It has, unless you say these people are probably lying.
A statement is based on evidence if it is true.

We have elephants painting their self portrait now :-)

If you are looking for spectacles, the Course
doesn't support this.

I witness to tangible and obvious miracles in my world.
It is magificent. And it involves all promised elements
the Course contains. If this wasn't occuring, i'd be done
with it.

You stopped with the Course the last time around.
What did you make it pick up again? Or, did you pick it up again?

namazt

George,

"We can only change ourselves. We can't change the world, we can't
change anyone else, as soon as we take complete responsibility for our
own actions and change into our true God given nature, the world will
change,"

I don't buy this, George. It hasn't worked. I first encountered it in 12
step alanon groups in my early 20s, later in Seth material, had the utter
pleasure of speaking with the infamous Penny North, et al, in CIS, and then
noted course students speaking this same jargon. To me it's an excuse, a
diversion, a denial, that the world can't change by doing anything other
than chanting and meditating.

Sure, we can change ourselves. Sure personal responsibility is important.

Gene,

"The atonement will eventually, but you are looking at it from the wrong
angle."

No I'm not Gene.

I'm looking at it from the angle of what has actually occurred in the world.

You are offering me isolated events by people. None of these events had a
major impact upon the world.

The pictures look a little hokey, BTW.

This is the evidence of war being ended, famine over, and economic
nightmares brought to light? You mean the only place Mother Mary saw fit to
show herself was in an obscure Church?

Are the ascended too busy to appear in Iraq and end the war just by the
Presence?

I certainly do not deny inner transformation, inner enlightenment, and
personal choices. What I am stating, Gene, is a few accounts of Visions of
Mary do not account for the lack of the Divine's direction intervention in
the world today.

maz,

"If you are looking for spectacles, the Course doesn't support this."

And I question this.

I think parting the seas was a fairly good spectacle. Why would grand change
in the world due to divine intervention now be disallowed?

Jesus even said we would do greater works than he. I have yet to encounter
one course student who is healing the sick, except for those who state their
stomach ache disappeared. Or the cancer went away. These are unexplainable
daily occurrences anyway. Replacing a missing limb would convince me, not
shadowy pictures of this, however.

And the study of the Course doesn't begin and end in my opinion. It's
principles are seen elsewhere. It's what you choose to do in your life that
truly matters, not if you are tied to any particularly daily study of
material or dogma. The Course rather stays with you, and you tend to
identify its contents elsewhere. It's not necessary to hold it in study day
and night for one's entire lifetime. I have been told I should not have an
opinion since I don't do the lessons, daily, anymore, as example, or don't
breathe the contents daily, but I do disagree.

"Gene Ward Smith" chewbacca.org> wrote in message
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She's in direct contact with them (LOL)

On Apr 29, 11:03 am, "Jeanette" verizon.net> wrote:

How many people do you know actually try to look within themselves and
find their God given nature and try to become that? Or is it easier to
focus one's attention on the outside world that can't be controlled...

"Jeanette" verizon.net> wrote in news:GEJRj.264$1m3.144
@trndny02:

world.

Which you don't know. That is, you merely assume that prayer does no good,
and base your conclusions on that. That isn't evidence.

"Jeanette" verizon.net> wrote in news:GEJRj.264$1m3.144
@trndny02:

a

Pure assumption on your part.

"Gene Ward Smith" chewbacca.org> wrote in message
news:Xns9A8F6E06CCBB4genewardsmithsbcglob@207.115.33.102...

You being the World's Ultimate Authority on "correct angles" of course!

"Gene Ward Smith" chewbacca.org> wrote in message
news:Xns9A8F74F9C347Egenewardsmithsbcglob@207.115.33.102...

Cough, cough. I think you are the Master at Avoiding Evidence. You probably shouldn't have
embarked on a career as a "genius" without bothering yourself to at least be intelligent first.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msciprayer.html

Why don't you prove that prayer works and get up a prayer group to get rid of the Evil Katie? Oh
right, you've already tried that. What was the lame excuse for the failure again, I forget?