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How does the journey of self-realization, God realization and salvation start? The journey starts with a very simple learning: we are not the body. It starts with a negation of the reality that we are the body. But how does one negate this belief that we are the body? All through life we say that w...

There are no lottery owners in a raffle. Just the Hospital Auxiliary or Friends of the Library or whatever local group needs to raise funds for a local project and donate the prize. This kind of very small scale charitable gambling is what I was contrasting as relatively healthy against the state o...

Sorry, I first read that as immortality and spun out into a brief tangent. But I think you’re right. Immorality has become sanctioned through what is presented for us to perceive. And there are reasons for that based on assumptions, sometimes upended but mostly drowning in holiday syrup. The trend f...

The second version is sharper, crisper. With all that’s going on, which do you prefer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AloBa9SPM7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97xlBipnzG8

Lotteries are morally neutral. People who sell lottery tickets very often prey on the stupid, for their own gain. It is the seller and the buyer to whom the question needs be addressed, and each instance of a sale shall be unique ethically. A buyer might better spend his money on his children, the ...

Lotteries are morally neutral. People who sell lottery tickets very often prey on the stupid, for their own gain. It is the seller and the buyer to whom the question needs be addressed, and each instance of a sale shall be unique ethically. A buyer might better spend his money on his children, the ...

Lotteries are morally neutral. People who sell lottery tickets very often prey on the stupid, for their own gain. It is the seller and the buyer to whom the question needs be addressed, and each instance of a sale shall be unique ethically. A buyer might better spend his money on his children, the ...

Lotteries are morally neutral. People who sell lottery tickets very often prey on the stupid, for their own gain. It is the seller and the buyer to whom the question needs be addressed, and each instance of a sale shall be unique ethically. A buyer might better spend his money on his children, the ...

"Repulsiveness" is subjective. Obviously. There is no "absolute repulsiveness". I didn't think I've given that impression. Merzbow is art BTW, just not art to most people's taste. Hello. In out-noising the head noise of machines in order to comment on the sensory blend-into-babb...

Buying a raffle ticket for a quilt to support a drop-center for seniors is beneficial. Taking part in a work-place 'pool' promotes interaction. A spirited game of penny ante poker among friends is fun. A day at the racetrack is exhilarating. The gambling aspect to those activities is secondary to t...

I play the lottery once in awhile. One ticket. A bit of luck sparks the interest and makes one wonder about things. For instance, on one sporadic and unpredictable urge I bought a single ticket. Pick all six numbers not in sequence before chaos picks them and you win a vast fortune. Enough fortune t...

First, change the language to some innocuous term to soften the self-body punches of vice, debauchary, sin, and so on. Once the change is accepted, the perception of reality changes. It’s only gaming. It's fun! Sin? According to whom? What you call sin, I call entertainment. You would outlaw my ple...

Subject to the final paragraph, no, it’s not right. The lady had no self-control. Her family should put her on a strict allowance. Subject to the final paragraph, all vices should be legal. Subject to the final paragraph, the detriment to vice should come from moral training by family, rather than p...

Temple Grandin says that as a functioning autistic she lives in a world of fear and confusion, as do animals. Recognizing that in relationship with man, cattle live only for the purpose of dying, she has devised humane processes to keep cattle peaceful as they follow each other to the slaughter, to ...

By now, surely you must be attentive for this …

Arvo Pärt. Fur Alina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8as_BN5h5YQ

It’s the Mona Lisa of performance sound. In this, he is repeatedly just kind enough to answer expectation and anticipation.