QuotePeople just weren't built for living in an ultra-capitalistic, ueber-materialistic, ueber-mechanistic society

1984? Now they can track you with the geo-position circuits in your cell phone.

But the Bohemian just does not produce enough food to stay alive.

Perhaps salt and pepper together?

Quote from: lisagurl on June 12, 2008, 01:26:31 PM

QuotePeople just weren't built for living in an ultra-capitalistic, ueber-materialistic, ueber-mechanistic society

1984? Now they can track you with the geo-position circuits in your cell phone.

But the Bohemian just does not produce enough food to stay alive.

Perhaps salt and pepper together?

That'll be a real trick. I don't have a cell phone. 

And actually, yes I can grow my own food. Do and have. Perhaps not like down on the plantation  but still, it does grow and I do eat.

And it's not a bohemian notion, Lisa. Just an observation of how we interact with ourselves and others. There are advantages, yes, in that culture. But there are also deep disadvatages that appear to very much drive us, collectively, mad. I should think a hard-headed realist such as yourself can see that as well.

Nichole

 For me, It was 4 hard months of deep, deep, Meditation. I friend realized how depressed I was about 4 years ago and suggested that I try going into deep meditation. Cause it helps him. Of course you need to a patient person to be able to reach what he called the Total Bliss Zone. Lest just say that it took me the better part of the 4 months to get it.

Now I'm rarely ever as depress as I was back then.

give it try. 

I almost forgot the one thing that kept me from killing myself!  I got a dog.

A few years ago I was on the verge of suicide.  I went to the mall & passed a pet shop. There was a golden retriever in the window that was trying to sleep.  Almost everyone who passed knocked on the window & woke her up.  I felt so bad for her.  I went in and asked to hold her.  She fell asleep in my arms.  I had to buy her.  There were a lot of papers to sign & explanations. She slept through the whole process of buying her.  I had to do all the signing with one hand.  She slept all the way home.

She had kennel cough and something else that I can't remember the 1st night.  I stayed up with her in my arms the whole night.

She became my best friend and reason to live.  Its impossible to kill yourself when a dog is licking your tears.  She is the reason I'm alive today.  I have kids & thought well... they'll get over it or I hardly see them anyway.  But the dog needs me.

Later I rescued a lab.  He's cool too and I love very much. I feel good that I saved his life.

A puppy isn't for everyone.  Puppies need lots of care for the 1st year or two.  They like to get into trouble.  Think about rescuing a dog instead of getting a puppy from a pet shop.  You can save a dog's life.  Think about it & research the breeds before you get a dog.  Depending on the breed dogs can live for 15 years or more.  Its a big commitment.  And, don't just chain him up in the backyard.  Dogs need love.  If it doesn't work out, make sure he finds a good home. Don't "set him free".  That's often a death sentence.

QuoteNamaste is not tradition, namaste is my way to recall where and who I am.

Remember that? It is all saved, it is very difficult to live without one foot in the rational world.

Indeed, did I ever disagree with that? And yes, the words of that PM or wherever website you received that from are true. That hardly makes someone irrational, to have a sense that she is greater and larger than a mere brain? I'm surprised you'd think so. Well, no, I suppose I'm not.

You think as you think. Biting at times, but not always drawing with the bite what your rationality seems to tell you you'll draw with it. The world is everso much larger than the brain, Lisa. And 'rationality' is so much smaller than the brain, only a part of it. Not the whole.

Hugs,

Nichole

Larger and smaller are very rational ideas.