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Breaking up with her was a good choice. Her moral values were quiet poor and she wasn't worth your time.

http://www.gocomics.com/thenorm/2010/10/26
http://www.gocomics.com/thenorm/2010/10/26#mutable_550136

Ok, back to the topic..

Well, addiction is a lot more complicated than that sometimes...I am not in any way condoning it but it is a sad and ugly situation. Wonderful, good, worthwhile people get caught in the web too. Breaking up was necessary but sometimes the necessary thing can still break your heart. Again, so sorry Kraftiekortie.

I will hijack the thread for one second (and then we can pm or start a new thread if you want to discuss it further)
but i will say this...i am coming from the perspective of believing that the God of the Bible is the real deal...as i study in the original Greek, God is always always referred to in the masculine.

The masculine or feminine question of God is not something that is open to differences in interpretation Biblically--Greek is a very specific language. Cut and dried, matter-of-fact, the form of the words used for God are masculine. I have been studying for about 3-4 yrs in a class taught by a gentleman who taught New Testament Greek for 30 yrs and so far have not come across God referred to in the feminine AT ALL. Also our teacher has studied the Hebrew in the Old Testament and he says the same thing...always referred to in masculine. Some Biblical things are difficult to interpret but this is something that is very straightforward and not difficult to see with a bit of study.

And we are going from the original language which is also consistent with studying ancient Greek texts other than the Bible too. Am i an expert? I don't consider myself an expert, but i have some time in now. But this is a simple question to answer when you go back to the original.

Ok, done hijacking the thread. Back to soulmate thingy.

I think it is safe to say that not everyone's idea of God comes from Judaism and I truly believe that patriarchy had a hand in that.

Many people believe that God is a benevolent and transcendent energy that is omnipresent in everything. Most simply put, God is energy. Decades ago, Albert Einstein proved that everything is energy. All that we know to be matter is, in fact, rapidly moving particles of energy.

Yup, i know not everyone agrees with the Judaic God...i feel it makes sense based on what i see in the world around me and study of the texts. It is not just something i bought hook, line, and sinker from my upbringing.
But it is another thread or topic so i won't go into all the reasons on this one. The reason i mentioned it in the first place is because it pertained to my statement of divine planning of our lives. That is how it was meant. I don't mind discussing but don't want to hijack the thread too badly.

I'm more of a Wiccan God/Goddess duality or Shinto all spirit belief or Native spirituality believer myself. I also like Hindu deities as I find them absolutely fascinating [my favourites are Shiva, Krishna, Parvati, and Yama and Yami].

Religion, to me, is something to study rather than something to believe in.

I believe it was Jung that said that 'God is not something I believe in. God is something that I know."
Here's another one of his: In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Jung is somebody whom one should study thoroughly.

He was a great theorist. If only he and Freud got along!

^I don't like Freud because of his insistence that humans only want sex all the time.
I like Jung's dream philosophy. I find it quite intriguing.

I believe in Freud's notions pertaining to why humankind created religion.

About his Oedipus Complex, etc......Absurd!

I believe thoroughly in Jung's notions pertaining to the Collective Unconscious and cultural archetypes. The man really had eclectic interests.

Archetypes are so interesting!

Jung believed these archetypes were significant to culture, and were passed down from generation to generation.

Freud would have none of this. Freud was a medical doctor; he didn't believe in exploring the esoteric.

^One looses so much when one becomes incredulous.

Yep...Freud was incredulous when Jung broke away from him. They used to be close associates.

You should really read up on the early panel of psychoanalysts who used to meet in Vienna starting about 1908 or so. Alfred Adler was also part of that panel. A couple of other famous theorists were also present, though I don't know who they were at this moment.