Dick, I liked your post on China but yahoo blocked my reply. Did you write it? Bill...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 6:25 am
Regarding the Corruption and Greed email? [ Dick, I liked your post on China but yahoo blocked my reply. Did you write it? Bill ] The original article was cut...
58511
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 8:50 am
The Power of Silence? [ You have mentioned the power of sound, especially when related to music, but what do you think of the power of silence? Was that a...
58512
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 8:52 am
The Most Important Battle? [ Merlin, you mentioned that the most important external event during your life was the world war. In your view of it, and as a...
58513
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 8:54 am
The Ultimate Human Aim? [ If you get to the bottom of what it is that all these factions are aiming for, no matter whether it is religions, physics,...
58514
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 8:55 am
Fluke or Pattern? [ What percentage of people would really take mystical experience seriously as being a real way of knowing? And even if ten percent of people...
58515
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 11:23 am
Speaking Words of Wisdom? [ I have enjoyed reading your posts Merlin of Exmoor, mate; and some of them have indeed been thought provoking. People seem to love...
58516
William
bhvwd
Nov 9, 2012 3:11 pm
... As long as Obama is in charge I doubt you will see USA start a stupid war. he is about trying to redistribute the wealth here and it will probably be a...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 5:45 pm
Et Al [ Merlin, I know little about China, I think few Americans do. Theirs seem a strange hybrid of communism and capitalism. Our politics is beginning to ...
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William
bhvwd
Nov 9, 2012 7:53 pm
For the greater part of my life I have been a dentist. I headed that direction in undergrad and including dental school it has been the greater part of my life...
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Mary
josephson45r
Nov 9, 2012 9:30 pm
The only thing we can say with any certainty about human nature is that it is varied. Not everyone is greedy and corrupt. Not everyone follows the herd; not...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 9, 2012 9:44 pm
I wish you well with it and hope you have many happy times. Our lives have been so different that they cannot be put in the same shop window, so to speak. But...
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William
bhvwd
Nov 10, 2012 5:09 pm
... It has been a lock step life for me. Each move carefully planned each segment checked and rechecked. I went rogue for eight years as I figured out the...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 10, 2012 8:42 pm
Old School in a New Age? [ Merlin, Thank you for the good wishes. Indeed we have taken different paths. It is a beautiful day here today. Sunny and in the...
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William
bhvwd
Nov 10, 2012 9:37 pm
I have never heard that one. I think of the heavy horse calvelry. The horses charging dead ahead and all else being driven before them. It becomes an attitude...
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William
bhvwd
Nov 10, 2012 9:39 pm
I have never heard that one. I think of the heavy horse calvelry. The horses charging dead ahead and all else being driven before them. It becomes an attitude...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 11, 2012 10:24 am
Following the Masters? [ My leanings to existentialism remain and though I probably will not reread the masters I will continue to relate their precepts to the...
58526
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 11, 2012 12:41 pm
When the student is ready? [ Dedem. What do you make of this famous statement, supposed to be occult, esoteric, arcane or mystical, which ever it is or all of...
58527
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 12, 2012 10:57 pm
Here's a book list for those of you who follow (are interested in) existential writers. http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1237.Best_Existential_Fiction Audio...
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Mary
josephson45r
Nov 13, 2012 5:54 pm
Bill mentioned how his hope has been restored for the younger generation, and I can't help feeling existentialism is tailor made for them. Many are already...
58529
William
bhvwd
Nov 13, 2012 11:02 pm
When Ike came home he had to decide what party he would join. I do not think Patreaus had any such trouble. He looked at CIA director as a smooth transition...
58530
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 14, 2012 8:14 am
Why The Way We Are? [ Why are we made the way we are? Does mystical experience reveal why we are made the way we are? How much of what we become is down to us...
58531
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 15, 2012 7:55 am
Prescriptions not Predictions? [ If you were to stick your mystics neck out then what from your understanding of life would you say will happen to me when my...
58532
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 15, 2012 7:07 pm
Jim, How goes your reading of Hegel?. Since the election rhetoric is over, I'm rereading the Phenomenology. However, this time I'm striving for a more 'naive'...
58533
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 15, 2012 9:00 pm
Paper Spirituality to fill a Void? [.... and just like addiction to drink or drugs, religion, such as it is, is just a paper spirituality to fill a void of...
58534
Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 16, 2012 9:09 am
In the NOW of THEN? [ You mention grabbing the day, and grabbing the full essential quality of it at that moment, each moment as they pass. You also mention...
58535
Mary
josephson45r
Nov 16, 2012 9:09 pm
The following combines my impressions of the film Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside) with a biographical sketch written several years ago. Hopefully it demonstrates...
58536
William
bhvwd
Nov 16, 2012 10:30 pm
... Mary, I recently watched a program about assisted suicide. There are a good many more public stances than a few years ago. I see the situation as...
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Mary
josephson45r
Nov 17, 2012 12:45 am
Thanks, Bill, for your perspective. We have no control over when we come into the world and little more when it comes time to leave. I think the existential...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Nov 17, 2012 10:13 am
Which City? [ Just as a matter of interest Merlin, if money and time was no object then which of the worlds Cities would you have liked to have seen? ] ... ...
