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John Mortimer
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Ok - well, you've come to a good site for that kind of information. I will gladly give my answers to any such questions. I'm sure freelight will as well. I was going to say that you get the private messaging facility after a certain number of posts, (can't remember how many), but then again there is perhaps value in conducting the whole thing on a public thread like this; the reason being, you get different perspectives from different members.
It's interesting how that can often happen around 13 years of age. There is a teaching in the "Ascended Master" schools, which basically says there is a 12-year cycle within any given lifetime. Thus when you get to 12 years of age you are completing one circuit of the clock, so to speak. At 13 you are beginning a fresh cycle. It's like you have your own personal "New Year", (with its attendant resolutions :chuckle: ), every 12 years.
I note your interest in freelight's Hinduism thread - do you believe in reincarnation? I do.
That's very often the way with teenagers and parents though, eh?
There is all the difference in the world between 13 & 18, but when I was 18, part of the reason for me embracing such a fundamentalist Christian mindset was a desire to take the question of God seriously. It was that seriousness about God that seemed to be lacking all around me. Like - for me - there just couldn't be any question that was of the slightest importance compared to the question of God.
I intuitively feel that the dynamic process of Q&A is much better than looking for written sources, at least in the first instance.
Having said that, one of the modern English, easy-to-read translations of the New Testament is a great introduction to who Jesus is. The "Good News" Bible was originally intended as a translation for teens and pre-teens. Whilst the New Testament is a generally accepted orthodox reference for Christianity, it also generates as many questions as answers. It's keeping asking questions that is the most important thing. Believing something is fine... but why do I believe it? There is always at least one answer to that searching question.
MrDeets
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bucksplasher
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If you'd like an "update" on the teaching of the Catholic Church (your son could understand) try the website Word on Fire. You might even find that you left a church you didn't understand.
If not go Hindu...seems to be as hard to believe as any. tWINs
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Quincy
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I was thinking more along the lines certain dogmatic atheists but as the fonz says :thumb: ayyyyyyyyyyy :thumb:
freelight
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You are 'conscious being'.........
You are 'conscious being'.........
Greetings Jw,
Welcome to the forum,....it appears that 'learning' is what life is about.
Being attentive as awareness itself looking out in openness and clarity is key, for after all,...this is your true nature (before any thought, form or name). The acquisition of wisdom is that pure light reflecting back to itself, thru the mirror of experience, which always re-turns you back home to your Self, the 'I Am'...the 'real you' as the pure ocean of consciousness. You are that. Go to the heart-source.
Looking forward..... :surf:
pj
You are 'conscious being'.........
Greetings Jw,
Welcome to the forum,....it appears that 'learning' is what life is about.
Being attentive as awareness itself looking out in openness and clarity is key, for after all,...this is your true nature (before any thought, form or name). The acquisition of wisdom is that pure light reflecting back to itself, thru the mirror of experience, which always re-turns you back home to your Self, the 'I Am'...the 'real you' as the pure ocean of consciousness. You are that. Go to the heart-source.
Looking forward..... :surf:
pj