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  1. Posted · Edited by The Dude

    @botanicalSEEKER, I found it to be quite an insightful garble. If you don't see it the same way, good for you, you don't need to be insulting... maybe you do, your loss.

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    I heard that the past tense of "to hear" is actually spelled "heard", not "herd" -if not communicating clearly is what we're meant to be critical of. About that, if your reception is fuzzy try re-tuning your receiver first instead of just blaming the signal.

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    I find Schreiber's constant declaration of a perennial religion/spirituality (the idea that all paths lead to the same destination) extremely imperialistic and neo-colonial. There are many diverse religious ultimates that sit in stark contridiction to each other, for example, from theistic theophany to non-dual emptiness. Do all roads really led to the toad road???

    When he proclaims that 'all paths lead to the same destination' the worlds cultural and spiritual diversity is rubbished in the name of prophetic rhetoric and the mobilisation of his own movemet. A common political move to enlist believers.

    I do enjoy a good story teller who can weave the imaginal and causual worlds, but when the underlying ethics are corrupt, I do fear for the followers.

     

    You know some big words, I'm guessing I know what theistic theophany may be, and I know that non-dual emptiness is a hard concept to grasp :lol:

    I'd say that the conclusion that all paths lead to Rome is one made by many of us, for in the transcendent state it seems there can be nothing beyond 'beyond-ness', the eternal void and the ephemeral forms it creates are integrally the same.

    It seems that that particular state is the universal oneness that we as questioning individuals dissolve into when the questioner becomes the question, so although different formalised beliefs may paint different pictures of their path there and what "there" is exactly, once any of us get there there is no point of differentiation to discuss being there, one can only discuss the path to get there in it's myriad forms.

    The worlds diversity is emanating from singularity, it is out of singularity that one creates multiplicity. Out of [n]one there are many, out of nothing there is everything. Ying/Yang, paradox, chaos theory, fractal realities, the holographic principle. It is through diversity that we catch a glimpse (or blinding light) of unity.

    Do we observe the continous or the discrete. The forest or the trees. ...Or non dual reality which is unexplainable as there is no counterpart to explain it to, nor do the explaining.

    .......

    The US supreme court recently agreed that Mr Dan Winter is in fact a crpto-tyrannical alien from the planet Arcturus sent to earth to manipulate and mutilate young New-Age entheogenic minds.

     

    :lol:

  9. Posted · Edited by The Dude

    maybe that's we we both chose to go. i don't feel there is anything overly special/important about me or my life.

     

    For me personally, my life is the most amazing/special/important thing i have ever experienced. That's the little i. Although once this vessel is over and done with I will get back on the spaceship to live out some more virtual realities.

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    Plant matter as carrier material can be charged as the weight of the drug itself(from memory)

    Who ever said our laws make sense? ...I wonder if that means a 1 litre of wine is equal to 1 litre of ethanol under the law, I've heard that one has serious health problems too!

    What are the limits on personal ethanol possession?

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    Immortals tend to have different ethical values. Think of mythical gods and whatnot.. I guess they're all allegories so the function of the stories are more important than the ethics of the characters, still, transcending life and death the dynamics of Eros and thanatos on our behaviour simply would not exist. Perhaps with their advanced ethics in their perspective of immortality the genocide of millions may be akin to picking a flower off a plant.. it will regrow anyway. And here we go again on the relativism of ethics.

    Besides, who am I if not the experiences I've had and the connections I've made in my life, If I were to become as advanced as they I likely wouldn't even be able to relate to my own memories, them being so relatively primitive (like remembering childhood maybe) ... mmmm this is a good question, Is getting me thinking metaphorically, maybe these aliens are inter-dimensional obstetricians helping us through the birth canal into a new being beyond the womb of the matrix.

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    And why exactly does anyone feel uneasy not knowing the identity of someone walking across the street who they probably don't know or care about knowing anyway?

    People also get paranoid when other ethnicities talk in their language. That it's their language and that's how they talk doesn't factor into the equation, if they're talking in my vicinity and I don't understand them it must be about me... I'm paranoid so it's all about me!

    I don't know hardly any of the people I'm talking to here in person... maybe they're all out to get me, goddamn anonymity!

  20. Posted · Edited by The Dude

    Meh... Ebay is about charging whatever you feel like knowing someone will think it's worth it. Probably better value for money then that pickled onion airship (a pickled onion on a pencil) somebody was selling on Ebay.

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    Oh for sure, the chemists spirit is instilled in their product; the spirit of a plant is instilled in their product too, I think that was the whole point that synthetic cannibinoids no longer carry the spirit of the plant regardless of similarity (even if you could synthetically create an exact replica of the cannibinoid profile of a certain strain, it will be derived without the plant spirits agency; it will be merely an imitation).

    Also, I'm a bit new to alchemy but it is my understanding that although they use chemistry and metallurgy (they also employ art and sculpture and architecture and potentially all other forms of expression), the transformation or distillation of the essence or seed of the material (being immaterial) is as much a metaphor for personal transformation or personal purification -from base metals to the magical luster of gold- as it is any kind of physical process; I think it is the union of this duality that alchemists strive for, where spiritual matters are transformed via material means and where spiritual means have an affect on matter.

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