CDZ A Renaissance of Reality.

[usmbguest5318]

I met Maya in Jacksonville, Florida in 2001, I believe it was. She was a very bitter racist person, but her writings don't show it. We were in a hotel bar, and perhaps she was drunk, or just had a bad experience.

Perhaps. She didn't come across that way when I interacted with her over the course of dinner at a charity event and some years later at a cocktail party. Maybe the settings themselves tempered her bile? I don't know. Quite frankly, she showed the same regal bearing and reserved contemplation as one of the women who, ages ago, worked in my parents' home. I found her lucid, charming and engaging as a someone with whom to chat. I sensed no bitterness. Obviously, given the briefness of our dealings, I have no way to know whether she was a racist.

Do you have dark skin?
She was a woman of grace and culture, but seemed defensive! Perhaps it was the hour, or perhaps she wanted to be alone with her escort. It was my friend the bartender who introduced us. Many people find me threatening until they get to know me, and I don't know why.

Do you have dark skin?

What? I understand the question. I'm not sure it deserves an answer.

Her, yours, my and others' skin tone doesn't factor into what I might say or think of them, be my remarks positive, neutral or negative.

Very naïve. Black people speak differently to people of like color, so do Whites, Asians, Latino's and aliens. The N word is a prime example, of Black to Black communication difference.

The blacks in my world, by their own assertion, don't use that word as an adjective or noun when they describe or identify specific individuals or groups of people. (They even eschew the word "niggardly," which is a perfectly fine word that has nothing to do with and predates the "N-word.") Their disdain for it and all that it connotes is not tempered by the speaker's race. And, no, they did not to Obama accord their approbation or imprimatur for his having publicly used that word; they found his use of the word every bit as unacceptable as they would anyone else's.

 

[THAI EXPAT]

On the lighter side:

The following Two Truths and 5 Rules of Life seem to be fairly valid...



SIMPLE TRUTH 1:
Lovers help each other undress before sex.
However, after sex, they always dress on their own.
Moral of the story -- In life, no one helps you once you're screwed.
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SIMPLE TRUTH 2:
When a lady is pregnant, all her friends touch the stomach and say, "Congrats."
But, none of them comes up to the man - touch his penis and say, "Good job"
Moral of the story -- Hard work is rarely appreciated.
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FIVE RULES TO REMEMBER IN LIFE:


1. Money cannot buy happiness - but it's far more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.

2. Forgive your enemy - but remember the asshole's name.

3. If you help someone when they're in trouble - they will remember you when they're in trouble again.

4. Alcohol does not solve any problems - but then, neither does milk.



AND My "Favorite"..From 78 Years of Life:

5. Many people are alive only because it's illegal to shoot them.
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BONUS RULE:

Condoms do not guarantee safe sex. A friend of mine was wearing one when he was shot & killed by the woman's husband.

 

[jwoodie]

The closest thing to "truth" that we can achieve is the correct application of logic to facts as we know them.

As to religious beliefs, all we can do is speculate about the unknown. Those who think they know all of the answers merely display their own profound ignorance.

What I see today, jwoodie, is a populat

The closest thing to "truth" that we can achieve is the correct application of logic to facts as we know them.

As to religious beliefs, all we can do is speculate about the unknown. Those who think they know all of the answers merely display their own profound ignorance.

What I see today, jwoodie, is a population that knows everything, because Google told them so. That becomes their truth, and they are willing to kill those who propose another truth.
Religion is an attempt to explain the unexplainable, in terms that can not describe that which has no material being.

For me, the truth reveals itself in ways I cannot apply logic or facts to. My Metaphysical side is my guide, then I go about proving or disproving what I KNOW.
Logic only works on the physical. Last year I attended the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand. The name is misleading as Metaphysical demonstrations of faith take place, not just a food festival. People become possessed by GODS and defy the physical. It goes on for a week.
I met a laborer, who was going to attend, and showed me a knife he had purchased to pierce his mouth thru both cheeks. The blade was about 4" wide and 18' long. I of course was skeptical and asked how he could work with his mouth slashed open. He just laughed and said he had faith.
The next morning I saw him in the parade, and he had this huge knife imbedded in both cheeks. But no blood was coming out. I went back to the same place the next day, and he was there. I examined his face and only a small, scabbed over slit about half an inch was visible in both cheeks.
This guy was no charlatan, and no money was paid him. He was just a laborer in a boat yard!

Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2017 - Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Phuket

I wonder if their cheeks have been previously pierced, like for earrings?

 

[THAI EXPAT]

The closest thing to "truth" that we can achieve is the correct application of logic to facts as we know them.

As to religious beliefs, all we can do is speculate about the unknown. Those who think they know all of the answers merely display their own profound ignorance.

What I see today, jwoodie, is a populat

The closest thing to "truth" that we can achieve is the correct application of logic to facts as we know them.

As to religious beliefs, all we can do is speculate about the unknown. Those who think they know all of the answers merely display their own profound ignorance.

What I see today, jwoodie, is a population that knows everything, because Google told them so. That becomes their truth, and they are willing to kill those who propose another truth.
Religion is an attempt to explain the unexplainable, in terms that can not describe that which has no material being.

For me, the truth reveals itself in ways I cannot apply logic or facts to. My Metaphysical side is my guide, then I go about proving or disproving what I KNOW.
Logic only works on the physical. Last year I attended the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket Thailand. The name is misleading as Metaphysical demonstrations of faith take place, not just a food festival. People become possessed by GODS and defy the physical. It goes on for a week.
I met a laborer, who was going to attend, and showed me a knife he had purchased to pierce his mouth thru both cheeks. The blade was about 4" wide and 18' long. I of course was skeptical and asked how he could work with his mouth slashed open. He just laughed and said he had faith.
The next morning I saw him in the parade, and he had this huge knife imbedded in both cheeks. But no blood was coming out. I went back to the same place the next day, and he was there. I examined his face and only a small, scabbed over slit about half an inch was visible in both cheeks.
This guy was no charlatan, and no money was paid him. He was just a laborer in a boat yard!

Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2017 - Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Phuket

I wonder if their cheeks have been previously pierced, like for earrings?

As I explained, I met with one participant the day before he paraded with a dagger through his face, and the day after.
The answer to your speculation is NO, the piercing was done by the blade!

 

[jwoodie]

As I explained, I met with one participant the day before he paraded with a dagger through his face, and the day after.
The answer to your speculation is NO, the piercing was done by the blade!

Are you sure that his face had not previously been pierced?

 

[THAI EXPAT]

As I explained, I met with one participant the day before he paraded with a dagger through his face, and the day after.
The answer to your speculation is NO, the piercing was done by the blade!

Are you sure that his face had not previously been pierced?

So you have convinced yourself that your speculation is reality. Even when someone who was there tells you, you are wrong!
You can go ahead and believe that hundreds of people are walking around with pierced faces, if that helps your belief, but try to imagine going through life with two holes in your face, with food and liquids leaking out. Almost too funny to comprehend.

 

[THAI EXPAT]

As I explained, I met with one participant the day before he paraded with a dagger through his face, and the day after.
The answer to your speculation is NO, the piercing was done by the blade!

Are you sure that his face had not previously been pierced?

So you have convinced yourself that your speculation is reality. Even when someone who was there tells you, you are wrong!
You can go ahead and believe that hundreds of people are walking around with pierced faces, if that helps your belief, but try to imagine going through life with two holes in your face, with food and liquids leaking out. Almost too funny to comprehend.

I only showed you the least upsetting photo's. There was one guy who had four friends carry a cage with him suspended by Giant Fish hooks, swaying with the motion. There was another guy with a Bicycle handle bar thru his face, another with a pole with 10 pineapples hanging from it.. People completely covered with safety pins through their skin. I would go on but you are convinced I am lying, so why bother.

 

[THAI EXPAT]

Photos of Vegetarian Festival Phuket - ค้นหาด้วย Google