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and maybe still do. This is something I used to believe and focus on well over twenty years ago. I tried to let go of it because I was highly ridiculed the first time I gave voice to it. I've since come to realize that I don't have to answer to anyone. Anyway, I used to believe that the moon was an agent of an individuals growth. I believed that during a waxing moon our minds and emotions are forming new patterns/ areas of growth and during the full moon those changes are set. And finally, during the waning moon those changes are integrated with our past changes and the entirety of our being. For me this belief always dovetails into more scientific questions, namely what beliefs/emotions did the moon inspire in our hominid ancestors 3+ million years ago. And finally (I know I'm rambling) what was it like to have such a dynamic emotional spectrum, which I believe our ancestors had, without higher reasoning and communicative abilities. It must have been maddening and beautiful.
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I'm not real sure what your talking about with the moon but I do think people change whens theres a full moon.
I know my mom always told my sister to watch me on a full moon because I changed.
They didn't know they were the ones changing.
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I also believe that Pizza is God's Food and is the culmination of mankind's spiritual advancement. Pizza is therefore truly worthy of worship. Holey Pepperoni.
I don't think I have any brow raising beliefs.....when I was little I was positive that Santa existed because the cookies we put out for him were always gone in the morning. lolol
I believe universes exist inside molecules and we in turn are a universe in a much larger molecule,ad infinitum in either direction, we are neither the largest nor the smallest, the first or the last.
I also think this is very interesting although I have not studied on this subject myself I think its good to be open minded.
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But what I believed for 35 years and am struggling with is: (the backgound) a belief that knowledge from one higher personal power had been revealed to Zoroaster, Buddha, Krishna, Abraham, Moses, and Christ as one continueing revelation, pertaining to the social and spritual needs at that time and place. It's called progressive revelation.
And I learned by reading sacred Baha'i scriptures that this same knowledge was also revealed to Mohammad, The Bab (the Gate), and Baha'u'llah (the Glory of God) as mankind progressed and could understand more, the knowledge revealed was again about the social and spiritual needs at that time and place. The belief is there's one God, One Mankind, and One Religion, One Revelation. They are all part of the one, all teaching the same spiritual teachings like the Golden Rule for example. This is from Writings from the Baha'i Faith.
Baha'u'llah and The Bab's teachings are peaceful and unifying and I raised my children that way; for example, to abolish predjudices, believe in the equality of men and women, and that science and religion agree. These Manifestations of God (the same Spirit in each man) are considered to be equal.
Well here in the Bible belt that has raised so many eyebrows that I quit telling anyone unless they asked. I still believe the unifying teachings but I've not been happy with the Bahai' Administration pushing teaching the Faith in earnest, because one teaching that I loved was NO proseletysing in this religion.
So where I am is considering withdrawal from something I believed for 35 years. The internet and fact that those last 3 Manifestations of God are from Iraq and Iran, are a factor. I'm older and wiser now and I've been thinking that I don't need to belong to any organized religion. It's goal of unifying mankind is wonderful but the one world theocratic government goal sorta went over my head when I embraced this Faith at age 19.
Thank you for asking this question and I appreciate any views at all since we are in an open minded group.
Thanks for reading. I tried to be as brief as I could but it's a complex subject. Hope everyone's day or night is great.
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