Jim's Secret Thoughts

I am sharing this quote because it says I should: Stop being quiet about all this. Speak up. Raise a ruckus. Raise the issues. You might even raise some collective consciousness. On just one issue, for instance. Why not grow hemp and use it to grow paper? Do you have any idea how many trees [...]

God is dead! Jahweh is dead! Jehovah is dead! Allah is dead! Buddha is dead! Hari Krishna is dead! Jesus is dead! There is no such god who favors one human being over another.

A Paradigm is a mind-set, or mind pattern, or a set of ideas. For example, a long time ago it was a paradigm that the Earth was flat. That paradigm has changed. Another paradigm could be, “I can never be an artist,” or whatever. This paradigm also can be changed. Paradigms determine how we think [...]

We have been told that we live in a box.
We’re told that the sides of this box are the end of our existence.
Outside the box is God, and if we live good lives we will see him.

Have you seen them? Those colourful wristbands with the letters WWJD, meaning “What would Jesus do?” In a discussion at www.jasonsnetwork.com a similar question was raised in relation to God’s reaction to artistic portrayals of nude or semi-nude women. Are such questions intended to change your life? Of course the WWJD movement urges the question, [...]

What is religion to you? May I provoke you to consider thinking outside the box? I asked Christian freinds once if they could survive without the Bible, and they could not imagine such a thing. Spirituality has to be more than a book and ceremonies. If we have a spirit then it must exist beyond [...]