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And the question or comment about 'great disappointments' is a good one (that which motivates an oppositional stance), but I have expressed it so many times. If your question is legitimate, and it probably isn't, there are many forces driving people apart, atomizing them, dividing them. I sometimes ...

The psychological angle is perhaps too easy, if also tempting. What I do in my thinking and writing is an extension of 'personalism' as a social and 'spiritual' (but also political) trend. I think it is peculiarly American and extends from people like Whitman. On the American scene, like it or not, ...

That was just a vain wank, Diebert. You succeed in developing your tricks to smother the possibility of genuineness but tart it up with a pseudo-intellectual filler. I suppose this comes about because you too, in your way, cannot find your way to an authenticity in your own spiritual life. What is l...

From a poem by Matthew Arnold, 'Dover Beach', 1867. "Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are...

You are a master, in your own studied and perfected way, of bringing your insults to bear, old chum. Among so many good qualities, this is the quality that sticks out when I think about you. [That 'by the way'.] You will avoid everything [relevant] to then harp on something else, some detail . I wan...

I knew that you would respond here while you would skip entirely my other, far more interesting (and relevant) post to you. It is typical of you. I even asked you a while back to spell out what it is that bothers you so much about my stance. You chose silence. So, I'll ask again... What bothers you ...

Cathy wrote : "And who is the bigger fool, one who doesn't realize he has the master key, or one who does but refuses to use it." This is a beautiful rhetorical question that requires---nay, begs!---your thorough, well-though out, eloquent answer . Take a minute, a day or a year to flesh ...

"Only by repetition does the pupil make the material his own". __________________________________________________ "Because they have no-where else to turn". (That is, within the limits that have been imposed on them and/or the limits they impose on themselves). But it is always ...

Tomas wrote: "The world already ended, but the philosophers hushed it up."

Successful sweatlodge and medicine session, I take it? ;-)

What do you think I am, Cathy, your fucking marionette? You ask questions and I answer? I have been 'answering' [that is to say attempting to talk about and define] the 'serious question' in all my posts for quite a few years now. Do you have the dexterity to 'operate' a Dancing Donkey ? "Geniu...

Or are you telling me you know exactly what people need and require to be well? Is this the question for you, Cathy? Is this how you would phrase it? If not, what IS the central question, for you? The very questions you ask, dear one, is one of the reasons why 'spankings' are required: instead of d...

I am suggesting something far more general and far more troubling: the ubiquity of our tendency to deceive ourselves. Especially when we are dealing on these grand questions about what people need and require to be well. While I.agree that David and Gang desire to see themselves as part of a 'cure' ...

Somehow, I always come up smelling like a rose, and though it may only be my aftershave, I am open to a session of hellfire critique of my devilish ways. Since I misuneestood Guurb that indicates some paranoia, or is it guilt? ;-) Though fully entranced.by my general wonderfulosity, I have to admit ...

Yes and this is where the 'mythology of rebirth' (psychological, emotional, spiritual, intellectual) has relevance. Also, where the 'deliberate misreadings' and the 'violent self-appropriations of doctrines' kicks in. In this sense, boys and girls, GF is like an institution that must grow, continue ...

Oh. Whew! I'm off the hook. Too many mirrors on my walls I guess...

I can see why you misunderstood my post, it was deliberately ambiguous. More than anything, it began as a commentary on David's unconscious hypocricy in his condemnation of you. What David said perfectly describes David, who cannot see himself. But then I extended it by use of the 'we'. We all have ...

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"Because they have no-where else to turn". (That is, within the limits that have been imposed on them and/or the limits they impose on themselves). But it is always possible to break the cycle. Yet 'arrogance' keeps us confined. We turn the lock ourselves. "You can't get through to su...

Diebert writes : "But do we really want to go into that?" I brought up Eliade as one who explored all the inner dimensions of the content of religious myths. I personally believe there is a link between the 'death' of a whole [mistaken, erroneous, petering out] energy-spring for organizin...

Diebert writes : "So you are saying you are listening to God but not understanding what he's trying to say? But you did divine a "beckoning" of course so it's not that incomprehensible." My views on things, naturally, have been carved out of my own experiences. Having had a fair...

And what of Kevin's response?

I would put it almost oppositely: he 'wanted' (predicted, preached) the death of an all-so-abstract transcendent god---who is born from such an idea as The All--- in favor of a radical immanence (your 'virility' I am supposing). "That we find no God---either in history or in nature or behind na...

My feeling, David, is that you are locked into a description-system that often just sounds like a repeat of classical Buddhism. Buddhism is simply not concerned with anything beyond what is needful to live a moral life and to cease pain and suffering, insofar as that is possible. It is not 'designed...

We do not have a clear sense of What 'god' is and far less what obedience might mean. In some way, the use of the term 'god' is little more than an historical curiosity. We have lost the capacity to define 'him'. So, we are left bathed in the waters of a world where god has become absent. Or, all co...

But it is the very place that is the 'slave driver', the prison, and the prison-keeper. It changes things if we see ourselves as having chosen our own condition. Other possibilities (are said to) exist,.and we can choose them, but the process of making that change takes (it is said) a whole series o...