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Do you think a universal organ donor tattoo is a good idea? If yes, what symbol do you think would most obviously signify you were an organ donor?

2006-06-28 14:55:57 · 20 answers · asked by MillwoodsGal 6 in Community Service

Anything unexplainable ufo's to pyschics.

2006-06-28 14:55:50 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Though I'm out of the stage of compartmentalizing my "sacred" and "secular" life, I have this question...

When Christian musicians cover a secular song, does it become a Christian song then?

2006-06-28 14:54:17 · 5 answers · asked by NationYell 1 in Religion & Spirituality

also please tell me where it says or implies it.

2006-06-28 14:53:58 · 25 answers · asked by kicksngiggles77 2 in Religion & Spirituality

what do you want more than anything in life? and what would you do to get it?

2006-06-28 14:52:20 · 7 answers · asked by jason 3 in Other - Society & Culture

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The answer to the ultimate question about life the universe and everything is????

2006-06-28 14:52:02 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-28 14:51:50 · 9 answers · asked by Prodical Son 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I really need clarification on why large women and MEN wear spandex pants!?!

Not only is it an OLD, outdated fashion statement, 80's HELLO!!! But it is just not neccessary.

Is it because ....
1. You feel confident with your body, and you don't care what others think.
or
2. You just are really ignorant and don't know any better?


If someone has some sage insight, please enlighten me!
I myself am pretty big, and I feel that I confident and really don't care what others think of me. BUT I have half a mind to know that Spandex IS NOT MY FRIEND!

HELP ME UNDERSTAND why the rest of the world needs to see your golf ball size divots of cellulite through your overstretched pants!

2006-06-28 14:51:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

http://www.courttv.com/trials/furden/062806_ctv.html

2006-06-28 14:50:04 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I watch this movie on Life Time, about transexual. I also read upon that so many transexuals has been murdered!

Isn't it true that gay men commit suicide is higher rate then transexual commits suicide?

2006-06-28 14:49:04 · 8 answers · asked by • Jen • 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-06-28 14:46:45 · 17 answers · asked by jennifer_graziose 1 in Etiquette

2006-06-28 14:46:14 · 9 answers · asked by irock 1 in Languages

Alrighty then, I am a 17 year old male. Born to the parents of Laura and Elijah.

Now then, picture this hypothetical situation if you'd be so kind. A mother demands her son to mowe(SP) the lawn on a crisp Sunday. Yet the commandment states that one shall honor the Sabbath and keep it Holy..at the same time if the boy refuses this demand, he will be breaking the other commandment, "Honor thy parents..."

The mother is not a Christian nor will she change her ways. Will the son lose either way regardless of his decision?

2006-06-28 14:46:10 · 19 answers · asked by serisakon 1 in Religion & Spirituality

gods commandments? If not all,most people will and have lusted sexually after a person they like or love. So isn't that like a trap for all humans.....because the moment we lu we sin,and then we have to repent ,but we end up doing it again.

2006-06-28 14:45:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-28 14:44:34 · 29 answers · asked by Bryan G 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I've taken a class on world religions and they've called into question my dwindling faith in Christianity. I'm perfectly happy to call my self an agnostic and I've never been happier in my life, as I've spent most of my Christian life unhappy and completely unable to attain happiness through Christianity. Wondering how many people are out there like me. Thanks!

2006-06-28 14:44:20 · 7 answers · asked by martini_fight 1 in Religion & Spirituality

made a positive impact on your life? What was it?

2006-06-28 14:43:37 · 11 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-28 14:43:16 · 7 answers · asked by aznkewee 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Where could I find white racist christians? I'm a black atheists and I would like to find them and see how they react to me being a black atheist. I will have my weapons just in case they try anything

2006-06-28 14:43:12 · 13 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I live in a small town and my hubby works for the gas company. People who have money call in the middle of the night , demanding that he gets there to fix what's wrong. I hate that. Why is it that just because you have more money, you think you can treat people like dirt. Pisses me off and makes me mad, because lots of them have never worked a day in their lives and could probably used a few lessons as to how life really works.

2006-06-28 14:42:52 · 54 answers · asked by johanne 4 in Etiquette

My children are studying kings and queens and there are so many fascinating ones. I'd like to pick a few to really concentrate on.

2006-06-28 14:41:48 · 16 answers · asked by Mollyismydog 3 in Royalty

aka: abortion. it's sad and weird and true because the same people that want to save a freakin tree want to kill inocent lives. why?

2006-06-28 14:41:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm curious to know people's opinions about Faith Healers. I for one think they are joke and exploit peoples belief in God. What do you think?

2006-06-28 14:41:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

la isla bonita

2006-06-28 14:41:24 · 18 answers · asked by • Jen • 2 in Languages

2006-06-28 14:41:13 · 12 answers · asked by lorikhasanidea 1 in Languages

In 1939 Elizabeth Caspari visited the Himis monastery. The Abbot showed her some scrolls, which he allowed her to examine, saying: "These books say your Jesus was here."

Robert Ravicz, a former professor of anthropology at California State University at Northridge, visited Himis in 1975. A Ladakh physician he met there spoke of Jesus' having been there during His "lost years."

In the late 1970s Edward Noack, author of Amidst Ice and Nomads in High Asia, and his wife visited the Himis monastery. A monk there told him: "There are manuscripts in our library that describe the journey of Jesus to the East."

Toward the end of this century the diaries of a Moravian Missionary, Karl Marx, were discovered in which he writes of Notovitch and his finding of scrolls about "Saint Issa." (Marx's diaries are kept in the Moravian Mission museum. The pages about Notovitch and the scrolls have "disappeared" and their existence is now denied in an attempt to discredit Notovitch, but before their disappearance they were photographed by a European researcher and have been made public.)

From all this testimony we see that Jesus studied the Buddhist Dharma as well as the Hindu Dharma during His life in India.

Notovitch also claimed that the Vatican Library had sixty-three manuscripts from India, China, Egypt, and Arabia-all giving information about Jesus' life.

In 1812, Meer Izzut-oolah, a Persian, was sent to Ladakh and central Asia by the East India Company. Though religion was not his mission, he observed much and subsequently wrote in his book Travels in Central Asia: "They keep sculptured representations of departed saints, prophets and lamas in their temples for contemplation. Some of these figures are said to represent a certain prophet who is living in the heavens, which would appear to point to Jesus Christ."

When Swami Abhedananda was in the Himis monastery doing his research on the records of Jesus life in India he was told by the abbot that Jesus had not departed from the earth at the time His Apostles saw Him ascend, but that He had returned to India where he lived with the Himalayan yogis for many years.

The Nathanamavali

The Bengali educator and patriot, Bipin Chandra Pal, published an autobiographical sketch in which he revealed that Vijay Krishna Goswami, a renowned saint of Bengal and a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, told him about spending time in the Aravalli mountains with a group of extraordinary ascetic monk-yogis known as Nath Yogis. The monks spoke to him about Isha Nath, whom they looked upon as one of the great teachers of their order. When Vijay Krishna expressed interest in this venerable guru, they read his life as recorded in one of their sacred books, the Nathanamavali.36 It was the life of Him Whom the Goswami knew as Jesus the Christ! Here is the relevant portion of that book:

"Isha Natha came to India at the age of fourteen. After this he returned to his own country and began preaching. Soon after, his brutish and materialistic countrymen conspired against him and had him crucified. After crucifixion, or perhaps even before it, Isha Natha entered samadhi by means of yoga.37

"Seeing him thus, the Jews presumed he was dead, and buried him in a tomb. At that very moment however, one of his gurus, the great Chetan Natha, happened to be in profound meditation in the lower reaches of the Himalayas, and he saw in a vision the tortures which Isha Natha was undergoing. He therefore made his body lighter than air and passed over to the land of Israel.

"The day of his arrival was marked with thunder and lightning, for the gods were angry with the Jews, and the whole world trembled. When Chetan Natha arrived, he took the body of Isha Natha from the tomb, woke him from his samadhi, and later led him off to the sacred land of the Aryans. Isha Natha then established an ashram in the lower regions of the Himalayas and he established the cult of the lingam there."38

This assertion is supported by two relics of Jesus which are presently found in Kashmir. One is His staff, which is kept in the monastery of Aish-Muqan and is made accessible to the public in times of public catastrophe such as floods or epidemics. The other is the Stone of Moses-a Shiva linga that had belonged to Moses and which Jesus brought to Kashmir. This linga is kept in the Shiva temple at Bijbehara in Kashmir. One hundred and eight pounds in weight, if eleven people put one finger on the stone and recite "Ka" over and over, it will rise three feet or so into the air and remain suspended as long as the recitation continues.39 "Shiva" means one who is auspicious and gives blessings and happiness. In ancient Sanskrit the word ka means to please and to satisfy-that which Shiva does for His worshippers.

The Bhavishya Maha Purana

One ancient book of Kashmiri history, the Bhavishya Maha Purana, gives the following account of the meeting of a king of Kashmir with Jesus sometime after the middle of the first century:

2006-06-28 14:41:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Misunderstanding becomes a religion

Throughout the Gospels we see that the disciples of Jesus consistently misunderstood his speaking of higher spiritual matters. When he spoke of the sword of wisdom they showed him swords of metal to assure him they were well equipped.27 When he warned them against the "leaven" of the Scribes and Pharisees they thought he was complaining that they did not have any bread.28 Is it any wonder, then that he said to them: "Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? How is it that ye do not understand?"29 Even in the moment of his final departure from them, their words showed that they still believed the kingdom of God was an earthly political entity and not the realm of spirit.30 This being so, the Gospels themselves must be approached with grave caution and with the awareness that Jesus was not the creator of a new religion, but a messenger of the Sanatana Dharma, the Eternal Religion he had learned in India. As a priest of the Saint Thomas Christian Church of South India once commented to me: "You cannot understand the teachings of Jesus if you do not know the scriptures of India." And if you do know the scriptures of India you can see where-however well-intentioned they may have been-the authors of the Gospels often completely missed the point and garbled the words and ideas they heard from Jesus, even attributing to him incidents from the life of Buddha (such as the Widow's Mite) and mistaking his quotations from the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Dhammapada for doctrines original to him. For example, the opening verse of the Gospel of John, which has been cited through the centuries as proof of the unique character and mission of Jesus, is really a paraphrase of the Vedic verse: "In the beginning was Prajapati, with Him was the Word, and the Word was truly the Supreme Brahman."31 Having confused Christ with Jesus, things could only go downhill for them and their followers until the true Gospel of Christ was buried beneath two millennia of confusion and theological debris.

Return to India-not ascension

It is generally supposed that at the end of His ministry in Israel Jesus ascended into heaven. But Saint Matthew and Saint John, the two Evangelists that were eye-witnesses of His departure, do not even mention such a thing, for they knew that He went to India after departing from them. Saint Mark and Saint Luke, who were not there, simply speak of Jesus being taken up into the heavens. The truth is that He departed into India, though it is not unlikely that He did rise up and "fly" there. This form of travel is not unknown to the Indian yogis.

That Jesus did not leave the world at the age of thirty-three was written about by Saint Irenaeus of Lyon in the second century. He claimed that Jesus lived to be fifty or more years old before leaving the earth, though he also said that Jesus was crucified at the age of thirty-three. This would mean that Jesus lived twenty years after the crucifixion. This assertion of Saint Irenaeus has puzzled Christian scholars for centuries, but if we put it together with other traditions it becomes comprehensible. Basilides of Alexandria, Mani of Persia, and Julian the Emperor said that Jesus had gone to India after His crucifixion.

Some Buddhist historical records about Jesus

A contemporary written record of the life and teachings of Jesus in India was discovered in 1887 by the Russian traveler Nicholas Notovitch during his wanderings in Ladakh. He had it translated from the Tibetan text (the original, kept in the Marbour monastery near Lhasa, was in Pali) and, despite intense opposition from Christians in Russia and Europe, published it in his book The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ.32

As would be expected, the authenticity of Notovitch's book was attacked33 and various articles written claiming that the monks of the Himis monastery, where Notovitch had found the manuscript, told investigators that they knew nothing of Notovitch or the text. But both Swami Abhedananda and Swami Trigunatitananda-direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna34 and preachers of Vedanta35 in America-went at separate times to the Himis monastery. The monks there not only assured them that Notovitch had spent some time in the monastery as he claimed, they also showed them the manuscript-part of which they translated for Swami Abhedananda, who knew from having read Notovitch's book that it was indeed the same writing found in The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ. Subsequently, Abhedananda had the English translation of Notovitch's text printed in India where the Christian authorities had until then prohibited both its publication or its importation and sale.

Swami Trigunatitananda not only saw the manuscript in Himis, he also was shown two paintings of Jesus. One was a depiction of His conversation with the Samaritan Woman at the well. The other was of Jesus meditating in the Himalayan forest surrounded by wild beasts that were tamed by His very presence. A copy made from his description is reproduced on the cover of this booklet.

Later, Dr. Nicholas Roerich, the renowned scholar, philosopher, artist, and explorer, traveled in Ladakh and also was shown the manuscript and assured by the monks that Jesus had indeed lived in several Buddhist monasteries during His "lost years." He wrote about his own viewing of the scrolls in his book The Heart of Asia.

In 1921 the Himis monastery was visited by Henrietta Merrick who, in her book In the World's Attic tells of learning about the records of Jesus' life that were kept there. She wrote: "In Leh is the legend of Jesus who is called Issa, and the Monastery at Himis holds precious documents fifteen hundred years old which tell of the days that he passed in Leh where he was joyously received and where he preached."

2006-06-28 14:38:56 · 22 answers · asked by sun rays 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I wonder what it would be like and how would i would like it. I wonder if my husband would like to watch or if he would hate me if he found out my fantasy.

2006-06-28 14:38:26 · 29 answers · asked by JJX MOMMY 1 in Other - Society & Culture

The knowledge of God is most fundamental to human life. Our present and eternal welfare are with Him. Without His creation, there would be nothing existing. God so loved the people of the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life!

2006-06-28 14:38:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Although this tradition of Shiva [Linga] worship has faded from the memory of the Jews and Christians, in the nineteenth century it was evidenced in the life of the stigmatic Anna Catherine Emmerich, an Augustinian Roman Catholic nun. On several occasions when she was deathly ill, angelic beings brought her crystal Shiva Lingas which they had her worship by pouring water over them. When she drank that water she would be perfectly cured. Furthermore, on major Christian holy days she would have out-of-body experience in which she would be taken to Hardwar, a city sacred to Shiva in the foothills of the Himalayas, and from there to Mount Kailash, the traditional abode of Shiva, which she said was the spiritual heart of the world.

Isha's life in India

For the next few years the Himalayas became Jesus' well-travelled home. During part of that time Jesus meditated in a cave north of the present-day city of Rishikesh, one of the most sacred locales of India, and also on the banks of the Ganges in the holy city of Hardwar. In the years He spent in the Himalayas, He attained the supreme heights of spiritual realization.

Having attained perfect inner wisdom in the Himalayas, Jesus journeyed to the Gangetic plain to engage in the formal study that would prepare Him for the public teaching of Sanatana Dharma both in India and in the countries between India and Israel as well as in Israel itself.

First he went to live in Benares, the spiritual heart of India, the city most consecrated to the worship of Shiva and the major center of Vedic learning in all of India. During His time in the Himalayas, Jesus' endeavors had been centered almost exclusively on the practice of yoga. In Benares Jesus engaged in intense study of the spiritual teachings embodied in the Vedic scriptures-especially the books of spiritual philosophy known as the Upanishads.

He then journeyed to the sacred city of Jagannath Puri, which at that time was a great center of the worship of Shiva, second only to Benares. In Puri Jesus officially adopted the monastic life and lived some time as a member of the Govardhan Math,21 the monastery founded three centuries before His birth by the foremost philosopher-saint of India known as Adi Shankaracharya.22 There He perfected the synthesis of yoga, philosophy, and renunciation, and eventually began to publicly teach the Eternal Knowledge.

As a teacher Jesus was as popular as He was proficient in teaching, and gained great notoriety among all levels of society. However, because He insisted that all men should learn and be taught the meaning of the Vedas and their allied scriptures and began teaching the "lower" castes accordingly, as well as teaching that all could attain spiritual perfection without the intermediary of external, ritualized religion, He incurred the hatred of many religious "professionals" in Puri who began to plot His death.

Since "His hour was not yet come,"23 He left Puri and returned to the Himalayas where He again spent quite some time in meditation, preparing Himself for His return to Israel. He also lived in various Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan region, studying the wisdom of the Buddha.

Before beginning the long journey westward, instructions were given Him regarding His mission in the West and the way messages could be sent between Jesus and His Indian teachers. Jesus was aware of the form and purpose of His life and death from His very birth, but it was the Indian Masters who made everything clear to Him regarding them. They promised Jesus that He would be sent a container of Himalayan Balsam to be poured upon His head by a close disciple as a sign that His death was imminent, even "at the door." When Saint Mary Magdalene performed this action in Bethany, Jesus understood the unspoken message, saying: "She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying."241

Return to the West

Jesus then set forth on His return journey to Israel with the blessings of the Masters to thenceforth be a Dharmacharya,25 a missionary of Arya Dharma to the Mediterranean world, which at that time was "the West." All along His way, Jesus taught those who were drawn to His spiritual magnetism and who sought His counsel in the divine life. He promised that after some years He would be sending them one of His disciples who would give them even more knowledge and benefit.

Arriving in Israel, Jesus went directly to the Jordan where his cousin John, the Master of the Essenes, was baptizing. There His Christhood was revealed to John and those who had "the eyes to see and the ears to hear."26 In this way His brief mission to Israel was begun. Its progress and conclusion are well known, so we need not recount it here except to rectify one point after the next section.

2006-06-28 14:37:20 · 2 answers · asked by sun rays 1 in Religion & Spirituality

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