Mriana

@mriana, i fully agree with you, anti vaxs are mad people, especially those against Covid vax.

the matter is why ?

I would say lack of trust, lack of education, and fear. And i would not forget susceptibility to fake news.

@mriana I just got vaccinated yesterday and so far it hasn’t affected me yet in any way (crossed fingers).

Sorry if this is off-topic, just wanted to throw that out there. I would have done it much earlier but I’m dealing with a lot as of late.

@mriana, my twin sister was pretty good at gymnastics in high school, so I have a little appreciation for all the work that goes into it.  What I really don’t understand is why people who have no conception of what’s involved, are so easy to judge and condemn.  Pretty pathetic Guy.

I mean what’s the joy in piling on a young lady who’s already h…[Read more]

@write4u, I always go with the parsimonious until it’s time for a paradigm shift.  Quantum woo was proposed decades ago.

@lausten, the only movie referred to is 2010, which has that awesome scene, moves me every time I recall it, where Dave manifests to Hal who has just laid down his life for the lying cowardly humans, and tells Hal something’s…[Read more]

@write4u, Anil Seth, worth every second.  Short and sweet and hopeful.  Thank you.  Glad you like David.

@mriana, superb all round, thanks again.  John Shelby was one of my bêtes noires, like Richard.  No more.  Beautiful.  The WCG was cunning in that there were holidays.  Especially the massively indulgent Feast of Tabernacles.  Even my three…[Read more]

@mriana.  Thanks.  Nice.  I believed such… dung. Useless dung at that. Toxic waste.  I sure was hooked.  If the WCG hadn’t deconstructed itself I’d still be in it.  Even after leaving it, I ‘felt the hand of God upon me’, propelling me in to charismatic evangelicalism, the Anglican i.e. Episcopalian variety.  Sigh.  I’m a fanatical plant spotter…[Read more]

Aye @mriana. I brainwashed myself in to the chiliast cult of Armstrongism from age 15 as a shallow, wee-wee end of the pool bright, lower middle class English child of The Bomb. The cult did the astounding thing of deconstructing itself 25 years later. Not far enough for our rich tastes obviously. 25 years on my deconstruction continues. Only…

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Thank you everyone.

I’ve been deluded all my life @lausten, it’s human after all.  Who doesn’t believe things that aren’t true?  Reason is… the slave of the passions after all.  But I was give strong delusion for 50 odd years (very odd…), although it was edited along the way and went in to free fall 5 ago.  I’ve documented the trajectory to…[Read more]

@mriana 😂 You’re right. I had meant to say “Melting Pot”, but it’s late and I’m tired so my brain is at half mush right now.  You have to admit though that “Boiling Pot” makes far more sense of what America has become. Most of the BLM movement protesters seem to be a bunch of white-hating white people who scream at other white people who they’ve…[Read more]

@mriana.    God is a human concept.

I agree, a product and resident of our Human Mindscapes.

😉

And then there’s physical reality,

this biological body with an incredible backstory, that I/we inhabit for our life,

but that’s constantly changing with the seasons, first growing, then aging, think of it, the stories of our years, all were e…[Read more]

What I am saying about myself has nothing to do with you

@mriana, we are having different conversations here

There are a lot of people today that would find your radical ideas of you accepting yourself for who you are as hurtful, divisive, and non-inclusive of the marginalized minority.

So, transgender people can talk about themselves as being a male or female, but I cannot? They can change themselves in a way that they accept themselves, but I am…[Read more]

@tanny

@mriana – Ok, thanks for that!

You’re welcome. Glad to help when I can.

@tanny  to @mriana – Ok, thanks for that!

I second that.

Yeah, just because I’m free with my criticism, doesn’t mean really mean I’m down CFI’s, or ready to give up*.  But I did want Tanny to know we heard him, now I need to look his Comment, see what other trouble I can get myself into.   😉

*Heck I re-up-ed.

Cc.V.4,  speaks for itself…[Read more]

@mriana – Ok, thanks for that!

@mriana    but the bottom line is all definitions are human creations and as the Tao says the Tao that can be defined isn’t the Tao at all.

So however one defines it, it is all just a human definition and isn’t a god at all.

I like that.

It would be impossible to understand the essence of the Creator as we are his creation and the idea of the c…

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@mriana

It’s an open forum.  I figure anyone can jump in and answer any question.  Which is why I jumped in on this to answer sabolina’s question. To answer the question on my own terms.

I could set a trap too:   “Do you think killing is bad?”  [ ] YES   [ ] NO

Please Choose   😉

(and whichever you choose, I can start an argument)

@mriana , @lausten

We are so blessed with his presence and so pleased with his wealth of information. – Lausten

Is that sarcasm or are you serious? – mriana

Yeah, I think that’s right up there with my flightless birds comment.  😉

But I am serious about flammable tap water and burning river.

Our burning river lead to the creation of the…[Read more]

@thatoneguy

White Male thinking in this case means things like reason, and objective facts.

@mriana

Excuse me? Are you saying that people of colour can’t have reason and objective facts?

What you just witnessed was White Male thinking they’re using reason and citing objective facts………..

@Mriana

That’s what I said (not in exact words, but nonetheless, I said it can’t happen) and that’s what they are referring to.

I had no doubts, but to some it might have sounded as if humans could mate with other hominids. I just wanted to remove all possible misunderstanding.

Witness the common mistake of  “The Scopes Monkey Trial”, which…[Read more]