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Not sure I see IMHO as a politeness. Sounds more like bragging to me.

That's a heart attack waiting for a place to happen! That is really dramatic, amazing impersonation of a spider.

Love and Light to you too, gentlewind. As you are in a state of heightened awareness, I know that you are seeing dynamics that others cannot. I wish you the very best as you go through this challenge. We'll see you on the other side...we are all kin here, and of one soul-spirit. Barbara Ortega

Interesting, that's very polite. Polite is nice, but polite isn't necessarily real. Polite is needed when the inside of us doesn't match the politeness on the outside. It's an effort. I think Kindness is something better to cultivate. It covers all the bases

Oh, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. Lighten up.

Thank you, darling. That is hysterical. I noticed that you didn't say humble.

Yeah. "Honestly..." (Why would anyone assume otherwise?, unless you know yourself to be a liar at times "With all due respect"....(you're a moron, and I don't agree with a thing you said) "Not to step on any toes..." (but I'm about to shove my opinion in here and shut this thing down)

It strikes me as strange when someone uses IMHO in posts, or anywhere for that matter! If you've got to tell people you're humble, you're not.

Hi, An interesting topic! I have found myself wondering why the collective god inside all of us (in the form of extremely intelligent DNA) is having us create a machine that is capable of more advanced thinking than we're capable of. As to the rights of a robot, I haven't given that thought. I think that might be going too far, as claiming that a frozen fetus is a person is. That would be Infringe City to us humanoids. That slope is covered with mucous. But where does It want to go? Why is it having us do this? Your picture may say it all. Maybe Evolution is to inhabit a different world. We've kind of screwed this one up.

I grew up on Christianity. I took up with Eastern thought. I've read everything there is to read. I've come to one self-realized conclusion. That we, humans, ARE god. The intelligence that manifests our past, present, and future is contained in our DNA. That the same DNA, although different variations, is contained in all animal and plant life. And maybe rocks have consciousness. Water does. When a fetus is forming, all the cells that form are identical to one another. It's not until the cells line up next to each other that the determination is made whether the group of cells will be a fingernail, a blood cell, a hair cell, any kind. It's the intelligence of the DNA telling the cells of the fetus to go out on the little finger exactly 22,543 times before you gently turn around and come back. Personally, I FIND THAT ASTOUNDING!!! The incredible intelligence transmitted by the DNA of the mother and father to propogate the line. But, being in genealogy, I fully recognize that the further and further you go back on Ancestry, the more and more you run into the same people, or 'cousins', as we call each other. The trajectory of the 'lines' merging together toward the beginning shows me that, as it says in the DDJ, 'the function of the Dao is reversion'.

Constant fight between dark and light doesn't sound all that comfortable. But I get what you're saying, in a yin yang sense. Once the development of good character has been attained, there is a constant core inside that is your grounding. Stay to your core, they say. In this day and time, it seems particularly urgent. The way, the answers, are all inside us already. And the answers all err on the side of love and acceptance.

NN, I don't confer with entities, and you're probably not talking about me anyway. But I can share this wisdom with you; That the space from the tip of the monk's finger to the moon is all inner work. Perhaps you're overly familiar with this, and if so, I apologize. The inner work is to neutralize all the trigger points within you from childhood, from as far back as you can remember. Many childhood memories we harbor have rolled downhill for years and have contorted the lens of our vision. They have resulted in attitudes and actions that remain with us today. But these very attitudes are the things that prevent us from clarity. There is a quiet and silent space in you that has all the answers, but it can only be viewed from a place of clarity, that place that is unburdened by previous attitude and experience. The best place to start, is to figure out what part 'we' have played in whatever's going on in your life today, anything unpleasant. The trick is to find our own blame, to take responsibility for our actions, to stop blaming others for shortcomings in our lives. There is something so very powerful about the power of silence. Wu - wei said in a different way, maybe. There comes a point where the constant attainment of spiritual knowledge and reading does come to an end. That's well and good, but it won't get any of us what we want. We want answers. We want the truth. I, for one, have come to realize that it's all the very same thing under different names. And the way to discern the truth is to listen to the voice inside. The voice that can be heard once the inner distractions are removed. Entity? Maybe.

Fabulous picture!

It occurs to me that having known you for many years now, that your spiritual awareness is at your fingertips at all times. It is apparent that you've digested all the book-learnin' that's a part of all this, but that you've merged it in with your being and it lives totally within you. I love the reference to puberty, as that's exactly how it does seem to be! Things are given 'as needed', not piled up into a big stack of knowledge, which is of the ego, as you say. I guess I just want to say that I appreciate you, Nungers.

Evolutions have continued. I feel a different presence with your current you.