This morning you took the Avalon over to
Joseph Collision Center on Colerain Avenue on the West Side. A couple of days
ago you were waiting in an east-west handicap parking slot in front of the bank
for Carol who was in the bank and a Mercedes SUV backed into you while the
driver was adjusting parking her car into a like east-west slot facing Cox
Road. You were facing east, she was backing west. While she was backing slowly
you noticed she was going to tap the
front of the Avalon, which she did about a second later. You had been on the
keyboard until that second before and not paying any attention to her driving.
Her insurance company allowed you to use Toyota so you did. The estimate to
replace the cracked bumper cover (as they call it) is $853.44. - Amorella
1144 hours. While that seems like a lot (I pay nothing) a few years ago
I tapped a back bumper on the off ramp of I-75 at Tylersville Road and had to have
the fellow's back bumper cover replaced; it was about twelve hundred dollars which
my insurance paid. (They did not raise my rates.) The small dent was about the
size of a quarter in change. I could not believe how much it cost to fix his
car at the time. Today, it seems Toyota is more reasonable. Always something,
such is life. The woman who hit me was
very reasonable and we were both polite. It was an accident plain and
simple. No one was hurt and both cars were/are drivable. She was a very nice
younger middle-aged lady. We both have a dark sense of humor and it benefited
our conversation at the time.
Why didn't you bring this up when
it happened? - Amorella
1155 hours. I suppose I forgot about it. I was not inconvenienced at the
time. Today I had to drive to Toyota, otherwise I probably would not have
mentioned it at all. Besides, you brought it up not me.
Post. - Amorella
1157 hours. Why did you bring it up?
1333 hours. Carol is talking to Linda. I am trying to piece all this
material on consciousness and spiritual aspects together to get a sense on what
is useful in Soki's Choice. I cannot imagine it will be much other than
a direction towards a theme or character rather than plot. Perhaps none of it is important now - maybe
it's a fluke or coincidence. Quite frankly, I forget what we are doing other
than going over chapter twenty-five at a very loose or unorthodox pace. Actually,
time doesn't really feel like it has anything to do with working on the book. I
remember when I had a deadline of completing and publishing a book a year for
three years. Obviously, I did it but the books are not in a final draft mode,
so what good did that do?
You got them self-published, one a year for
three years; that was your goal. - Amorella
1344 hours. It was, but a near final draft as a final was not the goal.
I did it anyway. I guess I just wanted the books to stand on their own
literally, on a bookshelf.
Thus, you see, it was a material goal to be
published not a spiritual goal to have written well to be published. - Amorella
1348 hours. That's an unexpected comment.
My observation appears to be true to you or
you would be protesting. - Amorella
1350 hours. I didn't think about it as spiritual, yet content-wise, it
was spiritual, certainly between the lines.
Content-wise the Merlyn books, all three of
the originals, are spiritually oriented, very much so. - Amorella
1353 hours. You are going overboard here, Amorella.
No, my young man, you forget these are heart
and soul books bent to your mind so you could focus on the words. English does
not have the vocabulary of a Betweener like myself. You are an unsorted
species. - Amorella
1358 hours. I just want to write something worthwhile, something to make
people think a bit as they read.
That's what your blog is for -- for your
thinking and reading.
1359 hours. I am ready for lunch then I am going to come home and take a
nap.
You watched NBC News, "Designated Survivor", "NCIS"
and a half hour of Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. For supper you and Carol shared a
very partial bag of left over corn chips and a fresh bag of nuked popcorn. -
Amorella
2153 hours. We are not a wild couple. Dewey's pizza was the highlight of
the day. Sometimes, at the end of the day I find something interesting -- like
yesterday's quick refresher on The Sacred and the Profane. Sometimes
things come to mind and I am in a flourish of fun, like yesterday. Today was
more mundane.
Are you apologizing for having nothing
interesting to say, that is, for being boring? Are you bored, boy? - Amorella
2201 hours. I think it is just a letdown from yesterday's excitement
recapping what is sacred and what is not. I think the soul is sacred but not
the heart and mind. When linked, as it were, as a trinity, the whole is sacred
but otherwise there is a lot of good old fashion earthiness about us. I imagine
that is where our poetry is, in the spin. Yin and Yang.
In here, the heartansoulanmind is not Yin
and Yang. - Amorella
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In
Chinese philosopy, yin and
yang (also yin–yang or yin
yang, 陰陽 yīnyáng "dark–bright")
describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be
complementary, interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how
they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. Many
tangible dualities (such as light
and dark, fire and water, expanding and contracting) are thought of as physical
manifestations of the duality symbolized by yin and yang. This duality lies at
the origins of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy, as well as being a
primary guideline of traditional Chinese medicine, and a central principle of
different forms of Chinese martial arts and
exercise, such as baguazhang, taijiquan (t'ai chi), and gigong (Chi Kung), as well as appearing in
the pages of the I Ching.
Duality is found in many belief systems, but Yin and Yang are
parts of a Oneness that is also equated with the Tao. A term has been coined
dualistic-monism or dialectical monism. Yin and yang can be thought of as
complementary (rather than opposing) forces that interact to form a dynamic
system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. Everything has both yin and yang
aspects (for instance, shadow cannot exist without light). Either of the two
major aspects may manifest more strongly in a particular object, depending on
the criterion of the observation. The yin yang (i.e. taijitu symbol) shows a
balance between two opposites with a portion of the opposite element in each
section.
In Taoist metaphysics,
distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral
judgments, are perceptual, not real; so, the duality of yin and yang is an
indivisible whole. In the ethics of Confucianism on the other hand, most notably in the
philosophy of Dong Zhongshu (c. 2nd century BC), a moral
dimension is attached to the idea of yin and yang.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines:
yin (jɪn)
Also Yin, Yn. [Chinese yīn shade, feminine; the moon.]
a. In
Chinese philosophy, the feminine or negative principle (characterized by dark,
wetness, cold, passivity, disintegration, etc.) of the two opposing cosmic
forces into which creative energy divides and whose fusion in physical matter
brings the phenomenal world into being. Also attrib.
or as adj., and transf. Cf. yang.
b. Comb., as yin-yang,
the combination or fusion of the two cosmic forces; freq. attrib., esp. as yin-yang symbol, a circle
divided by an S-shaped line into a dark and a light segment, representing
respectively yin and yang,
each containing a 'seed' of the other.
yang (jæŋ)
Also Yang. [Chinese yáng yang, sun, positive, male genitals.]
a. In
Chinese philosophy, the masculine or positive principle (characterized by
light, warmth, dryness, activity, etc.) of the two opposing cosmic forces into
which creative energy divides and whose fusion in physical matter brings the
phenomenal world into being. Also attrib. or as adj. Cf. yin.
b. Comb.: yang-yin = yin-yang s.v. yin
b.
**
Above
selected and edited from Wikipedia - intro to Yin and Yang
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2228 hours. I do
not see metaphysics in the Oxford English definitions provided by Wikipedia or
in the rest of introduction of Yin and Yang above. Cosmic forces are not
spiritual to me because they are tangible properties. Thought is metaphysical
because in itself it has no tangible properties. I think dualism, a formed use
of numbers or even a single number is not metaphysical in itself. For instance,
even a concept of a trinity is both one and three at the same time. How is
this? It doesn't make sense to use any number as a representation of that which
is most Sacred. Even Sacred would seem to me to be better represented by at
least a dash within, i.e. Sacr-d like G-d. If one were to say, "G-d
is," there is no need to say, "G-d is one." Why the addition
when it is unnecessary?
Nothing else to add, boy? - Amorella
2241 hours. The above are just thoughts that come up.
You are troubled by them. - Amorella
2242 hours. I am troubled because I thought them. Culturally, I feel I
was 'taught' not to think such things because they are unholy.
If thought is seen as metaphysical then it
would seem to be holy or sacred would it not? - Amorella
2245 hours. We are back to the cosmic forces of good and evil.
What about the cosmic forces of light and darkness
are they not perceptual? - Amorella
2248 hours. We have to have something to define and describe the moral
forces of good and evil. We have a moral sense, we need it to define justice.
How do you think your marsupial humanoids
would tackle such a problem twenty thousand years from now, or twenty thousand
years ago? - Amorella
2254
hours. I do not know. They do have a moral sense though. It is bound in the
individual's connections with the three world community.
The interconnections of the one to the many.
- Amorella
2255 hours. How the individual learns to live within the community and
how the community learns to live with the individual.
Such discussions do not need to mention good
or evil as moral forces. They need to focus on doing unto others as you would
have them do unto you. This is how your marsupial humanoids have thought long
before they ever thought about others, out there among the stars. They had to
develop a way to live honestly among themselves. Post. - Amorella
2301 hours. You bring me around to things I already know but do not
consider viable for living in the real world.
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