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|    dagnabit to All    |
|    Re: No support (was Re: From on high)    |
|    07 Nov 16 18:53:50    |
   
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   From: meanmrmustard@gmail.com   
      
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   >   
   > dagnabit wrote:   
   >   
   > >I'm just saying that we don't speak true self's   
   > >"language". it's why generally most don't fully   
   > >understand the likes of christ, krishna and buddha.   
   >   
   > Krishna might have told Arjuna he, Krishna, was playing   
   > hide and seek as being all the forms Arjuna saw   
   > on the battlefield as his cousins.   
   >   
   > If such an interpretation is similar to having the mind,   
   > which was in Christ, who, being in the form of God,   
   > did not think it too much of a problem to take on   
   > the form of a hue-guy for a spell, then,   
   > that leaves the Buddha-dude   
   > for one to identify with   
   > as Being of a sort.   
   >   
   > When the Great Actor takes the Stage,   
   > all the other sets of eyes and ears pay attention   
   > as if they were, themselves, other than the Great One.   
   >   
   > If, in a dream, as it were, you were   
   > to appear as your own self and tell the others   
   > who, in your dream, that you are dreaming, appear   
   > to you to be not you they would, naturally, pay attention.   
   >   
   > They are your shadows, your reflections, you see, in them.   
   >   
   > - as the walrus, for a spell   
      
   I have dreams where I'm just observing, without   
   a body or anything. I'm completely invisible to the   
   other dream characters.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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