Apech

It's amazing how many of these flat earther idiots post on youtube. Why don't they go to college and study physics first? Perhaps they enjoy their illusions better.

Optical effect.

horizon look flat to you? no.

annoyingly incorrect and deliberately confusing

Feeling lost and divorced from one's spirituality is actually a very necessary part of 'the path' itself. It's difficult to accept and it's even harder to avoid searching around for a solution. Such solutions are often just a means of distraction. So don't (in my view) try to fill up the gap with some new practice - it will just be a toy to divert you from what you are really feeling. The thing is, this state has concealed within it it's own solution. If you can see it.

I find your attack on our insect brothers and sisters highly offensive.

More on the same theme - a real eye opener:

I am personally offended by the word 'yes' in that sentence - how dare you oppress me with positivity!

Don't try to prevent me not saying what I didn't mean to say. If you try I shall keep not saying it until I am given the right not to say it.

I removed my comment because it didn't agree with what I intended to say.

Irony or understatement ... take your choice.

You're beginning to sound slightly bitter.

Whose back end have you been poking?

This is the way we treat people without valid visas in the UK now:

Included for reasons of peacock ...

Yes I thought about Strength - forgetting Crowley called it lust. Good one.

@ Michael : good work! I know certainly in the Buddhist dohas the young woman represents sunyata. a couple more cards ... well certainly: surely and the woman I agree with the High priestess - but there is also a sense of ecstatic joy ... so what would that be? ... what about ... or as someone else put it:

Doomsday can be arranged hahahah (echoing evil laughter)

Yes the first mod team was Mal, Stig, TM ,Trunk and Cat ... Stig resigned - I think that's when I was called up by Mal. Anyway that was then and this is now. for better or worse.

@ Marblehead : I think your memory of the Mal Stigweard thing is a bit garbled - I lived through that as a mod and they were on opposite sides of debate. But it's water under the bridge now. Owner permissions: Two points really. 1 ) This idea was never suitable for the main part of the board - especially General Dis. which is of the nature of a free flowing conversation - regularly off topic or tangential, humour, asides, contributions from a personal perspective, lively ... in other words like an actual human conversation. There is an argument for certain of the subs. For instance Taoist Texts where you want everyone to keep strictly to the text under discussion and in the right order of chapters - more control needed. PPF's - yes of course people should be able to moderate their own records - that makes sense. Other specialist subs. like Buddhist - well maybe but probably not. 2 ) It's clear that the board software doesn't really support this concept properly - because it allows those with owner permissions to hide and change things for which they don't actually have such permissions - i.e. other peoples threads and content. So in this sense it's only approximately in operation anyway. It opens the door to those of us who like game play, NLP and all that - which as far as I'm concerned is just a load of mind-fuck which we could do without. Moderation rules used to be very simple - no ad hominem insults. Add to that some rules about undesirable content, spam, porn, race hate and so on. That was it really. Then the rules are clear. Had I not sleep walked through the introduction of this I would have raised a voice at the time. So now I would say to paraphrase Ronald Reagan 'tear down those owner permissions' ....Please.

Speak for yourself.

Sure. You're right. But I just love listening to that grumpy old fart going on about this stuff. The only thing I really agree with is we should preserve free speech and listen to people with opposing ideas and not ban them.

I'm just too pissed off to be grumpy all the time.

Perhaps we could take turns sitting on the fence and then off the fence. Those on-fence could cause offence to the others - and disputes solved by fencing competitions.