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Topic: Interesting Observations (shhh, it's a thread about everything!)  (Read 9071 times)

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Re: Interesting Observations (shhh, it's a thread about everything!)
Reply #100 on: November 09, 2008, 11:26:07 PM
Okay.  I thought about it a little more.  An airplane, for example, is not exaclty what it seems.  It is only a representation of our highest understanding of the world.  It is the same with everything we see around us.  All that actually exists is "our intelligence," its source, and our expression of that.  And, depending on what we are ready to percieve, that will be our experience. 

In a way, we actually do (seem to be) liv(ing) in our own little worlds.  We (seem to) live in our perceptions of the world.  Depending on the limitations of those perceptions, our experiences and our world will be limited.

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Re: Interesting Observations (shhh, it's a thread about everything!)
Reply #101 on: November 11, 2008, 01:14:49 PM
I think m1469 has said that before though.

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you're actually mayla??  :o
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Reply #102 on: November 11, 2008, 02:51:33 PM
:o
you're actually mayla??  :o

Well, yes, that is the word on the street anyway.  But, from what I have observed, M. was completely crazy  :o.  I am much less so  ;D... so, sometimes I am not too sure about it.  Once she drove a steamroller right through the side of a thread.  What the ?  That is downright embarrassing  :-[.  Okay, I just thought about it a bit more.  She was/is not necessarily crazy, just stifled for many years  :P.  As I observe, that can do strange things to a person  :-.

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Re: Interesting Observations (shhh, it's a thread about everything!)
Reply #103 on: November 13, 2008, 03:26:04 PM
"Intellectualism" and "philosophy" are games in human knowledge and perception. 

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Re: Interesting Observations (shhh, it's a thread about everything!)
Reply #104 on: November 13, 2008, 03:34:20 PM
If K is m1469, then why does K refer to herself in third person? An unusual thing to do.  :-\

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Re: Interesting Observations (shhh, it's a thread about everything!)
Reply #105 on: November 13, 2008, 07:35:18 PM
why does K refer to herself in third person?

From now on I won't. 

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Reply #106 on: November 14, 2008, 01:17:46 PM
Tanman will speak in the third person from now on.  :P
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Reply #107 on: November 14, 2008, 01:28:37 PM
Tanman will speak in the third person from now on.  :P

Remember, imitation is the sincerest form of identify theft. ;)

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Reply #108 on: November 15, 2008, 12:22:51 AM
Remember, imitation is the sincerest form of identify theft. ;)

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I actually stole it from Bob.
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Re: Interesting Observations (shhh, it's a thread about everything!)
Reply #109 on: November 15, 2008, 01:04:38 AM
Bob stole the cookie!

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Reply #110 on: November 30, 2008, 11:36:47 PM
Laying on my belly on the floor, around the era of my last posting in this thread, it "dawned" on me that I was already flying.  That (as well as some reading I have done years ago) combined with an "experience" I had about a year ago while sitting in the loft at church, awaiting my time to solo, I realized clearly that we are always flying.  Our idea of flying or not though, has mostly to do with our perception of being on the ground or not.  Erase the perception of being either on the ground or not, and one would gain more control over how one goes about flying. 
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