tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.comments2023-10-05T10:28:05.778-04:00Cross My Heart and Hope to WriteThe Sven-Bo!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13812984088975594254noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-50056150939072687672019-06-09T04:02:27.174-04:002019-06-09T04:02:27.174-04:00You completed a few fine points there. I did a sea...You completed a few fine points there. I did a search on the subject and found nearly all persons will go along with with your blog. <a href="https://www.envirosan.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">portable toilet hire</a><br />Luck Cityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407845258757115722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-22841230290958976412013-06-23T10:51:15.878-04:002013-06-23T10:51:15.878-04:00Thank you for all your kind responses. I hope this...Thank you for all your kind responses. I hope this has inspired you to love without boarders and to examine the love that pervades your own life. Love of the self will guide you. The Sven-Bo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13812984088975594254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-75570995675441627122013-06-23T09:48:56.116-04:002013-06-23T09:48:56.116-04:00I one hundred percent believe this to be true, i k...I one hundred percent believe this to be true, i know because i have been lived this and no matter what i still had an unconditional love for that person even though i was in love with and married someone else.The strongest love without a doubt a love which you cannot lose no matter what they do, or how hard you try. lovely article and so true to life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-56477879047888580362013-04-20T19:35:15.656-04:002013-04-20T19:35:15.656-04:00The strongest kind of love has not to be familial,...The strongest kind of love has not to be familial, romantic, or a friendship type. The strongest love is one that has been tested in the toughest weather and has been strengthened by it. When a link has been created that cannot be broken by major strikes against it, no matter from what direct - be it from one side or the other or external - it is a permanent link that stands the test of time (to use a cliche'). That is the strongest love. The strongest love is one that is built on the foundation of a reason to love, and the reason to continue loving unconditionally.Ryan Lee Connornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-70202326266440060662013-04-20T09:54:12.546-04:002013-04-20T09:54:12.546-04:00I agree with what you have said. There has now bee...I agree with what you have said. There has now been at least once in my life where I have had to stop being friends with someone or vice versa due to personal reasons. And the idea is even after I have stopped "being" in his/her life, I do still hope for good things to happen to this person because I do still care. For that reason, it takes me a while to get over a relationship between friends or with a partner because I once shared a lot with them and it is very unfortunate that I cannot continue to be in their lives. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-88549221692861978202012-12-05T15:11:02.253-05:002012-12-05T15:11:02.253-05:00The first of your assertions I agree with, mainly ...The first of your assertions I agree with, mainly that Religion and/or Spirituality, and by approximation the respective conceptualized divine, appear to be loci onto which we affix semantic frames of reference. This notion of the latter being more regimentally confined than the former also seems holistically valid, though on a personal level some may disagree. <br />It is just on this level that, when you come to react to praying, I wish to retort, though I can only speak for myself on this matter. I can just as easily embrace the notion of there being no God, no high-power, no all-seeing, omnipotent, omnipresent being as I can vehemently assert the existence of one. No fear grips me in adhering to the "oh-so" evident fact - if we are to take human rationality, scientific endeavor, and mathematical calculations as attesting to fact - that the universe can burst into being out of nothing and that, at the crux of existence itself, there is no meaning, no purpose, and no transcendental relation to anything else. Indeed, the idea seems quite reassuring. <br />Why, then, do I pray? This is a question I have asked myself a plethora of times. It is a choice, nothing more. I do not feel weak or subordinate to whomever, though I prefer whatever, I am speaking to. If existence is essentially bereft of any graspable meaning, than we as existent beings can, for ourselves, attach a meaning without fear of harm because, after all, even that meaning is itself meaningless. <br />My experience has offered certain patterns or circumstances that seem, to myself, a rational being, beyond bedlam. Certainly, a cosmos filled with chaos and interacting processes, overlapping, intermixing, and so forth, will naturally result in such happenings. But the primordial "Why?" persists. (The question of "Why?" itself may be a human construction absent of any true meaning, but I digress). I have, therefore, arrived at conclusions - admittedly ludicrous and potentially childish - that some force, come overarching connective unites the whole of the universe and existence. <br />It is that to which I am giving alms and thanks when I am praying. I am recognizing the curious nature of this experience and asking, not demanding or wishing, for recognition in return, though not reciprocity. I do not expect something to answer me back literally, but I wait in patient resolve, indifferent, for the circumstances to align in whichever way they will. I do not imagine my words falling on amorphous ears, but I likewise believe they become a part of that vast connective which flows through everything.<br />That having been said, I realize most would categorize me as spiritual, though it is a hollow aggrandizement for me. I see no wrong in the act of any religious and/or spiritual performance, so long as it does not encroach maliciously on any others. <br />It is, for me, a choice, nothing more and nothing less. Religious and/or spiritual activities, in my opinion, are always a matter of choice. Indeed, as existent beings, we always have a choice in every matter. And the fact that these beliefs persist suggest to me they are a very real part of the human subsistence. The Sven-Bo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13812984088975594254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-36982885469619983242012-11-19T16:36:31.778-05:002012-11-19T16:36:31.778-05:00The difference between religious and spiritual is ...The difference between religious and spiritual is that the latter leaves their options as open as their minds and have a less regimented adherence. The "higher power" that has been the wonder of humankind's drive to solve universal mysteries is always directly influenced by these two forces and by the same understanding of the immediate universe (environment, community, region) into making correlations to what is expected to better one or all regarding sustaining character, the basis for either of the two superlatives. <br /> When you're praying, you're admitting your level of weakness and your dependence of something greater to assist you, expecting deserved reparation for what crisis one is in. The leverage that administers mercy seems to be a consistantly humanized, quasi-anthropomorphic force. The pass/fail aspect of consequence regarding such heartful cajoling is of the true order of the natural world that the spiritual gussy over as some kind of personalized deity and what the religious dictate as an omniscient, all-knowing, law-bringing god. <br /> The transition from one desciption to the other is based on the level of gullibility as well as disagreement with what system has been implemented in order for one to be distinguished as either of the two identities. The human need for compassion, as necessary to maintain and sustain our existance as a species, is also an objective for which the spiritual and the religious have assumingly built connections or standards to follow in order to acheive that objective. <br /> The unfailingly ridiculous notion of the existance of such a force, backed argumentatively by genuine rationalization of terrestrial desire for that "higher power" and long-term indoctrinization of the pre-established confirmation of its existance founded on demanded strict adherences rather than solid evidence, is an obvious grab at straws for the fear-based, less-interrogative machinations of culturally-evolved ancient superstitious storyteller explanations for what things are and why. <br /> Succintly, the difference between religious and spiritual is in the cap and bells song and dance of the fool to the monarch they perceive as their ruler but never find like they do the answers to questions that could be answered if there was a real connection to complete the desired affirmation. Charles Peter Watsonhttp://www.facebook.com/charles.p.watsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092745241988819482.post-34012742111365712772012-07-22T19:29:06.971-04:002012-07-22T19:29:06.971-04:00i promise to always be there for you; whether you ...i promise to always be there for you; whether you need a hug or just need a set of ears to hear your story, i promise this to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com