I suspect we pre-select defeat in believing the condition impossible. A truer word was never spoke. I suspect we often do, by rote, never knowing the limitations we, ourselves, impose in the process.
On Dec 16, 3:19 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Slip and Gruff are missed. Watched a Cronenberg film on Jung and > Freud last night - a bit limper than Japanese knots Don. Here we are > clinging to a rock with no real idea of where we come from, > constrained by the speed of light (owing to the role of momentum in E > = mc2 and right angled triangles) and a biology that collapses in the > absence of gravity, has us slaves to genes and algorithms of an > information world that arises when chemicals get together. The > insights of science debunk myths of origin for what they are - myths - > and yet knowing the chains of illusion seems little help in getting > beyond them. We could be happier not knowing in the ignorant bliss > that waits for mass extinction not knowing it comes. Politicians can > still get away with urging us to be proud of our nations (of the > Britain and USA using concentration camps in Southern Africa and the > Philippines around 1900 - the vile murders in the Congo originating in > Berlin meetings in the 1860s that continue today in imperialism's > changed form?). We are bound by needs to make livings - something > technology has probably rendered unnecessary but we are still kept in > ideological shackles as surely as women caged in black bags. > > There has to be more than this RP. The spiritual turns with the > material and I'm not sure either has to 'come first'. England look > like winning the Test series in India. The game is now ultimately > dull with a day and a half to go and all of India praying for a > miracle. I suspect rigsy and I would be plotting sight-seeing on our > way out through the beer tent and cooling gin had she been unwise > enough to venture forth to sample the cultural delights of such old > colonialism! We'd just be hearing the Indian roar as the ball starts > to spin and the English captain is victim of a bad umpiring decision > not subject to technological review. We'd still leave - there is only > so much cricket one can force on friends. Relief from northern > hemisphere weather would be good though rigs. I sense we are waiting > for a cultural-spiritual miracle as likely as one on the flat pitch in > Nagpur. I suspect our bombardment with trivia is the problem Don. > Much as i can imagine us together in a heroic last wicket stand > thwarting the guile of India's spinners (the first ever Test was > between the USA and Canada so you have the pedigree!), I guess the > good guy is the one who changes light bulbs for his old neighbours. > What might we be without material bondage and with religion we could > believe in other than myth RP? I suspect we pre-select defeat in > believing the condition impossible. > > On Dec 15, 3:57 pm, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I know just what you mean.. Eric Clapton is exciting to listen to > > Allan > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ...and here I thought this was going to be a lesson in interesting > > > Japanese > > > knots. Maybe next time. i miss Slipdisc. > > > > I am bound by my morals. Even though i may step outside these boundaries > > > from time to time I generally feel bad about it and try to make amends as > > > i'm capable. I WANT to be the good guy. Problem with kids today(harrumph) > > > is > > > they want to be bad boyzz. It's cooler. > > > > The point on limitations is spot on. i hear a blistering solo from Eric > > > Clapton and am spell bound. BB King I can do all day. Albert too. Clapton > > > is WAAAY outta my league. I don't even try anymore. > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiNUZTyukC4 > > > > dj > > > > On Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:24:51 AM UTC-6, RP Singh wrote: > > > >> Are we bound to see what we want to see? I am bound by Nature which > > >> consists of my body and brain and other individuals and the > > >> environment surrounding me. > > > >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, andrew vecsey <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > We are bounded by our limitations and desires. In the end we can not > > >> > see > > >> > all > > >> > there is to be seen and we see mainly what we want to see. > > > >> > On Saturday, December 15, 2012 11:51:07 AM UTC+1, RP Singh wrote: > > > >> >> It is I who see , I who hear, I who reason , imagine , understand ; > > >> >> and > > >> >> again it is I who am angry , loving , jealous , and I who act and > > >> >> react. So > > >> >> where is my bondage ??? > > > >> > -- > > > > -- > > > -- > > ( > > ) > > |_D Allan > > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > > I am a Natural Airgunner - > > > Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. --
