Nungali

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  1. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Ah... but of you look REAL close at Romanesque broccoli , it is ALL ONE ;
  2. "Non-dual" misnomer

    So, you are saying that meat is just a type of bloody bread ?
  3. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Oooo ooo ! He admitted there might be more than one reality !
  4. "Non-dual" misnomer

    True , one can only have' a 'sandwich ; that is no filling just two bits of bread ....... DOH ! Just ONE bit of bread then and ..... hmmmm , but that is not a sandwich (see above )
  5. "Non-dual" misnomer

    At least it would be kosher . Wait, you will have to get rid of the bread to . And no bread makes it a non-sandwich . First there was a sandwich , then there was no sandwich , then there is ....
  6. "Non-dual" misnomer

    EXACTLY ! And that was the point all along ; in this case ^ it is the EMFs that are not 'separate' .
  7. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Ah, but the stairs do not directly connect to their end destination take this diagram for example ; Now, you will notice that the red wires dont actually touch each other , therefore lah blah blah la lar blah lah blah blah la lar blah lah blah blah la lah blah blah la lar blah lah blah blah la lar blahlah blah blah la lar blah lah blah blah la lar blah ..............
  8. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Ummmm .... dont forget the non dual ' non- binary gender' people .
  9. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Awwww .... okay then ....
  10. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Thats easy for you to say .... in winter !
  11. Where are all the martial artists at?

    How does a 'nunchaku team' work ?
  12. Stranger things

    ? Is that like Trumping your cat '?
  13. The Construction of Judaism

    The idea here is that the god later know as 'Yahweh' labeled above as 'yahweh elohim' is a composite of many entities ; Vawter translates genesis 49:24-26 as below: His bow stayed taut, His hands were agile, By the Bull of Jacob, By the strength of the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel, By El, your Father, who helps you, By Shadday who blesses you With the blessings of Heavens, from above, The blessings of the Deep, crouching below, The blessings of Breasts-and-Womb, The blessings of your Father, Hero and Almighty, The blessings of the Eternal Mountains, The delight of the Everlasting Hills, May they be on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the chosen of his brothers Authors argue that in here, we would be distinguishing multiple sets of different gods. To understand the development of the composite god yhwh, its necessary to understand how the the political entities where the worship of Yahweh took roots arose at some point of iron age I. The bronze age collapse did not mean that all people living in the levant were somehow wiped out and their beliefs erased from earth. far from it, we can probably say the ancient levantine system of belief was pretty much alive, and carried on by the scattered population. via archeology, we know that in the highlands small villages start to dot the landscape in north and south, sometimes clearly showing some process of sedentarization of nomadic herders. In the bible, polemics of yahweh's surrogates against other gods are frequent, common and infamous. curiously enough, there's no polemics against the semitic god el, old head of the levant pantheon, who was depicted in his elderly magnificence sat on a cosmic throne, presiding the divine council of stars and heavenly being (similarly to isaiah's description of yahweh and his divine council). So this absense of polemics has been interpreted as a sign of how early the amalgamation (or absorption) of yahweh and el happened. how did they come to identify? this is shrouded within a dark mist. We have insights on the origin of both these gods: 1- El, as described above, was the ancient semitic pantheon chief - so we can say it was pretty much local, with his traditions kept up by semitic populations scattered/nomadized after bronze age collapse. 2- A number of authors now depict Yahweh as a desert god. under this scheme of things, Yahweh was probably a god/entity worshiped at high places and hills in the northern deserts of Arabia, and was transmitted to the Levant via traveling metal smiths from those regions - the culture and iron crafts of these metal smiths appearing as magical, divine, ritualistic to the earliest population of the dotted villages from above, adopting the cult either via learning or some of the smiths settling in. We can speculate what happened afterwards; if you were a Semitic villager, and during your childhood your grandpa who had been a herder told you about the powerful El, chief of the gods presiding over the stars and now you found yourself participating in the cult of this new god brought by these mysterious yet powerful metal smiths, providing you with formidable iron weapons to defend the village, maybe the natural thought going through your mind was: Yahweh is powerful, he is giving us these weapons to defeat our enemies and defend our families. he shall be the chief of the gods.
  14. The Construction of Judaism

    Attermpt to convert scheme into (some kind of) a timeline. Including the Enūma Eliš and a small but crucial portion of Assyrian mythology where Ashur takes the role of Marduk in the Enūma Eliš. The model still needs an Egyptian column for the synchronization of El with Osiris in Ugarit, the Amman citadel etc.
  15. The Construction of Judaism

    Update for the scheme presented above Clustered groups of deities from Ur and Harran were promoted by the last Babylonian ruler Nabonidus and their godheads and depending deities are all attested in or near Jerusalem. These clusters are included as it's by far the fastest and easiest way to explain the influence of Sumerian and especially Babylonian mythology on the first seven books of the OT. The following model may need an Egyptian column as symbols like the ankh show on related Mesopotamian seals [Sin, Marduk, Nabu etc] from the Levant in Iron III till 500 BC.
  16. The Construction of Judaism

    Basically two different traditions fuse temporarily to become separate religions in a later stage.
  17. The Construction of Judaism

    As the Yahwists of Elephantine in c. 410 to 390 are completely unaware of their own tradition yet do communicate with their counterparts in Shechem and Jerusalem as equals the process that leads to Abrahamic religions starts after the destruction of the Elephantine temple. The following scheme shows how the data structure of the oldest part of the OT is composed based upon surveys from the archeological and epigraphical record.
  18. TCM Herbs - Why make a tea?

    What does it works for ? Sounds like you already had some vodka ! Semi serious , the point was , heat makes some things more 'volatile' . There are ingredients but there is also the 'alchemy' of the preparation .
  19. TCM Herbs - Why make a tea?

    as above , also Try this ; drink a shot of vodka now drink a shot of hot vodka
  20. "Non-dual" misnomer

    yes ... 'love ' is 'dissolving the illusory boundary of duality ' , a merging , a moving into unity . The Aboriginals have it . One intersting thing recently , an Aboriginal woman entered a painting in our Archibald prize portrait competition - there where protests as the painting was a landscape .. no she said ' This IS me I am the landscape and it is me ' .. and thats a bond forged by love ... just see what happens when they are taken from their beloved . Anyway the painting was considered valid, entered and won a prize . In Thelema , that bond , like the one with 'landscape / country' is with Nuit ; the source of life , so also the 'return ' after life , 'space and stars ' , ( Nut - Egyptian ) but also '' nothingness ' . Nuit; ' I am divided for the experience of Union .'
  21. "Non-dual" misnomer

    No, I think the idea is if you are eating pizza .... you will not be able to talk .
  22. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Indeed ! and this is close to my study of ' Neo - hermetics', in that many old precepts and thoughts and arrangements now seem valid (or symbolically similar ) due to further findings in 'far science' . Of course Daniel hates hermetics and has tried to argue against that as well
  23. "Non-dual" misnomer

    Not only past the horizon, but so far gone he went into orbit ! Thats one huge step for man , but a small one for a sealion .