Joseph Maynor

Interesting. I would say yes and no. There is a survival component and also a Divine component. It's hard not to mix these up. And it's hard to work on these both at the same time, since they have almost opposite values. Certainty is not necessarily only human, it's also Divine. That's the role of the Divine to provide a greater context to the human without wiping it out. IMO only of course.

Sometimes authority is good though. We want feedback. I don't know why. Maybe inspiration to change in a way we think suits us.

Yes. But one thing to consider. Only if you let it. We need to discuss how power works.

Sometimes it's good to ignore this and do stuff too.

@Hojo I liked your intellectual arguing exception. I thought that was cute. Most people won't admit that in spiritual circles. Yeah it's good to exchange ideas.

This is the predictable objection.

I think this is right. Make sure you're not making assumptions of a relationship that is not real. You have to have a sense of what true friendship means.

This reminds me of Whitehead's philosophy, but taken to the next level. Not a lot of people think like this.

You too friend.

I'm sorry. I'm a highly intuitive person. I pick up a sense of things by insight mostly.

Original version by Bob Dylan

But isn't this a kind of cope for having social insecurity?

This is incredibly clear to me. You can't defer to but you can be influenced by other people. It's not a bug, this is the feature of the way finite perspectives relate. I love reading this by the way. Crystal clear to me.

How to regard language is really an intellectual problem, although people don't want to openly admit this.

Be a Creator instead of a doer. This is not stuck in the human realm. This is Manifesting from the Divine through Beauty or Creativity.

Yes and people seem to miss the idea that these things take planning and doing. It doesn't just happen automatically. Somehow the doer is seen as an error by people in spirituality. Like there's something wrong with doing what you're suggesting -- there is not. There is no dichotomy between self-help and spirituality. I can't tell you how many debates I've gotten into with spiritual people telling me it's ego to want to design a life and make it happen.

This is what I’m currently doing. But a lot of spiritual people seem to think they’re above self-help. Even calling it basic self-help kinda minimizes it. Nothing basic about taking hard actions and holding yourself accountable.

It's a helper at best.

I think Love is more about accepting perspectives that differ from what we would prefer. Sometimes we do cut relations too. They we may reconcile differently. We're all operating at different pacing in different areas of Creation. There's no guarantee. This is why Love has limits.

Yes, of course.

I feel like music is more about Beauty than Love, but Love is definitely there too.

For me rhythm definitely is the foundation or driving swing of music. This is one reason I'm not a huge fan of classical music, although some classical music has rhythm like Bach. Rhythm, form, time. Then melody lays on top of the rhythm as the voice. Rhythm without melody doesn't seem to go anywhere. Melody without rhythm is boring.