We're still feeling the effects of the virus too, the symptoms change every couple of days and the time drags on. I'v spent the last three weekends in bed trying to get over it. Not at all good. Makes me wonder of the purpose. And I realize there isn't always a purpose necessary. I can still work, but not much else. A real drag. All my best to you and Sue, Neil. Hope the recovery is getting better across the pond.
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 12:23:53 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > I do feel a bit like I'm doing the two-step - though also had the dancing > disability (odd given I was quick on my feet). Grandson has walked dogs. > > My guess on the different material reality.is it would need quite heavy > 'policing' in the first place. The key issue is the move from oligarchy > without lapse to other forms of misrule. One can think of what would > happen on the collapse of the current US military umbrella to get some > ideas on the problems. We shy away from what societies that put women in > black bags would do and the extent already that our morality hangs on being > able to send the boys round. Currently we: > 1. avoid discussion of real problems > 2. are daunted by what such discussion leads to > 3. fiddle while Rome burns in unreal scholastic traps like economics as > though power doesn't matter > 4. speak in ideological riddles > > I believe most of us actually aren't switched on genetically for different > material living. > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 16:36:11 UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> I understand. . The under the weather (flu) and its accompanying green >> apple Johnny two is not among my favorite time.. hmm wonder if the problem >> is that I am not a good dancer.. I hope that the sunshine and pleasent >> times return quickly.. >> >> I do agree we need a different material reality.. (my mind just seemed >> to light up) . Wonder what a different material reality could be? A >> totally different perspective.. >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 3:50 PM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Wells >> >> Have to like your attitude to these 'chings' mate. I'm wandering around >> being ill at the moment (sick and diarrhoea) and cleaning up after myself. >> Too unpleasant to discuss, though oddly not feeling ill. Have requisite >> meds and am eating well. Zak a bit poorly too, but has perked up after the >> remains of the weekend ham, shared with Max and El Catto. Down to my old >> playing weight, which makes me wonder where all the muscle went - so much >> easier to lose than put on it seems. Will have a real go at losing another >> stone of fat. Trousers don't fit and another two notches needed in belt. >> >> My long view is we need another material reality first. I've never been >> marxist other than in method (called social epistemology these days) - >> thinking the guy racist and the conclusion of some pretty vile German >> thinking that concludes in Freud and Heidegger. The crux for me is that we >> have a world that needs an economy and instead have economics as war by >> other means. One might, for instance, think a couple of old lumps like us >> would just get in the way in Nepal, but we could surely help with the >> quartermastering - and think on from this statement to what our unemployed >> young could be doing and learning. We should be looking to such rather >> than GDP figures and the pathetic and skewed 'news' in front of us. I was >> just chatting to Rigsy for half-an-hour with the television on and the flow >> of crud from the television and some stupid Skype prostitution ads >> (Microsoft's new revenue line?) was dire. Leadership and how to get rid of >> it in our lives seems the problem to me. There is 'another well'. >> >> On Monday, 27 April 2015 18:59:52 UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: >>> >>> Da ka ching has its problems. . Present ideas on time relate to >>> snapshots of perspective or as you see thing or your perspective. . If >>> there is nothing beyond death then your ka ching theory is great.. if >>> there is something beyond death all that you can take with you across the >>> life/death barrier is the perspective one develops living their life.. >>> because ka ching is a very material perspective the question becomes how >>> does one transfer the material ka ching into a different non material >>> reality or even into a totally different material reality? >>> >>> >>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Don Johnson <[email protected]> >>> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 5:56 AM >>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Wells >>> >>> Yeah. Gotta have a little Ka-ching to survive in this world. A lot of >>> Ka-ching is preferable. I'll take water over Ka-ching but definately take >>> Ka-ching over spiritual nourishment. I can buy plenty of that with lots of >>> Ka-ching. IfyouknowwhatImean. >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 3:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> THE WELL >>>> Return to the well of goodness. >>>> >>>> No community can survive without a dependable source of pure water. In >>>> a similar way, human beings cannot survive without a reliable source of >>>> spiritual nourishment. In fact, we need two wells: an external source of >>>> guidance, such as the I Ching, and an internal source of guidance, which >>>> must be our own good character. This hexagram comes to encourage you to >>>> concentrate on developing, purifying, and utilizing your two "wells." >>>> >>>> Notice the name of this hexagram: "Ching/The Well." The I Ching has >>>> survived in countless civilizations for thousands of years for a simple >>>> reason: it is an inexhaustible source of spiritual nourishment. It >>>> provides >>>> us with the fundamental building blocks of a successful life. If you >>>> approach it sincerely, without mistrust or frivolity, it will guide you >>>> through every difficult hour with unimpeachable wisdom. If you muddy the >>>> well, however, by doubting the I Ching or by placing your ego desires >>>> above >>>> the counsel it gives you, you impede your own progress. >>>> >>>> The purest of external wells, the I Ching is also an invaluable aid in >>>> developing and cleansing the internal well of your own good character. It >>>> will, if you are sincere, reveal to you the fundamental issues of your >>>> life, and it will instill in you the values necessary to successfully >>>> negotiate those issues. >>>> >>>> The hexagram Ching comes to encourage you not to muddy the well of your >>>> good character in any way now. In relating to others, look beyond any >>>> external faults of "muddiness" and acknowledge the clear well that exists >>>> somewhere inside them. No person is without this, and by speaking to it >>>> you >>>> strengthen it. If you will follow these counsels, you will meet with a >>>> true >>>> and lasting success in life. >>>> >>>> FIRST LINE >>>> If you throw away proper principles, the well is muddied and no one can >>>> be nourished. Be patient with others and concentrate on correct behavior. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> --- >>>> 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. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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