Podcasts about invulnerability

What does it really mean to be a great leader? In this episode, Rick Mayo and Suzanne Robb take a fresh look at The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni, and you might be surprised by what's holding most leaders back.Leadership is less about maintaining appearances and more about building real trust. Rick and Suzanne tackle the traps that leaders at all levels fall into—like prioritizing status over results and avoiding accountability for popularity's sake.But they don't just outline these temptations; they share actionable steps for creating a culture of clarity, accountability, and authentic success.Don't miss this episode! Listen now and learn how to become the leader you've always wanted to be.Key TakeawaysIntro (00:00)The Five Temptations of a CEO (02:10)First temptation: Status over results (03:03)Second temptation: Popularity over accountability (10:14)Third temptation: Certainty over clarity (14:32)Fourth temptation: Harmony over conflict (18:39)Fifth temptation: Invulnerability over trust (23:41)Additional Resources:The Five Temptations of a CEO: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Temptations-CEO-Anniversary-Leadership/dp/0470267585- Alloy Personal Training- Learn About The Alloy Franchise Opportunity---------You can find the podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.If you haven't already, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts!

第二十六課　我的攻擊念頭等於否定了自己百害不侵的本質 你是永恆的靈性生命。你在身體出生之前就已經存在，也會在這具身體看似死亡之後繼續存在。說「看似」是因為身體並沒有死亡，因為它從來沒有活過。我們想澄清這一點。身體只是一具屍體，它是由你的靈性賦予生命的。你的靈性過去已存在，它現在存在，將來也會存在，永遠不變。它是源自上主，因此不會改變。 **本合集内容来自奇蹟課程學員練習手冊，傳訊人蒂娜‧司帕尔汀，魏佳芳老師所翻譯-寬恕的一年** Powered by Firstory Hosting

Adventures have risks. It doesn't matter how much you plan, or how well you manage situations, if you are having an adventure, something can go wrong. It is impossible to make adventures 100% safe. If they really are safe, then there isn't any risk which means they aren't going to be adventures!For this reason, planning for mishaps, emergencies and surprises is another essential step when it comes to delivering adventure.In this episode, we share a story from ACMG Alpine Guide and professional athlete Will Gadd to highlight the importance of planning for mishap. Will's story takes place on the Fuhrmann Ledges in Banff National Park and is an excellent example of the value of planning for mishaps, even when you think there is a low risk of something going wrong.Will Gadd has a long list of accomplishments including first ice climbing ascents of Niagara Falls and on Mt. Kilamjaro, winning three gold medals at the X Games, and setting the paragliding world distance record twice.Key TakeawaysHere are a few things that Will did very well:Communicating the Risks: This includes Will communicating what could happen to his clients and himself. In this instance it's a given that Will would have had his clients sign a waiver and would have talked to them beforehand about the risks they could face.Discussing the Plan in the Event of a Crisis: This put the idea in their heads that rock fall could happen. More importantly it helped to prepare them for the moment when it actually did happen.If you fail to plan you plan to fail.Being Situationally Aware: Even though Will felt that there wasn't a high probability of rockfall, he still went through the process of preparing everyone, looking for signs that rockfall had occurred recently, and encouraging his clients to do the same.Five Hazardous Attitudes: At least one of the Five Hazardous Attitudes that is always present in human caused accidents. They are Anti-Authority, Impulsivity, Invulnerability, Macho and Resignation.Guest BioWill Gadd is a professional sponsored athlete and ACMG Alpine Guide. Among many of Will's feats are first accents ice climbing Niagara Falls, Helmcken Falls, Icebergs and many other ice climbs around the world including on the top of Mt Kilimanjaro. Will is also a world-class white-water kayaker and paraglider. He has twice set the world record for the longest paragliding flight.As an elite athlete and professional guide, Will is extremely experienced when it comes to evaluating risk and making decisions that could have serious consequences for himself and the people he is leading or working with. This makes Will one of the perfect people to talk about the power of judgment.Guest LinksContact Will to be your Guide, Instructor or Speaker: https://willgadd.com/Instagram: @realwillgaddThe Last Ascent, Kilimanjaro: https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/films/the-last-ascent-will-gadds-return-to-kilimanjaroA Fun Ted Talk: Three Simple Tools to Manage Risk, Fear and Children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdFkPTTnsAFollow or SubscribeDon't forget to follow the show!Share & Social Linkshttps://linktr.ee/deliveringadventurehttps://deliveringadventure.com/

Invulnerability is ugly, and it can crush a team.  This week, Pat, Cody, Tracy and Beau talk about how we can root out invulnerability in ourselves and explain why our relationships will improve as a result.   To listen to the Working Genius Podcast: https://www.workinggenius.com/podcast   This week's unpaid ads: www.gethalls.com/relief and www.tacobell.com 

A lecture with Q&A given by Davenant Hall Teaching Fellow, Ryan Hurd. Today, Anselm is much maligned for doing theology which results in a heartless god, and central to this caricature is his doctrine of God's impassibility. However, critics often fail to understand the exact nature of this doctrine. Before one can even consider truth or falsity, one must determine: what does impassibility actually mean? In this lecture. Ryan Hurd determines what Anselm means by saying God is impassible, especially as found in Chapters 7 and 8 of his Proslogion, concluding that his judgment is akin to saying that someone is “invulnerable.” Although many adversities have power over us humans by virtue of our many vulnerabilities, none have any power over God, for he lacks all our vulnerabilities. This alone is what Anselm means when he says God is impassible. As he summarizes, “nothing has power against God.” Ryan Hurd is a systematic theologian whose area of expertise is the doctrine of God, specifically the Trinity. His primary training is in the high medieval and early modern scholastics as well as the 20th century ressourcement movement. He has written a number of articles and regularly does translations of early modern theology sources; but his primary project is writing a systematics of the Trinity. He is a Teaching Fellow at Davenant Hall. For more about Davenant Hall, visit our website here: https://davenanthall.com

This whole Chapter 13 is called "THE GUILTLESS WORLD." This Chapter is to help us to see things differently, and be freed from the delusion of "guilt." The guilt projected onto ourselves and others makes up "laws of suffering, separation and death." This is a loveless world of the ego. We cannot have a feeling of a Benevolent and Merciful GOD in this picture of the ego. "Love does not kill to save." Adam's "sin" was merely a mistake of feeling guilt. God did not condemn man by "throwing him out of paradise." We threw ourselves out through the delusion of guilt. It was the belief in "guilt," not our Creator, that put us in hell. God created us "originally innocent" and established Heaven as our eternal State of Being, in the frequency of our "guiltlessness."

LESSON 26My Attack Thoughts Are Attacking My Invulnerability.It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them.Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other.The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are.Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so.Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further.The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows:First, name the situation:I am concerned about _______.Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying:I am afraid _______will happen.If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can.After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself:That thought is an attack upon myself.Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

While just the word vulnerability can trigger our defenses, it can also be a great gateway to secure relating and deepening the connection with our authentic selves. In a society heavily influenced by social media, unhealthy gender roles, and many other factors - Ann and Sue dive into the importance of changing the narrative and stepping out of our defensive invulnerable state and into our healthy, vulnerable selves. 

Experience the teachings of ‘A Course in Miracles' in a delightful and accessible way with ‘Guiding Ollie' by Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne. Follow the captivating adventures of the inquisitive monkey, Ollie, and the enchanting Goddess Mya. Start instilling spiritual principles in your child early, without overwhelming them. Find it on Amazon, but for the best price, visit www.OpenandClear.com to explore our publications. - call into the program: https://anchor.fm/iamacim/message

In a realm where gods, kings, heroes, and paupers battle the forces of darkness, their secret weapon often lies not in their swords, but in the very clothes they wear.  Join us in this episode as we delve into the mystical world of impenetrable coats of armor, cloaks, and animal skins that have shielded legendary champions from the clutches of evil and ferocious monsters.  These special garments aren't mere attire; they are a gift- the hero's ultimate protection against the malevolent dragon.For pictures, links, full quotations, and the audio transcript for this episode see: https://theancienttradition.com/21-the-cloak-of-invulnerability/ Visit us on the web at theancienttradition.com for more amazing comparative religion.

The Hydra is a tiny, impassive creature. Cut it in half, and you have two whole Hydra with the same genetic material. Chop off its head, and it simply regrows one. It's an ability that hasn't caught the attention of the powerful elite – yet. But if it did, it could show them the futility of a project they're currently embroiled in. The longtermist project. In this episode, we have Daniel Martinez, who studies hydra, and Emile P. Torres, who studies long termism, who show us how to think about our future – by simply looking into the undying present of the Hydra. In ‘The Missing Link,' The Swaddle's science podcast, we take a look at humanity's most urgent questions – and the answers that might be lurking in unexpected science. Credits: Hosts: Rohitha Narharisetty and Ananya Singh Writing and Production: Rohitha Narharisetty and Ananya Singh Sound Design, Associate Producer: Vibhav Saraf Marketing Collateral Design: Hitesh Sonar Art Director: Neha Shekhawat Executive Producer: Karla Bookman

We are rounding out Woman's History Month with a candid conversation discussing the wisdom and insight we've learned from Brene Brown. Brene is a researcher and story-teller who has spent the last few decades researching courage, shame, vulnerability, and empathy. Lisa and Briana both have learned so many valuable lessons from her various talks, podcasts, and interviews, and share some of their favorite teachable moments they have learned from her work. Brene Brown TED Talk “The Power of Vulnerability”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o&t=2sBrene Brown TED Talk “Listening to Shame”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0&t=23sBrene Brown TED Talk “The Price of Invulnerability”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UoMXF73j0c&t=29sBrene Brown's Book List: https://brenebrown.com/books-audioBrene Brown's Podcast: https://brenebrown.com/podcasts/Brene Brown's Website/Bio: https://brenebrown.com/aboutMotivational Instincts Video- Brene Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qfbpBzqitALive Violence Free Crisis Line: 530-544-4444Intro Music Provided By: Downtown Walk by | e s c p | https://escp-music.bandcamp.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/One Conversation, The Podcast Where We Believe One Conversation Can Change A Life | www.liveviolencefree.org

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows: First, name the situation: I am concerned about ----. Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying: I am afraid ---- will happen. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself: That thought is an attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more. - Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 26

第二十六課　我的攻擊念頭等於否定了自己百害不侵的本質 你是永恆的靈性生命。你在身體出生之前就已經存在，也會在這具身體看似死亡之後繼續存在。說「看似」是因為身體並沒有死亡，因為它從來沒有活過。我們想澄清這一點。身體只是一具屍體，它是由你的靈性賦予生命的。你的靈性過去已存在，它現在存在，將來也會存在，永遠不變。它是源自上主，因此不會改變。 **本合集内容来自奇蹟課程學員練習手冊，傳訊人蒂娜‧司帕尔汀，魏佳芳老師所翻譯-寬恕的一年** Powered by Firstory Hosting

The title is pretty self-explanatory BUT this week, we're revisiting one of the albums of the decade that dominated the charts even if it ultimately had very little artistic merit: 50 Cent's "The Massacre." We talk about 50 Cent's persona, each track on the album, white listeners' racial imaginations and their impact on commercial hip hop, Brendan's mom's connection to G-Unit, and the album's cultural relevance in 2005 and now. You can find Fat Guy, Jacked Guy on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. You can find Stef on the web here and Brendan here. Support us on Patreon!!! There's extra content for Patreon supporters, as well as opportunities to interact with us in other ways besides listening to the podcast. We appreciate any and all help you can provide, and we hope to keep this going for a long, long time. Thank you in advance for your support and love! You are our brothers!

Ritchie Herron, also known as TullipR on Twitter, is a 35-year-old detransitioning male who spent almost a decade living as a trans woman. Before his fixation on gender, Ritchie had spent most of his life struggling with debilitating anxiety and obsessional OCD thoughts. As you'll hear, he is brilliant, articulate, and compelling. But in his teens and young adult life, he forced his big personality into submission. He was terrified of the truth: that he was gay.  Internalized shame, body hatred, and extreme isolation only fed into his OCD. In the throes of all this, he found an online forum about gender dysphoria, and everything changed in an instant, as Ritchie had a new goal and a new OCD obsession. In this interview, he delivers a moving and powerful account of what happened next. And keep in mind, this is the story of a vulnerable adult, well over 18, but still the victim of a system that missed red flags over and over again. In 2018, after much coaxing from the professionals, he underwent a procedure under the UK's National Health Service which removed his genitals. The regret set in almost immediately. Ritchie is now working towards suing the NHS for failing to address serious mental health issues during the diagnostic process. He is active on Twitter, and his brilliant substack, promoting and reposting stories of detransitioners, particularly highlighting the hidden stories of men, bringing awareness to the public about what he calls “the medical scandal of our time.” Links & Resources: Ritchie's Substack — TullipR: https://tullipr.substack.com/ (https://tullipr.substack.com/) Ritchie's harrowing tweet thread on being a detransitioner:  https://twitter.com/TullipR/status/1536422533230206976?t=QXFZlhxy7GKaTd812rAlTA&s=08 (https://twitter.com/TullipR/status/1536422533230206976?t=QXFZlhxy7GKaTd812rAlTA&s=08) Twitter: https://twitter.com/TullipR (https://twitter.com/TullipR) Extended Notes Ritchie didn't set out to be a mouthpiece for male detransitioners. Most people don't understand the pressures associated with gender clinics and therapy. He longed to express himself as a child but he held it in which caused anxiety and OCD. During his teens and as his parents went through a divorce, Ritchie suffered in silence. He began SSRIs in his early 20s. He hated his body. When Ritchie told his psychologist he was trans, it was noted but not worked through. The gender clinic knew Ritchie was OCD. Forums helped implant the idea that Ritchie could be a woman who is loved by men. Paying the gender clinic with a PayDay loan, Ritchie had his transsexual diagnosis within two days. Estrogen tablets didn't block Ritchie's testosterone levels. Ritchie embodied a character of who he thought he should be instead of who he was. Pre-gender reassignment surgery, Ritchie's mother attempted to warn the medical staff of his mental issues. When Ritchie discovered the waitlist for surgery was over four years, he decided to reaffirm and have the surgery. Shame and regret kicked in almost immediately after the surgery. Ritchie felt the anti-antigen was a big part in inducing his psychotic state. When Ritchie first found the detrans community he was angry but then realized he needed to talk. In trans discourse, males are regarded less than females. Vulnerability doesn't have an age limit. Ritchie shares some of the physical repercussions of gender reassignment surgery. Ritchie's advice to others is to avoid surgery at all costs. This podcast is sponsored by ReIME and Genspect. Visit https://rethinkime.org/ (https://rethinkime.org/) and https://genspect.org/ (https://genspect.org/) to learn more. For more about our show: https://linktr.ee/WiderLensPod (https://linktr.ee/WiderLensPod).

Synopsis: We've spoken about the concept of Stoic invulnerability in past episodes (some of which are linked below). This morning I stumbled upon a rather nice explanation from Marcus Aurelius about how it works – an explanation which lines up perfectly with some halachos from the Rambam in the Mishneh Torah. Related Rabbi Schneeweiss Content:- How to Convince Mom That You're Invulnerable- Aurelius, Meditations 4:7: The Secret to Not Getting Hurt- Aurelius, Meditations 4:8: The Stoic Definition of Harm- The Obstacle is the Way to Knowledge of Hashem- The Medallion Experiment Sources:- Aurelius, Meditations 10:33; 4:8; 5:20- Rambam: Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha'Mada, Hilchos Yesodei ha'Torah 3:11, 4:2; Hilchos Teshuvah 5:1-2- Tehilim 118:6----------The Torah content for this week has been sponsored by Courtney K. ----------If you have questions, comments, or feedback, I would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.----------If you've gained from what you've learned here, please consider contributing to my Patreon at www.patreon.com/rabbischneeweiss. Alternatively, if you would like to make a direct contribution to the "Rabbi Schneeweiss Torah Content Fund," my Venmo is @Matt-Schneeweiss, and my Zelle/Chase QuickPay and PayPal are mattschneeweiss at gmail.com. Even a small contribution goes a long way to covering the costs of my podcasts, and will provide me with the financial freedom to produce even more Torah content for you.If you would like to sponsor an article, shiur, or podcast episode, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.com. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.----------patreon.com/rabbischneeweissyoutube.com/rabbischneeweisskolhaseridim.blogspot.com/mishlei.buzzsprout.comthestoicjew.buzzsprout.comrambambekius.buzzsprout.commachshavahlab.buzzsprout.comtefilah.buzzsprout.comhttps://chat.whatsapp.com/GEB1EPIAarsELfHWuI2k0Hamazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/Y72CSP86S24W?ref_=wl_sharelSupport the show

I'm joined again by Lacey Mitchell, one of our favorite Sugar Mamas! Today, her sister and co-founder of Sugar Mama Shimmer, Lindsay Fletcher joins in as well, as we discuss navigating invulnerability with family, friendships, and relationships.

I talk about the life of Rich Mullins, a Christian musician, who had many struggles. Primary of which was his difficult relationship with his dad, which had a profound effect on who he was. Finding love in God the Father in Christ was his healing, imperfect as it was. Rich Mullins was a vulnerable individual who embraced and struggled with it in his music and life. Soren too had a difficult relationship with his earthly father and writing, not music, was his healing. Finding healing in your art is a theme. Whatever that may be.

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With our special guest, business coach, Andrew Clemence, we talk about the personal beliefs and behaviors that get in the way of effective leadership. Andrew references Patrick Lencioni's 'The Five Temptations of a CEO' where he talks about: 1) Ego over Results 2) Popularity over Accountability 3) Certainty over Clarity 4) Harmony over Conflict 5) Invulnerability over Trust Contact Andrew - https://andrewclemence.com Fay - https://www.fayblakey.com  Rebekah - https://www.quest4est.co.uk Thank you to Jon at Wahhoo Media for our production: https://www.wahhoo.co.uk

This Lesson gives us a clear picture of how "attack thoughts" we "project outward" are actually attacking us. We are attacking ourselves when we have concern or anger about any situation. Are we willing to see this whole thing differently? Our safety relies on us giving up our concerns and "attack thoughts."

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows: First, name the situation: I am concerned about ----. Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying: I am afraid ---- will happen. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself: That thought is an attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 26

ACIM#26 My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability 第26課 我的攻擊念頭等於否定了自己百害不侵的本質 我是你所知的JC。我們很高興再次看到你有足夠的鍛鍊，今天加入我們的聚會。每天有上千人與我們一起做課程的練習。我們請你想象一下你所加入的這個美好群體。很多人感到孤單，很多人覺得自己被遺棄，很多人覺得自己與世隔絕。但我們希望你在觀看這個視頻時，不妨看一看有一千七百、一千八百人跟你做一樣的練習，這是多麼令人喜悅的發現。我們希望你真正感受到這個群體的交融。你所加入的是一個全球性的群體。 **本合集内容来自傳訊人蒂娜‧司帕尔汀(Tina Louise Spalding)，魏佳芳老師-寬恕的一年。 Powered by Firstory Hosting

If the penny hasn't dropped yet, the title is facetious. I've been musing this week about how good we are at avoiding being vulnerable. Each Sunday I invite you into small groups to discuss a question. I explain the groups should be small, ideally four or five. That is an opportune size to practise being vulnerable. Some of you have figured that out, and create groups of six to twelve. Easier to hide in a larger group. It is also easier to stay in our heads if we have to say something –– we are rational UUs of course. Sharing emotions and feelings is outside our comfort zone. Find out more:- https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/evasive-manoeuvres-the-art-of-invulnerability/

Today, we're going to clear the “mist on your mental wind screen.” In this episode we'll be hearing from distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown U, Nancy Sherman. Nancy is also the Inaugural Distinguished Chair of Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy. She is fascinated with ancient ethics and how it can inform our modern practices, thought processes, and overall lives. She is the author of Stoicism: Ancient Lessons of Modern Resilience. Let's dive deep into Nancy's expertise and learn more about Stoicism's beautiful way of connecting us in our shared human experience. [00:01 - 08:11] Opening Segment I introduce Nancy Sherman The scope of Nancy's work and impact on the world Teacher of Philosophy Learning the art of stoicism How Stoicism really looks in modern society Akin to life hacks Emotions can be enlightening Working with the military The connectivity of Stoicism [08:12 - 16:27] Stoicism: Creating a Better World Through Connection Nancy talks about the origins and development of Stoicism Coming from ancient Greek times Leaking into the founding fathers of America What Stoicism is not Bottling up emotions has a high cost How it was practiced in the ancient world The image of Marcus Aurelius An acceptance that we are in a cooperative endeavor A citizen of the world [16:28 - 35:44] Dispelling the Myths of Stoicism Not about being ‘invulnerable' We are not metal We lose our humanity if we try to be unemotional You don't have to ‘go it alone' We are in it together We need each other Stoic social grit - the true practice of the Stoics Revelations of emotions Stand back and reflect Thinking fast, acting slow Nancy gives a modern example of rational stoic wisdom Bringing a community together in healing A word about Conspiracy of Goodness Network [35:45 - 51:47] Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience How Stoicism has been changed From virtue to becoming self-help The image of widening circles Bringing the outermost inner Nancy shares how Stoicism can help with some modern issues Don't be indifferent to the world Approach aversive things with a measured response Example from a war story How to deal with the outrage of our modern issues Emotions can inform a moral response Nancy's work as a professor [51:48 - 58:22] Your Duty is Dignity Nancy's thoughts on dignity A sense of human worth across the globe How you should see each other People are the ends not the means Summarizing the practices that inform Stoicism How Nancy's book reveals true Stoic practices Invulnerability is not the goal Cooperation and respect Denying pain is not a permanent solution Monitoring quick impressions Stoicism is the way forward [58:23 - 1:04:35] Closing Segment Connect with Nancy Links below What proves to Nancy that it's an amazing world Final words and announcements Tweetable Quotes: “If there's a message in my mission, the message is: stoicism is about bringing people together for mutual support… we're all connected because we all share in reason.” - Nancy Sherman “‘Tough it out at all costs?' Not a way to go! I call it Stoic Social Grit, it's what connects us all together.” - Nancy Sherman “To honor dignity you have to show respect… You have to look someone in the eye, one to one. See them, not go over them, not despise, not condemn or feel contempt… See them in a light that shows our humanity.” - Nancy Sherman Resources Mentioned: Nancy Sherman Facebook Author Page 5 Myths of Stoicism - Nancy Sherman Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience Letters on Ethics Connect with Nancy on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Check out https://www.nancysherman.com/ to unlock more ancient secrets that can impact our present living. Conspiracy of Goodness Links: Conspiracy of Goodness Network https://conspiracyofgoodnessnetwork.com/ Conspiracy of Goodness on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/goodnessnetwork/ Dr. Lynda's Book: https://www.dr-lynda.com/book/happiness Ever Widening Circles https://everwideningcircles.com/ EWC APP: https://everwideningcircles.com/good-news-app-ever-widening-circles-app/ Affiliate Partners http://everwideningcircles.com/partners Donate! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=I-nvmUrlbDfU67bRoWWdOhFxiAM_W81jtIFBGCYzfCL6fG8oSUOg9ONIL9WR8LDjLEeYj0&country.x=US&locale.x=US EWC Ed: https://ed.everwideningcircles.com/

It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/acim-for-busy-people/message

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Good morning Campers! Ever get that feeling of deja vu? We just can't stop talking about the king of arcane, The Wizard. All good things come to an end, and god willing, so will the discussion of this class. This is the 3rd part of our deep dive into Wizard and we close it out with a 9th level Necrotic Fireball of a bang! Justin, Lucas and Michael FINALLY wrap up Wizards with talking about Xanathar's and Tasha's amazing additions to the Arcane Traditions. Lucas and Justin put their magical chops to the test when they see who brings the best battling Bladesinger in this weeks Character Creator Challenge. Then, we hope you missed HTDWT as much as we have, because it's back, baby! The gang finally does good on their promise, and shows you how to craft your very own Phylactery so you can push out doing chores for the next century or two. Lichdom never sounded so good. So put away that Globe of Invulnerability, Dimension Door somewhere comfy, and use your Finger of Death to hit play on another episode of.... Fantasy Campground! Don't forget to catch the weekly D&D session on www.twitch.tvTheNegotiators and follow us on twitter @FantasyCG for all our updates. Ever get that feeling of deja vu?

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows: First, name the situation: I am concerned about ----. Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying: I am afraid ---- will happen. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself: That thought is an attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 26

In this "COVID Survival 101: Winter Edition", we discuss that (1) You are not invincible; you can get COVID-19. Yes, you. Realising that can help you avoid it. (2) Make plans to stay sane and (3) Aim to make it to the end of the tunnel. That's it. Maybe you can't thrive right now. Then . . . survive. Make it through this winter, through this pandemic. Cheers, Vin Nelsen GRAPHIC is my lousy art rendition of the Alberta, Canada TV commercial character, Creepy Uncle Covid: https://youtu.be/PiG0I7VE7d4.  There's also a COVID-19 awareness page along with these great TV commercials: https://covidloves.ca.  Check them out!

We can walk in the world feeling invulnerable, but it does require some work at the level of the mind. The good news is that we can actually do it! In this week’s episode, Jennifer returns to the “Guiltlessness and Invulnerability” section in the ACIM text. When the world seems scary, we work at the level of the mind. To learn more about A Course in Miracles, please visit JenniferHadley.com. For the transcript of this episode and more, please visit LivingACourseInMiracles.com.

Healing the unconscious guilt we all carry through forgiveness is our sole responsibility in this world. It is our soul responsibility. And the bonus is our invulnerability. In this week’s episode, Jennifer breaks it down so we can understand how to implement this teaching as an active spiritual practice. When the world goes crazy, we seek to change our minds about it and ourselves. To learn more about A Course in Miracles, please visit JenniferHadley.com. For the transcript of this episode and more, please visit LivingACourseInMiracles.com.

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ACIM#26 My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability 第26課 我的攻擊念頭等於否定了自己百害不侵的本質 因此，這是一個非常強而有力的練習，讓你能夠深思這個念頭。我們請你盡最大的能力，依照課程指定的次數來練習。我們知道你的世界非常忙碌，所以你需要一些提醒。但是到最後，你不需要提醒了，因為你會發現，這些課程的內容已經滲透到你的心靈。你會訓練自己的心靈與這些美好的原則及觀念一致，因此那些折磨人的恐怖念頭，那些導致你焦慮、恐懼、後悔、羞恥和內疚的種種想法，會從你的心中消失無影。 ＊詳細內容請看寬恕的一年：《奇蹟課程》學員每日練習．耶穌釋義版 Powered by Firstory Hosting

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Workbook lesson 26 “My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability”, is the topic of Episode 77 of Understanding The Language Of A Course In Miracles Podcast. I talk about this ...

What are "attack thoughts" against yourself and others, and what do they have to do with your true invulnerability?  Chris and Amy walk through lesson number 26 in the workbook to show how to bring awareness to attack thoughts and tap into your true Self and the power that is yours. They also have a real time shift from fear to love, and how they applied the principals of this lesson to get there.

A lot of people are obviously frustrated, sad, heartbroken, and they still deny it and say they are fine. If you allow people make you stop being vulnerable, you should realise that you are the one dealing with the loneliness, pain, hurt. You should allow yourself be vulnerable.

A lot of people are obviously frustrated, sad, heartbroken, and they still deny it and say they are fine. If you allow people make you stop being vulnerable, you should realise that you are the one dealing with the loneliness, pain, hurt. You should allow yourself be vulnerable.

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As men, we all wear a variety of masks in different situations. Sometimes, we wear the mask of Affluence, hiding behind wealth, money and material things. Sometimes it’s the mask of Happiness, pretending everything is great, when in fact you are breaking inside. At times, we don the mask of Intelligence, posing like we know it all, concealing our true selves behind rationalizations, quotes, and calm intellectualism. Sometimes, it’s the mask of Invulnerability, or the Joker, or Apathetic Cool Guy, or the Stoic Provider. Yet, rarely, do we take off our masks, all of them, and admit to what we truly feel; who we truly are… at our core. Join Dr. John for a heartfelt talk with Ashanti Branch who is a TEDx speaker of the talk entitled, The Masks We All Wear. His work is featured in a documentary called "The Mask You Live In." Mr. Branch, born and raised by a single mother on welfare in Oakland, California, took the road less traveled to get out of the ghetto and attended Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. Ashanti started in Civil Engineering but After tutoring struggling students he realized his true passion was teaching, and he changed careers. He found the “fire” that was missing in his life and he hoped to ignite a similar enthusiasm in his young students. In 2004, Ashanti started The Ever Forward Club to provide a support group for African American and Latino males, who were not achieving to the level of their potential. Since then, the Ever Forward Club has helped 100% of its members graduate high school and 93% of them have gone on to attend college. Ashanti is on a mission to change the way that students interact with their education and the way schools interact with students. And be sure to sign up for the Free Virtual Global Summit - Surviving To Thriving: Growing Through Adversity at www.SurvivingToThriving.site w/ Dr. John Schinnerer and Joree Rose, LMFT. Check us out on Google Play and give us a Like and Subscribe! https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Imo4l6pgrbmeklxvec6pgwzxnz4 If you like what you've heard, support us by subscribing, leaving reviews on Apple podcasts. Every review helps to get the message out! Please share the podcast with friends and colleagues. Follow Dr. John Schinnerer on | Instagram | Instagram.com/@TheEvolvedCaveman | Facebook | Facebook.com/Anger.Management.Expert | Twitter | Twitter.com/@JohnSchin | LinkedIn | Linkedin.com/in/DrJohnSchinnerer Or join the email list by visiting: GuideToSelf.com Please visit our YouTube channel and remember to Like & Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/user/jschinnerer Editing/Mixing/Mastering by: Brian Donat of B/Line Studios www.BLineStudios.com Music by: Zak Gay http://otonamimusic.com/

Research that came out mere days ago has shown that the coronavirus is disproportionately impacting one gender more than the other - one is catching COVID-19 more frequently and getting sicker than the other. Why? And what can we do about it? Tune in to find out more! The research came out this week from Dr. Nathaniel Hubert at Cornell University who holds a MPH and an MD from Harvard. Currently, he is Senior Advisor for both the CDC’s Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections. So why does COVID-19 affect one sex more frequently and intensely than the other and what can we do to protect ourselves? Tune in to find out! This episode of The Evolved Caveman Podcast with Dr. John Schinnerer is a challenging interview with Jed Diamond, Ph.D., discussing how we are handling quarantine on Day 23, and why COVID-19 is infecting one gender more than the other and what you can do about it. Jed is a legend in the field of therapy and men's issues having written 17 books and worked in the mental health field for 50 years. He is founder and director of the MenAlive, and author of 17 books including 12 Rules for Good Men and The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression. His research on gender and depression broke new ground in creating a better evaluation system for diagnosing and treating depression in men and women. His work has been featured in major newspapers throughout the United States including the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. He has been featured on more than 1,000 radio and TV programs including The View, Good Morning Amer­ica, Today Show, CNN-360 with Anderson Cooper, and CNN. He also did a nationally televised special for PBS. Please be sure to rate, share and review to help us spread the word and teach men to evolve past the Man Box culture in which we were all raised.

This is part 4 of the podcast series How to Lead Like a Boss, we discuss six different types of hazardous attitudes and how to manage them in your company. The 6 different hazardous attitudes are: 1. anti-authority 2. impulsivity 3. Invulnerability (aka bulletproof syndrome) 4. macho attitude (aka disengagement) 5. listen to your mentors 6. Get there-itis

Hooray - we made it to Friday! Today we are only reading three chapters. Why? Because Robert Murray M'Cheyne's original Bible reading plan was designed for a non leap year, so we have some freedom here to be creative. We'll read Exodus 11 today (the tenth plague death of the firstborn) plus Job 29 and Luke 14. Rather than continue on in reading 1st Corinthians, we will continue on in discussing 1st Corinthians 14 from yesterday. Tomorrow, on the 29th, we will only read 1st Corinthians 15 - the resurrection chapter, and we will be focused on the resurrection. Today is the day we finish up our discussion of spiritual gifts. Every saved Christian in the church is important, necessary, and dependent on the others. We cannot live without each other! The pastor cannot say to the evangelist, “we don’t need you, our members can just invite other people and we can grow that way!” Likewise, the teacher cannot say to the faith-gifted person, “We don’t need your faith, we just need to teach the Word of God more!”  I’ve illustrated this truth before with a strange saying: There are no Supermen in the Body of Christ – And no Aquamen either. You see, when I was a kid, the one cartoon that everybody watched was the Super Friends, that lovely cartoon about Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, Apache Chief, Samurai, Zan and Jayna, Black Vulcan and even good old El Dorado: El Dorado could not talk to fish. In saying that there are no Supermen in the Body of Christ, I mean that nobody has all of the gifts in one package, and nobody is like Superman in that he/she is a one man army – fast, strong, invulnerable, and not needing of anybody else. The list of powers given to Superman in the comic books are absolutely ridiculous. Super-strength. Super speed. Super breath. Heat vision. Time travel. Faster than light-speed flight, Extended life-span. Healing Factor. Eidetic Memory. Superhuman hearing AND smell.  X-Ray Vision.  Mind control. Invulnerability.  RAINBOW BEAMS FROM HIS HANDS. Superman’s only real weakness is that he got sick around one particular meteorite from a world light-years away (that didn’t exist anymore.) I don’t know about you, but I have very rarely encountered meteorites in my day to day life, and if that was my only weakness, I could go years and years without encountering it. There’s nobody in the Body of Christ like Superman – all the powers and no weaknesses, and no real need for other teammates. I once had a book by a fairly well known church leader that had words to this effect on the back,  “Dr. XXXXX is a Prophet-Apostle who functions as a pastor and evangelist in the Body of Christ. He has been a teacher for xx years” Honestly – I’m not so sure that is all true! That sounds like several major equipping gifts functioning in the same person. Such a gifted person could very well be a one man show that could do all of the major work of ministry while everybody else merely watched. The problem with that scenario is that the church is not meant to be an elite collection of professionals who do the work of ministry, and every one else just simply watches and cleans up after the service. I do NOT believe that this is what Paul means in his description of the function of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. All gifts are needed, all roles are needed, and nobody has been called to be the one-man-army of ministry that does all the visible work. There are no Supermen in the Body of Christ. Likewise, there are no Aquamen in the Body of Christ either. By that, I mean that nobody has a lame, useless gift that doesn’t strengthen the church.  Now, don’t hear me throwing a lot of shade in Aquaman’s direction. Other than Superman, Aquaman was actually my favorite of the Super Friends. In fact, due to my love of swimming and snorkeling as a teenager, several of my friends actually dubbed me “Aquaman.” That said, Aquaman has been parodied many times as having powers that aren’t particularly conducive to fighting crime. Despite the fact that most of our planet is covered by water, the vast majority of crime and super-villainary actually takes place on land. Being able to communicate with sea life is rarely useful on land, a fact famously lampooned by the Cartoon Network years ago in a commercial where Wonder Woman and Aquaman are captured by the Legion of Doom. As they are being lowered into a boiling cauldron of acid, Aquaman attempts to use his powers to free them, and then very soberly tells Wonder Woman that his “ability to talk to fish isn’t helping!” Wonder Woman just rolls her eyes, as the audience gets the unspoken joke: Aquaman is mostly useless as a Super Friend. NOT so in the church. As Paul explains, even gifts that aren’t obvious or prominent are actually essential to the Body of Christ. Indeed those giftings (and the people who have them) might even be due “greater honor” than those with more prominent gifts. Everybody in the Body of Christ is needed and absolutely essential to the successful and joyful completion of God’s great mission to His Church: To love Him with all of our heart and to take His Gospel to the ends of the earth. Dear Christian: You need to work in tandem with other members of the Body of Christ. You are not a spiritual Superman that can “take the team on your back” and lead everybody to victory. On the other hand, you are also not a useless Aquaman that has no real impact on the Body of Christ that you are part of. You are a core member of the Body of Christ – no matter what your spiritual gift is. Whatever Christian fellowship or group that you are part of desperately needs you, and you need them – join with them, and serve God together with joy, power and fruitfulness! 1 Corinthians 14:26,  “What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all these things be done for the strengthening of the church“ 8.  Spiritual gifts cannot be neglected, lest they become dormant. I find it fascinating that somebody that was as fruitful as Timothy would require not one, but two reminders in Scripture to fan his gifting into flame, and not let it lie dormant. Keep in mind that he was on Paul’s apostolic team, a church planter, probably a pastor, possibly an apostle, and co-author of more biblical books than anybody save Paul himself. If Timothy needed those kinds of reminders, then how much more do we? Don’t let your gift lie dormant – fan it into flames! 2 Timothy 1:6-7, “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”  9. The variety of spiritual gifts given, and the variety of roles that gifted people will have, are meant to bring UNITY (in diversity) to the Body of Christ, not disunity. The way forward to unity, real unity in the Body of Christ/church, is kind of interesting. Rather than God making all of His people similar, with similar passions, roles and giftings, He has instead purposed to fit the body together with remarkable diversity and differences; and He has done so with the intention that there be NO DIVISION IN THE BODY. Yes, we are different! Different passions, different gifts, different callings – but that should not separate us – we should be so unified that when one of us suffers, we all suffer, and when one of us is honored, then we all rejoice. Gifts of the Spirit aren’t meant to divide, but to unite! 1 Corinthians 14:24-26, “Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable, So that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other. 26 So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.“ 10. One can apparently be remarkably gifted in terms of spiritual gifts, but not be at all mature or loving. Such a person should not be praised, emulated or followed due to the dynamism and strength of their gifting – they are NOTHING. Let me say again – a person can be remarkably gifted as a pastor, or teacher, or prophet, or evangelist, or televangelist, and the fact that they are strongly gifted does not mean that they are to be imitated and followed. Spiritual fruit (see Galatians 5) is a much more reliable indicator of maturity than spiritual gifts. Moreover, Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13 that one can be very gifted – with some of the highest or most spiritual seeming gifts, but if they aren’t manifesting obvious love, then they are of no count in the Body of Christ – they are nothing! I believe that one of the reasons why the Western church has seen so much scandal in the past fifty years is because we have elevated strongly gifted people to prominent (and unaccountable) positions of leadership, but we have not rightly evaluated the maturity or love level of those people to discern whether or not they should be in such places of leadership. 1 Corinthians 13:2 “And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” I will close with one more big chunk of Scripture. I believe that 1 Corinthians 14:26-31 MIGHT be the clearest and deepest picture we have of the powerful, fresh, first century gathering of believers – one of the most detailed descriptions of a church gathering in the Bible. Note that Paul is upholding an ideal here – this is, I believe, what we are to look like when we gather. We don’t look like this. Indeed, I don’t believe I know of any gathering of Christians in America that does, but this is the picture of the first century church, given to us in Scripture, that I believe we are supposed to seek to attain: 1 Corinthians 14:26-31, “26 What then is the conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a revelation, another language, or an interpretation. All things must be done for edification. 27 If any person speaks in another language, there should be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and someone must interpret.28 But if there is no interpreter, that person should keep silent in the church and speak to himself and to God. 29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate. 30 But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged. 32 And the prophets’ spirits are under the control of the prophets, 33 since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.”

Hooray - we made it to Friday! Today we are only reading three chapters. Why? Because Robert Murray M'Cheyne's original Bible reading plan was designed for a non leap year, so we have some freedom here to be creative. We'll read Exodus 11 today (the tenth plague death of the firstborn) plus Job 29 and Luke 14. Rather than continue on in reading 1st Corinthians, we will continue on in discussing 1st Corinthians 14 from yesterday. Tomorrow, on the 29th, we will only read 1st Corinthians 15 - the resurrection chapter, and we will be focused on the resurrection. Today is the day we finish up our discussion of spiritual gifts. Every saved Christian in the church is important, necessary, and dependent on the others. We cannot live without each other! The pastor cannot say to the evangelist, “we don’t need you, our members can just invite other people and we can grow that way!” Likewise, the teacher cannot say to the faith-gifted person, “We don’t need your faith, we just need to teach the Word of God more!”  I’ve illustrated this truth before with a strange saying: There are no Supermen in the Body of Christ – And no Aquamen either. You see, when I was a kid, the one cartoon that everybody watched was the Super Friends, that lovely cartoon about Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, Apache Chief, Samurai, Zan and Jayna, Black Vulcan and even good old El Dorado: El Dorado could not talk to fish. In saying that there are no Supermen in the Body of Christ, I mean that nobody has all of the gifts in one package, and nobody is like Superman in that he/she is a one man army – fast, strong, invulnerable, and not needing of anybody else. The list of powers given to Superman in the comic books are absolutely ridiculous. Super-strength. Super speed. Super breath. Heat vision. Time travel. Faster than light-speed flight, Extended life-span. Healing Factor. Eidetic Memory. Superhuman hearing AND smell.  X-Ray Vision.  Mind control. Invulnerability.  RAINBOW BEAMS FROM HIS HANDS. Superman’s only real weakness is that he got sick around one particular meteorite from a world light-years away (that didn’t exist anymore.) I don’t know about you, but I have very rarely encountered meteorites in my day to day life, and if that was my only weakness, I could go years and years without encountering it. There’s nobody in the Body of Christ like Superman – all the powers and no weaknesses, and no real need for other teammates. I once had a book by a fairly well known church leader that had words to this effect on the back,  “Dr. XXXXX is a Prophet-Apostle who functions as a pastor and evangelist in the Body of Christ. He has been a teacher for xx years” Honestly – I’m not so sure that is all true! That sounds like several major equipping gifts functioning in the same person. Such a gifted person could very well be a one man show that could do all of the major work of ministry while everybody else merely watched. The problem with that scenario is that the church is not meant to be an elite collection of professionals who do the work of ministry, and every one else just simply watches and cleans up after the service. I do NOT believe that this is what Paul means in his description of the function of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. All gifts are needed, all roles are needed, and nobody has been called to be the one-man-army of ministry that does all the visible work. There are no Supermen in the Body of Christ. Likewise, there are no Aquamen in the Body of Christ either. By that, I mean that nobody has a lame, useless gift that doesn’t strengthen the church.  Now, don’t hear me throwing a lot of shade in Aquaman’s direction. Other than Superman, Aquaman was actually my favorite of the Super Friends. In fact, due to my love of swimming and snorkeling as a teenager, several of my friends actually dubbed me “Aquaman.” That said, Aquaman has been parodied many times as having powers that aren’t particularly conducive to fighting crime. Despite the fact that most of our planet is covered by water, the vast majority of crime and super-villainary actually takes place on land. Being able to communicate with sea life is rarely useful on land, a fact famously lampooned by the Cartoon Network years ago in a commercial where Wonder Woman and Aquaman are captured by the Legion of Doom. As they are being lowered into a boiling cauldron of acid, Aquaman attempts to use his powers to free them, and then very soberly tells Wonder Woman that his “ability to talk to fish isn’t helping!” Wonder Woman just rolls her eyes, as the audience gets the unspoken joke: Aquaman is mostly useless as a Super Friend. NOT so in the church. As Paul explains, even gifts that aren’t obvious or prominent are actually essential to the Body of Christ. Indeed those giftings (and the people who have them) might even be due “greater honor” than those with more prominent gifts. Everybody in the Body of Christ is needed and absolutely essential to the successful and joyful completion of God’s great mission to His Church: To love Him with all of our heart and to take His Gospel to the ends of the earth. Dear Christian: You need to work in tandem with other members of the Body of Christ. You are not a spiritual Superman that can “take the team on your back” and lead everybody to victory. On the other hand, you are also not a useless Aquaman that has no real impact on the Body of Christ that you are part of. You are a core member of the Body of Christ – no matter what your spiritual gift is. Whatever Christian fellowship or group that you are part of desperately needs you, and you need them – join with them, and serve God together with joy, power and fruitfulness! 1 Corinthians 14:26,  “What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all these things be done for the strengthening of the church“ 8.  Spiritual gifts cannot be neglected, lest they become dormant. I find it fascinating that somebody that was as fruitful as Timothy would require not one, but two reminders in Scripture to fan his gifting into flame, and not let it lie dormant. Keep in mind that he was on Paul’s apostolic team, a church planter, probably a pastor, possibly an apostle, and co-author of more biblical books than anybody save Paul himself. If Timothy needed those kinds of reminders, then how much more do we? Don’t let your gift lie dormant – fan it into flames! 2 Timothy 1:6-7, “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”  9. The variety of spiritual gifts given, and the variety of roles that gifted people will have, are meant to bring UNITY (in diversity) to the Body of Christ, not disunity. The way forward to unity, real unity in the Body of Christ/church, is kind of interesting. Rather than God making all of His people similar, with similar passions, roles and giftings, He has instead purposed to fit the body together with remarkable diversity and differences; and He has done so with the intention that there be NO DIVISION IN THE BODY. Yes, we are different! Different passions, different gifts, different callings – but that should not separate us – we should be so unified that when one of us suffers, we all suffer, and when one of us is honored, then we all rejoice. Gifts of the Spirit aren’t meant to divide, but to unite! 1 Corinthians 14:24-26, “Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable, So that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other. 26 So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.“ 10. One can apparently be remarkably gifted in terms of spiritual gifts, but not be at all mature or loving. Such a person should not be praised, emulated or followed due to the dynamism and strength of their gifting – they are NOTHING. Let me say again – a person can be remarkably gifted as a pastor, or teacher, or prophet, or evangelist, or televangelist, and the fact that they are strongly gifted does not mean that they are to be imitated and followed. Spiritual fruit (see Galatians 5) is a much more reliable indicator of maturity than spiritual gifts. Moreover, Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13 that one can be very gifted – with some of the highest or most spiritual seeming gifts, but if they aren’t manifesting obvious love, then they are of no count in the Body of Christ – they are nothing! I believe that one of the reasons why the Western church has seen so much scandal in the past fifty years is because we have elevated strongly gifted people to prominent (and unaccountable) positions of leadership, but we have not rightly evaluated the maturity or love level of those people to discern whether or not they should be in such places of leadership. 1 Corinthians 13:2 “And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” I will close with one more big chunk of Scripture. I believe that 1 Corinthians 14:26-31 MIGHT be the clearest and deepest picture we have of the powerful, fresh, first century gathering of believers – one of the most detailed descriptions of a church gathering in the Bible. Note that Paul is upholding an ideal here – this is, I believe, what we are to look like when we gather. We don’t look like this. Indeed, I don’t believe I know of any gathering of Christians in America that does, but this is the picture of the first century church, given to us in Scripture, that I believe we are supposed to seek to attain: 1 Corinthians 14:26-31, “26 What then is the conclusion, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a revelation, another language, or an interpretation. All things must be done for edification. 27 If any person speaks in another language, there should be only two, or at the most three, each in turn, and someone must interpret.28 But if there is no interpreter, that person should keep silent in the church and speak to himself and to God. 29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate. 30 But if something has been revealed to another person sitting there, the first prophet should be silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged. 32 And the prophets’ spirits are under the control of the prophets, 33 since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.”

Notes:Fable and the Verbivore are both exploring classes from authors and artists using annual passes on MasterClass Online Class. The conversation starts out with Laura talked about a comment made by non-fiction writer Malcolm Gladwell in his class videos about his experience with critical reviews of his work.The Daring Greatly quote read by the Verbivore and made by Theodore Roosevelt is the touchstone for author Brene Brown’s (PhD, LMSW) book by the same name. This book is a research backed study that explores how having the bravery to be vulnerable in our everyday lives opens the doors to creativity and opportunity. Here is the full quote by Theodore Roosevelt:“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”Brene Brown also has Ted Talks on the Power of Vulnerability and the Price of Invulnerability, as well as a Netflix special titled Brene Brown: The Call to Courage which further explore these themes of creativity and vulnerabilty.Fable discusses rising to the level of expectations that are set for us, from a Psychological perspective. This is known as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Here is the definition:Self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the socio-psychological phenomenon of someone "predicting" or expecting something, and this “prediction” or expectation comes true simply because one believes it will.Books Mentioned:Uprooted by Naomi NovikDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene BrownMusic from: https://filmmusic.io’Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows: First, name the situation: I am concerned about ----. Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying: I am afraid ---- will happen. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself: That thought is an attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more.- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles, Lesson 26

Wise persons are without anger, which is caused by the appearance of injury. And they could not be free from anger unless they were also free from injury, which they know cannot be done to them. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

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The Kingsmen pay homage to the finale of the 49-year Star Wars saga, with Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Joey and Simon reflect on how culture re-imagines mythology, how identity is formed, and the way to defeat evil without becoming evil yourself, and how God subtly works throughout the universe to rescue every creature. The Force is strong with this one! [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:42] Kylo Ren's Mask and the Art of Kintsugi [00:05:05] Re-Telling & Re-Imagining of the Skywalker Myth [00:07:33] Redeeming Skywalkers [00:16:28] The Impact of Our Perspective on Others and Ourselves [00:25:56] Resolving Identity Crisis and Overcoming Loneliness [00:44:35] Overcoming Cosmic Evil [00:57:04] The Pit and Coming Out from It [01:02:37] The False Security of Invulnerability and Power [01:09:36] Confronting Evil in Trinitarian Partnership [01:19:02] Acceptance: Freedom from Old and Journey to the New [01:25:46] The Universal Activity of the Holy Spirit [01:33:03] Conclusion

This lesson is teaching us that by having attack thoughts - which we’ll discuss in a moment - but having attack thoughts is what makes us vulnerable.And what is an attack thought?Not just a thought of negativity toward another person. An attack thought is any thought that is not filled with peace. So when we’re concerned about something. Or when we’re afraid of something. Or sad. Those are all attack thoughts.This lesson is also teaching us is that our non-peaceful thoughts always attack ourselves first. Because by having any such thoughts we are “proving” that we are vulnerable.If we understood our true nature as spirit - which is completely invulnerable - then we could never have any attack thoughts.These lines from this lesson help clarify: “Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable.”And that’s why we learned in Lesson 23 that by giving up our attack thoughts we can escape from all pain and suffering.Support the show (https://www.livebeyondtheillusion.com/contribute)

Jay Rehak explains how surviving from a fall from a  cliff when he was 7 years old has impacted him in three ways: a sense of invulnerability, purpose, and surreality.  

Once you recognize this, life gets so much better

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows: First, name the situation: I am concerned about ----. Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying: I am afraid ---- will happen. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself: That thought is an attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more.

Evan Uyetake “The Unintended Consequences of Invulnerability”| July 13, 2018 by Church on the Move

Evan Uyetake “The Unintended Consequences of Invulnerability”| July 13, 2018 by Church on the Move

Many people did wild and crazy things in their twenties. Enjoy this selection.

Many people did wild and crazy things in their twenties. Enjoy this selection.

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How about a world of invulnerability? How about a world where you can talk to your ancestors? Can they get along? It's the Odd Couple!

How about a world of invulnerability? How about a world where you can talk to your ancestors? Can they get along? It's the Odd Couple!

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In 1974, a man disappeared somewhere in the Siskiyou Mountains, never to be heard of again. He wasn’t a tourist lost in the forests - he’s been living in the region for years. He wasn’t a rookie camper overwhelmed by wilderness - he had written several articles on camping and survivalism, based on his own experience of practising these skills. So what happened to Tom Marshall? Letting Go Isn't Free A basic and well-known tenet of stoicism is to stop trying to act on (and worrying about) things that aren't really in your control, or that can't at least be significantly influenced by you. Some of this is obvious and easy: the weather, traffic, the economy, chance. A lot of it is much harder: what other people think of you, bad things happening in other places, the ideas of your friends, politics. I think everybody wants to worry less - it's a massive energy drain, and it really crushes quality of life. Following this thinking does indeed deliver a lot of tranquillity - the actual reward promised by the Stoics.  But it sure seems like you have to sacrifice a lot in the process! Depending on what your core needs are, one or both of these concerns quickly arise even when just thinking about stoicism: What about my impact on the world? I don't want to curl up in my bed and die in Stoic tranquillity, oblivious to what I've left behind. How can I provide safety to myself and my family if I choose to spend less in time on the news, withdraw from politics, stop studying the economy, and stop worrying about what others think of me? How will I know if there's some larger problem, and how will I make sure I'm not harmed in the process? It was the first question that Shane Radliff set out to answer, but in the process, he discovered the solution to the second one. Become Invulnerable Shane was fed up with the political means - the Sisyphusian task of betting the fulfilment of your personal needs on the whims of millions of other people. He wanted to find ways of direct action instead: creating freedom in his own life, without the permission of others. It was in this search that he found an obscure, out of print book collecting the works of an obscure man from the late sixties. To say that this book has had an impact on him is an understatement - he has since not only seen to it that it is transcribed and narrated but has even created a whole standalone podcast about it. The book was Tom Marshall's work, the man who was to completely disappear in the Siskiyou Mountains in a few years, written under his better-known pen name: Rayo. Though a few decades apart, Shane and Rayo have pretty similar perspectives: both are concerned with personal freedom and autonomy and prefer private solutions to government action. Similar to Shane's Direct Action Series, Rayo's strategies were developed after disappointment with mass action - he tried to establish a libertarian island nation before moving on to van nomadism and later wilderness camping. As the few written accounts that exist about him show, he was a very safety-conscious man, and his quest to dissociate with most of a society he didn't like, he encountered the same problem that we did at the beginning of this article: How do you stay safe without being plugged in all the time? As an engineer, he wasn't interested in half-measures, so he developed a radical concept that turned the idea of safety on its head: invulnerability to coercion. He called his strategy Vonu (voluntary, not vulnerable). This approach is worth considering even if coercion (a favourite libertarian word) is not one's main concern - there are very few of us in personal development who aren't dissatisfied with some aspects of society and wouldn't like to be able to avoid that influence. Vonu Tactics A vonuan seeks to meet her need for safety not by changing what others do, but by becoming as resistant as possible herself. Rather than convince others to create social structures that would reduce crime (under which he included many government actions) Rayo decided to become immune to crime instead. He practised what he preached - which in his case meant living a very private life in the mountains with his "free mate". Most of his communication with the outside world was secretive, he had a van for mobility and lived in polyethene tents he designed, he stored a considerable amount of food - according to an account, he would even duck when aeroplanes flew above him to maintain his location a secret. Not only that, but he created a number of alternative strategies that may not have appealed to him directly, but were regardless valid means of achieving invulnerability to coercion: sailboating, financial independence, country shopping, intentional communities, free ports etc. Shane and I discussed these strategies in the podcast episode in more detail (which has a longer, more thorough version on his Vonu website). Safety AND Impact? How about impact - do you have to give up on the world if you stop worrying about it? Did Rayo stop trying in favour of complete isolationism? Not quite. He did have a typewriter with him, and up until 1974, when all correspondence stopped, he kept publishing newsletters and contributing articles, promoting the Vonu way and comparing it with other libertarian strategies of the time. He also stayed in touch with a number of carefully selected people, whom he would educate in his tactics by organising Vonu weeks. Did he actually manage to have an impact? He wasn't particularly popular even in the libertarian circles at the time, and though I few people remembered him, most people haven't heard of him. That said, his works had a circulation at the time and he did manage to create a book that still exists today, five decades later. And now that Shane and his associates were inspired by him, he has a people once again discussing his ideas on the Internet and even has an entire podcast dedicated to exploring and building on his thoughts. That's no small achievement for a man who, based on the information available about him, wasn't all that interested in impact (when it came at the detriment of his safety). How many of us will have our work alive and well decades after our (presumed) death? As a side note, there were mistakes that probably limited Rayo's reach that we can learn from. In his books and articles, he often used terms that likely alienated not only people with different political views but libertarians alike - for instance, calling them "controlled schizophrenics". He didn't seem (to me) particularly interested in understanding other viewpoints or creating a bridge of understanding at least towards ideologically close perspectives. A Viable Alternative to the Non-Actionable Above everything else, what impresses me most about Rayo and the reason I've decided to interview Shane about him is that he had a strong focus on the actionable in an environment that was much more interested in philosophising. He went out, learned new skills and changed himself rather than waiting for others to give him freedom. I believe this is a powerful lesson whether you agree with Rayo's particular political outlook or not. As I've said in my previous article, my particular non-actionable addiction was politics and economics too. It may be something else in your case: anything that you pay attention to that fills you with anger and/or fear and which you can do very little about falls under this category. Can you stay safe without following the news? Yes, if rather than trying to dodge bullets or plead with the shooter, you instead focus on becoming as invulnerable and independent as possible. Do you have to become a hermit, sacrifice your impact on the world, on making it a better place? I don't think so - not only will your personal change inspire others, but you will be able to have a voice from a much safer position. Focus on the actionable.  

We talk about utilizing the prep area, our 11th card: Millennium Puzzle, and Errata That! super rare Captain Universe. Find Us on Facebook: Facebook.com/DoubleBurst Theme: Tilt By Avaren Show Notes: Topics Covered WizKids Rules Forum Update (00:45) Invulnerability and Deadly Using the Prep Area (07:51) The 11th Card: Millennium Puzzle (26:39) Errata That!: Super Rare Captain Universe (34:58) […]

http://acim.meDavid Hoffmeister who speaks from the Awakened Mind, continues a journey through the spiritual classic A Course In Miracles by reading from Chapter 13, The Guiltless World, Introduction and Guiltlessness and Invulnerability, followed by Lesson 94 from the Workbook. This is followed by a brief prayer from David. http://acim.me

This is part two of a three part series where we cover those abilities, traits, and powers that set Superman part in the Man of Steel. In this episode, we cover: Heat Vision Super Strength Holding Breath Invulnerability While covering our topics, we will discuss and answer the following questions: What's a use of Heat Vision we saw in Returns which might not come back in the DCCU? Heat vision refractory period? How does Superman shave and why Kryptonians may be particularly susceptible to heat vision. Why didn't we see more Kryptonians lifting stuff? Does Superman need to breath? When did Clark figure out he was invulnerable? How can Superman avoid getting his neck snapped? ...and more! Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: iTunes / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube Proud member of the Superman Podcast Network! Software Generated Transcript

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