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Black + Indian Ceremony Script – A biracial marriage

10/23/2017 – 3:09 am

Our best wishes to you both for a successful and long marriage.

This entry is from the blog of one of our readers.

Fran 'N' Nelli

Hi everyone, a couple of people have asked me how I blended both cultures into one ceremony. A lot of fusion weddings have two different ceremonies on different days or the same day but as I touched on with previous posts, we decided to have one ceremony with our immediate family as the officiants.  Since we didn’t have the expertise of religious officiants to give us the scripts we made our own ceremony which made it even extra special.  We researched a lot of things on the internet and took SOME (keyword) advice from our close friends/family.  Thank you Google for allowing us to get married haha! And now to pay it forward for other engaged couples, we are happily giving you our ceremony online for you to hopefully enjoy along with some explanations, thought processes, challenges etc.

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The Jordanites – by Peter Halder

08/21/2013 – 4:50 am

Guyana Stories by Peter Halder

The Jordanites

by Peter Halder

 Colonial Era

Religion played a fundamental role in the British administration of its colony of British Guiana.

It was most probably the policy of the British that in a multiracial country with many races- African, East Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, the indigenous Amerindian, European and their inter-mixtures- and with different cultures and religious practices, the foundation, growth and spread of the Christian religion, could and would convert, indoctrinate, assimilate and unite the many races into a united nation. The colonialists went further. They recognized that the older generation was probably beyond conversion, indoctrination and assimilation, so their policy was to focus on the children, the new generation.

Churches dotted the landscape of Georgetown and environs, as well as the countryside.    Read More »

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Myths, Legends, Folktales and Fables of Guyana

10/15/2012 – 1:51 am

Myths, Legends, Folktales and Fables of Guyana

By Dmitri Allicock for the Guyaneseonline blog

The practices of Myths, legends, folktales and fables is said to provide continuity and stability to a culture. They foster a shared set of perspectives, values, history and literature, in the stories themselves. Through these communal tales, we are connected to one another, to our ancestors, to the natural world surrounding us, and to society; and, in the myths which have universal themes; we are connected to other cultures. Through their authoritativeness and the respected characters within them, myths establish a culture’s customs, rituals, religious tenets, laws, social structures, power hierarchies, territorial claims, arts and crafts, holidays and other recurring events, and technical tips for hunting, warfare, and other endeavors.   Continue reading →

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MOTHER THERESA – By Pandit Birbal Singh

09/10/2012 – 12:07 am

  MOTHER THERESA

BEGINNING-LESS SERVICE, ENDLESS SACRIFICE.

ONE SUMMER MORNING IN YUGOSLAVIA,
IN CHURCHGOING MACEDONIA,
THE HANDS OF PROVIDENCE,
STEER A LITTLE ALBANIAN GIRL.
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Breaking the Illusion of Limitation – video

03/11/2012 – 6:11 am

Breaking the Illusion of Limitation

Viewer’s Comment:

There is nothing to believe, nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to become or follow etc…You are fully complete, here & now, in this very moment. The mind and body keep us bond to the perpetual and never fully fulfilling search for things outside of our own self. But if you can forget about the body & mind in meditation then that is the true freedom. Freedom is not found outside in objects of the world. We must understand this. Otherwise we will never get anywhere, while thinking we are.

— Post #1187

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Yup, Still Here – Not Judgement Day! – (Updated)

05/21/2011 – 8:40 pm

Yup, Still Here – Not Judgement Day!

Saturday 21 May 2011
by: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr [3])

But of that day and hour no one knoweth, no, not the Angels of Heaven, but the Father alone.

– Jesus of Nazareth

A few weeks ago, my wife and I took a drive to visit friends and family in her small hometown out in western Pennsylvania. It was what you’d expect from a region that has been dealing with economic recession since the steel and rail industries dried up and blew away forty years ago – sweet and beautiful in places, blighted and depressing in others, but with the first faint bloom of spring on the trees whispering of better days to come – except for one strange, glaring thing.

It was one of those digital billboards, looming and gaudy amid the neglected sprawl of Altoona, and displayed on it was something I’d only heard about in passing. According to that blinking monstrosity, Jesus was going to ride back to Earth on the wave of a planet-annihilating earthquake that would summon The Faithful to Heaven and consign the remaining mass of sinful humanity to the yawning doom of the damned. This was to happen on May 21st, roundabout six in the evening (Eastern Standard Time), and the last dregs of the un-chosen would be completely scourged from the Earth by October. Continue reading →

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