Re: Mind's Eye Re: Are You A Human Being ?

We may be able to attend to our soul in private, but are we not part
of a national policy, for instance? Or social behaviors?

On Aug 11, 3:32 am, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the nature of man as we know it is really not going to change much,
> there will be time of better behavior and times of less desirable behavior.
> Other than for the development of the soul into a greater being in closer
> connection with the Entirety.
> Every soul has complete free choice in its development and progression.
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> It is the relationship with the Entirety that is important..  some people
> seek this connection through wealth and greed, others through war and
> destruction..  What ever path that is chosen it will have effects on the
> soul.. and none of them actually effect the immortality of its existence.
> The soul is already eternal whether people believe it or not,  even that
> does not matter.
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> Darma tells us that life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. Karma
> tells us there are effect to be expected from our actions.. karma does not
> tell us when though. This can be a problem  because of my understanding in
> the spiritual realm there is no time.
> Allan
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> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Vam <atewari2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If mere being raised by human beings, and being a part of their family, is
> > the criterion... I'm afraid, even dogs and cats can lay a claim to being
> > human.
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> > #*BrainIsNotTheMind*<https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23BrainIsNotTheMind&src=hash>
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> > I've never held in hand or dived into the brain 2 connect neurones, or
> > throttle endocrine glands, 2 deal with matters in the mind !
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> > And, to those who continue to primacy to the animal in man ... I've not
> > known of any animal devising 84 different, well thought out positions to
> > copulate, or prepare thousands of distinct food preparations and still
> > distinguish their flavours enough to write volumes on each !
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> > On Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:09:24 AM UTC+5:30, AmandaRheen wrote:
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> >> I guess the only thing that really allows me to know that I am a human
> >> being is that I was born into and grew up within a family of creatures who
> >> identified themselves and me as human beings.  Then as reinforcement of
> >> this idea I attended large communal gatherings at regular intervals with
> >> others who generally looked and acted the same as myself.  Occassionally
> >> the creatures in charge would take great pains to demand that we act like
> >> human beings, not like animals hehe.  Mostly from these experiences I have
> >> learned to identify myself as 'human being'.
> >> As far as considering myself  'apart' from other animals I'm not sure I
> >> really attended that class. Perhaps I played hooky that day and was off
> >> riding my horse through the bush with our two dogs.  Granted some of the
> >> human being creatures I knew would tell me we were apart from other
> >> creatures but my own human being family seemed less concerned about this
> >> distinction and more concerned with showing other creatures great care and
> >> respect in return for the loyalty and co-operation they gave in their
> >> interaction with us.  Sure we occasionally ate one of them but animals have
> >> their own ways of levelling the field when they really feel like it.  I
> >> concede though none of them ever actually ate me.
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> |_D Allan
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