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Why SCIENCE is the New Irrational RELIGION

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Science is about sense data, empiricism and induction. Science is an empirical system which is opposed to rationalism. This cannot be stressed enough, science is not about reason, science privileges empiricism. The definition of empiricism is “the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience.” Whereas rationalism is the doctrine that all knowledge is based on reason and not on religious faith or sense experience.

These two views are opposites and never forget that science is an empirical system, not a rational system. Furthermore science is inductive whereas our system is deductive. Deduction is a method of reasoning that guarantees 100% that the conclusion is true no matter what.

While induction is a method based on repeated tests that only ever give a probability of something being true, no matter how good the inductive test are it always has the probability of being wrong. Deduction is about guaranteed truth while induction only gives a probability of being true.

Morgue, YouTube 20 Comments [7/24/2017 2:04:46 AM]
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Submitted By: Pharaoh Bastethotep

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A few months ago Jordan Arseneault allowed Visual AIDS to repost his piece, Silence = Sex, about a man's experience of trying to hook up with HIV. It remains one of out most viewed post.

Arseneault, working with poster/VIRUS, has now turned that writing into a poster that is hitting the streets in Canada, and across the World Wide Web. The poster, a textual and visual play off of The Silence Equals Death project work, provides the following 21st century update:

Silence = Sex
The criminalization of HIV+ people perpetuates stigma and prevents HIV prevention. HIV+ people are often caught in a “Catch 22,” wherein disclosure is required by law, but often leads to immediate rejection. Inform yourself : overcome stigma and get laid!

Jordan Arseneault, Visual AIDS 13 Comments [7/24/2017 2:04:37 AM]
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On his American Family Radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer explained that the whole purpose of life is for people to prepare themselves to help Jesus Christ govern the world when he returns and that taking a stand against things like marriage equality and LGBTQ rights now is a sign that one can be trusted to help Christ “right the world right” in the world to come.

“When Christ returns, he is going to rule on the surface of the earth,” Fischer said, “and he is going to be asking us to help him run things. We’re now going to be under Christ’s reign in positions of authority to help him manage and direct and govern the Kingdom of God as it comes to earth and as it is administered on earth.”

Fischer said that “this life is designed by God to be like grammar school, like elementary school; the day is going to come when we are going to graduate and he wants us to be mature enough and wise enough to help him manage affairs on earth. It’s preparing us to exercise authority in the age to come.”

“So when we talk about the issues that ought to be exemplified, the values that ought to be enshrined in our culture, this is all part of us being prepared to exercise authority in the age to come, so we know Kingdom values, so we know what Kingdom values are,” he continued. “We know what the standards for society ought to be so when we get our turn to administer and to guide and to govern, we will know the policies, the standards that a society ought to be embrace.”

Fischer said that Christ is watching everyone alive today, looking for those he can trust to help him govern when he returns, “so when we talk about issues like homosexuality and the standards for marriage and sexuality and all that stuff, this is all a part of God preparing us to help him run the world right for the first time.”

Bryan Fischer, Right Wing Watch 13 Comments [7/24/2017 2:04:31 AM]
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Submitted By: Kuyohashi

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Lady Checkmate's headline: "Minn. schools sexualize children and adopt 'transgender toolkit' for kindergartners"

"Minn. schools adopt 'transgender toolkit' for kindergartners." No, Minnesota continues to rebel against God and support the sexualization of children and priming them to be raped by homosexual pedophiles. God will judge Minnesota for it's immorality and open attacks against children and innocence.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5518129089001/?#sp=show-clips

Don't forget to RECOMMEND. Lets get the Truth out so that Light may shine bright in this dark place and Jesus Christ may be glorified.Even if the discussion is closed, please still RECOMMEND.

Lady Checkmate, Disqus - Faith & Religion 15 Comments [7/24/2017 2:03:50 AM]
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[Transcript]
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS ATE ANIMAL
CRAP FOR MEDICINE (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC).
AND NOW, USA LEGALIZED "ANAL"
SEX. WHOA! GOD IS JUDGE.

Anonymous, Facebook 19 Comments [7/24/2017 2:03:43 AM]
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Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

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After we arrived in Paradise, I found that I was sitting alone near a clear, round pool of water. On the opposite side of the pool, shrubbery was growing in geometric shapes—squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles. These shapes were reflected perfectly within the pool. Stacte was blooming behind the geometric shrubs. Each of these bushes was covered with waxy white blossoms that gave a mild, pleasant fragrance. I remembered that stacte was a spice used in the holy incense. But I could not remember the meaning inherent in its name. It was unusually still by the pool, like being in the eye of a hurricane. I swung my legs around, putting my feet into the water. They hardly made a ripple. Strange.
“Where am I?” I asked aloud.
“The pool of reflection,” a child’s voice answered from behind me.

CRYSTAL CLEAR

“Uh oh,” I said within myself because I recognized the voice. “Crystal Clear,” I smiled faintly as I turned to face her. There she stood, her hair still tousled as if from play. She was wearing the same pale shift and pinafore. She looked five or six years of age. However, she had old eyes. At times I could see through her arm or leg. She was a spirit. “You have come back to see us,” she exclaimed cheerily. “We L-O-V-E, love you,” she continued, spelling out the word love as if it were in a child’s song.

I sighed painfully within myself as I remembered the last time I had seen her. “But,” I thought, “perhaps this time will be different.” I decided to ask her about the pool. “What is the pool of reflection?”
“It is a place where you can see yourself very clearly,” she said.
I was not sure that I liked that idea. “Does one wish to reflect upon oneself?” I asked coolly, my flesh suddenly rising up and being as sly, legalistic, and evasive as the flesh always is.
She continued as though she did not notice. “You might want to take a look to see if you are cooperating with God or resisting Him. Do you want to look into the pool?” she asked brightly.

THE DECISION

Of course I did not want to look into the pool. However, I was beginning to hear in my own voice, as well as in the hardness of my heart, my resistance to correction.
Shortly before arriving at the pool I was telling the Lord that I would give up anything and everything in order to gain more of Him. Now with my first opportunity to allow this declaration to become experiential in my life, I was balking. “Do you think I should look?” I asked limply.
“It might help,” she replied.

With a sigh I took my feet out of the water and lay down on my stomach to look into the pool. I was amazed. I saw Jesus’s face reflected in the water instead of my own. But there were geometric objects stuck onto His head and face. “What are these objects?” I asked.

“Blocks,” she said. “You are blocking Him. They make the face of Jesus look really ugly.”
“How do I get them off?” I asked with alarm.
She leaned over to look at my face in the pool. “Hmmm,” she said, as if making a diagnosis. “You need to unstick the glue.”
“Unstick the glue?” I asked. “How do I do that?”

REPENTANCE

“Repentance,” she said matter-of-factly.
“Repentance unsticks the glue.”
She pulled back to look at me directly instead of at my reflection. I sat up to look into her face. She shook her head from side to side as children do when correcting one another. Speaking in a slow, singsong manner, she said, “You’re too old to play with blocks.” Before I could answer her, she vanished.

STACTE

The strong smell of stacte flooded the area. I looked at the bushes. The fragrant gum was running down the branches. “Truth with mercy,” I said glumly, remembering now the inherent meaning within the name.

With a sigh I turned back to the pool. I looked into the water again. ‘The face, and therefore the life of Jesus, was definitely blocked from flowing to others. I gathered the courage to look at the blocks more closely. Each had writing on it. I squinted to decipher the lettering.

The BLOCKS

“Hypocrite” was written on one block. “Hypocrite,” I said with self-righteous indignation. Although indignant, I dared not try to refute this because I knew it to be true. ‘That which people on Earth might not see was plainly visible in heaven. Perhaps I might hide this from others, but I could not hide it from myself or from God. “I am a hypocrite”, I said, and You see it. I say that I am doing what I do out of obedience, not caring about the results, but I do care. I care greatly. I want success. I want to feel that I am accomplishing something.” I could not look at that block any longer.

I decided to look at another block. “Money” was written on it. “Oh, no,” I moaned. “Well, it is true. I say that I do not mind being poor, but I mind a great deal. I do not like being poor. I know that to live by faith pleases You, and I want to please You. But truthfully, it is easier to talk about faith than to live by it. At times I think, ‘If I just had enough money, I would never need to think about money again.” My confession made me uneasy. decided to look at another block.

“Being a star” was written on this block. My hands went to my face in embarrassment. True again, I confessed. It is difficult for me to live a hidden life. I want respect. I want honor. I want to be known. I want...” I almost said “glory.” As I confessed this sin, I was struck by the seriousness of it. “God, help mc,” I said. “I want Your glory” I shook my head. “This is serious, very serious. How have You taken me as far as You have taken me? How can You love me? How can You want me to be Your Son’s bride? In my spirit I know that I want to be on the inside that which I present on the outside. I know that I want to live by faith. I know that pride is a great sin. satan wanted Your glory. How am I better?”

The BLOOD

Saying that galvanized my thinking. “I am in a better place before You, Father, for my Lord and Savior died to release me from the penalty of death due to sin. And I can plead the blood of Jesus before You and ask that You forgive me for every sin, as well as for every transgression. I can proclaim to You that the Holy Spirit was sent to apply the cross to every act of the flesh within me.” I am in a better place.

“Then, Daddy,” I cried, “I ask for correction by the Holy Spirit. I ask for the cross. I ask that I be clean inside and outside. I want the life of Jesus to flow through me unhindered. I mean, Daddy, that I do not want one hindrance. I give You permission to bring me into a pure walk before You. I know it will hurt. I know it. But I give You permission to ignore my whining.”

TEARS

“O God, do not leave me as one dead.” I began to cry. “Forgive me. Wash me clean with the blood of Jesus—He who paid the ultimate price with His shed blood and death on the cross so that I might stand before You clean, in His righteousness.

I continued, “Deal with my flesh. Override my protests. Discount my whimpering. Please, please do not let me go around this mountain one more time. I do not want to live a halfhearted life, compromising at every turn because I do not want the pain of the cross.” I wept bitterly. “And I miss Jesus,” I cried. “I am in pain when we are apart!”

I realized suddenly that a very bright angel was near me catching in an alabaster bottle every tear that I cried. The tears would start down my cheeks and then automatically, obediently even, go into the vial. I was fascinated.

ANGEL OF PRAISE

I was so fixed upon this sight that I jumped a little when my name was called from behind me. It was Judy, the angel of praise.

She was dressed in a gossamer green under tunic bound with a golden girdle. Over this was a deeper green cloak that had long, oversized sleeves. These sleeves contained pockets that held all manner of golden musical instruments. Her neck, hands, and feet had a slight tint of gold. Her auburn hair was plaited into seven loops interlaced with gold. On her forehead was a small golden box, housing Scripture. She began to speak. “Anna, rejoice that you are loved. I am sent to comfort you with the mantle of praise.”

“What is that?” I asked, wiping my eyes with my hand. The bright angel with the vial for tears disappeared.

HYMN OF PRAISE

“Shh,” she said, putting her finger to her lips. “Let me help to calm your soul. Rest.” She became a small, green whirlwind. The wind and movement caused all the instruments within her robe to play together. The sound of praise was so pure that it seemed to draw angels from the air. They gathered in a large circle around her. She began to sing:

O great I AM, Eternal One,
Fountain of life within the Son,
Wellspring of blessing,
Wellspring of light,
Infinite mystery hid from our sight.
Searched by the Spirit,
Revealed through the Son,
Mystery unfolding, though ever begun.
Beginning and ending, great circle of light
That shatters the darkness, confounding the night.
All beauty, all joy, all splendor in One,
His grace freely shared through the life of His Son.
His life and His death and His life evermore,
Though crucified ever, to die nevermore.
All hail, Great Redeemer, All hail, Mighty King
Of Life and of Truth and of Light do we sing.
All praise, adoration, and thanksgiving,
Through time never ending, our homage we’ll bring.

GALBANUM AND CASSIA

As she sang, the aroma of galbanum and cassia filled the air. Galbanum bespeaks worship, adoration, thanksgiving, and praise.’ Cassia urges homage to God alone. I needed both. I needed the idols in my heart to be cast down. Also, I needed to be lifted up, out of myself; through turning my eyes toward Him in praise. Her song was like a mantle dropping upon me—lifting my spirit but settling my soul.

At the end of the song, the many angels that had gathered withdrew discreetly. Judy spoke. “Worship God, Anna. He alone is worthy.” Then she too disappeared.

GOD AT WORK

I was alone again. But the stillness near the pool was no longer a vacuum. It was closer to the stillness within my soul. The Lord had accomplished a work within me, although I did not know the nature of the work or how He had accomplished it. But I felt that I could see more clearly, that in some way I was different. The answer seemed simple. Jesus overcame the flesh when He walked the earth. Now He could overcome the flesh in me. He would work, and I would rest in Him. I felt cleansed, washed, with my soul as still as the round pool before me. However, the stilling of my soul made room for a greater longing for Him. The ache within my spirit had grown painfully acute. I missed Him. I wanted to be with Him. The pain was becoming a wracking hunger......

Seek His Face

Anna Rountree, Facebook 7 Comments [7/24/2017 2:02:56 AM]
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Submitted By: Denizen

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Then the Holy Spirit swirled before me again, this time gathering up all of the remaining fire and light. He too passed through the apartment wall. Instantly, the gifts became internal and no longer adorned me externally. The wall closed.

Silence.

"Father," I whispered, "who am I to marry a King? I come with nothing. I have no dowry. I do not even have a hope chest with linens and ... "

Before I could continue, my Father thundered audibly in the room: "Can I not provide linens for My children?" Immediately, I heard a knock at the front door of the apartment. Although engrossed in all that was occurring, I managed to cross to the door and open it.

THE CARAVAN

"Hello, Anna," blurted a tall angel. I say that he was an angel because he called me by the name that at the time was known only in heaven. Also, he was dressed in Bedouin attire (uncommon apparel for this continent). Beyond him in the parking lot, I saw a caravan of twenty-four camels with Bedouin attendants.

I shot a quick glance around the apartment complex. My husband and I were living in a low-rent housing facility in Florida. We had adjusted fairly well to these living conditions since we had learned to duck when the neighbors were shooting at each other. However, I was not sure how they might react to a camel caravan. Although usually the complex was alive with adults and children, no one was in sight.

HOPE CHESTS

The angel continued. "We have brought your hope chests,"

he said effusively. "Twenty-four chests. Where would you like them?"

My hands went to my face in amazement. I was flooded with so many mixed emotions that I began to laugh and cry at the same time.

"It is all right, Anna," the large angel said comfortingly.

"Do not be troubled. Your Father loves you."

In the parking lot the Bedouin attendants signaled the camels to kneel down. These angels began unloading the chests.

Between the laughing and crying I said, "Can you stack the chests in here [meaning in the living room]?"

"We certainly can," he brightened. He whistled to the other angels and indicated with his head to bring the chests. Then he turned his attention to me again. "Hope is of God, Anna. Each chest your Father gives to you is hope that you can share. This is a greater gift to your Husband than laces and embroidered towels," the angel smiled.

The attendants began carrying the chests into the living room with two angels holding each chest. All of these angels wore camel-colored, desert clothing. After delivering a chest, each pair of angels smiled broadly like those wishing to show themselves extremely agreeable. Then they returned to the caravan.

The chests seemed to be covered in camel skin. They were large and looked something like treasure chests. The five straps encircling each chest were gold, and the two handles for carrying were an intense blue. The opening for a key on each chest was encased in gold, with the shape of the keyhole itself being a cross. No one ever gave me a physical key, however.

THE RECEIPT

Because of their size, the chests stacked up to, and then through, the apartment ceiling.

The large angel rocked back and forth on his heels enjoying the sight. "Yes," he smiled, "there is great hope here."

Then he took a pencil from behind his ear and pulled out a clipboard that held a receipt. "Sign here, please," he said, extending the clipboard to me.

"What name should I use?" I asked. "Anna would be fine."

I wrote "Anna" on the white receipt and then handed the clipboard back to him.

"All right," he said with a sigh that denoted closure of a mission. He pulled out the under copy of the receipt and handed it to me. "Here is your receipt. Twenty-four chests full of hope."

REBEKAH

Suddenly, I remembered Rebekah and how she had watered the camels as well as drawn water for Abraham's servant. "Would you like some water or something?" I asked haltingly, not sure of what to say.

"Oh, no," he laughed. "We have better water than your city's water system can supply. We will be going now before we draw a crowd."

"Thank you for bringing the chests," I said. "Our pleasure," he smiled. "Shalom."

The attendants whistled and clicked their tongues for the camels to rise. The large angel grasped the reins attached to the headgear of the lead camel and guided him around so that the caravan could reverse its direction in the parking lot. Then he and the camels with their attendants began to leave. Suddenly, they disappeared.

Just as suddenly, life in the apartment complex returned to normal.

I closed the door and leaned against it looking at the chests piled through the ceiling. 'Thank You, Daddy," I whispered.

My Father spoke audibly again. "You have a bigger and better hope than any princess brought to her wedding day. Now," He continued, "come up here."

Amazingly, in my spirit, I began to rise.


Anna Rountree, The Priestly Bride 12 Comments [7/24/2017 2:02:52 AM]
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[can you be a fundie about shipping fictional characters? Apparently so!]


Yeah, that anon was OBVIOUSLY talking about me. But whatever. I just point out facts.

1. Sans is aro/ace. He acts like it, says he isn’t interested in animal monsters, and Toby has on three different tweets implied as such.

2. The reason why Undyrus is homophobic is the clear fact that it is primarily lesbian erasure. If you wish to see some facts regarding Alphyne vs. Undyrus/Papdyne, google “sweetdreemurrs alphyne” some stuff should come up.

3. Asriel clearly wants his parents to be happy and so do MANY other characters. Also, Asgore is NEVER implied to have directly killed anyone. It is most likely the humans died by accident or from random monsters. Even then, it is manslaughter. Get your facts right.

4. OP, it’s heavily implied that you support variations of Sanscest which is selfcest/incest. If you support INCEST, your views on shipping are null.

5. I’ve got DOZENS of posts regarding shipping. Educate yourself before making bullshit callout posts. Alright? Thanks.

hamsterboy3, Tumblr 16 Comments [7/24/2017 2:02:45 AM]
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Atheist: Listen Christian guy, I'm a liberal atheist because all my beliefs are based on science.

Christian: Okay then, please explain to me, scientifically, how the entire universe came into existence from nothing. Also is a fetus a unique human being scientifically speaking ?

*Athiest walks away*

Christian: Hey wait, how many genders are there ? Can you tell me that ?




Adam Ford, Adam4d 20 Comments [7/24/2017 2:02:37 AM]
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[=Context: A response to Tim Hardaway's saying he hates Gay People=]

I have to admit, I really like this old clip from Tim Hardaway. I was always a fan of his and this made me like him even more. It ended his career in the NBA as this opinion could not be tolerated by the powers that be (until now as his son is now bringing him back with his success as a professional) What did Hardaway say wrong here? Was he provoked? I have to say I would not have said the word "hate" but everything else seems legit to me, and I understand the spirit behind what Tim was saying. Also, with all the LGBT garbage thrown in my face constantly, and all the cowardly responses and politically correct pressure and thought policing and censorship of ideas, this clip brings a smile to my face.

Jason Storms, Facebook 9 Comments [7/24/2017 2:02:31 AM]
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LGBT Pride month is officially over. I did not celebrate. I grieved. To summarize the festivities; tens of thousands of homosexual men have contracted AIDS this month, hundreds of thousands more have severeely ruptured their rectal organs and will be unable to go to the bathroom in a normal manner again. Millions more have spread and contracted a host of diseases from syphilis to gonorrhea as well as the onset of anal and rectal cancer as feces, semen, and blood are mixed in the most unnatural of ways. It has been quite a month.

How can I say I care about "gay people" if I encrourage and celebrate this behavior? Two men sodomizing each is not love, it is unhealthy and destructive behavior. Many will call me a hater and a bigot for saying this (oblivious to their own hatred and bigotry) but it is love that demands I say these things. How many young men are being seduced into this self-destructive lifestyle while the media celebrates and panders to their seducers? If I love homosexuals I will seek to steer them out of that lifestyle and inform them of the work of courageous men, like Dr. Josef Nicolosi, who have developed reparative treatments rescuing men and women from same-sex attractions.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ, along with a good supporting community, can liberate and set free any one of us from the deepest addictions, habits and desires.

Our bodies were designed for lifelong monogomous sexual activity between a male and female. All the scientific data confirms this. This is the standard. All the propaganda, hype, sentamentality and seductions of our modern narcissistic age will not change that standard. America will either turn back to this standard or we will go the way of the Roman Empire.

#HedonismUltimatelyFails #LGBT #ChangeIsPossible #SpeakTheTruthInLove

Jason Storms, Facebook 19 Comments [7/23/2017 1:52:06 PM]
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www.theEXITmovie.com
"I would start with Origin of Species and read the 1000+ books written on the topic since then. How many books prove God? Oh right, one."

You will read another thousand and not find proof for evolution. The whole belief rests on faith. I read every page of Origin of Species and it was drier than a ten year-old peanut butter sandwich. The Bible doesn't prove God. It doesn't need to. We know that God exists because of the incredible order of Nature and our God-given conscience. It is simply the Instruction Book for those who know Him.


Ray Comfort, Facebook 31 Comments [7/23/2017 1:32:13 PM]
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The early SPR researchers established the main methodological principles and areas of research. The study of mediumship continued, providing much information on aspects of human personality and altered states of consciousness, and helping to perfect investigative techniques. Field investigations were carried out, and further collections, analyses and surveys of spontaneous phenomena were published.

Following the general trend – seen also in psychology – towards an experimental, more biological approach, experimental methods continued to undergo refinements. Pioneering work on free-response and quantitative experiments was carried out in the 1920s and 1930s by George Tyrrell, a British mathematician and physicist; he explored methods for inducing altered states of consciousness, designing techniques to differentiate between telepathy and clairvoyance and attempting to automate the randomisation of targets.

However, the centre of this activity shifted to America, with the establishment of JB Rhine’s Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University in the 1930s. While SPR researchers continued to experiment, the organisation evolved during this period from an investigative to a mainly educational body. From its earliest days the Society began creating a specialist library and an archive of original documents, housed both at its offices in London and at Cambridge University Library. Its Journal and Proceedings, published since the 1880s, offer a wealth of material relating to investigations and experiments past and present, as well as theoretical studies and papers discussing the relationship between psychical research and fields such as psychology, philosophy, physics, medicine, evolutionary biology and social sciences.

Today, the SPR continues to promote and support the main areas of psychical research, carrying out field investigations, surveys and experimental work. It holds no corporate view about the true origin and meaning of psi – as telepathic and other psychical phenomena are now collectively termed - and debate among its members with regard to particular subjects is often vigorous. However, it’s fair to say that from the earliest times the consensus view of its members – and of the psi research community in general – has been that psi is real, and that while the phenomena should certainly be explained in scientific terms, such a science does not at present exist.

The Society’s work has inevitably brought it into conflict with sceptics who believe that purely naturalistic explanations of psi phenomena can and must be found, and who strive to re-interpret researchers’ findings in terms of fraud and misperception. In recent years, the field has faced a growing campaign by ideologically-motivated activists determined to discourage interest in these matters, in order to support scientific naturalism against a perceived threat of superstition. Their work is particularly in evidence in the free encyclopedia Wikipedia, where articles on psi topics are now uniformly ‘balanced’ with the negative opinions of sceptical authors and campaigners, to the point where they have become confusing and misleading.

The SPR continues to argue the value of objective research and dispassionate elucidation of facts, regardless of their metaphysical implications. It has an important educational role to play, disseminating accounts of its work, and of psi research generally, for the benefit of individuals and for writers, journalists and broadcasters whose work may at times touch on these subjects.

Society for Psychical Research, Society for Psychical Research 11 Comments [7/23/2017 1:30:49 PM]
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Submitted By: Katie

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Lady Checkmate's headline: "State of Kentucky Ordered to Pay Legal Fees in Kim Davis Case"

Praise God!

I pray more Christians are bold and stand against sin and filth in Jesus name.

Please continue to pray for Sister Kim.

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2017/july/state-of-kentucky-ordered-to-pay-legal-fees-in-kim-davis-case

Don't forget to RECOMMEND. Lets get the Truth out so that Light may shine bright in this dark place and Jesus Christ may be glorified.Even if the discussion is closed, please still RECOMMEND.

Lady Checkmate, Disqus - Faith & Religion 13 Comments [7/23/2017 1:30:45 PM]
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Submitted By: Jocasta

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Great piece like usual!

Trump will come and go but he at least deserves some credit for giving the Jews fits and thwarting some of their agendas. He has awoken a movement that has some hope of succeeding if more smart and brave people come on board and educate the masses.

Walking around the streets of NYC and observing day-to-day life here it’s sad to see what a complete mess society has become. Homelessness everywhere, cruel and heartless people running things, incompetent people getting ahead while good and talented people don’t make it. The only thing people are focused on in their daily lives is saving their own skins.

Nothing will really change unless people act accordingly and correctly. We need to tear down and update the existing political system in America and purge the Jews from power. If America can form alliances with powerful Christian Russia and some other nations it may just be possible to break Jewish power.

In the ashes of the old America a new Christian nation would emerge.

We can preserve many of the ideals of the original Constitution but add new ones. Christian ethics and values would be suffused into the laws of the land. These wouldn’t be based on a narrow moralism but instead on true Christian ideals of conduct, namely, treating others fairly and respectfully, the abolition of wars, false money creation, etc.

This combined with a libertarian ethos of personal freedom in the private sphere should be the new American way.

AJ, Real Jew News 12 Comments [7/23/2017 1:30:35 PM]
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Submitted By: Katie

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After I submitted an article to the Minghui website, it was time for sending forth righteous thoughts. I saw an image of me flying to a round structure, and I was aware that this was a representation of my article arriving at Minghui's mailbox.

I looked at the Minghui mailboxes and they had various images of cultivators. None of the images were the same since the cultivators' origins were different. Because of this, their understandings varied, and their individual cultivation states and attachments were not the same, either.

The editors seemed to categorize the articles; in the other dimension, various types of performers were arranged into different lines behind stages, waiting for their turn to play. For their roles, they might need to change to different costumes, or add another piece of jewelry. This was like how the editor would change the title or tweak the content of an article.

When it was time for the players to perform (it was also the time in human dimension for the article to be published), they stepped out onto their respective stages. These individual stages, representing each article, could combine into a large one that was viewable to the entire cosmos.

Each show was unique and contained its own intricate meanings and connotations. They were performed to inspire, enlighten, and awaken the sentient beings who were still not awakened to the truth yet.

This stage also revealed the state and realms of various gods. It was eye-opening for the celestial beings and terrifying for evil beings.

During the entire process, Master, as well as all the righteous gods, watched and guarded the performances, making sure that the performers would not be disturbed.

After witnessing that, I felt that submitting articles to Minghui was a serious and sacred matter. We all should have righteous thoughts and a sense of solemnity when doing so.

Unknown author, Minghui 4 Comments [7/23/2017 1:30:21 PM]
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Quote# 129639

My eight-year-old daughter is very diligent in studying the Fa and doing the exercises. She has transcribed Master's three books of poems, Hong Yin, Hong Yin Vol. II, and Hong Yin III.

One day Master opened her celestial eye, allowing her to see many beautiful and magical things in other dimensions. She also came across many evil beings and eliminated them by sending righteous thoughts. She saw that when practitioners had a group Fa study, the energy emitted from everyone formed a large ball of light and eliminated many of the evil beings.

We are a family of four and we look like petals of a lotus flower to her. The petal is gray if the person did not cultivate diligently and pink if he/she studied diligently. We understand that our family is a small cultivating entity and no one should lag behind. Therefore, it is important for us to study the Fa together.

One time many practitioners gathered to send righteous thoughts for a practitioner who was unlawfully incarcerated. She saw in another dimension that the practitioner was surrounded by many evil beings, which the practitioners eliminated. However, the evil beings were replenished the minute they were eliminated. Every practitioner was sitting on a lotus flower petal and she sat in the center of the flower. Master was above them supporting their efforts. There were also many heavenly soldiers joining in to eliminate the evil beings, and the scene looked magnificent.

Falun Dafa practitioners must work as one body to form a powerful entity.

My daughter sees Master daily, saves a seat for Master at the table, and waits for him to finish eating. My family feels honored and blessed.

Her older sister did not cultivate diligently in the past. Now, from seeing her progress in another dimension her sister has improved significantly and does the three things well. Her sister suffered from a number of illnesses, which may have been linked to her indulging in playing bad video games. After the family sent righteous thoughts they were eliminated.

When her sister lied, her body became darker, and after she improved, it turned white again. She also saw in her sister's dimension many divine tigers, elephants, and lizards. If her sister practiced Falun Dafa diligently, the animals would eliminate the evil attacking her. If her sister was not diligent, the animals made her feel terrible as a warning for her to study the Fa better. Her sister once threw a tantrum and she saw her sister's sentient beings kneeling down and begging her family to save them and their lord. They said that they would suffer or die if we could not help her sister.

She saw that the worlds of practitioners who cultivated well were beautiful and spectacular, and the sentient beings had abundant food and lived wonderful lives. The worlds of practitioners who did not cultivate well were gray and shabby and the sentient beings were miserable, lacked food, and were attacked by the evil beings.

My daughter said that Master often wrote words with an ink brush. I meditated with one leg crossed because I was afraid of the pain. She said that Master wrote down words for her to tell me, that a lot of karma could be eliminated if I meditated with legs double-crossed. She told Teacher that she could meditate in the full lotus position and that she was not scared even if it may break her legs.

Her father was working very hard to earn a living and seldom studied the Fa. She said that Master was worried and had her tell her father to go home during his lunch break, study the Fa, and send righteous thoughts. When her father went out to distribute Falun Dafa materials, she saw that Master happily gave the materials to many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in heaven. This made us realize that doing the three things well is sacred.

The little practitioner sent righteous thoughts at school and asked her classmates to quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates. All 51 of her classmates quit within just three days. She sends righteous thoughts during recess. She could see the blackboard through her teacher's body and could see and hear what was going on in the nearby classroom. She could see with the back of her head and her nose.

When we send righteous thoughts, our light columns appear to her soft like water if our righteous thoughts are weak; they are powerful and look like fire and rockets if they are strong.

Everything is alive in her eyes and she can communicate with all things around her. She saw that our computer was female and the printer was male. When we make truth materials, they are very happy if we encourage them.

One time I was attached to lust. She saw that there were 1,000 demons of lust in my dimension. They were very tall, their bodies were red, and they had noses like elephants and ears like cats. She asked Master to help her and she eliminated the demons with righteous thoughts. Within less than five minutes, I felt relaxed and more comfortable than I had ever felt before. She told me that Master surrounded me with white lights. I was very touched. Master helped me with everything he had and the only way I could repay him was to progress more diligently.

A few days later a friend visited me. I held a grudge against her. She told me that there were 10,000 demons of lust in my dimension. I was shocked after realizing that being angry could allow demons of lust to enter my dimension. It is important to rectify our every thought so the evil beings won't exploit our gaps.

The little practitioner saw Master behind me giving me wisdom when I needed it. Master held my hand and helped me write this article. She asked me, “Is it going smoothly? Master is helping you.”

I wrote this article to help other practitioners understand what happens in other dimensions. Words can't express my gratitude to Master for being there when we need him and I can only repay him by studying the Fa diligently.

Thank you Master, thank you fellow practitioners.

Unknown author, Minghui 2 Comments [7/23/2017 1:30:15 PM]
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Quote# 129638

I grew up on a farm and had many illnesses in the past. They went away after I began to practice Falun Dafa, and I am able to work again. Because I've experienced so many remarkable changes, I often tell others about my experiences and about how amazing Falun Dafa is.

I worked as a nanny and took care of a 12-year-old boy. From birth, he could not speak and could hardly hear anything. I wanted to help him, so I repeated, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” to him every day.

Two weeks passed, and nothing happened. I asked Teacher for help. A month later, the boy seemed to understand what I was saying and suddenly muttered a few words. At first, he could not speak clearly, but I could understand what he said. It was “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I was so excited.

The child's parents were astonished. They are highly educated and wealthy. They had taken their son to many eminent physicians, but no one could help him.

Today, the child can talk. Because his mother knows that Falun Dafa is special, she has also taken up the practice.

I received an urgent phone call one day in the autumn of 2014. “Hurry! Auntie is in the hospital. She's dying.” I rushed to the hospital. The elderly woman had fainted and fallen while she was walking. Even though she had received emergency treatment for 24 hours, she was still unconscious. The doctor told her daughter, “She is so old. There is no point in trying to resuscitate her. You should plan her funeral.”

I walked up to the elderly woman and said into her ear, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”

To everyone's surprise, she opened her eyes a few minutes later, looked at us, and smiled.

The doctor was shocked and said, “It's incredible! This is wonderful! Falun Dafa is great!”

Afterwards, the elderly woman began to practice Falun Dafa. Her health greatly improved, and she could do many household chores.

One of my neighbors had been a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for many years. He deeply believed in communism and stubbornly refused to listen to me. Whenever I talked to him about the evil nature of the Party, he shook his head.

One day, he had a stroke. His limbs were numb, his eyes and mouth became distorted, and half of his body was paralyzed. I visited him and talked to him again about withdrawing from the Party. He agreed this time. He was able to raise the hand that was paralyzed and said, “I now quit the CCP and its affiliates. Falun Dafa is good. I will follow Li Hongzhi, who teaches Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”

He started repeating, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” The symptoms of the stroke soon disappeared. After she heard about her father's amazing recovery, his daughter also wanted to learn Falun Dafa.

Unknown author, Minghui 0 Comments [7/23/2017 1:29:59 PM]
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Quote# 129637

It's with a heavy heart that I write this article about a vision I saw in a dream, and I hope this article can encourage fellow practitioners not to slack off in cultivation. Fa-rectification has almost reached its end, so let's be diligent and seize the last chance Master has given us to save more people.

In my dream, I saw a dimension similar to ours. The only difference is that it's a bit darker and more desolate. Apart from me, no one else was there.

Suddenly, everything in front of me – the land, the trees, the buildings – started rising up in the air, like a huge spaceship. I saw it very clearly in my dream. As it was rising, its underside was crumbling away, dropping soil as it went.

My gut told me that I did not deserve to board this spaceship, because I hadn't cultivated well. I hadn't fulfilled my vows. Those who deserved to be on this spaceship are genuine cultivators who have met the standards, fulfilled their vows, and gotten rid of all their attachments.

My mind was empty as I stood there, unable to move. I had huge regrets in my heart.

This spaceship was slowly rising. When it was about 10 meters in the air, I saw a row of small, transparent boxes placed on one side of the spaceship, about 20 to 30 in total. The boxes, I felt, should be filled with our mighty virtue. However, my boxes were empty.

There were numbers above each box, which corresponded with the number of sentient beings we saved. If we reached that number, we've met the standard. Only then can we get on this spaceship and follow Master to go to the new universe. However, none of my boxes and numbers matched; I didn't save enough.

I have been involved with some Dafa work in recent years, but my reasons for doing it weren't pure. I belong to the group of practitioners who are not serious about cultivation. I didn't study the Fa regularly, didn't do the exercises, and didn't send righteous thoughts. I also didn't cultivate my xinxing well and haven't saved enough people.

In general, I haven't done well on anything in cultivation.

While writing this, I broke into a cold sweat out of fear. I haven't cultivated well, but the most important thing is that I haven't fulfilled my vows. The consequences for breaching my vows are unimaginable.

In the dream, I thought that everything was done for and that I did not deserve to live anymore. Master has shouldered so much for me over the past years, but I still didn't fulfill my vows. The countless sentient beings in my world would be destroyed and disintegrated.

It is as Master said, “An unparalleled crime!” (Fa Teaching at the 2016 New York Fa Conference)

Master also said,

“...when you realize what you've missed out on you won't even want to live even if you are allowed to!” (Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference)

Master's words described my feelings at that moment exactly.

The huge spaceship suddenly stopped rising. Master appeared on the right side of it and had been watching me. That kind of sadness and hopelessness I felt was really painful–it felt like someone was cutting my heart open with a knife.

I felt so sorry. My mind was empty at that moment, as any type of thought would be shameful at that time.

Suddenly, the huge spaceship started calling me and came back down, landing slowly. I knew Master didn't want to give up on me, didn't want me to face this kind of extremely horrible consequence. Master showed me his boundless and infinite mercy yet again.

A female practitioner came from behind me and walked onto the layer of earth. She took half of the boxes away. I realized that Master asked this practitioner to shoulder half of my responsibilities, but I must fill up the rest of the boxes by myself, to make it correspond to the numbers above, to compensate for what I had lost. As I had lost countless sentient beings forever due to my lack of diligence, I also won't be able to go back to my original world.

When the female practitioner finished picking up the boxes, Master said, “It will continue to rise in three minutes.” I then woke up from the dream.

Master gave me three more minutes to do well, but I don't know how long that period of time is in the human world. I only know that the time is very short.

The reason I share this dream is that I hope it encourages the practitioners who haven't been diligent to seize the final opportunity and limited time to step out and save people, and let go of their human attachments. Use this final opportunity to compensate for what one has lost; otherwise, the end result would be horrifying. Every minute and every second is a decisive, sink-or-swim moment.

I thank Master for his infinite compassion. I will try my best to do the three things well from now on and assimilate to the Fa as much as possible. The dream awakened me and will become my momentum for doing the three things better and to live up to Master's expectations and compassionate salvation.

Unknown author, Minghui 0 Comments [7/23/2017 1:29:43 PM]
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Quote# 129636

My son is a sophomore in college. He used to read the Fa and do the exercises with us at home, and he was very healthy then.

Things changed when he went to college. He lost the cultivation environment that he had at home and started to play video games. When he came home during the summer vacation, he looked pale and tired. During sleep, he had seizures that lasted up to two minutes. He was scared and we asked him to read the Fa and do the exercises with us. After reading and exercising, the symptoms went away.

Back at school, he stopped reading the Fa and doing the exercises. His seizures returned two months later.

My son was addicted to video games and could not control himself when he was not with us. So I took him to the hospital, and after a checkup, the doctor told him that his condition was due to computer radiation. The doctor said that video games make the brain too excited, which can cause nerve damage. The doctor recommended that he not play video games.

During his winter vacation, I read the Fa with him and he soon returned to normal. His face looked clear and rosy.

He said Dafa was amazing and decided not to play games again.

Unknown author, Minghui 2 Comments [7/23/2017 1:29:32 PM]
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Quote# 129635

I am a six-and-half-year-old girl. My dad is a Dafa practitioner, but my mom isn't. When I was two years old, Dad taught me that “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good.” When I was three, Dad started to teach me Master Li's poems. Now I can recite all the poems from Hong Yin I, II, and III. Every day after kindergarten, I reviewed at least 10 poems at home.

Whenever I fought with other children or was hurt, Dad asked me to search within for my own faults. For example, when I argued with others for toys or refused to play with them, I could find the underlying reason: I wanted to get back at them.

I also have had many amazing experiences. Dad mentioned that after Master's Fa-rectification, people who persecuted Dafa or had hatred toward Dafa would have no future. I was worried about Mom, so I asked Dad about her future. Dad said that, because she had not changed her attitude towards Dafa, she could be in danger in the future. After that, I always worried about her.

Once in my dream, Master was in his cassock and came down from heaven sitting on a lotus throne. He told me, “Both of you please keep cultivating diligently and your mom will change her mind eventually.” Master knew what I was worried about! It was really amazing. I told this to my dad, and he said, “We should cultivate more diligently and one day she will support Dafa.”

On another occasion, I saw a big eye in front of me staring at me. Dad explained to me, “Your celestial eye is open, and Master has given you a real eye.” Since then, I can always see rainbows through this eye. I told other children about it, but they seemed to be at a loss. Later Dad reminded me, “Other children don't practice Dafa, and cannot see it.” I didn't mention what I saw through my real eye to anyone again.

One day in dance class at the kindergarten, all the girls were very tired and wanted to rest, but would get in trouble if we complained. I suddenly thought about what Dad had told me, “When you don't know how to handle things, just recite 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good' and ask Master for help.” So I recited it in my mind and asked Master to help us. Soon the teacher said, “The girls can stop dancing! Boys, please start!” It was really amazing.

The other day, I accidentally poured a whole mug of hot water on my legs. It really hurt. After reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good,” I immediately felt better and my pants dried almost immediately. Through this incident, I believed even more in Dafa and Master.

Dad asked me to recite every day at least 30 times “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good.” He also told me, “Don't fight back when you are hit or sworn at.”

Every evening, Dad told me traditional Chinese stories. Sometimes he spoke to me about gain and loss from the perspective of Dafa.

One day, I was playing with our neighbor's daughter. She asked me to steal some food for her. I didn't, so she hit me. When I didn't hit her back, I saw a white stone flying towards me, but I didn't feel anything land on me.

That evening I told my dad what had happened. He said, “It wasn't a stone--it was a block of virtue.” Dad praised me for not fighting back and told me, “All luck is converted into virtue, and virtue can be converted into gong for practitioners by Master. Remember, when others hit you, they actually give you virtue in other dimensions. You should be happy about that, rather than hate them.” Since then, I have been friendly to this girl, although she is not friendly to me. My dad praised me again.

I have had so many other amazing experiences on my cultivation journey.

Once in a dream, Master took me to visit heaven. It was a really beautiful place with layers of heaven and lots of good food. I really had fun there. I ate ginseng fruits and flat peaches that could all talk and they greeted me. In heaven I could swim and cross my legs in double lotus. I saw an Arhat who had failed to reach Consummation because of excitement. Then he resumed his cultivation, but failed again because of his fear.

Master also gave me divine powers. Master told me that I should not use divine powers all the time. I can only use them toward those who kill people and persecute Dafa practitioners. What a great Master! Sometimes I saw that Master is higher than all of Heaven. Sometimes I was even sitting on Master's hand. After I woke up, I told Dad what I saw in my dream. He was happy and told me not to be excited.

Dad also told me what the Red Dragon is. I told him what I saw in hell: the Red Dragon had been chopped into pieces to be fried, and the ghoul in Avici Hell ate every bit of it. Dad immediately recited Master's poem:

“Once the Red Dragon’s head is chopped off,
its tail severed and deep fried,
the meat sautéed,
Which ghoul in Avici Hell
wouldn’t want to eat every bit?”
(“Call It Quits” from Hong Yin III)

Dad also taught me Master's verse, “The Fa rectifies the cosmos, the Evil is completely eliminated.” I read this verse at the Monday routine flag-raising ceremony in kindergarten.

One Monday morning, I kept sending forth righteous thoughts, and the flag wasn't raised. On another flag-raising occasion, the rope holding the flag broke. The next time I simply used divine powers to tell the kindergarten director not to have the flag-raising ceremony. The director did what I wanted: we didn't have the ceremony at all.

Sometimes Dad was not so diligent, and I was able to remind him. One day he quarrelled with Mom, and she left home. After this, I saw skulls and rotten demons behind Dad. I told him about it. He immediately sat up to send forth righteous thoughts. Since then he has paid more attention to sending forth righteous thoughts.

On another occasion, Dad and I were studying Master's poems, when I saw skulls and rotten demons outside the window trying to break in. I told him, and we started to send forth righteous thoughts, but they didn't leave. Dad then conjoined his hands to cleanse his mind. This frightened the rotten demons away.

Later I asked him why, and he said, “When I was reading Master's poems with you, I let my mind wander, which was wrong. That was why the rotten demons dared to come.”

I again asked, “Why was our first attempt to send forth righteous thoughts not effective? Why did they leave after you conjoined your hands?” Dad explained, “If we conduct ourselves properly, rotten demons dare not to come. So I cleansed my mind again. We must keep cultivating ourselves more diligently.”

One day, my dad, other practitioners, and I went out to tell people the facts about Falun Dafa, and I was asked to send forth righteous thoughts to help. But I wanted to play and didn't do what I was told. I soon fell down. Dad helped me to find my attachment: I liked to play and didn't send forth righteous thoughts.

Now I can also point out Dad's attachments: He worries and holds anger. Dad is now trying to get rid of those attachments.

Unknown author, Minghui 12 Comments [7/23/2017 1:29:18 PM]
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Quote# 129634

I am a 7-year-old practitioner. Since I was 5, I have studied Zhuan Falun every day.

Each time when I finish reading the entire book, I could feel a significant change both physically and mentally. I really feel that Master is looking after me all the time.

Now, I am able to join the group Fa study and sharing, and to be involved in projects for saving people.

This month, when I finished another round of reading Zhuan Falun, Master opened my third eye for me. Whether my eye is open or not, I can clearly see the scenes that occur in other dimensions when Dafa practitioners study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts.

I told everyone, and we decided to write an article to share this because of Master's new article: “A Reminder,” and the Dafa Association's “Strengthen Sending Righteous Thoughts.”

What I see in other dimensions is limited, due to my cultivation level. This article is only for sharing. Fellow practitioners should regard the Fa principles as the sole standard to follow.

The book Zhuan Falun is really a treasure. When I read it, I can see various colors and glitter – the same as Master describes.

When I read the Fa, I see lotus flowers blooming on my lips. Many pink lotus flowers gradually grow bigger and bigger, descend on the book and then fade out.

Sometimes, I see those pink lotus flowers fly to the characters with Master’s image sitting in the lotus position. Master has blue hair and is very sacred.

The lotus flowers then form to become Master’s lotus seat; the process is extremely wondrous.

But, I also notice that when mistakes occur in Fa study, such as omitting a character, mispronouncing a word, or reading a wrong line, the lotus flowers from my lips turn grey and disappear quickly.

What surprises me the most is when I am in a poor state of mind, or am not paying enough attention, the lotus flowers show a black color, which is very ugly; I feel very sad about it.

Dafa practitioners cannot be perfunctory or not pay attention when it comes to Fa study. We must read each character in the book accurately and sincerely.

If we always produce grey or black lotus flowers, how much harm will we bring to ourselves and the beings around us?

One evening, my mother asked me to listen to Master’s Fa teaching, and I readily promised. As soon as my promise came out, I saw some golden lines appearing in the room.

Then I sat on the bed with my eyes shut, and I suddenly saw, from my third eye, a huge image of Master teaching the Fa while sitting on a lotus seat.

The golden lines were actually rolling up and down under the lotus seat. Numerous divine beings were sitting on top of their own thick round mats in the lotus posture to listen to Master’s Fa teaching.

They piously formed numerous layers around Master. Not far from Master, there was a gigantic golden palace, of which the magnificence was beyond anything that you could believe.

I told my mother what I had seen, which cheered her up very much. She said that Master had shown me the scene of Fa-study in other dimensions.

We should respect Master and the Fa more. My mother also reminded me not to be elated, and then she played a Fa teaching video.

At that moment, with my eyes open, I saw numerous Buddhas, Daos, Bodhisattvas and fairies fly into our room in an instant.

Layers upon layers of them were sitting in the lotus posture, and all the spaces in the room were taken. When Master’s Fa teaching started, each of these divine beings had Zhuan Falun in their hands and read carefully.

Since then, whenever I read the Fa on my own or listen to Master’s Fa teaching with other practitioners, I can see those divine beings every time.

As long as Dafa practitioners start Fa study, numerous divine beings arrived at the venue immediately and occupied all the spaces.

Master showed me that Dafa practitioners’ Fa-study is a very sacred event, for which we must show due respect. But in Fa-study, sometimes, I didn’t sit with a correct posture, fidgeted, or excused myself to drink water or go to the toilet.

I am aware that I was terribly wrong. Now seeing that every day I studied Fa with many divine beings in other dimensions, I really felt very sacred.

I hope my fellow practitioners can show due respect to Master and the Fa, and attach importance to the precious daily opportunity to study Fa!

Sending forth righteous thoughts is one of the three things that Master requires of us. I often see incorrect postures for sending forth righteous thoughts when family members are in a poor state of mind.

I also often cannot complete the whole process and end up going out to play.

Recently, Master allowed me to see the scenes in other dimensions of sending forth righteous thoughts, which was really a battle between good and evil!

At the four set times each day, when practitioners started to conjoin the hands to cleanse themselves, the evil rotten demons and dark minions, together with the Communist evil specter, appeared immediately.

They really did what Master described, lining up in position and ranks, and stomping. Sometimes, I could even hear the evil's shrill.

I was startled to find that when I was sending forth righteous thoughts in my mother's room, the evil jumped out of her working computer. The first two entities started to stomp, and other evil followers gathered together quickly.

Groups upon groups of evil beings held the five-star, red communist specter flags and shouted, “Left, right, left!” They lined up and jumped up fiercely, with various weapons in their hands, like swords, spears, red-tasseled spears and pistols.

Master set up a protective golden dome for each Dafa practitioner so that the evil couldn’t harm them.

The Gong sent forth by Dafa practitioners formed numerous light balls shooting at the evil. As soon as the evil touched the light balls, they disintegrated in the blink of an eye.

I told everyone what I had seen and they felt heavy-hearted.

My mother said that as she didn’t pay enough attention to sending righteous thoughts, and so the evil in other dimensions could be so arrogant and able to fight such a large scale battle.

Later, everyone studied Master’s new article “A Reminder” and the Dafa Association’s “Strengthen Sending Righteous Thoughts.”

We were all aware that we must make a radical change in sending righteous thoughts, overcome sluggishness, and assume the responsibility to save sentient beings and eradicate the evil.

After a period of time, Master allowed me to see another type of scene in sending forth righteous thoughts. When we were sending righteous thoughts in the sitting room, I saw the evil jump out of the TV.

This time, the evil was not in the same form as what I saw previously. They were in all various types of cartoon forms.

They jumped out of the TV and ran around the room in a panic.

Dafa practitioners sent powerful Gong forming numerous golden lights, which chased the mutated lives. As soon as the light touched them, they immediately disintegrated.

I was attached to cartoons too much. Though my parents didn't allow me to watch, I was still fixated on it — even watching cartoons at a friend's home.

Now, Master showed me that the cartoon figures were all degenerated lives far away from the Fa and should be targeted by Dafa practitioners’ righteous thoughts.

My parents discussed the issue with me and planned to get rid of all my ordinary books and toys. Dafa practitioners’ attachments provide an opportunity for the evil, which pollutes the energy field and interferes with the three things that we are supposed to do.

I suddenly recalled that Divine Beings were never near to two types of places at our home when practitioners came to study —the computer desk [for my mother's work] and the TV.

After seeing the scene, I realized that computers, TVs, and smart phones are all sources of evil lives.

As long as they are switched on, evil lives will come out and interfere with Dafa practitioners. Those degenerated lives are really filthy things that easily exert a negative influence. Even divine beings in other dimensions try to stay away from them.

Some practitioners, like me, are attached to those degenerated things. Whatever the situation, those degenerated lives interfere with Dafa practitioners’ cultivation too much, even directly affecting Dafa practitioners’ saving sentient beings.

I hope fellow practitioners can learn this lesson and strengthen sending righteous thoughts. Otherwise, when will the evil forces be cleared away?

With such repeated interference, how can we do our best to help Master?

Unknown author, Minghui 0 Comments [7/23/2017 1:28:48 PM]
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Quote# 129633

[Post "Introduction to 'Reactionary Liberty: The Libertarian Counter-Revolution'"]

For libertarians like myself, Dr. Ron Paul’s 2008 and 2012 presidential runs were an absolute revelation. During the debates and in his media appearances, we saw a humble and decent man tirelessly seek out the Remnant of liberty in our dark age of perpetual war and unlimited state power. With uncompromising courage, Paul introduced millions of people to libertarianism.

Witnessing Paul openly denounce the Iraq War, central banking, and the entire premise of global empire launched my own personal philosophical journey. The works of Frederic Bastiat, Henry Hazlitt, and Friedrich Hayek began overflowing my bookshelves. And when I eventually began reading as much Murray Rothbard as I possibly could, I was hooked.

[...]

Up until the end of Paul’s last presidential run and his retirement from public office in 2014, libertarianism fell on the Right side of the political spectrum by default. Its biggest proponents and advocates rarely spoke too loudly on cultural issues, but whenever they did, they were unmistakably un-Leftist.

Fast forward just two years after Paul retired, and the libertarian movement is now a shell of what it used to be. Its major party candidate in 2016, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, exemplifies this direction that libertarianism has taken ever since. Johnson, who displayed little intellectual curiosity and even rejected the key tenets of libertarianism (the non-aggression principle and free association), never missed a chance to advertise his politically correct, Leftist positions on marijuana, gay marriage, and abortion. Johnson even bragged that he is politically quite similar to fellow 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a not too subtle attempt to appeal to young liberals.

What in the world happened? How did libertarianism evolve from a highly disciplined and radical study of economics, rights, and the use of force in society (that also understood the necessity and desirability of hierarchy and tradition), into the milquetoast branding of “low-tax liberalism” and “fiscally conservative and socially liberal?”

[...]

This book, then, is dedicated to what I call reactionary liberty: the defense of radical libertarianism and an unapologetic cultural traditionalism that rejects, root and branch, both state power and cultural Marxism. While libertarianism as a political philosophy concerns itself only with the question of political force, I argue that the libertarian ethic of non-aggression and private property necessitates a rejection of egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and diversity. “Private property capitalism and egalitarian multiculturalism are as unlikely a combination as socialism and cultural conservatism...libertarians must be radical and uncompromising conservatives,” argues Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Without this reactionary element, libertarianism can never be a serious movement because it will always fall victim to John O’Sullivan’s Law: that any movement, entity, or institution that is not explicitly right-wing will eventually turn left-wing. While libertarians may believe that they are “above” or “beyond” Left and Right, the Leftist infiltration of libertarianism (combined with the evolutionary psychology of r/K selection theory) proves that libertarians cannot be neutral.

Thus, the reactionary libertarian prefers the conservative Edmund Burke to the revolutionary Jacobins of the French Revolution. “Burke argued for the traditional liberties of the English against the ‘abstract’ Rights of Man advocated by the revolutionaries, predicting correctly that such abstract rights, with no force of custom behind them, would perish in a reign of terror,” notes Joseph Sobran. “The revolutionaries, he said, were so obsessed with man’s rights that they had forgotten man’s nature.”

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For the reactionary libertarian, this requires an uncompromising opposition to this cultural Marxism—a counter-revolution against the perpetual revolution of Leftism. Individuals are different from another, and not equal; we live in an unavoidably tribal world; men and are not women and women are not men; freedom is both a responsibility and a right; democracy must be de-legitimized, but if we are to live in a democratic society, then the franchise should be severely limited. These insights into the human condition—including a complete rejection of egalitarianism—form the foundation for a consistent, coherent, and forceful philosophy of liberty.

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The Italian traditionalist Julius Evola wore the term “reactionary” on his sleeve proudly, calling it “the true test of courage.” With this book, I look to blend this Evolian courage with a radical libertarianism to forge a coherent and forceful philosophy of liberty—reactionary means for libertarian ends.

Robert Taylor, Reactionary Liberty 11 Comments [7/23/2017 1:27:46 PM]
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To claim one's so-called "rights", even to legitimately protect oneself from oppression, or bullying is to vindicate oneself, which is opposed to letting God vindicate one .

The root of belief, the mere belief in "rights" itself is of pride, and the utter lack of trust in God. To Hell with your "rights"! To Hell with "human rights", "political rights", "civil rights", "cultural rights", "legal rights", "economic rights", and all kinds of "rights"!

Anti-Mammon and Usury Conquerors, Fighting the Four Evils 9 Comments [7/23/2017 1:27:21 PM]
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God is the one who has dominion over all things on the earth, including your very life itself. Not you, despite what you may think. So, to even think you have "rights" is itself the height of all arrogance. In even thinking you have rights, you kick God of His Throne. That is what you are doing.

You may argue that belief in "rights" is compatible with obedience to God because God created us and gave us "rights". No! The idea of "rights" itself is to assume that one is entitled to what one wants or one's needs.

While God did create and love each human being, He created us to enjoy Him. Enjoying God comes only from obedience to God. You may ask, doesn't God give us the right to enjoy Him? No, it is not a "right". It is a privilege He gave to mankind, for which He gives us freewill to choose whether to enjoy Him. It is not a "right" to enjoy God or rebel against God. It is God's Sovereign right to create us, not our "right" to tell God what He should do, or not do. God's dominion over man is demonstrated in Genesis 1:26-28:

Anti-Mammon and Usury Conquerors, Fighting the Four Evils 8 Comments [7/23/2017 1:27:15 PM]
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