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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 10:40 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
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- Tue Jul 05, 2016 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 88540
Ron: So what should we old ones do? (I originally had misgivings about posting this reply but from Ron's question perhaps it may have something to offer after all; so I have reworded some of the text to broaden it out for this issue is one of Joseph's most important concern's.): …For anyone facing ...
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:09 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 88540
Carmela wrote, Have been reading about repressive governments that censor and punish political speech and dissent. Maybe, we have that sort of Orwellian regime internalized. Not sure. Maybe this forum is like us...old. Don't know. Why do you single out political speech? It seems to me communication...
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 11:45 am
- Forum: Exploring Your Personal Mythology
- Topic: Common Use of the Word, "Myth"
- Replies: 60
- Views: 11146
One thing we do with the common myth is myth-busting or discovering the facts behind our beliefs and intuitions. Since I have never tried ayahuasca, the South American vegetal version of the DMT experience, I have to rely on second and third hand accounts of the head trip that comes from a DMT encou...
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:22 pm
- Forum: Exploring Your Personal Mythology
- Topic: Just Saying...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4131
Just Saying...
This thread is free of a set topic, and it is a place to say whatever comes to mind. One might read it later to decide whether it should be altered or removed or forgotten or saved. ~ First entry is what came to me in a dream only a few minutes ago. In the dream, the space where I was located was bu...
- Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:26 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 88540
- Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:49 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 88540
- Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 88540
Cool sign, Ron. James, there is much to be said for passionate verbal expression. If we edit too much, we sound like machines. Maybe it's just me, but I enjoy reading what you call "rants". Academics write for each other, use footnotes and bloodless prose. I like our humor, our outrage, our irrevere...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:47 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 88540
Hi Bear. It's tough for us as politically aware "old-timers". My rabble-rousing days are a distant memory. Before i discovered The Tao, The Buddha and Joe c. Since then i have followed my bliss and I tell folk that I must have wanted to be a starving artist, and that is the one thing i was eminentl...
- Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:50 pm
- Forum: Exploring Your Personal Mythology
- Topic: Is There a Central Myth?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1249
Is There a Central Myth?
For any metaphor to dominate all others, it must carry the weight of fundamental significance. If the human is now the picture of the Source and Creator and Saviour, it is because no other entity embodies these characteristics like the Mother, the Father and the Son. They are human archetypes that g...
- Tue Jun 21, 2016 8:47 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 119531
The one for free will is from Kant. It states that the intellect is free because it is not limited by what is, but can think about what ought to be. This is a compelling argument The first one against free will is based on energy and the laws that explain how it works. This argument fails because w...
- Tue Jun 21, 2016 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: General Crosstalk - A Spot for the Odd Comment
- Replies: 1992
- Views: 88540
You are not under the heel of the supposedly "nice" guys who seem unaware of climate change in the face of a fossil fuel economy and protect their nuclear capabilities against all comers. Neither of the candidates are in a position to address the only two issues that mean anything at all to humanity...
- Tue Jun 21, 2016 3:59 am
- Forum: Exploring Your Personal Mythology
- Topic: Common Use of the Word, "Myth"
- Replies: 60
- Views: 11146
.....they do provide some stability and better conditions for happiness. Modern society has certain organizing principles. Money is one that can be useful, and there are many segments of the human community who have so little money, that it really gets to be almost completely irrelevant. Resources,...
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:25 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 119531
Let's see. Our bodies feel substantial enough. They are made of atoms. But wait. Only 5% of the stuff in our "universe" is made of atoms. 23% is dark matter and 73% is dark energy. We gave the exotic dark energy and matter a set of names, and we have no earthly idea what they are all about. Like UFO...
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: AMERICA, the Myth and the Dream
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2886
The events in Orlando, Florida are tragic, and I can only express sadness for the loved ones of the victims in the tragic shooting incident. ~ It is impossible to avoid worrying about the possibility of moral panic that often follows such events, and the imperial presidency that deliberately provoke...