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Post by silver on Jan 24, 2013 14:57:42 GMT -5
[/img][/quote]  This guy? I hope he shows up. With any luck, he'll have the strength to listen and hear.   |
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Post by enigma on Jan 24, 2013 22:59:39 GMT -5
All ideas are actually bifurcations of some kind that I've described as placing boundaries around a portion of infinity. Sort of like taking a chunk out of wholeness by assigning attributes that define something as opposed to everything else. This is how mind understands things Given that, how is mind to understand this idea that it imagines called infinity? The only way would be to assign attributes to define infinity as opposed to everything else, which of course makes it not infinity. This presents mind with an apparent paradox. The difficulty is in the process by which mind understands it's own ideas, and not inherent in the idea itself. The idea points to an imagined actuality that is prior to ideas; prior to the bifurcation required in order to define the idea. The idea, itself, defies the process of binding that would solidly distinguish it in it's own dimensional context. To put it simply, mind can play with ideas so as to confuse itself. Another example would be 'Can God create something too heavy for him to lift?' Words are the nature of communication, the word infinity is not paradoxical.. it points to an experience, and a well-intended discussion will explore ways to help the participants have their own experience of what the word infinity is referencing.. your description of 'infinity' becoming paradoxical seems to be linked to the word/concept, rather than the experience it references.. Be well.. I agree there is no paradox. |
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Post by silver on Jan 25, 2013 4:13:49 GMT -5
Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose? Ok. The 1st one isn't Carlin, but it was part of a theme...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 11:02:17 GMT -5
I actually have never seen him in action.
I only know of him from his roles in
Bill n Ted's excellent adventure
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob strike back.
So the other day i downloaded from the utubes a few 1hr long vids of his.
He has mad observation and humous expression of his observations skillz
Bill hicks on the other hand, as i also had never seen him, so downloaded a few vids...not a fan, not in the slightest.
But YAY for George and his wit.
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Post by laughter on May 31, 2013 23:48:50 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2013 12:28:40 GMT -5
just a test to see if any changes were made to the profanity filter
I posted the word jackass the other day, without interference, but maybe ass was ok, I'll have to ask penis about it.
"The seven dirty words (or "Filthy Words") are seven English-language words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in 1972 in his monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". The words are nuts, piss, x, vagina, penissucker, motherxer, and tits." - wikipedia
edit: ok, same ol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2013 12:51:59 GMT -5
just a test to see if any changes were made to the profanity filter I posted the word jackass the other day, without interference, but maybe ass was ok, I'll have to ask penis about it. "The seven dirty words (or "Filthy Words") are seven English-language words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in 1972 in his monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". The words are nuts, piss, x, vagina, penissucker, motherxer, and tits." - wikipedia edit: ok, same ol I'd say penissucker gets the job done. And let us rejoice tits. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2013 13:01:01 GMT -5
I'd say penissucker gets the job done. And let us rejoice tits.  |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Jun 1, 2013 15:04:09 GMT -5
Thought I'd add some flavor to the daily quote fad that didn't include indian spiritual gurus. "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth." -GC "Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that." -GC "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." -GC Haha, have always loved GC's take! I even did the Hippy Dippy Weatherman skit for my talent show in the 4th grade at an Episcopalian day school. I had drawn a USA map on the blackboard and was fumbling through the skit as best I could in front of the class. I had no idea what I was on about, but just thought it funny. My art/music teacher, unbeknownst to us at the time (found out much later), was a closet partying hippy gal, and daughter of one of the school's priests. I still remember everyone just staring at me, not knowing what the hell I was trying to say. I kept laughing and my teacher was squirming in her chair, in tears laughing. Life's a strange thing. |
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Post by etolle on Sept 7, 2021 10:13:58 GMT -5
You are correct that I do it because it is a pleasant and joyful thing to do and I do it because it feels good. There is nothing wrong with that. There would be a problem if I was attached to it, but I'm not, and the reason that I CAN easily sit here and become a vortex of love at a moment's notice is because of the absence of the need to attach. The problem is not with the idea of love, or even playing with the idea of love. I'm not saying there is something wrong with it. I'm telling you quite squarely that it's not unconditional love though. The condition is that you want to feel good. If you began extending your love to people and you began to feel bad or a "vortex of ohh noo!" you would cease in an instant. It's what's often talked about in regards to there being a willingness to see past simply feeling good or really really realllllly good. That's the boundary that both you and Figgy were and are pressing up against. I don't think maintaining a self-image is inevitable. The need to maintain a self-image is present until the need has been released, until the shadow self has been integrated, until the conditioned limiting belief/fears have been released. self-image is a protective mechanism. You will try to protect yourself until you realize what you are needs no protection. self image is a protective mechanism,u will try to protect urself til u realize what u r needs no protection..oh yeah! |
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Post by etolle on Sept 7, 2021 10:45:02 GMT -5
Also, if you have to surrender over and over again, that isn't a real surrendering but only a acquiescing, a conclusion. If surrendering is a doing, if someone is consciously doing it, then there's still hope and when there's still hope then there's no surrendering. The old game of searching is played on a more subtle level, that's all, "You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total surrender." It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out... Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself..." -UG It's a good thing "any dimension" was mentioned in andrew's case. if surrendering is a doing,if someone is consciously doing it,then theres still hope and when theres still hope then theres no surrendering. |
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