Xtend
I went to Xtend Retreat at Living Springs and i just learned so much. It's so weird how just a weekend away can bring me so much closer to God and to others. I don't often feel the Holy Spirit but it seems that both times i've gone to Xtend i have and I just love it. I've learned so much about my self, my realtionship with God and others, how I relate to others, how they relate to me, how i'm affected by them and so on. Xtend was not just about learning for me, it was about developing better relationships and I really believe I achieved that. I know that everything I do in life is something towards my Destiny and I really just want to thank God for talking to me at the retreat, preparing me for things to come and even helping solve things in my life now. I know I needed it, and so Does He.
posted by Rayd at 6:01 pm
6 Comments:
"Feel" "feel" "FEEL".
This meaningless word keeps appearing in your discourses and posts more frequently.
BFD!!! You can get a good feeling by laying on a psychiatrist's couch and filling his head with all the bullcrap you've been experiencing.
Doesn't mean anything.
"...The counsel of the LORD, that shall stand."
So you would be a T in the myers-briggs personality test. Hate to disappoint you but i'm an F
Whatever that is...I guess. Perhaps you could elaborate.
I don't buy into a lot of the psycho-illogy being pedaled by the snake-oil salesmen in the upper echelons of society today. MUCH of it is "philosophy and vain deceit anfter the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ."
Too much of religion embraces such.
Believers need "Jehovah-java" not spiritual(ist) sedatives that anestetize believing, and make people comfortable in their enslavement.
Well based on the Jung Myers-Brigs personality test people are either primarily thinking people or feeling people, feeling people base their decisions on how they feel and thinking people on what is rational and how they think. You would be a thinking person, at my guess. But generally it's best not to put people into boxes and so I would only really "box" people I knew well enough to understand them, thus increasing my understanding of how they do things and why.
I wouldn't go too much into dissing psychologists, my Dad is a psychologist and my sister is studying psychology at university. It's only really understanding how and why people think so you can try and help them solve the issues they are going through in a way that works for them because not everyone is the same. I for instance can make plenty of rational thoughts but when it comes down to doing something I can't physically "do" something if it contradicts my feelings on the matter. I'm not going into depth but it is something I need to work on getting through.
The whole idea that people are "all thought and no emotion" or vice-versa is cognitively dissonant at best. For a person to have feelings is not evil, but I would imagine many psychologists would concur those led about by their feelings are in a bad way!
Everyone has the ability to reason. Whether or not they've been taught to utilize that ability is another matter entirely! After that is seen to there's the matter of using your emotions to your benefit, rather than your detriment as most do. Biblically, this is "faith", or pistis from the Greek - a verb from which we get the English word piston - the most accurate translation of which would be believing.
Because this concept is not broadly taught or accepted, the various "fatalism" schools of non-thought have arisen, wherein it is rationalized you have no control nor responsibility for your own life, (it's all a matter of "luck") when in reality we make our own "luck" - good or bad - all the time, according to our believing.
This is what the few who have learned to develop and utilize into a successful life refer to as "The strangest secret"...Strange, because it is so self-evident yet ignored: You will become what you think about.
Become what we think? Excellent, I like that, I like my life the way I think it. It'll work out perfectly.
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