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Originally posted by plumranch
I know that we have many participants here from places like Portugal, Germany, Holland and god knows where who must be struggling with all these big words and contorted ideas, however. Just try reading philosophy in your 2nd language! You do have one don't you?
Originally posted by Enthralled Fan
To MRPENNY, I'd like to Thank You for giving me the perfect user name to jump in here with!!!
Originally posted by MrPenny
Originally posted by GeeGee
His message is to be the best person we can be,[...]So even if he is lying about his experience, I just don't see how this can negatively effect anyone.
The irony in what you've written is sublime. Apparently its O.K. to accept dishonesty and lies as long as the message is all sweet and nice? Who exactly is judging right and wrong here?
Originally posted by zenfish
...could he still claim, "I think, therefore I am." or would he have to consider who he was, or even if he existed at all, in those periods of non-thought? Or the periods of when he wasn't reflecting upon himself?
Eckhart Tolle/A New Earth Audiobook (transcribed by myself, "..." means a piece was left out to get to the point, and make shorter for this thread.)
"I think therefore I am" - Descartes
This was the answer he found to the question is there anything I can know with absolute certainty? He realized the fact that he was always thinking was beyond doubt, and so he equated thinking with being...instead of ultimate truth he had found the root of the ego, but he didnt know that.
It took almost 300 years before another philospher saw something in that statement, that Descarte as well as everyone else had overlooked. His name was John Paul Sartre.
He looked at Descartes statement, "I think therefore I am" very deeply and realized in his own words: "The consciousness that says I am is not the consciousness that thinks"
What did he mean by that? When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness...if there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldnt even know you were thinking. You would be like a dreamer that doesnt know hes dreaming. YOu would be as identified with every thought as the dreamer is with every image in the dream. - Eckhart Tolle/A new earth audio book
Originally posted by dodgygeeza
If you have nothing constructive to say then bugger off (respectfully). Please don't ruin this thread please MRPENNY, its obvious that you dont agree with anything Sleeper is saying so go elsewhere.
Originally posted by no_boxes
Sleeper,
You have to do the right thing by not letting people get to you. You are setting the example.
Originally posted by dAlen
in hopes that this will help to get to the point and keep the message clear.
Originally posted by sleeper
All this week it has been low 80s, and sunny.
Originally posted by Enthralled Fan
Hello Sleeper!
As you can see I am new here. I have been reading this thread for some time. I am normally a very shy person but I felt today was a good day to jump in and tell you how much I appreciate this thread. Thank You for all your time and effort. I'd like to thank a lot of the posters as well as they have been posing questions that have crossed my mind.
To MRPENNY, I'd like to Thank You for giving me the perfect user name to jump in here with!!!
Enthralled
Originally posted by plumranch
Hi sleeper,
OK, enough about right and wrong! Could you take off your tinfoil hat and ask Milton a serious question? How are souls formed, where do they originate? Who makes new souls?
Are new souls recycled from old ones?
Do 2 older souls get together and form a new baby soul? Tks!
Originally posted by kix
Now Sleeper do yuo think this is the case, that those that have higher info are more accountable for their wrongdoings? any info on that?
Originally posted by sleeper
Originally posted by MrPenny
And don't bother responding. It will only be another one of your cute aphorisms. Or worse yet, one of your base insults that somehow "wows" your enthralled fans.
You follow my threads lurking for scraps you can bite into and then spit back out again---what’s that about? Are you not “enthralled”, I guess not, more like a stalker?
Do you enjoy stalking or are you trying to save all the people from falling foolishly into my hellish grip of “always do the right thing in every situation”.
There goes one more of my “cute aphorisms”
That should start everyone salivating---
reply to post by MrPenny
Deciding that your personal scale of right and wrong is the only correct one, is a poor view of the world, and opens the door to prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination.