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| Annafea | May 31 2008, 06:08 PM Post #16 |
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I think I am beginning to get the idea for how to get the force to flow as in the article "Make the Force Flow" for the youngling training number 5. I was working on it just now with trying to just mentally feel it going through my arms. It was kind of slight and felt sort of, I don't know, patchy might be the best term. But I think I have the idea, so I will just keep practicing at it. |
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| Kai Stormwalker | May 31 2008, 06:11 PM Post #17 |
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The more you practice it the easier it becomes. Just like anything else. |
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| Silmerion Skywalker | Jun 1 2008, 05:16 AM Post #18 |
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I'm glad you did this experience and that it allowed you to meditate about service. I think it is possible to give too much, I believe we should be aware of what we have to give, at the same time, this should not limit us, because when we are called to help, God is able to make us discover capacities we had never thought to have. I think we should always be open to God's guidance so He can make us feel when and how to help. I believe something to think about is that we should never make someone dependent on us, I think the best thing we can do for the others is helping them to find inner strength and self-confidence. Of course it always depends on the situation, and again God can guide us. Master Silmerion |
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| Annafea | Jun 2 2008, 09:40 AM Post #19 |
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This post is for the youngling assignment 6 in which I am to discuss the importance of having good manners. In the article on good manners it points out that manners vary from culture to culture but at the heart it is the same. I think mainly that what that means is that having good manners indicates that we have a willingness to consider the rights and feelings of others. Whatever the culture is, that is at the heart of it. One thing I remember learning about this in my college anthropology class was this story (true story) about a cultural anthropologist who was studying a group of people I beleive in South America someplace. Sorry, can't remember and don't have the book here right now. But anyway, he was studying these people and I forget exactly what aspect of them, but he withheld some of his stuff from them in order to find something out. What he didn't understand is that in their culture stuff was considered to be shared with everyone and he was violating their sense of decency because in their culture the proper thing to do would have been to share it with everyone. So they started doing things to make him unwelcome, etc, and he didn't find out why until he was ready to leave. I guess I just mention that because I think a lot of it is connected to our willingness to learn and educate ourselves about the cultures of the places we are. It's not so much that you even have to go to another country, either. In the area I live I am in more of a rural area but have gone to college in other towns. There were differences as to what is polite even just between those two environments. On a college campus one does everything possible to demonstrate one's knowledge as we want to impress upon people that we are learning. It's encouraged and even expected or they lable you an idiot. However, at home among family and freinds if I do the same thing, it's interpreted quite differently. I have had it insinuated to me that I am a "know-it-all" or a "smart-ass". So a lot of this depends on where you are and who you are with but there is a similarity. They both have the idea of considering how our knowledge and the display or lack of display of that knowledge impacts others. On a college campus it is disrespected if you seem to know nothing because that implies that you are not making an effort and are not giving the teachers your attention. At home, demonstrating the same intelligence is a sign of rating myself as higher than the people around me and interpreted by them as snobishness. But it's the same person and the same knowledge. So a large part of having manners is knowledge of how the people in a given environment perceive things and responding in a way that is considered considerate in that environment. Of course, no one could do this perfectly. I think another thing that is important is to be humble about making social mistakes and being able to apologize or express our lack of familiarity with it. And sometimes it's just a matter of trial and error and we learn in time. |
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| Kai Stormwalker | Jun 2 2008, 01:22 PM Post #20 |
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Very good points Annafea. I have experienced these same kinds of differences myself. |
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| Annafea | Jun 8 2008, 07:58 PM Post #21 |
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Have been concentrating on school this week as this is finals week. Will get more with the program after I get through finals. Today's good deed was to get a chicken at the grocery store for dinner as my parents were out and would probably not feel like cooking when they got back. |
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| Silmerion Skywalker | Jun 9 2008, 04:23 AM Post #22 |
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Good job, Annafea! Take all the time you need for the Assignments, school is important! Master Silmerion |
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| Blake | Jun 12 2008, 08:44 PM Post #23 |
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Where did you post the picture of the basic stances? can I have a link to the thread? thanks |
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| Silmerion Skywalker | Jun 13 2008, 03:49 AM Post #24 |
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The Council is still searching for pictures of these Stances, we will post them as soon as possible. Master Silmerion |
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| Blake | Jun 13 2008, 09:24 AM Post #25 |
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Oh ok thanks. I thought Annafea already posted pictures. |
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| Annafea | Jun 16 2008, 07:39 PM Post #26 |
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Well, I didn't post a picture of what is required here, what I did was do a search on the horse stance and found a picture and then I posted a question someplace (sorry not sure where) asking if that were the right way as it was hurting me quite a bit to do that. They answered saying the picture I'd found was really a more deep horse stance than what is asked for here and then they posted a picture that is more like it. I'm not sure where that was I posted it. I think it was in the general section, but if I run across it I'll try to post a link to that thread. I'm still working on the memorization of the Bible books. I'm off school this week so I'm hoping to get that done this week. I'm close to having the old testament and will continue working on it. |
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| Guest | Jun 16 2008, 09:24 PM Post #27 |
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I was looking for that thread in which I posted the question about the horse stance. Sorry, I haven't found it again yet. But that got me to looking over that assignment and I realize I have another question about it. The first time through I had kind of gotten it in my mind that the horse stance was the only thing that the youngling studies was concerned with. But in looking at it today, I'm not sure that was what was meant as they said to look at the martial arts section and work on them and that the horse stance was of particular importance and that to pass the youngling trials we have to be able to do the horse stance for 5 min. I ended up thinking that for youngling section that I was only supposed to practice the horse stance until I could get it for 5 min. So I guess I'm not really sure how much of this I'm supposed to do now. Or is it that we are supposed to start working on all of them, but that the horse stance is the only one that we have to do as a qualifier for paddawan? |
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| Blake | Jun 17 2008, 03:04 AM Post #28 |
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It's not just the horse stance. You also have to practice or answer the assignment on youngling training and for the final test, you have to pass the youngling trial. |
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| Annafea | Jun 18 2008, 05:29 PM Post #29 |
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Yes, I know we have to do the other assignments under the Youngling section and so forth, but I'm wondering about how much of the martial arts section we are supposed to do. Whether it is just the horse stance or the other moves in there too. |
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| Annafea | Jun 20 2008, 10:49 AM Post #30 |
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Ok, I memorized the books of the Bible. Had quite a bit of difficulty at first with these, for some reason. And I still get a bit dyslexic about a couple of the books at times, but I think I have them down enough to say they are memorized. They are: Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Dueteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehmiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiates, Song of Solomon, Isaih, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obediah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Phillipeans, Collosians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation |
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