[extropy-chat] off topic

[spike]

Ilsa, please reread what you wrote, then explain.  Everything past "lobsang
samten" threw me.  I remain thrown.  Honest pal, your style requires a
certain amount of concentration.  {8-]  spike

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> a word about myself:  i was asked by the u.u.'s to give this event at
> their retreat.
> most u,u.'s go to the fellowship or church for the community support
> no matter where they came from or where they are going.
> i was asked by the HH Dalia Lama's personal assistant to write a book
> for people like spike who have left religion for all the right
> reasons.  why he asked me is beyond my understanding.  i am not a
> religionist. they are not religionists.  they as you are focused in
> their part of the process.   in my past life i was a science writer.
> hard and clear.
> lobsang samten picked a title and suggested that i arrange to have a
> web site for this work.
> lobsang samten played himself in the Scorsese film 'kundun'.  you can
> see his face and position in that movie.  well he asked me to help
> people understand their humanity in context of evolution and infinity.
>  i have no issue nor do i ever missionary.  i have taken my years of
> training and formulated a non religious process.  the only religion i
> practice is Kindness.  ai is understood and fostered by those arround
> HHDL.
> after all every one on this list is all that and a brain!  yea baby!
> i have a real sense of some aspects of who some on this list are and i
> was sharing a facet of what your research can manifest to the 85
> percent of the walking unaware of your work in simplicity to help a
> beginning of a paradigm shift.  if not a shift then just getting to
> the line in the shifting sand.
> gertrude stein said at the turn of the 19th century that in the 21 st
> century there will no longer be a need for capitol letters.  a
> prophetic thought that expands in meaning as i ushser in the practice.
>  enough about me.  grin,  ilsa
>