Please donate, if you can, to ease the suffering of the men woman and children who were trapped without warning in the raging fires sweeping south eastern Australia. Many have died and many are dying in hospital. Entire towns have been wiped off the map.

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Psychologists say that road rage occurs because drivers go on the road expecting to have a smooth ride. But that is rarely the reality. There will be hold ups and other drivers who are not perfect. If we venture onto the roads expecting obstacles on our drive (which is the reality), we will not have road rage. Road rage occurs through a driver not accepting reality.

Similarly, life is never going to turn out exactly how we want it to... so we must expect that, and meet the unplanned challenges and setbacks as part of the journey to our goal. Expect to have obstacles on the way and we will be prepared and will not suffer life rage, which is anxiety, depression, anger, or defeat

Could there be a spirituality suited to agnostics? Darwin’s great ally Thomas Henry Huxley gave the following classic definition of agnosticism: “Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.” Agnosticism was also Darwin’s own preferred position. There is no list of settled agnostic beliefs. In fact there are several types of agnosticism: • You might be uncertain whether the God of your culture’s main religion, or any god, exists. • You might be a principled agnostic who believes that the question of God’s existence is unanswerable, that proof either way is impossible. • You might be a practical agnostic and believe that the question of God’s existence is irrelevant to the living of life. Whichever kind of agnostic you are, it’s very likely that you have some skepticism about the central claims of traditional religions. And it’s also very likely that you are a person who does not accept grandiose claims without solid proof. Does that mean that as an agnostic you can’t have any kind of spirituality, that you can’t satisfy those complex needs that religions fulfill - community support, remedies for grief and anxiety, a sense of one’s place in Nature and the wider Universe? Could there be an agnostic religion, or a religion suited for agnostics? How would you feel about a spirituality that does not ask you believe in anything other than the natural world that your senses reveal to you every day? A spirituality at whose core lie deep feeling of belonging in Nature, of reverence for the Universe, of concern for planetary and human survival? Pantheism means, basically, reverence for Nature and the wider Universe. Pantheists move beyond the unanswerable questions and deal with what exists – the Universe that our senses and sciences reveal to us. We don’t claim to know the ultimate origin of the Universe or Multiverse – for us, it just is. And it is so immense, powerful, beautiful and mysterious that we feel reverence, or if you prefer, wonder and awe, for it. There’s no requirement to prove or disprove the existence of some invisible being. There’s only the question: Does it seem right to you to feel reverence for the universe, love and concern for nature and human rights? Maybe Pantheism answers the questions you need answering?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prkNIuNHG34

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