Haven't read the whole thread, would just like to ask a question of everyone.
How do you see your partner? Does 1+1=2, or does 1+1=11?
That's a difference between codependence, and a balanced relationship. I can live without one, but I'd rather my life be enhanced into double digits. Its the difference between pathological need, and a gestalt.
Here in Oregon there is extensive evidence of a post ice-age flood from massive glacial melting in the Rocky Mountains, sending billions of gallons of water down the Columbia gorge and completely scouring the topsoil down to the bedrock. The areas east of the Cascade range are now known as "Scablands".
There were several of these floods over a period of about 10,000 years. Massive localized flooding is not unknown, nor is it documented on the side of some Native American's teepee. Guess they had no wampum to gain from telling tall tales.
As for the Ararat "Ark". It is too high to actually visit and physically investigate. All the "evidence" is completely inferred from satellite photography and could as easily be a natural geological formation as it could be some archeological evidence to corroborate the "Holy Book".
A young man finds the woman of his dreams and asks her to marry him. He tells his mother he wants her to meet his fiance, but he wants to make a bit of a game out of it. He says he'll bring the girl over with two other women and see if his mother can guess which is the one he wants to marry. His mother agrees to the game.
That night, he shows up at his mother's house with three beautiful young ladies. They all sit down on the couch, and everyone has a wonderful evening talking and getting to know each other.
At the end of the evening, the young man asks his mother, "OK, Mom, which one is the woman I want to marry?"
Without any hesitation at all, his mother replies, "The one in the middle."
The young man is astounded. "How in the world did you figure it out?"
It's only staggering if you think in small numbers. You're assuming it was metamorphic all the way through. It could have been clay when the dinosaur stepped into it, been compressed via heat and pressure into limestone, suffered flooding conditions and reverted to a permeable mud-like rock and had the human step into it. Millions of years later.
And the great great great great grandson of this human was lee harvey oswald who had a very magic bullet for an extremely unlucky Democrat.
Humans just cant deal with big numbers. Bottom-line.
Limestone. Meaning...high in Ca(OH)2, meaning, HIGHLY soluble in water, meaning rock that has a high incidence of returning to a mud-state under extremely moist conditions. Meaning...well, do I have to hold your bloody hand?
Exactly. And sedimentary degradation is an aspect of discontinuity. Discontinuity is based on erosion, followed by sedimentary degradation, meaning the strata are worn away, and then new sediment is deposited on top of it, causing the dating of strata to be thrown off.
Which proves nothing, geologically, since you can't date footprints. You can, however, infer that the humans came AFTERWARD! I'd really find it convincing if we found dinosaur tracks inside Human footprints, though.
Decriminalize and tax Marijuana. Our financial crisis would be over in weeks. Oh, but yeah, no money for Big Pharma, Big Paper, or Big Oil. Guess that's out.
Barter is a great system, but a blanket is hard to stuff through a fax machine.
Money was only invented as a way for people who actually have nothing to say they have more than you.
I have so many friends. What does Bill Gates have? And what will he take with him? I know what I take with me, and it has nothing to do with a bank account, unless you want to consider my Karma as a cosmic credit-card. I might not be rich, but I'll never be homeless or starve, and that's because I treat people as people, and not as prospects or a means to an end. Something to be learned in that for everyone.
In my philosophy, everything is connected. It's called Dependent Origination in Buddhism, and means that we are personally responsible for the state of our state, for our country, and for our world. We can't shrug and say "There's nothing I can do" because there are things you can do, should have done, and will have an opportunity to do in the future.
To live a life of fiscal irresponsibility is to invite negative consequence. As above, so below, and so our material life reflects our spiritual life. Or lack thereof. And this is not the venue to debate religious scripture, unless its relative to Karma.
Don't worry. I'm not getting all religious on you folks. I would just like to invite people to discuss how excessive materialism and a debt-driven economy without regard for consequence could have brought our current crisis on us, and, in fact, be a long overdue consequence of our Country's Karma, and the world for that matter.
Can we live like this anymore? I don't think so. Do we have to send our Country to Debt Counseling in order to square its Karma?
"Two rednecks, Bubba and Earl, were driving down the road drinking a couple of bottles of Bud.The passenger, Bubba, said "Lookey thar up ahead, Earl, it's a poll-ice roadblock. We're gonna get busted fer drinkin' these here beers!"
"Don't worry, Bubba", Earl said. "We'll just pull over and finish drinkin' these beers, peel off the label and stick it on our foreheads, and throw the bottles under the seat."
"What?," asked Bubba. "Just let me do the talkin', okay?", said Earl.
They finished their beers, threw the empty bottles under the seat, and each put a label on their forehead. When they reached the roadblock, the sheriff said, "You boys been drinkin'?"
A couple had been married for 40 years and also celebrated their 60th birthdays.
During the celebration, a fairy appeared and said that because they had been such a loving couple all these years, she would give them one wish each.
Being the faithful, loving spouse for all these years, naturally the wife wanted for herself and her husband to have a romantic vacation together, so she wished for them to travel around the world.
The fairy waved her wand and boom! The wife had the tickets in her hand.
Next, it was the husband`s turn and the fairy assured him he could have any wish he wanted, all he needed to do was ask for his heart`s desire.
He paused for a moment, and then said, "Well, honestly, I`d like to have a woman 30 years younger than me."
I believe in the Law of Karma. I have lived my entire life according to it. I have no regrets but those I have made. I blame, nor attribute nothing to anything in my life that is not a construct of my own will. I cannot will backwards what has already been manifested. I cannot unmake Karma, only alter it through balance.
I am not an apologist for my faith. The Law of Karma is absolute. Even if you do not believe in it, you shall suffer its effects. My purpose is not to convince, but to enlighten.
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RE: Who 'needs' a partner?
Haven't read the whole thread, would just like to ask a question of everyone.How do you see your partner? Does 1+1=2, or does 1+1=11?
That's a difference between codependence, and a balanced relationship. I can live without one, but I'd rather my life be enhanced into double digits. Its the difference between pathological need, and a gestalt.
Think on it.