From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   > looks like the end of the road here nagual.   
   > the trail went cold,  what can i tell ya?   
      
   ### - nada to tell, era's come to their ends and we're supposed to learn   
   something from the whole experience/road or be doomed to repeat it heh,   
   the only real question being: was it a path with heart or not?   
      
   would personally have to say that it did indeed have heart, plenty   
   actually, the vast majority of peeps have met here, their sometimes   
   annoying/petty sides notwithstanding heh, were decent enough sorts from   
   all walks of life, all actively 'probing' the world rather than just being   
   a passive 9-to-5 type, seekers all, and that made 'em more interesting   
   than just yer average plonker in the street...   
      
      
      
      
   > i only spent 26 years here pulling my pud.   
      
   ### - smile... if it hadn't been 'here' it likely just would've been   
   somewhere else instead? (that's the type you were + it could have been far   
   worse i mean haha, ya could've just spent the last 26 years in the   
   scientologists! LOL ! think on THAT oh lordy, and then kiss the ground   
   haha)   
      
   as it goes... cc's thing is/was just about the closest thing to buddhism   
   without actually being buddhism? i.e., buddhism is just about the only   
   movement (of supposed self-development) that doesn't worship some kinda   
   ultimate deity (no god) so ALL the effort involved perforce has to be a   
   personal journey of climbing up to/reaching some kinda peak of inner human   
   development/ability...   
      
   coz that's ALL there actually is, ya know?   
      
   most people don't bother at all so they ain't going nowhere then, content   
   to just be a part of whatever society happens to be around at the time in   
   a twilight sleep, they have no other interests possibly because they're   
   just simple-minded, although i can't/don't really accept that... and b'coz   
   surely it's really more just a matter of education & nurture than anything   
   else... and because there's really very few paths/roads that actually lead   
   to anything worth having anyway!?   
      
   the buddhists, for example, only lead people to ultimately find...   
   themselves   
      
   to look 'within' for all the answers without turning into a loony in the   
   process...   
      
   that whole path 'designed' to end at some distinct point! (i.e. ya slowly   
   swap-out the original societal form for a buddhist form only to then   
   abandon that form altogether too! thus leavin' ya with the only thing that   
   was yours all along: your original self minus all/any programming heh,   
   someone whose then in the perfect position to see things for how they   
   really are and thus become aware of a completely different knowledge-set)   
      
   'everything' else is just wallyworld bs haha :)))   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)