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Moon very bright here tonight. Last night a moon-bow ... a ring of light around the moon (caused by ice crystals in upper atmosphere I think). BTW my neighbour plants his onions only at a late crescent/new moon - anyone else come across this?

What's a 'bisquick biscuit' ... is it something evil?????

Mal's scones are his own personal business provided they remain covered in public places. Due to a technical fault I am unable to apologize at present. I can however, apologize for not apologizing for what I am not apologizing for. Sorry about that.

I insist on apologizing and will do so in due course.

Dear NMNMTTTNMTTM, Although I uphold the equality of all the varieties of pastries across the world I have to say I found it necessary in this case to take action. I cannot stand by and allow chocolate yumminess to be isolated from the rest of cake-kind and so I unilaterally decided that the definition of cake should encompass the whole of bakery (notwithstanding the uncooked nature of the 'self' of biscuit when understood in terms of Dzogchen) or either that/ or not the cake may be the product of cultivation, that is non-ejaculatory cookery. I hope I have clarified the situation. A.

No the beans are kind of mashed up somehow ... you can tell I'm a cook. These are even nicer pasteis de nata

Uncooked Chocolate Bars 60 grams butter or margarine 200 grams dark chocolate 3 tablespoons golden syrup 250 grams digestive biscuits, crushed Place butter, chocolate and syrup in a saucepan and heat gently until melted. Stir in the biscuits and mix thoroughly. Turn into a greased and lined shallow 18 cm square tin and smooth the top with a palette knife. Leave to set, then cut into bars. Makes 16. Copied by Mod Action from Japanese sexless thing to here - recipe by Ninpo- *** etc.

Hi Kate, Go to your user name in the top right hand corner. Click the drop down menu. Click "Manage Ignored Users" Once there it allows you add names. PS. Hope you haven't ignored me already or you won't get this PPS I assume this function works cos I've never used it

A collective mind Shines with a fuzzy glow Not the morning star.

Glad to see we are still well on topic! Even as Brit I have to say the Stones and all those 60's groups got all their inspiration from American blues and rock and roll ... of this there is no doubt.

Hi, Yes the sig is a bit of giveaway - Egypt is my main thing and I am trying (slowly) to write a book on it ... based around the Pyramid Texts and the BoD. I've written a couple of bits about Egypt on here if you look around. Shemsu Hor is usually translated as Followers of Horus a term which appears in the Pyramid Texts. Cheers A.

I thought David Bowie was from Mars ... or was that just the spiders? Nutmeg on cauliflower cheese? really?

They would also say that the thing in the middle the 'sma' is the lungs and trachea ... but I agree with you that it is the pelvis and spine. I've discussed this with Mark Foote who is interested in the sacrum. We used the version of this that has the two Hapy figures instead of Horus and Set.

Ah, but do you park on the pavement? Cos that's really annoying to some. I'm mean pavement by the way ... because a side walk is what crabs do.

That, I think, is almost a given.

BBC article "Astronomers are interested in such observations because they say something about the way the Universe is built on the grandest scales - how matter is organised into vast filaments and sheets and separated by great voids. Not only do the clusters contain colossal quantities of visible matter - stars, gas and dust - but they also retain even larger quantities of invisible, and as yet unidentifiable, "dark matter"." Great article I thought. A.

I think Big Bang is probably one of the most misleading expressions in astrophysics - it makes people think that there was some kind of normal event like an explosion which we now see the 'remnants' of - while what is actually meant is the coming into existence of space/time itself and the resultant energy.

Hi Mark, I think, I may be wrong, but the further they look into space the further back in time they are looking. The revelation is about how structured the universe is in its early days ... not a random splurge of stuff but large groupings of galaxies ... this is where the sheets and filaments come in ... you see if the Big Bang was like a regular explosion you'd just see random distribution and very little structure ...

Glad you liked it .

Yes I think you are right - we will never grasp the complete picture - but the deeper, further back in time they look it gets more fascinating and awesome (in the real sense of the word).

Correct on every point - but why are we talking about Egypt? I'm confused.

He's a what? You mean a lizard?

I can't help commenting because of Vajra's Brit bashing tendencies. Actually the British scholars in India were very sympathetic to what they found and did all the early work to open up the rest of the world to the wisdom in what they termed Hinduism. There was a Vedic religion which pre-dated the Buddha which was centred round the more ritualistic vedas like the Rig Veda and were really about how to worship the gods of the Aryan Brahmins. This was a hierarchical religion of the ruling caste - but you have to remember that Siddharta was born a prince ... so this would have been how he was brought up. In terms of the Self. I think it is too easy to say either there is a self or there is no self. Its a kind of cop out. Paradoxically we both have a self and we don't have a self at the same time and that is the hardest view to hold. Non-dualism requires it though and just saying ... oh there is no self is no answer to anything.

SJ, I have no idea what you are saying here ... your ring has turned into a carrot? I call that bad luck.

I have forwarded an illusory cheque which you may cash at the bank of Karmic Records - I want to be that Buddhist who believes also in a single god.