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I do find it funny that when people ask questions in regards to evolution vs. creationism, that the arguement is almost, if not more contraversial, than that of abortion.

Is it more far fetched to believe that we evolved over millions of years through climatic changes, through adapting, survivng ice ages, movements of the plate tectonics, the major nature disasters that plagued the globe in its infancy, than it is to believe that the earth and everything in it was created in 6 days, and woman was manifast from man?

And now that we have the knowledge of DNA, and aspect of SCIENCE the religious actually like to use to support their beliefs, it must prove this wrong.

It doesn’t. every child born is a genetic mutation of its parents DNA, combining to form a new strand. If it was perfect, we would not have physically or mentally handicapped people, people would not be suffering from all the mental diseases they do now. etc.

Here’s a thought for you, we evolved. But does evolution rule out a Divine creature? No. it does not. How is anyone certain that evolution was not part of the Divine Plan? which goes back to ask how long is 1 day in the eyes of the Divine?

depends on the business, an 18 year old can not get a license to sell alcohol for instance, but for general business, i.e. selling no alcohol, tobacoo or firearms, you can obtain a general business license at 18.

And yes, because anyone under the age of 18 is not considered a legal adult in the US and therefore can not be held legally responsible for the use or misuse of a business license.

in the US it is 18 regardless of state.

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Emilia,

You need to get yourself a business license first and foremost.
You will want a “Doing Business As” or “Ficticious Business Name” license, if you are doing a Sole Proprietorship, which is the easiest icense to get. If you do not plan on having any employees at first then you do not the federal license, since you will claim all the money on your taxes.

You can go to your local court house and they will tell you if you need a local license in addition to the state lisnces, and they should have the paperwork there for the state.

Once you recieve the proper licenses you are ready to legally start your business.

Now if you sell to anyone within the state you live in, or the goods are being purchased by someone outside of the state that aare shipping it somewhere in your state, you need to charge, and pay the State Sales Tax. If they live outside your state, then you just pay federal taxes on the income you make, and nt state tax.

The fun begins with designing your website, the ecommerce software you want to run, deciding on html, php, perl etc type scripts, find a webhost ect, then build your site. Afterwords, you will need to work on promotion and page rank, which is the difficult part to do.

If you visit my site at www.sekhemonline.net you can see how I have my business set up, if you want advice or assistance, us the “contact me” option at my website to email me and I will help with what I can.

Regards,

Sekhem

We could go on forever about the semantics of the definition of a word, especially one that has various different meanings depending on the context of what you base it on.

Metaphysical - Based on speculative or abstract reasoning, Highly abstract or theoretical, incorporeal, Supernatural.

and to argue why people want physical things to help them for daily reminders of that which is beyond our senses, you will have to ask the individual. But it may have to do with the fact that imagery, no matter how real, surreal, or abstract that they maybe are the quickest methods to spark the psyche and to move beyond the ego and into the collective unconcisousness and allowing us into the transcendance many want to achieve.

You have the right to your opinions and you can call it what you want, and I respect that. And I will call it what I want, but if you would like, so that you could feel more at ease with your odds of idolaty, once I actually have time to list the books we carry online I can be sure to let you know they are there :)

Otherwise, I do appreciate yours and CC commentary with the main question posed, it has been a pleasure reading them, and helps break me away from the stacks of notes and piles of research materials.

Bless Bless

Moonlit -

If you look at the fact that devil-whorship and satanism (which despite contrary belief are 2 seperate belief systems) manifest itself as an Anti-Christian belief (hence the Anti-Christ) then the older pagan faiths, and even a large fashion of the newer pagan faiths can-not be construed as a devil-worshiping religious faith.

There are factions of the Judeo-Christian belief system that can be dated back (in writing) before the first book of the bible was ever written.

Selkie is correct, that alot of Christianity has adopted numerous aspects of Pagan beliefs, which is expected becaused it eased the conversion of the Pagans during the Crusades and Dark Ages.

And Cady, not *all* pagan faiths are polytheistic, there are numerous that are monolatrous.

Ordained:
1.
a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on.
b. To authorize as a rabbi.
2. To order by virtue of superior authority; decree or enact.
3. To prearrange unalterably; predestine: by fate ordained.

Minister:

1.
a. One who is authorized to perform religious functions in a Christian church, especially a Protestant church.
b. Roman Catholic Church The superior in certain orders.
2. A high officer of state appointed to head an executive or administrative department of government.
3. An authorized diplomatic representative of a government, usually ranking next below an ambassador.
4. A person serving as an agent for another by carrying out specified orders or functions.
v. min·is·tered, min·is·ter·ing, min·is·ters
v.intr.
1. To attend to the wants and needs of others: Volunteers ministered to the homeless after the flood.
2. To perform the functions of a cleric.

Selkie-

To answer your question, we are not attempting to bring those things that are beyond the physical into our world, we sell things, and we have a multitude of other items we have not yet posted online for all religious faiths, to help the individual bring themselves closer to their personification and understanding of the Divine in order that the individual may transcend themselves and gain that greater connection to God. right now we primarily have the Kemetic (or ancient egyptian) items up, however we are working to get our Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist, and Native American faith based items up as soon as possible.

Let me clarify a few things….

1. I am an Ordained Minister.
2. I do practice/believe in a religious faith.

My questions I pose is not directed in any way shape of form to a particular religious faith. I have studied most of them, and they all have their pros and cons. From my observations, and upbringing, my personal experieince is that people (and I use that in a vage term, not meaning everyone) tend to focus on what others *should not* do based on their particular faith, rather than what they *Should* be doing themselves to bring themselves closer to God (however they may define the divine within their belief system).

To me the person who has a personal relationship with their divine creator, and works on developing that relationship, has a far greater connection to the spiritual teachings set forth within their doctrine, than the person concerned with someone elses faith/belief system, that may or may not agree with theirs.

Once you transcend and live the life that is taught within the said scriptures, then the personification of God within you will naturally draw others towards you for them to seek that solace.

How can I tell someone not to drink if I am an alcoholic? Or not to smoke if I smoke? I could tell them why they shouldn’t and what it could do to them if they do those things, but I have no right to tell them that they can’t do these things without being a hypocrite.

The same thing applies to religions, dogmas and spirituality. How can I tell someone they need to find God, follow his rules set out within said guideline of such an such belief system if I don’t do it completely myself.

Now, before I get flamed on that last statement let me utter the words of Christ: “Ye who are without sin, Cast the first stone”.

I am not saying or trying to imply that all people that practice a faith are hypocrites, I am saying that we are human, and are therefore by definitation not perfect. However if we do not recognize our imperfections we are doing nothing less than the what Christ taught by pointing out the splinter in ones eye without seeing the beem in our own.

We all have choices we make. I do believe in Karma, but I also believe there are times that you have to accept the negative Karma if you know you are doing the right thing. You will continue to suffer the impacts of Karma as long as you let yourself carry that negativity that brought it upon you to begin with. as hard as it is, let it go, move on and focus on the positive things in your life, and those things you are doing, then you will see that the good Karma has always been there but you were to busy holding onto the the negative.