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mauGR1

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  1. Thanks for your appreciation Tippaporn, it has some meaning to me, and it's reciprocal. It's fair, however, to be in doubt, at times, and personally, after been often accused to be dogmatic, i don't feel like expressing absolute certainties. I remember reading Don Juan words as a teen, " be sure that the path you choose has a heart", and since then, I'm trying. Although with different words and nuances, i think D.J. , Seth, Steiner and other masters put some emphasis on the same concept. Moreover, in this age of confusion, having no purpose at all, can make one an easy prey for the " dark forces" imho.
  2. Uhm, ok, it's no surprise to me, but maybe " the craziness and the chaos that surround us", depends by so many people having no purpose ???? Note that i say " maybe ", as it's quite possible that people with a purpose can be creators of chaos as well. Well, whatever one's stance on purpose is, i think it deserves some serious investigations. Perhaps, and this is just an intuition, which may be just a crazy idea, " purposes " can be portals to different kinds of incarnations..
  3. That's a quite thought provoking post, in fact, why the absolute, otherwise known as "all that is" would have a purpose apart from existence ? Of course, i agree that not only we can give our life a meaning, but arguably, life can be better if we give it a meaning. Perhaps I'll have a better answer in a few hours.
  4. Basically, we have very limited power to change other people's mind, but truly unlimited power to change and improve our own. I find Plato's allegory of the cave enlightening in this regard, we have some sort of moral duty to warn those who are chained in the darkness, but we should not expect a medal for that effort.. instead we are often treated as fools, well, I'm getting fairly used to that ????
  5. That's well spotted. Actually i find extremely interesting to try to find out where ideas come from. I believe there are a lot of powerful forces at play, and one has to deal with them, and choose wisely. Perhaps we are part of a minority who prefer some uncomfortable truth rather than comfortable lies, but, as I'm finding out quite often recently, many folks simply don't want to hear different opinions, and they are just ok with their daily materialistic routine. How to deal with them, that's something i have to work out everyday, not always with a lot of success ????
  6. Well, i guess it's subjective. While i am slightly uncomfortable to be ruled by liars, i find also a lot of joy in meeting people who are tired of the lies and look for solutions. Looking things in a spiritual way, we have been warned aeons ago that while our physical reality is a reflection of spiritual reality, it can be quite deceiving. Good questions btw.
  7. Yes, it's a world of lies, and in recent years, i guess that some of us find increasingly difficult to deal with it. Individualism is good, and so is the sense of community, and every single human being should be free to find his own balance between the 2 polarities, without coercion. Easier said than done. These times though, are not going to last forever, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
  8. That's what religion, spirituality and meditation are about, I'd guess. Once one ends up in the wrong bar, the best thing to do is try to get out of there ???? As for your story about the elephant, most, if not all animals are wired to defend their little babies at the cost of death, but interesting nonetheless the belated revenge.
  9. Thanks for your honest reply, in fact, sometimes I'm wrong and I'm happy to be corrected. That said, i won't call hyenas ( or any other animals) vicious. As far as i know, animals obey to their own instincts, and they have no idea about good and bad.
  10. I don't think i was totally wrong, as you seem so eager to point out. I said, there are not many " hyena lovers ", which is generally true, with some rare exceptions, secondly, humans generally feel more pain than other animals in giving birth. Perhaps, ( i didn't bother to check) hyenas feel more pain than humans in giving birth, but I'd guess this is a rare exception.
  11. I have serious doubts there are many hyena lovers, so we should be safe. In fact, where i come from, a very unpleasant woman is often called "a hyena". On behalf of the hyenas ( not to be confused with unpleasant women) , i would say that they are useful, as they like to eat carcasses, so despite them not being exactly beautiful, they are undoubtedly environment friendly.
  12. Take this flying lizard, for example, it resembles very much the dragon of ancient tales, except for its size. It's quite possible that the change in the speed of earth's gravity, provoked by an "asteroids shower" has had some effect on the size of plants and animals ( including humans) living on the planet.
  13. That's surely in the realms of possibilities. I find even more intriguing the possibility, if time is a loop, that "aliens" visiting planet earth might be evolved humans travelling from the future into the past ????
  14. The theory of homo sapiens having been engineered by so called "aliens" is not completely nonsensical imho. No other animal, as far as i know, feel so much physical pain in giving birth. That might be a clue about humans' evolutionary trajectory having been somehow "sped up".
  15. Sometimes i find him difficult to understand too ????
  16. That's amazing ! I guess one can say that life is bad, all the people end up dead ????
  17. Same with the bible, there are interesting tales there, giants, magic tools, and even space traveling. ????
  18. In fact, i often wondered what it's like to live with a transplanted organ, and the heart specially, i don't think I'd like to do it. And the blood it's said to be the physical expression of the ego, i guess transfusions can influence personality, even if temporarily. However, changes of personality happen with everything/everyone we happen to come in contact, and how it happens could give origin to 1000s speculations.
  19. I have no problems with that, i also don't watch tv or movies, except rare exceptions, for similar reasons, and i find extremely boring and shallow the people who do.
  20. The bible can be quite interesting as an historical book, some people, perhaps even you, dismiss any bible's reference because "it's fashion". For example, the legend of the flood goes back to very ancient times, and the same legend, with different details, is common among all ancient civilizations on earth, long before the invention of the script. The story of Jesus is almost contemporary, there are about 10000 years between the flood and Jesus, while the story of the tribes of Israel depicts life in a little region of the world, arguably before the beginning of global empires. Of course, if one's not interested in the roots of his culture, is free to dismiss history, including the bible, as a whole, but i beg to differ: to know oneself, one should not dismiss his cultural roots.
  21. Thanks, some here are tired to explain the difference between spirituality and organized religion, god and the pope, and faith and bigotry..etc.. if you suggest to some folks to do the homework before sentencing, more often than not, they will curse you ????
  22. I'm not sure if i should read Asimov again, but i am sure that i would not like a robot to tell me what is good for me, or how i should live my life...
  23. To answer Mr. Robot, it's ironic that our main problems, ( overpopulation, conflicts and pollution, to name a few ) come from surviving very well, perhaps too well. Men or robots, i can't trust a ruler without feelings, but perhaps it's just me and few others.
  24. Thanks for looking it up, i think that book is a classic, and if we talk about control of the masses, it's a must read. Well, it's a boring book, no narrative genius there, but I've read it thrice, and being written in 1932, it has the character of a prophecy, or a warning. Don't focus on the drugs, which is just one aspect of the whole thing. The book gives a rather clear picture of what can happen if we let technology control our lives.
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