JeSoul:

Oyb and Rev Jeremiah Wright!

JeSoul:

She likes the golf, watches the golf and plays the golf.

Mad_Max:
That is so cool. When I played it as a console game it really was interesting. Different irons shoot the ball different distances; a lot of calculation goes into each shot. Never tempted to take it up for real or watch. Who won? Tiger Woods. Okay.

Mad_Max:

My husband thinks it's a mixture of truth and sly deception. It's fascinating because it feeds our need to know the answer to one of the greatest riddles on earth: What happens when we die? The Bible says little about it. Buddhism says a lot. I have, in fact, been reading Buddhist texts and am ordering the Tibetan Book of the Dead from amazon. If I want to know what the vault of a bank looks like the burglar who robbed it might be able to tell me. I might not like his methods, being of different beliefs, but I'd learn something. I was most amused at the 'There is no Satan' and 'no evil' teaching on the site. There is only human 'error'.

I've been wondering about free will though, and what it is exactly.

We used to think our sense of good and evil resided in the spirit, but perhaps everything's in the brain. People who suffer brain damage suffer personality changes. Some lose the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Some were born with their brains missing one thing or the other, empathy, knowing good from evil, compassion. Many of those are pyschopaths

I read the book of an advanced Buddhist mystic, Elizabeth David Neel. Magic and Mystery in Tibet. It was written in the 30s. She was a French scholar. I was most struck by the page where she did a thought experiment. She wanted to summon something from her mind and translate it into physical reality. She decided on the stereotypical Jolly Fat Monk. It took her six months of concentrated thought. And then, there he was. Fat, happy, round-cheeked. Not only was it physically present but others could see him., not just herself. It travelled with them, and appeared to have a will of its own. She sincerely believed she'd created this. I thought, anything's possible. Our thoughts do interact with unseen dimensions. And then there was a passage where she says the creature's face lost its fat and became lean, not of her doing, and that its eyes when it looked at her were mocking and faintly malignant. So much deception, in almost every religion. And our human tendency to deceive ourselves don't help none either.

I was fascinated to read about Christ in Tibetan literature. Why does every major religion feel compelled to recognise him? He's practically the only spiritual head of a religion that gets this treatment. I like it.

Mad_Max:

The speculations of bored people with too much time on their hands lol!!!! Chei.
If our will is located in our spirit, damage to the brain shouldn't affect it, but it does.

She summoned it from its own spiritual dimension.

JeSoul:

Max dear hope you had a lovely weekend

I was poised on friday to finish up a 30 min exp, return to my desk and have lunch while reading thru those links . . . 4 hours and numerous troubleshooting attempts later I emerged from duty and bolted for the exit before something else went awry. and I'm hardly cyber on the weekends so . . .

Max dear hope you had a lovely weekend

JeSoul:

Max dear hope you had a lovely weekend

I was poised on friday to finish up a 30 min exp, return to my desk and have lunch while reading thru those links . . . 4 hours and numerous troubleshooting attempts later I emerged from duty and bolted for the exit before something else went awry. and I'm hardly cyber on the weekends so . . .

anyways, I looked through a couple of stories and yeah some are quite interesting indeed. The thing is because of the times we live in, I can scarcely take such spiritual accounts beyond face value . I don't know if they are dreams and visions that are the fruit of someone's hyperactive imagination.

However if it were to be coming from a trusted source that I personally know and am convinced to be indeed of the faith, I would believe without much reservation. I have a few tales myself . . . but lemme go and peep some more of the stories.

Mad_Max:

@Spikie
No be something summon you wey you appear naw-naw?

ThiefOfHearts:

So yea I saw 2012 on Saturday
or am I in the wrong thread?

spikedcylinder:

So she just conjured a fat monk and it appeared? Lol. Prolly some gay stray monk heard her yelling for him to come and he made his way there. Mumu people will not conjure lots of money, they will be conjuring orisisi.

JeSoul:

^^ 

JeSoul:

I was also unfortunate enough to see "Taking of Pelham 123" while on a visit . . .  what nonsense, even the pairing of Denzel and Travolta could not legitimize that crap. Pls if you haven't seen it, don't!

ThiefOfHearts:

Lol JeSoul what hype were you relying on?

I give the movie a 6. wasnt great. wasnt TOO terrible. just too much CGI and alot of implausible scenes

Now "The Brothers" is definitely a movie Im waiting for. Love Natalie Portman!

true face:

i've always had a thing for guys with locks over their foreheads. there's a lot of them in that category though. di caprio, tom cruise, keanu reeves, bla bla bla.

JeSoul:

No2 heard of this new show called "Conspiracy Theory" on history channel I think, hosted by Jesse Ventura - former wrestler and governor?

ThiefOfHearts:

I had chicken and pasta. Turky ko. Tolotolo ni.

I intend on seeing "The Brothers" this weekend. I love Natalie Portman!

JeSoul:

 My own hype    ever since I saw the trailer months ago I've been anticipating. Yeah I think the CGI was overkill. I've seen disaster movies with far less and were more believeable.
I dunno . . . that movie looks weird.