Displaying 721 To 750 Of 3,373 Comments Really? Dearborn Michigan? Was it built more recently perhaps? Because I always remember hearing about how Toledo’s was the biggest in N.A. Anyway, it makes quite an impression as one passes it on the highway. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 5:52 pm AND, you’ve got the largest mosque in North America! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 5:31 pm Really nice, wise, passionately expressed essay, Abby! I enjoyed it a lot and fully jibe with its POV. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 4:36 pm There are PLENTY of atheists in foxholes! » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 1, 2011 @ 2:02 am Personally, I don’t need my eyes to see all the time. I’ve had some GREAT dreams! There was one, with Jessica Alba, and…..never mind. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:12 pm It’s like Venice on the other side. The taxis only take you to a certain point and after that you have to use your wings, IF you’re one of the lucky ones. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:09 pm Oh, Caru, I knew that! I think I mentioned that book on this very thread somewhere! 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:07 pm Hi Caru, no. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 5:55 pm just hop in a cab and say, “Driver, take me to a place where the deities hang out”! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 5:54 pm actually, from a certain perspective, one might say you are meeting deities all the time. The Sanskrit word “namaste” means “The god in me salutes the god in you”. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 5:52 pm Hi Caru, I see that quite a debate happened here while I lay sleeping! 🙂 I can only speak from personal experience, to answer your question, but nevertheless I think the famous quote from zen is useful, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears”. In my case, I showed I was “ready” at a cocktail party by debating these types of issues with a believer. Although she hardly knew me, she gave me a book to read which I strongly resonated with. This book mentioned other authors and works, and I began to explore them too. As I read them, I could feel new chambers of my mind opening. I experienced them differently than how one usually experiences reading a book. It was as if the words were flying off the page and inserting themselves into my consciousness. Or, it was like I was having a real, ongoing conversation with them. Or, it was like I knew what the next sentence was going to say before I read it. This was an experience unlike any I have had before or since. It was my time of “awakening”. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 5:48 pm Come now, KT. Surely the universality of the concept of gods indicates that our ancestors SAW and FELT something. The only question is what exactly that SOMETHING was. Did they merely FEEL fear and SEE lightning and volcanoes and call that “god”? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 3:03 pm Hi Caru, I’m not quite sure what you mean by that. But it IS in line with what has been called “The Perennial Philosophy”, an anthropological/metaphysical hypothesis that at their core, religions teach the same things, because they have the same “root”. Just as languages have taken off in all directions, so have religious beliefs. Now, some people will say that the root is obvious – human fear and ignorance in response to a dangerous world. We needed “gods” at that point in our development in order to make sense of things. I can see how someone can easily assume that. I was an atheist for many years, and that is what I believed. I am no longer an atheist, and I now feel that this root is the truth of human reality, that we are expressions of an intelligent, living spirit. This spirit can be experienced. In fact, if I hadn’t experienced it, I would still be an atheist. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 3:25 am The “I just go one god further” rationale can be reversed to indicate that there IS some form of deity, and that people are simply seeing and interpreting it differently. The fact that there are hundreds, if not thousands of different words in many languages for “water” indicates that water DOES, rather than doesn’t, exist. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 3:41 pm Is Donald Trump a Stalking Horse? Chaz, AJ may have “valid” points as you say, but he has no one to blame but himself that gets lost. He is so OTT, he slathers all kinds of hype onto those valid points, thus INvalidating them. His paranoia meter goes up to eleven. And yes, frankly, I’d like to ask again, why do “they” tolerate him? My guess? “They” are not who HE says they are. The world is run by greedy and unscrupulous people, that can clearly be seen. They are all over the place, and they are doing their work to foment antagonisms because it helps sell weapons systems, etc. Bad, greedy people seem to have a habit of scratching their way to the top of our commerce based society. Why lump them into some ancient cult? Why, because the fascination factor goes up so much higher when you do. People tune in! You become their hero, the brave champion of humanity against the sinister overlords. It’s a great sell, and AJ is making it work. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 4:16 pm Facts and Logic are tools of the Overlords! They must be resisted at all costs! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 12:29 am Exactly. And guys like Alex Jones who scare people about evil overlords who control everything, start wars and assassinate leaders at will, but can’t seem to do anything about Mr. Jones himself. I asked a Jones supporter that once, “how come they don’t just shut him up if they have no scruples, plan on wiping out a quarter of the human race and can get away with whatever they want?” His answer? Alex Jones is not “important enough”. The king of all conspiracy theorists, the guy who is alerting the world to “their” plan, with a whole army of devoted listeners and readers, isn’t important enough? I mean, what can one say when faced with such? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 28, 2011 @ 11:24 pm Yeah, that too. I have a really hard time picturing him colluding with a bunch of back room GOP “fixers” to participate in something like this. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 28, 2011 @ 6:38 am Okay, I’m dense. As usual. This article is suggesting that Trump isn’t seriously thinking of running, but he might be pretending that he is in order to: – jumpstart the candidacies of OTHER Republicans? What, like the Republican Party was planning on sitting out the ’12 election otherwise? – look ridiculous so that other, real, candidates like Jeb and Mitch Daniels look better? Like the Republicans don’t have enough crazies ALREADY doing that? (Bachmann, Paul, Palin, Huckabee, etc.) How does joining a crowded line help? Aren’t Republicans supposed to be allowed to have credible candidates (if indeed Mitch Daniels is one, I don’t know about him)? And shouldn’t it be THEIR responsibility to demonstrate that indeed they ARE credible? What does The Donald have to do with that? Moreover, how does the Repub party INCREASE its chances of being taken seriously if it fields a freak show primary, with a few non-insane types thrown in for good measure? I don’t get it. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 28, 2011 @ 2:13 am jkk, the original one is real. She really did flub it up like that, and became a kind of celebrity as a result (50 million views on Youtube!). She says she was really nervous. So she’s up there on stage, strutting around, doing the swimsuit competition, beaming on cue, but she gets “nervous” when she gets a softball question thrown at her? In fairness, I saw her do an interview afterwards, and she seems really cool, willing to laugh at herself. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 10:07 pm BOTH her parents! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 9:03 pm See, that’s why she’s my Go-to Gal whenever stuff like this comes up. The best thing, and I find this uncanny, is that the same answer always works, no matter what my question is! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 8:58 pm Clear As A Bell! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 8:49 pm All this technical stuff about citizenship really confuses me, frankly. Let’s ask Miss Teen South Carolina. She might be able to shed some light on this complicated issue.
» Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 8:48 pm FACT! Hawaii didn’t become a state until 1959!!! ERGO……oh wait never mind…… » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 8:35 pm It really is disgusting. Short-sighted, small-minded, mean-spirited, people have brought everything down to their level, and that is sad. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 2:30 pm Not Peter Max, but obviously influenced by him and often thought to be his. I agree, they still look so fresh and inventive! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 6:37 am Dang! I just thumbed you down by accident again. But in this case, it’s appropriate, Cuz You Is Wrong, Sister! It will come to you. Everybody, when you figure it out just say you got it but don’t give it away. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 6:36 am Isn’t the video great? That Yellow Submarine stuff was like Dali meets Dr. Seuss, so you KNOW I love it! The Ferret Sleeps Tonight. In Tokyo, Instability is the New Normal. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 6:30 am WWMLVF? Guess the meaning…hint appears above in the DP. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 27, 2011 @ 6:28 amComments Posted By whatsthatsound
They’re called “foxes”.
But I really like Aldous Huxley.
That is the short answer. 🙂 Of course, there is more to the story, but I don’t want to go on and on.
Plausible, I suppose, but still, the universality of religion causes one to wonder if perhaps there was something more, wouldn’t you agree?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, let’s remember.
Look!
FACT! Obama’s birth certificate says he was born in 1961, TWO YEARS BEFORE Hawaii became a STATE of the U.S.A.!
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