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Sleeping in EQ · 09-08-2006, 09:07 PM

I'm checking the "yes" box on this one, but am looking for a thoughtful discussion.

creekster · 09-08-2006, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

I'm checking the "yes" box on this one, but am looking for a thoughtful discussion.

I guess that depends on your POV. From a secular point of view I think they do, as they provide intersting ideas and apporaches that might otherwsie be overlooked or not as well considered. From a spiritual point of view it is porobably a mixed bag depending on the particular consumer of their product.

This is not very thoughtful, but for someone that doesn't read, it is the best I could do.

SeattleUte · 09-08-2006, 09:57 PM

My guess is that the outlet these mags provide lowers the rate of apostasy. Critique is always good. My mantra.

Archaea · 09-08-2006, 10:44 PM

The net effect is good, although I don't read them very often any more.

For those who wish to review matters critically, it is good to have an outlet that isn't purely apologetic, nor purely "anti", so the net effect is good.

As far as one's spirituality is concerned, I have found some who lose all track of any element of faith, by trying to explain every inconsistency. Ultimately intellectual reconciliation will only come in the next life, not this one. For those persons, those mags could become a stumbling block, but I'd rather have them, than not have them.

Critical analysis is good; it's to what use one puts it that matters.

SeattleUte · 09-08-2006, 10:57 PM

I read in Wikipedia that it was Sunstone that arranged to have the B of A scrolls translated by reputable experts. I didn't know that, or even that Sunstone has been around that long.

Archaea · 09-08-2006, 11:00 PM

I remember reading it in the eighties. How much before that I don't know.

Apparently the first issue was published in winter, 1975.

http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazi...ble/Issue1.asp

Dialogue Journal, 1966.

http://www.dialoguejournal.com/

MikeWaters · 09-08-2006, 11:30 PM

I am guessing they are good, but haven't ever really read them.

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09-08-2006, 09:07 PM	#1
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Dialogue and Sunstone I'm checking the "yes" box on this one, but am looking for a thoughtful discussion. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

09-08-2006, 09:57 PM	#3
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	My guess is that the outlet these mags provide lowers the rate of apostasy. Critique is always good. My mantra. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

09-08-2006, 10:44 PM	#4
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	The net effect is good, although I don't read them very often any more. For those who wish to review matters critically, it is good to have an outlet that isn't purely apologetic, nor purely "anti", so the net effect is good. As far as one's spirituality is concerned, I have found some who lose all track of any element of faith, by trying to explain every inconsistency. Ultimately intellectual reconciliation will only come in the next life, not this one. For those persons, those mags could become a stumbling block, but I'd rather have them, than not have them. Critical analysis is good; it's to what use one puts it that matters. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα Last edited by Archaea; 09-08-2006 at 11:09 PM.

09-08-2006, 10:57 PM	#5
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	I read in Wikipedia that it was Sunstone that arranged to have the B of A scrolls translated by reputable experts. I didn't know that, or even that Sunstone has been around that long. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

09-08-2006, 11:00 PM	#6
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	I remember reading it in the eighties. How much before that I don't know. Apparently the first issue was published in winter, 1975. http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazi...ble/Issue1.asp Dialogue Journal, 1966. http://www.dialoguejournal.com/ __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα Last edited by Archaea; 09-08-2006 at 11:05 PM.

09-08-2006, 11:30 PM	#7
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	I am guessing they are good, but haven't ever really read them.