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Aha! We have understanding! You are asking me those questions expecting answers when those are the questions I'm asking myself for which I don't have answers! If I had the answers, I'd supply them gladly; I'd give them away on street corners. But I'm a simple, flawed, barely crawling Irene...

I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. However, I notice that if I start wondering aloud about such things, that's the immediate reaction (thank you for providing it, I mean it, honestly, it illustrates what I was trying to put into words). And no, I'm not saying all things work in...

Good morning Mr. Burns and other readers of this thread (if there are any remaining)! Putting aside, for the moment, the discussion of fear, my personal explorations have been moving along at a steady clip, and here's where I'm at (sometimes, Mr. Burns, I wonder if you are just waiting for me...

How about this one, Mr. Burns: Beethoven was Lennon and Mozart was McCartney? Nah...Beethoven was still Dylan! :cool:

I feel like I'm half a something are we Martin & Lewis, Mr. Burns, or Ben Affleck & Matt Damon? And if we are, which is which? Aha! Dear Crystal, now you are getting somewhere....now you approach the oneness which I refuse to give a name to, but consider -- if you stop imposing the past on...

I've been keeping journals at various points throughout my life, but about three or four years ago, I began keeping one very regularly. I've found, however, that it can be a double-edge sword. Sometimes, it gives you a place to contain some of the clutter that keeps my mind from focusing on a...

I'm not sure how far this thread has gone askew, but pressing on... A funny thing I noticed (am I the only one?) is, seeing the logic of releasing fear, the self senses that being free of fear will leave a void. So right at the brink of the precipice, thought clammers to hold onto fear or...

I'm just going to throw this into the discussion because this is where I am in my reading, and people can respond or not. "Can you watch fear without an conclusion, without any interference of the knowledge you have accumulated about it? If you cannot, then what you are watching is the past...

You are probably thinking of that awful piece of garbage called "Reign of Fire." I can understand your trepidation. Get some sleep. :)

We in LA asked that each and every time he was at the foul line in the play offs. :D Now that's he's gone from LA, watch him achieve it. :D Apologies for my silence in this thread the last few days, but where I am isn't a place I can put into words. I'm physically in the same space I've...

So, Mr. Burns, Did you see the thing on dragons on Animal Planet yesterday? You know how I am about television -- but dragons rock! My little one wants one. Hell! I want one! I could be like that chick in "Heavy Metal" riding around in skimpy leather outfits to a Leonard Bernstein...

Mr. Burns, Watched "Bowling for Columbine" again last night (it was on Sundance Channel) -- still makes me want to move! Sure, Mr. Moore plays fast and loose with the facts in order to tell the story he wants to tell, but his essential thought in this film -- Americans are a people who live...

So Mr. Burns, now that you've turned our little thread schizophrenic, where am I to talk to you? You know I'm not an "on-topic" kinda gal. On either thread it is inevitable that I will meander. I think I shall talk to you here, and limit myself to simply responding to the other thread. But...

Ooh! I like this, Mr. Burns.

If not thought, thought being static, past, dead -- then there is learning, which is dynamic, moving, renewing itself. Say, for instance, you are a scientist studying a species completely new to you -- something you've never experienced before. Do you watch it one day and then spend the rest...

A slight interjection here. Kids, a nervous breakdown is a thing that happened to me. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of it. Some of you know I've written about some of the most private episodes of my life -- so you know that I'm not uncomfortable discussing "private" things. If I had some...

A passage from "Freedom from the Known" to provide clarification: "Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare -- something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state -- something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by...

At this point in time my end of the conversation has tried to focus on the process of thinking. That's where I am right now. It's what I'm calling, and everyone please excuse the R-rated language -- I know what a bugaboo that is to folks here, the "Shut the **** Up Approach." It's ties...

No underlying assumptions. No judgements. No enlightenment. Just a discussion. No. If your life is working for you, or someone else's life is working for them. That's great. We aren't talking about "good," "bad" or "better." We are talking about thought, the process of thought, and...

I think Dirty Harry, as a San Francisco cop, was also a tool of The Man. The cool whistle sound was from "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." Still one of the most effective pieces of film music ever created. And all of this is just serving to take my mind of the overwhelming sense of "Aryan...