old3bob

sorry Freddy the devil made me do it...

more is not always better, an extreme example: can't see the road through the motors!

when we were kids Hostess twinkies were the go to snack, god only knows how unhealthy those are?! The government doesn't do nearly enough to protect people from questionable and even toxic crap in our food, water and air! (issues with an endless amount of informational facts related to our health that is at least mind blowing and sometimes even deadly !) Greek yogurt is supposedly good for us but who knows what lurks inside (they say mostly friendly little buggers?)

agreed that definitive chemical specs/tests should go along with the black tea claims, maybe there are some out there, as always "buyer beware" is good advice.

Interesting Mark, math can be fun and rewarding or convoluted and frustrating, a good teacher for it is helpful.

so - could it be ventured or even concluded "objectively" and or "subjectively" that the OP might be off topic reality-wise but just doesn't know it yet.. not completely unlike the quandary that multiple billions of us (or quadrillions times lots of "x's" for the fuller count?) are enlightened but just don't know it yet... btw or not, I just read that apricot seeds are dangerous to our health so are they satanic or not, besides not being very chewable?

if or when evil bites one on the ass speculative talk becomes more or less meaningless. For example but on a whole different scale, it's not unlike when one is healthy and well while speculating from a safe distance on a sickness that someone else has, but if they then get sick most fiddling around with speculations, textual or otherwise goes out the window for then the only or main emotion and thought is how to get well again or least recognize such with a clear as possible mind about it. (for fear and panic is the mind killer, to paraphrase a line from Dune)

which is bullshit

Cobie, that's along the lines of what Edgar Cayce said many decades ago and has a book on it...I was once a member of their organization that had headquarters in Virginia. Don't know what they have now?

and there is still reading between the lines...

If one dabbles around and or jokes around with a scorpion they should not be surprised if they get bitten by a scorpion. (as an analogy)

Trig is enough for me.

I'd say names are kind of secondary to the principal nature of beings, but are also reflectively associated with and used with effect. (to expel or invoke)

curiosity can kill a cat,

very carefully, and the saying that, "it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" has its place. I'm no expert and know it.

academic discussion about evil and some of its forms is just that academic...but if one has first hand experience with evil beings in the astral or with astral evil making influential or harmful forays into the physical world of humanity then we are in down to the brass tacks! Btw. I'd say evil and or hell are not eternal and which is depicted in the Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of life.

"everything is perfect", "there is no good or evil", "there is no path", "God loves us", "we create God in our image", "you are already enlightened you just don't know it yet", "all is one", "all is illusion", "all is suffering, "all is bliss" "there is no time, there is only now", "do nothing and know that you are not the doer" and on and on.... in the meantime we are mostly human beings with human problems to deal with besides espousing profound or absolute negations or affirmations. btw, i do get that's its ultimately "5:00 o'clock somewhere" or everywhere...

and there is the mind trying to wrap its head around what it can not wrap around... because IT or that is so essentially undivided and simple that it is beyond the inherent duality of mind.

Glad they got the fire under control for you! My sister had their house burn down to the foundation and even parts of the concrete melted. (years ago)

right J for Jerry

then again his desire for freedom almost killed him until that leveled out, thus it can't be dismissed as not being part of what transpired.

is that anything like a Ben and Gerry's combo ice cream?

ok, here is your chance admit you were wrong per electrical engineering about inductive reactance...

well then again we could say that the historic Buddha was driven by and wholeheartedly desired to be free...

um, was that just a ditto?