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Ideally, the religious would question whether the gaining of knowledge is a sin. What is Original Sin if not ignoring a stupid command to not gain the knowledge of all things? Regards DL According to some simple people a few thousand years ago. As I say, I think Original Sin is an analogy for human...

The question then comes from the OP, what might prompt people to be reluctant to give up their shields? Most people are not even aware that they carry a shield - hard to drop something when you don't even know that you carry it... even harder when you believe that you are it. Good news is that it d...

Being alive means being a small entity in an environment that constantly wants to absorb you, both literally and metaphorically. The ego is an organism's shield. The ego says, "I am, and I intend to stay that way. You cannot claim me or my stuff" (not yet). The question then comes from the...

Ideally, the religious would question whether the gaining of knowledge is a sin. They might consider that in Adam and Eve the ancients were simply creating an allegory for the powers of humanity beyond that of other animals, and the price we pay for that awareness in suffering. Question: were Adam ...

I'm thinking that we have two possibilities to ease away from Iron Age language: 1. God might be order and Satan, chaos. However, since total order is stasis and, as far as we're concerned, stasis is not all that great, then. 2. God is a productive balance of order and chaos while Satan is imbalanc...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:56 pm Ink,

If an adult needs a stranger, by way of a book, to tell him he's not the slave of hs life/thoughts/etc. then that needy person is severely retarded.

It's probably best if you keep quiet and just let the grownups talk, little fella.

"ET's work is used by cognitive therapists but they are not libertarians' favourite people and, thus, not yours." I don't know anything about cognitive therapy or what Libertarians or other libertarians think of cognitive therapy. As with you, I don't know anything about progressives or &...

Thank you Greta. Yeah, there's a whole chapter on time in the book (had to leave something out, or no one would buy the bloody thing.) It leaves you free to go hard into the nitty gritty of time in your next publication! The irony is that the chapter on time is 'Einstein on the train', which is the...

I'm thinking that we have two possibilities to ease away from Iron Age language: 1. God might be order and Satan, chaos. However, since total order is stasis and, as far as we're concerned, stasis is not all that great, then. 2. God is a productive balance of order and chaos while Satan is imbalance...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:43 am "All ET does is provide some tools and th' like ti sort out yer mind."

Snake oil.

Then again, you consider just about anything that's not related to your ideals as snake oil. ET's work is used by cognitive therapists but they are not libertarians' favourite people and, thus, not yours.

Can't get out? Then invest in beer: damn sight better than Tolle. 🤮 Zest for life, Greta: just zest for life. Not seein' that in yer sugarplum. Never said they shouldn't: i favor the free market...sell that snake oil...I'm just sayin': if you're life is wantin', Tolle ain't the guy to make it right...

If city life makes you crazy: Get. Out. Of. The. City. Don't give money to a con man who'll feed you horse manure. And -- yeah -- Bill O'Reilly is another overpaid conman/hack which really ain't got nuthin' to do with the the heap of dirt on the table, that bein' E. Tolle. Not so easy to Get. Out. ...

Each birthday feels like a landmark for me, where I feel incredibly grateful that somehow I am still alive and well, touch wood, which brings me to my superstition - complacency. After saying that I am alive and well I must follow with "touch wood" and then do so, but in a pinch I will tou...

Henry, your con man who liked Tolle no more reflects on the latter than Charles Manson's use of the song Blackbird reflected on Paul McCartney'. When you put a product out there, you can't control how it is consumed, nor should you be able to. Also, a sample size of is not very convincing. Many peop...

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