The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.
Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Adams Rubble: the bunny is still here
Riddle Sideways: yes, seems to like it here
Adams Rubble: I wrote half a blog post this morning
Riddle Sideways: half full or half empty?
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: the opening half done but the second part will be completely different (to a degree) :)
Adams Rubble: so the first half can stand alone
Adams Rubble: I got my Boehme book last night
Riddle Sideways: translation? or will you read in German?
Adams Rubble: hehe. it is a translation. We don;t want to review my history with the german language
Riddle Sideways: how many currently being read books do you have now? ㋡
Adams Rubble: many but I finished a number since the new year
Adams Rubble: I won't finish this one
Riddle Sideways: great
Riddle Sideways: wow, you know that going into it
Adams Rubble: I haven't yet written that Boehme's idea of Sophia will not resonate with me
Adams Rubble: His theology is a bit complicated and Sophia is mixed up with the Trinity in a confusing way
Adams Rubble: original sin comes into it too
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Riddle Sideways: interesting to twist all that together and untangle maybe
Adams Rubble: yes, it is and then I like to return to the simple
Adams Rubble: I guess I should continue the rest, that I have not written yet
Adams Rubble: with that I went to sleep
Adams Rubble: somewhere in the eraly morning (4ish) I woke up
Adams Rubble: usually I lay there and try to go back to sleep
Adams Rubble: but my muscles were sore so I sat up to take some Tylenol
Riddle Sideways: snow shoveling back pain
Adams Rubble: with the light on I looked around the room at the books, some in piles, some on shelves, some crammed in between the books and the next shelf up
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ yep
Adams Rubble: my eyes finally rested in a "Buddha Box" I once bought at an art museum
Adams Rubble: It was my first Buddha
Adams Rubble: the Buddha sits in a box in a clear plastic insert
Adams Rubble: around him is Japanese calligraphy
Adams Rubble: If you read my blog yesterday you will have seen my description of a toddler nexploring an objst\
Adams Rubble: object
Adams Rubble: I picked up the box and turned it over, looked at all side, the top and the bottom
Adams Rubble: then I opened it.
Adams Rubble: I already knew there was a little book inside
Adams Rubble: The opened box has a little platform on which the Buddha can site
Adams Rubble: sit
Adams Rubble: The top of the box sextends outward to form a canopy over the sitting Buddhe
Adams Rubble: Buddha
Adams Rubble: I opened the book and it said.....
Adams Rubble: wait for it....
Adams Rubble: The gift box you hold in your hands is a reminder of your own highest wisdom
Adams Rubble: no Sophia
Adams Rubble: the wisdom is already inside you
Adams Rubble: !!!
Riddle Sideways: ah-ha
Riddle Sideways: so many ways to say the same thing
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: so that many listeners might hear it in their language
Adams Rubble: some imensely complcated and some oh so simple
Riddle Sideways: or hear it finally at the ready to listen time
Adams Rubble: yes, when sitting up looking around the room
Riddle Sideways: that that had to be sitting there waiting
Riddle Sideways: for the Time of looking around to see it
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: makes one not want to cleanup/clear the room because the Stuff is waiting
Adams Rubble: there are many quotes from the Dhammapada in the book. I do not know what that is
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Adams Rubble: I haven't had a chance to look it up yet today
Adams Rubble: I gather it is sayings Of Buddha
Adams Rubble: http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/scrndhamma.pdf
Adams Rubble: 90 seonds enough time to look it up :)
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: had a copy/translation/section of it around here years ago
Riddle Sideways: another not finished book
Riddle Sideways: btw - hypnotized watching the bunny look around and get comfortable positions
Adams Rubble: somehow I missed it maybe because it not affect the creation of art :)
Adams Rubble: he/she's lucky they are not buried under a foot and half of snow
Adams Rubble: don't be bitter Adams' typist
Riddle Sideways: probably hurts your back to look out at the snow
Riddle Sideways: warm inside, looking out at bitter
Adams Rubble: It is going to rain tomorrow. More work to do to make sure cellar is not completely flooded
Adams Rubble: crazy weather
Adams Rubble: but I am alive :)
Riddle Sideways: the foreign to us idea of a sump pubp
Riddle Sideways: pump
Riddle Sideways: spent much time last night studying Art and Poetry
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: a zoom Presentation/meeting for Black History Month
Riddle Sideways: https://www.28daysofblackhistory.com/?grsf=ewrx8u is the main page-invite
Riddle Sideways: most presentations are not being recorded, saved and available later
Riddle Sideways: last nights was from the De Young museum in SF
Riddle Sideways: on an exhibit already seen a couple months ago
Riddle Sideways: but, did not get all the details that the curator brings to the discussion
Riddle Sideways: it was on YouTube, so of course at the end there were so many good other links to go to
Adams Rubble: what was the exhibit?
Riddle Sideways: https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibition...ul-of-a-nation
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Riddle Sideways: can find this Tate TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjcgbrw5UiI
Adams Rubble: the racism, etc has gotten so loud lately
Riddle Sideways: YES!
Riddle Sideways: and antisemitism has ramped up a few notches
Adams Rubble: yes and musogyny
Adams Rubble: misogony
Riddle Sideways: and and and
Riddle Sideways: the Noise
Adams Rubble: anti science
Adams Rubble: yes, the NOISE
Riddle Sideways: that representative from little county in Georgia
Adams Rubble: who vites for someone like that?
Adams Rubble: votes
Adams Rubble: very scary
Riddle Sideways: Jewish Space Lasers that started the california wild fires
Adams Rubble: any red meat they think will reonate with their voters
Adams Rubble: resonate
Riddle Sideways: it was nice to watch Better Art and Poetry youtubes last night
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: got off the computer tubes and went to the Living Room
Riddle Sideways: found a way for that big TV to get youtube
Riddle Sideways: some/several Black History Month Artists and Art exhibits
Riddle Sideways: from this year and the past
Riddle Sideways: then landed on Amanda Gorman vids
Adams Rubble: lil ole Amanda of super bowl fame
Riddle Sideways: YES!
Riddle Sideways: she was interviewed talking about writing/reading for Inauguration AND Superbowl ㋡
Riddle Sideways: good TED https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_gor...litical_choice
Adams Rubble: lots of video links this morning
Adams Rubble: I think I saw that one though
Riddle Sideways: re-re-listened to the Inauguration "The Hill to Climb"
Riddle Sideways: why not more links; The MOTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2_uKaugPI
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Riddle Sideways: then along the youtube right side are some older links to talks when the speech impediment is more pronounced
Riddle Sideways: and yes, sat in front of the Living Room TV watching an evening of youtubes and links and feel OK about it
Riddle Sideways: it is now up to programming your Own entertainments
Riddle Sideways: as a child you got what one of the 3 networks gave you
Riddle Sideways: at the time
Adams Rubble: and liked it
Riddle Sideways: then we could record a show and "Time-Shift" it
Riddle Sideways: that was the height of tech
Riddle Sideways: we were Free ㋡
Adams Rubble: what a time to be alive :)
Riddle Sideways: Those Alan Watts VHS tapes
Riddle Sideways: what has this world come to
Riddle Sideways: at sometime the idea of 'skipping' the cigarette adverts came along
Riddle Sideways: now skip the 'networks' has come
Adams Rubble: thank you for presence this morning :)
Riddle Sideways: and yesterday afternoon was a Zoom meeting with the local house Representative (a good person) telling his side of being under sedge
Riddle Sideways: Entertainment
Riddle Sideways: and Thank you
Riddle Sideways: so many presents
Adams Rubble: there is much to keep us busy while quarantined
Riddle Sideways: yes, don't want to go out today, so much to do staying here
Riddle Sideways: "Stay Here Now" ㋡
Adams Rubble: I keep hearing sounds of wheels spinning on th snow outside. Do not want to go outside :)
Adams Rubble: it's dark and dirty and full of spiders and snales
Riddle Sideways: ha
Riddle Sideways: pull up a seat in front of the big window and watch the world
Riddle Sideways: the quiet falling snow
Adams Rubble: we haven't had a good Firesign quote for a while
Riddle Sideways: "We're all Bozos on the Bus" did not fit into the chat
Adams Rubble: the bus is stuck in a snow drift
Riddle Sideways: of course; "If you lived here, You'd be home now" fits into Any chat
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: instead I am going to have to tp all the way to Mugunghwa
Riddle Sideways: so nice to have TP
Riddle Sideways: pun intended
Adams Rubble: yes, what a time to be alive :)
Adams Rubble: have a very nice weekend
Riddle Sideways: ok, comfortable bunny take over watching the fountain
Riddle Sideways: by All
Adams Rubble: bye :)
Riddle Sideways: To the Weekend
Riddle Sideways: and Beyond
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