Thought for the day - 6 October 2001

Subject: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Oct 01 - 11:16 PM

Albert Einstein on consciousness:

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 01 - 11:27 PM

So kat......Could you forward that to some of my creditors?

Also, I gotta' tell ya', I ain't chumming up with a cobra. See if you can get somebody else to embrace them.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Oct 01 - 11:49 PM

OH! Have you asked the cobra its preference; think they wanna cuddle with a saggy windy bottom tortoise? Or, I know, maybe we could send one of them to your creditors!? I'll bet a boa constrictor would be better, though, so they learn how ta really squeeze blood out of a turnip, eh?**BG**

Sheesh! I find this deep thought, think all kinds of hunky-dory things will be posted in response and in you come...whoosh! Teaching us all about keeping it in balance, huh?

luvyaPeaches...kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 12:04 AM

Well hell Sweetheart, at least I didn't saddle you with a friggin' heron dressed like Waylon Jennings!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: AliUK
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 12:33 AM

hey send along that boa to MY creditors aswell kat. Maybe then they'll let me out of the payment due on my car today. The thought was a beautiful one though sometimes a little difficult to put into practice, but something I will try to do today and onwards.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 12:50 AM

Come to think of it a guy named Francis said something similar a few centuries earlier.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 12:56 AM

So, Aliuk...you think your creditors would look great in a bright pink boa?

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: Amos
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 01:06 PM

Embracing all forms of life in consciousness as a way of breaking out of the prison bars of personal individuated isolation is a different scheme altogether from welching on debt. Quite the contrariwise!

You can't transcend barriers without responsibility -- it's the lack of responsibility that creates them, generally!

A

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: GUEST,Julchen
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 02:56 PM

Personally, I like the creditor thing!

But no dice, guys. I've tried that!

They must have lived before and spanned all levels of consciousness, for they don't fall for anything!

Not being able to transcend barriers without responsibilities is just what they told me, too.

So, amos, how much do I owe you?

Nifty forum by the way.

Julchen

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 03:41 PM

Kat,
I had a Jehovah Witness lady telling me and my son about Paradise. I believe in hearing everyone out at least once. How the lion will lie down with the lamb and we will not have to fear the lion. My question (which went unasked) was "Are we then all going to starve to death?" That is a serious question. How do we embrace all nature and living creatures with affection and survive?

No Spaw. Soylent Green is not the answer.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 04:17 PM

If you ever get bitten by a snake on your arse and you urgently need someone to suck the poison out - it's then you find who your real friends are!

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 04:21 PM

ok ....scorch...katdarling...and susan...i would gladly suck the poison out if you got bit in the arse...

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 04:41 PM

On the other hand 'Gin, you'd be a dead man.....

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - 6 October 2001
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Oct 01 - 08:01 AM

other bits from Albert Einstein:

'The important thing is not to stop questioning'

'I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called 'religious' then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.'

Wolfgang