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Originally Posted by Northern Boy
You say it with such compassion and grace ... in case you didn`t realize it WE are all in this together and separation is or at least shouldn`t be an option because it weakens our position if we go with the paid subscription method this to separates us other alternatives have been put forth but no one has yet to discuss going any other route other than sub`s ... there is an old saying that people who live in glass houses should should not throw stones .
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I want to add a point to your statement Northern Boy, and I know Flying Pyramid will support my statement, over my hijacking of this thread:
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Originally Posted by Kerry Cassidy
Yes by instituting a subscription based forum to help pay for our work--we are imposing certain limits.. ($1 a month -- I mean get real..) but they are reasonable and the barrier to ENTRY IS EXTREMELY LOW. I want to KEEP IT THAT WAY.
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I want to specifically point out here comment in parentheses. This is the barrier right here in which we are talking about, this great holy divide in ideologies, the Great Wall of Intangible Thought. This is where one has to define reality, where I am talking about "stepping outside the system." I am getting real, more real than you (some of you at least) can possibly imagine. Is reality this monetary system to support our truth seeking? Do we need to give support to another in the form of a greenback to help us all become enlightened and more awakened.
Or can you go down to your homeless shelter for a free meal and sit down with a seventy year old man who has been sober for most of his life but has chosen the path of the least materialistic and wishes to only share beauty with the world with his words and art? There you find truth.
If you want to know what the hell is going on with this world, this reality, with your very own mind, then god damnit go out into the world and engage it first hand. Smile at a stranger. Make amends with broken relationships. Bring beauty into the chaotic.
This ideology is so powerful that in its entirety it can not be portrayed with the human language or taught by the tongue of the most wise of men. You need to discover it for yourself.
Just yesterday I shouted out to this realm of free thinkers to not forget that this is all an illusion and I am cast down by "What are you talking about, of course this is completely real!" It is real, every single experience in the entirety of existence is real. However, the illusion stands before you every second in which you do not fully grasp the beauty of what is real.
There's this voice inside you that has been screaming all your life, and it's getting louder by the moment. It's full of passion, curiosity, love, and endless waves of truth. Stop suppressing it and just let its song feel every inch of your soul, and that beauty will be standing right before you as it has always for eternity.
So I ask you, what is real?