Posts by Islander
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Only if they’re agin it Chris!
(And, for quite a long time within ANZ, they have been, one way or the other…)To wit - prohibition, SPUC, etc.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to nzlemming,
Would someone please up Dexter’s meds?
Aw. no - it was inventive creative selective adjective-rich eerrrm, response.
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hebe,
Endless.
My shroomhead friend – who I havent heard from for nearly 5 years*- says “You cant slice what’s in a (scientific name deleted so as not to catch the eye of authoritays) because it’s a hologram.”
* He has always said that his friends would know when he died. So I am not worried. I just havent heard from him.
Just incidentally, I dont use shroom hallucinogens: I think they are very powerful, and not to be played with. There is quite a bit of good archaeological evidence that they were being used by humans (Homo sap.sap, and, controversially, H. neanderthalis) over 60,000 years ago… -
Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Steve Barnes,
That which is nothing else.
Man, the pun & the wordplay! Like it- but-
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Sacha,
For me Sacha (and not presuming to reply for Hebe!) it seems for a very long time to have been perceived as *part* of ourselves...
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hebe,
But why must the word be defined?
Because it has been, differently, in numerous tomes...which why I added the word 'adequately' - because it cant be...
And one person's 'spiritual' is another person's nebulosity - and that, for me, to me, is good.But - because the word has been hijacked and fitted into a religious straitjacket,
I think we all lose out...hey! I have a quiet gentle much-older-than-me friend who worships certain kinds of shrooms. They repay his love & esteem. He calls them 'spiritual essences' and for him, I'm sure they are...And Hebe - that last paragraph of your's?
Absolutely how I felt - thank you! -
Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hebe,
For me, I feel no need for religion, but tapping into spirituality is essential.
Now that, Hebe, is where I have huge difficulty.
-“spirit”/“spirituality” are virtually impossible to define in a way that accounts for all variants.
When I say, I feel a deep connection with certain birds and their calls, I am talking about delight, long experience, & knowledge. If someone tells me “O you have a spiritual connection with te mea te mea te mea” I snarl disagreement.
When a paticular bird turns up to call, outside usual territory, I can only enjoy it, and know I dont know enough about it’s ranges and motivations. To call it “spiritual guardian’ as 2 people unwisely have done, is to belittle the bird.
I defy *anyone* to adequately define ‘spirit’ or ‘spirituality.’
They are nonce words and have no generality of meaning: any diffuse meaning changes further with each person’s experience (whether such person calls it ‘spiritual’ or not-) -
Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Ross Mason,
Heh!
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Chris Waugh,
There are those who reach the current limit of their knowledge and who decide that whatever currently lies beyond that is a matter of faith to be updated as new evidence and knowledge arises.
Yes.
I still dont think they should have tax breaks... -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Chris Waugh,
O brillant photo!
Along with Kuan Yin, I've always - appreciated her...