Posted on 05/05/2011 5:34:23 AM PDT by Daffynition
Thank you for sharing your insights!
I am joined in earnest prayer for you, dear Coldwater Creek!
I have kept you in my prayers regularly and will continue to do so, FRiend.
Thanks so much. I feel those prayers from FRiends.
Thanks!
Thanks!
The whole stupidity -- or at least superficiality -- of the new age movement in general and of the Eckhart Tolles of the world in particular can be summed up in one word: realizationism.
Schuon coined this term to describe a "pernicious error" which nevertheless "seems to be axiomatic with the false gurus of the East and West"; specifically, the claim that "only 'realization' counts and that 'theory' is nothing, as if man were not a thinking being and as if he could undertake anything whatsoever without knowing where he was going.
False masters speak readily of 'developing latent energies'; now one can go to hell with all the developments and all the energies one pleases; it is in any case better to die with a good theory than with a false 'realization.' What the pseudo-spiritualists lose sight of only too easily is that... 'there is no right superior to that of the truth.'”
Precisely. ..."
The Wisdom of Over-Educated Fools and Holy Hucksters
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"[Tolle]......an ignoramus with a broken moral compass.
"Don't get me wrong. ..... I'm sure he's a "nice" man. In browsing the pages of his book, there is definitely some truth in it, but it is about as deep as a Hallmark greeting card, aimed at a mediocre level of intellect, and so interspersed with banality and error as to be functionally useless. It is fast food for the soul, if there could actually be such a thing without contradicting itself ("soul" and "depth" being nearly synonymous). It also shows that there are some very hungry and emaciated souls out there, willing to eat anything.
"I will admit that he is an awesome businessman, however. In that area, I bow to his superiority. He's up there in the stratosphere with Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, and Bennie Hinn.
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For you to be free, the mind must be let free to be itself -- not let be itself, but let free to be itself. The man who knows the difference, knows the difference.
"If anyone wants to know why I so despise the secular left -- why it is the mortal enemy of [our] way of life -- perusing this infrahuman dispatch from the bowels of metaphysical ignorance would serve as well as any, for it reveals the ultimate premise and goal of the left in all its hideously naked barbarity, which is to turn man into a beast. Entitled Science Friday: You Are Not That Special, it reads,
"a pair of recent articles point up the folly of making tool use the test of humanity. It appears that chimpanzees had their own 'stone age.' Around the same time the pyramids were being constructed in Egypt, Chimps in West Africa were using stone tools to get at hard-shelled nuts. It's not only chimpanzees of the past who use tools. It's long been known that some bands of modern chimps use sticks to tease insects from their hives."
"There, you see? This ignoramus looks at the vast panorama of creation and concludes that one of the seven wonders of the world is indistinguishible from a hungry monkey cracking open a nut. By this adamantine logic, Kos himself is nothing more than a grubby chimp poking his joystick into a cyberhole to satisfy his animal impulses. Which, of course, is entirely true, but that's beside the point.
"The self-confessed beast in question then asks, ...." Continue reading here:
The Subhuman Agenda of the Psychospiritual Left
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"...This is one of the intrinsic errors of scientism, as it tries to pretend it can get along without final causes, even while habitually slipping them in the back door. For the truth is, one cannot even think coherently in the absence of final causation. ... [....]
"Metaphysics deals with ultimate causes "from above," i.e., the vertical, as opposed to the purely horizontal causes explored by science. Thus, one way to eliminate final cause is to simply pretend that the vertical does not exist, even though, again, the very conduct of science is impossible in the absence of verticality, no matter how attenuated. The moment a scientist has said "truth," he has said "vertical," and therefore finality, absolute, and God. For the truth of something is its final cause.
"What is the truth of man?
"Note that the materialist does not really eliminate final cause.
"Rather, he simply affirms that the final cause is the material or efficient cause, i.e., random matter and energy.
"That being the case, he is promulgating the metaphysical absurdity of "absolute relativism," or --------- the impossible idea that the ultimate meaning of existence is ultimate meaninglessness.
My mom is home to hospice, lung cancer. It’s hard to watch every day.
Yeah! Hooray for the ability to "know the difference".:)
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When, from a view-of-possibility unknown to them, a whole species is dumb, how can any individually be properly so identified?
The answer of course is that they can't, and that only the doubly dense so involve themselves.
...Oh yeah, this equally applies to an individual, and his judgment of the intelligence of his own thinking.
Is that *your* blog?
The process is amazing. Hope you can be strong for each other. Observe and listen. You won’t regret it.
No, it isn't.
Whoever you quoted thinks of him/herself as a mere "animal", or less. Poor thing.
If you believe that Jesus died so that our sins may be forgiven, then you should not be afraid. I believe that God is a loving Father. Just as we love our children. He is so much greater than us and I am sure knowing our hearts, I would think he wouldn’t leave you out in the cold.
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What you say is true. I’m a born again Christian, and have perfect peace in this illness and dying.
Thanks for your post!
Finally, you answered a simple question. Amazing.
Have you or have you not read Tolle? Anything?
What are your thoughts about mortality?
Yes sir, I guess a little compassion and common sense can count for something –
just don’t expect it to mean anything if you stay in your room with your mind locked.
And speaking of locks:
Did you hear the one about the philosopher, the proctologist, and the mining engineer
who wanted to break the genetic code?
“Yes, yes, that probably too is all well and good, but I still await a reply to my earlier inquiry.”
Mein Got! .... the munchkin lives!
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