The older i get the longer it takes to recover. And they run in cycles. . Unfortunately medication is only sliwing them and cutting severity. But that is better than raw.. The poery is only madness running thu my head hooe it is not to crazy
تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others -----Original Message----- From: archytas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Imagine That A head full of soap opera, nightmare indeed. On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 6:45:07 PM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: > > I have a dislike for episodes. . One thing is they are not gòd for clarity > of thought.. but one good thing it was lite. Problem is I have been > having them for msy many years even befor I came to Europe.. i always > thought of them as severe nightmares. > It is good to know . . . I think.. > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: archytas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 4:32 PM > Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Imagine That > > Despite imagination Allan, I have never been able to regard meeting a > bloke as a date. The way round this seems to be not dating in order to be > gender balanced. Never liked the performances anyway. Tired today, i that > 'after 'flu' way. Looking forward to dog walk being less of a trudge and > no throbbing pains in my left eye and head. Instructions to buy Ginger > Wine for hot toddies. > > I agree all that Molly and it all expands into several books - though > really one can only create the conditions for a trail every so often. This > would be worth talking through, though most spirits are too weak to try. > > I'll try again if Max leaves me any energy and the toddies don't get too > overwhelming. May just let them. Much of what needs saying is not in the > public domain, which is odd given how easy much of it is. > > On Friday, 3 April 2015 12:33:14 UTC+1, Molly wrote: >> >> I will take my carbon dating as a compliment as I think the age of reason >> our downfall. We only seemed to have an inkling about how our extension >> through technology would bring us back through it where reasonable >> paradigms don't work for us, and as close as we can get to a working model >> is again mystic. Not to say reason is thrown aside. It must be integrated >> and given its mechanical function so we can move into something greater, >> having been hijacked for too long and used in the power and control games. >> We are more than mental, but are beaten with it until we give it all up to >> merely survive, our self image blown to smithereens >> >> For too long, no one recognized the magician of the beautiful, those that >> move naturally and leave beauty in their wake. We've lost our ability to >> recognize beauty, having been drenched in mundane by deteriorating culture >> and technology. But something has come of it. And there are those among us >> that move in action of the divine principle within, and those among us that >> can recognize the beauty that surrounds them and envelops us. If we can let >> go of the need to know why, and move along in this action, we can be taken >> where paradigms are no longer necessary. I am not sure if a group can be >> carried along, or if we, moving in action of the divine principle within, >> move with the world as it is in perfection, accepting the imperfection as >> inherent to the divine principle, knowing the imperfection is changing into >> perfection through the action. Maybe its always been like this. Maybe it >> always will be. >> >> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 5:52:32 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: >>> >>> I had a nice afternoon. Turned a bar in Manchester into an old-style >>> tavern with folk singing and a free barrel of Old Peculiar. The themes >>> were about returning to Greek and Medieval notions of rationality, which >>> have long struck me as in need of a few beers to get into. Debate went so >>> well I hardly needed to say anything. >>> >>> The Greeks were all over the place around the relevant time, in Italy >>> and around the Med. This was the time of the of what Hans Joas dubbed >>> "cosmic religion" of late Antiquity, a fusion of Greek cosmological >>> speculation. Babylonian astrology, Egyptian theology, Jewish thought and >>> popular magic. There were many attempts to translate this into political >>> constitutions. Most of this was put to the Roman sword, and intellectuals >>> became mystic, aspiring to find new ways to transcend earthly systems >>> entirely, rising through planetary spheres, purging themselves of >>> materiality to pure reason - that human reason that is simply the action of >>> a divine principle within us. Rationality here becomes beyond spiritual to >>> the mystical achievement of union with he divine. In the absence of Molly, >>> we did the internal warming of Old Peculiar and some Lancashire Folk. >>> >>> So why look to the past like this? The simple answer is that our >>> present is still full of it. >>> >>> The second area we looked at once the beer was going down was the >>> Medieval. You need to be half-cut to take what went on then. One of the >>> strongest features of this time concerns just how humans consider >>> themselves superior and different to animals. We are still taught this >>> crap as kids - 'it's rationality stupid'. Cue some cute pictures of >>> animals problem solving and being very rational (lions hunting at night is >>> a real killer). And a run out for Allan's soul, with a slight twist. What >>> separates humans and animals is that humans can imagine they possess an >>> immortal soul. If the soul is the seat of reason, to say humans are in >>> possession of one is to say we are rational creatures. >>> >>> You need the top shelf now, as these forms of religiosity are the basis >>> of bureaucracy and rationality. Descartes becomes spiritual and mystic. >>> The question, of course, is whether we can escape. It's bank holiday here >>> on Friday. This brings discussion of the archaeology of "heroic societies" >>> other than just the Attic tragedy kind, as engines of the self-aggrandising >>> story. >>> >>> By the end (people fly home Tuesday) we hope to be able to talk new >>> economic, perhaps find some partnerships to write something different - or >>> not write and think of different things to do. After a couple of pints, I >>> was imagining dating Molly and Allan in about 500 BC to 1500 AD. >>> >> -- > > --- > 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. -- --- 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.
