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Post by laughter on Dec 8, 2019 17:34:23 GMT -5
heh heh .. folks should be so lucky to find themselves in such an auspicious bind, even with the discomfort that comes with it. Whoa... talk about like minds!! 😮 I'm thinking that instead of cloaks, we should be handing out a free pair of bellows when peeps leave No Mountain and are on the way to Mountain Again. ... least christmasy song .. ever ..
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 8, 2019 18:06:57 GMT -5
Whoa... talk about like minds!! 😮 I'm thinking that instead of cloaks, we should be handing out a free pair of bellows when peeps leave No Mountain and are on the way to Mountain Again. ... least christmasy song .. ever .. Such a crowd pleaser!! 🤟😝 Like Ten Inch Nails!
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Post by someNOTHING! on Dec 8, 2019 18:24:33 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Dec 15, 2019 10:21:18 GMT -5
Right, ok, well, to clarify, as his is color I've never seen, perhaps his conclusions are as much about who and what he's concluding about as they are him. It's not that I disagree, on the face of it, with your observation, it's just that I can see there's more going on underneath, so, I can't support it. Of course I agree that there is more going on underneath, I wouldn't have got this entrenched if there wasn't. Though the details of that are not really much for open discussion. " .. ♪ I guess I showed her that a man, yeah .. he has his limits ♫ .."
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 15, 2019 16:15:34 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 18, 2019 14:15:48 GMT -5
I watched a documentary on Lynyrd Skynyrd a couple of days ago, pretty interesting. This has always been a song if I catch on the radio I have to listen to. The members started playing together as teenagers. Ronnie van sant wrote most of the lyrics for the songs. (If you watch, he's the lead singer in the black hat). All the members participated in writing the music. At the time of the video they had been a group for over ten years. This was about the peak of their fame. Here, they were opening for The Rolling Stones. You don't get a good shot until the end of the video, but The Rolling Stones had one rule, nobody goes down on to the tongue except the Stones. During the song Ronnie asked the guitar players to go down on the tongue, they wouldn't, they resisted. But Ronnie pushed them, he escorted and coaxed them down on the tongue. The Stones were very angry they broke the rule. The songs for their first two albums they wrote where they practiced, in a field along a river. They had a shack there where they kept their instruments. For their other famous song one day the guitar players were playing off each other, and Ronnie developed a first verse. He left and walked down the river to fish. He could hear the others practicing, and in about an hour came back with the song completed, Sweet Home Alabama. They packed up and went to Muscle Shoals where they had just completed recording their first album. Ronnie told the group and the producer he wanted to record the song now, not wait as he liked the song as is and it would inevitably change if not recorded now. After they finished recording, the producer said; That's a hit song. It was a little over a year after the video that the plane crashed killing Ronnie van sant, a guitar player, his sister and the piano player, pilot and co-pilot. Twenty survived. The sad thing, they knew the plane had been having trouble and was due for maintenance. The remaining members played a memorial tour, but didn't expect to continue. But people kept asking them to come to their city, so they kept playing. They have continued, and still play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZyMx2NXZM
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 18, 2019 15:59:32 GMT -5
Fast forward to about minute 36:45. I saw this six years ago while visiting my oldest daughter in Oak Harbor, Washington. Kate Tempest is amazing. Raper-poet-playwright-performing artist. I wanted to go see her live show in a few days in New York, but I knew that was impossible. (I hated that Charlie Rose turned out to be a scumbag. I thought he was the greatest interviewer around). charlierose.com/episodes/25904?autoplay=true
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Post by laughter on Dec 21, 2019 15:01:36 GMT -5
Greetings.. When 'you' are hungry, do you feed someone else?.. When 'you' are sick, do 'you' give the medicine prescribed for 'you' to someone else?.. Mind-play is entertaining, but at some point radical self-honesty is essential for survival.. even the clarity of a still mind's awareness infuses the experiencer with unfiltered information essential for a more holistic integration with that which is happening.. Be Well.. and, may the spirit of the season be beneficial.. and to you as well Tzu'.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 22, 2019 14:09:43 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 22, 2019 14:45:25 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 26, 2019 17:49:56 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Dec 30, 2019 1:14:09 GMT -5
That's no way related to Bible's fact. This is exactly what can be read between the lines as in scripture. Many of the events of the OT are a kind of parable. Jesus taught by parables, which are a kind of word picture. The language of essence and of the right brain/right hemisphere is symbol and image. In Hebrews it says many of these OT people and stories are types. A Biblical type is a kind of archetype. So, Jacob and Esau represent one man. Esau was the first born so was entitled to the blessing and the birthright. But he was not really interested in either. So Esau represents the "false sense of limited identity". So Jacob set a kind of trap for him. Esau went out hunting, but didn't get anything. Jacob cooked up some beans for him, told Esau, I will give you some beans for your birthright. To show how little Esau valued the birthright, he said OK, the birthright is not going to do me any good if I'm dead. A slight exaggeration. So the false sense of self does not really value anything spiritual, in and of itself. And later Jacob's mother (Rebecca) cooked up a plan for Jacob to steal the blessing from Esau. Esau was harry. His father Isaac couldn't see very well. So Rebecca got Esau to dress up so he would be harry, and ask for the blessing from Isaac. It worked and Isaac blessed Jacob thinking it was Esau. And Esau found out the deception and Jacob had to flee because Esau wanted to kill him. He was gone over 14 years. So the story of Jacob and Esau represents the passage from the false sense of self to true self. It's a rocky road. Karma is a pregnant dog. When Jacob ran away Rebecca told him to run to her family, so he ended up with Laban, who had two daughters. Jacob fell in love with Rachel. he made a pact with Laban, I will work for you for 7 years if I can marry Rachel. The deal was made. But on the wedding night Laban got Leah to decieve Jacob, so Jacob married Leah instead of Rachel. So then, Jacob had to agree to work for Laban another 7 years for Rachel. So Jacob had to learn the lesson not to deceive, by getting deceived. So through the school of hard knocks Esau/Jacob-false self became Jacob-true self. This is described in the two scriptures given earlier, Ephesians 4:22-24 & Colossians 3:9,10. This is described by John 3:3-10. There is really no end to the depth of the Bible. While that's the official, I'm partial to this version.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 31, 2019 23:24:24 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 3, 2020 18:41:54 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Jan 7, 2020 17:59:20 GMT -5
I'd say, rather than the details of the events, what's precious, is the consciousness that is experiencing them. I guess you could say life is precious.. but consciousness ?? Priceless, as in, no coin is ever necessary.
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