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Out of pure curiosity I will shoot some more questions: Where is the jackal rooted in (archetypically)? And isn’t the Thot (Hermes) and Anubis and Wepwajet part double triple with the Egyptians? Where is the exact difference in their ‚function‘? Both are (spirit) guides for the dead, no?

The will of the people of the particular culture in question , or their ruling class . In the sake of clarity: This seems like you are advocating a relativism of values: it‘s only the will of the people (intersubjective consensus / majority/ sovereign) that gives a set of values the stamp of ‚morality‘. On the other hand you refer to Ma‘at and dharma, as a cosmological (decidingly moral) law that can be recognized intersubjectively (with some differences in details) or objectively (depending on your definition of this). It seems to me that there is a contradiction there, isn’t there? Then, you do have a value system of your own, in your Nungali specific way, as you mention. So those are three different aspects of morality? Can all three be true at the same time? What happens if they do conflict with each other? Personal values? Are those always in concurrence with dharma? How can one be sure? Never? What’s with experiential gnosis? Why doesn’t that necessarily lead to nihilism? Because of the potentiality of absolute negation that allows for relative values who pave the way for most possible frictionless interaction between humans? I‘m sorry if this is only halfway understandable, it‘s part bookmark to myself (bc I have a headache) and I‘d be curious if @stirling would like to chime in, please feel invited! Would you see the values of Buddhism (which I remember is your tradition) grounded in the texts alone? Do you believe in a natural (moral) cosmological law (despite or because of personal/subjective experiential gnosis)? I‘m sorry if the questions seem to personal, I can reframe or edit them later, but didn’t want to lose them.

A sweatshirt with the title and wording: Be kind to your mind: tune into the calmest and clearest frequency you can find! It showed a television with an antenna and a brain. Less funnier was a shirt some other day with a three eyed smiley and the saying „Stop tripping!“

I am sorry, I do not understand. Can you explain this? What do desert dogs of the underworld (e.g. a death layer) have to do with the weighing process? And what’s with the symbolical feather? How is Hermes recording? Is there a fable or something about this? Thanks @Apech and @Nungali, - enjoyable read, would like to hear more, if there is any.

Do you remember, how Aristotle defined „rational“ again? Now I remember one other European thinker, for whom reason or rationality was the decision process (to (re)act or not (re)act) to one’s emotions or passions. That rationality would always be a matter of personal choice, and never sth. objective. What could be the measuring criteria for being unduly or righteously absorbed?

Quenched like fire in rain.A stone cave and gravity’sPurpose? What’s true north?

Title says it all. I know you shouldn’t self prescribe, see a doctor if critical etc. etc. If I remember correctly: curcuma and goji may help, if I remember more, I might add some. Thank you.

How do you come to this conclusion? Is that necessarily so in your opinion? Why?

Sounds or seems difficult. Sounds like hurting one’s eyes or seeing double.

The original Semper Augustus story reads as a beautifully/heartfelt one for me. Never would I have guessed it’s specialty has its origin in an “illness“. Thanks for sharing. I very much enjoyed reading this. 🌷 About the other aspects, I cannot comment with value right now, sorry. (What I meant is, I am probably guilty of that.)

That’s comforting. Thanks.

Would you be able to give some context? Thanks.

This is a subjective experience or insight? Nothing that can indeed be verified, no?

Yes, sure good to know if one per chance might meet one Of what special kind is the 10% infalling matter that makes it inside, do you happen to know? Has it a specific charge or something?

Would you mind telling this unpopular opinion? I’d be curious.

Many very interesting sources, thank you all cordially! The text I mentioned wasn’t in your replies, but was grasped rather close with what you wrote.

Looking for a missing link in the search engine of the forums… There has been an article shared some time ago, I guess authored by F. Pregadio, and I suppose @Geof Nanto either shared it in the thread, or was in the discussion, @Taoist Textsmight have been there too, I ain’t sure unfortunately. It mentioned how the old chinese / daoist concept of cause and effect differs from those known in the western world and that for a long time there have not been adequate synonyms for the western word concepts. I would be interested in the exact concepts they used back then, more interrelated and less abstract. It would look to the specific interactions and not to some universal principle of causality, if I remember correctly. Can anyone give a hint or point me somewhere? Thanks!

What advice for the caveman, who got out of the cave to see the light, just to be pulled back by gravity and fell back in the shadow cave, @kakapo? Not telling about it for sure, but else… a paradigm jump like that doesn’t happen and settles down in the mind/the screen. How to live a good life in the cave now? Get out again?

me want anyway Grover‘s algorithm doesn’t cook! Back to discipline…

What is this about? Descartes knew five senses be just demons eh?

Who would do such bleep? Still alive. Distant echo. What is this about?

Not ready for this Mind‘s a rabbit on cocaine Who would do such bleep?

Remnants unwilling Why now are we here? Service? Not ready for this

Gas station empty What now? Another stream on? Remnants unwilling