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The other day, we watched the movie Nuremberg , about the war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, following World War II. This movie came out in 2000, and is quite well done. I don’t think it is intended to be a “remake” of Judgment at Nuremberg , the classic starring Spencer Tracy, but the history...

Somehow, "finite" must exist within infinite, not only because, as has already been said, infinite is infinite, meaning that it contains or encompasses all there is (and all there is not!), but also because if there were no such thing as "finite" how could we be talking about it?...

I came across the Course in Miracles many years ago, not long after it was first published. I did the lessons first, pretty nearly one per day as prescribed. Then I read the text, and finally I read the manual. I keep the books on a nearby shelf, and refer to them from time to time. At my first intr...

Okay, we’re cooking now. Yes, I agree we are essentially in agreement – even, I will dare to say, full agreement, even though it may not seem so to us. Let me consider a few sentences individually. In the sense that nothing can BE that is not in some sense IT (tat tvam asi) – yes. We are definitely ...

Thanks for the great MLK quotation, Bhakti. I love it. And for your confession appended to it. Very brave, very honest of you! There is no doubt in my mind -- confirmed by experience -- that he is absolutely right. And it works even on a practical level. A technique we and others have used successfu...

While I do not mean to dissect (one of my least happy memories from high school is having to dissect a frog in biology class), I am concerned that in this discussion we seem to be drawing a distinction where none exists. Although I am sure none of us means to do so, some of the references (particula...

w4, you wrote, “Each of us saying, ‘This is what I believe is true,’ and God will say, ‘That's fine. Now here's what is really true,’ and it will be something we would never have arrived at logically or in meditation”. Nice image. As regards logic, we are of one mind. But I’m not sure about meditati...

w4, good points. I particularly agree with you about hymns. For example, I cannot imagine singing “Amazing Grace” and remaining angry. It is more powerful than just words and music. You wrote, “I must believe for the sake of my own sanity that there is a point at which there is God and Not-God, and ...

I am enrolled in an interesting course (about the history of the Tanakh, the Jewish bible) at a nearby university (I registered as an audit student; I am far too old to be fussing with college exams!) that happens to be taught by a rabbi. Yesterday, at the first class, one of the students asked him ...

ihavesayso emailed me the text of an excellent opinion piece entitled "Good From Evil" by journalist Charley Reese in which he considers the good that all of us can harvest from the recent natural disaster in South Asia. To read the full article, please click here . Quoted below is a brief...

Good question. How about this: If God is all there is, then is not our very own survival instinct Divine? In the beginning, when we perceive ourselves as separate from one another and from God (“I am me on earth, God is He in heaven”), we naturally feel vulnerable. Why not? In that paradigm, we are ...

Good points, nicely stated! (I did not know that you had been in a Lutheran seminary. Wow.) I remember reading, years ago, when we had a flock of chickens, that when a chick in the egg is ready to break free of the confines of the shell which had protected and nourished it theretofore, an "egg ...

spiritsong is absolutely right (in the discussion “Finding God in all the right places”), namaste is the answer to all of the questions raised these past few days, and I thank you for the post! As it says in TZF’s definition of the word, namaste provides each of us an opportunity upon meeting anyone...

Someone quite rightly asked how it is possible, if Open Space re-opened just this week, that I could be listed as having joined in September 2002. Time travel? Bilocation? No, not exactly. Actually, as some here will remember, TZF's Open Forum used to be on Arborwood.com's server. Shortly after we c...

We rented the movie “Luther” the other day. It’s the story of Martin Luther, the sixteenth century Augustinian monk whose 95 Theses nailed to a Wittenberg church door in 1517 very nearly cost him his life at the hands of the Inquisition, and set the spark for the Protestant Reformation, or at least ...