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   Julian to slider   
   Re: Betrayel (1/2)   
   13 Aug 24 23:18:21   
   
   XPost: alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia, alt.bu   
   dha.short.fat.guy   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: julianlzb87@gmail.com   
      
   On 13/08/2024 23:13, slider wrote:   
   > On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:47:40 +0100, Julian  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 13/08/2024 22:37, one wrote:   
   >>> slider wrote:   
   >>>> one wrote:   
   >>>>> slider wrote:   
   >>>>>> one wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> When winners exist, losers exist   
   >>>>>>> which sounds kinda like a game.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ### - debating isn't a game,   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If, for you, it isn't or   
   >>>>> by definition it isn't, then,   
   >>>>> it might be semantics or   
   >>>>> simply how you see.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The debate that is a debate   
   >>>>> might be great or simply for fun, imo.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ### - that movie is based on a true story,   
   >>>  Okay.   
   >>>   
   >>>> it actually happened,   
   >>>  Okay.   
   >>>   
   >>>> a lowly   
   >>>> black college beat white harvard university in a debate about what the   
   >>>> definition of morality is and is not,   
   >>>  What is, what was, is and was.   
   >>>  People used to, own, people, naturally.   
   >>> Now-a-daze people, own, other animals and   
   >>> apparently, on average may deem it, okay.   
   >>>  Fish in tanks, birds in cages, dogs on leashes   
   >>> cats kept in houses and horses whipped,   
   >>> raced and who dares to say right is   
   >>> wrong and rungs ring a bell eh.   
   >>>   
   >>>> that regardless of everything being   
   >>>> against them in a white man's world   
   >>>  Stereotype noted.   
   >>>   
   >>>> the higher principles won the day and   
   >>>> the so-called white version of morality lost...   
   >>>  Not sure about the topic at this point.   
   >>>   
   >>>> much of this later   
   >>>> contributing to the civil rights movement that argues everyone is   
   >>>> deserving of good/fair treatment and not just a privileged few...   
   >>>  Animal rights. Children's rights. Women's rights.   
   >>>  When right exists, everyone knows, wrong emerges.   
   >>>  The Tao Te Ching, Chapter 2, could apply.   
   >>>   
   >>>> iow: this is an example of how human knowledge advances on a daily   
   >>>> basis   
   >>>> in the daily waking world, and it applies to both nations and to   
   >>>> individuals...   
   >>>  Teh struggles continue. Teh, aka Te/De,   
   >>> at times translated as Virtue, Power, may   
   >>> be viewed as emerging after the Way is lost.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> it's an intelligent way of getting at the   
   >>>>>> truth of an issue, a win-win scenario for both sides because everyone   
   >>>>>> comes out the better for it even if they lose the debate,   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> To surrender to win occurs at times.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> To let go and allow to be. A question   
   >>>>> emerges regarding higher powers or a   
   >>>>> Higher Power if there is a singularity.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ### - on the human stage just letting things be results in the strong   
   >>>> ruling the weak and the law of 'fist' (as in might is right etc) ruling   
   >>>> the world, that being exactly what the nazi's believed in... and if the   
   >>>> world hadn't gotten together and opposed them we'd all be speaking   
   >>>> german   
   >>>> now and going to military schools!   
   >>>  The world sounds kinda like a thing. Who your, we, is,   
   >>> who would be speaking German if not some other language   
   >>> might be a kind of a sort of a mental noun-thing. Ore knots.   
   >>>   
   >>>> e.g., you mention the tao fairly often as being a narrative   
   >>>  Tao is a word.   
   >>> I wouldn't say Tao is a narrative.   
   >>>   
   >>>> you like/are attracted to?   
   >>>  The newsgroup, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   >>> is the group from which one is posting. One being   
   >>> me of all beings as wells well and dwellings vary.   
   >>>   
   >>>> (nada wrong with that) but under the nazis anything like   
   >>>> that would have been banned and eventually eradicated   
   >>>>   
   >>>> that struggle is still continuing btw...   
   >>>  Prior to reading how it still remains unstill instills.   
   >>>  To have a cause at times is able to motivate people.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> the main thing   
   >>>>>> is the argument has evolved some, and even if nothing definitive is   
   >>>>>> arrived at, at least one argument (the losing one) has been dismissed   
   >>>>>> from   
   >>>>>> the equation no matter how much appeal (emotional or otherwise) it   
   >>>>>> might   
   >>>>>> have previously had... and overall that's an advance see?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Given various presumptions, yes.   
   >>>>> Science and mathematics may use such a way.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Psychology might depend more on a society   
   >>>>> in terms of what is defined as well or ill.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Debates about what is right and/or wrong   
   >>>>> might change over time, reverse, modified, etc.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ### - doesn't matter what culture you come from, some things are   
   >>>> universal   
   >>>> like don't do any harm, or don't be a low life...   
   >>>  If such a paradigm is your, universal,   
   >>> then, t'hats your hat, flag and/or struggle   
   >>> unless it isn't a struggle.   
   >>>  To be content could be a Taoist mode.   
   >>>  Teh, De, Te, emerges after Tao, aka Dao is lost.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> both sides get a   
   >>>>>> win regardless of the outcome because knowledge has been advanced a   
   >>>>>> fraction...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Seeing as how you appear to see debate happening,   
   >>>>> thus far, in this thread, what new knowedge have you seen?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ### - not much, yet (smile...) there's a certain inertia that has to be   
   >>>> overcome/resisted first as people are sticklers for what they know, or   
   >>>> think/believe they know, so being opened minded has to come first   
   >>>> before   
   >>>> anything new can enter in (ref. old zen story about needing to first   
   >>>> empty   
   >>>> one's cup)   
   >>>  Okay.   
   >>>   
   >>>> i mean, i look around here and everyone's cups are already filled to   
   >>>> overflowing, there's no room for anything more or different, people   
   >>>> don't   
   >>>> like/resent anything 'different', they like to feel that they've   
   >>>> gots it   
   >>>> all nailed down already...   
   >>>  I don't know about, everyone. Nor everyone's cup   
   >>> being as you say it appears to you to be.   
   >>>  You appear to have a projection screen projecting screens   
   >>> that screen what apears to you to be, stereotyping.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> there's a very nice movie about it that explains the above in detail   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> just cut through all the hollywood-esq bs added to sell movies,   
   >>>>>> and at   
   >>>>>> the   
   >>>>>> heart of it there's human awareness, discipline & advancement...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> https://ok.ru/video/2387686132251   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Website has something about cookies being required.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> (an important movie)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debaters   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> No idea how that relates to WILD nor Christ   
   >>>>> or cosmic consciousness, mental illness, healing   
   >>>>> the world or people who live on a surface.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Some people see the world as in trouble,   
   >>>>> the end is near, paranoia may be their mode.   
   >>>>> Fear might be a driving energy for them.   
   >>>>   
      
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