[Arm-netbook] System 76 - Entering Phase 3

[Bill Kontos]

It's one of the reasons this list is so interesting. My search for libre
hardware lead me to eoma which led me to this list. I came for libre
hardware I stayed for libre hardware and philosophy :)

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:40 AM, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 4/24/17, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/24/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> >
> >>  lyberta, do look up eckart tolle's story, it's very very funny (and
> >> relevant).  ok ok i can't resist telling the tale: he was an academic,
> >> in some of the worst (bitchiest) back-stabbing in-fighting for funding
> >> and "status" academic environments it's possible to be in, and it was
> >> really *really* getting him down.  so one day he woke up and said to
> >> himself, intending to kill himself, "i can't live with myself".
> >>
> >>  except, the academic in him went, "hang on a minute, what the hell?
> >> what the hell is the damn difference between this "I" and this
> >> "myself"?? in that stupid sentence!  *I* can't live with my "self"??
> >> wtf??"  and the sudden and revelationary recognition of the incredible
> >> cognitive dissonance between two "things" - two "selfs" - in his mind
> >> which he *wasn't even aware were separate" resulted in what's known in
> >> the trade as a "kundalini whiteout".
> >>
> >>  when he came to he found he was still sitting on the bed but he could
> >> perceive things in a totally new way.  i won't go into the rest of the
> >> story but he's now one of the western world's best known "spiritual
> >> masters", so his books (including audio books) are well worth reading.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not sure how my feedback on this is valued, but :
> > Believe it or not, I'm not a fan of Eckhart not just 'cause I always
> > despised the definitive "all knowing" rhetoric used by both Church's
> > AND spiritualists, but because I felt Eckhart et-all frequently made
> > the habit of making individuals feel better about themselves by
> > demeaning and incessantly talking about how worthless and powerless
> > so-called "oppressive" forces are, literally as an abstract. Life's
> > meaning (in my opinion) is literally based around conflict as an
> > abstract (not just violence), so it kinda feels like their
> > interpretation of life is a bit pointless if one doesn't make being
> > spiritual a part of their identity (since to them conflict with one's
> > self seems to be the only conflict that has any meaning, and kinda
> > implies if a person views themselves as good human beings just the way
> > they are that they are living a life with nothing but pointless
> > conflicts). That's just my opinion xP
> >
>
> Oops I meant to send that just to Luke, Not the whole list, sorry
> everybody for any bit derailing mt comments may be here xD Sorry
>
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