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Apparently only monkeys and humans do not make their own vitamin C. A human-sized animal would make about 10g a day. How could that be evolution? Blavatsky maintained that monkeys descended from earlier human species
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Everything of top/stupendous value and of narrative-devaluing controversy is in private collections... and I'm not talking Egypt only. Museums have very little compared to that. Although the Vatican might be an exception -- here's what Grok tells me: The Vatican Apostolic Archive (formerly the Vatican Secret Archive) and the Vatican Library house vast collections. The Library alone has about 1.6 million printed books, 75,000 manuscripts, and 8,600 incunabula (books printed before 1501). The Apostolic Archive contains around 85 kilometers (53 miles) of shelving with documents dating back to the 8th century. Access to these is heavily restrictedâonly accredited scholars can enter, and even then, they must request specific items without browsing. General public access is essentially nonexistent, except for rare exhibitions like the 2012 Lux in Arcana, which displayed 100 documents, a tiny fraction of the total. The Vatican Museums hold roughly 70,000 works of art and artifacts, of which about 20,000 are on display at any given time. This suggests around 70% of the museumâs collection is not publicly shown, stored in reserves or used for research. However, this doesnât account for items too fragile, sensitive, or controversial to ever be exhibited. Combining these, a conservative estimate suggests 80-90% of the Vaticanâs books and artifacts (across the Library, Archive, and Museums) are never shown to the public, with the Archive and Library being far less accessible than the Museums. This is driven by the need to protect fragile items, maintain security, and control historical narratives.
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Strange goings on at the Egyptian museum . Remember Zawi Hawass ...... whi specialized in 'hawassment ' of ufologists , ancient alien proponents and pyramidiots ? Yes, he got fired sometime back ..... but " ... Hawass was sacked by the countryâs ruling army council, which reshuffled the government cabinet to purge it of Mubarak henchmen, a move widely seen as an attempt to placate the millions of Egyptians involved in the nationâs revolutionary upsurge... ... In February of 2011 I wrote The Museum at the Center of Egyptâs Revolution, an article about Mr. Hawass that detailed his record as an ardent supporter of the former dictator Hosni Mubarak (who is scheduled to go on trial Aug. 3 over charges of corruption and having given the orders to murder dozens if not hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators). ...Typical of Western press coverage of Mr. Hawassâ downfall, the New York Times simply mentioned on July 22, that Hawass had drawn criticism from critics âfor his ties to the Mubaraks, his role in sending artifacts abroad on traveling exhibitions and his relationship with National Geographic, which paid him up to $200,000 a year as an explorer-in-residence.â There is much more to say about why Hawass has been such a controversial figure for Egyptians. My above mentioned article not only addressed how Egyptian archaeologists and state museum workers viewed Hawass as running the nationâs archaeology institutions for his own personal profit, it focused on another very disturbing possibility; as Egyptâs chief archaeologist, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, and the Minister of Antiquities (a newly created cabinet post given to him by Mubarak just prior to the dictatorâs demise), Hawass certainly had to be aware that the Egyptian Museum was being used by Mubarakâs army as a detention center where prisoners were brutally interrogated and tortured. ...allegations made by Human Rights organizations that Mubarakâs soldiers had âsecretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some of these detainees have been tortured.â The article reported that âsome of the detainees have been held inside the renowned Museum of Egyptian Antiquitiesâ. While the article published the testimonies of those who claimed to have been mistreated while held inside the museum, Dozens of detainees held a press conference where they said that on March 9 they had been âdragged into the Egyptian Museum where they endured six hours of torture and mistreatment.â Egyptâs largest news organization, Al-Ahram, also published these accounts, reporting that âAccording to eyewitnesses, thousands are still being held in the military camps with detainees packed inside the Egyptian Museum, which has been turned into a torture chamber by the army.â https://art-for-a-change.com/blog/2011/07/the-firing-of-zahi-hawass.html So if you ever went to the Egyptian museum and noticed part of it was closed off downstairs ... they might not have been hiding the 'alien artifacts' down there after all .
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When .... 'it' ...... gets so bad that the wack-a-doodle 'alternative researchers' are flabbergasted at how far out, wrong, crazy, and double-wack-a-doodle the 'scientific researchers' have become !
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Come to rest, my dear one Drift into the starry dream Step across the night sky stream Follow the crossing, dear one The starry crossing, dear one The horse, the snake, the grayling dove The dragon, the tiger, the monkey, too All await beyond the dawn All await to embrace you Come to rest, my dear one Step into the starry dream Step across the night sky stream Follow the crossing, dear one The starry crossing, dear one She of the great wings beckons you Your spirit she has now unbound For the Earth is but a mew The heavens aloft you have found Come to rest, my dear one
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She got born aware of the light.
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Original text that explains the two truth doctrine
Cobie replied to S:C's topic in Buddhist Textual Studies
俥ĺżé 俥 xin4 - true ĺż xin1 - heart é ming2 - imprint -
She will be missed May she be liberated.
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I discovered a subtle spiritual bypass going on in my attention and found the instructions from Shinzen Young excellent to counter that and allow painful emotions to go very deep. The habitual response to control attention is *the* source of spiritual bypassing I find. Try it and see if you find it helpful. https://youtu.be/cZ6cdIaUZCA?si=MQ6pGBRHb6trSP8G
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That is a quote from the Tsin Tsin Ming, written by Zen patriarch Seng T'san. Not the Buddha, but a personal favorite. https://terebess.hu/english/hsin.html#3
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Hmm, sorry, I am at a lost. What is the purpose of this thread? What question are you trying to ask? What kind of discussion do you want?
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"When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. As long as you remain in one extreme or the other, you will never know Oneness." Not sure where this one came from.
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Original text that explains the two truth doctrine
doc benway replied to S:C's topic in Buddhist Textual Studies
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The systems I outlined above eliminate that . If you draw in warm fresh air and expel warmed used air in a heat closed system, the moisture laden used or 'stale' air is expelled . the same way your house will not fill with moisture if air circulates around it from open windows . Or your car heater .... drive around in the cold, your windows will 'fog' up Fog is water . put the heater on and fresh air is drawn in, warmed, circulates, picks up your 'breath moisture ..... and while it is suspended in the warm air is expelled out of vents from the interior . Me ? I get moisture and mold regardless ..... welcome to the rainforest ! Wow ! Since 'ever' I have never been able to find a pic online of this . It's the waterfall and escarpment opposite my place and the view from my garden - this shot is angled higher than I get from my place . You have experiences with mold ? Wow ! That dance crowd is having a great time ! W
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Original text that explains the two truth doctrine
Giles replied to S:C's topic in Buddhist Textual Studies
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QFT
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Most Sleeping Gong is merely meditating lying down. The purpose is not to improve sleep quality, nor quantity, unless you happen to have a sleep problem. The theory is that sitting meditation is insufficient to produce result. So a cultivator has to be "always have Chi around" during the day and make use of the sleeping time. Properly done, the cultivator can practise "Kung Fu" and achieve a certain result even though he is asleep. The method is to reach a meditative state and falls sleep. Although the state is not exactly the same as sitting meditation, it is close enough and beneficial.
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welcome , i kinda in and out...great source of reference for english speaking seekers of the dao
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I remember this being cool. Tiny house built on a trailer for mobility. Super adobe / hyper adobe and yurt based designs seem like best low cost permanent options. Search for prefabricated building home on amazon used to yield good results. Not so good anymore though.
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