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Post by laughter on Jan 5, 2022 9:40:40 GMT -5
Elle est retrouvée. Quoi ? L'éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil. ~ Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud.
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Post by laughter on Jan 14, 2022 8:23:55 GMT -5
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jan 14, 2022 22:08:50 GMT -5
I first heard this in 1973. My favorite band since then.
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Post by laughter on Jan 15, 2022 5:54:36 GMT -5
I first heard this in 1973. My favorite band since then.
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Post by laughter on Jan 26, 2022 8:16:30 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Feb 1, 2022 12:57:58 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Feb 3, 2022 14:47:10 GMT -5
I've consulted my inner-guidance daily for quite a while, so I asked thousands of questions. Probably the one I repeatedly asked the most, to understand better, was about my "life-lesson". It is a little too personal to get into details. While I got one word clearly describing it immediately, I got a more clear answer much later, after getting further understanding of the reality. Although I don't believe that my giving an example will bring anything constructive to a discussion, or be of benefit to anybody, quickly browsing my notes I found this example: After a failed attempt to get something, I asked my guidance what is the meaning of that failure. I received no answer. Deepened the trance, asked again: no answer. - q: Why? a: Not a good question (!) - q: What is a good question? a: "What should I do?" - q: What should I do? a: Love. Love is the answer (!) (this seems different from what I thought all along) - q: What kind of love? a: Do what you love (!) - q: How should I know what? a: Project into the future. Projected (some kind of event I won't describe here). - q: Is it about this? a: Yes. Asked about what should I do further in that matter. Projected inwards, into a nothingness, in a stable state. - q: What to do now? a: Build reality. Then I got a visualization of a place, and the feelings associated. It's a good example. It's an interesting process. Reminds me of the speaking to God books I used to peruse at the bookstore. Some don't have any questions, anymore. There is a cohesion with what you call this inner voice. It's no longer inner, but what we are. How we live. In other words the inner is also the outer now.
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Post by Reefs on Feb 4, 2022 8:45:34 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Feb 4, 2022 15:18:44 GMT -5
The "Left-Hand Path" (1)
AW: All the forms of Buddhism that are associated with the Vajrayana are called Tantric. The word Tantra means “web structure,” warp and woof. Tantra, in the Hindu context, is a discipline that is sometimes called the fifth Veda. There are four Vedas that are basic holy scriptures of Hinduism. The fifth Veda is the esoteric one. According to the four Vedas, in order to be liberated you have to give up physical life. You must not eat meat. You must not have sexual intercourse. You must not take alcohol or any kind of consciousness-changing substance. There are various other things; I forget them all. But in Tantra the whole idea is that liberation comes through contact with forbidden things. It comes through belonging to the world, participating in it. Sometimes this is called the left-hand path. In a Hindu story, Brahma was asked, “Who will gain to communion with you first, he who loves you or he who hates you?” And Brahma replied, “He who hates me, because he will think of me more often.”In other words, you can attain to liberation by complete altruism, and also by total selfishness. If you are completely and consistently selfish—if you push selfishness to an extreme—you will discover that your self is the other, that you do not really experience yourself at all except in terms of others. That is the point of the left-hand path, to push oneself to an extreme. However, the left-hand path is a very dangerous way of going about things, because nobody approves of it. Alan Watts, Buddhism - the Religion of No-Religion, Chapter 5 kant .. stop ... laughing .... please ..... send ....... Neil Cassidy!
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Post by laughter on Feb 5, 2022 21:55:24 GMT -5
My impression is that the more common collective opinion among the groups who make up the majority of the US armed forces has shifted drastically over the past few years. The demographic is composed of several different groups, all relatively economically marginalized: largely Southern, white and rural, or black or hispanic and urban. My impression is that the folks that burned the Chicks' records have a completely different orientation toward the Irag invasion and war inc. generally now, than they did back then. Any flag waving about Ukraine these days seems to me as most likely astroturf. One obvious reason is an absence now of a corollary to 9/11 and how that was misused to justify Iraq, but there's quite a bit more going on than just that. The lyrics referred to in the first sentence of my post as quoted were 'I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell'. The first sentence of my post makes no sense without the title as context. The song, "Bat Out of Hell" was about biker who came off and died while eagerly speeding home to his loved one, and the lyric quoted refers to a funeral bell. That was juxtaposed with the DC song "Travelling Soldier", which is about a soldier being killed just before returning to his love. All that makes no sense without the original title for context, except that my forum art was destroyed, as were DC albums, which itself, is perfectly apt. The rest of the post was based on the DC's "Not Ready To Make Nice". It feels cheap laying it out - it's like telling a joke and then explaining the punchline - but lacking the symbol of the bell in the original thread's title, it lost all of its meaning.
Well, hey, I'm glad you did lay it out as yeah, that's a pretty dynamic set of connections there. Evocative of strong emotion. Didn't kill it for me at all. Opened my ears to ya'. I know it's not at all what you're getting across here, but what it reminds me of is the 2nd stanza from Castles.
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Post by lolly on Feb 5, 2022 22:53:12 GMT -5
We just don't realise how spectacular he was
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Post by Reefs on Feb 12, 2022 23:35:14 GMT -5
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Post by Reefs on Mar 8, 2022 21:11:43 GMT -5
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Post by lolly on Mar 9, 2022 1:59:10 GMT -5
I watched 'We are all dead" recently, a Korean zombie Netflix series which wasn't that great, but zombies. Then, scouring You Tube, I came across the song 'Zombified' by Falling In Reverse.
I like the way the band has used literal Zombies in the video to represent the metaphorical Zombification of the docile masses who participate in social media anxiety and cancel culture and are influenced by propaganda. The Zombie symbol illustrates how horrific these 'dead inside' masses really are, and imagery of desecrated sacred American cultural symbols portray the guts being torn out of liberty.
The bridge in the song is insane, the video production is excellent, and it's one hell of a rock song.
PS. The video also has aliens... for no reason... then Godzilla. Awesome!
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Post by lolly on Mar 9, 2022 3:21:52 GMT -5
Yea. Blown away. There is just so much detail in that production. Nothing is unintended. There are no space fillers. Everything is has a reason and is saying something. The last time I saw a music video that has such a rich subtext was Skillet's 'Monster'. That one was a deep commentary on how the inner demon is created within and manifest in the wider field of the social psyche. The policed medical system normalised under the guise mental health and soft restraint of the veil over the female force... the heart being the target of both the ju-ju injection and the bullet, the power of the watcher and exertion of the knower over the known and all that.
You can watch these clips over and over because the subtext is so rich you could never appreciate it fully with just one viewing.
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