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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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