Next door to the cafe is the Quaker Meeting House. Have driven by often since moving to Phoenix in 1981. Wasn't until recently I visited. Had gone to another Friends' Meeting here years ago; somewhat academically familiar and by repute insofar as pacifism goes. I'm with them there but was thrown by the gender politics and posturing at the meetings I attended. I had to make a change from the Southern Baptists as I was suffocating and put off by condescension. Many years of that. Long story there of seeking to do ministry but do not buy into their closed minds. Many denominations have the same sort of enforcement problem I ran into with Quakers presently.
The second time I visited, looking at the little library, I saw a 'LGBT' section on the shelf. I knew I was out of there then but went the next week. Then I couldn't help but notice a woman sitting on a chair in the lotus position. Confound it. That's what she wanted. That is not the Christian manner. It's intellectual and if you want to go through the motions and act it out that's fine. But it's not Christian. Buddhists are atheists. Siddhartha's insight applies but it does not save. (It's like using decent language and grammar.) Jesus saves and Jehovah is Lord. They don't agree with that and one needn't do a thing but believe. It's distillation may be analogous to "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." but that merely reinforces the poesy. Sorry to say, I was disappointed. No way; ever. Tiresome.
The advocates like to say, "You eat pork?" and go on to put it that therefore OK to fornicate pursuant to bizarre pagan obsessions. I figured it out years ago and won't have any part in their perverting Christianity. They throw up that Jesus was 'gay'. Outrageous. I can tolerate them existentially; I'm only responsible for my own soul. I can give my testimony. They can take it or leave it. But who's interested? The Baptists weren't. What did they take me for? They talk about but not with. The usual.
Thinking about Francesca, funny to see this mesquite sprout. She said she aced Geometry. Here we have a presentation of a fractal phenomenon. And the sum of the parts being a nice picture. But, like the mind construct mentioned, it does not indicate God except to believe he is the Creator. It's just beyond our ken.
The second time I visited, looking at the little library, I saw a 'LGBT' section on the shelf. I knew I was out of there then but went the next week. Then I couldn't help but notice a woman sitting on a chair in the lotus position. Confound it. That's what she wanted. That is not the Christian manner. It's intellectual and if you want to go through the motions and act it out that's fine. But it's not Christian. Buddhists are atheists. Siddhartha's insight applies but it does not save. (It's like using decent language and grammar.) Jesus saves and Jehovah is Lord. They don't agree with that and one needn't do a thing but believe. It's distillation may be analogous to "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." but that merely reinforces the poesy. Sorry to say, I was disappointed. No way; ever. Tiresome.
The advocates like to say, "You eat pork?" and go on to put it that therefore OK to fornicate pursuant to bizarre pagan obsessions. I figured it out years ago and won't have any part in their perverting Christianity. They throw up that Jesus was 'gay'. Outrageous. I can tolerate them existentially; I'm only responsible for my own soul. I can give my testimony. They can take it or leave it. But who's interested? The Baptists weren't. What did they take me for? They talk about but not with. The usual.
Thinking about Francesca, funny to see this mesquite sprout. She said she aced Geometry. Here we have a presentation of a fractal phenomenon. And the sum of the parts being a nice picture. But, like the mind construct mentioned, it does not indicate God except to believe he is the Creator. It's just beyond our ken.
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