The Anglican Church is expressing the view that we are alienated from politics and have lost the ability to open up the big questions and real concerns. A proper, grown up debate is called for on the kind of country we want to be and the kingdom of God. We are in danger of becoming a nation of strangers. This is fine, yet not very constructive on what we need to do.
On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 3:21:53 PM UTC, archytas wrote: > > It's undoubtedly dire Allan. It used to be written about in terms of the > creation of docile bodies and govern-mentality or governing the soul. The > external mirrors make reality hard to grasp until it comes calling and you > find your real problems made invisible in the bright reflections. We can't > even put up actual alternatives without them being sucked into the 'twirly > spirals' and the corporate-political money system that is resistant to all > alternatives. > > On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 9:01:15 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> There is nothing in the mirror to see. When you look in a glass >> reflecting mirror what you see is not a reflection of what is standing in >> front of the mirror, rather the judgement hammered home by finally crafted >> commercials designed tell you what you are seeing. Who your soul is has >> little or nothing with the reflection in a piece of glass or a selfie.. >> A more accurate reflection of who we are can be seen online in programs >> like Google+ or Facebook or twitter. Each person's social page are a >> reflection of who they are. Look at the mirror of the news you see the true >> reflection of our society. The emphasis on killing and financial greed.. >> Where is the acts of kindness? I was raised in a christian oriented >> society where is this being reflected? >> What I see is people hiding behind corparate skirts thinking they are >> protected. Behind these skirts they violate the morality they claim to >> have. I look at the situation in Greece the question comes to mind are the >> parties involved interested in helping the people of Greece or protecting >> their gold.. Oh I forgot they are the high priests of the Golden Calf >> Cult. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 3:02 AM >> Subject: Mind's Eye issues on the non-reflecting mirror >> >> Allan mentioned that there might be nothing in the mirror to see. >> Self-recognition in this sense has long been thought specifically human, >> though chimps can do it. In many ways we live in a smoke and mirror >> society of personal image without depth. Advertising seems a classic >> example. Who would want to be an image in this wider mirror? Gabby said a >> little on the individual sums of history that make the present - very >> Feynman in my reading. No one is stronger than the man who can harness his >> emotion and his past - very military terminology leading to singing one's >> own death song and dying like a hero. We have our own fundamentalist >> nonsense. Good self knowledge is easily perverted to Attic tragedy. This >> is presumably not what Gabby meant, yet the way most of our literature has >> gone, along with the bubbles of soap. There are many mirrors in our >> society that do not reflect to direct perception. >> >> Mirrors, in a wider scientific sense, collect the signal in the noise. >> Sometimes the noise is the signal. Society seems to have mirrors >> collecting information and sending out something completely other than >> data, a form of extra-somatic mind control. There may be good reasons not >> to see oneself reflected in this. Tin foil hats don't seem to help. The >> skin reflected in the real mirror is more of a block to any real image of >> what we are. We reflect what is being decided outside self, rather than >> form internal identity in the sense of subjectivity. The machine is >> already with us. Consciousness in important ways is no longer human, but >> more like an extra-somatic hall of mirrors. >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
