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Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:13 pm The world is in a difficult place right now. What can each of us do to keep it from teetering off its axis?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

I try to stay indoors as much as possible, so as not to make things any worse.

The “mass man” that Ortega y Gasset writes about is a phenomenon of our present, and we are all a part of it or subsumed in it. I wish I could find the words to express how little I care, and that desire makes me realise how important not caring is to me. It seems I do have a purpose, after all. 🙂

You can find meaning in anything if you are determined to find it. All the grandeur, ceremony and ritual of the Catholic Church is a massive con trick that's meant to give the impression of substance to what should never have been thought of as more than the superstitions of primitive tribe folk. T...

In which case, if we are indeed "created in God's image," then where do you see the presence of a "trinity" within the makeup of the human form or soul? If I am not mistaken theologians have various ways that they describe the trinity, and I think you would agree with me that th...

In Afghanistan no problem would arise because the cheating wife would be stoned to death. Hurrah for those noble Afghanis! How courageous of them! After all, the Holy Quran approves, and, more important, so does godelian. Look, you've obviously tried many different men, but they have all walked out...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:32 pm
Ok, Ok its a Glockenspiel … but the idea still holds.

And it's about as desirable as all your other ideas.

Walker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:58 pm

I heard that Buddha almost quit trying before becoming a lifetime teacher.

He obviously didn't quit junk food.

What sort of idiot is going to sign up for that? :? The wunnerful think about you, dear Harbal, is that you present us with the type of man who is constitutionally incapable of understanding, much less giving assent to, any notion of relationship to or service to higher being, metaphysics, higher t...

I still have no idea what is actually being suggested. As a starting point the transformation and restoration presented as possible involves reforging a life-line with and a connection to divinity (metaphysical being), both as a concept and as a realness that one — what is the word? — submits to or...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:55 pm I plan to submit my evaluation in a short while. You'll not want to miss it!

Could you post a warning before you do submit it, for the benefit of those of us who do want to miss it?

Oh, I see...you're itching for me to bring the "G" word into the conversation, and then you get to say, "You see? He's obsessed!" The problem is that nothing was going that direction until you just pushed it there. Ironic, that. Almost obsessive... :wink: Actually, it's the &quo...

I can't figure it. I don't want to steal your line, but we'll see. 🙂 Oh, I see...you're itching for me to bring the "G" word into the conversation, and then you get to say, "You see? He's obsessed!" The problem is that nothing was going that direction until you just pushed it th...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:57 pm

Harbal wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:54 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:33 pm
So you think the UN is going to remain, and will somehow become effective and moral, but that Biden has to go?

Hmm, I just can't imagine where all this is going.

I can't figure it.

I don't want to steal your line, but we'll see.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:33 pm
So you think the UN is going to remain, and will somehow become effective and moral, but that Biden has to go?

Hmm, I just can't imagine where all this is going.

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:12 pm
You inspire me to add more, Alexis.

[Wizard gets an erection, and Alexis runs from the room]



The curtain slowly falls.