well there has just been so much nonsense posted around here lately...i have to wonder if maybe there isn't a special school for it or something

No problems with you Gus. I might as well just come out and say it: my comments were positive about you, H. & Agnes (fact-checking, and keeping an open mind), and negatively directed at doc, who seems to operate in a diametrically opposed manner most of the time. I think we all wish he would get with the program and engage these discussions with more civility and humility.

i am kind of shy really and don't really know most of you. lately i find myself avoiding a lot of this. it just seems so nasty and offensive and a lot of arguing. i don't need the bad vibe so i'm not around much.

Ya'll caused me no problems. I get a kick outta reading what you guys post.

Things were different here when we were actually moderated. I have seen a couple of assholes come in and make people leave the site because they felt they were being harassed. I can't see myself sitting back quietly while this is happening. The other side to that is that I become the asshole. A conundrum I haven't quite figured out.

This is my favorite place on the internet. I am usually here several times every day. I learn, I laugh, and I love. It is so often lately that the strings of stuff on the strangely talented thread pick me up and allow me to refocus. There is a strange collective consciousness that this board develops occasionally. Kind of like the feeling the people walking out of an Arlo show have.

I keep rambling when I guess what I am really trying to say is: Thanks!

How do you tell the real from the sublime?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tdIkj_DJLQ

and well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQx0Pb6Z ... re=related

another example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_oT8Vp9hU

love is sublime

it just is

Love is sublime. What does that mean?

Sounds religious don't it.
Like in the Apocryphon of John
or the creation myths of India

Only the one exists..illimitable,
unfathomable, immeasurable and invisible
This presence of the pregnant bellies
Creations contained in Vishnu and Brahma
and all creations of the universal
In an act of longing it erupts in passion
and tosses the delusion of desire
across the universe
and in the dissipation of the great chaos
our little sad passion plays form
and dissolve in the gloam
as we strive for each other
to experience, if only momentarily
the light of the sublime

(The great cosmic wow now!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQOJ86qTLk

it made sense to me?

maybe a little over the top, but still?

funny how religion didn't come to mind?

religion over the top, huuh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnu3TqDK ... 74D876645C

of course well i

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyvBN3fCNAI

how is this religious
well how about the horns of dilemma and the rad Jewish music?
oh ya

sorry seem to be lost in the 80's for a moment
when being revolutionary could really get your ass kicked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_RO29QqcA

its really not my fault its the usic from the 70's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE7QzCfjVEg

I thought that was all about.. God all alone there and longing for something because there was really nothing to long for when you possess all that can be possessed. You got it all, what do you need? Kind of like being Mitt Romney....I got it all, the only thing I need is to be President...that will satiate all my desire...I will be fulfilled. Or like Paul Ryan, I can meet my full potential if I can convince everyone I am right. The reality does not matter? I mean, what is reality but what you can sale that poor dumb bastard down the street!

So the greater than god (both the Rig Veda and the Apocryphon (that is a cool word, Apocryphon is a word I seldom use) are quite clear on this) So the greater than god was feeling blue because he (of course its a he) had nobody or thing to pine for. So, he created a world of longing, everybody wanting what they can't have.

There you have it! Creation in a nutshell!

the religions i know are over the top ("over the top", a switching of gears here)

no book of secrets referenced, just an honest thought

being among the "illiterati" can have its perks?

great stuff there