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Jokes are a delicate balance of truth and falsity. Hmmmmmnn

My nature is ,whatever it actually is. And partly, it is to have learned some behaviors and attitudes , tools which often serve me well....but not always. Apart from homogenaity I don't know what pure is. Apart from accuracy I don't know what clarity is. One will always end up having to abandon unity concepts to function in a world where there is nonhomogenaity. Thats why if someone tells me my mind sets the stage of existance, I can confidently say it is not the case. Surprise alone is enough to disprove that relationship. Just as confidence relies on predictability.

Compassion, does it feel good for the compassionate? Anger , does it feel good for the angered?Which feels better?The choice of compassion over anger or fear, is it determined by circumstance?Is it based on judgement?Is compassion felt an act of embrace?Yall can answer them any way you see fit. But I'd say it is at least possible that the monk in the story , if told accurately ..took the emotional avenue he felt was best for his emotional well being, that to have been pushed by another away from what he believed himself to be,, to abandon that which held in highest esteem ,, would merely debase his situation further. He preferred that though his body could be chained , his mind was free.

Time is linear , it is iust not uniform. It is actually a function of the distribution of mass and energy and a place in time is relative to the rest of the mass and energies in the universe. If time were running in reverse we wouldn't know it but the significance is moot even to us. The same is true if all events are simultaneous , which its not unless the mass and energies of t he universe all maintain the original point source distribution pattern.Energies could not be evident if there was no possibility of motion there would be no change, and we have plenty of evidence that change does happen.One cannot read this post before I write it , so even if I was one hundred percent wrong in my conclusions,, it still makes more sense to operate under the assumption that time is sequential..Chaos is a situation where one can make no valid assumptions regarding the sequence of events,, this is also clearly not the case. Imo completely.

total wild guess here, since they use it in beyondmeat, and you can eat the roots and it may be red colored . Even mentioned in the Chuang tze ..my total guess is an amaranthus species.

Dawei wins , hands down

Nice, Not me either , I say good riddance to the cheat'n ho undeserving of sweet reminisce.

Exotic is a matter of perspective, is it not? I always figured the first folks to find a crawfish, pick one up , look it over , and stick it in their mouth .. had a good helping of mountain oysters.

But sir , it Is an apple tree! Since apple tree is more specific than a shade tree. The functional significance is that one doesn't park a car under fruit trees.

I just read that God sent bears to maul 42 of the teenagers that mocked Elisha for his baldness.

I suspect Manitou is toying with the idea that the universe is a big giant brain perhaps like the one called Deep Thought. The answer is 42 , I think. But as far as I can tell I'm using all the brain I've got already .

keep the hammer as long as you wish. It keeps things on track. Yep sweetie we are certainly on opposite sides of the coin! Which is fine too. Savior , Absolute, Greater purpose, are all the same to me in that they anchor the reason for behavior in a thing which removes responsibility virtue significance from people themselves and plops it in the hands of some inexplicable mystery thing somewhere else somewhen else. Yes it can be a functional mindset, creating the context for giving up the idea of self righteousness, but it simultaneously creates aplatform FOR self righteousness. If I get this correct...the wrathful deities undermine the malfunctioning thought structures with fire and sword so that the better can be built ex:. Kali is both a destroyer and source. Similarly cutting the feet out from under all platforms for externally based meaning -such as supplied by gods- puts responsibility virtue purpose back on the shoulders of those who actually enact manifest embody them.

Nah. BKA, we all survived , what new is there to turn you away? Gator snake buffalo snails dog squid bugs scorpion etc etc all can make for good eats prepared right . One of the most cherished food memories I have is one that many might find yuccky. Its called kishka , a blood sausage made with barley I believe. I was crazy about it as a kid better even than cold ravioli centers !

Well said . Conceptry certainly is a strange thing. Its difficult to prove that something is true objectively Yet somehow when folks are disabused of personal bias It is often that they come to similar conclusions. Everything being up for grabs as a logical consideration Is surprisingly not the case! Do you get what I am saying -though poorly on my part?

The dark matter thing I'm not convinced on yet because the only support for it I have read is the inexplicable mass imbalance of a theoretically expanding universe. I neither know what significant implications it would have nor do I have much faith that there cannot be unknown factors other than it to explain the disparity. My jury is still sequestered on that idea. That being said I see no reason to invoke dark stuff as a significant explanation for anything yet....but sure it could be significant somehow someday. The practical matters of every day life have enough explainable unpredictability that I can wait till there is a more thorough framework before trying to employ knowlege we collectively don't have yet.

Wow I never took you to be alchemist. Are we agreeing that the electrical emmissions of brain and muscle are the energies you are referring to and the source of it is chemically mediated by way of metabolism? Or are you in disagreement with the thermodynamic laws here.

That clip was really terriffic , I laughed a lot even the refrains were creative ,, well well DONE. And I agree, we all are allowed our opinions. You and I don't always agree but our disagreements as well as our agreements are based in our opinion even if were are discussing of objective reality. True true , but though all concepts may be equal in the eyes of the law , some are more equal than others .

I guess its something to look forward to , but I dont cotton to the idea that one should make things bad now so as to have things be good then, but if the idea is just gravy then, so be it. I dont know what Chi is supposed to be , I might agree with some things , just I'd use english ,, have you got a description other than breath? and why ,of all things that science has yet to explain ,are you willing to embrace the idea of Chi?

Ok ,now we need someone to say something controversial so we can all hammer it from different directions.

overstated to the extent of implying that which is technically unfactual or really amount to bombast If you have 'factuals' to counter these 'unfactuals' that actually are critical of the research rather then an expression of your own or someone else's incredulity, that might be interesting, but it is exactly this type of discussion that I characterized as: I dont see why you should hold me to a higher factual standard than the other side in order to disprove it to you. I consider it one of those 'wild goose chases' to have you assign me unfair tasks which you will dismiss anyway.

I would argue that the mental causes the physical, as in physical malady. Ok yeah ,I can agree that sometimes, phantom limbs, stress headaches, and yes sometimes even inexplicable conditions as well can be addressed from that angle ,, but in saying that , I still hold that if I were to get in a car accident , I could really get injured ,even if I wasnt mentally prepared ( since I was texting at the time). If the Shaman methodology brings relief from what defies normal medical care thats just fine too, so long as someone doesnt seriously endanger the welfare of dependents because they want to be defiant about western medicine.

Well platypus eggs sound pretty good to me, Duck eggs are certainly more rich than mass production chicken eggs too. We all live in a dualistic world ( might I suggest pluralistic as even more accurate,) some folks seem to think there is an imperative of some type that they must come to certain conclusions which I dont find as mandatory.. such as "if you think cows have emotions, you cant eat them" Untrue mon frere, I can eat cows whether or not they, in secret ,,play chess , listen to Jazz ,or pray to a cow god... similarly, you, or I, or anyone else, can still come to conclusions about what we consider to be good, bad ,indifferent, legal, expedient wasteful ,disrespectful etc etc.. even if those ideas are subjective concoctions. The intellectual thing to note is that looking at these opinions from the perspective of indistinctness , merely undermines the idea that our subjective stances on right or wrong have some solid foundation that truly exists somewhere outside of our subjective opinions. If a person said some lady was beautiful , that it was inarguably true,, he still knows another person might not think so. And so the saying goes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Continuing on, with an example ,to fill my lunch hour , there is some evidence the the attractiveness of people has a biological basis , things like symmetry come into play. But just because more thean one person comes to the conclusion that a thing is subjectively true,, is not evidence that it is objective truth,! it just does mean that more than one person came to the same conclusion each independently and still subjectively . A person cannot really be denied their opinion, and I cant say its 'wrong' to have your opinion, logically, if wrongness itself is just an illusion too.. and especially if its an expedient attitude.

Ok , where are you going with that Mh ? You know as well as I that the mental doesnt directly translate to the physical, eg. Id need to sing the song to pass it along later, Im not sure Id call it manifestation till it gets out of the realm of mental, but yes it has a reality of its own type manifested in there.

Must be myself since I cant draw any distinctions.

Can you explain that? giimmea a fer instance or something.