Re: Mind's Eye Re: Bondage

Slip and Gruff are missed.  Watched a Cronenberg film on Jung and
Freud last night - a bit limper than Japanese knots Don.  Here we are
clinging to a rock with no real idea of where we come from,
constrained by the speed of light (owing to the role of momentum in E
= mc2 and right angled triangles) and a biology that collapses in the
absence of gravity, has us slaves to genes and algorithms of an
information world that arises when chemicals get together.  The
insights of science debunk myths of origin for what they are - myths -
and yet knowing the chains of illusion seems little help in getting
beyond them.  We could be happier not knowing in the ignorant bliss
that waits for mass extinction not knowing it comes.  Politicians can
still get away with urging us to be proud of our nations (of the
Britain and USA using concentration camps in Southern Africa and the
Philippines around 1900 - the vile murders in the Congo originating in
Berlin meetings in the 1860s that continue today in imperialism's
changed form?).  We are bound by needs to make livings - something
technology has probably rendered unnecessary but we are still kept in
ideological shackles as surely as women caged in black bags.




There has to be more than this RP.  The spiritual turns with the
material and I'm not sure either has to 'come first'.  England look
like winning the Test series in India.  The game is now ultimately
dull with a day and a half to go and all of India praying for a
miracle.  I suspect rigsy and I would be plotting sight-seeing on our
way out through the beer tent and cooling gin had she been unwise
enough to venture forth to sample the cultural delights of such old
colonialism!  We'd just be hearing the Indian roar as the ball starts
to spin and the English captain is victim of a bad umpiring decision
not subject to technological review.  We'd still leave - there is only
so much cricket one can force on friends.  Relief from northern
hemisphere weather would be good though rigs.  I sense we are waiting
for a cultural-spiritual miracle as likely as one on the flat pitch in
Nagpur.  I suspect our bombardment with trivia is the problem Don.
 Much as i can imagine us together in a heroic last wicket stand
thwarting the guile of India's spinners (the first ever Test was
between the USA and Canada so you have the pedigree!), I guess the
good guy is the one who changes light bulbs for his old neighbours.
What might we be without material bondage and with religion we could
believe in other than myth RP?   I suspect we pre-select defeat in
believing the condition impossible.

On Dec 15, 3:57 pm, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know just what you mean.. Eric Clapton is exciting to listen to
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> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Don Johnson <daj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...and here I thought this was going to be a lesson in interesting Japanese
> > knots. Maybe next time. i miss Slipdisc.
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> > I am bound by my morals. Even though i may step outside these boundaries
> > from time to time I generally feel bad about it and try to make amends as
> > i'm capable. I WANT to be the good guy. Problem with kids today(harrumph) is
> > they want to be bad boyzz. It's cooler.
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> > The point on limitations is spot on. i hear a blistering solo from Eric
> > Clapton and am spell bound.  BB King I can do all day. Albert too. Clapton
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> > On Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:24:51 AM UTC-6, RP Singh wrote:
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> >> Are we bound to see what we want to see? I am bound by Nature which
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> >> environment surrounding me.
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> >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, andrew vecsey <andrew...@gmail.com>
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> >> > We are bounded by our limitations and desires. In the end we can not see
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> >> > there is to be seen and we see mainly what we want to see.
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> >> > On Saturday, December 15, 2012 11:51:07 AM UTC+1, RP Singh wrote:
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> >> >> It is I who see , I who hear, I who reason , imagine , understand ; and
> >> >> again it is I who am angry , loving , jealous ,  and I who act and
> >> >> react. So
> >> >> where is my bondage ???
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