old3bob

right, becoming a new version of hate against what one hates is counterproductive, yet the spiritual battles and wars must still be fought in whatever form or in whatever realms they are taking place, trying to appease or look the other way against evil is dangerously naïve (including rambling on and on about non-duality or that everything is somehow ok) and brings about a greater suffering of fools play! (terrible patterns have repeated over and over again for many millions of suffering people through the ages who can't just instantly escape to an astral or causal heaven; I've also been on the other side and seen a thing or two)

It looks like the "Age of Aquarius" love in has gone down a deep rabbit hole somewhere being that most indicators now point towards millions or billions of years of setback as some of us along with demonic/adharmic forces drastically degrade the Earth realm where many souls normally need to reincarnate, (per karma and aspects of human evolution) Earth's ancient soul of beauty will recover Her full strength but it will take millions/billions of years of earth time, although only a "blink of an eye" in spiritual time ... in the meantime it's likely many of us souls will be limited to various realms or in limbo, a few will make it to the pure/heavenly realms and beyond (since its always 5 o'clock somewhere), and many will suffer in the hell realms... I'm sorry to be a party pooper but it looks like many of the lovely "plans of mice and men" mentioned here for "enlightenment" and or cultivation will be setback since they also need to include good Earth realm energy with a certain amount of a dharmic atmosphere/balance as part of their whole package to come about, that is for souls with human karma's. (which in the end does come about)

Leave the wildlife alone and it may leave you alone, row boats on the ocean don't stand a chance otherwise...

is this sucker for real!

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men (or just knowledge from books alone) couldn't put Humpty together again. and from the Bible: "If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."

it says a lot of different things, where does it say that?

met a guy who swore he saw a bunch of little gray aliens close by when as he was outside late one night! (near a small town in southern Utah) Btw, there was a report of technical problems taking place at underground U.S. ballistic missile site at the same time of UFO sightings.... "Public claims by Robert Salas In August 13, 1996, the Great Falls Tribune published an article about Robert Salas and his story of a UFO report associated with the Echo Flight malfunction.[6] Robert Salas had been a 26 year old Air Force Lieutenant during the 1967 malfunction.[6] According to Salas, on the night of the malfunction, he was assigned to the underground capsule at the complex.[6] According to Salas, a security guard on the surface contacted him to report flying objects in the distance doing strange maneuvers; Later, guards reported seeing a glowing red object hovering above the front gate.[6] According to Salas, minutes later the complex's ten Minutemen nuclear missiles went offline.[6] The red object reportedly disappeared and maintenance crews took a full day to restore the system to operational status.[6] In the August 1996 piece, Salas denies being a "UFO junkie" and doesn't suggest extra-terrestrial involvement; He further says he wants to find answers to the mystery, requesting anyone with information to contact him.[6]"

the higher one goes the more instantaneously karma can kick in; btw with the flood gates for evil overflowing lately here on earth one may wonder when its karma will give it a kick? ""God" does not interfere with human events", except when or for instance....?

I see there are kits for adding a riding mower to one's boat, could help for long trips like yours

umm, many Buddhists not unlike many humans have various vested interests and will not give such up, even if leading to battles or wars. interestingly somewhere in Buddhist doctrine (i don't recall at the moment) the historic Buddha spoke of even giving up Buddhism (after it served its purpose) anyone out there have examples of that happening ? Same deal for most all religions under the sun....

more description's for things of the past: (a few we may have never heard of) Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance antique retro historic historical traditional antiquated old-time old-world old-school old-fashioned quaint old-timey former ancient retrograde past aged obsolete late oldfangled olden outdated outmoded out-of-date dated old hat forgotten moldy superannuated outworn venerable bygone fusty hoary fossilized antediluvian timeless stodgy musty age-old atavistic erstwhile anachronistic rinky-dink ageless passé anachronic remote moth-eaten anachronous dateless

there are more cars painted in various shades of gray these days, he didn't say anything about black which I've seen painted on the exterior of modern homes which to me seems to give a prison compound like vib. while black cars have a bad ass vib.

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I'm not up on a lot of that stuff you've mentioned, I would say that any fine teaching and or pointers do not expect or encourage blind faith as a replacement for growing first hand experience that takes one beyond gnawing doubts! I'd say chapter 21 below of the T.T.C. is more than just handed down rote repetition but a shared witness that we can also appreciate on whatever level we can feel or relate to it (especially the last line) and or that which are also found in other fine teachings: "IT lies in the nature of Grand Virtue To follow the Tao and the Tao alone. Now what is the Tao? It is Something elusive and evasive. Evasive and elusive! And yet It contains within Itself a Form. Elusive and evasive! And yet It contains within Itself a Substance. Shadowy and dim! And yet It contains within Itself a Core of Vitality. The Core of Vitality is very real, It contains within Itself an unfailing Sincerity. Throughout the ages Its Name has been preserved In order to recall the Beginning of all things. How do I know the ways of all things at the Beginning? By what is within me." btw I'm not the enemy here to disprove and neither are you, if something I mention is of use fine, if not then we should agree to disagree...