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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Not that I wouldn't take the morphine myself for the pain, it can often make a patient more emotionally vulnerable than they would normally be, which can be difficult for the unprepared caregivers.
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Re: The Other Elephant In The Room
Senator Bernie Sanders 
"How does it happen that despite waging a horrific war, causing massive suffering, and ignoring the wishes of the President of the United States and the world community, the US Congress is about to send another $10 billion of unrestricted military aid to Israel with no strings attached? It is beyond comprehension that Congress would reward Netanyahu, even as he ignores everything the President of the United States says. Netanyahu leads the most right-wing government in Israel's history, a man who has dedicated his political career to killing the prospects of a two-state solution. Yet, this bill will give him a blank check paid for by the American taxpayer."
Shoshin1
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Well today I was selected as one of the 12 jurors, we were sworn in this morning and the trial is now underway....
Karma comes to mind....
Kinda like a Karma law enforcement agent...
Shoshin1
Re: The Elephant in the Room
@Jeroen said:
I must admit, I just think all these world leaders are more than a little insane. You would have to be to want to be a world leader, and then to go to war. And who wants to listen to insane, very cunning people justify their actions… what use is it to know the news, to be up to date with these things? You can’t do anything about it, your indignation serves no purpose.
Question: How can you tell when a politician is lying ?
Answer : When their lips are moving!
Shoshin1
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Sitting in the juror selection room in court waiting to see if my name is called, been here for just over three hours... To pass the time I'm exploring boredom, I'm finding this quite interesting....but I guess if I'm finding it interesting, then it can't really be boredom... 
;)
Shoshin1
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
For myself, boredom seems to be a teacher saying that I am not looking closely enough at what is in front of me.
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Nature and spirituality
It struck me a while ago that most religious views of the spiritual are useless obfuscations at best. For example, the Muslim heaven has rivers of wine. The Christian heaven and hell are places among the clouds and in the lava. These are things which are derivative, they are present on Earth and some enterprising priest has extended them into the spiritual world. Yet language brings these concepts to us as if they were truths. “Don’t you know what heaven is? Let me tell you…” They are cheap tricks to convince and frighten primitive people.
If you accept these things are all the dreams of other people and largely illusory, you are just left with places which are more pleasant and places which are less pleasant. If you wish to truly understand the world, a walk among the woodlands has more to teach you than the words of priests. You would see that everything is continually transforming, trees becoming soil becoming bushes, clouds becoming rain becoming streams, plains becoming mountains before being worn down again, and that all form is purely temporary.
It seems to me only reasonable that in a spiritual world there might be a similar principle, that acting beings get recycled from role to role according to the whims of the energetic winds. That as beings become more sophisticated they pass through a series of natural challenges to do with how well evolved they are, which are intended to teach them lessons.
Jeroen
Re: The Elephant in the Room
I must admit, I just think all these world leaders are more than a little insane. You would have to be to want to be a world leader, and then to go to war. And who wants to listen to insane, very cunning people justify their actions… what use is it to know the news, to be up to date with these things? You can’t do anything about it, your indignation serves no purpose.
Jeroen
Re: Saint Anthony of Padua preaches to the fishes
Why do you think you write on the forum?
There are many reasons why my ego might push me to write on the forum ...
But the main reason why I write , is to share some of the thoughts which make their presence felt...
However there always seems to be a Dharmic connection to be found somewhere in amongst some of the non sense I write..
Possible hints of compassion, empathy, kindness, sympathetic joy, satisfaction, attachment detachment clinging, craving, dissatisfaction...
Shoshin1
Re: Saint Anthony of Padua preaches to the fishes
Writing here unearths my conditioned responses of the past, which can then be compared against the less habituated versions of the same that occupy this present moment.
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