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Any experience I've had with _____ lies beyond the ability of words or ideas to express or convey them. They also lie beyond my ability to even define them for myself in word and thought forms. They exist in memory and in recall, as sensations mostly. Some of them comforting, some disturbing, all of them inspiring and paradigm changing.

Also, Caprica with Eric Stolz... surprising depth of character and storylines for tv.

that is freaking brilliant!

It was a drag for me, that so many of his scenes were with the two of the strongest actors in the series... his father played by Edward James Olmos and Kathryn Ann Sackhoff who played Starbuck his love interest... Poor kid, just mauled his role... but seriously, that series was well done, worth a look.

the more recent BG, had some impressive storylines regarding statism, terrorism, religious manipulation and intolerance... it quite surprised me, in addition to some good acting... aside from the schmuck playing commander's son Apollo.. how did that guy get hired?

honesty always works mate isn't always easy doesn't always win you friends but it'll win you the right ones. cheers.

About 12 years ago, during Summer, while working insane hours (84 days straight) on a film during a heat wave, I started just eating fruit. It was ridiculously hot 115-125 every day in the shop and on the black top and my body just felt awful if I ate anything heavy. There was no plan, it wasn't a detox, it was just purely listening to what made me feel good and what I wanted and it was so awesome. I felt light, had loads of energy and wasn't thinking anything about health, just feeling good. That has become my body's natural response now whenever there is a heat wave. I just switch to fruit and love it, but it never lasts more than a few weeks.

Not sure about all the christian implications and local, immediate details and how they'll play out. If balance is achieved, I sense it will not be something I'll witness. But, and ziss iz a big but... I have a sense that the balance of the tao, is greater than any one human political system or series of them. so eventually I take heart in the drawn bow settling in balance.

this fell out of me some time ago: muddiest water left undisturbed by intent rests in clarity after having this buzz around consistently for some months now... i am occupying a spot of observing the actual process of practice and intention... and necessarily questioning what is the real use of practice over non practice... action over simple being... intention over unintended being... perhaps it's time to simply release. practice, intentions, intended action, judged failed action, judged failed non-action... and just be. hmm..

I hear ya... seems like semantics at this point the definition of humility, if embodied, is not its opposite.

I liked your comment but only out of agreement... the sentiment is heart heavy and saddeningly true. I take a bit of heart in the tao when things get this extreme... like a wave cresting too high to maintain its integrity things will settle in balance

that by definition is not humility and is usually easily spotted...

I think bees are the highest of the high... on their diet. I've watched them for many many hours and they appear, blissed out to the point of drunken stupor.... often. good on em.. flower and food bringers that they are, harvesters of liquid sunlight... love them bees.

whoa that is some scary shit. of all that, I can say that I've read some accounts of what is happening with those islands and the treatment of immigrant/refugees and it curled my toe nails. I will never, ever understand how anyone can enact cruelty in the way some humans do, toward any living thing. this just hurts my heart...

I learned this game from my mom... it's an endless game that has no winner and a revolving start point that is whenever... For her, the game was almost entirely fear based and I watched her play it from her 30's onward. One day while trying to find a temporary exit from the game, I realized... The inertia has her and it's not likely to let up barring some massive interference. I play it too, but having witnessed and realized what I did when I did with her, I catch myself and (breathe) That game is insidious... whole lives can be chewed up in what if....

Yea, the Cameron sequel Aliens is among my favorite sequels of all time. But really the other alien movies are not even remotely on that list... ugh

I still give props to the original Trek, for being ingenious enough to be able to broach socially tense/viable topics under the guise of 'alien cover'. Though I wish the scripts and acting had been... well... decent even. I spent two years working on the stage at Paramount on Community, where they filmed the original series. One day just after wrap, I turned around to see George Takei and a friend coming in to wander the old stage. He is an absolutely awesome guy. Top notch chap. Such a warm, open human. Still nothing compares to LOTR for me. Sci fi is fun, but fantasy is where my heart lives. As far as sci fi goes, my favorite storyline is The Matrix, followed closely by Ridley Scott's Bladerunner/Alien world.

Vulcans. mmm pointy ears and mind meld sex...

I've paid up to $150 for two to four day retreats in a group of about a dozen students, this included a couple demos, but mostly serious focus on instruction. I've paid up to $350 for four personal one on one meetings of an hour each. In the end, this sort of thing is completely relative. I know folks who wouldn't bat an eye at $2,000 plus airfare and hotel.

I was speaking with my Father a few days before his death. His background was in engineering, he was an inventor and is named on 11 patents for his work as the head of R&D for EcoLab for a few decades. We got to talking about physics as he'd been watching some of Neil Degrasse Tyson's new show among others... "it's amazing to me" he said, "that many of the things I learned in the 60's at University regarding physics, are now utterly backwards, upside down and nearly unrecognizable" good stuff.

true that... I did say what if... not... orbernaxim fastmenthielismatic corborated mitonoxism

absolutely! so often, many of my thoughts and idea forms today are the same as yesterday... good, bad, neutral... doesn't matter so much if the inertia of the cycle maintains what if... clean slate? ... breathe and just be... now what if....

This article is an interesting take on Hawking's recent publishing. I've never heard of Mitra... and based on the tone of this article, sounds like not many others have either. http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/indian-physicist-claims-he-resolved-black-hole-paradox-much-before-stephen-hawking-479760 Interesting stuff all around, no matter who is at the helm.

what if... today I don't pick up any of the thoughts, ideas and emotions from yesterday...

Bees are one of my favorite things in life... I'm a bee freak. We've had a hive in our eaves for a few seasons now. Love watching them come and go as we hang out. Some day I'll have a spot to set up a few hives...