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Freespirited72 Level 1 Member Points: 0 Send Message Add to Friends Block Member Invite to Group Report this User Navigation My Profile Journal Photos Videos Calendar View Calendar Upcoming Events Friends Groups Advertisement	All Member Name: Beliefnet Members for Barack Obama Status: Member Description: This group was created for supporters of Barack Obama for President to discuss the campaign, the issues, and voters' concerns. As a member of this caucus group you can start a discussion below by posting a new thread, get involved in an ongoing DISCUSSION, post a PHOTO to support your candidate, comment on a group journal post by going to the JOURNAL link to the left, INVITE friends and fellow supporters to join your cause. Futhermore, you can request to be a MODERATOR and lead the group, posting events in the CALENDAR, making ANNOUNCEMENTS and focusing the groups mission and creative energies. So, sign up and get involved now! Name: World Pantheism Movement (WPM) Status: Member Description: "The fact is that because no one thing or feature of this universe is separable from the whole, the only real You, or Self, is the whole." (Alan Watts) Name: Beliefnet Circle of Reason Category: General Discussion Status: Member Description: Beliefnet Circle of Reason (BCOR) is a virtual "local circle" of The Circle of Reason (www.circleofreason.org) -- a fellowship of the religious and non-religious who believe communal commitment to reason will transform the world. We are a truly ecumenical site to find, recruit, converse with and encourage -- from all walks of life, all biologies, all beliefs, all societies -- those who are your own kinsmen and kinswomen - the reasoning kind! Name: Bnetters Against Activity Feed! Status: Member Description: Bnetters Against Activity Feed! is an ecumenical, cross-platform, "SINGLE ISSUE VOTER" kind of group!! The intrusive Activity Feed should either be removed altogether or an ability to OPT OUT should be provided. I like my Bnet Buds otherwise we wouldn’t be friends, but does this mean I want a “shout out” every time I rate a photo, post a comment on someone's profile, change my own profile, write a journal entry or make a new friend? NOOOOO! Let's join hands to register our dissatisfaction with this intrusion by visiting the PETITION thread! We’re not Facebook, MySpace or Linked In! We’re Beliefnet! :) As members of Bnetters Against Activity Feed! you have an opportunity to register your discontent with this alleged “enhancement” initiated by Beliefnet in June of 2008. Despite assurances from staff that they're "looking into" methods to either disable this feature or make it optional, nearly 4 months later nothing has been done. At first glance, this is a very small problem. Yet when you place these Activity feeds in the larger context of online privacy, FISA and how the accessibility of online information plays into counter-terrorism meaures, perhaps this problem isn't as small or unimportant as first meets the eye! Bnet Administration modeled the activity feed after Face Book. Are you aware that Facebook members protested against this to the point that Face Book woke up and made it optional? http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1532225,00.html Name: Vegetarianism and Veganism Status: Member Description: For members of beliefnet who are vegetarian, vegan, or interested in either. Whether it is a spiritual, moral, animal rights, ethical reason, come join us! Name: A New Me Status: Member Description: Are you tired of the negative talk and influences that rule your life? Are you constantly telling yourself bad things that are running you down mentally? This group is dedicated to those of you that want to turn your negatives into positives. We will have daily positive affirmations that will help you return the positive to your life. Feel free to post anything positive that you feel will help yourself and others. Quotes, thoughts, etc are welcome! Name: Kick in the Tush Club Status: Member Description: The Kick in the Tush Club is for light-hearted, low-cal loving, nutritional friendly folks who crave mammoth portions of food-facts, recipes, art and inspiration. We are on a mission! To Make Weight Loss Fun!!! Our guide is Our Lady of Weight Loss. She helped me to lose over 50 pounds 6 years ago. (after a life-time of yo'yo'ing). We will dish the dirt, swap recipes and push, pull and support each other on the road to Sveltesville. (FYI, Sveltesville is where Our Lady of Weight Loss lives.) Name: Battlestar Galactica: Religion, Ethics, and Identity Status: Member Description: This group was created for fans of the Sci-Fi channel's original series, Battlestar Galactica. Battlestar Galactica deals with an enormous number of religious and ethical ideas that reflect much of the world we live in now. This is your chance to share your thoughts on those ideas. From the destruction of the colonies to the exoneration of Gaius Baltar, what are your thoughts on the story so far and where will it take us in the upcoming final season? Name: Ex-Christian Support Status: Member Description: Leaving a belief system isn't easy. You may have been part of a Christian cult, a member of a controlling church, or you may have read the bible and found it to not be anything to be considered to be the infallible word of God. Did you find your critical thinking skills challenged and your logic and reasoning skills needed to be checked at the door and finally woke up one day and realized you no longer were a believer? This is an emotionally troubling time. You may feel you have been lied to...deceived. You may feel anger and hostility toward the Church, and sometimes its members, for being lied to. Come here and vent, rather than get in someones face and hurt their feelings. We will be discussing your path to enlightenment and how you abandoned the Christian faith and the spiritual path you are on now. Since we are all Ex-Christains, this isn't a place to turn shepherds back into sheep. No prostelytising allowed nor attempts to re-convert members of this group. Share your stories of joy in discovering your freedom from the chains of Christianity and how, hopefully, you have found God. Name: Being Ourself Status: Member Description: This is a group for people who recognize in a profoundly personal way that we are all actually facets of one whole interacting with itself, or more accurately, Ourself. It is a place for peer discussion and exploration as we move through the challenges and insights we encounter while participating in the awakening of ourselves to our common fundamental identity, Ourself. As indivisible aspects of the single, infinitely diverse entity of everything/reality/creation we all have an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen humankind's awareness of Ourself, and to enrich our language with new terminology/ideas to more accurately portray that which truly is. We want to support each other as we discover wholeness while living in a society that defines everything (including God) as separate when in fact the creator and creation (including all people, animals, plants, minerals, and seen and unseen forces of spirit) are not in any actual way separate. So don't be shy... your vantage point of the whole is completely unique, and is just as valid and important as anybody elses. Enlightenment is the recognition of the wholeness, which by its very all-inclusive nature negates the validity of any kind of exclusive spiritual authority or guru. To allow ourselves to truly feel and be aware of ourselves as part of the great wholeness we need to stop putting others on a pedestal as a way of avoiding being accountable for shining our own light. Let's get the orchestra of the wholeness playing diversely, brilliantly, and powerfully enough to wake up humankind from the illusion of separateness. We can only accomplish this as a community of distinct voices and insights singing out in the harmony of the whole, and not by silencing our own special voice because we have decided some other "enlightened" teacher has a monopoly on authenticity! So sing out your insights, your questions... cry out your pains and frustrations... and love your neighbor as yourself because in truth they are; we are all precious dimensions of one whole. Let's respectfully, gently, and lovingly be Ourself together.