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Interesting.   !

I just spent four months temping for a Baptist Church.    It was an informative, and um, interesting experience.     Actually, not as bad as many would imagine.  But "interesting" nonetheless.  I don't know.  There's so much to stay about those who hardcore follow one of the mainstream Christian denominations.  You see your genuine people and you see the hypocrites.  The biggest thing I came away with though out of everything else was the $$$$$$$$$$$ aspect of it all.   I had no IDEA how $$$ oriented churches are.  It was quite eye opening.  They are first and foremost, a business.  It's business and $$$ first, "religion" and "spirituality" a distant second...sometimes third, fourth or even fifth.  The priorities are often not where they should be for what they're supposed to be about.

Other tidbits from my 4 months:

- The books on the shelves in the church office called "How to be a Contagious Christian."  It's a how-to manual for how to work Jesus and your church into pretty much any conversation, and how to actively "work" people to recruit them.   "Work" my own word choice. 

- The book on the shelf that was about something Christian/Baptist....and featured an image of "God" on the cover....as a bearded man in long robes, with a staff.   !!

- Again, the main focus on $$$$ money $$$$ more than anything else;

- People who were supposed to be Christian, but who acted anything but.  The Pastor who had a mean streak and a mood swingy dark side, prone to blasphemizing (!!)  Yes, saying "Goddamit!!!" and "JESUS CHRIST!"   Who knew!   

I could go on....

And don't miss the extras after the end of it like I did!  There's another hour of interviews and stuff!

Lyra, my mother is a hardcore Southern Baptist and a loyal 700 Club member.  We've had big problems over religion.  She told me around Christmas that if my son would accept Christ he would be a millionaire in x years (I forget how many, heh.)  I have read The Bible and studied it intensively, so I know that isn't in there.  The message is that your needs will be fulfilled not that you will be enriched with $.  Anyway, I was visiting her recently and she told me she dedicated me to God when was born, and she said "You'll see; he'll come for you one day."  YIKES!  I wasn't feeling well so instead of holding my tongue I told her she didn't have the right to do that and that I rescind her offer on my behalf.  I'm not sure but I may have also said I would never worship that bloody sob who condones human sacrifice and blood rituals.  She played it down at the time and we went on to our lunch and other things, and I thought everything had blown over.  Then last weekend I get this letter from her:

I felt really bad about what I'd said (even though it was correct from my point of view).  Can you see the fear in her letter?  This is "joy of the Lord"?  Even when I'm nice about it, we cannot discuss it at all or she gets angry and tells me to leave.  If I'm reading her letter correctly she doesn't want me to come back now until I'm ready to accept her message?

YOU're burning Precious Life Force in an argument that 'never' ends.......

Through one window, this is blatant manipulation - Through another window, it might be an intuition from YOUR HS regarding :

Time for Change

Do YOU continue to Allow this manipulation

OR

Do YOU use this Opportunity to Break Free.......

An interesting new documentary called "Who Killed the Electric Car":

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809353030/trailer

exposing how Big Oil "discouraged" the idea of the electric car taking off because it wouldn't make them money.

I'm glad to see exposes like this happening, where people are directly challenging the Powers That Be, directly implicating Bush, Condi, (you see their pics in the trailer) General Motors and all the rest.  That didn't used to happen before. 

But the cynical side of me can't help but think that maybe these exposes are coming out because it no longer matters anymore anyway, and we're past the point of no return...

"The Secret" is currently available on Google at the following link.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.sw … s=%22never

As Montalk said a couple of months back, it's well worth a watch.

that does suck, I had watched the first half and was saving the second half for later

I don't know if it was new information necessarily, but the feeling that I got at least, and I think others had it as well, was that after the first hour it was like a snowball rolling down a mountain....the good vibes picked up speed until by the end, you feel so good and positive and uplifted that you don't want the video to end!  You feel like you watch another couple of hours of it, and you get up from it feeling lighter, and better.  Just really positive.  It's well worth watching the second half/ending, because that's the best part for some reason.