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The logic of the English language:

Stonehinge.

Best to wait about an hour after eating I think.

summer, winter, fall - get up again with a spring, perfect seasoning.

This channel is quite interesting on the religion: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasRowsell

looks like it.

2700 year old Egyptian cat ring:

@Yueya, Perhaps an alternative word for 'certainty' is truth. A word that everyone seems to wish to avoid these days, probably because of the ascendancy of post-modern relativism. Maybe we could say that people are seeking truth(s) and generally speaking this is defined by society to be fact and data. Anyone who knows a statistician might question how close we get to truth through sorting data - on the other hand they tend to be unshakable on facts and logic. Then of course there is narrative or mythological truth, how stories can reveal truths to us particularly about the human condition. This is, I think, Jungian, Joseph Campbell and now Jordan Peterson territory - completely overlooked by science even though it has its own 'standard models' and so on - grand theory like evolutionary theory which are actually narratives. Spiritual truth could be truth 'provided' or revealed by spirit to us, or alternatively the truth of the reality of spirit (as the nature of things). I would guess that the way we get certainty from this would be application of the truth(s) to our lives. There is much play made of the evolutionary advantage of believing in a higher power/purpose. But I find this argument a little weak because in certain circumstances there might be some kind of short term advantage in believing in something untrue. I have always taken the position that revelation is in its purest sense the coming to know directly of spirit/consciousness of itself (we being it - if you see what I mean). While data and narrative might apply in some sense I cannot see that they are adequate guides for someone seeking to truly know themselves. I have come to the conclusion that aside from meditation, the vehicle which navigates the journey is prayer (and I say this as someone brought up in a strictly atheist household) - or maybe you could say devotion, or maybe you could say a pure willingness - a kind of daring which opens up to the immediate truth. Prayer in the religious sense, for me anyway, is directed to those who have gone before, the masters of the past.

Nice resource for the FaceBook generation https://www.facebook.com/RitmanLibrary

Very interesting, thank you.

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Good luck in everything you do and I hope you find your teacher.

Why do you want a teacher?

Hi, I'm a Buddhist (with Daoist leanings ) and I use the I Ching regularly. I think a lot of people on here do ... maybe if you have general questions and things you want to discuss you could post in the General section 'cos the Yi Jing section is a bit of a backwater.

Putin saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Russians, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

I think it is naive to think that there is a single reason for people gathering in communities ... agriculture or religion etc. Maybe people just felt more safe and secure when they banded together ... and the other things came after. Why couldn't psychology be the determining factor? ie. agriculture took off because of the necessities of living together? religion became encoded for the same reason ... they developed ways to bind themselves together and enforce social rules?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/toxic-chemicals-health-humanity-erin-brokovich This explains the problems you guys have been having lately