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Old 03-04-2007, 08:26 PM   #17 (permalink)
Narz
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If you accept that we are all one consciousness,
I don't. It's pretty obvious to me we all all separate consciousnesses. At least this time around anyway (we may all be connected but obviously we don't all think and feel the same things).

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then there is essentially no difference between 'the part of you that smokes' and 'a person who rapes'. It's simply a part of the collective consciousness that is behaving in a destructive way.
You've lost me there.

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As to IM and LoA in children, I believe that until the child learns to take control over it's own mind he or she usually is a vessel for the intentions of those who provide it with mental nourishment, whether it be the parents, the television or the school. So until a child learns to take control over it's intentions, it's intentions are simply the result of the dominant thoughts of its caretakers.
So you believe in the child as blank slate theory. I disagree.
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