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When "i" released everything... in despair and exhaustion from endless seeking only then... only then was it possible 'for me', for 'local awareness' to experience 'what is'. what had been underlying all previously propped up and 'sought after' processes. in losing all prior sense of self... authenticity was encountered experienced. awareness encountered awareness and awakening was spontaneous. but absolute surrender was a catalyst... for this local awareness (me) and surrender was not an active 'giving up'... it was letting go, allowing, opening, unfolding...

Congratulations on your impending retirement! I hope to get there some day as well. I used to be motivated to try and sketch certain trees and also bridges and buildings. It was more compulsion than choice. Certain things would 'grab' and I would comply. Hours of getting lost in simple joy. I've got a few hobbies planned for retirement. One to keep me healthy and the others, just for joy.

As i experience it in the last decade or so; Free Will seems a profound illusion. Conditioning prompts the precursors to thought and emotion that motivate what we call choice. Which is described by local consciousness after the fact. The impulses that drive 'choice' occur prior to conscious processing. Conscious processing is the unfolding of interpretation... of rationalization that we use to describe conditioned, nigh on automated responses after they occur. These rationalizations to conditioned behavior become as comfortable and beneath notice as water to a fish it seems to me. And for the unquestioning, rationalizing, sleeping awareness... It's so comforting to think we're driving all of this around, all in control...

Don't take it on yourself. He's frustrated, you are not frustrating. It's been a valuable exchange, at least for me. I appreciate your contributions.

no no no no no.

Keep yellin' at folks from your porch old bob! yer winnin the interwebs!

Found one by him yesterday that really fits my current relationship with 'the news'. "If you don't read the news, you're uninformed. If you read the news, you're misinformed." M. Twain.

Variations in individual sperm and eggs result in a roll of the dice as to how much of each influence is expressed in any given individual.

On a not really but sorta, related note. I've always considered Batman to be a socio-pathic/psychopathic character. Kinda like drew without the cash or utility belt. Someone evidently agrees with me and designed this squirt gun years ago. kinda embraces the ultra creepiness of him braggin about his 'powers' here over the years.

Drew never made it to the high brow ways of KFC. He peddled his abstracted genitalia assaults at Mcy-D's

Cool, I have a ps4 and love story based rpg's I'll check it out. I just finished a show yesterday and have the next month or so off, so it's time to play.

Yea, I'm seeing references to concepts in cultivation popping up in unexpected places media-wise. I was pleasantly surprised at some of the energetic practices and concepts shared in the animated series The Avatar when watching it with my young son years ago. Someone on that writing crew was clearly part of a lineage and included some of the concepts in the characters and storylines. What platform is the game Berseria on?

Wow that's fascinating isn't it? Have you considered doing your own? They can vary quite a bit from sibling to sibling.

We still hide eggs for our son. This morning I wandered over to a candle holder wondering what weird candle was in it, to discover an easter egg my wife hid there last night for him to find. Oh right! Easter eggs! My wife is pure awesome. Clever and loving is an awesome combination. She uses the big plastic eggs and fills them with little collectible miniatures and candy. Last year was minecraft and mnm's. This year it was mini twix/kitkat and dungeons and dragons miniatures. They are currently arrayed for battle on the sidebar table. We'll get the dice out later and see how it plays out. Happy Rebirth Bums.

Co-written by Bruce Lee, who died before filming but would have starred otherwise.

This is about as close as I'm getting to anything to do with christianized easter...

Don't forget to pretend to eat his body and drink his blood... cringe

So poignantly resonant... and the timing for me, stunning. Thank you for sharing! *bow*

Miss you dearly old friend. Hear Hear!

How... Russian

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