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It should be in your mailbox. Something I learned once... The difference between a little truth and great truth: The opposite of a little truth is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth. I wonder if the Big Suggestions fall into the great truth department. It...

Drinking too much? Or one glass of wine with dinner every day? Jasmine

Now THAT is an amazing quote! Jasmine

This is interesting. Are you willing to say more? I had a fascinating conversation with an atheist a week or two ago, in which he and I understood each other on a point of faith for the first time. I've been working on finding a way to understand at least a little the atheist approach for over...

I like this! It's really useful! Did you see this somewhere else? Or start it yourself? Jasmine

I am as out as I could possibly be in my Unitarian Universalist church. I chair the chapter of UUs for Polyamory Awareness that meets at our church. I work the UUPA booth in the Exhibit Hall during our annual General Assembly of the Association. One year I co-led a workshop during the General...

I'm going to make a radical recommendation, and send you to church. An atheist-friendly, Unitarian Universalist congregation. All the guilt and fear and loss of faith you are talking about -- these are things people deal with at church all the time. Find a UU church and talk with the minister...

Of course. Freedom of religion. Diversity. Evidence shows otherwise. I learned in a sociology class of heterosexual men who were confined in all male populations (prisons, naval vessels, military deployments) who engaged in same sex behavior for the purpose of sexual release because that was...

Update on UUPA In case anyone receives update notices on this thread, I thought I'd invite you to check out the new thread on the same topic. We just finished the UUA General Assembly in Charlotte NC, and UUPA had an Exhibit Hall booth again. Jasmine

The Mentalist Polyamory on The Mentalist was approached better than on the Bones episode, discussed over on another thread. The Mentalist, Season 2, Episode 16, "Code Red" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596529/ A woman scientist is poisoned. Among many suspects are the victim's husband, her...

I'm glad you said this. I remember when I first got serious about trying to figure it all out for myself, and I remember how huge these questions felt to me at that time. It doesn't feel that way to me anymore because I've wrestled through them so many times... and I forget in these...

After a sexual relationship has already started, when will this other person ever "be ready" to tell their long-term partner? Under what possible circumstance could this be a happy scenario? "Oh honey, by the way, I forgot to tell you I've been sleeping with A for the past three years." Or...

What then does "unrighteousness" refer to in verse 14? 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Yes. IMO, Christianity relates to polyamory because a Christian can be...

Discombobulated Hi ClosetPoly. I'm so glad you posted. Do please find another way other than "fault" to talk about yourself. Maybe "effort." Maybe "confusion." Maybe "discombobulation." Hey, that's a good word; why don't we use it anymore?? :) You are working hard, doing your best. Give...

"Be ye not yoked" Here is the passage. It's King James Version, because that's the one not under copyright: 2 Corinthians 6: 11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a...

Awesome!

Yokes and one flesh This has been really important to me at various times in my process. So I hear what you are saying. Curiously enough, the "becoming one flesh" is one of the bits of Scripture where absolute literal reading can have meaning: man and woman join together and create a child...

You are welcome. You belong here as long as you want to be here. The poly community supports monogamous people too. It's good to figure out what you want in a future relationship, to know what standards to set for yourself, what questions to ask before getting serious. Jasmine

Ulitmately, the only person you have any influence over is yourself. Be the best person you know how to be, the person you want to be. Behave in a manner that makes you feel proud of yourself. The most important thing is that you can look at yourself in the mirror and say "Well done!" Imagine...

No. Your answer is about your anger and objections. My question asked what Jesus teaches polyamorists, and what we still don't understand. So now I have a different question for MrFarFromRight. Do these issues of Jesus and Christianity still matter to you today? Yes, I can. Jasmine