I think this is where the Buddha was coming from, too. No God, gods, or woo woo required.
Why bandy about these comments like "woo woo"? In my opinion, you make your arguments appear childish.
I don't think so. It's an appropriate term in regard to what it refers to. I can understand the pique of those who might be sensitive to such terminology, though.
I'm not piqued, just curious as to you choice of terms.
You called my term "childish", which would indicate more than just simple curiosity.
What I said was that it made your argument look childish.
Every physical being expresses Love the only way they know how.
I purposefully direct the same pure positive energy through my intention.
We all WOO WOO. (To me means to Flow Love) I don't mind being being seen as seperate from anything.
All that tells me is that I am exactly where I need to be in this moment.
I Am Love, and so are you. Whether you ever come to this realization or not has no bearing on what you are.
You can't kill it but you can most certainly deny the presense of it.
I may tell you that you are right and this is how I see why you are right.- Thats a Woo Woo...
" How can I explain this experience?" More Woo
"Ha! wishful thinking, you idiot. How dare you proclaim the unprovable to be true." (No Woo for you.)
"Thank You for straightening me that out on that. Teacher."Thats a Woo Woo Too.
The woo woo express is in full throttle today!
He who makes lemonade out of lemons, is not the idiot. The idiot is he who's more comfortable following his id into the mundane, while his ego calls others names and casts dispersions on their insights.
I know what love is and I know what it's not. Abuse can be verbal as well as physical.
Love is eternal, the temporal will always pass away like chafe from the seed.
Why are you here if you despise "mysticism" so much? What do you think it is beyond "Woo-woo"? It is the mystery of what's missing. The "mystic" doesn't want things hidden from others, but to reveal what's been hidden. What could be missing from a Patriarchal mindset that might effect society, (even science & religion) as well as individual thoughts, choices, and lives?
The patient's mind, which is considering the situation in such an aloof and critcal manner, can only be something quite apart from neuronal reflex action. It is quite noteworthy that two streams of consciousness are flowing, the one driven by imput from the environment, the other by an electrode delivering sixty pulses per second to the cortex. The fact that there should be no confusion in the conscious state suggest that, although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.--- Wilder Penfield
Every physical being expresses Love the only way they know how.
I purposefully direct the same pure positive energy through my intention.
We all WOO WOO. (To me means to Flow Love) I don't mind being being seen as seperate from anything.
All that tells me is that I am exactly where I need to be in this moment.
I Am Love, and so are you. Whether you ever come to this realization or not has no bearing on what you are.
You can't kill it but you can most certainly deny the presense of it.
I may tell you that you are right and this is how I see why you are right.- Thats a Woo Woo...
" How can I explain this experience?" More Woo
"Ha! wishful thinking, you idiot. How dare you proclaim the unprovable to be true." (No Woo for you.)
"Thank You for straightening me that out on that. Teacher."Thats a Woo Woo Too.
The woo woo express is in full throttle today!
He who makes lemonade out of lemons, is not the idiot. The idiot is he who's more comfortable following his id into the mundane, while his ego calls others names and casts dispersions on their insights.
I know what love is and I know what it's not. Abuse can be verbal as well as physical.
Love is eternal, the temporal will always pass away like chafe from the seed.
Why are you here if you despise "mysticism" so much? What do you think it is beyond "Woo-woo"? It is the mystery of what's missing. The "mystic" doesn't want things hidden from others, but to reveal what's been hidden. What could be missing from a Patriarchal mindset that might effect society, (even science & religion) as well as individual thoughts, choices, and lives?
I don't "despise" mysticism at all, BBarton. Despising mysticism would be like despising a bladeless knife that has no handle. What I simply don't like is the way its advocates continue to make unjustified claims about the nature of the universe that they simply can't back up with a shred of evidence. Like, for instance, your claim that "Love is eternal".
Now, as I've often said, I'm all for love, compassion, empathy and the like, but you are claiming knowledge that both you and I know you don't possess.
Mysticism is not about "what's missing" (except, perhaps in the lives of its advocates), but about indulgent fantasies posing as hidden realities (woo woo).
If people want to feel both that they are important and somehow central in the cosmic drama, science provides legitimate ways to see mankind as much.
The Woo Woo Express should always be at full throttle. However in this example, It seems to be a one way ride.
Fear of self discovery is quite common. We humans dislike being wrong unless we can easily blame someone else for our mistakes.
It is way easier to just follow the crowd then to express an original thought.
I get it.
Namaste
Birk.
Your not claiming that your posts contain "original thought, are you, BIRK?
And if you will recall, I have been the one on this thread that has been suggesting that well-conducted introspection is the best formula for dispelling the dreams and deliriums in wich mysticism flounders..
And You are the one that is telling me that personal experience does not qualify as evidence of anything. I acknowlege your excuse to mistreat this group of beings.
We agree to disagree. It doesn't mean I Love you any less. And by no means would I imply that you are wrong. You are wearing Blinders Brother and they keep you from being curious about whats going on, on the side of the road as you trot past.