(September 19, 2023 at 1:35 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Great replacement meets great displacement.  First we had to worry they were coming for our jobs.  Then our culture.  Then our kids.  Now they're coming to steal our climateses.  

Anywho, I think it's a really decent idea to build up local industries - but if people are fleeing because of climate change that's a pretty strong indication that we shouldn't be building up industry there.  We likely will, because the people there can probably be squeezed for just a little bit more - but, obviously, that's not in the spirit of the proposal - just a description of it's inevitable execution.  Meanwhile, we'll debate "the migrant problem".

That was just one idea that I had. And this time I’m being reminded of my intellectual limits by Pope Francis. See the young man at 1:55 for instance. I think religion can be a great thing when it decides to be just that: Religion.

(September 19, 2023 at 5:38 am)Leonardo17 Wrote:

(September 15, 2023 at 9:11 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Do how do we know it works for everyone?

What would be a reasonable time frame to test and if it doesn't work to say its not effective for that person?

   I think the very issue of spirituality is not for everyone. And this is not an issue, the way I understand it, different souls have a different curriculum. One might be a British Aristocrat who came to experience grandiosity and power, the other might be in an intellectual middle class family who came to experience the limits of science and/or academic knowledge or you might be attracted to hardship and financial struggle or even physical illnesses but the way I understand it, even these are serving some spiritual purpose. The Indian Yogi Sadh guru is said to have experienced three lifetimes as a slave to learn things like humility perhaps, we don’t really know these things. So being a dogmatic religious bigot is also something like that. It probably serves that person to live in a world that is 5000 years old and in which primates never evolved once they were created.

(September 30, 2023 at 7:05 am)Ahriman Wrote:

(September 19, 2023 at 5:38 am)Leonardo17 Wrote:    I think the very issue of spirituality is not for everyone. And this is not an issue, the way I understand it, different souls have a different curriculum. One might be a British Aristocrat who came to experience grandiosity and power, the other might be in an intellectual middle class family who came to experience the limits of science and/or academic knowledge or you might be attracted to hardship and financial struggle or even physical illnesses but the way I understand it, even these are serving some spiritual purpose. The Indian Yogi Sadh guru is said to have experienced three lifetimes as a slave to learn things like humility perhaps, we don’t really know these things. So being a dogmatic religious bigot is also something like that. It probably serves that person to live in a world that is 5000 years old and in which primates never evolved once they were created.

Right, these things are not known by anyone, not even, in this case, by Sadhguru. Three lifetimes? People tend to get overly specific when they're lying to you.