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  1. Posted · Edited by natural

    11 minutes ago, Mark Foote said:


    Be like that, Ralis!  Now we know how badly the Allies miscalculated everything about that invasion, how many lives were lost that probably didn't have to be.

    I have a friend whose father was a Marine in the Pacific.  Turns out a lot of those islands didn't have to be taken from the Japanese, in particular Peleliu, where my friend's father fought.  He came back a pacifist.  

    I think dwai is right, one doesn't necessarily feel they terror of the  PTSD, big time.


     

     

    Well as we know now:

     

    1. War is hell!

    2. Hindsight is 20 20 for all the good that did the children in Texas.... or the many other victims of these horrific atrocities occuring almost daily!

    3. One almost certainly feels terror in the moment until the enter shock and later experience PTSD.

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    2 minutes ago, ralis said:


    ‘Today is the 78th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, June 6th 1944. I want to see the purveyors of no self no fear run headlong onto Omaha Beach and see what cold hard reality feels like.  That’s what sheer terror is!

     

    My father's cousin landed that day and refused to comment on that or any other of his service for the USA for that matter any of his experience in WW11.

     

    My father landed in Japan following our horrific bombing there he too was reluctant recount  what he saw...

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    3 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

    I think we need a new pronoun for awakened people.  He/She and even the ever-controversial They don't cut it for the Pleasant Experiences of the world.  May I suggest Wow

     

    Used in a sentence....

     

    Has anybody seen Wow around?

    I may not have seen it around, nor acknowledged it the moment : ( But my first encounter with a Manatee in the water in a river was a WOW)

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    26 minutes ago, steve said:

     

    That’s exactly how it happens. 

    No warning, nothing one does or does not do makes it happen. It is more a gift than an achievement. In nondual Buddhist and Bön traditions the best meditation is referred to as non-meditation. One does absolutely nothing at all and can do it anywhere.

     

    An wakening as an example?

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    8 minutes ago, Apech said:

     

    It was what the interviewed cancer sufferers said about themselves.  Unfortunately I can't find the study online - it was conducted sometime on the 1990's and was published research.

     

    Sorry if it upsets you but as you an see it was nothing to do with blaming but just valid self-assessment.

     

     

     

    I try my best not to share my self-assessment with out a strong and defined need to know.

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    2 minutes ago, Cobie said:

    Oh thank you so much for your ‘like’. I am sitting here crying for the dead, then they are being blamed for it. Thought I was ranting a bit, thought this is for me worth getting banned for. 
     

     

     

    I am not qualified to offer much more than been there done that. Hang in there!

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