Comments | metsuten: People With Chairs Up Their Noses

metsuten

People With Chairs Up Their Noses

Jul 20, 2005 21:03

Universe after Universe layering out into the lives of so many others that just can’t seem to get a grip on the possibility of transcendence and enlightenment. If only they’d forget about the external appearances and shrug off the differences ( Read more... )

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bastardsword July 21 2005, 03:34:10 UTC

You ever heard of Yali's question?

metsuten July 22 2005, 02:18:50 UTC

'Fraid I haven't. Want to enlighten me?

bastardsword July 22 2005, 04:12:49 UTC

Yali was a New Guinean native who asked once, "Why is it that white people has loys of cargo [goods] that we want, and yet, we have none that they want?"

And the rest is history. It's all about how your location in the world can affect how your civilization develops, but can effect how you yourself act only to a limited extent, as there are other variables at play.

bastardsword July 25 2005, 06:44:10 UTC

Sounds like strange racial qualms.

The situation is comparible (is that a word?) to many other racial situations. Kind of says something about the world. Yeah.

Did Yali go on to do great things? 0.0

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metsuten July 22 2005, 02:19:33 UTC

You were right; Sarah is adorable. ^ ^

tabascostar July 24 2005, 23:56:54 UTC

Thank-you.

gortho July 21 2005, 04:27:37 UTC

no. i think accepting differences would.

metsuten July 22 2005, 02:20:58 UTC

they both have the same end result in a way, don't they?

gortho July 22 2005, 02:38:16 UTC

i suppose in the short term.

onepurplestar July 22 2005, 05:27:09 UTC

I agree with Charlotte, to move on you need to accept and work through differences, not forget them. To forget them would be to try to escape them, and from my experiences, escapism just magnifies the problem (in the long run).

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0_perdition_0 July 21 2005, 04:41:48 UTC

My first response is "yes!" but I think it's more complicated then that, I think that there is a reason for differences.. and i think I have to think about it some more.

Re: play, just call me (592-6686) and i'll tell you. If i'm not there leave your number and i'll call you back.

theneverland July 21 2005, 15:53:18 UTC

realizing that there are no differences would begin to solve problems.

science is philosophy and if we move into quantum physics, we're talking 11 dimensions and oscillations of pure energy. everything is beautiful and, indeed, the same on a sub-subatomic level.

or maybe Forgetting in general would solve problems.
but what problems are we talking about?

metsuten July 22 2005, 02:24:43 UTC

do they have to be exact problems?

i imagine the One True Solution could suffice for all problems, or at least a substantial amount of them.

theneverland July 22 2005, 03:20:45 UTC

One True Solution
we would be in eden then, wouldn't we? (or any other paradise setting)
& what would the world be with no opposites?
for existence is not mutually exclusive.

i talked to a random guy from afghanistan the other day. he told me the story of buddha.

everything is beautiful from above.
and you're tall
so bask