Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Funkalicious! Stupendiferous! Holy moly rollin'!
Trumpets please. Where are the trumpets?!!

It's more universal. Judaism is hardly the first (or only) religion to feature scriptures or belief systems referring to "chosen-ness." All the major (monotheistic) religions have indulged in that kind of religious dynamic at various times.

How did I know? Health care massacre in progress on the hill. Soldiers being sacrificed to roadside IED's in Afghanistan. Coming to pass. More of the same.

G Man, what a guy...
"Gurdjieff stated that maleficent events such as wars and so on could not possibly take place if people were more awake." Hey, he sounds like me!

Yes Hes, God is beyond 'God,' no matter how much we argue about it, or how many boxes we try to throw at it, or around it. That's how I've always perceived it. Yeah, and what gets me is all these folks trying to buy better seats in heaven by sucking up to their dogmas of choice, although it's almost...

Just very glad that I read. (3 outta 6).

I'm guessing, probably.

So?

"a disguise even to ourselves," the lines we create.
now this, I have seen evidence to support.

Or,
If We stop "personifying,"*
He will stop persecuting.

* for lack of a better term.

Yes. Go deep within and listen. Reminded me of my journey across the Nevada desert on 9-11-02, and others nearby in time and spirit.. "Reverb" (re-post) Today is Sept. 11, 2002. Along Stillwater Range I crawl on a chalk white sea known as Carson Sink, another magnificent Great Basin dead heart sump....

Well, if this is about the stink that a relative few have raised about Jerry being a "bigot" toward people with disabilities, I'm not sure I fully understand the mean-spiritedness of some of those accusations. Not saying that 80+-year-old Jerry old hasn't had a coarse slip of the tongue occasionally...

Why all the dumping on Jerry et al. in this thread? Not sure I get that. Is it really that bad?

Dino, this is beautiful, it really is.
I wish I could write so beautifully.
Moments keep vanishing.

Great stuff. So many things seemingly impossible to answer/test. What is the universe expanding into, if not itself in some form? Sure, the universe is expanding, and maybe even at expanding rates, but has it always been so? Is the rate of expansion's momentum enough to indefinitely sustain itself, ...

Reminded me of a stray thought I tossed out last February. Had to hunt it down out of curiosity... I worked in a glass shop for a while. It struck me, the truth of glass, how similar a window is to a mirror. a fairly incomplete, undeveloped thought-- basically seeing into one another is like looking...