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Originally posted by karoly aczel
Umm, on the surface of that I would have to strongly disagree.
What were you referring to specifically? I suppose if you teaching a toddler to keep off the road you might want to "ram it down their throats" , but when it comes to spirituality, I believe one must be gentle and patient and hope that the "seed" within someone flowers "naturally"

Well, once I ram it down your throat, it will be in there so it can flower
"naturally". 😏

Originally posted by VoidSpirit
yick. next time you set off to erase you're hard drive, invest in a thumb-drive or two.

Or better yet have different drives for storing data and holding your operating system. or at least separate partitions.

Originally posted by googlefudge
Or better yet have different drives for storing data and holding your operating system. or at least separate partitions.

I'm a people person, not a data person.

Originally posted by RJHinds
Well, once I ram it down your throat, it will be in there so it can flower
"naturally". 😏

I cant say it's working. You may want to give me a miss next time you want to ram something down my particular throat,thnx.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
I get up in the morning 3 days ago, and hazily put on the media player, as I always do before I make coffee ,etc.
You see just recently I had to wipe my whole hard drive. It was the only way to get it working again. So weeks of music and thousands of family pics, and the rest all gone!!

I was spewin' but at least I got my pc fixed for free. I goto t ...[text shortened]... t I am sure of what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears)

This is the explanation: You spend way too much time listening to gibberish.

Your mind has been gibberized. You'll believe anything as long as it doesn't make any sense.

ROFLMAO

Originally posted by josephw
This is the explanation: You spend way too much time listening to gibberish.

Your mind has been gibberized. You'll believe anything as long as it doesn't make any sense.

ROFLMAO

No I dont. I bet I listen to "silence" more than the average joe out there.
ps. not funny

Originally posted by karoly aczel
No I dont. I bet I listen to "silence" more than the average joe out there.
ps. not funny

You listen to silence?

What do you hear when you listen to silence?

Originally posted by josephw
You listen to silence?

What do you hear when you listen to silence?

You know what I mean. Like sometimes I quieten my mind and just listen to the ocean murmur.

Dont be daft.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
You know what I mean. Like sometimes I quieten my mind and just listen to the ocean murmur.

Dont be daft.

To be honest I really don't know what you mean.

Is listening to silence supposed to be some kind of spiritual exercise of the mind designed to bring peace and harmony to the soul? Is the ability to listen to silence a sign of spiritual maturity only the initiated can experience? Is listening to silence a way of saying, "hey, look at me, I'm enlighten because I can hear silence, because I'm way more spiritually evolved than ordinary human beings"? Is being able to hear silence supposed to mean one is better than others who can't?

Isn't listening to silence really rather like hearing nothing, seeing nothing, saying nothing? Learning nothing, gaining nothing, going nowhere.

Originally posted by josephw
To be honest I really don't know what you mean.

Is listening to silence supposed to be some kind of spiritual exercise of the mind designed to bring peace and harmony to the soul? Is the ability to listen to silence a sign of spiritual maturity only the initiated can experience? Is listening to silence a way of saying, "hey, look at me, I'm enlighten beca ...[text shortened]... othing, seeing nothing, saying nothing? Learning nothing, gaining nothing, going nowhere.

If you put a sea shell up to your ear, you will hear silence that sounds
like the sea or the ocean. 😏

Originally posted by RJHinds
If you put a sea shell up to your ear, you will hear silence that sounds
like the sea or the ocean. 😏

Silence has a sound to it? lol

Originally posted by josephw
To be honest I really don't know what you mean.

Is listening to silence supposed to be some kind of spiritual exercise of the mind designed to bring peace and harmony to the soul? Is the ability to listen to silence a sign of spiritual maturity only the initiated can experience? Is listening to silence a way of saying, "hey, look at me, I'm enlighten beca ...[text shortened]... othing, seeing nothing, saying nothing? Learning nothing, gaining nothing, going nowhere.

Look man, it's not a race.

Quieting my mind is good for me because I'm naturally a loud and talkative person. It balances me.
I'm not saying everyone has to do it, or that it will bring any inner peace and harmony.
I just believe I have sorted out the "gibberish" in my mind a long time ago and like to quieten my mind just as much as I like to engage in a lively debate.

I'm not particularly smart or wordy, or even worldly, but where I come from, ....well lets just say I am in touch with my inner self and have the ability to chose and then act upon certain mental functions.
I know when it's just my ego and nothing else that wants something, I know that within "nothing" is contained the whole universe, Jesus too.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
I'm a people person, not a data person.

for these purposes music counts as data, its not a program, specifically it's not the operating system.

I keep all my files on separate partitions (or preferably drives) from the OS so that if the OS ever fails
and has to be reinstalled I don't lose all my data (much of which is music, but also photos, work
documents ect).

Hard drives and OS's fail, if you want to not lose all your accumulated data then people person or not,
backups and redundancy are the way to go.

The simplest is partitioning the HDD so that if you have to reformat the primary partition you still at least
get to keep all the data on the secondary partition. And this option is free because it doesn't require a
second HDD.

Originally posted by josephw
Silence has a sound to it? lol

Here is the sound of silence -- Listen

YouTube

Originally posted by josephw
To be honest I really don't know what you mean.

Is listening to silence supposed to be some kind of spiritual exercise of the mind designed to bring peace and harmony to the soul? Is the ability to listen to silence a sign of spiritual maturity only the initiated can experience? Is listening to silence a way of saying, "hey, look at me, I'm enlighten beca ...[text shortened]... othing, seeing nothing, saying nothing? Learning nothing, gaining nothing, going nowhere.

No, I'm not saying any of those things .

I'm just saying, like RJHinds said, just listen to a shell and hear the ocean, within that experience would also be an opportunity to experience the divine, in whatever way. (As the "eternal moment" would've contained that moment as well- an opportunity! )
In this sense there is no referring to the group consensus on how the "shell hearing" went for you. Only you would know whether you heard anything or if it made any sense at all, (perhaps on a different plane of understanding).