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The Junk's rig had booms at both the foot and the heads of the sails; it was salty. We were sailing along on the Oakland Estuary right in front of Jack London square, and the people ashore were shouting and waving us over to come and pick them up to share in the fun...and the people in the...

Wow, a schooner in teak, a radically beautiful and incredibly enduring wood. I have crewed on large Taiwan teak enhanced fiberglass sailing craft, and been a guest sailing aboard many large sailboats, knowing up to a fifty foot wooden sailboat I skippered for a family that owned it, and did not...

I once took a course in Greek at Louisiana Bible College, and thus knew the alphabet and could sound out/read Greek words. When I went over to a good friend's house and told him what was happening out on "Susan", he asked me what its name was, I answered ET, which was a movie out at the time...

The chief authority was Christ by whom you were captured and freed from sin by His works. I kept extensive notes of the interchange which was in Greek (thus the Greek dictionary); threw them away later when it was clear that it had no meaning for my life except to flatter my vanity, i.e., I...

Yes, one wonders what the thing gains from haunting one's particular self, is it lonely? what can one do for it? and hissing is a strange mode of attempting communication and must be all it could do... I thought a snake was swimming in the bilge and thus put my feet/legs up off the deck. Was it...

It appears to have been the case which dawned on me as I stood in a corner of the cabin and the hissing emanated from near a pile of electronics; it was moving about right in the room. Of course it could have been the Seth thing, who knows, Eth eos

But it told me it was Etheos. If it was Seth why tell me Etheos?

Profound questions that I cannot answer. I lived on San Francisco Bay for thirteen consecutive years; sailing and motor yachting and literally living on craft moored offshore out of any marina. I was living on a 36' WW2 punt-bowed landing craft moored offshore. I had a huge steel fireplace...

"That is, were the cosmos to cease to be, would this intelligence cease be in the same act?" Yes, for it could not consistently be held that it is prior to or subsequent to itself...it manifested nanoseconds after the putative big-bang as an organizational force whereby atoms both fuse and...

We are speaking of the view common sense adopts based on experience; does common sense have experience of a metaphysical something which inhabits meat!? Martin Heidegger said that being lies coiled like a worm with nothingness at its heart; we can see the coiled worm with nothing at the center...

I have totally forgotten exactly what a pantheist believes but I think you are in the ballpark, perhaps my view is pantheistic, I never thought of that, i.e., an intelligent creative conatus far beyond our comprehension permeates the cosmos, yea, sure, that's what I think...a form of...

No dead man can resurrect because there has never been a recorded witness to such a thing and common sense knows better than to think authentically deceased persons come back to life; no one actually saw a dead Jesus and no one saw Jesus resurrect and, I don't think He was actually dead, merely...

Certainly one can see lack and do nothing. When I peruse our cosmos it is crystal clear that there is a radical intelligence wholly beyond ours that is woven into the fabric of space/time , which has created/structured our being; however, it is not Jehovah/Christ/Holy Spirit, which putative...

DNB; Your latest series of replies attest to a nauseating stifling shallowness, and concomitant irrational sorely closedminded stupid refusal to provisionally respect and possibly engage profound contemporary scholarship regarding what a human being is; in preference for maintaining a blind and...

We all act precisely for the reason that we continually see desideratum. Desideratum is lacuna, lack, need, absence, nothing. I see the desideratum that is Jehovah's lack of comprehension of the structure of the originative upsurge of a human act, thus, for instance, I act by writing an...

He who has no idea how absolutely tough and resilient the human body is, and that it repeatedly survives the utmost trauma, lives in a fairy tale, for, there is no such thing as being authentically dead and coming back to life, and, it is a delusional con to assert that there is. The...

Their persons are to be treated with indifference and it is their respective positions that one need reflect upon and critique, they were both reasonable and cogent; that one is plain spoken and the other fancy, is actually irrelevant, and, the eloquent one honestly cannot be rightfully...

marks; Thanks a million for your agreement regarding what I see as difference between love and decency.

Wow, marks, I wholly sincerely appreciate your kind compliments! Cool, mind-stretch! Check out my latest flamboyant critique of DNB and Willie T's ad hominem misconduct toward my person! Duane

DNB(K); You unfairly/unreasonably accuse me, from your particular idiosyncratic perspectival view, of being ureasoning and unaware; and, then, you exbibit a total unawareness of the reasoning of Baruch Spinoza, whom I discussed very clearly in the OP, regarding his position that determinatio...