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    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post
    I wanted to see how these smilies work together.



    A mirthful combination, IMO.

    Hard to top that one ... I have dancing banana envy ...

    How 'bout a culturally popular meme implanted by the "smilies that be" in their efforts to destroy the family unit ... transgendered smilies ...




    No?


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    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post
    Thank you, Seikou-Kishi. Your contribution is generous.

    During a smoke today the word came up in association with something else and it seemed to me that the w-o-r part of the word was as you said and indicated worth/value.

    I enjoyed your interpretation for a French Masonic lodge head. Very good.
    Frank Herbert's "Destination:Void" series is really good, in The Jesus Incident, the main character is the ship created the first novel (namesake of the series) that achieves consciousness and becomes a "god" and demands of people "how will you worSHIP?", fun and profound read...it stands alone well if you don't have time for the whole series:

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    I include this in the hope that people will take four minutes out to listen to something truly moving. It's not a song, just a moving piece of music. I find I never grow tired of it and the music never wears thin. It's a Japanese piece of music, but since it does not feature vocals, this doesn't matter.

    I just thought while things were a little more sedate here in the tent, I'd share something that brings me joy in the hope that it might offer you the same. It is Gakkou no Okujou de ("On the School Rooftop") by the Japanese composer Ike Yoshihiro.

    It's probably tuned to 440Hz, but perhaps people might enjoy it :-)


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    Thank you SK ... 4 minutes well spent

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    Agreed, Calz.
    "To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" -- Voltaire

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    Very soothing and peaceful. Great find S-K.

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    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post

    The quickening is upon us.
    I am feeling a deep lull, in what appears to be the face of this.

    I had to bring about the end of a wild creature, Saturnday night. It was in the form of a very persistent armadillo, and many methods of determent were tried, to no avail. I feel very heavy in the wake of the event, but likewise I have gratitude for what was somehow a gift in some kind of hoo doo medicine kind of way. Armadillo, medicine of boundaries. I should have some good ones, now. Calz chided me for not posting for the last few days, I told him if Mod took Sunday off, I took off the whole weekend. We wizards are always watching, if not participating. The several pages since my last post, I have enjoyed very much.
    Sometimes God shines his magic light beam from outer space, and it works in mysterious ways.

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    The last couple of days have been momentous for me in mostly private ways (hint). They have left me questioning how to proceed in a useful fashion. Lack of meaningful dialogue around subjects of importance leaves me puzzled. Not a bad place, just not a
    productive one.

    Haven't had coffee yet. I have a delicious organic Sumatran batch too.

    What am I waiting for?????

    Nothing. A brewing I will go.

    @PL. I did not see your above post until mine went up.
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    That was lovely SK - it reminded me a little of Mendelssohn's Wings of a Dove . . .
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    Quote Originally posted by modwiz View Post

    Haven't had coffee yet. I have a delicious organic Sumatran batch too.

    What am I waiting for?????

    Nothing. A brewing I will go.
    I'll be right over to enjoy an afternoon cup with You : ) ...spreadn' my wings!


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    Quote Originally posted by PurpleLama View Post
    I am feeling a deep lull, in what appears to be the face of this.

    I had to bring about the end of a wild creature, Saturnday night. It was in the form of a very persistent armadillo, and many methods of determent were tried, to no avail. I feel very heavy in the wake of the event, but likewise I have gratitude for what was somehow a gift in some kind of hoo doo medicine kind of way. Armadillo, medicine of boundaries. I should have some good ones, now. Calz chided me for not posting for the last few days, I told him if Mod took Sunday off, I took off the whole weekend. We wizards are always watching, if not participating. The several pages since my last post, I have enjoyed very much.
    Armadillo is one of my medicine animals*, as if anyone couldn't guess.

    We forgive you Purple Lama.



    *(I do list my medicine allies in the beginning of this thread. It was done for a reason.)
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    Mod, I've got a question for you. It's something I've been thinking a lot of lately.

    How much a part of gaining access to real understanding... is being in a state of truly feeling worthy of it?

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    Quote Originally posted by eaglespirit View Post
    I'll be right over to enjoy an afternoon cup with You : ) ...spreadn' my wings!

    Like other times we have had but, different.
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    Quote Originally posted by CurtisW View Post
    Mod, I've got a question for you. It's something I've been thinking a lot of lately.

    How much a part of gaining access to real understanding... is being in a state of truly feeling worthy of it?
    Almost everything, IMO. I am being exact with your language here, "real understanding". Feeling truly worthy, might be different than 'knowing true worth'. True worth comes from knowing thyself. I like the word 'thy' because it contains the (true) nobility, inherent in the formula that Know thyself is. 'Know yourself' has a more mundane language association with it that is not helpful when escaping the mundane is the focus.

    The word 'deem' as in, "I deem it useful" indicates value. To redeem a coupon is to claim the value the coupon holds towards a purchase. Redemption is a re-valuing.

    To know thyself is to redeem thyself.

    Thanks for the question, Curtis.

    Time out to brew coffee. Won't be long.
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    Quote Originally posted by CurtisW View Post
    Mod, I've got a question for you. It's something I've been thinking a lot of lately.

    How much a part of gaining access to real understanding... is being in a state of truly feeling worthy of it?
    I touched on this slightly many posts back, true humility is not about being in a lower place, but being in our proper place. An enviable position it is to be in control of one of these human bodies. Getting outside of our conditioning, we hear something like Christ talking to his disciples, saying "Ye are gods". Seeing deep into the truth of one's self, one learns that nothing in this planetary sphere is more worthy than one's own self. This is, however, a starting position, that the meanest among us has deep down, but through incorrect behavior one creates conditions that must be met before one might get back to that position. The meanest of us, psychopaths, murderers, etc.... One not having such to deal with such in the consciousness will mainly have incorrect ideas/beliefs standing in the way, mostly about one's self.
    Sometimes God shines his magic light beam from outer space, and it works in mysterious ways.

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