Apech

that’s exactly the point.

until 1492!

If you want to know who rules ask yourself who you cannot criticize! Our leaders live in an unreal world which bears little or no relation to what people actually think. Legislation like this is designed to prop up their fantasy version of reality - which is why it has the tone of threat and violence about it.

Orwell wrote 1984 after working in the British Information Ministry and far from being a reflection of Soviet Russia it was actually a reflection on what Britain and the West would become if we were not careful. It was originally titled 1948 but the publishers thought that this would frighten the readers.

Scotland is finished.

tantara

yeah ….

Oh.

‘at the time’

lol clever clogs - I meant books!

Bump Anyone can supply good resources for sitting and forgetting practice???? please!

... everyone.

very high technical skills apart from anything else

https://arthive.com/artists/71356~Sushienok64_mailru_Mikhailovich_Sushenok_Igor/works/p:2 Igor Mikhailovich Sushenok was born on March 31, 1964 in the town of Zlynka, Bryansk Region. Igor received the first basics of drawing with his brother Alexander from the Zlynkovsky artist-designer Trofim Trofimovich Bobrov, then study continued at the Novozybkovsky art school. After serving in the army, he studied (1990-1996) in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, headed by the People's Artist of the USSR, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov. From 1998 to 2002 studied in the creative workshop of the Russian Academy of Arts under the guidance of People's Artists of the USSR, full members of the Russian Academy of Arts, brothers Sergey Petrovich and Alexei Petrovich Tkachev. Since 1997, is a member of public regional and foreign art exhibitions. Awarded with a diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts of the second degree (2002). In 2005. awarded the medal of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh of the first degree. Currently lives and works in the city of Moscow.

I am a little mercurial but I do appreciate your ideas. I think at one time I would easily agreed with you - but maybe it’s my age but now I am quite conscious of the bad in the world (not just extremes but the general degeneration of order) and have found increasingly that battling against it is important for us.

Despite my flippancy I do take your point about being non-judgemental.

me too - my peach tree had a sort of ecosystem involving ants and greenfly which I solved in more or less this way.

you are wise brother Luke - I shall remember that although I charge 20 dollars an hour there’ll be no extra for the touching.

@Taomeow your last post brought to mind that growing up in England in the 1950's (yes I really am that old) the fruit and vegetables we could buy were all seasonal. You could only get strawberries, cherries, bananas and so on at certain times. Also the vegetables were very varied and mostly locally produced. They varied in size, shape and quality. There was still some rationing from the war and even oranges were a rarity (we had bottles of condensed orange juice). But it was quite natural and unaffected by sprays of chemicals and wotnot. We always hated having salad for school dinners because the lettuce invariably had bugs in it - and we got the large outer leaves which tasted bitter. This was all made worse by the fact that I had spent some of my childhood in the USA (North Carolina and Cali.) and could remember all the tomatoes and oranges. Anyway later, particularly in the 80's and 90's they invented large supermarket chains (replacing the green grocers and grocers I was used to) and they increasingly supplied carrots, tomatoes, apples and so on which were uniform and identical. I don't think taste was the priority just appearance. In fact I think they prioritised blandness When I started to visit Portugal about 20 years ago it was a revelation because all the food was locally sourced - and I experienced again the strange sight of oddly shaped carrots and turnips. But the taste was wonderful. I rediscovered peaches and plums which had actual taste - in the case of ripe peaches and melons so strong and juicy it was beyond imagination. I think the Dao likes variety as per the 10,000 things - if I may be so bold as to attribute like and dislike to the way. I think that although we were once more the same as you say - the layers of difference we have accumulated over the years - the actions, interactions, combinations and permutations might actually be the point of it all. So when we bite the apple we don't know if it is going to be joy or disappointment. We can then rejoice in the changes.

interesting!

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Brother Luke, is your heart as light as a feather?

'Judge not lest yea be judged', saith Santa Luka de Guadalupe. I think the idea of being 'equal' is something which needs careful understanding. In what way are we equal and in what way(s) are we different? Is it wiser to say we are the same or to see our differences. For if I say we are the same then will I not over look the ways in which you are unique, special and an individual. But if I say we are different am I opening myself up to thinking either you or I to be 'better' than the other?

https://www.landofpyramids.org/mau.htm