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Fresh Air Group |
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Support Group |
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Owner |
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A place to get together and help each other through one of the toughest addictions to break. All are welcome, smokers and non-smokers and especially former smokers, because you've been there, and you know. Please join me in helping all who need to kick this horrible habit. We can do it together. |
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Stardove's Wonder |
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Inspiration |
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Member |
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Welcome to a place where we can discuss Spirituality and the mysteries of life. If you wonder about Spirituality and life let's explore the esoteric side of it. |
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Devotees of THE LOVE GURU |
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Member |
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Hello Beliefnet!
I am his holiness, the Guru Pitka. I am the orphaned child of two American missionaries who after dying left me at a remote Indian village, where I was adopted by the great Guru Tugginmapuddah, and raised to travel the world, healing all emotional woes, free trapped souls from their internal torment, and offer my own brand of spiritual road map for those who seek it. And if YOU seek my spiritual road map this is the group for you!
I encourage questions and discussions about loving, feeling, being, my best selling books ("If you're happy and you know it, think again," "Eight days to happiness in six weeks" and many others), playing the sitar, marshmallow yummies for your heart tummy or anything that moves you. |
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Beyond Blue |
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Support Group |
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Member |
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This group serves as an extension of the popular "Beyond Blue" blog (http://www.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/) and will provide an opportunity for readers to get to know each other better. My hope is that, like my blog, it will become a supportive network for those suffering from depression or any other mental illness. |
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Kathy Smith's Spiritual Walking |
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Member |
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One thing I've learned in our Spiritual Walking Group is that finding a network of people that support your efforts is a major factor in achieving your goals. With this idea in mind, Beliefnet and I are pleased to announce "America Walks with Kathy Smith," a 10-month journey that we hope will allow us to support each other in our quests to accomplish our individual aspirations, but also to work toward a common goal as a group: to be healthier in our bodies, minds, spirits, homes, schools, and planet.
Every month, from now through October 4th, 2008 (the official date of the walk), I'll help us focus on different aspects of walking, personal growth, and spiritual connection. Within each month's theme, we'll also have some fun with a monthly contest and prize. As we proceed, we'll build a community of walkers, touching lives across the country with our anecdotes, our struggles, and our ever-growing support system. As we take this journey together, I encourage you to reach out to friends and family and invite them to participate. And as our group culminates with the Walk Across America on October 4th, we'll hand off a "virtual baton" from one walker to the next - symbolizing our personal goals (weight loss, lowering blood pressure, increasing energy), and at the same time, uniting in our mission to create a healthier America and a healthier world. |
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Bnetters Against Activity Feed! |
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Member |
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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
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Cooking and Baking |
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Member |
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This group is for those who want to share recipes and the joy of cooking and/or baking. It doesn't have to be low in calories, fat-free, etc. What I'm looking for is favourtie family recipes (even if it's a family of one). I am interested in the therapeutic value and/or togetherness of it... Please feel free to share your food memories... |
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Writing |
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Member |
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Hi. We'll be discussing writing. Everything from proper grammar and the mechanics of writing to the reasons we write...or no longer write. Hop right in and let's begin... |
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Dually Diagnose |
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Member |
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Hi! My name is Heide. I created this group for people who are dually diagnose with mental disorders and addiction. It is hard to live being dually diagnose and I would like to hear peoples experiences on how it effects them and how to coop with it. There is help here.
Mental disorder:
The condition of being sound mentally and emotionally that is characterized by the absence of mental disorder (as neurosis or psychosis) and by adequate adjustment especially as reflected in feeling comfortable about oneself, positive feelings about others, and ability to meet the demands of life.
Addiction:
Compulsive physiological need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be physically, psychologically, or socially harmful. |
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Beliefnet Community Presents: The Member of the Month |
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Member |
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In conjuction with our Member of the Month contest, this group provides a place to support your favorite candidate, tell others why he or she deserves to be recognized, express your appreciation, and nominate future candidates! (And, yes, we invite you to nominate yourself!)
The September gallery is up! View it here! |
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SGI Nichiren Buddhist Seekers |
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Member |
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Seekers on the Buddhist spiritual path, either new to this chosen spiritual journey or a long time practitioner. Focussed mainly for the SGI-Nichiren Buddhist, but open to all. |
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Kick in the Tush Club |
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Member |
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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.) |
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Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow Children and Adults Support Grou |
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Member |
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I'm an Indigo and I really want to help other Indigo's, Crystals and Rainbows! Some people already know a bit about these children and adults who are coming in all over the world. This is a place to share information and give support! |
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The Soulmate Project |
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Relationships |
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Member |
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Finding true, soulful love is not a destination, its a journey. A real and lasting relationship with a spiritual soul mate requires inner work and outer preparation. It calls us to GET READY for love. Explore a multi-faceted spiritual approach for inviting true love into your life! We will:
* Share love stories
* Focus on self love and embracing ourselves
* Pray for love
Also, you can Join the Soulmate Project group on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=137493752956984&ref=ts |
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Being Ourself |
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Member |
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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. |
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