old3bob

well it does have nice humanoid teeth...

cats don't always win...

it's somewhat of a mind bender to think that soul would want to be involved in bad karma so it could also gain experience of that and overcome it... actors on a stage who forgot they were actors?

Christianity is and has been very heavily co-opted by worldly forces for power and control over people since about it's first day, including centuries of "Manifest destiny" resulting in genocide against many native peoples in its name ...but that does not mean the co-opting that has been done is the truth about it. Same thing happens in many religions. (which should surprise no one at this late date)

there is only one true auto and its a Ford, that is until Chevy came up with the Corvette, that is until Dodge or Chrysler came up with the Viper, that is until Ford came back up with the new Shelby 500, anyway they are all vehicles that get somewhere...just ask Burt, an early and once well known master who had a hot Pontiac.

righto, btw I already cautioned against blind faith... anywho the mind is a very clever thing but it is not no-thing.

true, although pointers can be useful, more so when proven in stages of taking one to a threshold, a threshold that only they can go through since the pointers themselves can't do so for someone else.

agreed that careful preparation is important but there comes a point when only the benefit from a leap of faith (not blind faith) can overcome the beast of divisional doubt. Btw, the difference in my reply from your question is not to make the projection on others that one is dealing with in themselves

what is the benefit of being theoretically sure about what some ordinary Joe or Jane (or a Self Realized Sat Guru) knows or doesn't know? (Btw the Rishi's - authors of the Upanishads were not just Theoretical imo or ime)

yea but who is the gal? If it's Apech's wife shouldn't she be helping the hubby? (since Mark has the advantage of breath control thus can't be choked)

when death has fully died then the Life of life fully lives

Shiva/Shakti as transcendent "God" or Supreme Being who is also immanent is far beyond the limitations of form, (including even the soul light form) thus has no division of any kind including with Kundalini or Shakti, as a jiva in human/astral form and thus not yet being a fully evolved soul that has merged in unification with the Supreme Being there is still some remaining degree of division/duality...even if there are periods of Self-realization. (aka coming and going)

ok but a picture is worth a thousand words...

Ultimately not divided although effectively so if we are divided...

yea, although some of Eastwood's more recent movies, directing or acting or both were not bad imo..

nope, he wore something else

ok, but did the historic Buddha have to give up the fun of swimming underwater? (via, "relinquish volition in the activity of inhalation and exhalation")

Jesus is alive, (but things in the world are not well...)

black cats are evil, (an old superstition)

some say we should hold ourselves to the highest standard, and trying to hold others unless they are close with agreed upon standards won't work.

opinions are a dime a dozen, but dozens of abstractions may only go for 2 cents...

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" and or Never in the field of human history is there so much owed by so many to so few.