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As long as the insults are kept to a minimum... though, even then? It takes 2 to tango... I think it is good practice. I think if people just give things time... it all works out in the end. All these... type of threads make me sad... Thanks for the bit of light Sin

I think one is... writer, director and actor. That every being is sovereign That we choose to have these dreams and interact with other dreamers The movie... What Dreams May Come... comes to mind. That liberation is coming to the full understanding that you are an artist of cosmic proportions. ... life is what you make it / (life is what you realize it to be?)

those ads are highly disturbing haha

Nobody is stopping you from leaving Ralis... So quit your whinging.

off to dream a dream... that is the truth.

that is just a belief

I agree with V

The best trolls are the ones that accuse other people of trolling..whilst trolling.

I didn't think you were into Buddhism?

ahaha @/(with) Turtle

hahaha Gatito Is this thread trolling? pretty un-taoist really... un taoist...hahaha hmm

The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates I think if your asking questions... you're half way there? haha

Even to successfully navigate destiny or pursue virtue... How would that be separate from ones destiny? How does one come to that point? I think if destiny exists it would be absolute... Or one has absolute free will. why is why... I don't know 50/50 ? Unless the only destiny is to reach / become the Absolute. Like a flower being drawn toward the sun. So this inner calling toward the sun can either be embraced or ignored... (but again what makes the difference?.... why would one embrace and another ignore)

Welcome to the Forum! I hail from Brisbane also.

would changing ones destiny be ones destiny?

What/ Who is Prithâ?

Cold Fusion? mini generators in every home? in cars?

Hello V. I have not...// opened the link then... seems promising, do you recommend?

You may According to Vivekananda, "If one reads this one Shloka — one gets all the merits of reading the entire Gita; for in this one Shloka lies imbedded the whole Message of the Gita.[55] क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते । क्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्त्वोत्तिष्ठ परंतप॥ Translation: Do not yield to unmanliness, O son of Prithâ. It does not become you. Shake off this base faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of enemies! (2.3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita I was wondering who this son of Prithâ was/is. Thank you Boy Pritha (Sanskrit) Another name of Kunti. -See: Kunti.

Allegory of war Unlike any other religious scripture, the Bhagavad Gita broadcasts its message in the centre of the battlefield.[45] The choice of such an unholy ambience for the delivery of a philosophical discourse has been an enigma to many commentators. Eknath Easwaran writes that the Gita's subject is "the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious",[46] and "The language of battle is often found in the scriptures, for it conveys the strenuous, long, drawn-out campaign we must wage to free ourselves from the tyranny of the ego, the cause of all our suffering and sorrow".[47]Swami Nikhilananda, takes Arjuna as an allegory of Ātman, Krishna as an allegory of Brahman, Arjuna's chariot as the body, and Dhritarashtra as the ignorance filled mind.[48]Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, in his commentary on the Gita,[49] interprets the battle as "an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil."[50] Swami Vivekananda also emphasised that the first discourse in the Gita related to the war could be taken allegorically.[51] Vivekananda further remarked, "this Kurukshetra War is only an allegory. When we sum up its esoteric significance, it means the war which is constantly going on within man between the tendencies of good and evil."[52] In Aurobindo's view, Krishna was a historical figure, but his significance in the Gita is as a "symbol of the divine dealings with humanity",[53] while Arjuna typifies a "struggling human soul."[54] However, Aurobindo rejected the interpretation that the Gita, and the Mahabharata by extension, is "an allegory of the inner life, and has nothing to do with our outward human life and actions":[54] ...That is a view which the general character and the actual language of the epic does not justify and, if pressed, would turn the straightforward philosophical language of the Gita into a constant, laborious and somewhat puerile mystification....the Gita is written in plain terms and professes to solve the great ethical and spiritual difficulties which the life of man raises, and it will not do to go behind this plain language and thought and wrest them to the service of our fancy. But there is this much of truth in the view, that the setting of the doctrine though not symbolical, is certainly typical... According to Vivekananda, "If one reads this one Shloka — one gets all the merits of reading the entire Gita; for in this one Shloka lies imbedded the whole Message of the Gita.[55] क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते । क्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्त्वोत्तिष्ठ परंतप॥ Translation: Do not yield to unmanliness, O son of Prithâ. It does not become you. Shake off this base faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of enemies! (2.3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita

Have a good look at that photo above... now Apparently someone or group... in the night? hammers a flaming cross (appears to be wrapped in cloth? so I imagine smoke etc) into his front lawn... nobody notices it until the morning.... where there just so happens to be... press... just as he is pulling out the cross...all dressed up... with some poor looking child..appearing as though the child is wiping away a tear... snap... front page.... hmmm.... that is a remarkable sequence of events... Revolutions... tend to end badly // generally hidden agendas / agitators etc People are sometimes knowingly or unknowingly used as pawns Look what happened after his death... Uniting people you say? Also something of interest... what it means? why has it been locked away? To be more clear.... I just want the Truth... nothing more...nothing less Question everything... be critical of everything... so many muppets spouting the same stuff... I am not attempting to be right or wrong here.... just some things seem..out of place is all... so I ask questions... Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File Microform Collection Scope: The Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File microforms collection consists of two parts, the FBI File and the King-Levison File. The FBI File consists of 17,000 pages of materials about Martin Luther King, Jr. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted surveillance of Rev. King from 1958 until his death. Documents have been censored and many pages include blacked-out sections. Due to a court order any information about or from FBI wiretaps have been removed and will not be released until 2027. Because of the surveillance, this file constitutes an extensive record of Rev. King's day-to-day activities. The King-Levison File consists of "verbatim transcripts and detailed summaries of telephone conversations between King and one of his most trusted confidants, Stanley D. Levison, a New York lawyer and businessman with whom the civil rights leader spoke on an almost daily basis for more than six years." (Guide to the Microfilm Edition of The Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI File Part II: The King-Levison File.) How to search the collection: The FBI File has only a brief pamphlet which consists of a rough contents list of the file. It is titled The Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File and is located at Microfilm E 185.97 M34 1984 pt. 1 Guide. The King-Levison File has a guide called The Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File Part II: The King-Levison File which is located at Microfilm E 185.97 M34 1984 pt. 2 Guide. The transcripts of the wiretaps are listed in chronological order for each reel. There is also a Subject Index which tells you which reel number and item number a given subject is on. Guides: Garrow, David J. The Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, Inc. 1984 (Microfilm E 185.97 M34 1984 pt. 1 Guide.) Garrow, David J. The Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File Part II: The King-Levison File. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, Inc, 1987. (Microfilm E 185.97 M34 1984 pt. 2 Guide). For more information about this subject in our Library Catalog, check out these Subject Categories: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. Levison, Stanley D., 1912-1979. Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Archives. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources. Martin Luther King Tapes Sealed Until: 2027 Fearing that Martin Luther King Jr. had ties to Communist organizations, the FBI spied on him for several years. The FBI described King as “the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country”. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover filed a request with Attorney General Robert Kennedy to wiretap King and his associates. Kennedy gave the Bureau permission and tapped their phones and placed hidden microphones in homes, hotel rooms and offices. The FBI was unsuccessful in proving that he had ties to Communists; however they did have something that would reveal embarrassing details about King’s sex life. King refused to give in to the FBI’s threats, even after the FBI drafted a letter to him from an anonymous source detailing everything they knew about his sexual transgressions. Highlights of the letter include: “You are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that.” “The American public will know you for what you are, an evil, abnormal beast, and Satan could not do more” “King, there is only one thing left for you to do.” Some have theorized the intent of the letter was to drive King to commit suicide in order to avoid personal embarrassment. On January 31, 1977, district Judge John Lewis Smith, Jr., ordered all known copies of recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI’s surveillance of King between 1963 and 1968 to be sealed in the National Archives and away from public access for 50 years. http://listverse.com/2010/08/07/10-fascinating-sealed-and-secret-documents/