@Trillian & @Simone_De_Beauvoir I googled JPS Арка́дий and found that sentence. I haven’t a clue what it means, so I just googled it…“Dmitriy [Iosifovich], was the leading worker in Ivanovo…”
”..with bated breath, i wait” LOL
I’m just enjoying life and cruising along enjoying this site and the jellies here. I haven’t a mean bone in my body (well, maybe just my talos, which is only mean to me).
What seems abrasive and discourteous is simply straightforward and generally socially unacceptable ideas by which I live.
As a jellyfish you should understand swimming against the flow, which is often the position I find myself in when the flow is going the wrong way.
I know, who am I to say that the flow is wrong?
And yet, who would I be were I not to say so when in my opinion it is?
Often when I am at my most courteous is when I am taken as being a kiss-ass.
Perhaps I could choose my words a bit more judiciously.
Another thing I tend to do is push people against their social training to see what is really going on inside of them. This is not popular, and probably costs me some friends, but it is quite surprising how it opens people up and they reveal their innermost being in minutes, where it often takes years to learn these facets of a person.
I certainly hope Mr. Sartre doesn’t mind this off-topic convo, but seeing who he has chosen for his user ID, the father of “existentialism” and perhaps nihilism, I assume he won’t care too much.
As for Christian bashing, I do it from a vantage point of having been brought up as a Catholic, and having gone to schools taught by some nuns and the school taught by those Jesuit guys.
I think Jesus had some really great ideas which are seemingly no longer practiced in Christendom, “Love your enemies.” “Do unto others.”
I believe in a great many ideas which are pooh poohed by the many as improbable, the Akashic record being one of them. I see-saw in regards to demons and angels, although sometimes when I see what is going on in the world, and meet truly evil people face to face, it is plain that demons and angels exist, and not just “on another plane of existence that reflects what happens on this plane”, but right here and now on this very plane upon which we are riding!
As a man of the Earth, I love all the people, Russian, American, whatever…