And, wait again, how does egolessnes differ from being born again.....?
It differs only superficially. The form may appear very different, but not the underlying cause.
Personal realization of truth.........?
I’m arriving back in Baltimore.........
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99 wrote:Cy, wrt your post #479... am still doing look-ups of the first section of that post that you have numerically listed. There's a lot of info there so it's going to take a while until I can comment on it in an informed manner. Thanks for posting it and I'm finding this material very intriguing!
"This is an indeterminite problem. How shall I solve it? Pessimistically? Or optimistically? Or a range of probabilities expressed as a curve, or several curves?..........Well.....we're Loonies. Loonies bet. Hell, we have to! They shipped us up and bet us we couldn't stay alive. We fooled 'em. We'll fool 'em again!" Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
garzparz wrote:I have graduated with letters. Please no longer refer to me as garzzz, Eric, sham, grasshopper, oh wise one or dumbass.
I am now The Smelly Goat.
All behold the power of my great smell.
"The straightforward and good person should be like a smelly goat—you know when they are in the room with you.”
— Marcus Aurelius
You may also refer to me as either Smelly or Goat, as you like.
Free yourself from your perceptions, conceptions and imaginations is all I’m saying and then look again at things with your ‘true’ eyes. That’s all I’m smelling about.
https://www.schamper.ugent.be/daily/how-to-be-a-stoic
Listen to me now very closely...
Surrender and trust do not come from any belief or faith. A scientist would never surrender their reason, their greatest tool. Surrender and trust are born from “clear seeing”, not your version of details.
You think you see clearly
Not so sure anymore are you?
You will never see it all...never.
No mind can contain IT or conceive of IT.
Perhaps I have knocked you off balance.
Good, go all the way, fall...to rise.
But you will not be granted immortality brave knight, you will be given a good life.
Live it well and love all as yourself and consider all a friend well met...like doug does, for all our sakes.
This is the game, you must take your hands off the wheel.
That’s why you are here on OMF.
You are being given a chance to finally meet yourself, face to face.
Not God or a god damn alien, YOU!
But who the FUCK can you trust in this madhouse?!
Only yourself friends, only yourself.
A Lion will eat you if you put your head in its mouth, it’s too late by then.
If you see ‘clearly’ and understand how things work, you don’t have to believe anything and you will be free of doubt and fear and your suffering will end. Then you can live a happy life.
Thomas Jefferson died with Seneca on his night stand. He based the Declaration of Independence on Stoic practicality and metaphysics. I am his child and he is one of my fathers.
Pick good role models.
Fake it til you make it.
dan wrote:
How did I get myself into an apparently peculiar situation..... peculiar company, anyway?
Garzparz wrote: Cy, your history is impressive. I don’t know what it means, but I respect it.
Garzparz wrote:“When a man lies he is acting impiously toward Nature and he creates disorder within himself by entering into conflict with the natural order of the universe.” — Marcus Aurelius (q.v. Meditations, 9.1)
Dan, stoics see all of Man as their community. How little you really know.
It must be Truth above all else, you should know that as Human beings. You do know that, you just forgot.
JOFO wrote:JOFO: we're all perfectly imperfect
if you believe all things are connected, isn't stoicism what we should expect of an ethical community? to collectively come to and understanding our place in the present, our cause and effect, to be responsible.
we have only one goal; to live well
Garzparz wrote:GarzP: No thief can ever steal your will.
Cyrellys speaking as Banais Righi, reply to a low-level Illumined descendant wrote: wrote:"And how do you know so much? You know you're not allowed to..."
lol my friend, there are some things in this world far older than even the illumined ones. They don't usually get involved. But Synchronicity has called all parties to the table.
"This is an indeterminite problem. How shall I solve it? Pessimistically? Or optimistically? Or a range of probabilities expressed as a curve, or several curves?..........Well.....we're Loonies. Loonies bet. Hell, we have to! They shipped us up and bet us we couldn't stay alive. We fooled 'em. We'll fool 'em again!" Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
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