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seriously, you have amazing artworks !Β
it's simple, clean-cut, crisp and fresh... I'm almost jealous lolΒ !Β
Good work !Β Β Β Β
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Aww, thank you so much! That's the kind of comment that makes my day
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hahaha, I'm happy you said that, you deserve itΒ Β Β
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Ooo I am so into that shade of purple lately! Great work.
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Events happen - - - - - - -Β now.
And cause more events to followΒ
in the next - - - - - - - - - now
History does not existΒ
but in what is written down
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and read - - - - - - - - now
Time is merely mathematicsΒ
that describes the real but isn'tΒ
There is no back to travel to.
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That's profound and I'm still thinking about it.
We're always traveling back and forward in our imaginations, aren't we, but where do we really "go"?
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In memory is the only place the past exists and even memory is now.Β
The future is only our imagination. It is also - - - - now.
All very Buddhist and Taoist in their original form as philosophy.
And, I think, very real.
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Such "old" philosophies bearing so much truth - only arithmetically old of course - counter or anti-narratives to the self-centered, compassion-free views that are dominant in the U.S. That lack of compassion grounds itself in a timeline along which some have "advanced" and others have not, and those who have not deserve nothing. In the now we face the needy as they are.
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Pretty old historically 
Speaking of date dividing lines, I always have thought that a better one would be the first Olympics, as marking the rise of Greek civilisation with its humanistic and scientific thinking patterns, and thus entering a modern era. From which we've regressed so often and so much. Even in Greece.
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I studied Buddhism and Taoism in college, in one or more courses on eastern religions - don't remember exactly. Strong and deep philosophies. Becoming religions did add extraneous stuff, I think that is always what happens... maybe making religions out of them helps keep the core ideas available through time? But there's a lot of loss in that direction as well.... Mucho folklore added to Jesus too, though he was a different kind of teacher from Siddhartha or Lao Tzu.
One could add some Old Testament prophets into that B.C.E time period, with their great poetic cries for justice. The eastern thinkers don't focus on that, I don't fault them for it but I'd say it's a valuable strain in western religious thought.
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I'm hardcore; I don't see Any valuable streams of Western religious thought or any religious thought, really. No matter what empty desert it came from and tried to fill with fantasies from desperate imaginations.
Justice is not about religion; it's about human behaviour. As is fairness. Which we will not see from humans as long as they maintain their present genetic structure and character.
That's why so many people want there to be an "afterlife" life and a god who will counteract the unfairness and evil of the real world. I believe we have to deal with human behaviour in thiS world. If we don't correct it here and now, it will never be corrected.
Anything after life is dead and unable to do anything. You must be kind now while you can still do something.
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I completely agree with you about being kind now and not looking to an afterlife. For the record, I don't hold all western religion in such low esteem. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. came from a legitimate religious place, I'd say. I mean, you could dispute his metaphysics, but... Well, I don't want to split hairs over it. There's a lot of religious nonsense and fantasy and and in the U.S. it's dominant.
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Martin Luther King [Jr.] was a great man, but I don't believe that religion had anything to do with his greatness. It was his humanity that was responsible for that and his reaction to human injustice.
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Nonsense and religious fantasies have dominated American life from the beginning of America, and it was that fact which ruined my life and stole my potential happiness and physical well-being already when I was a child and thereafter.
I have no esteem for any religion and have become more firm against them all as I've grown older and seen them in more depth.
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Thanks for the thoughtful conversation - have a good Monday!
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You too, Richard.
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Thank you!
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My pleasure!
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Cant explain it but its art, Well done
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So much here!
Like the man with the extended torso....and why are folks so smiley?Β Β
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perhaps not fully aware of conditions!
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I'm pretty sure that's Ayn Rand right there.
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the so-calledΒ law of attraction...
yeah... sure, sure thing.
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what they call it and what it be may not agree
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Thanks Michael!
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Chris! Thanks so much. Keeping at it, you know? I appreciate the support!
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the pleasure is all mine Richard
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sometimes we even want to go backwards
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the heart and soul have a big disagreement with time's arrow
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body, too ... body, too
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