2021.02.02 07:00 - searching for Sophia and Tara

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    The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

    Riddle Sideways: Morning Adams ㋡
    Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)

    Riddle Sideways: how is the snow and storm?
    Adams Rubble: my RL's persons arms are almost too tired to type
    Adams Rubble: lots of snow
    Adams Rubble: lots more to clear
    Adams Rubble: have not done the front sidewalk yet
    Adams Rubble: the public walk
       --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: taking a rest break now
    Adams Rubble: whew
    Adams Rubble: I see snow falling outside my window :)

    Riddle Sideways: only read the first paragraph of yesterday blog. Says you should wait before shoveling the snow
    Riddle Sideways: it will just fill in
    Adams Rubble: that was a mistake
    Adams Rubble: it is too high now for the little snow electric blower
    Adams Rubble: weeping snow blower
    Riddle Sideways: poor thing
    Riddle Sideways: it is all too much

    Adams Rubble: snow is best left to younger people
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Riddle Sideways: the older folk should go to Florida
    Adams Rubble: nooooo
    Riddle Sideways: oh right
    Adams Rubble: not Florida
    Adams Rubble: with all due respect to those having to live there
    Adams Rubble: the snow will melt in a couple of months
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: when earth remembers there is global warming
    Riddle Sideways: sit down and read those books and wait for the melt


    Riddle Sideways: your blog of the day before had so many cross-references that showed you grabbing lots of books off the shelves
    Riddle Sideways: having 12 open to passages around the desk ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: at least that was the image when read
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: some days are for exploring
    Riddle Sideways: reminds of a long passage in "Trout Fishing in America" that goes off on all the famous books that do not mention or can not be found in.
       --BELL--

    Riddle Sideways: sorry, went off searching the wiki logs for refs and got caught ㋡
    Adams Rubble: that's OK, my mind is foggy
    Riddle Sideways: in 2016 when Eden mentioned Brautigan and 'The Whole Earth Catalog' in the same sentence
    Riddle Sideways: flashing back on flash backs
    Riddle Sideways: how the Internet has become what we were doing. trying and/or already saw

    Riddle Sideways: Douglas Adams wrote about a book that was electronic and connected to the great computers and contained all (almost all) of the knowledge of the universe
    Riddle Sideways: Later he formed a group that started a website to try to collect all that knowledge and make 'The Guide'
    Riddle Sideways: soon after somebody else started Wikipedia
    Riddle Sideways: now when you want to know something, you just search for Sophia and (well the first ref to pop up tries to sell you Sophia and will have it delivered tomorrow) there comes Wikipedia to presentation the summary of facts
    Adams Rubble: such a surprise that Wikipedia is mostly working
    Riddle Sideways: and is peer reviewed and edited
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Riddle Sideways: and that they have stayed independent without advertising clickbate
    Adams Rubble: and once you find what you need from Wikipedia you can go to Amazon and order books about it
       --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: what a time to be alive
    Riddle Sideways: ha ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: think that was what 'some' of the Romans said
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble: but a funny thing happened when they tried to go to the forum


    Riddle Sideways: or the delight of those in Alexandria that could just pop over to the great library to look something up in a scroll
    Adams Rubble: ohhh, yes, so much knowledge lost there
    Riddle Sideways: yep, funny that there is Always something funny happening when going to the Forum
    Riddle Sideways: Over the weekend, 3 friends got together (outside 10 feet apart) to gab for 2 hours. The friend that usually provides quotes from vast amounts of knowledge was looking down in his lap a lot more this time.
    Riddle Sideways: and coming back a minute after some reference to correct us


    Riddle Sideways: which is not to say that Sophia and Tara have been researched here, because they have not.
    Riddle Sideways: yet
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Riddle Sideways: but, found it all so very interesting
    Adams Rubble: yes
    Riddle Sideways: the personification of an ideal
    Riddle Sideways: like it had to become a person
    Riddle Sideways: Wisdom is a tough pill to swallow as an idea, ideal, ethos, etc.
    Adams Rubble: so much easier to speak to you
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Adams Rubble: as a person
    Riddle Sideways: wonder why that is
    Riddle Sideways: well know that answer, but need to ask
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: Great Wisdom, Great Space and Great Time can't sit down and have coffee and discuss the latest book
    Riddle Sideways: however, a person that died in the 6th century
    Adams Rubble: Great Time does not have time
       --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: Ain't got no Time for Dat


    Riddle Sideways: And the stuff about Sophia and Tara being women
    Riddle Sideways: in male mostly religions
    Riddle Sideways: oh right! they are the Mothers of the religions
    Adams Rubble: maybe it was just the case of wisdom being a feminine noun
    Adams Rubble: which raises another question
    Riddle Sideways: Also, Wisdom was the mother of Faith, Hope and the other daughter
    Riddle Sideways: /listens
    Adams Rubble: why are some nouns, masculine others feminine and some neutral?
    Adams Rubble: who decided that?
    Riddle Sideways: depends on the language
    Adams Rubble: who was that man?
    Riddle Sideways: right


    Adams Rubble: sapientia (wisdom in Latin) is feminine; do not know about the Greek
    Adams Rubble: Taa was originally a Hindu goddess
    Adams Rubble: Tara
    Riddle Sideways: and some of the great goddesses transitioned to male
    Riddle Sideways: ok ok an over-simplification for the humour of it


    Adams Rubble: in Tibetan Biuddhism, one of the Tara stories syas that she was a son of Chenrezig but became female to better speard compassion to the people of the world
    Riddle Sideways: somewhere along the way males become bad spreaders of compassion
    Riddle Sideways: if today is any view
    Adams Rubble: :)


    Adams Rubble: in one belief in Tibetan Buddhism, men are more compassionate and women more wise
    Adams Rubble: reversed from present day belief
    Adams Rubble: maybe it is what you think you are
    Riddle Sideways: in this country mostly
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Adams Rubble: the Dalai Lama is very compasionate
    Riddle Sideways: the embodiment of compassion
    Riddle Sideways: again, the personification of an idea/ideal
    Adams Rubble: yes, that is true
    Adams Rubble: a bodhisattva
       --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: Pope Francis is also a bdhisattva
    Riddle Sideways: hmmm, except it seems easier to have a Live person as an embodiment of an Ideal


    Adams Rubble: Thank you for hosting today
    Riddle Sideways: Thank you for showing up
    Riddle Sideways: by All and thanks
    Adams Rubble: thank you for having me :)))
    Adams Rubble: bye :)

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