Re: Mind's Eye Spirituality

Even though everything is predetermined and man is bound to do what he
does by various factors he is accountable for his actions as he has to
bear the consequences of all his acts of omission and commission.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:
> In terms of RP's accountable spirituality we might understand a duty
> to express dissent in the daily details of our actions.  We could all
> be doing the following, but aren't.
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> Support the decentralized, non-market economy
> Stop participating in financialization
> Redefine self-interest to exclude debt-servitude and dependence on
> consumerism and the Central State
> Act on your awareness that the nature of prosperity and financial
> security is changing
> Stop supporting distant concentrations of capital that subvert
> democracy by using their gargantuan profits to buy the machinery of
> State governance and regulation
> Stop supporting the debt-and-leverage based financial aristocracy
> Transfer your assets out of Wall Street (City of London and offshore)
> and into local enterprises or assets that do not enrich and empower
> Wall Street.
> Refuse to participate in consumerist status identifiers and the social
> defeat they create
> Vote in every election with an eye on rewarding honesty and truth and
> punishing empty promises
> Stop supporting inflationary policies such as "money creation" by the
> Federal Reserve and Federal deficit borrowing
> Become healthy, active and fit
> Embrace self-directed coherent plans and construct a resilient,
> diverse ecology of identity and meaning
>
> Suitably adapted the above could lead to material conditions of a very
> different spirituality.  I agree with RP and think we could make what
> he says a very practical politics.
>
> On May 2, 2:44 pm, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Spirit in the sense of the Absolute , God or Nature.
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>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM, James <ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 5/1/2012 11:50 AM, RP Singh wrote:
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>> >> As everything is predetermined it follows that everything is done by the
>> >> spirit , which makes all actions spiritual. But that has no meaning , so
>> >> we may say that that the word spiritual is obsolete and we should
>> >> distinguish between good actions and bad actions , good people and bad
>> >> people , scrupulous people and the unscrupulous. Also the definition of
>> >> the good and bad changes from clime to clime , but generally the
>> >> definition of good and bad is universal if you look at it with a
>> >> humanitarian eye. Thus spirit , being all-encompassing, goes into the
>> >> background.
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>> > Spirit in what sense RP? I am compelled to respond but don't want to sound
>> > foolish, and not haggling for a definition.