It?s Good Friday, 2002, about seven in the evening. Since I was about ten and beginning to wake up to the meaning of the gospel, this day has had profound meaning for me. Today again, the passion has been much in my thoughts. I?ve been thinking about the mystery of compassion as it is revealed in the life of Jesus, and how, for me, it is the core of his message.
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The historical reality of the Koran and the Bible are under the most serious question in history, and both Moslem and Christian religious zealots are threatening scholars who dare to say that historical and archaeological reality depart from ‘revealed truth.’
In the March, 2002, issue of Harper’s Magazine Daniel Lazare offers an article updating the latest discoveries in biblical archaeology. Over the last 25 years, the belief that the basic story of the Israelites is historically true has been refuted by archaeological discoveries.
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In August, I published this journal entry about the reasons for UFO secrecy. As far as I know and understand, it is correct. I thought perhaps that some new documents had added some missing pieces, but on analysis I see that this statement still holds up. At the time it was published, there was very little response to it, probably because many people were away during the dog days of August.
It does not follow the usual line about the secrecy being basically caused by arrogant government types who have too low an opinion of the common man to allow him to know the truth about his own world. Instead, it discusses possible reasons why who are whatever is out there would choose to act toward us as they do.
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I recently had a late-night experience that had an unusual enough texture to be worth reporting as possibly not a dream, at least not in the ordinary meaning of that word.
I cannot say that it felt entirely physical, but it was unusual enough, and intense enough, for me to wake up the next morning thinking it might have been a contact experience.
It was the third such experience in recent months and, if it was real, then it could be important.
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