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Seems to be much of an extra dimension that really works to your images when you include people Cavacava. Individually they work for me sometimes, but...
September 24, 2016 at 05:00
Looks great, Punshhh, like your other lakescape; but I do think you need a better photographer or camera or to use a program like Photoshop to crop th...
September 24, 2016 at 04:54
Usually, I haven't been listening to anything "right now" when I am on here. But I have just, right now, been listening to this: https://www.youtube.c...
September 24, 2016 at 04:39
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I don't know, I guess it's a matter of taste. For me if you want a music replete with sexualized sacred or mystical undertones you can't go past this:...
September 24, 2016 at 04:03
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Thinking about hallucinatory or entheogenic experiences you may have had; how would you class those? They obviously have content, well, at least accor...
September 24, 2016 at 03:51
Sure, I'm not advocating that it is ideal that people should cheat on one another, but you are not addressing the issue; which is whether the person w...
September 24, 2016 at 02:46
If one makes a promise to another who is important to one then the disapprobation of the other and in extremis, the loss of relationship with her or h...
September 24, 2016 at 02:36
I agree it would be a major undertaking to read the whole book, but I think much may be gained by reading and meditating upon the individual 'letters'...
September 24, 2016 at 02:26
I agree that we are morally bound by the vows that we, knowingly and with full intent, make. The question is whether we should be legally bound by the...
September 24, 2016 at 02:21
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I hope you don't mind me interjecting here. Whatever we say is by definition, linguistic, but it does not follow from that, that the things we talk ab...
September 24, 2016 at 02:18
Yes when I googled it that is where I found it as well. Immediately prior to quoting the passage the author writes: "Let us place our hand on a copy o...
September 24, 2016 at 02:11
Ascetic practices have historically been designed to achieve certain spiritual aims. Shakyamuni practiced asceticism almost to the point of starvation...
September 24, 2016 at 01:49
Misreading ancient works that were written in and for times and contexts we cannot adequately understand cannot be avoided. If the misreading is not c...
September 23, 2016 at 23:04
Wonder upon wonder! For once we agree!
September 23, 2016 at 23:00
I googled that passage you quoted, and referred to as a 'gem' (I must presume you were being ironical) to see if I could found out where it came from....
September 23, 2016 at 22:59
I am confused as to which book you are referring to Wayfarer. That certainly doesn't sound like it comes from Meditation on the Tarot, which is the on...
September 23, 2016 at 08:24
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I find it a little surprising that you would say that, because it seems obvious that consciousness has evolved, both from an evolutionary perspective ...
September 23, 2016 at 08:14
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Yeah, damn expensive those chemicals!
September 23, 2016 at 04:50
Yeah, I know what you mean; and that's why I said "Nah, just kidding". I just like to make dumb, lurid, inflammatory jokes sometimes...a personal fail...
September 23, 2016 at 04:42
This is the Amazon link to the Hoeller book: https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Pilgrimage-Kabbalistic-Meditations-Tarot/dp/0835608395 And here is the link ...
September 23, 2016 at 04:39
I agree, I think that people carrying such signs are appallingly gutless maggots who themselves deserve eternally recurring buggery at 1,000.000,000 d...
September 23, 2016 at 04:05
Yes indeed 8-)
September 23, 2016 at 03:29
True, true within those assumptions, yes. "Meontology"! I like it!
September 23, 2016 at 03:25
Actually in a way I don't see why that should make any difference. Science doesn't tell us anything about the mystery of existence itself. If anything...
September 23, 2016 at 03:21
The problem I have with this argument is that there is an asymmetry. Any existence after death would be a continuance of present existence, however th...
September 23, 2016 at 03:14
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It seems that you have recognized me as being a fellow Australian. :) Yes, what you indicate here is manifesting in what is, for me (and apparently al...
September 23, 2016 at 02:21
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If the kind of morality you indicate here is representative of the kinds of legally embodied moral principles the vast majority would wish to live und...
September 23, 2016 at 02:12
It was an ironic statement, MU.
September 23, 2016 at 02:06
Yes, I think that it is fair to say, in terms of ordinary parlance, that your animals recognize you. It is logically fair to say as well if it is fair...
September 23, 2016 at 02:04
In the last analysis, whether or not there is anything without human beings is an exceedingly difficult and subtle question. I would say there must be...
September 23, 2016 at 01:50
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For sure, I agree that there can be no perfect logic determining the law; but I believe there can better or worse, more workable or less workable, log...
September 23, 2016 at 01:37
The passing of time is an abstract conception, like the marking of instants. There is no marking of instants or passing of time independently of us; I...
September 23, 2016 at 01:16
It's a false dichotomy... it's like love and marriage,,, "Love and marriage, love and marriage Go together like a horse and carriage This I tell you b...
September 23, 2016 at 01:03
Respect?..understanding?.. what does it matter?...it's all just personal opinions, anyway...Jesus! :-}. :s
September 23, 2016 at 00:55
Jesus :-#
September 23, 2016 at 00:53
You can be asleep first without ever having 'gone to sleep" though; because to go to sleep implies having been previously awake.
September 23, 2016 at 00:13
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Do it, man. I think it's a worthy, albeit incredibly complex, issue. (Y)
September 23, 2016 at 00:06
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Yes, and it is grounds for divorce, if that is what the 'victim' in a relationship that has been 'adulterated' wants. Many people choose to live in de...
September 23, 2016 at 00:04
Not exactly how I would frame it. Time passes only by virtue of its being marked off; and this would seem to involve the idea of instants or points of...
September 22, 2016 at 23:37
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One is intentional harm and the other is not; or at least may not be. There is a big difference between intentional and non-intentional harm, morally ...
September 22, 2016 at 23:27
You may reject the notions of hierarchy that I have said are at work when the first letters of certain words in certain contexts, are capitalized, and...
September 22, 2016 at 22:48
You are saying that although she might think she could have done otherwise, that she in fact could not have done otherwise, correct? If this is correc...
September 22, 2016 at 22:42
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Beating someone up is an act of aggression pure and simple, it is in no way analogous to adultery, as you are suggesting it is. The committing of adul...
September 22, 2016 at 22:32
You don't get it; but that's OK.
September 22, 2016 at 08:13
:)
September 22, 2016 at 06:08
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As I see it, no one is ever saved by transcendence per se, that would be incoherent, but we might say they are saved by transcending their present mod...
September 22, 2016 at 06:07
It is interesting in a poetic way; I find that it does not invite me to elaborate on it at all, just as I would not attempt to explain the meaning of ...
September 22, 2016 at 03:39
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This, form Valentin Tomberg, is an intersting summation of the difference between mystical and scientific, as well as theological, knowledge: "For tho...
September 22, 2016 at 03:37
Nice!
September 22, 2016 at 03:25
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Well then I cannot be a liberal, because I do not say that the evil person's life is worth the same as the good person's. I also do not say, tout cour...
September 22, 2016 at 03:22