Happy Hour

[Christophe]

What? There's only one discussion going on in the Pub?

That's definitely not enough. Barman! Another drink for me and the boys!

In the meantime I'll choose a song from the Jukebox:

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[Joseph Camosy]

The final set from the grog-fest, including a Celtic mosh pit with bagpipes.:

FLARF photos: Saturday 3/14/15

FLARF photos: Sunday 3/15/15

[Balder]

[Edward theurj Berge]

"Dance, dance, dance. Words can never make up for what you do."

I liked it, the music, the voice, the composition. And yes, the lyrics, in that they point to a way of expressing beyond words in dance. As a dancer I know full well this pre-linguistic 'language' that is engrossed in and enacted via image schema. A very primal and sophisticated form of communication that speaks volumes.

[DavidM58]

[Edward theurj Berge]

Following up on my last post on this notion of primal and sophisticated. In a nested hierarchy an assumption is that the so-called lower level like the body or emotions is transcended and included in the higher level of mind and spirit. And yet remember Wilber saying that to move on to a higher level only requires a certain degree of the lower level, not its highest degree. E.g., one doesn't need to develop the kinesthetic ability of a professional dancer to move into the next level, just a degree of proficiency.*

Which of course reminds me of this notion that the levels, or aggregates in Buddhist-speak, aren't so much transcended and included but are independent and autonomous suobjects or machines that continue to undergo their own development into higher levels. And that yes, they are modified by the overall assemblage (human form) to which they structurally couple, but are not subsumed by it.**

* See this post and a few following.

** See this post (and a few following) and this post.

[Ambo Suno]

David, powerfully done and felt, eh.



DavidM58 said:

[Balder]

I've made a little mantra to use when the BS gets to be too much

Bullushittum Mantra (new version)

[Edward theurj Berge]

I couldn't make out the words of the mantra besides the word bullshit. What does it say? Also, any particular BS(s) that prompted this mantra?

[Balder]

As I told someone else this morning, normally I charge $300 to teach mantras, but for you ...

Here are the words:  BULLU BULLU BULLUSHITTUM MAHA-BULLUSHITTUM SWAHA

This wasn't really in response to anything recently.  My wife watches the news and sometimes gets frustrated and says, "Bullushittum!"  So, to make her happy, I turned it in to a full-blown mantra!

[Edward theurj Berge]

Thanks for sharing it without the usual integral enlightenment fees. You could lose you conscious capitalism license for such behavior.

[DavidM58]

Balder, thanks, that mantra will come in handy. It's a nice complement to that old standby, "There's always room for jello."  (Kenyth Freeman's class at Fairhaven College, anyone?)

[Balder]

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