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   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:10:34 -0700 (PDT), Jigme Dorje   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Aug 14, 11:56?am, tri cycle wrote:   
   >> On 14/08/2010 11:40 PM, Tang Huyen wrote:   
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   >> > tri cycle wrote:   
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   >> >> Jigme Dorje:   
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   >> >>> Churches are good for something.   
   >> >>> Someday we may figure out what.   
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   >> >> future rock concert venues?   
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   >> > It is hard to believe, but raves with generous   
   >> > use of drugs, like Ecstasy, are common venues   
   >> > for spirituality, of the jazz-it-up kind, but still   
   >> > spirituality. Some people die, but for many   
   >> > young people, it is the only overture to   
   >> > spirituality that they are exposed to.   
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   >> > Tang Huyen   
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   >> to be honest there isn't much like that where i live and i've never done   
   >> a real ecstasy rave night out in my life (i might have had e out and   
   >> raved but i wasn't at one). but the music that is largely non- verbal   
   >> and the actual words that are applied in trance indicates the spiritual   
   >> aspect to their scene. .....but there is a very dark side. these drugs   
   >> come popular and several years later we see the fall out manifesting for   
   >> instance like an early dementia. i was at a concert and had to go to the   
   >> medical tent for my eye, lots of brain cooked kids.   
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   >> that said with society as it is this is an outlet for them.   
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   >Ecstacy, LSD, mescaline intensify sensory experience.   
   >They open one up to the gap between what arises and can create a   
   >context for awareness.   
   >They can provide glimpses. The rest is up to you.   
      
   You look like a dangerous drug addict yourself. Is that your mere   
   extrapolation, or is that your actual experience?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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