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So - we are strangers...
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Chapter 4 from The Path to Heavens...
We are strangers in this life - this life is not ours and we are just passing by - it is illogical to invest in a place you are leaving in a few hours...
We are splits between the soul and the body - the sou...
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Painful life...
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So, here I'm reading 'Path to Heavens' again - it looks like it is a seasonal thing!
Anyway way - today's point was simple:
'People love their lives on earth no matter how painful they are - and that doesn't make sense'
By love he means 'cling'...
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Two really beautiful things...
(blog entry)
(1) Potates with stew beef cubes cooked in the oven
(2) Scorpions 'Still Loving You'
Tolls on the highways...
(blog entry)
The infrastructure of the highways in the US is suffering and it is getting very old.
Fixing it requires humongous amounts of money.
Some states are (considering) leasing the highways to the private sector so that they take care of it.
Th...
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Changing mentalities in Saudia Arabia...
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So, it turns out that Saudia Arabia has a facility where Jihadists who are deemed 'correctable' are sent.
There, they try to re-introduce them to life, and change some of their ideas about how things should be.
It sounds from the Time articl...
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Chapter 4 from The Path to Heavens...
We are strangers in this life - this life is not ours and we are just passing by - it is illogical to invest in a place you are leaving in a few hours...
We are splits between the soul and the body - the soul belongs to above, so it yearns to above... the body belong to earth, it yearns to earth... we are who decide which one to supress and which one to feed...
Once our journey is over, we will be happy home...
Sun, November 11, 2007 - 9:38 PM
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So, here I'm reading 'Path to Heavens' again - it looks like it is a seasonal thing!
Anyway way - today's point was simple:
'People love their lives on earth no matter how painful they are - and that doesn't make sense'
By love he means 'cling' to life - they do not want to part with their lives...
It's a pretty sad thought...
I think it is hard to hate something you don't know - so, how are you going to hate death?
Sat, November 10, 2007 - 9:59 PM
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(1) Potates with stew beef cubes cooked in the oven
(2) Scorpions 'Still Loving You'
Tue, October 30, 2007 - 10:51 PM
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The infrastructure of the highways in the US is suffering and it is getting very old.
Fixing it requires humongous amounts of money.
Some states are (considering) leasing the highways to the private sector so that they take care of it.
The private sector can toll people using those road as much as they like... maybe affected by politicians?
The private sector takes the risk for new highways - and that relieves the government from worrying about it... However, some governments have...
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So, it turns out that Saudia Arabia has a facility where Jihadists who are deemed 'correctable' are sent.
There, they try to re-introduce them to life, and change some of their ideas about how things should be.
It sounds from the Time article that it is a laid back environment that truly change how people think...
But is this really true?
I think it could be for some people...
Sat, October 27, 2007 - 8:55 PM
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