Noble Dust

Developing a spiritual practice, to start.

Sounds good.

Why would I find calling me snappy and vicious a joke? And it's clearly not a joke. What does any of that have to do with me, or to my response to you...

(Y) Measured, as always.

Alright, here's why I have trouble interacting with you: at first you say "Like maybe not being snappy and vicious?" in response to something I said t...

Bitter much?

Me too. I've been looking for other avenues of wisdom. I'm trying to develop a spiritual practice; a discipline in which I put into practice some of m...

I got Simone De Beauvoir... Actually not all that inaccurate: "You possess the spirit of Simone De Beauvoir! She was a powerful advocate of being your...

(Y)

Interesting.

Is there observation without conscious awareness?

Memoirs Found In A Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem This is some almost-black-comedy/surrealist/horror 1984 shit. Really different; barely even sci-fi.

I'm kind of embarrassed that I posted that back then, but I'll give it a shot. I'm fine with that interpretation, as long as it's not considered a dog...

Oh come on, yes we have. And if you haven't, then go do some research.

So in other words, after 5 pages, we still haven't found someone who's adequately brought a nuanced critique of Peterson's ideas, right?

Can you give a nuanced, balanced critique of why you disagree with Peterson?

I was thinking the same.

I've probably talked about beauty more than any other topic on the forum. Is this beautiful? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFiDcazicdk Is this beaut...

For who?

Oh really? >:O

I don't consider myself a good person, no, but I also believe I'm gooder than I know or realize.

I'm no expert, but the ones I posted are my favorites, and they're 60's/70's. The covers to the Lord of the Rings edition that I posted in that photo ...

You mean that was a good speech written by a talented speech-writer, right?

But for clarity (??), when he says "the entity" did this or that, he means that the entity did it through him, as far as I'm aware. Not that that real...

Confusing indeed. What fascinates me about PKD is the paradoxical combination of lucid clarity and insanity.

Damn, I knew that vid would stall the train...

Waaa!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2q_u0Fu8I

Oh god, don't make me gush. Please do. But, as a stoic, you may be either egregiously offended, or just unmoved.

As much as I love and am indebted to Mark Hollis, I feel that I need to become PKD, at least for a time. I hope you all will understand.

How dare you group me in with the normals. I’m normal-non-conforming.

I always felt bad for the slow kids as I watched them from the front window of my anxiety-ridden home-school utopian prison.

I’m a little unsure what you mean here; for instance, there are people who don’t get what, exactly? I think it’s just your wording.

How are those two contrary to one another? That's what i was describing, yes. I assume you're bringing this up because you're saying it's the remedy t...

That's your definition of empathy? All I did was mentioned a point of anxiety for myself, because you asked. We're talking about anxiety. You haven't ...

I recall threads in which youve been offended. I'm just looking for some empathy, but nevermmind.

God, dude.

Yes, I understand all of that already, and find it borderline offensive that someone would suggest I wouldn't know any of that. But that's the danger ...

Why do you keep asking about how I feel in various situations without then expounding on my answers? All you've done so far when I answer with my feel...

I have no issue with that; but you said that, in your opinion, "you cannot really adequately live in the world and follow that path." You were respond...

Correct... I'm not actually as socially inept as what I'm saying might suggest. It's just specific situations. Edit, and moreso just a mindset.

That's probably because mysticism and business are at odds. Who is your master? I'm still learning, but there seem to have been mystics who were very ...

To be fair, I'm just now delving into different forms of mysticism. But it's clear to me so far that not all playing fields are equal, even if there i...

Who? You can't leave us clueless homeschoolers in the dark. Yes, that's the practical interpretation of my analogy.

Why not the Christian mystics or the Kabbalists?

Apology accepted, thanks for that.

Pretty sure anonymous66 has publicly stated that they were home-schooled. I feel like I'm watching life happen within a globe, and I'm outside the glo...

(Y) true. I was drawn to the double meaning of the word, honestly. But I agree.

I'm posting here to help figure out why I have it. Do you like the attention of being a savior?

Agreed.

Fair, but I was really just curious how you were using "unreal", as a maker of poetic words myself. I took it at first to mean "the anxiety is unreal"...