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Seattlegal exquisite creature there is bit of both in Zen , isn't there ? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Stevi often seems a fan of both Buddhism & Taoism but then , when he is expounding an idea i will point to some parallel idea from my college- days' knowledge of one of these two...

this summer , my friend Stevi tells me we are only "conscious" of space we are only "aware" of time xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by "space" , Stevi is specifically referring to the surface or "fabric" of things which constitutes the cosmos as defined by General Relativity by "time" ...

Radarmark exquisite creature 3) each organism (u'r self included) exists as a contained (relatively "closed") ecosystem 4) but u'r internal-ecology is surrounded by (& needs) a larger encompassing ecosystem with which to (existentially) interact 5) u share this larger ecosystem with organisms...

Gatekeeper exquisite creature i think each of us (at one time or another) have wondered am i the instrument of forces larger than myself ? this paints a lovely picture of one's personal existence Marxists have taken this picture of things as a matter of faith that the individual is...

Radarmark exquisite creature "Kosmos" ? is this the Greek spelling of "Cosmos" ? ("principle of order" which appears to permeate existence ? ) or do u merely mean something-special by it ? right this minute , i am hearing the steady drip drip drip of a faucet i haven't fixed (a very...

Radarmark exquisite creature by this phrase , i assume u mean "something that really happens" (not just "mind flapping") David Brooks in his rewarding book The Social Animal , observes that (to u'r brain) the function of u'r "culture" is similar to driving on (mental) "autopilot" down a...

Radarmark exquisite creature good place to start some traditions (rightly or wrongly) question "reality" or at least a "manifest reality" (i.e. that the reality in front of u is an illusion) , but to me this (too) would be a legitimate form of existence , a reality which is (still) a...

been wondering something about the "beatitudes" (blessed are the meek , for they shall inherit the earth blessed are the merciful , for they shall be shown mercy et cetera) spoken by (or at least credited to) Jesus the Galilean the beatitudes have a similar rhetorical style to ancient songs of...

Radarmark exquisite creature oh goodie ! fun stuff ! ! i experience , therefore i am u seem to be empiricizing Descartes (a different swerve on Subjective theory an attempt to escape Mind-Body dualism ? ) (to me) how i "behave" in the world has at least as much to do with "who i perceive...

Luecy7 exquisite creature Paul of Tarsus thinks all humanity is marked by the Fall of Adam but Paul sees each individual person as a creature of spirit , too spirit connected directly to the Divine if only , u find the grace to embrace it

honest doing Luecy7 exquisite creature people who see the world thru the looking-glass of ideology fail to see the minutia (the tiny details of real-life which put the lie to their systematic world-view) thus fail to perceive the actual consequences of their ideology...

some thoughts on minutia Luecy7 exquisite creature i part company (only half-agreeing) with IowaGuy regarding "minutia" to me , it is not the "cumulative effect" of millions of bits of minutia which is significant instead , what is significant is this one bit of minutia in itself...

lovely thread ! this & its mother-thread on "Good & Evil" but it reminds me why scientists & philosophers & theologians begin their endeavors by setting down some definitions so they don't (endlessly) talk at cross-purposes with each other who was it that called this kind of ad-hoc...

covered in black from head to toe those women when i saw them i thought two things first , it must be comforting at times to be so anonymous but (second) in the modern world such conduct such opaque choice of attire is the ultimate in antisocial behavior my Aunt Pat tells me this back...

it is a very clean silence Ma is napping Aunt Pat is driving Ma's people back to PDX for their flight home it is afternoon last Sunday , day after Pa's memorial Ma & Pa always did keep the house neat & clean but , as i look there is something more , now every line of architecture is clean &...

it is one of the nastiest autumn days in memory big wind with driving rain , cold burr it is cold the nastiest , where i live & also along most of the Oregon & Washington coastal areas but there is a pocket , a break in the weather up the coast from me , where Ma & Pa still live Pa ...

it may be telling that , during neuroscience brain-scans when the person who is the scan's subject is talking about what she or he "knows" , versus when talking about what she or he "believes" the exact same top-front region of the human brain lights-up "knowledge" & "belief" both constitute...

some context good & evil as problematical concepts in the ancient world (moral freedom = guile & reciprocity rebelling in a subtle/survivable way & keeping the trade routes open) "microeconomics" is my major emphasis , back when i'm in college as this sub-discipline relates to a modern...

Seattlegal exquisite creature thanks i recognize the reference now remember the stealing of the "golden apples" from some Italian "Sword & Sandal" flic from the 1960s (directed by Mario Bava or someone) dismal place (Hesiod describes) murky & awful , loathed by the very gods...

IowaGuy exquisite creature the Christianity u describe is a brand of Calvinism brought to New England by the Puritans & furthered (in America) by "revivals" every few generations my heritage is that of Quakers arriving in America not long after the Puritans & purchasing land from...