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Music is by and large the worst kind of nostalgia. It excites the emotions, not reason. Who ever recalled a song that inspired them to think? If so, what song. Dan Rowden The worst thing about music is how people use it as an outlet or release from stress, anxiety, or sub-conscious/conscious loathi...

On a personal level, the human being seeks integration within his own body and psyche. By integration, do you mean reaching a balance between each person's male and female psyche? If this is what you mean, only the ignorant and unclear mind desires this. The sage knows there is no integration requi...

.I would like to express certain aspects of masculinity and femininity that I have come to realize over the course of experiences, basically from thinking about knowing what existence comprises of, what is it all about, and what am I all about? I am absolutely sure that I am not the first or the la...

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment Dear Group Members, I want to share my article with you. This is about the link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. The article is also directly related to Spirituality. The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causi...

The only hindrance to atheism and its pure child-likeness, is that the other 'religious' positions find it untenable, where atheism finds its opponents tenable to the last. Youngest child, but first-born! Atheism is what poetry was all along. Mature nature, the real as opposed to the real world, wi...

Hope you're okay. Sounds like life was very difficult for you when growing up. I didn't have the easiest life growing up, which I am thankful for. I don't know if I would have turned out the way I have if it weren't for some of lifes tests. Still, I know many people who have had much harder struggl...

Nick's argument goes as follows: A - Nick was a Catholic B - Nick was selfish (as he performed superficial good deeds only with the hope of entering heaven) Nick's conclusion: Catholics are selfish Actually I never performed any of the good deeds we were supposed to do, I just pretended to. Secondl...

Lol! I see. You're a genius, which is why you are exempt from needing to use reason. That is wonderful for you, although for anyone else, the question coursing through one's mind ......... "Are you then a fool or a genius?" The answer may be very challenging, for only a fool would have hi...

It's disapointing to have to ban somebody who does have some good insight on the relationship between the American people and their government, amongst other things. But when he can only preach his ideals and not have the respect to engage in some simple dialogue it starts to get real old, real quic...

Anything that fears death is conscious...fish fight the line, deer run off, birds fly anywhich way they can. Do you really think it'd be possible for a lifeform to run from death, if they didn't have consciousness? Do you think it's just reflexes? I am not that stupid that I'd assume such a thing. ...

Even if I was an oustider looking in on the situation I described I would still reach the same conclusion through observation. Either way I would still be experiencing the situation, only difference is I would have to use my imagination a little more to put myself in the boy's shoes. The fact that I...

What is higher or lower consciousness? Isn't there only one kind...one which is aware of something? So animals aren't worth anything...I'm sure you'd disagree the second I took you to a nice steakhouse and showed you the menu, telling you to pay for my dinner. Who makes the categories? You? Humans ...

What I said was straight forward and to the point. Point being, the Catholic religion breeds selfishness. I came to this conclusion through sound and clear reasoning. If you cannot comprehend how I came to this conclusion after reading my original post then I believe it is your own reasoning you sho...

Chadwick, you focus too much on the words I use instead of the meaning behind them. I'm speaking of karma, or the saying I choose to use: We reap what we sow.

Whilst I have little time for what America has become, there's something self-evidently ridiculous about promoting a world where people shoot each other to resolve problems. One might argue that Ray is being metaphoric when he says that, but my intuition tells me that he isn't. Dan Rowden I think R...

Well said Ray, it's just too bad that people wont realize this until the country is in shambles. Then what will they do? There wont be a new world for them to flee to and create a "New America". When the USA was founded the idea was right, but there are not enough wise men in the world to...

Another thing Ray, listen to Dan's advice when it comes to posting on this message board. I would like to see more interactive dialouge between you, myself, and others on this forum without all the bullshit. As long as the questions are of good nature, not about the side-tracking discussions that ot...

Well said Ray, it's just too bad that people wont realize this until the country is in shambles. Then what will they do? There wont be a new world for them to flee to and create a "New America". When the USA was founded the idea was right, but there are not enough wise men in the world to ...

Opinionated twaddle hardly worthy of a philosophy forum. Having not been raised a Catholic, some things are more logical and easier to see. Perhaps you do need to experience bunny love as the panacea to the reductionist mindset expressed in your post. How does not being raised a Catholic make thing...

Sschaula, Consciousness is capable of higher consciousness, to answer your first question. As far as your second question, we wouldn't be worth much because we could be lumped into the same category as all the other animals on this planet without argument. At least no argument that would give us a h...

I grew up in a Catholic family. I performed all my sacraments as a child. baptism, reonciliation, communion, and confirmation. It was when I was 14 years old, going through the process of confirmation, that I felt as though I was decieving myself. Confirmation is basically confirming, as an independ...

Nick, Do you favor banning me, and if so, based on what? Have I not asked Ray any legitimate questions? I'm simply wondering what makes your questions any more valid than mine. My opinion on the banishment of certain people is none of your concern. I do not have the ability, nor do I have any influ...

rk: Truth can only be seen. It cannot be arrived at through intellectual thought. Thought must end before the Truth-action begins. I tell you what I see. You tell me what you see. Through serious dialogue together such spiritual sight becomes refined. In a world where people are bombarded with igno...

I think some of you are misunderstanding my post. The unique situation I'm speaking of has no emotion involved. It has nothing to do with the actual song or the words contained in it. My post is simply about the connection it provides to past mind-states of lower consciousness and how it reminds me ...

rk: Nick. I belong to nor organizations, political or religious. I have no following. I seek no following. I live in retirement with my wife of 48 years, Anita You have contradicted yourself in this statement. You say you belong to no institution, but then you go on to say you have a wife. This con...