Yep, thanks for noticing and appreciating this. I have been working at developing this Cartesian graphing of mysticism as a thesis for a while as an aid in helping those people who are reserved or even flat out skeptical about spirituality to be better able to place mysticism and mystics within the histories of different spiritual/religious movements. -Buck
fleetwood_macncheese writes: "horsing around" - lol Yes, agreed. A very grounded approach to your reading methodology - I really loved reading the description, and the way it was so cleanly put together - brilliant, really. I am a total engineering freak, with a perennial billboard in my head, reading, "How does it work?!" - for anything -- from personal interaction, lasers, growth of consciousness, internal combustion engines, tides and surf, microwave ovens, music, dog food bag fill machines, all of it. Buck writing: More inclusively, I feel we would be nothing here on FFL without some of the lower scaled of illumination by example of some of these writers posting here. Theirs is also an important dissonance to the higher plane of spiritual discussion that can go on here. I always appreciate reading Turqb and that ignorant guy from South Carolina that way too. I find in Parsing the different writers posting on FFL as a practicality towards figuring out who to read and what to spend time on reading I tend to use the tool of a paired Cartesian graph to place people on and then read according to my time and interests as people are placed on the graph. For instance, on the vertical axis I quickly scale a writer based on their posting history from a low of aggravated narcissistic disorderliness, to just the generally narcissistic, to the middle ground of the ignorant and more common psychology of the ordinary waking state, to the spiritually awakened or illumined, to the more saintly in capacity of spiritual transformation. That is on the vertical axis, low to high. On a horizontal I tend to then use a scale of relative altruistic communalism of someone[someone's use of or participation in groups] from zero or individualistic to large organizational participation. That sets people relatively nicely apart in a useful way as to where they are coming from. It provides an efficiency to sorting the list. There tend to be some people who I read all the time and some who I do not read hardly at all. Parsing using this tool becomes fun and useful for sussing writers out and placing them in to pigeon holes. In Love, -Buck, out Standing in his Field horsing around today.. https://sites.google.com/site/buckbrannamanhorseridingnotes/ https://sites.google.com/site/buckbrannamanhorseridingnotes/ Fleetwood Writes: It has been rather fun, over the last couple of days, noticing that Barry seized upon my request to go away, and having fun with him, since. Unfortunately, at his expense. I say "unfortunately", because Barry does something that many with a weak mind, indulge in. If Barry disagrees with someone, all logic flies out the window, and his primary reaction, as someone attached to his actions (aka waking state), is emotional. He repeats insults, cherry-picks ways to discredit, and now, as we have humorously seen, even falls for my satire. Nothing in reserve. No data to back up anything, except the same crusty anecdotes that he has been trotting out, for the past 20 years. He just barfs it all out there, and thinks, "well I bloody well showed them!". As you can see, with the emotionally charged, blunderbuss approach, he misses the target, more often than not. So, having made himself look the fool, he then keeps doubling down, looking more and more ridiculous. My playful request for him to, "Please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, go away", is much more for his benefit, than mine. I'd personally like to see him retain a shred of dignity, and take a few months off. Awoelflebater writes: The internet and TV are his life, Mac. He has nowhere else to go. Because his life is a desert he must try and make sure everyone else suffers along with him. Not that what he rants about, whether it be some insanely off-the-mark theory about Judy and Robin's private life or your enlightenment, bears any resemblance to truth or reality but he likes to believe it does. And it is true, he needs to go away simply to save himself from himself but there is no shred left of dignity or credibility for him here anyway at this point and because he has no other life he will remain until this place is no more. His exposure is complete. They is nothing else of bawee to know about. His crude and telling remarks about Judy and Robin couldn't possibly have made anyone reading them feel anything but embarrassed for bawee. He's pretty much a freak show.
