tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post4713706790469756336..comments2023-10-02T16:29:40.087+01:00Comments on neo-resistance: The Sound of KindnessNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-61032613242136985062007-07-19T19:40:00.000+01:002007-07-19T19:40:00.000+01:00Well well :)I think it is time for Anna and Anonym...Well well :)<BR/>I think it is time for Anna and Anonymous to get their blogs running so they can charm each other in private ;)Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-45315578003268117672007-07-19T19:37:00.000+01:002007-07-19T19:37:00.000+01:00Az del ... wa kahesh mikonam ...angemessener Mensc...Az del ... wa kahesh mikonam ...angemessener Mensch!Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-35413623351582340332007-07-19T19:27:00.000+01:002007-07-19T19:27:00.000+01:00Vielen Dank - meine angemessene Frau!pen NameVielen Dank - meine angemessene Frau!<BR/><BR/>pen NameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-58186538619351624652007-07-18T12:24:00.000+01:002007-07-18T12:24:00.000+01:00And here you can listen to the song, pen Name, if ...And here you can listen to the song, pen Name, if you want to:<BR/><BR/>http://youtube.com/watch?v=AEzRXjg1rYE&mode=related&searchAnnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-51732413578403877172007-07-18T11:35:00.000+01:002007-07-18T11:35:00.000+01:00Thank you, thank you, thank you, pen Namefor the w...Thank you, thank you, thank you, pen Name<BR/>for the wonderful poem , whose "melody" in german for me and of course sounds somewhat different as the one in english. If one starts to imagine how infinitely much mankind ever since has thought and felt and gone through and written down in every possible languages and nevertheless every single person ever since climbed out of his cradle is standing Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-25713237516397503642007-07-18T03:54:00.000+01:002007-07-18T03:54:00.000+01:00Anna:I think Envy is impossible to eradicate - may...Anna:<BR/><BR/>I think Envy is impossible to eradicate - may be we can learn to control it better.<BR/><BR/>The poem:<BR/><BR/>Schmidt von Lübeck:<BR/><BR/>Der Wanderer <BR/><BR/>Ich komme vom Gebirge her, <BR/>Es dampft das Tal, es braust das Meer. <BR/>Ich wandle still, bin wenig froh, <BR/>Und immer fragt der Seufzer, wo? <BR/>Die Sonne dünkt mich hier so kalt, <BR/>Die Blüte welk, das Leben Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-58873259550853793132007-07-17T19:45:00.000+01:002007-07-17T19:45:00.000+01:00vNo, pen Name, I don't know the two lectures you m...vNo, pen Name, I don't know the two lectures you mentioned, I'll google them later. Ther is so much I haven't read, and the conclusion is on hand, that one more life won't be enough to do so :-)<BR/><BR/>First now I will read Michael Schmidt-Salomon's<BR/>""Manifest des Evolutionären Humanismus.<BR/>Plädoyer für eine zeitgemäße Leitkultur""<BR/><BR/>Manifest for an evolutionary Humanism. Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-47587340309573895602007-07-17T18:31:00.000+01:002007-07-17T18:31:00.000+01:00Anna:Do you know "Der Wanderer" by Schmidt von Lüb...Anna:<BR/><BR/>Do you know "Der Wanderer" by Schmidt von Lübeck?<BR/><BR/>pen NameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-26789387690290342572007-07-17T18:06:00.000+01:002007-07-17T18:06:00.000+01:00Anna:Greed, like Envy, seems to be a constant comp...Anna:<BR/><BR/>Greed, like Envy, seems to be a constant companion of human beings. How can there be a sense of fulfillment when one is constantly bored since most life is boring?<BR/><BR/>In the Japanese Tea Ceremony there are 97 precise steps: small boring steps to a pleasurable end. This was a form of spiritual exercise - just like St. Benedict's spiritual exercises or the dialy prayers in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-85793450910480837802007-07-17T16:32:00.000+01:002007-07-17T16:32:00.000+01:00Thank YOU Pen Name, for your abundant responses! I...Thank YOU Pen Name, for your abundant responses! It's always a pleasure to think along about "the life" and all its implications, facettes and ways of understandings and perceptions.<BR/><BR/>For me it is the most normal thing on earth, that people are looking for orientation. We all are "guests" on this earth, but it's probably not always or simply sure who apparently is the host/the hostess ;-)Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-95108893487090962007-07-17T15:12:00.000+01:002007-07-17T15:12:00.000+01:00Anna:Thank you for your responses.I have read them...Anna:<BR/>Thank you for your responses.<BR/>I have read them several times and what I have gleaned from them is that in the European Union there is a desire – at the individual level – to live well according to some standard. But no one knows what that standard could be. Christianity, Nationalism, Racialism, Communism, etc. are all failed gods and thus do not engage the mind and soul of the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-3345358633709031382007-07-17T14:39:00.000+01:002007-07-17T14:39:00.000+01:00Pen Name: The below quoted part of your answer got...Pen Name: The below quoted part of your answer got by error into my comment. sorry:<BR/><BR/><I>Which gives more authenticity to a male: to be more comfortable walking into a library (bibliotheque) and ask for a book or to walk into a gun store to purchase a rifle? To walk with the intellectuals or to fight with the soldiers? To preserve chastity or to rape?<BR/><BR/>Shab-e shoma ham khosh, Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-6135298929174285342007-07-17T12:19:00.000+01:002007-07-17T12:19:00.000+01:00Pen NameWhich gives more authenticity to a male: t...Pen Name<BR/><BR/>Which gives more authenticity to a male: to be more comfortable walking into a library (bibliotheque) and ask for a book or to walk into a gun store to purchase a rifle? To walk with the intellectuals or to fight with the soldiers? To preserve chastity or to rape?<BR/><BR/>Shab-e shoma ham khosh, sarkar-e khanum<BR/><BR/>pen Name<BR/><BR/><I>To be a whole person - I have often Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-70415576878681624962007-07-17T00:01:00.000+01:002007-07-17T00:01:00.000+01:00Anna:I can try to write in French; I have not done...Anna:<BR/><BR/>I can try to write in French; I have not done so in many years and I assure you my French is much worse than your English.<BR/><BR/>Yes, to be aware of one's intrinsic weakness - constant humility. Indeed that is difficult.<BR/><BR/>To be a whole person - I have often heard it from Western people; not so much from Muslims, Hindus or Oriental people. I think it is related to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-8299356622709406952007-07-16T22:28:00.000+01:002007-07-16T22:28:00.000+01:00Pen Name ... I'd wish my english was so eloquent l...Pen Name ... I'd wish my english was so eloquent like my mother tongue ... just for the joy to discuss with you and share sights ans looks at "things"<BR/><BR/><I>"Weakness" is a characteristic of all finite beings such as us - I accept my Weakness that takes many forms. All other human beings are in a similar situations as I. We are weak patheique creatures that live short and finite lives. ThatAnnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-25616367007021302612007-07-16T20:57:00.000+01:002007-07-16T20:57:00.000+01:00Anna:No irony intended. Why do you think I was be...Anna:<BR/><BR/>No irony intended. Why do you think I was being ironic?<BR/><BR/>The "esoteric clouds" are as real as Love or Hunger or Beauty.<BR/><BR/>"unrealistic romanticism" is a form of spiritual exercise; to make the mind see that one mundane life - filled with fears and weaknesses - does not have to be so. <BR/><BR/>What does being realistic mean? Some kind of natural mercantilism in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-79657462134644813282007-07-16T15:16:00.000+01:002007-07-16T15:16:00.000+01:00pen Name, pen Name!Thanks. But am I wrong by guess...pen Name, pen Name!<BR/>Thanks. But am I wrong by guessing there is slightly shimmering some irony in your words? Talking of "eminent sense"?<BR/><BR/>;-)<BR/><BR/>Love in my understanding is not just something typically "female" - or is it so, "must" it be so? - dreaming along and the day away in rosegardens or about them. Thus kind of irrealistic romanticism! Thus sort of weakness! In my Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-6514151031643688662007-07-16T14:34:00.000+01:002007-07-16T14:34:00.000+01:00In general, I have discovered that women are not s...<I>In general, I have discovered that women are not sympathetic to speculation [philosophical, scientific, artistic, etc.] and day-dreams - they are too practical. Your response to my speculations does not surprise me. But had we (men) confined ourselves to the mundane as much as women had desired us to do - we would still be living in the caves. [Do not day dream of fire, it can burn. Do not Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-51899543581189208442007-07-16T14:25:00.000+01:002007-07-16T14:25:00.000+01:00Dear Anna:Indeed your point is well-taken regardin...Dear Anna:<BR/><BR/>Indeed your point is well-taken regarding the Heart:<BR/><BR/>The Persian mystic - Hatef of Isphahan wrote:<BR/><BR/> <BR/>چشم دل باز كن كه جان بيني<BR/>آنچه ناديدني است آن بيني <BR/> <BR/> <BR/>گر به اقليم عشق روي آري <BR/>همه آفاق گلستان بيني <BR/> <BR/>Open the Eye of thy Heart too see Life,<BR/><BR/>To See that which is un-unseen<BR/><BR/>For if you turn your face toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-31797342728019366412007-07-16T11:45:00.000+01:002007-07-16T11:45:00.000+01:00Thank you so much, dear pen Name, for your compreh...Thank you so much, dear pen Name, for your comprehensive answers and thoughts. Believe it or not: I even understand it ... exactly because mankind owes manifold qualities. Among them too the quality of „thinking the unthinkable“ (but I don’t quite agree with your distinction between men and women, because I consider it to be a bit too schematic, simplicistic) of which „the products“ maybe decadesAnnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-5152137855592412842007-07-15T22:34:00.000+01:002007-07-15T22:34:00.000+01:00Anna:You have alluded to several important points ...Anna:<BR/><BR/>You have alluded to several important points - I will respond to them.<BR/><BR/>- I think that any serious discussion of human exploration and settlement of the rest of the Milky Way galaxy and indeed the entire Cosmos invariably brings smiles to the faces of others. In the 1920s, certainly people laughed at those pioneers of rocketry who dreamt about trips to the moon and other Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-11192763615832376992007-07-15T20:41:00.000+01:002007-07-15T20:41:00.000+01:00Dear pen Name, we all know that "spirit and though...Dear pen Name, we all know that "spirit and thoughts are free"! Nevetheless you really managed it to feel me a bit quite amused and letting me smile with your thinkings about possible life once in "some future", accessable even for us earth-bound human beings. Some more "exile" for us, to spread our crazynesses that we constantly are "delivering" evidence of and how embarassingly we hardly get Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410875288193568214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-46923279205461954752007-07-15T15:31:00.000+01:002007-07-15T15:31:00.000+01:00David:I am aware of the difficult problems to be s...David:<BR/><BR/>I am aware of the difficult problems to be solved for terra-forming Venus.<BR/><BR/>But I do not think that Mars can be colonized usefully; its surface gravity is only 1/3 of Earth's. I believe viable human fetuses cannot gestatate in that low a gravity.<BR/><BR/>Venus, on the other hand, has 90% of Earth's surface gravity it may be possible to procreate there successfully. <BR/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-79905126128544819032007-07-15T04:44:00.000+01:002007-07-15T04:44:00.000+01:00David,of course it amused me :)I was joking about ...David,<BR/>of course it amused me :)<BR/>I was joking about our nonsensicals too :)<BR/>I don't like too much seriousness, you know! People who are too serious bore me!Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-55674252886563825112007-07-15T03:46:00.000+01:002007-07-15T03:46:00.000+01:00Naj, my comment about your cloak was certainly non...Naj, my comment about your cloak was certainly nonsense. I hoped it might amuse you. If you were not amused, it is ok to tell me so, and I will be more careful the next time that I feel like joking around. However, I hope that you don't think that my serious comments were nonsense.<BR/><BR/>Pen, I think that terraforming Mars may be possible at some point in the future, and I am in favor of that Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01494609521203854111noreply@blogger.com