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The New Golden Calf

abeanstalk — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:02:43 GMT

Gossip:
Police finally decided that Britney Spears may not be as crazy as people live to see, and have started arrested dozens of defiant papparazzi, who camp outside her home.
Now, police have decided that Britney should stay home, as she, Paris HIlton and Lindsey Lohan should take responsibility for our hunger for train wrecks and not 'traipse all over town".

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Energy Vampires

Spirit Wolf — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:49:18 GMT

Most of them are not even aware they do it, it is merely an act of inconsciousness, it leaves you feeling drained or like you are being drained, tired, yawney etc....but a few know very well what they are doing and are so well practised at it that they have their own groupies just like the movies of the vampires...but the difference being that no one bit the groupies, these are people who prey on others energy purposely.

To those like me who are super energy sensitive, it's like being beaten up because attacks hurt so much physically that it takes me a week to heal from one of these people and their group attacks because it takes that long to find all the connections that have been made. I had one recently that was the worst I had ever experienced just by wandering into and checking out an awesome profile. Any thoughts and comments are welcome.

I do wonder if any energy vamps are reformed and if so, how they did it, how they got away from the group and why they choose to leave, it seems to me that it would be like a drug or a happy pill.

Thanks, Spirit Wolf

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Make mine Marvel!

abeanstalk — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:13:51 GMT

What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
Which is the way he wants it !
Well, he gets it !
N' I don't like it any more than you men.

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
-Guns 'n' Roses

With the uproar over the movie '300' with the country of Iran, and the studio's claim it was mostly fiction set in a time with actual facts, this was on my mind...
Captain America 'died' at the end (late forties, actually) and only resurfaced for a few months in 1956, along with The Sub Mariner and The Human Torch, in stories, which, to me, were great, with amazing artwork by Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Dick Ayers, and John Romita Sr.
This was not for the times, and it wasn't until with (allegedly) $5000 in the bank and a staff less than ten, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby launched The Fantastic Four, based on inspiration from the work and sales of DC Comics' The Justice League, envisioned by editor Julius Schwartz.
Comics have always rode the cusp of media, entertainment, and yes, art, and Green Lantern/Green Arrow from DC, written by Dennis O'Neil and illustrated by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano explored current themes disguised even as Science Fiction.
This was not new as the show Star Trek (1966-1969) used the top Sci-Fi novelists, and could make effective statements about Viet Nam, etc, in the form of 'similiar planetary development'.
In 1963, the Sub Mariner, the prototypical Marvel 'anti hero', who was enraged at the massacre of all of his people by the human race, was busting up glaciers in a fury and found...in a block of ice, none other than Captain America, alive, in suspended animation.
When Cap was unwilling to join Namor, the Sub Mariner in his quest of vengeance against the surface dwelling human race, Captain America discovered the team of heroes, the Avengers, and wanted to lead them, but they were not interested and all of them resigned.
Cap then took Hawkeye, a second rate Robin Hood, The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, former second rate 'evil mutant' X-Men villians and the four of them defeated the forces of evil as easily or dare say, even easier than the so called 'A' team of Avengers.
Not only that, the book sold even better, as the fans of that time probably for the most part, hadn't even heard of Captain America, as mostly children read comic books then, until their mothers threw them away and they moved onto regular books.
This is a voucher for Stan Lee, who ran Marvel as a Madison Avenue campaign, where stories never ended and intertwined and Jack Kirby who...
In World War II, was in a foxhole, and his friend and comrade was fatally wounded and dying in his arms, and looked up at Jack and asked, "What happened?" and Jack replied, "You did!". It was then that Mr. Kirby realized that 'it's done by privelge' and went on to create nearly all of Marvels great legends, including Spiderman and DC Comics' The New Gods, Mr. Miracle and the Forever People...
Captain America has died once again, apparently, at the hands of the Red Skull?
This was the agonizing climax to Marvel's 'Civil War', where the U.S. government required all Marvel heroes to register all of their information, dividing these great legends.
This brings the question to mind, so what is the Sub Mariner doing these days, and when was the last time he busted up glaciers?

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Why

abeanstalk — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:19:14 GMT

When I created this, I was trying to see if materialism can be used for spiritual means.
Since then, I've learned it is the same thing.
I agree, not in the way the Buddhists who said this do, but in terms that opening up to the wonders of what this mortal existance offers keeps our attention away from wanting to exist in what's beyond before it happens.
I think spiritually living in the world beyond shows a misunderstanding or disdain for the gift of life.
Not enough spirituality can make material gains a vice and not one of the flavors of life.

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What would you rather have?

Bren-duh-the-highness-of-the-Duh-Club — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:05:05 GMT

A wonderful spiritural realionship with your special somone or find someone to supply your every materail need in life?

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Anonymous

abeanstalk — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:44:46 GMT

Well, drugs, other vices and debt are all sickness and/or addictions.
Would the world be better off with the following?

1) Competition anonymous
2) Macho anonymous
3) Men haters anonymous
4) Boundaries anonymous
5) Discrimination anonymous
6) Blue Tooth anonymous
7) Technology anonymous
8) Negativity anonymous
9) Manipulators anonymous
10) Gossip anonymous

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Is caring an emotion?

abeanstalk — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:57:39 GMT

The more you break it down and examine this, the more or less you realize you care.

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From an angel

abeanstalk — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:50:35 GMT

* Reunion of Twins *

Do You Love Me?

A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more
than you love me?

The beloved replied,
I have died to myself
and I live for you.

I’ve disappeared from myself
and my attributes.
I am present only for you.

I have forgotten all my learning,
but from knowing you
I have become a scholar.

I have lost all my strength,
but from your power
I am able.

If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.

- Rumi

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The Nondual Matrix

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:38:09 GMT

In the DVD set of The Matrix Trilogy, there is a feature that can be chosen where Ken Wilbur does a philosophical commentary on the flick as it goes along (kind of like Mystery Science Theater 3000.)

My favorite comment of his was in the classic moment where Morpheus is offering the two pills:

Morpheus: "You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

Wilbur: "Why not just take BOTH pills?"

Brilliant!

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The Part that Speaks to Me...

abeanstalk — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:05:01 GMT

http://www.san.beck.org/AGL2-ConsciousSelf-Mastery.html

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my tribe art project needs your comments

bragitta — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:21:04 GMT

I am starting an art project on my tribe page
creating art pieces and asking questions
and the comments that it receives will inspire the next question and art piece

so
would you like to join this art project??
feel free to hop on over to my tribe page and leave a comment or two
even become a new friend

thanks
bragitta

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Spiritual Materialism

polydomes — Tue, 17 May 2005 22:22:40 GMT

Who was you most rock star Guru ?

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This is my best tribe

abeanstalk — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:04:15 GMT

When I look at why so many asked to join I have never met, I thought about this one, and feel this concept, (balancing our finite time on earth and whatever more there is in the universe) can be the key to whatever is bothering us as a planet.
Maybe that's overly dramatic, but seems there is too much extremism one way or the other.

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Question of Balance

abeanstalk — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:25:39 GMT

How much is too much or too little materialism to ensure spirituality?
For me, it's enough to not lose faith or hope and not too much, as to change my sense of proportion as to what's imporant, i.e...if someone becomes obsessed with earning money, they may never enjoy it, just always think of ways to keep making it...

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