Comments on Ambassador Watch: Creation Smackdown

Hi Gavin,This is Mario Seiglie. I just want to ask...

2008-05-24T19:27:00.000+12:00

Hi Gavin,

This is Mario Seiglie. I just want to ask you something, "Is sarcasm a godly trait? Where does this source of action come from? You must have been deeply hurt some moment in your life, but do you have to take it out on all of us. Some of us are simply trying to contribute as we can.

Oops.No I am not intentionally playing both sides....

2008-05-15T07:56:00.000+12:00

Oops.

No I am not intentionally playing both sides. I swear I wasn't trolling. :-P

"It's a nasty business, this futile effort -- in t...

2008-05-15T07:53:00.000+12:00

"It's a nasty business, this futile effort -- in the name of faith, no less -- to contain God within pre-conceived, pseudo-religious limitations."

Now that is a sentence worthy of reading again!

"Unfortunately in science it is more like here is ...

2008-05-15T07:51:00.000+12:00

"Unfortunately in science it is more like here is my theory, now let me view every fact that I find as a support of it and let me bend them to fit."

Good thing you're not a scientist then. You wouldn't make a very effective one.

evil ution!

2008-05-12T17:01:00.000+12:00

evil ution!

With all that rewiring, be careful you don't short...

2008-05-12T15:49:00.000+12:00

With all that rewiring, be careful you don't short circuit and fry your mind and sear your conscience.

Any more than usual.

tao of pooh said.... Imaging gave us hope noting:1...

2008-05-12T15:46:00.000+12:00

tao of pooh said....

Imaging gave us hope noting:

1. No longer [caring about right or wrong.]
2. blah,
3. blah,
3. blah....

Rewire on!
dd

Full of Pooh,

With all that rewiring, be careful you don't short circuit and fry your mind and sear your conscience.

Imaging gave us hope noting:"The quality of brain ...

2008-05-12T09:35:00.000+12:00

Imaging gave us hope noting:

"The quality of brain neuroplasticity allows for adaptation to accomplish rewiring if needed; or the mind can consciously retrain neurons to perform or solve for some desired new functions or programs."

And that should be the ultimate goal of us here on AW. To share, to define, take look and rewire so we aren't stuck in the old program of this WCG experience.

It does an individual no good to rehash, restate or keep the old wiring in place with simply revisting the old story, any old story, over and over. It has to lead to a rewire. Otherwise, one will be repeating the same things on here ten years from now with no personal progress out of it.

At the risk of being scorned, observing the pain body and giving it no energy or time is the only way to rewire.

The entire experience of the COG's is in our heads..It is not real now to most here. It is a thought form, and experience and a memory. The pain body might be real, but the experience is over.

It's all just a story. It's your story, my story, they are the same, they are different. But the story is not you and it's not me. That story could have been told so many ways with so many twists and turns that didn't come up to make it a different story.

How can one know if they are rewiring from their WCG experience or merely spinning on?

A few observations that it is occuring.

1. No longer having to be right

2. No longer needing to retell the story

3. Acceptance that we're all here to learn

4. An attitude of nothing is for nothing.

5. Spending less time in the mental past.

6. Losing the need to convince others.

7. Return of authenticity and personal integity

8. Knowing that sometimes in life there is nothing left to do but have a good laugh.

9. Staying present in the moment we now do have.

10. Letting defensiveness go

11. Knowing what is....is

12. Knowing Personal experience is the only teacher..the rest is hearsay

13. Loving people you find it easy to hate.

14. Putting yourself first for a change and esteeming yourself the same as anyone else. (Paul was wrong to say we should esteem others "better" than oneself. We are all the same small part of the one same bigger thing.

15. Giving in to unconditional love, even if we hate it.

Rewire on!
dd

2008-05-12T07:08:00.000+12:00

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Douglas,Your remarks remind me of the comment we u...

2008-05-12T06:40:00.000+12:00

Douglas,
Your remarks remind me of the comment we use for the mythters we used to know:
"As useless as tits on a bull."

2008-05-11T18:21:00.000+12:00

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The Apostate Paul said“What can I say, Q? I got my...

2008-05-11T18:05:00.000+12:00

The Apostate Paul said

“What can I say, Q? I got my marching orders from Big Science. I have to stick the program. I'll call HQ and see if I can get some guidance.”

It’s good to see that you have retained the understanding of the workings of hierarchy!!

2008-05-11T18:03:00.000+12:00

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Bamboo Bends, "Add to this the idea that the world...

2008-05-11T16:41:00.000+12:00

Bamboo Bends,

"Add to this the idea that the world is silent until it enters our heads and that light is also an inside the skull perception and that we roam in a silent and dark universe of waves and photons.....❞"

Tonight NPR's The Infinite Mind series discussed recent brain scan research proves the adult brain can rewire it's neural networks between synapses. The quality of brain neuroplasticity allows for adaptation to accomplish rewiring if needed; or the mind can consciously retrain neurons to perform or solve for some desired new functions or programs.

"A decade after The Infinite Mind first looked at the "neuroplasticity" of the brain (it's ability to rewire itself), we revisit the subject, and look at the bold, new breakthroughs in our understanding and practical uses of this science.

Host Dr. Fred Goodwin speaks with Dr. Norman Doidge, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at Columbia University and the University of Toronto, and author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph From the Frontiers of Brain Science," who chronicles how "people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and traumas."

Plus a look at neuroplasticity and meditation. We hear from Sharon Begley, science writer for Newsweek magazine and co-author with of "The Mind and The Brain: Neuroplasticity and The Power of Mental Force." She is also author of "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves." She is joined by Dr. Brent Bauer, director of the Mayo Clinic's Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program.

And we'll hear about brain gyms and mind exercises from Dr. Larry McCleary, a neurosurgeon and author of "The Brain Trust Program: A Scientifically Based Three-Part Plan to Improve Memory, Elevate Mood, Enhance Attention, Alleviate Migraine and Menopausal Symptoms, and Boost Mental Energy." He joins us with "news you can use" about building connections in your brain, fighting off dementia, and ending up smarter than most in your old age.

www.theinfinitemind.com

Imaging

you people dont know what your talking about. I am...

2008-05-11T13:29:00.000+12:00

you people dont know what your talking about. I am king!!

B. $chnippert

I've heard the Big Bang explained scientifically i...

2008-05-11T12:50:00.000+12:00

I've heard the Big Bang explained scientifically in terms of Genesis. Centuries ago Hebrew scholars realized they would have to wait for Science to catch up to what they knew from the already ancient text.

There's no conflict, except with creationists who endeavor to confine God's creative techniques to their own criteria. Translations cannot tell the whole story.

It's a nasty business, this futile effort -- in the name of faith, no less -- to contain God within pre-conceived, pseudo-religious limitations.

2008-05-11T12:46:00.000+12:00

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"Immoral people who hated God and wanted to behave...

2008-05-11T09:49:00.000+12:00

"Immoral people who hated God and wanted to behave badly made up the theory of evolution. Ever since then, they have been looking in vain for facts to support it. All the best "evidence" for the theory has always turned out to be deliberate frauds."

argh...ignorance reigns

❝Neotherm wrote:We have the presumption:Cre...

2008-05-11T08:15:00.000+12:00

❝Neotherm wrote:

We have the presumption:

Creationism = Christianity

And

Evolution = Atheism

So a nice line can be drawn in the sand and the battle may roar.

But some may also be Christian and acknowledge the mechanisms of evolution. This alters the battle plan for those who really simply and emotionally want to deny the existence of God.❝

It also alters the battle field for those who equate evolution with atheism as well. There's lots of Christians who have no problem whatever with an evolutionary process in life.

Its hard to let go of the magic-wand god. We want our miracles now not in a million years.

Gavin Rubbish, You got the captions for your carto...

2008-05-11T08:12:00.000+12:00

Gavin Rubbish,

You got the captions for your cartoon all mixed up!

Immoral people who hated God and wanted to behave badly made up the theory of evolution. Ever since then, they have been looking in vain for facts to support it. All the best "evidence" for the theory has always turned out to be deliberate frauds.

Hairless Hominid DD said... ❝ It's the se...

2008-05-11T08:08:00.000+12:00

Hairless Hominid DD said...

❝ It's the search for the how's and why's of our "is-ness" that is more interesting than arriving at never changing final conclusions. It's all amazing. The fact that we are conscious now for a short time is a gift

Somewhere there is THE answer and we'll get there someday. It's not going to be a confirmation of Genesis 1-3, for the universe, animals or man.

Hairless apes exploring with a consciousness spirit that sees it all through five holes in the head and receptors in the skin -- watches the movie of it all in the dark--in the head--on a screen that doesn't exist--in one universe of many..maybe.

Add to this the idea that the world is silent until it enters our heads and that light is also an inside the skull perception and that we roam in a silent and dark universe of waves and photons.....❞

I sense a kindred soul out there....what an incredible thrill ride this holodeck entertainment is! I just wished they'd left the safety switches on.

This topic is a continued mystery to me. For many...

2008-05-11T06:37:00.000+12:00

This topic is a continued mystery to me. For many years, as an agnostic, I was pretty firmly dialed into evolution. With all of the science and logic behind that still being present in my cranium, and now as a believer again, it becomes difficult not to entertain the concept of "theistic evolution".

There are problems with this, though. Jesus and the apostles seemingly both believed in, and validated, the first man "Adam" in the New Testament. Would they do this with an allegory? Or was this simply a case of addressing the Jews and Jewish Christians based on the prevalent beliefs of the Jews, as did Jesus on another occasion in His conversation with the Samaritan woman? I mean, gentiles were even referred to as "dogs" in that particular exchange.

I just find it difficult to believe that everything was always here, but that it continuously morphs into different forms of matter or energy. Seems like at one point in eternity, something would need to have been created. And, if there was at one time "nothing", what is all that we see made from? Did God use parts of Himself as the raw materials? Is everything physical that we see around us, including ourselves, made from elements of God?

And, what about radioactive materials, and their half-life? Can evolution, or natural processes actually explain them? It seems as if they would need to have had a starting point. Did such materials come from a disintegrated sun?

Too many questions. I think there's always going to be an element of mystery, regardless of one's persuasion.

BB

Once again this is an argument all about God condu...

2008-05-11T06:17:00.000+12:00

Once again this is an argument all about God conducted through cosmological devices.

We have the presumption:

Creationism = Christianity

And

Evolution = Atheism

So a nice line can be drawn in the sand and the battle may roar.

But some may also be Christian and acknowledge the mechanisms of evolution. This alters the battle plan for those who really simply and emotionally want to deny the existence of God.

Atheist frequently try to wrap themselves in the scientific flag in order to cover up all of the sheer bitter emotionalism.

With regard to this supposed alignment with science, have a look at "The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions" by David Berlinski.

Now I sit back and wait for some atheist on this blog to make an unscientific, emotional, ad homoneim attack on me. Its like fishing.

-- Neo

Unfortunately in science it is more like here is m...

2008-05-11T06:07:00.000+12:00

Unfortunately in science it is more like here is my theory, now let me view every fact that I find as a support of it and let me bend them to fit.

Oh and one other thought:Trichotomy

2008-05-11T05:32:00.000+12:00

Oh and one other thought:

Trichotomy