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Welcome Back Taomeow.

On or about the next mass extinction.

just wanted to share some thoughts on the lighter side of things i hope at some moment of this day that you did experience some laughter?! was it a reaction from hearing a joke? were you being tickled? did you experience joy? or happiness? did you have an evil laugh?

Speaking of "cooked" or half cooked; It's gonna be hot out there, been hot, How hot is it? https://www.ky3.com/2025/06/23/cape-girardeau-mo-road-buckles-heat/ https://www.newsweek.com/nws-predicts-two-states-temperatures-hot-death-valley-2089325 When it gets hotter than the hottest place on Earth, that's hot. Sometimes, maybe, I wish I was down under, this time of year . Instead, here I am, sitting, sipping a fresh brewed steaming cup of coffee, Cheers!

To be enjoyed, Regardless of whatever Another fabulous opportunity Here & Dao

If you like life to the point of wanting more of it; if you’ve found a way that keeps life’s struggles, disappointments, heartbreaks, horrifics, calamities, from beating you down, if you’ve reached the golden years And still yearn for more, platinum or palladium years,,, it’s not that you dread a physical death, far from it, as that is the next fantastical adventure,,, yet, for whatever personal reasons you may have,, continuing your current adventures in the physical realm remain attractive for you,,, this thread is for you. I started here in 2009, when 90+% of my breath had died. https://archive.org/details/taoisthealthexer0000dali Time for me to do a re-read and I wholeheartedly recommend ya’ll take a look at it. Da Liu never once visited a doctor and lived in good health ninety six years. Different strokes for different folks. There are a few that lived to 108+ while smoking cigars and drinking whisky; this method won’t work for everyone. Get in where you fit in. There are meditations and qigong that enable those in their seventies to feel like they’re seventeen. These gifts are bestowed, rarely, you don’t order them off google. The movie, The Green Mile touched upon some drawbacks of extended longevity. Always be careful what you wish for. I like the YouTube channel Physionic Here’s a sample episode I like Baguazhang with it’s Limitless potentials

,,,,,,,,On Monday, when it was hard to access the site--labeled as software issues-- The days leading up to that, all the talk of giant solar flares that could knock out orbiting satellites, causing all kinds of problems to our tech, the phrase "sending us back to the stone age" was used. I noticed other websites were hobbled and thought ( hopefully) this is not software issues; it is solar flare mayhem (magic) Concerning the matchup between tech and solar flares, I was pulling for solar flares. Maybe, next time. Here we are, having resigned our agency to the Great Computer, The Machine,,, We shouldn't even think about it, just sit back eat bon bons and let AI do it all for us. What could possibly go wrong? In boxing terminology; tech has some technical skills, and a game plan. Brave Helios on the other hand, probably doesn't even have a game plan. What Brave Helios lacks with that, it makes up for with raw power. Boxer vs Puncher. If I'm in Brave Helios' corner, I'm saying this; ok, we didn't win that round. But tech must win every round. And all we need is one well placed left hook or a one-two combination and it's game over. Now go out this round and send that pretender back to the stone age.

So, GPT is just like me and many of my former classmates. Yes, Professor, we read the assignment.... And then we C&P something we found scanning the internet, re-wording it, presenting it as our authentic opinion.

now that's quite a claim! Yet, hardly,,, They're all so big and heavy. Even the mini. Back in the day, I often reminded myself of how heavy gold was; and wearing it or even having it added so much weight, it prevented personal flight. Invisible things can also be heavy like that. Heavier, still. Only child know. In a sky full of people only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy? In a world full of people only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy? And then you see things The size of which you've never known before. If all were there when we first took the pill. Then maybe. (Slight sigh, shy) Those around criticize and sleep. What? Who? Stranger Things? Could be. Should be. Would be. Then she looked at me with those big bright eyes and said, You ain't seen nothing yet. @Nungali Bubby, we all post worst things sometimes.

https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/kuliktranslation.html https://archive.org/details/apocalypseofabrabgh00boxg

Thanks again! It's ok to spoon feed me. I knew Goethe was a huge fan of Ovid, and why not. Once upon a time, I used Ovid as master of how to play "the game" Still knowing, how deep Ovid was in just about every aspect of life. I take the Ancient Greeks as ultra advanced. The Hellenistic influences of Ovid are undeniable. Perhaps every poet traces back to Homer in some way,,,, It's a long list of who's who that've been influenced by Ovid. Two of those being Dante & Shakespeare.

Perhaps. Unravelling Goethe's Faust is daunting and totally worthwhile. The closing scene you shared from the Marlow play was well done IMO. On a much smaller scale and depth, although seemingly as surreal, I have an experience from early 2020 that reminds me of Faust climbing up the Brocken. I was accompanied on that trek by "twitchi" and her cloven hooves. It's all in my ppj thread, now hidden, curiously named In the Company of Devils. I think there is enough distance in time and location, that I may return to it and finish it up. Basically, it's 200 pages of notes of things that ( I could possibly forget) happened from August 2018-April 2020. There are plenty of things went on I won't ever forget that I need to add to it. Supernatural was commonplace. Thank you for your fine analysis. I hadn't realized the Philemon connection between Ovid and Goethe, if I had once been aware of that, I had since forgot it.

Nice, thanks for sharing I expected someone to bring up Carl Jung.

Good hook, or no?

If newly minted types of creatures were emerging; from it, seems, gates of creation, could be a good moniker.

In the US, not surprisingly, among the academic realms, the better courses on demonology are found at Harvard, University of Chicago, Princeton, and obviously Yale At UC Irvine, Humanities dept. Simin Amini is researching Ancient Iranian demonology in her PhD program. Hofstra offers and undergrad course as part of their Religion catalog. Religion 066 Demonology: the dark side https://bulletin.hofstra.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=121&coid=405310 Careful selection of a proper mentor could be key. During my own grad school research (some of the very best resources of sources require hefty subscription prices, usually only afforded by University institutions) anyways; some Renaissance course I took, and Shakespeare's The Tempest had been assigned to me. Prospero, a magician, held a fallen Angel, Ariel. They had some interesting conversations, those two did. Somewhere in my research, I guess I wandered off course, as I sometimes do, and was checking out a contemporary of Shakespeare s, named Kitt Marlowe, who had a play Doctor Faustus. During my research I came across this. The play was controversial, which, no surprise about that, then I read, during the performance of the play, audience and actors alike were shocked when real devils appeared on stage. Marlowe was soon after murdered one evening in a pub at age 27. So, anyways, my latest incarnation as eternal student is looking like Hold That Tiger!! LSU grad school. Oh yeah, why I'm posting on this thread, One final friendly reminder in general, keep politics off the open forum. I could rant myself, how every politician is in league with demons, but I digress. Edit-- ever think about how close denominations sounds like demon nation

A link to this thread has been posted in the Steward's Lounge for review.

gratitude

The 1970 fiction work by Dee Brown? Sometimes fiction expresses truth in an accessible way. There is a 1920s poem and other references go by the same title. My Dad brought a copy of the book home when it was released. I was elevenish going on twelve. So, that should be taken into account regarding my criticism/analysis/review. There were quite a a few events going on at the time when the book was released that influenced my impression of this book: Vietnam war blasted on TV daily, AIM was newly formed, in the news and HQ was at Wounded Knee, the Counter Culture had captured my imagination, Violence was rampant, especially for highly visible personalities (Chiefs,:JFK, RFK, MLK, Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison) and the reigning Super Bowl Champs were named Chiefs. I haven't read the book since 1971. I found it gut wrenching, brutal, exposing the Government and Military as enemies of the people. But hey, by this point in life, I was a seasoned conspiracy theorist since late November 1963. I remember the book being a long read, horrific, but not long after I put it down telling myself I couldn't read on, I picked it back up again and again. I realize now, how much this book shaped my outlook. If you make it through, I recommend The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter, or anything written by Joy Hargo as a follow up reads

After his meteoric rise a year ago from about as obscure as possible to as noticable as can be imagined, Oliver Anthony said, that his rant of a folk song, Rich Men North of Virginia, isn't politics, it is Spiritual. He's close to your neck of the woods, eh? Here is some immediate reaction from commentators Oliver Anthony, himself, said, this is way bigger than politics or politicians. By magnitudes, I would add. The Pope? Idk When a voice cries out from the wilderness, the universe takes notice.

Such as guitar lessons

I'd say it's priceless. At the least, worth every penny. It's also freely expressed naturally. I thought about posting how I've observed a two year old tomcat consistently earn Merit. Or, a six month old calico, sense when I was accepting rising earth energy and put herself in-between my ankles and participated along. Enough experiences, lessons, to fill a book Yesterday, the one guy I hang out with regularly said, that my cats looked at me as God. I said, I've never had God thoughts myself. Today, I told him, I used that perspective though, to relate how a God possibly loves creatures. I think the 'cost' is accepting the responsibility and providing upright care. And accept it isn't any one-way relationship. Indeed, they have a lot to offer and teach.