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Hope is Transcendent - 6th January 2010, 03:35 PM

If you can, take 20 minutes to watch this short film by the Doorpost Film Project (and the 'Behind the Scenes' footage that follows). I think this is a must see film! Hope you all agree. --Steve---

The Doorpost Film Project - The Butterfly Circus


That which the Lord hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 255)
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6th January 2010, 09:40 PM

Thank you!

I found that profoundly moving, and very beautiful.

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6th January 2010, 09:47 PM

It was indeed my pleasure to put forward such a beautifully inspiring piece. Thanks for taking the time to watch it! --Steve--


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7th January 2010, 11:28 AM

LK--
I didn't have to register when I first saw the film (at the address I posted). It may have since changed, or perhaps you are seeing a pre-ad that you could [CANCEL] or [CLOSE] to pass thru the 'gate'. I tried it again this morning and I was not required to register.

Then again, with my memory these days, perhaps I DID register initially and the site now recognizes my IP address.

Perhaps EH has better recall and can advise as to whether he had to register. --Steve--


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7th January 2010, 11:57 AM

I did not register. I had to wait a few moments for an ad to run its course, but I didn't have to do anything else.
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11th January 2010, 12:36 AM

From the movie:

"A man -- if you could even call him that -- who even God Himself has turned His back upon!"

Any person who believes that sentence is even possible is no believer in God. And what's truly funny is I'm NOT a believer in God, and I think that sentence is impossible.

As a bit of backstory: During the late 1960s and early 1970s in Toronto, there was a gay dance club -- no booze, just dancing -- on Toronto's main street. And once in a while, during August and before Labour Day, that club would get a rather different sort of visitor. Her name was "Dainty Dora." She was the fat lady from the Canadian National Exhibition. Full disclosure, I actually saw Dora at the "Ex," in the Freak Show, and met her at the club (it was called the "511" because it was at 511 Yonge Street). So this is a very real, very true story to which I bear personal witness.

I leave it to you all to contemplate why Dora felt comfortable -- for a brief period of an evening -- in such a place, where she couldn't even stand up to dance, and there wouldn't have been anyone who was interested in her as what she wanted to be (just a woman).

For those of you who need a hint, however, acceptance of people's differences can be a powerful thing. I wonder what Jesus would have thought?

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14th March 2010, 05:00 PM

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If you can, take 20 minutes to watch this short film by the Doorpost Film Project (and the 'Behind the Scenes' footage that follows). I think this is a must see film! Hope you all agree. --Steve---

The Doorpost Film Project - The Butterfly Circus
I had bookmarked this and just now got around to watching it. Amazingly wonderful! Thanks much for sharing that!
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8th August 2010, 09:43 AM

A major element, perhaps the principal element, of historical religions are explanations about the ultimate, transcendent constituents of reality. Other issues, like the Problem of Evil, are explained in such terms: e.g. God's purposes and plans for the universe and our own fate after death.

Immanuel Kant's Antinomies, from the Critique of Pure Reason, are contradictions that he believed follow necessarily from our attempts to conceive the nature of transcendent reality. Kant thought that certain of his Antinomies (God and Freedom) could be resolved as "Postulates of Practical Reason." Here the view is that the Antinomies cannot be resolved and that attempts to conceive the transcendent will always produce irresolvable contradictions. This does not mean that there is no transcendent or that attempts to conceive the transcendent are meaningless. They are, just as Kant said, necessitated by reason itself. It does mean, however, that the transcendent defeats rational representation.
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