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You've likely seen one on Tribe before. I'm a quirky gal, extroverted but reserved with regard to who I 'friend'. If you and I know or have met one another in 'Real Life [tm]' and hit it off, or we have a long history of chatting often in thread on a mutual tribe and it is convivial, then I'd be cool with the 'friending', but I kinda like to limit my friends because I do actively read their Blogs, 'What I've Been Saying' modules, and the like. Otherwise, I'm not a stranger friend type.
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अस्तीति शाश्वतग्राहो नास्तीत्युच्चेददर्शनं
astīti śāśvatagrāho nāstītyuccedadarśanaṁ
(To say) "Is," is eternity-grasping; (to say) "Is not," is a nihilistic view.
तस्माद् अस्तित्वनास्तित्वे नाश्रीयेत विचक्षणः।
tasmād astitvanāstitve nāśrīyeta vicakṣaṇaḥ|
Therefore, those of discerning vision would not have recourse to Is-ness and Is-not-ness.
"Emptyness is not something sacred in which to believe. It is an emptying: a letting go of the fixations and compulsions that lock one into a tight cell of self that seems to exist in detached isolation from the turbulent flux of life. This emptying leads to a falling away of constrictive and obstructive habits of mind that - as in removing a barrier across a river - allows the dammed up torrent of life to flow freely.
Letting go, even momentarily and unintentionally, of that desperate and obsessive grip on self does not obliterate you but opens you up to a fleeting and highly contingent world that you share with other anxious creatures like yourself. This can be frightening; for the only certainty in such a world is that at some point you will die. You realize that your self is not a fixed thing or personal essence but a tentative and confused story hastening toward its conclusion. This might prompt you to scurry back to the familiar perceptions, beliefs, and routines in which you feel secure. But once the process of emptying has started, to cling to such consolations will hinder you from feeling fully alive. To become empty...is to encounter the raw, unfiltered contingency of life itself. The challenge of emptiness is to plunge into life's torrent rather than hover uncertainly on its brink. "
Sorry for the repeat reminder, but I thought I would repost it since I have a mysterious blog post reply somewhere. If you have replied to a post I made more than 4 entries back, send me a PM because I won't search page after page after page of the archive looking for it.
:) Sorry. :)
Tue, August 25, 2009 - 9:58 PM
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www.nature.com/nature/jou...60950a.html
Opinion: Nature 460, 950-951 (20 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/460950a; Published online 19 August 2009
Biologists napping while work militarized
Malcolm Dando1
Top of pageAbstractAs researchers discover more agents that alter mental states, the Chemical Weapons Convention needs modification to help ensure that the life sciences are not used for hostile purposes, says Malcolm Dando.
J. Field
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Still working on all of these, but as I have thoughts about them, I'll elaborate.
1]Hegelian dialectic = thesis-antithesis-synthesis
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2] This above all to thine own self be true, ~=> And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. [Most people only know the first part.]
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3] Romans 14:13-14 [I'm not christian, but it causes one to ponder the judgement & hinderence that goes in the name of christianity, yet the bible says not to judge or hinder.]
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4]The truth about suffering is that it exists. Life is suffering. Birth, aging and dying is suffering. Our reaching into the world of dreams, our desire to fulfill what cannot be fulfilled is what brings us our suffering. Only when we have broken the mirrors of illusion can we end our suffering.
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5]"Harmony is Dynamic"
6] I am the nail.
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7] Life is contingent.
8] You can opress and deprive a people to a great degree, even persecute and starve them to death, but the moment you take away what they believe is their 'god-given' right, even the most meek will rise up and turn against the most powerful. They will turn the world on its ear and overwhelm even the most established of institutions.
9] Ghandi's 7 things will destroy the world: Wealth Without Struggle, Pleasure Without Conscience,Knowledge Without Character, Commerce (Business) Without Morality (Ethics), Science Without Humanity, Religion Without Sacrifice Politics Without Principle.
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10] Take_the_Middle_Road
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11] Masakatsu Agatsu: The Greatest Victory is Self Mastery.
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12] Irimi : Awase
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I love words, I find them to be fantastic ways of understanding culture and history, but it's also just fun to discover esoterica. For example; did you know that Catholic originally meant 'liberal' or 'Universal'?[^1] Or that man is simply a root of person and that in Old English one was either a waepmann (male) or weifmann (female)?[^2] The origin is associated with a Sanskrit word of Manu which is also associated with the Indo-European word Mind.
Some other fun and obscure words are :
Cacophemism ~The substitution of a mild expression with a harsher one; opposite of "euphemism"
~also a Cacophonophilist is a person who loves harsh sounds. A Maledicent is given to evil speaking. Of an utterance: slanderous.
Colposinquanonia ~ The assessment of a woman's attractiveness based on her bust.
Dactylonomy ~ Calculating mathematical values using one's fingers.
Dystmesis ~ inserting a word in the middle of another in an unlikely or unexpected place; a form of tmesis. "Unbe-freaking- lievable."
Enclitic ~ A word or syllable which is joined with the preceding word in such a way as to lose its own independent accent. "Prithee," which is a shortening of "pray thee," and "em" in, "Get'em!".
Floccinaucinihilipilification ~ The categorization of something that is useless or trivial.
Gesticulation ~ To indicate or express with gestures.
Gargalesthesia ~ The perception or judgment of tickling.
Glossolalia ~ Fabricated, non-meaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or some schizophrenic syndromes.
Hamartiology ~ The doctrine of sin; that part of theology which treats sin.
Homophone ~ A word which has the same pronunciation as another but different meaning, derivation, or spelling. differs from homonym
Lethologica ~ The inability to remember a particular word; as it might be on the tip of one's proverbial tongue.
Malapropism ~ The ludicrous misuse of a word or words, especially in mistaking a word for another resembling it.
Misandry ~ Hatred of males.
Mondegreen ~ A misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing, especially of the lyrics to a song. The origin is from the ballad of the 'Bonny Earl of Murray' in which the phrase 'Laid him on the green' is warped into Lady Mondegreen.
Mumpsimus ~ A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant and bigoted opponent of reform.
Quidnunc ~ An inquisitive person; a gossip; a newsmonger.
Parrhesia ~ Frankness or freedom of speech.
Perpilocutionist ~ One who expounds on a subject of which he has little knowledge.
I'm sure this page will be updated. Check back and I'll ad more words.
[^1]Oxford English Dict (online)
3. In current use: a. Of universal human interest or use; touching the needs, interests, or sympathies of all men.
a1631 DONNE Serm. lxvi. (1640) So are there some..Catholique, universal Psalmes, that apply themselves to all necessities. 1704 SWIFT Mech. Operat. Spirit (1711) 279 All my Writings..for universal Nature, and Mankind in general. And of such Catholick Use I esteem this present Disquisition. 1838-9 HALLAM Hist. Lit. III. v. §4 Catholic poetry, by which I mean that which is good in all ages and countries. 1844 EMERSON Lect. New Eng. Ref. Wks. (Bohn) I. 264 A grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object. 1867 FROUDE Short Stud. 363 What was of catholic rather than national interest.
b. Having sympathies with, or embracing, all: said of men, their feelings, tastes, etc.; also fig. of things. (Closely connected with 8.)
1586 BRIGHT Melanch. iv. 16 The stomach becommeth the most Catholicke part in all the bodie, carying a more indifferent affection to what soever is receiued then anie part beside. 1817 COLERIDGE Biog. Lit. I. iv. 73 Others more catholic in their taste. 1620 J. PARKINSON Paradisus xxvi. 215 Such as are Catholicke obseruers of all natures store. 1833 LAMB Elia, Books & Read., I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. 1851 CARLYLE Sterling I. iv. (1872) 31 Of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic). 1878 STEVENSON Inland Voy., On these different manifestations, the sun poured its clear and catholic looks. 1879 TOURGEE Fool's Err. xxxviii. 271 A man of unusually broad and catholic feeling.
[^2]Oxford English Dict (online)
In Old English the words distinctive of sex were wer WERE n.1 and w f WIFE n., w pmann WAPMAN n. and w fmann WOMAN n.; both the masculine terms became obs. by the end of the 13th cent., leaving English with no means of distinguishing the two major senses. The genderless uses of man to mean ‘human being’ or ‘person’ are now often objected to on the grounds that they depreciate women, and are freq. replaced by human, human being, or person.
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