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Baruch
Spoken like a peasant ...
Mon Apr 23, 2012 21:00
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why is the wife always up at the big house, while you are out picking cotton? All women think men don't work hard ... mostly because they have excessive feelings of hard their lives are ... or just excessive feelings in general.

Shalom

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end times — Tony Jiang, Fri Apr 20 16:38

there are loads of Christians these days claiming the end days are coming soon http://end-times-prophecy.com/blog/?p=284 this one says that the rapture was supposed to happen in 2010 and then says... more
vike: Off subject — sai ram, Mon Apr 23 01:58

I just wanted to share a remedy for a stuffy nose. We all get them at times. When I can't breath thru my nose...I can't sleep....an old East Indian method that really works good is White Sesame Seed... more
Anything is better than another discussion of End Times — Frashavan, Mon Apr 23 20:03

It's like when you go to meetings of revolutionary parties, there's always a session called "The Way Forward!" Some topics should simply be banned, in the name of humanity! And cold remedies are... more
Collective psychosis bad? ... rhetorical question (nm) — Baruch, Mon Apr 23 20:56

Not if you are in the mental health industry... — Frashavan, Tue Apr 24 07:37

... or a maker of pharmaceuticals. :D
Too bad the 1% aren't locked up in an asylum .... — Baruch, Tue Apr 24 13:18

getting electroshock treatments ala 1950s ... oh, I mean enhanced interrogation ;-) Shalom
How about a beginning instead of an End — Seekr Light, Sun Apr 29 00:03

I would never advocate ignoring the dark influences in the world but I will say the time is upon humanity to focus on the high road, or what I consider the forces of light that serve to elevate the... more
I agree, but more spam ;-) — Baruch, Sun Apr 29 21:40

One of the greatest victories of Satan, is getting a materialist world to believe that the Devil doesn't exist. I mean that metaphorically, not literally. Shalom
How about a beginning instead of an End — Seekr Light, Sat Apr 28 23:46

I would never advocate ignoring the dark influences in the world but I will say the time is upon humanity to focus on higher, or what I consider the forces of light that serve to elevate the... more
It is always a good time to do right ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 29 21:38

and never a good time to do wrong. Sometimes it is necessary to do wrong, what is wrong about that, is trying to tell yourself and others that you are doing right. Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima,... more
They have managed.... — Frashavan, Wed Apr 25 12:51

...to turn the whole world into an asylum, and convinced us that the rest of us are crazy.
Unplug the TV! (nm) — Baruch, Thu Apr 26 06:54

Millerites — clarym29, Sat Apr 21 19:40

This is just one example of how seriously some Christians take this end-times stuff: Millerism • [edit] Origins Miller was a prosperous farmer, a Baptist lay preacher and unschooled student of the... more
Just part of the wild free market in religion in .... — Baruch, Sat Apr 21 23:37

19th century America ;-) Shalom
Yep--always good for a chuckle. (nm) — clarym29, Sat Apr 21 23:38

Well, Tony — clarym29, Sat Apr 21 19:30

the end times have been upon us since humankind turned to God to answer questions. There used to be a site on the net that tried to keep track of all the end-times guesses that were made. May still... more
Well the Popul Vuh is still a great scripture ... — Baruch, Sat Apr 21 22:27

and the Quran certainly has its share of apocalyptic verses. This isn't just about the Bible's apocalyptic verses or the apocryphal apocalypses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popul_vuh ... saw an... more
By Mayan nonsense...... — clarym29, Sat Apr 21 23:36

I did not mean to indicate that the Mayan calendar was nonsense. It is a very intricate, well put together thing--quite complex and quite elegant. But it is just a calendar with no predictive value.... more
Well part of the Apocalypto ... — Baruch, Sat Apr 21 23:40

is the influence from Central Mexico. There they had a darker version of the same mythology as the Mayans. But yes, there is a prediction of world ending. But it was predicted many centuries before... more
It's been coming for millions of years! (nm) — Kasey, Fri Apr 20 18:47

Good new article on NDE ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 09:18

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/21/near_death_explained/singleton/ Materialists are simply in denial ... they have their ideology, and the personal experience of millions of people, simply don't matter. ... more
Re: Good new article on NDE ... — Seekr Light, Sun Apr 29 00:24

The dream state is obviously a different state of awareness than the awaken one but considered from either state the other "may" be viewed as less relevant in the supposed "ultimate" scheme of... more
I agree, but more spam ;-) — Baruch, Sun Apr 29 21:44

I accept radically simple empiricism ... that is you experienced it, it is real. There are different flavors of reality however. So I would for example never discount the unease nightmares cause some ... more
Famous Australian publisher and media giant, Kerry Packer... — Kasey, Mon Apr 23 05:18

had a NDE back in 1990 and was by chance revived by an ambulance man with a defibrulator. Afterwards ha was asked about it and he said to his close friends "don't fool yourself, there was nothing... more
Too true — clarym29, Mon Apr 23 12:25

I fully expect that when science is able to answer the question of NDE, that it will be shown that whatever it is one experiences is simply physical/chemical.
The deaf don't enjoy music either. (nm) — Baruch, Mon Apr 23 06:06

Too bad for them, they simply don't understand the Bible ... — Baruch, Fri Apr 20 18:15

knowing is not the same as understanding. Deconstructing a text, by projecting your desires and fears into it, isn't exegesis. What is an apocalypse? Christians don't know, Muslims don't know. This... more
But isn't saying — clarym29, Sun Apr 22 12:26

that one can know what the Word of God is also arrogant?
Specifically ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 15:55

saying you can know the Word of G-d, is not the same as saying you do know the Word of G-d. Saying you do know ... that is very arrogant, and every religion in conventional terms, commits that sin.... more
but — Tony Jiang, Fri Apr 20 19:32

what about all this stuff they talk about how there is great apostasy in the church they claim, or crime and war on the rise, famine,disease and earthquakes on the rise..... Arent they just... more
And it's all nonsenseical anyway! (nm) — Kasey, Sat Apr 21 02:01

Greco-Roman part of Western Civ ... — Baruch, Sat Apr 21 08:21

worships dead Greeks and Romans. Judeo-Christian part of Western Civ ... worships dead Jews and Christians. This has always been a troubled marriage since the time of Emperor Constantine, another... more
Good point ... — Baruch, Sat Apr 21 01:52

another man's dogma is another man's apostasy. Christianity has been in apostasy since 325 CE, when it was taken over by the Greco-Roman Mafia. But for them, that is when their Nicene Creed was... more
Love this stuff..... — clarym29, Sat Apr 21 20:05

A rather short list of the The End of Times--again and again....... 1901 CE - The new century got off to a flying start by giving a great, big thumbs down to Reverend Baxter's millennium. 1908 CE -... more
Speaking of Halley's Comet — sai ram, Sat Apr 21 22:26

back in the 80's about one year before Halley's Comet was to return, I was awaken about 2 AM with a poem in my head. I had never wrote a poem in my life...nor since..but this one came in a dream. It... more
You were probably channeling Mark Twain ... — Baruch, Sat Apr 21 23:33

who died during the visit of 1910. Shalom
Sam was more connected than that — sai ram, Sat Apr 21 23:56

It is believed that Mark Twain was born the same month as the passing of Halley's comet in November 1835. Halley's Comet passed on November 10th 1835 and Twain was born November 30th 1835. Twain... more
Quite the poem — clarym29, Sat Apr 21 23:30

full of such good cheer. :)) Do you always have such optimistic dreams???
Don't mix up — sai ram, Sat Apr 21 23:49

realism and optimism....just think from Halley's view from passing earth in 1910 until 1986...all the changes that had occured.....WW 1 and 2....smog.....cities growth...man even traveled off the... more
What's the difference? — clarym29, Sun Apr 22 09:46

What is real to me may not be to you. So, who knows what realism really is???? Don't we all make over the world just about every day, in the image we want? Your sentiment kind of reminds me of those... more
Reality is like porn ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 15:59

you can't define it, but you know it when you see it ;-) In the West we have tried to achieve consensus on what is real, thru science. But it turns out science can't even tell me what I should have... more
Ah but — sai ram, Sun Apr 22 12:29

"Your sentiment kind of reminds me of those who say that the end is near because of the natural disasters, man-made disasters, weather, pestilence, famine, wars and chaos.".......ah, but just like a... more
I like your PS better than your BS ;-) — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 16:03

If life is an adventure, then choose to be an adventurer ... get out there on the veldt, graze, wait and see what happens. At least the lion will make you jog a little. Shalom
The lion is — clarym29, Sun Apr 22 14:38

always out there--and one day will get you. But that is true for all people of all times--it's one of God's Laws--so why worry about it.
I do and I don't worry ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 16:05

keeping an eye out is not the same as having a panic attack. All things in moderation, someplace in between inattention and panic. But you are correct, nobody gets out of here alive ... and good... more
Yeah, but if you were a zombie that would rule...... — clarym29, Sun Apr 22 17:52

Moderation is all things. So trite. Yet I have nothing that is better to live by. when I stay moderate in all things I am closer to being in balance, and being in balance is what leads me to be... more
Well balance/harmony isn't stasis ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 22:03

imagine a teeter-totter. Imagine two children, one on each end. If one is much bigger than the other, then the weight of the heavier one lifts the lighter one into the air, and there they stay, one... more
Well — sai ram, Sun Apr 22 20:40

if you have a peanut allergy...there is no such thing as a moderate amount of peanuts....and being married as I am....what a moderate amount of "other women" could be?...unless zero is considered a... more
Humans understand quality but not quantity ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 22:05

people are mostly innumerate. That is why the Pythagoreans among us can defraud us in finance, because nobody outside the bank understands the exponential function! Shalom
the exception — sai ram, Sun Apr 22 23:41

they do understand quantity...if you say "all".....sai ram
that is the entire point — clarym29, Sun Apr 22 20:47

Life is learning--that's the point. I understand the concept too--trying to live to it is not easy. You can have your chocolate fudge--I'll take all of your cookie dough ice cream, though. And down... more
Remember, when driving a one ton vehicle ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 22:07

you are mostly an un-quided missile, without inertia keeping you in a straight line, it would be like riding the tiger, easy to get on, but impossible to get off. Shalom
I have — sai ram, Sun Apr 22 21:42

I have an moderate amount of fear when my wife drives....no matter what the speed.....can one have an moderate amount of pain?....and what would that be?....and more importantly....could you loan me... more
Sure, no problem — clarym29, Mon Apr 23 12:32

I've already sent you a moderate check --the check is moderately in the moderate mail. Sure, I experience a moderate amount of pain daily. I have taken to going to the gym for about an hour (time for ... more
my father-in-law — sai ram, Mon Apr 23 17:00

My father-in-law died last november at age 100...he was an example of moderation....with the exception of the vices, he didn't do them in moderation cause as far as I knew he didn't have any....He... more
Well the punishment for living forever is ... — Baruch, Mon Apr 23 21:02

you outlive everyone you ever knew or cared about, you outlive your home country, you outlive humanity, you get to witness the end of the universe. I certainly don't want to live to be 100, let alone ... more
Well ask yourself — sai ram, Mon Apr 23 21:25

how many men do I personally know that lived to be 100?.....that should give you an idea if its much of a possibility for us guys......a long life could be worse than a prison if you are... more
moderate rubber — clarym29, Mon Apr 23 17:32

sure the check is made of moderate rubber. I'm not saying that I have figured out life for the world. I am struggling with myself only. I do not wish to tell anyone else what to moderate or not... more
I try and moderately work around the house — sai ram, Mon Apr 23 19:07

but the wife says she doesn't believe in moderation along those lines....could you explain to her how moderation is a good thing....I wonder if one put on their resume that they work moderately...if... more
Go ahead — clarym29, Mon Apr 23 19:41

apply for work--I'll send you a glowing letter or recommendation--you are a true buzz-saw! Me--I'm too lazy in my retirement--moderately speaking, of course. As for you wife--one husband's moderation ... more
No...no... no — sai ram, Mon Apr 23 21:29

"I honed the talent of always working while the boss was watching"..........where in the hell do you go to honing school at?....I've told my wife as long as she was watching, I wouldn't do... more
Well — clarym29, Mon Apr 23 23:10

Well, until Hugh Heffner came along, one could not learn it much less teach it. I still don't like to talk about it.
Spoken like a peasant ... — Baruch, Mon Apr 23 21:00
Ah, well, I guess I have to admit — clarym29, Mon Apr 23 21:16

that it was all just a yoke.
yes — sai ram, Mon Apr 23 22:12

yes, the yoke was on us when we said "I do"......sai ram..
A moderate amount of deprivation ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 22:13

means you haven't overindulged. In pre-modern times, it was very hard if you weren't a king, to overindulge (see my cousin Henry VIII). This is why the Buddha told his monks and nuns ... only one... more
overinduldge — clarym29, Mon Apr 23 12:37

can also be overdoing it in the virtues (so-called); too much self-sacrifice can kill you; not enough can kill you to, maybe in a different way. It all boils down to the old saying--you gotta love... more
Humanity is a weed, not a blight ... — Baruch, Sun Apr 22 07:22

we are more advanced than fungus, but not as advanced as the animal kingdom. Shalom
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