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I'd say some of both.

Where do people get these great avatars?

Jehu, Recompense then can be either supportive of a thing, or non-supportive, depending upon whether or not the thing is functional or dysfunctional. Remember, everything has a “function”: an appropriate mode of activity whereby it fulfils its intended purpose. Such things as fulfil their purpose ar...

Divine Focus,

Evil is interesting, because there are levels of mastery on the evil side. The devious ones serve as catalysts for growth once there influence is uncovered. Their power is your power. (No victims.)

I agree, and I am quite interested in understanding evil beings better.

David, A person would have to pretty delusional to be offended by a mere word. Are we back in kindergarten? Well, I didn't say I was offended; I was explaining why women find the word offensive. Words have meaning. It's called language, communication. Prince tells it like it is: Women don't like the...

Mr C- I am not too sure what about my writing struck you as 'fake', but I am sure you will deliver a robust and sound evidence to us forthwith. You call yourself a feminist but you are not pro-woman, you are anti-woman. I think your calling me 'fake' is an ad hominem attack designed to distract from...

Maybe so, Hodges, but has it occurred to you that the other institutes wherein Darwinian evolution is not to be questioned might also not be a source of unbiased information? There are fairly unbiased books and websites. Telic Thoughts is one. Uncommon Descent is run by some fundies, and yet is an e...

David, A person would have to pretty delusional to be offended by a mere word. Are we back in kindergarten? And of course, for a spiritual person to be offended by anything means he still has a lot of work to do. Well, I didn't say I was upset; I was explaining why women find it offensive. People do...

Well now, I guess I had forgotten to check back on this thread. Mr C- I am not too sure what about my writing struck you as 'fake', but I am sure you will deliver a robust and sound evidence to us forthwith. You're a fake feminist, i.e., you don't care about women, you care about men, and that they ...

There's also an article in the Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi that puts into perspective that the bailout money seems to be peanuts compared a trick the fed has been doing which inputs far more cash than this into the monetary system. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeove...

It is incomprehensible to me that Madoff hasn't been ripped to pieces and had his head swinging from the nearest bridge. Incomprehensible that a few more, whoever is handy, don't get the same treatment in connection to the AIG bonuses. That would cut out the legal red tape real quick. Not that I am ...

Well now that is very nice; I don't know how you remember all this stuff. How does recompense relate to effects? It's a kind of effect?

So right view abides within right resolution? Right resolution is the essence of right view? The practice of right resolution leads to right view?

Jehu, Wisdom and evil actions are completely incompatible, and we must never confuse intelligence with what is mere cleverness. Perhaps I get the idea from movies and novels. Lord of the Rings, for example, has a high-level evil being. It has a certain wisdom from intelligence, study, experience. It...

Jehu, The path cannot be differentiated from the sentient being who travels it, for the two are neither one and the same nor completely different, Well this here is an interesting statement that bears some contemplation. either they are progressing toward enlightenment or they are regressing into de...

I agree completely.

Jehu,

we possess no knowledge of what it is like to perceive the world as any thing other than what we are, we can only construct our dream world from the vantage point of that sort of being.

Well, that is one of my goals, to break out of that.

Jehu, However, what you must keep in mind is that although you are seemingly embodied within a dream persona, that same cognizant awareness is embodied within all the things that populate your dream, though you do not see the dream from their vantage point. Well I am not quite sure what that means, ...

Jehu, The true you (awareness) does not change between dreaming and awaking, however, the dream persona and the objective persona may be quite different. In a dream, we may not even be of the same gender as in our objective state, and may have abilities that we are completely ignorant of when awake....

Jehu, There is nothing that is truly separate from the Absolute, just as there is nothing in a dream that is truly separate from the awareness of the dreamer – including the dream persona. Finally, I see what it is about the dream analogy of reality, with which I am generally in agreement, that hasn...

Jehu, What with the recent influx, I think you missed my last post, in response to yours: Very good, Jehu. Now, these two elements are, of course, the very nature of the Absolute, Form and essence are the nature of the absolute? Now I shall go to dinner and meditate upon form lacking essence, and es...

Hello John, What you discover is the great similarity of concepts and insights from these various schools of learning. Yes, and it is a clue, in my opinion, of truth underlying, which we are able to discover within ourselves. But it requires that one is permitted to freely think, a thing discouraged...

Dear John, On your post of 11:02, it is difficult to discern what you may have said. This is why I find western academic philosophy tedious, and mostly stick to eastern. If someone wanted to give me a synopsis, it might no doubt prove that such and such a philosopher gave us a profound insight. With...

Very good, Jehu.

Now, these two elements are, of course, the very nature of the Absolute,

Form and essence are the nature of the absolute?

Now I shall go to dinner and meditate upon form lacking essence, and essence lacking form.

Mr C- I think you're a fake feminist, put it that way. And it is fake to pretend not to understand why women find an insulting word offensive. What question? This one?: Does the woman have the right to abdicate her responsibilities by placing the child for adoption? (in my country the answer is yes)...

John, I was wondering if Iolaus was a woman. The name is Greek for "praise Io", Io was passionately loved by Zeus, and changed into an heifer so that she might escape Hera's jealousy. The name was chosen for what I thought a most beautiful and poignant line in literature. I was browsing ar...