Posts by tetrapod.sapien

ha ha ha! terry's an anti tat lobby group all unto himself! .... man it cracks me up how seriously you take everything. well, i guess life is SERIOUS business. ha ha!

tetra

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WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT......???????

by Terry in

what the hell is the point......?.

1.undeserved kindness.

ask yourself why you don't deserve kindness.

tetrapod.sapien

God talk makes idiots of us all.

God-talk? hey man, you're the one who brought it up....

There have always been only two theories.

only two hey? ok.

anitar,

It's hard to explain in words what they believed, but suffice it to say that it might be superior to our modern way of life.

big-up amen bro!

tetra

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cough it's my bday

by lola28 in

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yay, it's my birthday today i'm a whole 23 years old!.

lola.

tetrapod.sapien

happy birthday lola! do you have anything planned?

tetra

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Sitting Here Crying

by Undecided in

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just head that my grandson has a bad kind of cancer.

it's hard to accept stuff like this.

i just hope they can do something to help him survive.. ken p..

I Want To Know The "Truth"

by Undecided in

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there are many people on the earth who think they have the truth.

just look at how many religions there are who think they have the truth.

how did they come to that conclusion?

yes, i totally agree, life being tragic and beautiful, all at once. but as a human, an animal attempting to "shed the meat", so to speak, i feel it is so very important to come to an acceptance of the way the world is. in a selfless and compassionate sort of way.

i can only imagine what it must be like to be in your shoes ken, at this point in time. if it's not too forward, i might just also add that the ending of our consciousness in death is just an ending of self consciousness. but everything that makes you ken, all the molecules and atoms that make everything, including your mind and consciousness, have always existed, and will always exist. and in this way, you are immortal! and perhaps in millions of years we will meet, in some partial way that we cannot explain or accept now.

until then my friend!

tetra

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Loving your religion as a way of life as much as a belief system

by Qcmbr in

before i start this isn't a preach about the lds church!

i'm sitting here at work having been called in and thus missing sunday meetings and i feel an ache to be at church.

i sat musing on this and the thought came to me that i actually love my membership of my faith, i enjoy the people (for the most part), i am fulfilled by the lifestyle, i am disappointed when we don't 'win' (in statistical battles etc.. :) and i am generally satisfied by the doctrine and apologetics (i don't feel painted into too many untenable positions and i have more than satisfactory explanations for many of life's 'unanswerables').

tetrapod.sapien

hi Q,

i used to feel like that when i was a witness. but in leaving that state of mind, i left religions and countries and clubs behind.

now, i feel more woven into the fabric of nature itself, seeing my body and the earth as a temple. and it's in these places that i feel a reverence that i never knew before. divine, by nature.

peace,

tetra

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Are YOU Basically The Same Person Now As When You Were A Witness?

by minimus in

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they say "the truth" changes people from nasty, wicked people to meek, honest hearted "ones".

now that you're out of "the truth", are you back to your old ways??

did "the truth" ever really change you??

tetrapod.sapien

hey minimus!

i don't think that anyone can go through the instense journey of freeing their minds from the borg and still be the "same person".

peace,

tetra

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I Want To Know The "Truth"

by Undecided in

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there are many people on the earth who think they have the truth.

just look at how many religions there are who think they have the truth.

how did they come to that conclusion?

tetrapod.sapien

hi ken, :)

i believe that it is fairly obvious that most religions and spiritual practices come from the same ultimate place. what i mean, is that people like gautama the "buddha", and jesus the "christ", and paul the "missonary", and walt whitman the "poet" etc etc have all experienced the same enlightenment, but their followers have grossly misinterpreted the path.

the buddha believed what the hindus believe, and that's that there are billions of paths to the same place: illumination, or Bhramic Splendor. this is another way of saying that the path to enlightenment is not found by following another holyman, but in awakening to one's own god-nature, and following that intensly personal and solitary path to the light of Being. the compulsive thought-free mind, now.

"truth" is a label, and conceptual abstraction in your mind, for something that either exists outside of it, or inside of it (same with "proof"). either way, truth will only really be found by resting in the sublime moment, free of the ego-self and the chattering mind. truth is not a mind thing. the mind just understands that it exists, is all. a teacher can help you get to this place, and understand that it exists deep in you, perhaps beyond "mind", but there must come a time when the teacher should be left behind, as the buddha and the christ would surely agree, imho. afterall, they were apostates to their own traditions anyways, hinduism and judaism respectively.

so, in other words, proof and truth, in the spiritual sense, are not going to come from following any other spiritual tradition. it's only going to come from inside You. and when that happens, those two labels won't mean much anymore.

peace,

tetra