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2008-10-11
12:46 |
Do you mean to NCN, Ben? I, for one, wish you would...
“War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery”, and “Ignorance is Strength”.
“Those who are not with us are against us.”
Here's a t.. | I often find myself wanting to come back |
2008-09-07
10:42 |
5010 accesses by 592 unique visitors in the past month. Probably 4300 of those accesses were me. | No clue what's going on here |
2008-09-01
22:22 |
If you have gotten an artical linked to the NCN splash/entry page, and someone clicks in from there or google, it will count as someone accessing your page. :} | No clue what's going on here |
2006-05-28
14:29 |
many good newslog enteries seem to go unnoticed, and many good people also seem to go unnoticed. I have often watched my newslog drop aimlessly to the bottom only to pop back up when I have something .. | "Why do we continue to hurt one another?" |
2006-05-28
12:59 |
are you just talking to yourself so you don't have to hear the background noise you generated? | "Why do we continue to hurt one another?" |
2006-05-28
08:44 |
You know, sometimes a number of NCN members check in each day only to watch their Logs sink lazily toward the bottom of the list...no comments to view, no "involvement" evident. Over at the Chats the.. | "Why do we continue to hurt one another?" |
2006-05-28
02:37 |
On 11JUL2004 you wrote that you just noticed my deletions? But I had done that over a year earlier, much more than a year earlier. So, really, what actual "involvement" was there if my absence wasn't .. | "Why do we continue to hurt one another?" |
2004-07-11
16:44 |
Ben's Log was one of the best, and he was a terrific and active member. I didn't know he had dismantled his creation until I looked it up just now. He was living in Halifax, which was difficult for .. | "Why do we continue to hurt one another?" |
2002-12-29
11:41 |
The word 'Yetser' (Yetzer)(v.t., L'Yatzer) is actually only the third stage of creating, or manifesting, a thing. The first stage is 'Atsiluth,' which is the stage of 'idea.' The second stage, where t.. | ?''yetzer harah''? |
2002-12-28
23:03 |
all cognitive constructs both serve and harm. we pay attention for these constructs. consciousness is free disengaged from constructs. technology is construct. constructs cause frozen mental mode(l)s... | Self and Others |
2002-12-28
22:22 |
Supposedly the Iroquois were a big inspiration for several of the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
Anyway, I suppose what might make a difference is not necessarily something fuzzy and mystical. .. | Self and Others |
2002-12-27
16:13 |
I guess a problem is when we're separating these various aspects of life into separate, even opposite concepts. Trying to arrange things the best possible way, for maximum result, doesn't have to be o.. | Self and Others |
2002-12-27
04:56 |
Great you did the test too. And, yeah, there are some problems with the pure self-interest thing. First of all, there are a great many people who will prefer to better the greater whole, even if they .. | Self and Others |
2002-12-27
02:41 |
I commend your courage and perspicacity at those message boards. I recently found myself in a nest of them at another site---and I believe we might be somewhat surrounded here too. My wife puts on h.. | Self and Others |
2002-12-26
14:15 |
How do you know where we'd be without capitalism?
Archaeological evidence suggests that ancient civilizations had developed advanced technologies, however, it's unknown whether they were capitali.. | Active Discourse |
2002-12-19
16:45 |
The dominant culture in the U.S. holds materialistic values above our Natural, Inherent Values of Love, Truth, Peace, Happiness, and Health. This is *Capitalism* ... Because of this, we have a self-d.. | Active Discourse |
2002-12-19
11:01 |
I don't have much of a problem with strong statements, but I always try to make them respectfully. I think do that most of the time : ). When you're talking about some of the more fundamental issues, .. | Active Discourse |
2002-12-17
16:57 |
When all else fails...
Love.
And live in peace.
How are things in Nova Scotia?
--++--++-- In this sharp chill even the north Atlantic air is clear, so the night sky is ablaze with stars. .. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-14
15:06 |
One of the reasons the "Mr. P." type succeeds so well (I'm referring to _quasi_psychopaths, yes?) is that there intentions are whole-hearted *now, ain't that ironic?!* ... they're willing to pay big b.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-14
13:00 |
He may be an exception to the rule. Maybe all the bad psychiatrists are in the midwest and every place else they're good, decent people. I doubt the dozens of stories I listened to, day in and day o.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-14
02:02 |
"The prisons fill up with people who once would have been looked after in our mental asylums; and there is a steady stream of people through our hospitals who desire admission, and want never to go ho.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-08
17:42 |
I didn't personally profit from those who were *exhausted* so I saw a whole different view.
Yes, there are some who are exhausted from their halucinations, I'm not talking about those.
The p.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-07
14:29 |
This is where I came in. Mental illness is much more than exhaustion. Mental illness IS exhausting, no doubt about it. Protecting oneself against life-threatening demons is a fulltime job. Halluci.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-07
13:10 |
At the end of a marathon race, it is common sense that the runners need to rest, to rejuvenate, to get good nutrition... but when it comes to *mental* health, we do something very bizarre... we call i.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-07
08:03 |
My heart really goes out to you, and especially to your friend. That stuff is our idea of healing a person's mental health!? With the kind of crap that gets shove down our throats growing up, it's no .. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-07
03:09 |
Love prevails, much love to you and your friend. I just received this in my email.
PRAYER FOR A FRIEND
I know not what
the need might be,
please Lord be
with a friend today.
Help them as.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-07
02:23 |
Alas the tragedy! Nevertheless the writing and expression of the suffering is here...and thank you for it. Our friend in hospital is in my prayers. I wish I could be up there with you. ---Love, Ri.. | On the anniversary of Montreal Massacre, I'm called and cannot answer ... |
2002-12-06
00:58 |
Do it for your self. Do it because there is no other way.
Yup.
:-) | The Duplicity of Complacence |
2002-12-05
16:44 |
Of me giving up Shakti. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't think I could. Like, I literally couldn't do it. Impossible. It'd be like someone asking me to kindly stop keeping my DNA in my ce.. | The Duplicity of Complacence |
2002-12-05
03:32 |
_(*)_ | The Duplicity of Complacence |
2002-12-05
03:27 |
Andy, buddhist studies is a way of learning about matrix. A fine one. The critical thing is how to get a distance from something that we all carry inside, at the very root of what we perceive as "real.. | The Duplicity of Complacence |
2002-12-05
01:42 |
I worked 3 different psychiatric institutions some 30 years ago. One of them was the big old self-contained type, with lots of farm acreage and all that. Underground tunnels connected the steam-heat.. | The Duplicity of Complacence |
2002-12-04
16:22 |
Your timing in posting this entry was really good. I'm feeling rather rootless, or at very least I'm in serious danger of feeling that way these days. I really haven't decided yet whether the way I ca.. | The Duplicity of Complacence |
2002-11-27
08:14 |
I wish I had actually been writing recently, rather than just cutting and pasting ... I know I'm well when I'm writing, and ... well ... I haven't been writing.
It's good to know there are others out.. | Desiderata Too |
2002-11-26
05:20 |
This is right on, thanks for posting it. Ditto on the copying idea. | Desiderata Too |
2002-11-26
04:57 |
a very straight forward no nonsense letter to the people.Hang on brother its going to be a bumpy ride.Love ya, Marie | Desiderata Too |
2002-11-25
23:39 |
hi just read a post you sent to me via my news log so thought i'd check yours out....love your sense of humor )i think( :) gonna copy your deseradtatoo and post it on my lo wall where veryone sooner o.. | Desiderata Too |
2002-11-06
03:19 |
I'm going to copy that - and paste it on my mirror, and think about every and each item. Not that I didn't do that before you published it - (I did) - but just additionally thinking that it's nice to .. | Desiderata Too |
2002-09-14
10:14 |
I checked out that site scotty, and I don't think it's what if, but they are here. Like the first manifestations of this new human, would be kids with ADD/H, then they become Indigo kids, then a phase.. | Socrates didn't /quit/. |
2002-09-14
06:28 |
Don't you think though that it's a bit like the Samorai -choosing to die for their honour !
Why should Socrates 'choose' to die in a pincipled manner ..... !
They don't have real 'choice' at all - .. | Socrates didn't /quit/. |
2002-09-13
04:11 |
... didn´t choose to die, even for the right reasons. The damn dogs of hell of his day cornered him into it - and ignobly so, forced him to "choose" death. Gosh, has anything changed since way back t.. | Socrates didn't /quit/. |
2002-09-13
01:22 |
Wonderful to see a new entry, Ben. I was an ardent follower in college of a professor, named George Goldat, who was so thoroughly endowed with the Socratic method that the Tibetans might have crowned.. | Socrates didn't /quit/. |
2002-08-18
00:23 |
Ha! Women! ... (hee hee) And here´s for tender affection : Cheers!
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What, other than a female interlocutor / partner, could possibly excercise the .. | Antidote to commoditization: affection |
2002-08-14
07:07 |
because in the instant it arrives it will become today. Perhaps today is just the fruits of yesterday.
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Oh yes, that's the thread. As the cliche goes, "the past is .. | Whatever it's about, it's here now |
2002-08-13
08:23 |
I wrote this in my journal a few days ago: " All that is present in my life right now is here to support my evolution. Being fully present to what is here and now will lead me where I need to go, nex.. | Whatever it's about, it's here now |
2002-08-08
02:59 |
Wow, what an amazing---and, may I say, authentic---Log entry! Truly a voyage through what you were thinking last night. I'm still way back at the beginning though---and the workshop on authenticity .. | Establishing truth by intimidation |
2002-08-07
23:53 |
Value is something we discern, it is some-thing. The musician performing judges the performance independent of the audience's reaction because he is able to discern the value of his performance. An op.. | Establishing truth by intimidation |
2002-07-29
17:40 |
Belly smiling.
Totally at ease.
Not a worry.
Hee hee!
Reading the above,
And surrendering
Pranam,
Namasté.
Only one jewel...
Not so far away. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-29
11:55 |
Ah Cho, I remember how I bought the texts of some talks by Rinpoche at Karma Choling, and people said, "Well you certainly can buy them, but you probably won't be able to understand them." I thought .. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-29
03:49 |
... Surrender to cynicism, Surrender to errors, Surrender to weaknesses, Surrender to anger, Surrender to pain, is... Surrender to our beautiful humanity.
Deep acceptance of "what is" - without flinc.. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-28
18:52 |
Dear and precious strangers ... thank you so very much for your thoughtful comments. This posting came from me out of a very painful place, and *of course, as you can appreciate* it means a lot to me .. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-27
10:40 |
Souls invested in Peace, parse carefully the aggregation of experiences, into a coherent pattern of objective, physical and subjective phenomena. Each of us creates a quilt, a design, a mandala, that .. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-27
08:32 |
hiya cho, i cannot help but make a big grin.. and jazzie i totally agree with the first time.. but the second time is much much sweeter* | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-07-27
04:20 |
Most people perhaps rarely functioning at higher than 8-10 year old developmental level, not knowing that they are conditioned by nature itself for survival at any cost. Perhaps God is just a cosmic C.. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-27
03:05 |
Your inner questioning is more or less the same process I have gone through over roughly the same length of time. I have no answers but some of these little splinters seem to float in the dark sea and.. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-27
02:56 |
Encouragements to you Ben, and thanks for the reference---which is a lifeline to me since you apparently got the point of the piece at least! In the midst of the mundance deceptions that pass for "re.. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-26
23:49 |
...should have a goodly dose of cynicism regarding our construct of reality/conditionings, NOT about human nature. The fact that we base our choice, as a species, on an artificial (man-made) consensus.. | Am I cynical, yet? |
2002-07-09
09:04 |
...chuckling sideways, through the gap in her front teeth.
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The real joy of an earnest "Kwatz!!" is that it'.. | The Trouble with Earnest |
2002-07-09
04:58 |
"To us, sustainable developmentrequires an integration of the ECOLOGICAL IMPERATIVW to stay within the carrying capacity of the planet, the ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE to provide an an adequate standard of li.. | With two major protests scheduled for the next three weeks ... |
2002-06-06
17:33 |
Nope, no puddles on the floor. | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-06
13:28 |
... Now is there - or is not there - tee hee - something new walzing around the corridors ? | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-06
12:48 |
Now wait a minute, Swan would think about that. What ever that is you are thinking! | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-06
12:09 |
Remember, it's only kinky the first time! | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-06
12:05 |
20, 22( ditto to Shakti's comment),26. Who can live without kissing, duct tape and laughter? Now that I think about that it is an interesting combination, what would Freud say about me? The more I lo.. | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-05
23:18 |
... *except when you are kissing.* (Tee hee).
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la-la-la! Dangerously clehvur, naga-type critturs are! 8-)
KC:
!HeyHo the self-liberated yogin(i)! | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-05
22:15 |
Thanks, WillowBear, for the laugh!
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That was from my dear little friend Ali ... the only person I don't reject forwarded gags from. :-)
W^B | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-05
20:39 |
Totally agree with 26, the rest are funny too.
[I find #14 particularly profound. cho:] | I would never post trivia here. |
2002-06-03
15:50 |
Just my opinion, but nature has no trouble making a square bolder round, just takes time from our view but the bolder knows its time, what do you loose when you shave a round bolder square, and then .. | Squaring the Circle: justice and "rules" |
2002-06-03
13:19 |
is easy. try cubing the sphere. circling the square is easy. try sphering the cube. one dimension two dimension three dimensions four...ad infinitum. De Oppresso Liber! Therein is justice. Feed the hu.. | Squaring the Circle: justice and "rules" |
2002-05-28
10:36 |
"Constructs" are, necessarily, not simple. Given the flow of time, the construct I'm dealing with today is different than it was when I related to it yesterday ... or I'm different ... or both. So it'.. | I didn't play my drum today, and wonder why |
2002-05-27
10:50 |
This question has come twice now? I have seen your style of writing in posts and it zonked me over the head today to ask? Also, you sound like you are being hard on yourself. Seems the bread metaphor .. | I didn't play my drum today, and wonder why |
2002-05-26
08:24 |
I'm not 100% sure where I stand intellectually on this point; Shakti has a good point. It's not bad karma to "share bread"; it can be very educational, and rewarding in its own way. But it's harder to.. | I didn't play my drum today, and wonder why |
2002-05-26
02:13 |
I am responding from two different levels. One from just reading your words and thinking to myself, I like this person. He is being so honest. But then there is this other side of me. The real life pa.. | I didn't play my drum today, and wonder why |
2002-05-26
02:10 |
Isn´t everything a "construct" - starting with everything in here, because we depend on "the squiggles on the screen"? So the problem would be - would it not - what kind of squiggles do we choose to .. | I didn't play my drum today, and wonder why |
2002-05-25
22:27 |
The need for more intimate time with yourself sounds key. The energies astronomically certainly are supporting that! Honor your own rhythms! The creative urge when strong can hardly be denied, and it .. | I didn't play my drum today, and wonder why |
2002-05-23
22:19 |
Ah Yes, the balance between Autonomy and Intimacy. I find that the truly authentic person, seldom will stand alone for long. Don't we all pass through the mine fields of dissonant relating to test our.. | NonViolence Web Issues: Conscience and the State |
2002-05-22
08:07 |
The last sentence pretty much sums it up; you are right on the mark. Congratulations on having the courage to take that step! I hope the rest of us can manage the same "authentic" action. Any tips wou.. | NonViolence Web Issues: Conscience and the State |
2002-05-22
00:42 |
I hope to learn much more of your interesting journey, spiritual and other aspects. Thank you for this post, and welcome. I'm wondering if you get out onto Cape Breton up there, and spend any time w.. | NonViolence Web Issues: Conscience and the State |
2002-05-22
00:06 |
Good to read ya, and welcome! :-) | NonViolence Web Issues: Conscience and the State |
2002-05-21
21:39 |
Thank you for this most inspiring post. So often I have found myself standing alone protesting, the one tiny voice crying out to deaf ears, but I have never given up my belief, regardless of whether .. | NonViolence Web Issues: Conscience and the State |
