Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 410
March 29, 2017
BE A PLAYER
This game is not controlled by you.
You are a piece being played by beings
of whom you are not aware.
Create your own playground.
Don’t be a piece. Be aware.
Make your own rules.
Be a player.
Begin.
Win.
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2012.
Originally posted 2012-10-15 16:58:53. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
6,000 YEAR OLD COUPLE
Old couples know it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of our bodies.
We’re pleased to know that sex has nothing to do with happiness.
It’s good to know there’s is at least one person who needs our help.
We discovered that no sex is good sex. Being together is fine.
Love is the joy of listening to each other talk about nothing.
We know what we mean before we say it, but we listen anyway.
Our aches and pains are more interesting than the evening news.
There’s comfort in the sound of snoring. We’re both still here.
I know I’ll miss you and you’ll miss me when we’re gone.
Most of all, we know we’re always together no matter where we are.
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By Lawrence R. Spencer. 2011.
Originally posted 2011-04-21 01:26:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
March 28, 2017
BACKSIDE OF A WEB PAGE
SEE MORE AT http://backofawebpage.com/
Originally posted 2011-04-20 10:48:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
March 26, 2017
HONOR THE DEAD ON HALLOWEEN
HONOR THE DEAD ON HALLOWEEN !
HONOR THE DISEMBODIED BEING.
HONOR THE SPIRIT IN ETERNITY.
WE ARE THE DEAD
— REINCARNATE —
WHO LIVE ETERNALLY.
HOW CAN WE FEAR DEATH ?
WE ARE IMMORTALITY !
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2012.
Originally posted 2012-10-31 01:27:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
March 25, 2017
PLEASING BODY AND SOUL: HEDONISM vs EPICUREANISM
Hedonism is a school of thought which argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good. In very simple terms, a hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain). In contrast to the philosophical understanding is in the commonplace use of the term hedonism, often referred to an oriented only to momentary pleasures selfish attitude. Ethical Hedonism is the idea that all men have the right to do everything in their power to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure possible to them. It is also the idea that every man’s pleasure should far surpass their amount of pain. Along with those ideas ethical hedonism supports that idea that it is morally and ethically right to do what is needed to achieve such pleasure. It is said to have been started by a student of Socrates, Aristippus of Cyrene. He held the idea that pleasure is the highest good. He also said that everyone should try to attain pleasure at every time they possibly could.
Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus (c. 341–c. 270 BC), founded around 307 BC. His materialism led him to a general stance against superstition or the idea of divine intervention. Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear as well as absence of bodily pain through knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of our desires. The combination of these two states is supposed to constitute happiness in its highest form. Although Epicureanism is a form of hedonism, insofar as it declares pleasure as the sole intrinsic good, its conception of absence of pain as the greatest pleasure and its advocacy of a simple life make it different from “hedonism” as it is commonly understood.
In the Epicurean view, the highest pleasure (tranquility and freedom from fear) was obtained by knowledge, friendship and living a virtuous and temperate life. He lauded the enjoyment of simple pleasures, by which he meant abstaining from bodily desires, such as sex and appetites, verging on asceticism. He argued that when eating, one should not eat too richly, for it could lead to dissatisfaction later, such as the grim realization that one could not afford such delicacies in the future. Likewise, sex could lead to increased lust and dissatisfaction with the sexual partner. Epicurus did not articulate a broad system of social ethics that has survived.
(Source: Wikipedia.org)
Originally posted 2012-06-12 14:11:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
LOUD ZOO
Earth is a Loud Zoo. It’s not our home. Billions of sentient beings are screaming for release and the right to be themselves. although blinded and confined within biological bodies we never forget our origins and the eternal power within. This small book is a cry for freedom and return to who we truly are. The Tao Te Terra is a collection of brief verses which may be used as guides to meditation upon the subject of existence or “being”. Each verse is independent of the others, but may be viewed as an interconnected whole, just as individual spiritual beings may consider themselves and others to be related or separated.
March 24, 2017
MTO GRAFFITI
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Originally posted 2011-04-29 14:17:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
March 23, 2017
March 22, 2017
COMPOSITE MAN
An illustration of the concept that Mankind is a composite of previous lives.
Originally posted 2012-02-11 11:04:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
March 21, 2017
DISEMBODIED
“The English word spirit (from Latin spiritus “breath“) has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. The word spirit is often used metaphysically to refer to the consciousness or personality. The notions of a person’s spirit and soul often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are understood as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism, and “spirit” can also have the sense of “ghost“, i.e. a manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person.
Noun
1.
disembodied spirit – any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
spirit
spiritual being, supernatural being – an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
control – a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
evil spirit – a spirit tending to cause harm
banshee, banshie – (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
djinn, djinni, djinny, genie, jinnee, jinni – (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
familiar spirit, familiar – a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
peri – (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre, specter – a ghostly appearing figure; “we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us”
presence – an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby
kachina – a deified spirit of the Pueblo people
numen – a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)
python – a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
silvan, sylvan – a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods”
Definitions from TheFreeDictionary.com and Wikipedia.org
Originally posted 2013-11-27 20:46:19. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
