old3bob

a kind, considerate and sharing soul, may she rip...

so we can post on genocide related to native peoples but OMG not on the forms of genocide against all American peoples going on now 24/7, stranger things indeed!

I lived on the north shore of Oahu when they tested the largest of the Amchitka Nuclear bombs on an Alaskan island... "Three atomic weapons went off at Amchitka in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the largest underground detonation the US has ever set off. No humans lived on the island, but the biggest blast, in 1971, killed at least 900 sea otters." There were warnings for Island people that there might be tsunami from that bomb. Several of us shore dwellers went up the hillsides to higher ground just in case. But it never developed while we waited and enjoyed stuffing our faces with wild guava to pass the time on a beautiful sunny day...

Right, or going for a swim in that pool when it hit..

Wouldn't want to be around or inside some of those big buildings in San Francisco that have bottom to top floor glass windows if the "big one" hits! Btw here is short footage aboout the 64 Alaskan quake that got up to a 9.2 magnitude! I was in a 7.4 quake in Anchorage and it was hairy, can't imagine that 9.2 !

some of those homes are built very well, better than mine... but I don't know the different companies.

a certain depth of evil was not underestimated, just the quick speed of its takeover....Btw. good and evil are parts spiritual teachings even if some are in denial or don't want to deal with same.

Cocaine was originally used by Andean civilizations for various purposes, including combating the effects of cold, hunger, and altitude sickness. It was also used in the form of tea or in a sachet. Later, cocaine was isolated from the coca leaves in 1860. In more recent times, cocaine and amphetamines were used during World Wars to increase alertness and suppress appetite. another once common use of cocaine shown below:

and many died (which may have taken years) from being down wind and breathing radioactive particles after A bomb tests were conducted ..thus the Government rolling the dice with peoples lives!

ok, although lets say there are many golden beings (or fully integrated and evolved) human beings who all embody the same Great Tao, we could then also say that that Tao is the one of them in the many of them...difference is they know it without being veiled or conditioned as the "ten thousand" are in time and space. (i'm taking some liberates with this analogy which I don't know if Taoists would agree with it or not?)

that's fine, and can not be forced which would be "bad" karma,

Ultimately there is only one of us in the many of us...and with that realization there really are no private, secret or separate super dupers except in relative realms.

Didn't know this about the original source for the term: Snake Oil—Salesmen and Doctors "While today a “snake oil salesman” is someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods, the use of snake oil has real, medicinal routes. Extracted from the oil of Chinese water snakes, it likely arrived in the United States in the 1800s, with the influx of Chinese workers toiling on the Transcontinental Railroad. Rich in omega-3 acids, it was used to reduce inflammation and treat arthritis and bursitis, and was rubbed on the workers’ joints after a long day of working on the railroad. Enter Clark Stanley, “The Rattlesnake King.” Originally a cowboy, Stanley claimed to have studied with a Hopi medicine man who turned him on to the healing powers of snake oil. He took this new found “knowledge” on the road, performing a show-stopping act at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, where he reached into a bag, grabbed a rattlesnake, cut it open, and squeezed it. He labeled the extract snake oil, even though the FDA later confirmed that his products didn’t contain any kind of snake oil, rattlesnake or otherwise. That didn’t stop other unscrupulous doctors and fraudulent salesmen, who also started traveling the American West, peddling bottles of fake snake oil, giving the truly beneficial medical treatment a bad name."

we are apparently and only or just human per human identification, but the Truth is greater per Om Tat Sat...

Well The Self of pure Spirit is said to be within, although that Self within (the small lotus of the heart) is everywhere at once and not only within a particular place, time or Being. ( pointed to by the Upanishads) Some debate may arise over aspects which can be named but the Self which is also a name is not really limited to a name.

granted that cracking the ego is not the death of ego but a start...It is said that those who have resolved enough karma may reach Moksha or freedom from transmigration and thus have lost who they once seemed to be on the wheel, further and complete purity (or change) is then the final death of ego and separation. (having served their purpose)

unconditional Love from Spirit changes us without any devices or motives for itself... (and it can not be bought, sold or forced with our efforts and acts with power per its own wisdom beyond any "normal" understanding of who deserves it or not)

and eat some of the mosquitoes...

Its kind of amazing that so many people (many millions in the U.S. and elsewhere after countless examples of suffering have happened over thousands of years and also about every day during that time) who haven't figured out that evil does not care about human sensibilities, concerns or life'....for there is no bottom to its bottomless pit of malicious inhumanity and greed!

ruff ruff and chew chew to hearts delight... (our little dog likes to attack her large deflated play ball and give it a death like thrashing)

hello quote master, umm, I said some schools of Hinduism and lets also not forget some schools of Buddhism...

which could beg the question for some of how could maya/samsara or the relative realms arise from and thus be connected to Brahman? (with some schools in Hinduism "bypassing" such a question which Taoism does not per a paraphrase of the T.T.C. with, 'Tao gave birth to The One, to The Two, to the Three and on to the Ten Thousand')

I'd say karma has and "x" amount of mass along with the resulting wrapping up in constricting like forces, or like being coated with rusty layers, thus things don't run that well with such rust in the way. One kicker is that it is said soul chooses karmic related situations to learn from and when one situation is resolved it can never have as much mass/force upon that soul again...not unlike once ego has been cracked open spirit can manifest through those cracks resulting in an ego that can never have as much of a dominating hold as it did before. Btw, can a great soul/master help by suspending some of our karmas hold upon us and even mitigate some of it to help another, yes. (aka or the working of grace and compassion that is beyond only our efforts which as noted elsewhere can go awry)

on a different note I remember looking into the eye of a crocodile, (from a safe platform) and seeing a 99% instinctive predator in waiting in that dark eye.

"blocking" is a clear descriptive way to put it, or blocking the hurt from hurting more....problem is that in blocking out the hurt then a blocking out of a healing is also taking place. (or an x amount of walling off against 'bad' can result in an x amount of walling off against 'good' thus getting stuck behind a wall, as your text implied to me Bindi and which I'm no stranger to )