Re: Mind's Eye Spirituality

Many days my song goes 'Swing low..' sung low, slow, vocals only- no
choir. She is more upbeat, Tracy Chapman I think.

On 5/9/2012 8:24 AM, rigsy03 wrote:
> Well, some women are enchanted with the strong, silent type of male,
> James. :-)
>
> On May 7, 7:31 pm, James<ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've found the best thing a man can do is work hard and keep his mouth
>> shut, keeps us out of trouble at home and work. Afraid mine is of little
>> use here, it is silent and numb to me for the time being. It can be
>> peaceful, knowing what one has to do, and many thoughts to set aside is
>> a burden. This might be me signing off for a while, all the ideas here
>> are very inspiring and disruptive, normally something I cherish.
>>
>> Be well and godspeed
>>
>> On 5/7/2012 6:01 PM, gabbydott wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Otherwise known as the learning experience and the feeling that you have
>>> developed in its course.
>>
>>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, RP Singh<123...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:123...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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<nwte...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:nwte...@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.
>>
>>> > 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
>>> <mailto:123...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> >> Spirit in the sense of the Absolute , God or Nature.
>>
>>> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM, James<ashkas...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:ashkas...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> >> > On 5/1/2012 11:50 AM, RP Singh wrote:
>>
>>> >> >> 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.
>>
>>> >> > Spirit in what sense RP? I am compelled to respond but don't
>>> want to sound
>>> >> > foolish, and not haggling for a definition.- Hide quoted text -
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