite of all our efforts to remain young and healthy  in time the body invariably shows signs of age and decay?  Even the saints grew old. Even the saints grew infirm.  This is not a sign that we have failed god or ourselves or that god has failed us it is just what is.  Of course we want to keep the body as firm/flexible as possible and we should do whatever mental, physical or spiritual work that we need to in order to maintain the body. At times we have miracles but even then in time the body still fails. Who wants to remain on this plane forever anyway?  The body is our portal into this world of the senses and the world of the ego and the loss of the body is our portal out of this world.  But let us stay here until we've learned all that this world has to offer. Let us not take the shortcut by destroying the body and forever regretting what we did not learn or accomplish.


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All About Me

I am the product of my thoughts beliefs and to some extent the thoughts and beliefs of those around me even when I don't agree with those beliefs.  My body is fifty nine years old.  I live in Minnesota and my religious training includes but is not limited by the metaphysics of Mary Baker Eddy and Joel Goldsmith. The eastern disciplines of Paramahansa Yogananda, Mataji-Ellafern Poindexter, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and many others have affected me also.  I studied the Seth books for several years as well and love many other spiritual writers including Emmet Fox, Tehard de Chardin, Walter Starcke and yes even Einstein.
I have written many things but nothing has brought any financial gain.   I am a soul out here like all of you by myself seeking truth, trying to express truth and doing the best I can each day to live up to my personal integrity.

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