Mistakes

[Pete E]

One of my Gurus is a guy named Stewart Wilde.I have a little book of his called secrets of life.It has alot of little gems in it.
Part of one,on mistakes,say  " The mistakes you made,you needed them.The people effected by your mistakes,they needed them too."
Puts your screw ups in a more positive light.

Pete

[Pete E]

... in response to Mistakes, posted by Pete E on Jan 12, 2004

nt

[cancunhound]

... in response to Mistakes, posted by Pete E on Jan 12, 2004

As Einstein phrased it:
"The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."

[Pete E]

... in response to Re: Mistakes, posted by cancunhound on Jan 12, 2004

A guy named Ashleigh Brilliant used to do little humerous cards you could find in book stores.
One shows 2 little eyes peering out of a cave.
It says "If you are carefull enough nothing bad or good will ever happen to you."
Another shows a guy tied to a stake by a collar.It says  "It was a beautifull day,too bad I missed it."

Pete

[valuedcustomer]

... in response to Re: Re: Mistakes, posted by Pete E on Jan 12, 2004

It’s a popular belief among the New Age crowd that every mistake we make has been given to us by the Universe to learn something.  The catch is that the New Age crowd also believes in reincarnation.  Thus, according to their world view it might take you 10 lifetimes to find a good wife.  I don’t know about you, but I prefer to find a good wife in this lifetime.

[DavidMN]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Mistakes, posted by valuedcustomer on Jan 12, 2004

V.C. - My knowledge of New-Agers is very limited but it seems to me it's kind of a create your own belief system. That's fine, but it's always struck me as odd that a lot of New-Agers are women, usually age 40 or above, often only moderately successful in life and relationships, and they borrow heavily from Native American beliefs (especially the PNW and New Mexico) that don't have much to do with their own Judeo-Christian heritage. I'm simplifying and generalizing, but they seem like perpetual searchers that aren't real happy.

I realize Catholicism in Latin America borrows some of its imagery and saints from native traditions, both Indian and African, but that makes more sense to me. One, because Indian and African truly is the heritage of a lot of the people. And two, because from my brief reading of history, that's what the Spanish and Portugese priests decided upon to make the imposed religion more palatable for the natives and slaves.

Just some idle rambings...If I have any point it's that I'd prefer someone figure out by the time they're in their 30s what's important to them and what belief system is going to guide their lives.

-David

[Pete E]

... in response to Re: New Age & Catholicism, posted by DavidMN on Jan 12, 2004

David,
I'll try to keep this philosophical so the simple minded will not confuse it with religion.(and I'm not reffering to you.)
Every year in San Francisco they have what is called the "New Age Awareness Fair." You walk in the room and its the most incredible collection of mostly nonsense with some good stuff thrown in.I do not consider myself a "New Ager". But there are some people who sometimes come up with something that seems right on.
"Guru" was really too strong a word.I have none.To me it conotes putting somebody on a pedestal,and I have seen way too much of that.
You should pick up some of the new age type publications in San Francisco.Its full of people hawking their services.Alot of people make a living doing this.I guess I should not get in to other areas of hocus pocus like
Chiropratic because we probably have some believers here.

Pete

[valuedcustomer]

... in response to Re: Re: New Age & Catholicism, posted by Pete E on Jan 13, 2004

You did say Stewart Wilde is one of your gurus.  And he is considered one of the influential people of the New Age movement.  The guy gives some standard good advice (readily available from other sources) mixed in with some extremely wacky stuff.  On his website he actually has pictures that he claims to have taken of invisible entities.

[Pete E]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: New Age & Catholicism, posted by valuedcustomer on Jan 13, 2004

Again Guru was a poor choice of words.I like some of what he says.And terms like "new age movement" are really broad.
A picture of an invisable entity? Not only did I not know he was in to that but it sounds a little impossible.Invisable would seem to rule out picture.
I used to be more in to what you might call new age.But I think I just became a republican instead,and thats not very new age.
Back during gulf war 1 I was at an auto auction.Lots of middle eastern types can be found there.One guy had a T-shirt that said " If Saddam Housein was ravaging your country which peace keeper would you like to have on your side?" There were 2 pictures on the shirt,one a hippy guy flashing a peace sign,with a line drawn though it.The other was an F-16.

Pete

[valuedcustomer]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Re: New Age & Catholicis..., posted by Pete E on Jan 13, 2004

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Normally invisible, until rendered visible by his special photography.  The New Age stuff is main stream enough today that even Republicans follow it.  There is even a New Age bookstore in Bogotá.  The only thing I have found good about New Age so far is some of the music.

As for the T-shirt, I could think of another version "Who would you rather have drop something on your head, and the shirt would have a hippie dropping flowers and a B-1 bomber dropping bombs".  T-shirt logic can be tricky at times.  Personally, I have found real experience combined with common sense to still be the best teacher with gurus and T-shirts a distant second.

[DavidMN]

... in response to Re: Re: New Age & Catholicism, posted by Pete E on Jan 13, 2004

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Entiendo, Señor.

I guess it's one of the limitations of a board like this. If one tries to write in a normal conversational tone where some things are silent but understood, others are open to interpretation, and some are later clarified...there's always someone that will jump on a single key word or phrase and use it to construct a rant of the day. :-(

-David

P.S. Now I'm going to take my crystals, feathers, magnets, and turquoise, go sit in a quiet place, channel my energy to Stonehenge and listen to Yanni  ;-)

[surfscum]

... in response to Re: New Age & Catholicism, posted by DavidMN on Jan 13, 2004

When it comes to little b, nothing is normal.