tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.comments2024-03-12T13:36:14.856-07:00moleDalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comBlogger4048125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-17425674233763902422024-03-12T13:36:14.856-07:002024-03-12T13:36:14.856-07:00Thanks Rajani!Thanks Rajani!Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-77489257717678871442024-03-11T21:21:02.019-07:002024-03-11T21:21:02.019-07:00Enjoyed this poem (got here from Via Negativa'...Enjoyed this poem (got here from Via Negativa's Poetry digest).Rajanihttp://thotpurge.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-69319619240151617382024-03-02T12:08:48.259-08:002024-03-02T12:08:48.259-08:00Amen, Gwynt.Amen, Gwynt.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-18135991859632627282024-03-01T00:55:53.113-08:002024-03-01T00:55:53.113-08:00Painful though it may be, facing up to, and accept...Painful though it may be, facing up to, and accepting, Reality will always be the best answer.GWYNTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-82006086495569242792024-02-09T17:33:10.487-08:002024-02-09T17:33:10.487-08:00Thank you Thank you Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-60846222085263027122024-02-08T11:16:10.966-08:002024-02-08T11:16:10.966-08:00Somewhere along the line, I decided to not get inv...Somewhere along the line, I decided to not get involved in discussions or even mild exchanges about the existence of a god. Working with scientists - something I am not, I just edit their papers - has given me some interesting guidelines. Take Popper's falsification principle, which I would defend any day.<br /><br />But then there were my inlaws, devoted Irish catholics, extremely generous, gentle and accepting me, the heathen, with open arms. Their life was full of religious experiences, they saw and met their god regularly and were never really surprised, simply grateful. <br /><br />When my mother in law was dying of pancreatic cancer several miles away in hospital, I was minding her beloved grandchildren, all below school going age. We were drawing pictures in the garden when they suddenly stopped and came to sit beside me, surprisingly quiet. At the same time, I felt my face flush and the kids all looked feverish to me. Minutes later the phone rang, she had just died.<br />I call that my religious experience.Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-24739476308055636872024-02-07T15:17:28.957-08:002024-02-07T15:17:28.957-08:00I like tours of your brain.
Mine is different. I...I like tours of your brain. <br /><br />Mine is different. If I've learned anything, it's that I am fundamentally not a seeker. In fact it's hard to figure out WHAT I've been doing with my mind all this time. Whatever this is, it's innate.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-18812191883205331112024-02-07T11:21:02.917-08:002024-02-07T11:21:02.917-08:00The best Buddhists I've known are utterly undo...The best Buddhists I've known are utterly undogmatic. They don't care what anyone 'believes,' even themselves. They are guided by their own experience, accumulated with the guidance of wise persons who have preceded them on the path.<br /><br />I think you can be thoroughly atheist, agnostic, skeptical, and unbelieving and still be an excellent Buddhist.Pascale Parindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-1803092602172893972024-02-07T10:42:52.386-08:002024-02-07T10:42:52.386-08:00This speaks to me in many ways, I share your admir...This speaks to me in many ways, I share your admiration and yet, remain at a loss as to how people can be so certain - if that's what they are.<br /><br />However, science in my understanding is the testing of theories in search of facts, reproducible facts, based on evidence. Truth is maybe not a term I would use in this context.Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-82075529080927877332024-01-22T10:51:46.605-08:002024-01-22T10:51:46.605-08:00<3<3Alyssa Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568095798426378965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-23219901182744556772024-01-18T08:17:16.148-08:002024-01-18T08:17:16.148-08:00Tell her what the Brits say: a change is as good a...Tell her what the Brits say: a change is as good as a rest. Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-7391779537418096002024-01-11T12:53:32.289-08:002024-01-11T12:53:32.289-08:00I know a pet sitter in your area!I know a pet sitter in your area!Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-57476471212380163412023-12-30T00:09:55.900-08:002023-12-30T00:09:55.900-08:00I can't count the number of rigorously trained...I can't count the number of rigorously trained stupidities I still practice. I can't count them because the ones I know I practice, though numerous, are probably a lot fewer than the ones I don't know I practice. I'm civilized!Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12413428307746581762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-11905176013323614852023-12-14T05:11:32.897-08:002023-12-14T05:11:32.897-08:00Your post reminds me of the book, The Untethered S...Your post reminds me of the book, The Untethered Soul. It might give you a different perspective. I don't remember how to pronounce my Chinese name, although I did write it out on a picture on my wall, many, many years ago.Bathwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08992873498618424363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-50098288055690668232023-12-13T18:57:35.626-08:002023-12-13T18:57:35.626-08:00I worry about squandering time.
And so I divide m...I worry about squandering time.<br /><br />And so I divide my time into two buckets: time spent doing things that are meaningful to me and time faffing about. I acknowledge that faffing about, lying fallow, idling, watching stupid streaming shows… this things recharge me to do the other, meaningful things.<br /><br />Honestly, it makes NO sense. But that's how I think about it.Pascale Parindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-65622564732249612032023-11-30T08:55:29.454-08:002023-11-30T08:55:29.454-08:00Taking the world for a waiting room sounds like a ...Taking the world for a waiting room sounds like a familiar mistake. As I watch my college-age kids navigate the world I realize how much power we each have that we don't use. Stating a goal and asking others for help with it can get you a long way. But most of the time most of us are bouncing off of the world and other humans. Clear thinking and being able to appreciate some moments are gifts. Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-33386834772663587322023-11-16T13:16:55.412-08:002023-11-16T13:16:55.412-08:00...oh, but I guess my point at the start was not s......oh, but I guess my point at the start was not so much in re Hamas as in re the Palestinians: supposing there were an obviously legitimate and effective government of Palestine, could it justify declaring war against Israel? And I think it could. As vice versa, any time these last eighty years. There's no dearth of legitimate grievances.<br />Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-5570738143703307222023-11-16T13:11:11.009-08:002023-11-16T13:11:11.009-08:00Yeah, those are both important points. I don't...Yeah, those are both important points. I don't actually know what Hamas says about the casus belli. Basically they have always regarded themselves as at war with Israel. <br /><br />The point about whether Hamas is the legitimate government of Gaza is not maybe decidable, which of course is one of the reasons negotiations get stuck. Israel has never had someone to negotiate with who could truthfully promise or deliver an end to the constant attacks on Israeli civilians. But certainly Hamas is/was the acting government of Gaza; no one else has authority there. (This is partly Netanyahu's fault: he thought it very clever to undercut the Palestinian Authority by dealing directly with Hamas and giving them goodies.)<br /><br /><br />Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-16050557150218866592023-11-16T07:35:26.728-08:002023-11-16T07:35:26.728-08:00First, I hope you will get better whatever ails yo...First, I hope you will get better whatever ails you!<br /><br />Thank you for writing this. I find myself veering between conflicting thoughts and debates and depending on whom I speak to and what I read, get more conflicted by the day.<br /><br />I would like to add to your point 1) that Hamas has openly and repeatedly stated that their aim is the annihilation of all Jews, see article 7 of the Hamas Charter, available online. With this in mind, would you still hold on to your justification for the attack? Also, while Hamas was elected with a majority in 2006, when public opinion polls that same year revealed that the majority of the population wanted peace negotiations with Israel, Hamas began to rule autocratically. There have been no more elections since. <br />I don't want to go on, I have no idea where I stand other than that I come from a country that carries enormous guilt.<br />Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-38315529779402478662023-11-10T09:57:08.571-08:002023-11-10T09:57:08.571-08:00This is beautiful, Dale, reflecting such a complic...This is beautiful, Dale, reflecting such a complicated love and sorrow.Christi Krughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10207062849832227699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-49521194768137381042023-10-18T01:16:13.788-07:002023-10-18T01:16:13.788-07:00Yes. Grief and despair.Yes. Grief and despair.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-56329440934303541382023-10-16T15:02:54.057-07:002023-10-16T15:02:54.057-07:00"My business is grief." Yes. I feel that..."My business is grief." Yes. I feel that way, lately, very much.rbarenblathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882606147795083729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-41890978585802328872023-10-11T15:53:06.899-07:002023-10-11T15:53:06.899-07:00(o)(o)Pilgrim/Heretichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588407758172717893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-82121670985839332642023-08-03T08:04:22.010-07:002023-08-03T08:04:22.010-07:00Yes it is! Yes it is! Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-1773334900526164132023-07-31T10:29:49.945-07:002023-07-31T10:29:49.945-07:00I just wanna say I love both those versions of &qu...I just wanna say I love both those versions of "Diamonds and Rust," so I appreciate that analogy. (I'm also going through a process of re-assessing thinkers and ideologies that have influenced me. Re-reading the classics, however one defines that, is certainly one of the chief pleasures of growing old.)Dave Bontahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12157190911655784958noreply@blogger.com