Apech

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  3. Posted

    I bring some very sad news which I just received from her son, that @blue eyed snake (Janneke) passed away on the evening of Good Friday.

     

    To quote her last request to her son - “After many years of illness she let go and disappeared into the light.”

     

    She was a person of great and gentle wisdom and I will miss her very much, as I believe many on here will also.

     

    Prayers for her.

     

    May she rest in profound peace.

     

     

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    11 hours ago, Nungali said:

     

    What's up ?

     

    You can usually do a lot better than that  with insults .     I hope the new job has not cramped your style ?  


    you’re right I can’t even respond to this.  
     

     

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    20 hours ago, Nungali said:

     

     

    But .... but ......  the  record , the history  .... all your deleted posts  !   :o

     

    I did a search for 'Nungali' and all I got was random stream of consciousness verbiage ... so I guess the systems fine :)

     

     

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    9 hours ago, Nungali said:

     

    I remember sitting at a little bar in a Chinese restaurant waiting for a table . Looking at the little 'traditional' plastic altar set up I noticed the incense had a glowing tip, but no smoke . I watched it and it did not burn down .... 

    " Excuse me ... is that incense stick electric ? " 

     

    Girl on the cash register looks closely   .... " Yes , I believe it is, I never noticed that before  . " 

     

    Now, I hesitate to ask ... but what function does electricity have for a Buddha    ? is it 'electro-magnetic levitation ' , or something more ...... 'base' ? 


    When the Buddha achieved enlightenment he touched the earth.  What is often not mentioned he then connected the live and neutral wires so that his LED aura would light up.

     

     

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    2 hours ago, oak said:

     

    Sadly, and altough I've always respected animals enough not to accept having them caged for some sadistic pleasure of the eyes, I only got my first dog two years back. Having a dog in rural England is very fulfilling. A different world from a crowded Portuguese city. Never in my life was I so close to nature. Everyday there's something new to observe and discover and you acquire a lot of wisdom if you're prone to that, with the relation human-animal.

    And the oaks, of course, the oaks...

     

    Portugal is the land of a thousand yapping dogs :) ... and I assume you know that sobreiros are in the same family as oak?

     

     

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    4 hours ago, Gerard said:

    It's working OK now. So my guess is that we can close this ticket. 
     

    👍


    Take the last train to Badgate,

    And I’ll meet you on the station,

    You don’t need to buy ticket,

    Cos I booked a reservation,

    No no no,

    No no no.

    It looks as if your never coming home.

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    3 hours ago, silent thunder said:

    define music, define purist, define slop... words words words...

    within experiential joy, what use are words? 

     

    the menu is never the meal.

    fingers pointing to the moon are never the moon.

     

     


    You are a complete genius- make the menu edible so the people can eat their words.  I’m going to patent this immediately!!!!!!

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    12 hours ago, Rheor said:

    Hello bums,

    I have been through stressful traumatic events lately.

    My solar plexus/upper abdomen sometimes contracts like I am doing crunches, this has been quite unpleasant, also accompanied by impending doom like feeling / panic feeling (perhaps from trauma, adrenals).

    My life has been messy, I am actively working towards balance.

    I was wondering if there would be any suggestion as for recovery.

    If anything comes to mind, feel free to let me know.

    Thank you ^_^

     

    If you are reasonably proficient at meditation then i would recommend fairly long periods of breath counting.  This should if you are persistent take you to deeper levels of relaxation and more importantly link your mind to you body such that the breath begins to both release tension and become a whole body thing.  At this point the pressure to contract your abdomen will change and the energy stored in your body will be allowed to circulate.

     

    If things are very chaotic it may take so e time but gentle persistence will win out in the end.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    6 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

    Fortunately for me, one need not know too much about the science or pseudoscience of race and culture, the migrations of large groups in 19th century Europe, or the karmic mechanics of reincarnation (which soul goes where) to express the fervent hope that we all get along.  It´s probably a rosy oversimplication, but I like to believe that people from all backgrounds are equal, that we´re all capable of doing everything, although it might be true (Steve´s brother notwithstanding) that white guys can´t dance.

     
    Fred Astaire??? Can’t dance???

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    32 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

     

    Interestingly, racism does.

     

     

    Historically, the term "Antisemitic" came to refer to the hatred and persecutions of Jews, Jewish culture, and Jewish religion -- not Arabs, Muslim culture, or Islam.  That's because there was no Arab diaspora until the late 19th century and the only semites Europeans ever had a chance to persecute were Jews, not Arabs.  Most Europeans hadn't ever seen an Arab since Spain gained back its independence from the Ottoman empire, and many hadn't seen one till the late 20th century.  Consequently antisemites are Jew haters, not Jews+Arabs haters.  (And "anti-Zionists" are rebranded antisemites.) 

     

      

     

    The Reconquista in Spain (and Portugal) was from the Arab Muslim Caliphate (not the Ottomans) which had ruled much of Iberia for centuries.  Also after this Barbary pirates raided the coast of northern Europe (and Italy) from 1500 onwards taking white slaves to the Ottoman Empire.  So there was plenty of contact with Islam in Europe throughout this period and then later of course in WWI when the Ottoman Empire was defeated.  Before that wars between the Eastern European states like Austria and Poland and the Ottomans were a regular occurrence.  

     

    However the term antisemite was coined as you suggest as a euphemism for Jew hatred ... which was common and widespread in Christian Europe up until the present (for various spurious pretexts) it was the Holocaust which finally made it unacceptable. 

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    8 hours ago, Taomeow said:

     

    Apparently it can be even more dangerous for cats, causing seizures.  Luckily cats, unlike dogs, are very picky eaters, and none of the cats I had in my life ever got interested in chocolate.  

     


    I just bought some 90% cacao chocolate made by Moser Roth.

     

    The ingredients list cacao pasta (paste presumably) cocoa butter sugar and ‘ emulgente soya lecithin and vanilla extract.

     

    it’s very bitter. Also warns of nut traces? Why not sure.

     

    Don’t like it much.

     

     

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