Karl

Well you know what the Guru says. Meditate, pray, practice harder. When the student says he hasn't yet achieved the power to alter reality, the master tells him he hasn't yet meditated, prayed or practised sufficiently. He must keep going until he does. Ah such hard work hunting unicorns, but it's worth it in the end. ;-)

Contradiction there is :-) define 'contradiction'. Either such a thing is, or it is not, it cannot be both. If it could be both, then no contradiction would be possible and there would exist no word to describe it...poof...like that, it would cease to be. So, will you give up the word contradiction because in the world you say exists, such is not possible. Are you ready to take the red pill I wonder ;-)

I've concluded its simply a philosophical failure rather than a particular group. This failure has resulted in chaos into which the worst of humanity have clawed their way on to the top of the heap and have been busy tearing up the remaining rule book-which was the only guiding light, however divorced, from the enlightened minds that wrote it. Law and Justice have failed spectacularly and the principles from which they once derived have been perverted and polluted in such a way as to be unrecognisable. It's easy to point at groups, because for certain they are implicated, but they are an effect and not the cause itself. Stop brushing your teeth and soon plaque builds up, followed by rotting gums and abscesses full of pus. We stopped brushing our teeth because we had been told it wasn't worth doing, it was too much effort and all we needed to do was to visit a dentist when things got painful and chuck chemicals in our drinking water. The most disturbing part of this, is that we can't change government, have a revolution or radically improve things because we have lost the philosophical initiative. All we get is another crappy, maybe more murderous, corrupt condition. We have bounced around between communism, facism and democracy. These are all children of the same philosophical failure. It's probable that we need a flood.

We are talking about different things. I'm not talking about emotional responses, but negative values. It is not necessary to regress to childhood to correct the errors, nor to work through every distinct point. It's only necessary to reach an overview of the interconnecting links and then decend from the higher abstraction to the perceptual level in as few a jumps as possible. It's like looking down a tree, there are lots of interconnections, but it becomes clear that the major branches are somewhat fewer and then the trunk and roots are more easily attained. To sum up. An inappropriate emotional response may, or may not be part of the reaction to abstracted higher conception. This is immaterial. What is important is to remove negative values that were attained by a dishonest philosophy. These values are disconnected from reality, they are unearned because the concepts on which they are based are floating abstractions tied to nothing at all. One of the commonest problems I discovered with small business start ups was a guilt around money. The way in which we tackled this-from an NLP perspective-was as equally bereft of logic as the clients own conceptions. We would rearrange their value tables in order that money attained a higher position, this was really a bit of a salesmans slight of hand. It meant the client never restructured their knowledge hierarchy, we effectively did a bit of trickery to transfer the guilt somewhere else. We didn't get rid of the guilt at all, we just manoeuvred it in order to get the client to perform in the way they told us they wanted-and we naturally wanted to do that in order to help them succeed. If I had known then what I know today I wouldn't have carried out the therapy. The client became Aladdin and I became the genie with the three wishes. The wishes would give the client an immediate outcome, but not without causing damage somewhere else. Instead of being guilty about making money, they would become obsessive money makers, the guilt remained but was masked behind other drivers.

Only since they established that damned EU project. Damn those yanks.

It's not the metaphysical connections I'm talking of, but the way in which we build perceptual experiences into ever more complex integrated concepts in an epistemological sense. So, we must reverse down the chain of conceptual abstractions right back to the hard anchor of perceptual reality in order to know where we derived something, then build it all back up to eliminate the error. Why did we gain inappropriate and unearned negative values ? We can only figure this out by digging right down to the base perceptual level and eradicating the epistemological error that occurred at that point. If we only reverse sufficiently to eradicate the negative value, then the root is not cut and the error will re-occur as a variant. It won't be the exact same error, but a new offshoot.

We should invade Germany and France. They are so wimpy and useless that they would let us walk right in. All we need is a few placards about feminism, equal rights or racism and we could walk right on in. We should annexe Brittany and Normandy then take all the nice bits down in the South. Let's have all their industry and then demolish the Brussels Tower of Babel. Who's going to stop us ? They are letting foreigners invade them left right and centre. Too long sitting on thrones and stuffing their mouths with fois gras has made them soft when it comes to real fighting. A light breeze, a few threats and they would come to heel.

I said enough about the traitorous, treasonable behaviour of our slimy, cowardly PM on another site. Back in the day a Frenchie would not dare to utter threats with a Britishman stood next to him. The minimum would be a Gentlemans duel with pistols or swords. Instead we have a lady boy PM, a fopping pimple of the male species who bends over or kneels to receive his prize. This is clearly what he learned at Eton as a fag. Fluff the big boys and polish their helmets. A weasely, toady of a fellah trying to be another people's princess. Princess "call me Dave" a cast iron calamity of a boy who needs caning good and proper.

It's the conceptual formation and how accurate that is. There is a tendency to think of knowledge as a group of low lying huts which are connected by pathways on the horizontal plane. So, that it is relatively easy to form new pathways, knock down huts or shift things around. However, knowledge is hierachical. It's like a skyscraper and every lower block supports the entire structure. The mind therefore has an inbuilt safety device if one tries to rearrange, change, or remove certain pieces. It simply transfers the previous errors in a new kind of way in order that the structure remains in relative equilibrium. Effectively it is only the very topmost layers that are disturbed, but it is the foundations that must be strengthened first in order that reason/logic cascades upwards from the very first primary concepts to the higher levels. It isn't possible to start at the top and work down and to do so effectively. The hierarchy must be entirely rebuilt from the ground up and that means revisiting some basics that have been deliberately omitted by social engineering.

I bloody knew it :-) I'm a spy catcher by trade. Good at it too.

Puss in boots ? What do you do over in foreign climes Apech ? Obviously fraternising with the enemy ;-) I take that for granted.

That's what I used to do with time line therapy more or less. The idea being to remove the negative blockages and replace them with learnings. The problem with this is that the integrations can remain poorly formed and the conclusions reached faulty. So, although the unwarranted negative emotion gets resolved this doesn't necessarily mean that the resolution is any better than the emotion that caused the blockage. In the end, to coin a phrase, you cannot polish a turd. So, in order to resolve unwarranted negative emotions correctly it's necessary to have first corrected any faulty thinking that led to the emotion being created. It isn't a matter of unblocking a U bend, it's a web of badly integrated concepts of which the emotion is the result. Clearing the emotion can leave the conceptual levels broken, but allow a permission to-for instance- guiltlessly pull the wings off flies.

We have ways of seeking out the traitors who give away our lands and homes to foreign Devils whilst supping decadently at their tables. When we catch them there will be hell to pay.

Or your vote is neutralised by mine, or I vote to stay in to punish the wicked :-) Of course if we vote to leave and you have voted to remain....watch out that the drawbridge doesn't catch your chin.

I'm going to North Wales on Sunday so I expect lots of muddy tail dragging.

Germany’s top judges this week will once again ask whether Mario Draghi’s 2012 promise to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro can exist alongside the nation’s constitution. Eight months after the region’s highest court backed European Central Bank president Draghi’s bond-buying program, the Federal Constitutional Court will again hear arguments over Germany’s role in the Outright Monetary Transactions program, or OMT. Tuesday’s hearing comes as the EU faces stress from an influx of refugees, a weak euro and an upcoming British vote on membership. While the OMT wasn’t implemented, an adverse ruling by Germany’s top judges could restrict the ECB’s options during the next crisis. National courts are expected to follow the EU tribunal’s guidance, although the German panel expressed independence in the past. A ruling last month in another case read as if the German judges were signaling a willingness to challenge parts of the EU court’s decisions, some lawyers say. "The constitutional court wants to show that it’s a dog that can also bite and not just bark," Christoph Ohler, a law professor at Jena University, said. "I still hope it will follow the ECJ on the OMT. We can’t allow two important courts to be at war with one another." Earlier Hearing

In AYP it was the called the still flame dancing-which is a touch more poetic.

Desire-less-desire

You know Lamont is a confirmed Europhile as is Boris ? They have seen Cameron's project fear is heading for the rocks and are hoping to get a second bite. I liked Hitchens recent piece in which he described the EU as Hotel California 'you can check out but you can never leave'. I'm half wondering if I should vote to stay in the hope that Europe collapses in blood and flames with the British establishment sat atop the pyre like Guy Fawkes. I think we leavers should provide the petrol and the matches and watch the whole thing burn to the ground. I'm old enough to laugh and roast some mallows before the fire is extinguished and the night grows very chilly indeed for the remainers.

That covers it. Particularly "Perfect virtue produces nothing. "No-Self" is "True-Self". And the greatest man is Nobody" That .^

Neither. It can't be rationalised and resists any attempt to do so because it is completely outside the scope of the human mind.

Agnostic ;-)

Wei Wu is the flow, it is not how one should do, but how one should not do. Effortless doing, or doing-less-doing. You have mistakenly related this to miracles and magic, but it proclaims no such thing. It isn't higher level thinking or special powers, it is what it is and it's written clearly on the side of the box. I did not imply it was the summum bonum of human existence, certainly not for me, but possibly for you, if that is what you choose. I'm certainly not going to be an advocate for it, others can guide you to absolute acceptance of it if that's what you wish.

Today I'm watching Lord Finkelstein (Conservative campaigner to stay in ). Who would have thought 'free trade makes us richer' and 'high wage costs impoverish us if they aren't matched by increased productivity'. Yet, he wants to stay in a union which prevents free trade and is a customs union, then his party have been busy slagging off businesses for not paying their staff enough and have even introduced a minimum wage. This is all complete and utter BS. Lying toe rags that pretend we can have high wages without productivity and wealth increases in a restrictive trading zone. We can't have our cake and eat it.

I have no doubts Nikolai. I tried to make that plain when you asked about Wei Wu, but the truth of my statement clearly went straight over your head. 'The way' cannot be known. You can't pretend to know about it, or intellectualise it's meaning. Isn't it specific in that intent? Why would you ask me about something for which there can be no answer, and therefore I can give no answer ? Does it say anything about magic powers ? I told you what it meant only by a series of negation (what the way is not) and still you could not follow. Action-less-action, thought-less-thought, ego-less-ego. Could it be any plainer. Now you either give yourself completely to it, or you don't, but there is no middle way. You lecture me about things to which you refuse to commit. Like a man outside a church you lecture on the pavement about why I should enter and yet you have never once been inside yourself. I see what you refuse to see. I have made my choice, you have not yet made yours. At some point you will have to.