Nungali

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  1. Stranger things

    I remember thinking she had nothing on me except for that leather and fur bikini ! I think I would pay good money to see ' Taomeow 1 Million BC ' with you in that outfit ( made of fur and lace leather , of course ) battling dinosaurs , going to school in a cave .... although neither dinosaurs nor humans were around 1 Million ya.
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    That's because AI cant taste it
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    I did once .... for a moment .... it was a rather wonderful moment . I was staying at my teacher and friends camp at Rocky River, he is a full blood Bunjalung Aboriginal elder and site guardian (amongst other things ) . The camp is a blend of ancient and modern . All sorts of people go there for the experience , being a not too far journey from a major tourist coastal town . Some places are restricted access , eg, don't go up on the mountain (hunting ) , down stream too far ( 'mission' ) or upstream (sacred site ... shhh ... 'Grandma' sleeping - keep out ! ) . I asked how far upstream I should go and where I should not go , I was told I could go up there as far as I want . Wow , that's some trust .... well, not trust I suppose , I guess I was well 'sussed out ' . I realized when I entered the area , braided rock streams with pools of fresh clear water and river sand little beaches and various shrubs and bushes , and 'bonsai' by the floods , low growing and twisted and all in flower ... butterflies and honey eater birds ... amazing . But then I saw something unusual ahead amongst the low twisted trees ... a mass of driftwood . I got closer and realized it was a 'gunya' a shelter . Someone had been living there for a while . Constructed out of large piece of Riverwood fitted together with a branch and bark roof , remains of a fire , a few kangaroo bones .... some spear heads ! and some half worked stone tools about . Nothing there was modern ... just me . It was a step back in time . I realized who had done it and been living there ; 'Tooley' , whose 'nickname ' now made perfect sense . Some of these guys 'know all that ' , as one of their major initiations is , after training of course , they go into the wilderness naked , with nothing, except their teaching and survive there for a set time and then come back . What an adventure ..... in a nice 'good place' and during a good season ..... I have seen what it is like otherwise ... no thanks . WAAAAAY too soft ! Some adventures , they just will not take you on , especially out west , even with some that know them well and know they can survive a harsh journey and have experience with them and heave done it before ; Can I come ? - Not this time . - Why ? - ( simply ) because you will die . Some seem supernaturally tough .... stories, even today about people stranded in a car somewhere , no water , walk for 2 days to get to a settlement , one was pregnant ! They get there , re-hydrate " I better lie down for a bit ... tired . "
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    Well ..... it did learn how to communicate from us .
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    You could try Die Antwoord 'Baby's on Fire' . You should leave jewelry at home before going to the airport ... its a weight / luggage / fuel thing . ..... Bubby ???
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    if I borrow money from myself .... do I have debt or have I become wealthy ?
  9. yes, I find that too .... all these 'dis-incarnated souls ' that have been released from the restrictions of body and mortality ... with the whole Universe awaiting them .... but nah . They chose to hang around and watch me read posts on Daobums
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    .... cars and farm machinery , plus electronics and agricultural products and gold toilets
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    The Art Museum That Offered Donald Trump a Solid Gold Toilet - it didn't work ..... the toilet rejected the offer .
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    Its the biggest one in the world ! Typical Americans ! They have to have the biggest one of everything ! Its all those cars and farm machinery you got , plus electronics and agricultural products , from Japan ; the country you owe the most money to . Strange thing ;
  13. 'Spiritual and esoteric movements' yes . That might say more about those 'movements' than the founders . Initiatory fraternities / mystery schools ? At least not one of the main ones . It seems to have got stronger each successive new leader. Again , in the 'spiritual and esoteric' movements they might have or even seek 'followers' but not so in the groups I am talking about . neither do they require or want people to reproduce their own qualities , that would be 'against the grain' of the purpose ! The 'spiritual and esoteric' ' and similar under modern definition do seem to want to have this relationship of 'emulation' but in any mystery school 'emulation' should be taken from the central character (and sometimes others ) in the 'initiatory drama ' of the 'mystery' of that particular school . The 'spiritual and esoteric' , in this case , represents the person following the teachings of the 'Founder' the analogy with Christianity would be a person following Christ's teachings , in an initiatory school they should follow the teaching of the school embodied within the central character of the mystery , in an analogy with Christianity , then a person would study what technology Christ used to achieve his higher level of self realization and utilize that for their own self realization and become 'a Christ ' . Or a different analogy would be ; One can become an hermetic , like Rudolf Steiner was and study the processes he studied and do the initiations he did . Or one can learn from Steiner and become an Anthroposophist , but you will be following the system Steiner developed and his development , not your own development . There is some similarity though , after a certain level of initiation , one is supposed to have a realization/s that should be shared and go into the 'education pool ' , eg; 'The College of Hermetic Philosophers' . Some seem to want follow in others paths and some want to forge ahead making their own . What has caused the modern degradation of all this is people wanting to 'quantum jump ' ; thinking they have the knowledge and validity to 'wing it' from the beginning , without the training or ability . And there have always been people ready to cash in on that desire and offer all sorts of nonsense to the masses .
  14. Software issues.

    There was a few days of intense solar flare activity ; For a couple of nights Aurora Australis seen as far north as 32 deg. S
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    yeah, now its responding near instantly ! Whadidyoudo ?
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    I'm about to give up - too slow .
  17. Bravo ! An insight that explains a LOT of the 'why' related to this subject matter . "We' are all 'in the same boat' after all . Trouble with 'normal consciousness' is it assumes one is the Captain, the First Mate, the Bosun , the Deck Hands, the Cabin Boy .... When you get back to 'Port' is the Captain the only one that disembarks ? Imagine if the crew knew that beforehand - I imagine they would be , at least, subversive . They might even want to take over control of the ship !
  18. .... now of course a 21 yo is no where near as mature as they were back then !
  19. Time to quote Mark Twain ; β€œWhen I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
  20. Maybe its because we went through decades of not having a plan, method or system and thinking just being positive would do the trick ? Old people are just young people that learnt stuff .
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    and this one so big and heavy , it appears to have mangled and stretched his legs !
  23. Software issues.

    Thats curious ..... I don't ever remember anything ever being 'fixed for good ' ! Who claimed that ? Yesterday .... slow , but eventually it would follow commands . Today ? No trouble . Its probably just this system ... its old .... but I like it as many new forums and sites cant even read my old files or accept documents I try to post there , ( I think due to the 'updating' of new systems, yet no problem ever with that and DBs ) . Eg, I can put an old flash drive in my old computer and post the contents here . new computer cant even read the flash drive and I cant post to new sites on the old computer . I have the same issue if I go to the library and use their constantly 'updated' computers . It won't be long before that will spread to other systems ; you go to start your car " Sorry , so many new updates are available that your old car computer cannot deal with them anymore and has shut down its operational system ... you need to buy a new car . "
  24. At least he realized something . I have had to nurse some casualties that were the result of that practice that went to 'Rajneesh meditation' some self appointed orange gurus put on . They had no interest whatsoever in damage control or after care of people that were effected adversely from what they instructed them to do . MANY of these people stopped wearing orange robes , stopped their outer association with the movement and masked it ... but still go around teaching various things from their 'system' under other guises . Now, coming from a western perspective ( which is what the Rajneesh exercises basically are ) , it comes from Wilhelm Reich , known as the farther of modern western body work - and most 'body workers' (including some so called 'light workers ' ) and a whole range of different therapies as well . The idea is that these movements or convulsions ( or twitches, spasms , pains , paralysis ) in certain parts of the body are the physical counterpart and blockage of internal unresolved psychological issues . BUT the next step was to 'work on ' those areas with massage and similar therapy . Not just to let the person flop all over the floor ! Fer goodness sakes ! It can get to ridiculous proportions and become grotesque !
  25. Paintings you like

    ... and not 'just' paintings . This is what we usually see ; a still picture . But if you watch a film of some of them , like Lascaux (or ever had the advantage of being there ! ) and it is filmed right ; IE, a slow 'procession' past the paintings in flickering torch or candle light , you will notice they also use the rock surface and the flickering light to make it look as though some of the animals are moving . This is also apparent in some of the still shots where we see multiple outlines ; ..... the paintings 'come alive' .