Ron Flyer Writings http://godsavesall.yuku.com/forums/20 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:10 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://godsavesall.yuku.com/forums/20 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Sentimentality...... ? ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2673/t/Sentimentality-.html It seems like I have asked before here about 'sentimentality'image

Scent-I-mental?

The scent of a good emotion?

Am I too sentimental? Do I get snagged in a sargasso sea of sentimentality?

Sentimentality mystifies me for some strange inexpressible reason!

'sentiment'..... a mental feeling, person's attitude or... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer7) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2673 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:14:27 GMT <![CDATA[ O, GOD, I am torn..... ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2671/t/O-GOD-I-am-torn-.html O God, I am torn.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer7) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2671 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:49:42 GMT <![CDATA[ bless what eludes my grasp ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2670/t/bless-what-eludes-my-grasp.html Bless what Eludes My Grasp

Date December 11, 2005

[From Guerillas of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer7) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2670 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:35:16 GMT <![CDATA[ More Tara Brach thots ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2667/t/More-Tara-Brach-thots.html Our most fundamental sense of well-being is derived from the conscious experience of belonging.

Relatedness is essential to survival.

When we feel part of the whole, connected to our bodies, each other, and the living Earth, there is a sense of inherent rightness, of being wakeful and in love.

 feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer7) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2667 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:48:50 GMT <![CDATA[ looking at wrong humpty-dumpty ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2640/t/looking-at-wrong-humpty-dumpty.html BEING in the Spirit….. How dirty are our windows of perception?

How much trust do we have in knowing they can be clean and translucent?

How locked and loaded are we in one dimension only? How linear are our lines of thought…. How dependent are these perception-gazes on the familiar directional anticipation sources? The conventional wisdom inculcated, imbibed, and third-party-mainlined into us from external sources and intermediaries?

How... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer7) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2640 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:12:03 GMT <![CDATA[ LIFT OFF, fellow phoenixes ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2633/t/LIFT-OFF-fellow-phoenixes.html imagehigh HO, Silver seven times Refined in us through Christ!!!!!!

We are back in business!

Let the PEACE OF CHRIST dwell ever-increasingly RICH AND DIVERSE here in this little BUT wondrously SIGNificant fresh MANNAscape....

Welcome to all those precious brethren we have had occasion to be DOVETAILED together in Abba's... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer7) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/2633 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:48:50 GMT <![CDATA[ As Bigfoot Boo nudges my inner mystic... ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1882/t/As-Bigfoot-Boo-nudges-my-inner-mystic-.html Was the beginning of conscious life man's 'fall'?

Oh, you precocious inner philosopher settle down and mellow out..... take Boo out for a walk..... commune with nature.... let the aerial raven acrobats configure your silly speculations into their symetrical swoops and invisible contrails of flightpath!

Perhaps it is the sap rising in my bole..... but I cannot help but selah the 'mystique' of the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1882 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:18:17 GMT <![CDATA[ Mindfulness...Holy Spirit...a Vietnamese monk!!! ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1883/t/Mindfulness-Holy-Spirit-a-Vietnamese-monk-.html Everytime I let one of those Christ-loving Buddhist monks into my field of play I always get some new vascular vitamin to help my heart grow wider and fuller....

I am reading Thich Nhat Hanh's "Living Buddha, Living Christ"...... this Vietnamese monk was so well-thought of by Martin Luther King Jr. that he nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in the late 60's.... yes, right smack dab in the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1883 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:25:24 GMT <![CDATA[ discernment...consecration....snow removal ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1886/t/discernment-consecration-snow-removal.html Before I extract my keister from my comfortable swivel chair here in the cyberden and CONSECRATE myself in an intentional, purposeful, even 'seasonally-sacred' task....SNOW REMOVAL from the walkways and overburdened roofs..... I find myself selahing the connections between ADDICTION AND GRACE.... HUMAN FREEDOM....DISCERNMENT and CONSECRATION!!!!

Only a glutton for elusive-definitional punishment could... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1886 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:29:51 GMT <![CDATA[ I wonder..... ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1887/t/I-wonder-.html if each of us was suddenly compelled to surrender...forego.... abandon..... be weaned free of..... ONE particular word.... one particular concept/dogma [which,of course, would be stoutly denied that our pet POVs are 'dogmatic'....perhaps ad nauseum repetitive and taxing overly our fellow mates' longsufferance]..... would we submit to the exercise..... ?

If not, would this be a telltale sign/symptom of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1887 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:49:24 GMT <![CDATA[ Overwhelmed by a Physical Plane ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1888/t/Overwhelmed-by-a-Physical-Plane.html 'Overwhelmed by a physical plane'


"Suppose a young air force cadet is taken up in a jet for training. He finds himself seated by his trainer, an experienced pilot, facing an extremely complex control panel.

He has a bit of textbook training, but this is the first time off the ground.

He may be looking forward to the day when he can take full control of the plane himself, but we... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1888 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:58:59 GMT <![CDATA[ for me, a reality check.....thomas merton ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1885/t/for-me-a-reality-check-thomas-merton.html "To become my true self...... I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be.....and in order to find myself I must go out of myself....and in order to live I have to die.....

The reason for this is that I am born in selfishness.... and therefore my natural efforts to make myself more real and more myself, make me less real and less myself, because they revolve around a lie.

When we... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1885 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:14:56 GMT <![CDATA[ Bhagavad Gita and Isaiah 42:3 ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1889/t/Bhagavad-Gita-and-Isaiah-42-3.html What can learn from this passage of the Hindu text...the Bhagavad Gita....

"Lift up the self by the Self
And don't let the self droop down,
For the Self is the self's only friend
And the self is the Self's only foe." ch 6, v 5

Interesting words and command here....

friend and foe..... don't let droop.... lift up.

What about being or not being a 'spiritual... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1889 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:45:43 GMT <![CDATA[ Satan .....our collective ego ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/802/t/Satan-our-collective-ego.html Is Satan a creation of fallen human consciousness?

If so....what energizes him as a force.....human fear?

Do all human beings share a collective spirit?

The more collective [sum of individual] fear channeled and funneled into the environment....the unmerrier and greater the fear factor upsetting the balance of existence.... giving his force greater than necessary power?

Has God given... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/802 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:53:31 GMT <![CDATA[ I don't wanna be a 'flamewarrior', Sweet Lord ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1891/t/I-don-t-wanna-be-a-flamewarrior-Sweet-Lord.html "Flamewars" and Psychology



"Insult wars" frequently break out on internet discussion groups.

Some
people enjoy these and will start them intentionally.

But many more
Flamewars exist than can easily be explained by intentional troublemakers.


It seems that the psychology of email itself can start flamewars.

Email
messages are... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1891 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:39:29 GMT <![CDATA[ A smart female cookie's thots on arguments ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1892/t/A-smart-female-cookie-s-thots-on-arguments.html We need a name for the skill and courage to make accurate diagnoses of the strengths and weaknesses of reasoning even when this might mean recognizing that our own arguments are weak and opposing arguments are strong.

Let me call it the clinical attitude, by analogy with medicine.

Skill is not enough.

A skilled physician will have the ability to diagnose illness accurately, but may... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1892 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:36:58 GMT <![CDATA[ jufa...stephen....I have a question ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1884/t/jufa-stephen-I-have-a-question.html jufa.... stephen.... you two get to be, if you choose, the recipients of my question..... the rest of this OUR GANG COMEDY,of course, can wade in and posit their two-cents' worth....after all, the named duet are NOT the end-all, be-all purveyors of THE correct answers... just fellow slobs trying to slug their way through this slough of despond feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1884 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:02:14 GMT <![CDATA[ Joe and Ron's ongoing OPEN invitation ....egocide/suicide ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1893/t/Joe-and-Ron-s-ongoing-OPEN-invitation-egocide-suicide.html I would like to continue Joe's question about suicide and self-defense...start a new page....it was such an intriguing question.... not that we are a bunch of morbid hamlets and hamlettas creeping along castle walkways in the middle of dark soul-deadening nights...pondering skulls and other nihilisms.... but more because we all have or will face depression and thoughts of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1893 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:53:49 GMT <![CDATA[ A synchronizing affirmation for a loon on the run ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1894/t/A-synchronizing-affirmation-for-a-loon-on-the-run.html I found this in my search and found myself in amazement in how it articulates what I know to be true..... it is always a good thing to stumble upon these affirmations....plus they give a clumsy loon and his eccentric babblespeak a chance to sit on the sidelines and let another voice even better what your heart is trying to convey....so enjoy it ....included is a response by Shelley....Ron feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1894 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:44:05 GMT <![CDATA[ Life in the AMBIGUOUS alley ]]> http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1895/t/Life-in-the-AMBIGUOUS-alley.html As I watch the snow dams melting off the roof edges I am wonderfully blessed..... it occurs to me that ambiguity and uncertainty is THE place to be in... there is no shame to cling upon you, no guilt-film to scum one's sense of faithfulness.

GRACE HAPPENS!!!!

Who am I to question it!

It also occurs to me that everyone here...out there...whether they know it or not....brave enough to accept... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ronflyer) http://godsavesall.yuku.com/topic/1895 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:30:30 GMT