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Trevor Salyzyn wrote:So, does "spirituality" refer to mysticism, ghosts and goblins, or philosophy?

The latter.

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:
What is the spiritual path?

The opposite of the worldly path.

What are the requirements of a spiritual life?

Willingness to do God's will.

And, above all, what is "the spirit"?

That which is not matter.

Hope this helps. :-)

[T]o have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession, an infinite concession, given to man, but it is also eternity's claim upon him. -Kierkegaard

The tragedy of the majority of men is by no means that they are weak but that they are too strong - genuinely, to be aware of God. A tree, an animal is even stronger - and therefore it is not at all aware of God; a stone is the strongest of all and therefore is completely unaware of God.

-Kierkegaard

I think this is funny: 22 May 04 Dear Roy: Here are my notes on Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy which you were kind enough to send to me: Part One Any time someone begins a treatise-establishing at excruciating length and in compound sentences-his own simple n...

The Truth is a snare: you cannot get it without being caught yourself; you cannot get the truth by catching it yourself but only by its catching you. -Kierkegaard

I live with my father and brother and get a disability pension from the provincial government.

I'm told that a girl with whom I was briefly involved in 1999 had her call answered on the air on his internet radio show in 2000, though I have not been heard it myself. I'm sure it would make for some interesting listening!

I am in agreement with Faust13's depiction of psychiatry.

One can see the mystery in the manifestations.

The mystery is perfect enlightenment, where there are no forms (manifestations).

Faust13 asked"

who on GF lives near or in Hamilton/Toronto, Ontario, Canada?

Me.

Suppressing sex from a biologically high drive human, I believe, does harm to the spirit. The word suppression indicates that the drive would still be there, active but now underground. Indeed it would only manifest in other ways. Ths is interesting because Dave Sim has recently mentioned that he h...

China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 194682.ece

Kevin Solway wrote:

Greg Shantz wrote:My father phoned the police when he couldn't deal with me.

What were you doing that your father thought he had to phone the police?

Laughing at everthing he said.

Mail Bag, Maclean's , March 12, 2007: I AM RISKING severe criticism (or worse) in telling you that your cover line should have read "How women are killing kids with caution while men stand by and do nothing." Women worry, which means they want to be sure the kids don't do anything childish...

My father phoned the police when he couldn't deal with me. They brought me to the hospital where I stayed for two days before I was discharged with the diagnosis.

I was diagnosed as having a Schizotypical Personality Disorder about four years ago. I don't think I have a personality disorder but that my personality is different from most peoples'.

sschaula wrote:the problems in the world aren't mitigated by one person finding truth and peace, but by everyone finding it.

How does everyone find it if one person doesn't?

Katy wrote: I'd be interested, Trevor (and anyone else, of course), in hearing your experiences. Were they similar to mine or not? Pretty much. I didn't take any of the medication offered, but when I was living in Guelph last year I took a dose of my housemate's zyprexa with olanzapine and found tha...

I've had a conversation about time travel at a bar as well. I said the only way it is possible is through memory.

David Quinn wrote:Or the value of philosophy.....

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I once lived over a salon with that name. Why didn't I take a photo?

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Kierkegaard, translated by Howard V. Hong Henrik Ibsen The Complete Major Prose Plays translated by Rolf Fjelde Encounters with Kierkegaard translated by Bruce Kirmmse and Virginia Laursen The Female Offender by Cesare Lombroso and Wi...

An essay in five parts by Dave Sim. Unable and/or unwilling to make the jump from baby to boy, the “mama’s boy” misinterprets cajolery — and the fact that very, very quickly in the boy stage, everyone else is getting sorted out. http://cerebusfangirl.com/artists/mb/ He now says that the last...

That is a horrible article which even aside from all the attempts to portray Kierkegaard as a failed mediocre person contains many factual errors. For example: Regine later married the successful philosopher Fritz Schlegel The man she married was not a philosopher but a civil servant. The is a philo...