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  1. Burl

    My junket through psychosis

    A decade or so ago I was prescribed Risperdal for my manic outburst which I refused to take. Now someone gets a 70 million dollar settlement for developing breasts from it (c'est la vie). Perhaps there is intelligence in the design whereby one becomes female (I just let my hair grow). I'd like...
  2. Burl

    What have we done to deserve this ?

    Not so funny if you believe our actions have eternal consequences.
  3. Burl

    School

    As recently as 2000 we helped a runaway get their GED by applying to the Army. Myself was at the end of the Vietnam era when requirements may have been more lenient.
  4. Burl

    Quotes and Multi quotes HOW-TO

    Baudelaire's "Doctrine of Correspondences" suggests a belief of sorts in a pattern for the world and in relationships between the physical world and a spiritual one. This view, probably influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg and viewed as an antecedent to symbolism, is presented in the poem...
  5. Burl

    Quotes and Multi quotes HOW-TO

    What did I do wrong: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/charles-baudelaire] Baudelaire's "Doctrine of Correspondences" suggests a belief of sorts in a pattern for the world and in relationships between the physical world and a spiritual one. This view, probably...
  6. Burl

    For faster seed sprouting...

    Correspondingly (Baudelaire's "Doctrine of Correspondences" suggests a belief of sorts in a pattern for the world and in relationships between the physical world and a spiritual one. This view, probably influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg and viewed as an antecedent to symbolism, is presented in...
  7. Burl

    I guess I should write an introduction :)

    The 'Teapot' song in 'The Perfect Storm' reminds me that what is inside us can be poured out and sometimes we can be surprised at ourselves. We all have rough edges that grind against each other in this rock-tumbler and after some time you'll develop a shine(er) or two. Jesus reminds us to go...
  8. Burl

    I guess I should write an introduction :)

    Total: 207 online right now (members: 31, guests: 91, robots: 85) Welcome to the fray.
  9. Burl

    What have we done to deserve this ?

    Mara is the demon that tempts JayaBholenath's Hindu bothers and sisters.
  10. Burl

    What have we done to deserve this ?

    Looks self-explanatory to me: Temptation to garner negative karma.
  11. Burl

    do you believe humans gets thinking from genies (spirits) who wins and gives you thinking

    If Jinn submit to the will of Man then the subversion of Man is part of the Game, starting with the young minds of course.
  12. Burl

    Quotes and Multi quotes HOW-TO

    So how do we become Wizards and make the fancy link: ...rather than putting in the whole link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80tman_(Hinduism)#Etymology_and_meaning
  13. Burl

    What have we done to deserve this ?

    It's not what you have done, it's what you might do. Mara ... is the demon that tempted Gautama Buddha... Mara personifies unwholesome impulses, unskillfulness, the "death"[2] of the spiritual life. She is a tempter, distracting humans from practising the spiritual life by making mundane things...
  14. Burl

    My church and spiritual group journal

    I fell off the wagon twice since my New Year's resolution in 2013. I found a six-pack in the woods and the other time a bottle of wine, maybe I'll get lucky, again, and find something that takes me where I really want to go (alcohol just really doesn't do it). I found a really nice clasp-knife...
  15. Burl

    The Good News about Genes and Mental Disorders

    For your sake, I hope they appear and appease you.
  16. Burl

    The Good News about Genes and Mental Disorders

    Worthwhile to whom? "Any port in a storm" eh?
  17. Burl

    Do You Know Yourself?

    "Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers. Ibn 'Arabi was born in Murcia, Al-Andalus, in 1165 and his writings had an immense impact throughout the Islamic world and beyond. The universal ideas underlying his thought are of immediate...
  18. Burl

    "Spiritual food" at the proper time"?

    If that's a 'Yes' then we're in good company here, LOL.
  19. Burl

    "Spiritual food" at the proper time"?

    when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation' head for the high ground, as you comprehend it. Like attracts like, should we castigate people for their choices?
  20. Burl

    do you believe humans gets thinking from genies (spirits) who wins and gives you thinking

    God stands in the congregation of the Jinn.
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