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  flower are you okay?

  by dungbeetle in

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  as i was going through posts today i noticed these.... >sure wish i could have been one of those rebellious youths that went to college anyway.

  life is impossible now thanks to those assholes.<.

  >then you end up getting cards like this and my big gift was my new louis vitton service bag of course.

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  Yes please.. I'm not on the board much these days but I am very much open to emailing and one on one conversations. Sometimes that helps more too..
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  Intro's quote-o-rama

  by Introspection in

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  i guess i've been inspired by stephen's quote threads, so i'm going to start one myself.. not one particular author here, just whatever i can find:.

  q: why do you think that people are so protective of their egos?

  why is it so hard to let go of one's ego?.

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  With the mindfulness practices comes a shift from a spatially based experience of self to a temporal one. Having accomplished a certain amount of inner stability through concentration, the meditator is now able to look more closely at the moment-to-moment nature of mind and self. Mindfulness involves awareness of how constantly thoughts, feelings, images, and sensations shift in the mind and body. Rather than promoting a view of self as an entity or as a place with boundaries, the mindfulness practices tend to reveal another dimension of the self-experience, one that has to do with how patterns come together in a temporary and ever-evolving organization.
  --Mark Epstein, Thoughts Without a Thinker
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  Men are Like............

  by Solace in

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  men are like,.

  lava lamps.. fun to look at, but not very bright.. laxatives.. they irritate the sh*t out of you.. bananas.. the older they get, the less firm they are.. vacations.. they never seem to be long enough.. bank machines.. once they withdraw, they lose intrest.. weather.. nothing can be done to change them.. cement.. after getting laid, they take a long time to get hard.. commercials.. you cant believe a word they say.. government bonds.. they take so long to mature.. horoscopes.. they always tell you what to do and are usually wrong.. mascara.. they usually run at the first sign of emotion.. popcorn.. they satisfy you, but only for a little while.. snowstorms.. you never know when they are comming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.. blenders.

  you need one, but you're not quite sure why.. parking spots.. the good ones are all taken and the rest are all handicapped.

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  Am I the only one who sees any similarities between threads like this and shows like Battlebots?
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  Intro's quote-o-rama

  by Introspection in

  1. watchtower
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  i guess i've been inspired by stephen's quote threads, so i'm going to start one myself.. not one particular author here, just whatever i can find:.

  q: why do you think that people are so protective of their egos?

  why is it so hard to let go of one's ego?.

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  The man in whom Tao
  Acts without impediment
  Harms no other being
  By his actions
  Yet he does not know himself
  To be "kind," to be "gentle."

  The man in whom Tao
  Acts without impediment
  Does not bother with his own interests
  And does not despise
  Others who do.

  He does not struggle to make money
  And does not make a virtue of poverty.
  He goes his way
  Without relying on others
  And does not pride himself
  On walking alone.
  While he does not follow the crowd
  He won't complain of those who do.
  Rank and reward
  Make no appeal to him;
  Disgrace and shame
  Do not deter him.
  He is not always looking
  For right and wrong
  Always deciding "Yes" or "No."
  The ancients said, therefore:
  "The man of Tao
  Remains unknown
  Perfect virtue
  Produces nothing
  'No-Self'
  Is 'True-Self.'
  And the greatest man
  Is Nobody."

  -Chuang Tzu
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  Meridian and Energy Therapies

  by NoOnesMan2002 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i was passed this link over the weekend, and since then have been using some of the techniques with apparent success.. http://livingbyheart.tripod.com/lauriekristensen/id22.html.

  love and regards,.

  george

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  Quotes, not that it really matters (and apparently I need to point out that I made the statistical analysis comment jokingly) but you made reference to Homeowatch, "A Quackwatch subsidiary operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D." I figured it was the same difference. You're right about "several" being more than two of course, but the point is does such nit picking really matter? As I said, I'll take your word that it was not your intention to poo poo all things "alternative", whatever that is.
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  'Questions not tending to edification'

  by Introspection in

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  i've been reading thoughts without a thinker by mark epstein, a harvard trained psychiatrist who is also a long time buddhist.

  it's interesting how he looks at buddhist teachings from a psychoanalytical point of view.

  for example, here he talks about some questions of a metaphysical nature that the buddha refused to discuss:.

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  I've been reading Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein, a Harvard trained psychiatrist who is also a long time Buddhist. It's interesting how he looks at Buddhist teachings from a psychoanalytical point of view. For example, here he talks about some questions of a metaphysical nature that the Buddha refused to discuss:

  1) Whether the world is eternal, or not, or both, or neither.
  2) Whether the world is finite (in space), or infinite, or both, or neither.
  3) Whether an enlightened being exists after death, or does not, or both, or neither.
  4) Whether the soul is identical with the body or different from it.

  The Buddha taught that to attempt a definitive answer to these questions would give the wrong idea, that to do so would only feed the tendency to cling to an absolute or to nihilistically reject, neither of which he found useful. He never taught the existence of a true self, nor did he ever support the idea of a chaotic universe in which "nothing matters" and individual actions are of no importance. Rather, he encouraged a consistent doubting of all fixed assumptions about the nature of things. In a teaching that he gave to a skeptical follower named Malunkyaputta, he likened the asking of questions about the ultimate nature of things to a man wounded by an arrow refusing to have the arrow taken out until all of his questions about who the assassin was, where he came from, what he looked like, what kind of bow he was using, and what make of arrow had been shot had been addressed. "That man would die, Malunkyaputta," emphasized the Buddha, "without ever having learnt this."

  I think it would be helpful to note here that the core of the Buddha's teaching was suffering and the end of suffering. Also, he taught "the middle way", which basically is about avoiding extremes:

  Applying the same logic to the more intimate psychological questions about the nature of the self, the Buddha was equally resistant to being tied down. When asked point-blank by a wanderer named Vacchagotta whether there was or was not a self, the Buddha remained "therapeutically" silent. He later explained to his attendant Ananda (often the recipient of the Buddha's teachings in the Sutras), that there was no way to answer the man's question without reinforcing some erroneous view of self:

  If I, Ananda, on being asked by the wanderer, Vacchagotta, if there is a Self, should have answered that there is a Self, this, Ananda, would have been a siding-in with those recluses and brahmans who are Eternalists. If I, Ananda, on being asked by the wanderer, Vacchagotta, if there is not a Self, this, Ananda, would have been a siding-in with those recluses and brahmans who are Annihilationists . . . The wanderer, Vacchagotta, already confused, would have been increasingly confused (and he would have thought): "Was there not formerly a Self for me? There is none now."

  (edited for grammar/spelling, that kinda thing)
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  God says "hey man I`ll answer one question...

  by Waygooder64 in

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  here is the scenario: god is bored one day and says to himself " lets give all the poor saps down below something to think about.lets give everyone on earth the opportunity to have one question answered truthfully" so that is my question,if you had the chance to have one question answered that you always wanted to know what would it be ?

  any response counts and if you want to get goofy go nuts!

  i would like to know if there really is life in outer space...

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  Intro: How can I know you for what you truly are? Not as some person I'm talking to, or even as a "you", but to really know?

  God:

  Intro: Thanks.
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  Why the disrespect for Jesus?

  by MavMan in

  1. jw
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  now i understand completely that most in this forum are 100% against jws and the watchtower.

  what i don't understand is the disrespect that has been shown for such a sacred occasion that is the memorial (last supper).

  whether you agree with jws or not, the fact is that the last supper has a lot of meaning for christians.

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  Introspection

  Most people mean honor of some type when they say respect, but it's interesting to note the etymology of the word re-spect:

  [< L respectus, pp. of respicere, to look at, look back on, respect < re-, back + specere, to look at: see spy]
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  Meridian and Energy Therapies

  by NoOnesMan2002 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i was passed this link over the weekend, and since then have been using some of the techniques with apparent success.. http://livingbyheart.tripod.com/lauriekristensen/id22.html.

  love and regards,.

  george

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  Quotes:
  

  - I'm not sure why you say I've quoted Quackwatch "several times", I vaguely recall using it one other time on this board. To me, several is more than two. If my recollection is wrong, please show me the "several times".

  LOL, would you like me to prove that this was statistically significant too? I admit my recall on this is vague too, and if we're talking about the number of threads it involved it is definitely only two, the other being that homeopathy thread. I apologize too if I read more into your posts than what you had intended, but I am not looking to "prove" that you meant anything - I'll believe you.

  The truth is, regardless of subject matter a lot of the posts on this board just looks like the same stuff in different packaging to me. It's almost as if there's this general tendancy toward aversion because there was this bad experience with the WTS, and then you have the common tendancy to cling, and a lot of times you just have people who cling to aversion. It's not unlike Mr. Horse from Ren & Stimpy saying "No sir, I didn't like it!" It's like food, nobody likes just one type of food, and it all depends on whether you're talking about a meal, dessert or whatever. Yet the common response is the simplistic like it/don't like it judgement. I'm sure you'd agree that such a reactive response based on some personal experience, whether good or bad, is fairly meaningless. Now granted this is very general and perhaps vague to many, but regardless of what we're talking about if you have this attitude toward things of course you're going to have problems! It could be physical or mental health, or to look at it from another perspective just how you live life, or don't. And we wonder why ex-JWs have a hard time?
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  Why the disrespect for Jesus?

  by MavMan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  now i understand completely that most in this forum are 100% against jws and the watchtower.

  what i don't understand is the disrespect that has been shown for such a sacred occasion that is the memorial (last supper).

  whether you agree with jws or not, the fact is that the last supper has a lot of meaning for christians.

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  "Youuuuu sick little monkey!" -Ren