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lol, If I had the technology/supernatural ability to go back in time, killing someone would not be necessary. Redirecting their destiny and the world's destiny would be fairly easy. Doing that without the unnecessary loss of millions of lives would be a bit more difficult. I would need multiple trips back and forth....trial and error. eg. move young Hitler to the UK. Go back to the future, see what happens. If another douche bag war-monger takes his place, go back, displace him. Repeat until no more wars. Sounds like a good script for a scifi ? "Back-to-the-Future-War-Mongers" >.................<

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”- Albert Camus

I couldn't resist this one, similar to what was posted on another thread.... Good Intention Dude: "Here Mam, I see you are pregnant, let me help you cross this treacherous road" Pregnant Woman: "Thankyou good kind sir, my name is Klara and your actions will not go without reward" Good Intention Dude: "Thankyou. By the way, is it going to be a boy or a girl ?" Pregnant Woman: "Well, its likely to be a boy and if I do give birth to a boy, I am going to call him Adolf. 'Adolf Hitler' will be his full name......Its got a nice ring to it don't you think ?" Blessings of divinely directed good intentions :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Happy reading...and as with everything here, take it with a grain of salt. (source: castaneda) The most effective strategy for re-channeling energy consists of six elements that interplay with one another. Five of them are called the attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, timing, and will . They pertain to the world of the warrior who is fighting to lose self-importance. The sixth element, which is perhaps the most important of all, pertains to the outside world and is called the petty tyrant. A petty tyrant is a tormentor. Someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors or simply annoys them to distraction. Petty tyrants teach us detachment. The ingredients of the new seers' strategy shows how efficient and clever is the device of using a petty tyrant. The strategy not only gets rid of self-importance; it also prepares warriors for the final realization that impeccability is the only thing that counts in the path of knowledge. Usually, only four attributes are played. The fifth, will , is always saved for an ultimate confrontation, when warriors are facing the firing squad, so to speak. Will belongs to another sphere, the unknown. The other four belong to the known, exactly where the petty tyrants are lodged. In fact, what turns human beings into petty tyrants is precisely the obsessive manipulation of the known. The interplay of all the five attributes of warriorship is done only by seers who are also impeccable warriors and have mastery over will. Such an interplay is a "supreme maneuver that cannot be performed on the daily human stage". Four attributes are all that is needed to deal with the worst of petty tyrants, provided, of course, that a petty tyrant has been found. The petty tyrant is the outside element, the one we cannot control and the element that is perhaps the most important of them all. The warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one. You're fortunate if you come upon one in your path, because if you don't you have to go out and look for one. If seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable. Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable. The perfect ingredient for the making of a superb seer is a petty tyrant with unlimited prerogatives. Seers have to go to extremes to find a worthy one. Most of the time they have to be satisfied with very small fry. Then warriors develop a strategy using the four attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, and timing. On the path of knowledge there are four steps. The first step is the decision to become apprentices. After the apprentices change their views about themselves and the world they take the second step and become warriors, which is to say, beings capable of the utmost discipline and control over themselves. The third step, after acquiring forbearance and timing, is to become men of knowledge. When men of knowledge learn to see they have taken the fourth step and have become seers. Control and discipline refer to an inner state. A warrior is self-oriented, not in a selfish way but in the sense of a total examination of the self. Forbearance and timing are not quite an inner state. They are in the domain of the man of knowledge. The idea of using a petty tyrant is not only for perfecting the warrior's spirit, but also for enjoyment and happiness. Even the worst tyrants can bring delight, provided, of course, that one is a warrior. The mistake average men make in confronting petty tyrants is not to have a strategy to fall back on; the fatal flaw is that average men take themselves too seriously; their actions and feelings, as well as those of the petty tyrants, are all-important. Warriors, on the other hand, not only have a well-thought-out strategy, but are free from self-importance. What restrains their self-importance is that they have understood that reality is an interpretation we make. Petty tyrants take themselves with deadly seriousness while warriors do not. What usually exhausts us is the wear and tear on our self-importance. Any man who has an iota of pride is ripped apart by being made to feel worthless. To tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control. Instead of feeling sorry for himself a warrior immediately goes to work mapping the petty tyrant's strong points, his weaknesses, his quirks of behavior. To gather all this information while they are beating you up is called discipline. A perfect petty tyrant has no redeeming feature. Forbearance is to wait patiently--no rush, no anxiety--a simple, joyful holding back of what is due. A warrior knows that he is waiting and what he is waiting for. Right there is the great joy of warriorship. Timing is the quality that governs the release of all that is held back. Control, discipline, and forbearance are like a dam behind which everything is pooled. Timing is the gate in the dam. Forbearance means holding back with the spirit something that the warrior knows is rightfully due. It doesn't mean that a warrior goes around plotting to do anybody mischief, or planning to settle past scores. Forbearance is something independent. As long as the warrior has control, discipline, and timing, forbearance assures giving whatever is due to whoever deserves it. To be defeated by a small-fry petty tyrant is not deadly, but devastating. Warriors who succumb to a small-fry petty tyrant are obliterated by their own sense of failure and unworthiness. Anyone who joins the petty tyrant is defeated. To act in anger, without control and discipline, to have no forbearance, is to be defeated. After warriors are defeated they either regroup themselves or they abandon the quest for knowledge and join the ranks of the petty tyrants for life. Blessings of tolerance ! :wub: :wub: :wub:

Shamanism defines 'to be selfless' as doing any activity that takes the mind off the self [ref. forgot]. That's a pretty simple definition to understand. It follows, from that simple and clear definition, that it would be difficult to say that the concept of being 'selfless' is a bogus idea. Blessings

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Good question Oh Mar-vellous Captian ! (10/5 blessings on the karmic-scale-of good-posts ) "The corruptible becomes incorruptible" Or as Jeff mentioned in our current hot thread http://thetaobums.com/topic/32960-mans-destiny-fixed-of-fiddley/page-3 "8. Lucky guy realizes full integration with the Holy Spirit and realizes the the primordial nature of God. Lucky guy is now infinitely free or infinitely trapped, depending on your perspective." >>Add more amazing stuff here<< edit : wife just said "Go hang out the washing, lazy bones" ROFL , bye bye Blessings to Mar-vell. :wub: :wub: :wub:

Paralytic Dude1: "Hey dude, we drank ourselves under the table last night" Dude2: "Yeah, I don't remember a thing, we were paralytic" ROFL !

Doing the will of your spirit (higher-self) = selfless Doing the will of your own thoughts, desires and emotions (lower-self) = mostly selfish Sometimes higher will and lower desire overlap, but most of the time, they dont. Blessings of my 2 cents. :wub: :wub: :wub:

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"The rain of God's wisdom cannot fall on the mountain tops of pride" -unknown

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If you argue in public -----> you will likely end up looking like a fool. (But even that has its benefits.) Blessings of humility :wub: :wub: :wub:

I changed this thread's description to "entertainment purposes only" somewhere along the time line edit: Well, I just went over there and read the thread. Its like the king of flames wars. A big petty tyrant scenario for sure. Bless you. :wub:

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/ chegg goes away and ponders the next riddle.... edit: Ponders over to Wiki: The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. The sun shining behind him represents the divine nature of the Fool's wisdom and exuberance, holy madness or 'crazy wisdom'. On his back are all the possessions he might need. In his hand there is a flower, showing his appreciation of beauty. He is frequently accompanied by a dog, sometimes seen as his animal desires, sometimes as the call of the "real world", nipping at his heels and distracting him. He is seemingly oblivious that he is walking toward a precipice, apparently about to step off. One of the keys to the card is the paradigm of the precipice, Zero and the sometimes represented oblivious Fool's near-step into the oblivion (The Void) of the jaws of a crocodile, for example, are all mutually informing polysemy within evocations of the iconography of The Fool. The staff is the offset and complement to the void and this in many traditions represents wisdom and renunciation, e.g. 'danda' (Sanskrit) of a Sanyassin, 'danda' (Sanskrit) is also a punctuation mark with the function analogous to a 'full-stop' which is appropriately termed a period in American English. The Fool is both the beginning and the end, neither and otherwise, betwixt and between, liminal.

found this: "Some people have trouble realizing they are ill, this is called agnososia and it means you are so sick you don't realize you are sick." which reminded me of this: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti Blessings of Better Health :wub: :wub: :wub:

What is "Agnososia" ? Cant find much on google.

ROFL, Someone please pit this thread before I die of simultaneous laughter/paranoia. No seriously, I couldn't sleep half the night. Kept getting the giggles. The family thought I went a bit 'over the edge'. Then a slight paranoia would set in..."what if I offended someone with my tyrant examples ? ".. Then I'd get flashes of lightning. Then I'd burst out laughing again. ROFL, ROFL. Blessings of Humor :wub: :wub:

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