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• "The Sound Of Silence"

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 4, 2015
    Hello darkness, my old friend,I've come to talk with you again,Because a vision softly creeping,Left its seeds while I was sleeping,And the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silence. In restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone,'Neath the ...
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• Jesus and War

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG September 18, 2015
  There are over 50 Scriptures in the New Testament stating that Christian are never to use violence. Look at them for yourself."Resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." (Mt. 5:39)"Remind the Christians to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers,...
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• Ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG September 3, 2015
    In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.   One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?” “Wait a moment...
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• You Can Call Me Al - Paul simon

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG June 19, 2015
  A man walks down the streetHe says why am I soft in the middle nowWhy am I soft in the middleThe rest of my life is so hardI need a photo-opportunityI want a shot at redemptionDon't want to end up a cartoonIn a cartoon graveyardBonedigger BonediggerDogs in the moonlightFar away my well-lit doo...
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• Just Rambling.....

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG April 28, 2015
      If you could tell the world one single command or action like: with your finger, point up and every body did, would they point at the same direction?   Not really because the planet earth is round and pointing up would point at different area of space.   Now what abou...
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• "Instant Karma" John Lennon

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG April 26, 2015
  Instant Karma's gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the headYou better get yourself togetherPretty soon you're gonna be deadWhat in the world you thinking ofLaughing in the face of loveWhat on earth you tryin' to doIt's up to you, yeah youInstant Karma's gonna get youGonna look you right in the ...

• Adventure of Life

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG April 23, 2015
  “You are as the yellow leaf.The messengers of death are at hand.You are to travel far away.What will you take with you?You are the lampTo lighten the way.Then hurry, hurry.When your light shinesWithout impurity or desireYou will come into the boundless country.Your life is falling away.Death...
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• "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" Brian Adams

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG April 11, 2015
  "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" To really love a woman To understand her - you gotta know her deep insideHear every thought - see every dream N' give her wings - when she wants to fly Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her armsYa know ya really love a woman When ...
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• "Eve Of Destruction"

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG January 18, 2015
    "Eve Of Destruction"   BARRY MCGUIRE Lyrics The eastern world it is explodingViolence flarin', bullets loadin'You're old enough to kill but not for votin'You don't believe in war but whats that gun you're totin'?And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'But you tell meOver an...

• DHARMA TALKS OF INSENTIENT BEINGS

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG September 30, 2014
    By Seongcheo  The Buddha Sakyamuni isn’t the only one to have given Dharma talks. Everything throughout the universe always speaks the Dharma. Even the huge boulders atop the mountains give Dharma talks hundreds of times greater than the buddhas in the temples. You’r...
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• Teacher or God, Bible Verses That Indicate Jesus Is Not God

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG September 22, 2014
  1. Matthew 24:36No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Son, but the Father only.Here Jesus makes a distinction between what he knows and what the Father knows. 2. Matthew 26:39My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I will, but as Thou will.J...
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• Announcement of the end of the world true the years

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG September 18, 2014
  Library of Date setters for end of the world! Date Event 44 Theudas declared himself the Messiah, taking 400 people with him into the desert. T beheaded by Roman soldiers. Josephus records this. 53 Even before all the books of the Bible were written, there w...
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• Statistics on importance of a Father

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG June 15, 2014
  Statistics 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (US Dept. Of Health/Census) – 5 times the average. 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes – 32 times the average. 85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless...

• Are we entering the sixth major extinction on Earth?

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG May 14, 2014
      If you could travel back 65 million years ago, you would be able to witness the fifth mass extinction on Earth. It was at that time that a major event -- likely the impact from a comet or giant meteor-- wiped out more than half of all life on Earth [source:Ch...
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• The Buddha Replies to the Deva

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG April 23, 2014
    On a certain day when the Blessed Onedwelt at Jetavana, the garden of Anathapindika,a celestial deva came to him in the shape of a Brahmanenlightened and wearing clothing as white as snow. The deva asked, What is the sharpest sword?What is the deadliest poison?What is the fiercest fir...
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• Did Christians really ‘steal’ Easter from the pagans?

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG April 19, 2014
    (CNN) — It’s that time of year again: the time when chocolate comes in pastels, cherry blossoms start to bloom and well-marketed religion exposés are released to the world. In other words, it’s Easter.     Among the rash of sensationalist stories we can...

• Help yourself and God will help you

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG January 24, 2014
    There was a man who believes in God very much. He was a true believer of God. God is with him and he will help him out in every difficulty of life, this is his philosophy for God.  One day he was sailing in a boat to some place. He was alone in a boat and sailing himself to his desti...

• LIBERATED FROM CONVENTIONALITY

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG January 18, 2014
      LIBERATED FROM CONVENTIONALITYGiving birth to bodhichitta in one's heart, buddha in one's heart brings freedom. That is the notion of freedom in Buddhism altogether. We are talking about freedom from the constriction of our own capabilities. It is as if we were extraordinary childr...
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• How to Deal with Unfairness and Change the Things You Can

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 18, 2013
    By Lori Deschene “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” ~Mary Engelbreit   Many times in the past, I’ve complained that things weren’t fair. Sometimes, I was legitimately wro...
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• Here are the predicted dates of the End of the World

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 16, 2013
  Past predictions Date (BCE)/(CE)ClaimantDescriptionReference(s) 634 BCE VariousRomans Many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed in the 120th year of its founding. There was a myth that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a mystical number representing the lifetime of Rome, an...
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• Religious Celebration of the the Winter Solstice

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 14, 2013
  Advent: four weeks prior to Christmas (Western Christianity). Chalica: A holiday created in 2005, in the first full week in December, celebrated by some Unitarian Universalists.[4] Saint Nicholas' Day: 6 December Bodhi Day: 8 December - Day of Enlightenment, celebrating the day that the hi...

• Woman Shelters Necessity

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 7, 2013
  Sometime we think big when we think of Charity, here is a letter from one of the center with recommendation. They need basics. So check your local woman shelter of your community......its the season of giving after all.. :-)   Here are some ideas for donations;When women and children come to ...

• Was Jesus really born on December 25th?

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 2, 2013
  Was Jesus really born on December 25th? At Christmastime, you might notice signs amid residential light displays or on church boards that merrily proclaim "Happy Birthday, Jesus" or announce that "Jesus is the reason for the season." Of course, such messages are merely meant to remind people of the...
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• A Story With a Great Moral...

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG September 19, 2013
  A fence : A story with a great moral...There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy's father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence.On the first day of this lesson, ...

• A friend or a loved one

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG July 19, 2013
  “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.   You share hopes for the future, dreams that w...
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• A story of love

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG June 26, 2013
  An ordinary woman with extraordinary determination BySusan Clairmont She wasn't rich or famous.   She didn't win awards or discover anything or know everything. Lillian Alder was, in most ways, an ordinary woman. She loved the same man for more than 70 years, raised five happy chil...

• Just a story of discovery

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG June 18, 2013
      Just a story   So we where lost in the desert, between Rabat and Marrakesh on the inside roads true lots of sandy little trails. The motor was hot and we had to stop. We were pretty tire, and we decided to take a break on the side of the road. I have to say that we were dres...
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• Why is it that Christians worship Jesus? Fr. Joe Answers

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG June 17, 2013
  Fr. Joe Answers: Yes, it’s true that Jesus’ own prayer was directed toward God as Father. The prayer which Jesus teaches his disciples in ths gospels of Matthew and Luke is addressed to “our Father” and does not mention Jesus at all! We still pray this as “The Lord&r...
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• The Science of Love

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG May 6, 2013
  (BBC Science) There are three phases to falling in love and different hormones are involved at each stage. Events occurring in the brain when we are in love have similarities with mental illness. When we are attracted to somebody, it could be because subconsciously we like their genes. ...
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• 7 universal laws for a boring relationship

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG May 6, 2013
  Jeff Herring and Maritza Parra No one sets out to have a boring relationship. Yet many couples wind up in one. Here’s a look at how to create a boring relationship:   The Law of Silence: I once watched a couple, both appearing to be in their early 40s, walk into a sandw...

• The Rules of On Line Web Debating

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG March 28, 2013
  The Telegraph UK Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe By Tom Chivers7:30AM BST 23 Oct 2009 The internet has matured into a world of its own, and like the real world, it obeys certain immutable laws. Here are 10 of the most important. Any internet user will know ...

• Simple Love and Compassion

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG March 13, 2013
      “We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. - But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion.... - This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need, for temple or church, for mosque or syna...
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• Propaganda

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG March 3, 2013
      Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed towards influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create ...

• Veterans & Homelessness

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG February 23, 2013
  Veterans Inc. is the largest provider of services to veterans and their families in New England. Since 1991, we have helped more than 50,000 veterans and their families. Operations are expanding further into New England and beyond in our goal of eradicating homelessness among veterans. Veterans &...

• Live by the sword, die by the sword

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG February 23, 2013
  Live by the sword, die by the sword The phrase is found in the Christian Book of Revelation, 13:10: "He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints." (Rev.13:10KJV) Common...
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• Why did the US Supreme Court ban prayer from public school?

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG February 5, 2013
  The US Supreme Court doesn't ban all prayer in schools; it only bans organized prayer in public schools. Individuals are free to pray privately, but not to impose their religious beliefs or the exercise of any religion on others.  The Supreme Court made ...

• Peter's Mother-in-law, Mark 1:29-39 (KJV)

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG January 30, 2013
  Peter's mother-in-law - Mark 1:29-39 (KJV)   29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.  31 And ...

• Happiness: Buddha vs Jesus

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 20, 2012
  Happiness: Buddha vs Jesus The Buddhist conception of happiness = freedom from suffering by overcoming and denying all forms of desire and craving. The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: 1. Life as we know it ultimately is or leads to suffering/uneasiness (dukkha) in one way or another. 2. Suff...

• Why Does the U.S. Spend More on Health Care than Other Countrie

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 5, 2012
  The compassion Business $$$$$$ Everyone knows that the U.S. spends far more on health care than other countries, but do you know how much more? In 2009, the U.S. spent 17.4% of GDP on health care (using OECD data). The closest contenders are Netherlands (12% of GDP), France (11.8%), Germany (11.6%)...
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• Battle Royal of gospel of John and Gospel of Thomas

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG December 1, 2012
  Intertextuality with John's gospel Another argument for an early date is what some scholars have suggested is an interplay between the Gospel of John and the logia of Thomas.   Parallels between the two have been taken to suggest that Thomas' logia preceded Jo...

• The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 30, 2012
  Gospel of Mary In her introduction in The Complete Gospels, Karen King names the manuscripts available for the Gospel of Mary. She writes that only three fragmentary manuscripts are known to have survived into the modern period, two 3rd-century fragments (P. Rylands 463 and P. Oxyrhynchus...

• Ganja Yoga combines Marijuana and Meditation

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 22, 2012
  Ganja yoga combines marijuana and meditation DAVID SILVERBERG Special to The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Sep. 08 2010, 5:07 PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Aug. 23 2012, 4:25 PM EDT As the light haze of pot smoke dissipates in the downtown Toronto living room...

• New Study Proves That Marijuana Increases Brain Cell Formation

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 22, 2012
  New Study Proves That Marijuana Increases Brain Cell Formation November 6, 2009 Health, Marijuana 101   How many times have you been hit with the usual jargon about how bad marijuana is for the brain, and how stupid you are going to become if you smoke it. Yet, some of the most ...
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• Truth

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 21, 2012
  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo   There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting. - Buddha   The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance ma...
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• The truth of the Holy Books

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 20, 2012
  Christianity: This book focuses mostly on the unseen truth in western religions, primarily Christianity, but when you can see the truth in Christianity, you will be able to see it in all religions and everywhere else in life. The truth is at the core of many myths and legends, especially when...
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• Christmas is really the 3rd April 33 AD

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 19, 2012
  Jerusalem Temple and the Gospel of John to calculate on what date Jesus was born Israel Museum model ofHerod's Temple, referred to inJohn 2:13. One method for estimating the start of the ministry of Jesus without reliance on the Synoptic gospels is to relate the informat...

• Famous ULC Members

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 18, 2012
  Ministers Rev. Eric Anzalone ,  Rev. Shaenon K. Garrity.  Rev. George Harrison, Rev. Carson Kressley Rev. Jesse James, Rev. Alanis Morisette, Rev. Madalyn Murry O'Hair,Rev. Felipe Rose,Rev. Danny Wallace Name Known for...
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• Satan is the prince of power on earth

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 16, 2012
    The Bible says, “Satan is the prince of power on earth.”The whole world is in the power of the evil one. John 5:19Satan: The word “Satan” means “adversary.”The Bible describes the devil as "that which deceives the world." There is only one thing tha...

• "So Mote it Be" Learning a new word

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 9, 2012
  "So Mote it Be" is one of those archaic phrases that many people in the Pagan community use, yet its origins may not be Pagan at all.   According to Webster's dictionary, the word mote was originally a Saxon verb which meant "must." It appears back in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer,...
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• A message from the Queen

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 3, 2012
      A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIIn light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the ...
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• Voting Attendance in the World

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG November 2, 2012
  Turnout in national lower house elections, 1960–1995 CountryCompulsory№Turnout  Malta N 6 94%  Chile N 2 93%†  Austria N 9 92%  Belgium Y 12 91%  Italy Y (not enforced) 9 90%  Luxembourg Y ...

• U.S. divorce rates, various faith groups, age groups, geog

  by Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG September 24, 2012
  Divorce and remarriage Divorce rates in the U.S.: "There is consensus that the overall U.S. divorce rate had a brief spurt after WW2, followed by a decline, then started rising in the 1960s and even more quickly in the 1970s, then leveled off [in the] 1980s and [has since] declined slightly."&n...