I've had an amazing and disturbing week which has prompted me to think about leaving here for a time. If I get the oportunity to come back, and I hope I do, I'll let you know how things turned out.
Relating to what has happened to me, a wise friend said that if I chase shadows, all I will see is darkness. I'd like to look toward the light for a while, perhaps even kindle a few little lights as I go. I hope so. But I value the many insights I've had through being here and wanted to say thankyou to all of you as well as goodbye. Only for now, I hope.
I'd like to tell you that I've found wisdom, but it's nothing of the sort. Sometimes the world allows you to see a little of itself, and the result is at once humbling, beautiful and also terrifying. The way forward seems even more baffling and hidden. I think we are forever at a cross roads between something worse and something better. All you can do in these times is to trust in something greater than yourself, and hope that you may make better choices in each moment you are given, knowing that even the most enlightened choice may be wrong. As even the stars cast shadow, so do we.
Love and peace to you all.
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me "The greatest thing You'll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return"
I know where you're coming from and think we've (most of us) been there. It's a perpetual toss up.
I note that you and I have the same sig line.. okay well not anymore, I changed mine.. but still. I had it for a good long time. And I note too that yours is in green, the agreed upon sarcasm colour for the board. I hope that it isn't sarcastically delivered, because I think it's the most important lesson to be learned on this Earthbound journey.
much peace, much joy. xo
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.-- Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift
Recently I have been becoming increasingly more aware of the fact that I walk with one foot in one world and one foot in another world. Everyday it becomes harder and harder to do it. These times are exactly what the past 10,000 years of the Human Existence has been leading us too. You can't make the jump from one reality to the next without out a little discomfort.
Harvey, I just wanna say that this place and the good people on it had a hand in saving my life in dark and shadowy days. It's when I began posting. I'd had an account going since 2007, but was always scared to post here out of paranoia. I felt that everything Jeff ever wrote was fully right on and that because it was so right on, insofar as speculation into the occult, the shadows, as it were, that it must be illegal. It's not. Not that it's "not". But that it's not. And you are, as anyone welcome here and I hasten to say, please don't fear the little bits of darkness we all go through.
The light, really, is right here! No luceferian light, mind you. But, good people doing good works for constant edification, enjoyment and education. There is nowhere like RI. Not a place. Not a single place on Earth that I have found allows me to be me and you to be you with a great and worried and wise author such as Jeff at the helm.
I wish you wouldn't go. I was about to a couple months ago, due to some "in fighting". But I am so over that now, as I don't ever hold a grudge and would rather give a hug. That I am enjoying RI even more than ever.
Stick around homeboy! We are your friends. And you're never gonna take that "foot" out of the "other world". That "other world" is not RI. RI is where we all place our findings. We need you as an investigator! You know what I'm saying?
There is no me. There is no you. There is all. There is no you. There is no me. And that is all. A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry. A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of this universe is love. -- Propagandhi
I've had an amazing and disturbing week which has prompted me to think about leaving here for a time. If I get the oportunity to come back, and I hope I do, I'll let you know how things turned out.
Relating to what has happened to me, a wise friend said that if I chase shadows, all I will see is darkness. I'd like to look toward the light for a while, perhaps even kindle a few little lights as I go. I hope so. But I value the many insights I've had through being here and wanted to say thankyou to all of you as well as goodbye. Only for now, I hope.
I'd like to tell you that I've found wisdom, but it's nothing of the sort. Sometimes the world allows you to see a little of itself, and the result is at once humbling, beautiful and also terrifying. The way forward seems even more baffling and hidden. I think we are forever at a cross roads between something worse and something better. All you can do in these times is to trust in something greater than yourself, and hope that you may make better choices in each moment you are given, knowing that even the most enlightened choice may be wrong. As even the stars cast shadow, so do we.
Love and peace to you all.
That's poetry, man, you nailed it right there. I don't know what I can do. I am ignorant. I try to be humble and kind and look after those I love, and not be a burden.
God bless you Harvey.
I always really enjoyed your contributions. You were a sterling lesser light of the board, if you don't mind me saying so.
If it gets too dark, look for the light and you will find it, I guess.
I often leave the board for long periods, up to six months or more, but am then drawn back.
What do they say? Sunlight is the best disinfectant?
Nous sommes du soleil... We love when we play...
Open doors we find our way We look, we see, we smile Surely daybreaks cross our path And stay maybe a while
Let them run, let them chase Let them hide between Constant doors will open eyes As life seems like, life seems like a Fight, fight, fight
Maybe I'll just sing awhile And then give you a call Maybe I'll just say hello And say maybe that's all
Hurry home as love is true Will help us through the night Till we're coming home again Our life seems like, life seems like a Fight, fight, fight
Catch as we look and use the passions that flow As we try we continue We recieve all we venture to give
Maybe we'll just stand awhile And surely we can call Dreams are said to blossom courage Constant to the soul
Change we must as surely time does Changes call the course Held inside we enter daybreaks Asking for, asking for The source, the source, the source, the source
Sent as we sing our music's total retain As we try and consider We receive all we venture to give All we say is our soul constant sight listener We won't tender our song clearer till we sail Then I will be there And I will be there As clearer companions shall call to be near you They move around telling me that Move around surely sing As they don't seem to matter at all At all, at all, at all................................
Hold me my love, hold me today, call me round Travel we say, wander we choose love tune Lay upon me, hold me arund lasting hours We love when we play We hear a sound and alter our returning We drift the shadows and course our way back home Flying home, going home
Look me my love, sentences move dancing away We join, we receive As our song memories long hope in away Nous sommes du soleil Hold me around lasting hours We love when we play Nous sommes du soleil
Nous sommes du soleil Nous sommes du soleil Nous sommes du soleil
Harvey, should you ever want to meet up for a beer, just PM me (I'm in Twickenham). Really enjoyed your contributions here. Many people need a break from here - I needed one after some of the Franklin discussions.
Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; courage to change that which can be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other
For many people, R.I. can be a place of forced growth - in courage and wisdom - a process which benefits from engineering a lot more serenity into the mix.
Quick reply > I'm overwhelmed by the love, support and understanding and with luck, I'll be around from time to time.
taz -> I live in hope.
watcher -> Note the colour change. Sarcasm has been burned out of my repertoire temporarily, but I'm sure it would be back with a vengeance if I could sit in sun and contemplate for five minutes, LOL
rex -> you are indeed the king, peace brother
Swindled -> One of the few things that I know, we all walk in two worlds. But most of us don't know, will never know, or are on our way to knowing. (Side note: On the 'Knowns and Uknowns' speech - I believe Rumsfelds unconcious mind was fucking with him, and I believe the universe has a splendid sense of humour)
82-28 -> It feels good to be valued by you my friend. Thanks
nordic -> You're standing in a field of sunflowers, it's a good sign
hammer -> You know me better than i 'knew' myself
searcher -> I would love to. We'll have to figure out the logistics at some point but that would be marvelous if we both get the chance. The code is wise and good
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me "The greatest thing You'll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return"
