Your favourite God

My own view is that equinimity is something worth working for. With this in mind I am working towards developing a regular meditation practice and I am trying to become an observer of my own mind. I do think that it is possible though to achieve a higher state of consciousness and if by doing so I find that I develop a sudden connection with my inner self you will be the first to know.

One other question, what do you mean by a higher state of consciousness, do you simply mean to 'focus' your mind, to blank out or remove certain thoughts ?

I am not too clear on what is often meant by the phrase.

I suspect my goal is to achieve a lower state of consciousness, I kind of like lots of thoughts all fighting each other, it's a fucking war in here sometimes - I tell ya' !

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Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned

Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned

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Marx big god...big beard.....Lenin little god....little beard......and Tom Simpson and my cousin who died on the Somme in 1916 and Stanley Matthews and Bill Shankly.....but most of all,...... my mum!

no Trostky? he had a nice beard..

no Trostky? he had a nice beard..

No!....Trotsky is my hero but not a god....partly because he was totally outflanked by Stalin after Lenin's death......a bit like not making the right move in the TdF and missing out on yellow.....as in 1924.....Trotsky should have been in 'Yellow' and not Stalin!

That's because Trotsky was focusing on the hour record.. That's why he went to Mexico (like Merckx)

Are you saying that Trostky was a Merckxist?

^ Perfect!

Are you saying that Trostky was a Merckxist?

No...Merkcx was a crpto-Trotkyist.....as Trotsky got to mexico first...though Trotsky failed in Mexico...unlike Merckx.....and Mercx never had a beard!....Which rules him out of the Socialist pantheon......so Engels also needs a mention...another big beard...big god....Stalin only had only a moustache....so cannot be considered as a god [except by my father].....'socialism in one country' is trumped by 'perpetual revolution'!

Big beards = Old testament.
Little beards = new testament *

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....so Engels also needs a mention...another big beard...big god..

Engels was a cock. Have you ever managed to read "The Dialectics of Nature" without pissing yourself with laughter. It's funnier than the appendix to the New Park edition of Trotsky's "In Defence of Merckxism"

I take it that's along with the rain God then??

And Bob from down the road.

Big beards = Old testament.
Little beards = new testament *

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Fucking smashing !

Big beards = Old testament.
Little beards = new testament

Never heard that before.

:)

Guan Yu, patron saint of both the Hong Kong police & the HK triads.

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Engels was a cock. Have you ever managed to read "The Dialectics of Nature" without pissing yourself with laughter. It's funnier than the appendix to the New Park edition of Trotsky's "In Defence of Merckxism"

I must disagree about your analysis of Engels......Have you read the 'the Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844'.....as inciteful book as you could read.......though i agree the marxist lexicography is convoluted and difficult to follow....as in Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution.....that's why British marxists are most readable and accessible such as Eric Hobsbawn or Christopher Hill......both demi-gods.

One other question, what do you mean by a higher state of consciousness, do you simply mean to 'focus' your mind, to blank out or remove certain thoughts ?

I am not too clear on what is often meant by the phrase.

I suspect my goal is to achieve a lower state of consciousness, I kind of like lots of thoughts all fighting each other, it's a fucking war in here sometimes - I tell ya' !

:P

Yes exactly for example ZEN buddism teaches detachment from thought through the practice of meditation...this is how the Samuari could detatch from feeling fear in combat ...on a more mundane level if your life is full of fear or full of regrets or full of both ... you can find yourself in a place where you are full of negativity ... detachment from thought allows for the transmutation of negative to positive energy...

Fucking smashing !

Big beards = Old testament.
Little beards = new testament

Never heard that before.

:)

Eddie Izzard, not my own work. The change over had something to do with a burning bush and singed facial hair.

Eris: She really knows how to completly fuck everything up.

Hermes

...the God of VD?