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bruce_g said:And, Nicky, whose words are not always clear, were very clear. Funny how some people need a bit of chaos before they can feel well ordered. Gem'ni thing I guess.
bruce_g said:And, Jesed, who like me, is always right.
bruce_g said:Dare I mention Trojan, without first getting a helmet on? She doesn’t know, I think, how much I admire her for her candor, brutal as it sometimes is. Do I see you in me? Yes, of course. Here in the southwest we call it ‘good horse sense’.
trojan said:"how do they do that".
stevev said:Hey Bruce, 'a fence', is that some sort of boundry ?
bruce_g said:It's through mental dexterity or bi-polar disorder, Trojan; I’m not sure which.
Thanks for sparing my head.
bruce_g said:Can the Yijing cause you to lose your personal power? Can the Yi cause more harm than good, specifically to those who seek to serve it, obey it or conform to it?
bruce_g said:Using the microcosm of this very forum by way of example, I have witnessed the colors, flare and vibrancy go out of some here. I have also seen those who appear to lack personal power and dynamics, who remain in a pale state of neutrality. Only my subjective opinion or personal projection? Maybe. I’ll let you decide that.
bruce_g said:I believe that we can so yield to the authority from which the Yi speaks, trusting implicitly in everything we interpret it as saying, that we stand to lose the best of what we are made of in the process.
bruce_g said:This can also been seen in some who have gone through extensive therapy, seeking to “clean up their act”, and exorcise all of their demons.
bruce_g said:The same is true, in general, for the Christian religion. All demons are to be cast out, no “bad” habits are to remain. This is a travesty of the teaching of the one they claim to follow. Jesus spoke a parable in Mathew 12:43-45, which says:
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth [it] empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last [state] of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”
bruce_g said:Christians reconcile the meaning of this parable as saying, no one is capable of casting out their own demons; only Jesus can do that.
bruce_g said:I do not believe that is at all what Jesus was saying. I believe that Jesus was saying what was later said by Nietzsche:
“Be careful about casting out your demon, you might be casting out the best part.”
bruce_g said:So, call me the devil, because I admonish you
bruce_g said:: do not become anemic in your effort to become “The Superior Man”. Screw the Superior Man, screw the I-Ching, screw Lao Tzu and Jesus too, if to follow them means losing who you really are, and all those beautiful colors of life.
bruce_g said:Careful not to let Luis hear you. I think he’s into that stuff.
sparhawk said:Hey!! Don't be spilling by fetishes around!! Can't trust you man! Now I can't surprise them anymore...
I’m not sure why this happens. When I’m thinking it, hearing it in my head, it doesn’t sound rude. It just sounds like an honest voice, one I could trust.
bruce_g said:I just asked the Yi, what is your evaluation of this thread? 13
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