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Hi,
I apologize for lack of contact but I've been really busy lately and I'm just dropping a note to ask a favor. I am taking my SATs tomorrow and I was wondering if you guys could pray for me to whatever you believe in, so that I may have the grace to do well.
Thanks in advance, TK
May Baal be with you :bow: .
I don't pray or believe so yeah...
But good luck! ~D
Right before the test, repeat over and over to yourself:
"I am god, I am god, I know all"
I knew a guy in high school who swore that worked for him. Taking the test in the right frame of mind helps. After all, it only decides what college your going to get into and what happens the rest of your life, no pressure right?
Actually, you are taking it twice right? So really no pressure.
May Òdínn grant you some of his wisdom and possibly lend you his advisor Mime; the all-knowing head.
You are a lighthouse to your religion. If the Judeo/Christian God is real you will be granted success…
Don’t use this against me if you score 100%. :sweatdrop:
Don't sweat it just do the best you can. I'm almost 30 years beyond highschool graduation. I still see some friends from school who were "no stranger to the short bus" (not college material). One in particular was always made fun of by some of the book smart clique. He runs his own mechanics garage now, fixes some of these "smart peoples" cars and makes more money than most of them.
May chance favour you.
Relax. The Sat is easy, especially if you prepared. And even if you didn't, like me, it's fairly easy if you have sufficiently high math(probabaly geometry maybe Algebra II can't remember). Only thing you might need to worry about is the writting section whihc is new.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
And don't guess unless you can narrow it down to 3 or less.
Alg II High?Quote:
Originally Posted by discovery1
Im a freshman and I have it now.
Weird.
I have trig next year ;)
Good luck TK, my prayres are woith you
Hope you do well, keep it calm and concentrated and you'll do fine...
good luck, take your time, breathe and don't think of games
I also took AlgebraII when I was a freshman, but here t is honors level.
Well I am alo an Atheist, so good luck!
I took the PSATs recently and my strategy for them was try to relax and if you cannot do that then tell the little, pessimistic monkey in your head to shut up! I got 99 percent on one English section, 91 on the other and 77 or a bit higher on the math. I was a sophmore at the time an get to take it again, so remember you ca try again to improve your weak spot, for me it will be math.
BTW the PSAT scores mea you scored higher than that percentage of High school juniors (college bound). Since I was a sophmore I get another chance.
Bonne chance.
May the Lord be with you.
Have as much faith in yourself as we do and you'll be fine.
Buen suerte
ichi :bow:
Held og lykke!
Hals- und Beinbruch!
Bonne chance!
Good luck!
May whatever non-specific deity, that may or may not exist, that is around at the time guide your hand and help you to stay calm and focus.
In other words good-luck I hope you do well.
Well, TK, I said a prayer on your behalf, but honestly, I'm sure you're going to do fine. Just for good measure, I asked St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of those in scholarly pursuits to lend a hand as well. Just remember to say thank you, after you've aced it. (Damn smileys! Insert wink here).
well just the other day an old ex gf of mine told me that i was a "real saint". so i blessed you personally. now, however, if you don't get a perfect score i expect some animal sacrifices in my name..
corleone, smilies aren't working for you? that's weird. can you see other people's?
Yes, and it says that smilies are on. It's nothing in the cookies, cause when I use my work computer, they work fine. But if I click on a smiley, isntead of inserting it, it pulls the whole screen up to the top of the page and does nothing.
And saints dont' get animal sacrafices in their name. Cold hard cash buddy. (Again, no smiley to insert). Unfortunately, you don't get it, your patron cause does, and somehow I don't think St. BigJohn's, patron of hot booty photos, home for the chronic self-abuser is a bona fide charity, at least not yet.
I had the same problem a few months ago, you can get round it by clicking on the More link below the smileis, then just copy and paste the smilies code into your message. It takes longer but it does work.
luck be with you
I get that sometimes if the page hasn't loaded properly. I guess you could just type them in, they're usually pretty obvious, ;balloon; :balloon:Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Will do, God bless you...
Good luck dude... actually some of my friends are taking the SAT as well today...
As for praying, I always ask my Grandma to pray for me for my tests, even though I'm an aethist. Not sure why... I guess for luck.
Consider it done. If Black sabbath do show up to sit your exam, let me know ? ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
Good luck anyway
Thanks for all the well-wishes and good lucks guys it means a lot! I just got out of the testing center and man was that an excruciating ordeal! The Verbal has been WAY dumbed down for the new test, and the math has some AII and more advanced geometry. I think I wrote a pretty good essay (I think) about whether "majority rule is the best concept for a governing a society" I'll write more later
How was the essay(s?) presented? I took the SATs before this change so I'm a little curious.
Go TK! (belatedly)
Rockin' new sig, by the way.
The verbal was dumbed down?!
How is that even possible.
it are shorter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
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How was the essay(s?) presented? I took the SATs before this change so I'm a little curious.
They give you a prompt, such as an exerpt from a book or article or a famous quote. You are then expected to devealop an essay based or your agreement or disagreement with the prompt.
cool thanks, I thought a change of pace would be good.Quote:
Rockin' new sig, by the way.
Hope your scores reflect how well you though you did. How much did you write during the 25 minutes? Anything else that you can tell us about the essay?
I wrote two full-size paragraphs of about 5 sentences each. Don't bother using cursive, it'll just waste your time (unless you're faster with cursive of course). Think of an idea, then just let it grow naturally in your mind as you write. Just let your ideas flow and you'll have no problem with time. I sat there for ten minutes before realizing that I needed to add a conclusion sentence. Just goes to show how much free time I had.
The essay is no big deal, trust me...
I'm practiceing Christian with nordic philosphy. I see Humans as an equal part of God's creation, but not as the top of it (like the Bible claims it).
The tricky thing on us Humans is that we can recognise God but we can also be seduced by evil.
I think our task in live is to proove wheter we are ready to understand God's Message or we must, like in school, repeat the whole thing until we got it.
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I'm practiceing Christian with nordic philosphy. I see Humans as an equal part of God's creation, but not as the top of it (like the Bible claims it).
How do you justify Genesis 1:26 with that beleif?
Good, that is how I write. Though I write a whole lot faster in cursive...
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Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin
I write about half as fast in cursive, handwriting was never really a big focus for me... :embarassed:
I can't stand not to write in cursive, I simply find it impossible. Even if I try and print it, I just lapse into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
TK, clear your PMs.
With the fact that the Chruch and the Bible are human made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
The Religious Belief I have is mostly backed on the Arianic Chruch which existed with the Visigoths in Spain.
I'll try to explain the bulk of it as easy as possible, as this has a totally diffrent worldview... Maybe that will piss you off, because I need far too many samples... :embarassed:
World
In that belief theory, God is not imagined as that old man Michelangelo had drawn. The World and God are equal, anything exists within his will. You could imagine it somehow similar as Matrix, where God is the main Programme controlling everything and the world is the Matrix exactly shaped by the Data coming from the basic Programme. Alternatively, you could imagine God was dreaming. AKA, physical existance is nonsense also the explaination why the universe is endless.
That means anything you encounter, like Air, Light and all else exists after Gods will or more heavyer: All that is God.
Souls and Contact with God
Then the heaviest thing, the reason why the catholic church exterminated the gothic church: Souls are part of God, they unseperatable belong to him. All Creatures with Souls, Humans, Animals and Plants are children of God.
A Soul is then defined as the Spirit which allows a Creature to feel Emotions, which in diffrent measure all living things do.
Elsewhere all Souls are beeing, as said, always in connection to God. He influences your action by suggestions, while you don't take notice he is there. How should you, it was your Idea wasn't it? ~:)
This is also the reason how he hears prayers and will take notice if you try to lie at him. God always knows your true feelings, while you might not.
If God is really fed up with Humans he takes someone trustable, like Jesus, and gives him a Mission. That means also Jesus is not in biological sense the Son of God, it depends on the Soul of Jesus beeing part of the Holy Trinity.
If you comine: Everybody gets small Missions from God, depending on the feeling of "Morale".
Good an Evil / God forming us after his sample
If God controls everything, does that include the Devil? Logically yes.
The Devil is also part of God, like the human Soul can develop to what we call good or evil.
If God isn't an old Man running around in heaven, it appears also logical that the forming of Humans after his sample is diffrent too: He formed us a Soul which is similar to his one and able to feel the same Emotions.
If you recall "Eye for an Eye" or Gods punishing of Humans you might see he has also a destructive Side. The destructive beeing of God is tranferred to the Black Angel Satan, which has been the most loyal Angel.
We with our Souls are like God able to do both: We can start and draw an Masterpiece of Impressionist Art but also topple an A-Bomb.
The Reason why we are
God wanted someone who could understand his feelings and help him to form this world. We can, diffrently to all other Creatures on Earth, change the world. Our task is to fill this world with Music, Art and Culture and to create new things.
What is the history of this "church" and on what do you base your beliefs? Are you straight up Arians, or some modern modification?
The language barrier is going to be a little rough for us to have a reasonable conversation, but your English is much better than my German so I suppose it'll have to do.
The Background of the Arianic "Church" is the Priest Arius from Lybia and his theory that Jesus was, at least his body, a human beeing before God had chosen him. De facto after Arius it is claimed that he became what he was in the Moment St.John had baptized him and God gave him the Mission.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
The Theories of Arius competed with those of the roman catholics, due to Emperor Constantine the roman variant was chosen and put into law resulting in the roman catholic Church.
But Arius thoughts, as persecution of heretics was in those times not yet done, survived. Several Missionaires who believed in the arianic christianity went to the northern people, the Germanics. The Goths preffered the arianic message to the catholic one, due to the catholic one would have put them under rule of the Pope in Rome.
Within the Goths, Vandals and Huns the arianic christianity was then alternated by unique cultural conditions: The Christian God was made equal with Allfather from the native Asatruar faith. This can be compared with the development in Japan, where Shintoism and Buddhism fusioned to be Zen-Buddhism.
The whole theory of non-existance of physical existance is not christian, it is converted from germanic paganism.
That and the fact arianic Bishops were independant from the Pope, resulted in the roman church to classify the arianics as beeing heretic later on and supporting wars to conquer their Kingdoms. This way they for example supported France to conquer the Visigoth Kingdom in Spain and reconvert them into becoming Catholic.
Modern people who got to know about this is by reading about them, and through the ban of herectism is not lifted this is mostly a thing for history buffs. This way there is no more arianic church, only the arianic theory beeing very similar to Descartes "cogito ergo sum" (I think, so I am.).
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To make more on the theory itself:
Your Senses, feel, taste, smell, see and hear are related to your body. If you die they're gone. Your Soul, your Emotions and Thoughts, are the sixt sense which will live further.
The Universe you can see with the five others is like an Ilusion from God and he is able to change it anytime. That explains why God can do such unexplainable things, like splitting the Waters or hide the Fortress of the holy Grail so only Parcival could see it.
What evidence do you have to support this theory other than pure speculation?Quote:
The Background of the Arianic "Church" is the Priest Arius from Lybia and his theory that Jesus was, at least his body, a human beeing before God had chosen him. De facto after Arius it is claimed that he became what he was in the Moment St.John had baptized him and God gave him the Mission.
Actually the Roman "variant" existed long before Constantine, I have historical records to prove it. This is a common Protestant notion, that the Catholic Church was formed when Constantine convened the edict of Milan in the 4th century but I'm afraid it's just myth.Quote:
The Theories of Arius competed with those of the roman catholics, due to Emperor Constantine the roman variant was chosen and put into law resulting in the roman catholic Church.
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But Arius thoughts, as persecution of heretics was in those times not yet done, survived. Several Missionaires who believed in the arianic christianity went to the northern people, the Germanics. The Goths preffered the arianic message to the catholic one, due to the catholic one would have put them under rule of the Pope in Rome.
Arianism was the heresy that "spread like wildfire", at one point nearly every bishop in Christendom was an Arian, save for Augustine and those who were in league with him. You're right, Gothic Arianism survived for purely political motives.
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Within the Goths, Vandals and Huns the arianic christianity was then alternated by unique cultural conditions: The Christian God was made equal with Allfather from the native Asatruar faith. This can be compared with the development in Japan, where Shintoism and Buddhism fusioned to be Zen-Buddhism.
Do you view this as a doctrinal compromise or a cultural revision?
Are you forgeting the Gnostics?Quote:
The whole theory of non-existance of physical existance is not christian, it is converted from germanic paganism.
They were independent from the Pontiff because they were heretics, not because they were granted some nebulous autonomy.Quote:
That and the fact arianic Bishops were independant from the Pope, resulted in the roman church to classify the arianics as beeing heretic later on and supporting wars to conquer their Kingdoms. This way they for example supported France to conquer the Visigoth Kingdom in Spain and reconvert them into becoming Catholic.
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Modern people who got to know about this is by reading about them, and through the ban of herectism is not lifted this is mostly a thing for history buffs. This way there is no more arianic church, only the arianic theory beeing very similar to Descartes "cogito ergo sum" (I think, so I am.).
Descartes stole that from Gnosticism, it was hardly an original idea. Even as such its somewhat absurd, unless you have a really strange way of looking at the world. Were that the case then I should be able to manipulate my environment, since it is apparently under my control.
I can mostly agree with that, with the exception of the fact that our bodies will be returned to us in a glorified manner on the last day.Quote:
Your Senses, feel, taste, smell, see and hear are related to your body. If you die they're gone. Your Soul, your Emotions and Thoughts, are the sixt sense which will live further.
Why is it necessary that material be an illusion in order for God to manipulate it? If God is the supreme master of the universe, would it matter then what state material was in?Quote:
The Universe you can see with the five others is like an Ilusion from God and he is able to change it anytime. That explains why God can do such unexplainable things, like splitting the Waters or hide the Fortress of the holy Grail so only Parcival could see it.
The moment when Jesus was baptised he changed. His Baptism was the major Event in Jesus' Live just before he'll stay 30 days in the Desert to learn about himself and God, where he treatened the Devil. The treatments of the Devil can, if you read them properly, be seen as a Test from God if Jesus is the right one. Anything in that direction is only possible through speculation, because we were not there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
Logically the roman variant existed prior to Constantine. But on that Point the Protestant are right: Constantine had risen the Catholic Church, but also the Orthdox Church with on strike. When Christianity turned to become Statereligion in both Roman Empires (Constantine ruled them in Personalunion as he seperated them), the Bishop as the leader of a local christian community was not hitting the requirements to establish an imperial organisation. So the former Senateministery of "Pontifex Maximus" was in the West and the East established as the highest clerical Authoritylevel above the Bishops. It was not that Constantine created the Catholic or Orthodox Faith, but he created the Organisationforms that they still use until today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
They were indepandant from the Pope by ignoreing his authority and beeing indeed something diffrent. The absorbation of pagan Ideas was caused by their Traditions, that didn't allow a complete Christianisation. So it was an unvoluntary cultural revision, nothing doctrinal. The fact that they were as heretics not controlled by the Pope, makeing the Kings the highest Authority, allowed their unique development. In Case of them beeing controlled by the Pope, those thoughs and mixing with Paganism would have been ended by abolishing them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
The Gnostics are similar to Arianism, but the connection between Goth Arianics and Gnostics is only that Arianism was influenced by Gnostics before it reached the Goths.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
Descartes is one thing, but the Enviroment you live in is still controlled by God and that's the reason why you can't change it with your mind. But the "Enviroment" beeing fully under your control is created by you: When you dream your mind creates his own world, also provideing the senses to See, Hear and touch. The Dream Enviroment is once you realised it as a dream fully under your control, you can fly and other things like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight
It about the Way how Universe is made, you can only recognise it with your senses which can be spoofed. Hardly compared its God's big Dream, which we can recognise. Matirial is like Pixels on a PC-Screen. A thing you can analyse in Attributes, but those Attributes are because of your Senses. And God can change it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teutonic Knight