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by pilatus
01 Oct 2007
Forum: Admin back up
Topic: [Policy] Forum feedback and changes
Replies: 22
Views: 24172

Dear admin - I'd just like to add my vote of thanks to those of abek and freedom. I really like the new structure, facilities, look-and-feel of the forum. Thank you so much for your continuing improvements during a time which might have been a bit distracting?!
by pilatus
01 Oct 2007
Forum: For BKs - to discuss BK experiences
Topic: Why nobody wants to discuss this biggest test?
Replies: 32
Views: 29215

Dear master creator , By way of background I'd like to be clear that, unlike you (and many of the contributors to this forum), I wasn't wholeheartedly committed to the pukka BK way of life. You will find many articles on this forum where celibacy and purity are discussed. In one example on Purity un...
by pilatus
25 Sep 2007
Forum: For Vishnu Party & all other Splinter Groups
Topic: The Mr Green Kumaris
Replies: 97
Views: 101072

Haven't dipped into this topic since mid-Sept and what do I find - the usual story with (ex)BK nutters! Mr Green quite reasonably observes that the one true God (or at least Chariot) is the piece of fruitcake in his fridge and the rest of you go off on one - no! I prefer the gulab jamun, or I've fou...
by pilatus
25 Sep 2007
Forum: Admin back up
Topic: [Admin] Change of user name notifications
Replies: 5
Views: 8068

I've always experienced that invoking the Holy Trinity is particularly powerful.

Does this mean you'll be getting together with bro neo?

If so, can I volunteer to be Morpheus? (even though I don't look anything like Laurence Fishburn and am nowhere near as cool ...) :P.
by pilatus
25 Sep 2007
Forum: For BKs - to discuss BK experiences
Topic: Original Virtues of the Soul : HUMILTY
Replies: 5
Views: 4786

Absolutely jannisder - BTW like the "new" avatar...

Love, joy and namaste,
by pilatus
24 Sep 2007
Forum: For BKs - to discuss BK experiences
Topic: Original Virtues of the Soul : HUMILTY
Replies: 5
Views: 4786

Thanks bansy and tinydot for starting this thread - humility is one of my biggest challenges! I was never comfortable with the simplistic BK view of ego as vice, but the three key notes of the Franciscans are Love, Joy and Humility and I am having to work hard at (at least) the last two of these! Fo...
by pilatus
24 Sep 2007
Forum: For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Topic: BK Laity
Replies: 12
Views: 7936

Thanks for taking me back to the good old days of Bill and Ben abek - and I loved the "pottiest" pun ... To take proy's model one step further, perhaps we can compare the BK structure with e.g. the Church of England General Synod = Bap-Dada meeting: 1. House of laity = common-or-garden, no...
by pilatus
23 Sep 2007
Forum: For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Topic: BKWSO commence legal action against BrahmaKumaris.Info
Replies: 324
Views: 337419

Text of e-mail to BK contacts

Following abek's lead, below is the text of an e-mail which I've just sent to my various BK contacts in the UK. May we all keep up the good work, especially admin! This is a short e-mail to update you with recent events in my life and raise an issue which I'd like to bring to your attention. Some of...
by pilatus
18 Sep 2007
Forum: Admin back up
Topic: [Notice] Vacation time for members travelling or meeting
Replies: 55
Views: 60472

Wow I am really jealous of you paul . We're off now for a three-day retreat to a Franciscan (SSF) friary at Hilfield, near Dorchester in Dorset, UK. Have been looking forward to it for a long time and, as was mentioned on another thread, selected friaries, abbeys and monasteries can offer very good ...
by pilatus
17 Sep 2007
Forum: For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Topic: BK Speak
Replies: 57
Views: 35915

" Body conscious " - used to refer (derogatively) to people who are fit and healthy, inclined to treat their bodies as temples since, after all, it's the only Chariot we know we've got ... Never used regarding a slim, attractive, sari-clad Senior Sister (Shudra equivalent being "Cor! ...
by pilatus
17 Sep 2007
Forum: For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Topic: BK Speak
Replies: 57
Views: 35915

Hello again, Yes, pilatus. You will probably get a birth or two at the end of the Silver Age as our cremator and then head off to the Middle East asap to hang out with Jesus. Again. For eternity. Heavy on the sandalwood when it comes to the funeral pyre but light on the ghee as I am allergic to dair...
by pilatus
17 Sep 2007
Forum: For Ex-BKs & Common Room
Topic: BK Speak
Replies: 57
Views: 35915

" Irregular student " ... this is someone who; 1. Likes getting up early on some days and cannot be arsed on others. 2. Doesn't enjoy sitting still waiting hours for God knows what to happen (and actually likes to do early morning mediation while cycling, star gazing or hill walking). 3. I...
by pilatus
17 Sep 2007
Forum: All & Everything
Topic: God and the Devil are Lies
Replies: 41
Views: 20552

Hello again all (esp. ex-I , abek , andrey and bro neo ), Sorry I've not been responding to your questions ex-I - I went off in the direction which I felt bro neo wanted to explore given the references to God and Satan rather than God/Baba and Ravan/Maya ... I am very interested in the 'evolution of...
by pilatus
16 Sep 2007
Forum: Newcomers backup
Topic: Newcomer ...
Replies: 42
Views: 41080

Hoi peter de, Very true what you say - have been churning on this for some time now with the help of my other half (life partner). Where I am now with this is that ascending/feeling closer to the divine leads to a release of my blocked inner potential energy. This can be quite sudden and dramatic. U...
by pilatus
16 Sep 2007
Forum: All & Everything
Topic: God and the Devil are Lies
Replies: 41
Views: 20552

Dear all, Sorry abek if I was too short with you - in a hurry to get away on holiday ... However, I wasn't at all trying to "dissuade me (abek) from exploring the topic on the basis of its title, i.e. God and the Devils are Lies". I (thought) I was just saying that I don't intend to abroga...