"If I may submit, I see that autistic individuals and mystics may share some chracteristics. One would be that (ai's) have been usually considered as "incapacitated and not able to function for anything" . . ." more
"Yeah, there still are places to find nature, peace and quiet here but you know, Honolulu is a big city with all the not-so-cool things including a high cost of living. Lucky for me I just landed a 24-hour . . ." more
"Re: "As for continued "growth" ... sure, of course as far as knowledge and wisdom ... but not necessary to expect or even desire more "powers" ... in fact doing so would be counter productive to the whole . . ." more
"Ann: That's what I was trying to think of saying but wouldn't enlightened people instinctively know the right thing to do, without much thought? Jerry: I haven't met anyone personally I considered enlightened . . ." more
Frank L., I am challenged and somehow over looked this, can’t explain it simply is a personal problem. I apologize for the confusion I created.
People make personal choices about drugs and I doubt that they are caring about where the money goes. If a person were really concerned that the money goes to terrorists I strongly doubt that they would have started using. As far as the policy toward those drugs currently ban, that is a community decision. The first problem with changing the current policy is that people have to move off the point of simply passing a law making the drugs legal. There is too much downside to the users and victims of the users to simply try to switch from illegal to legal. What needs to be done is an open discussion that first establishes the expectations that you would like to achieve with changes in current policies and practices, then focus on what can be done to achieve those expectations, and development of metrics to measure the effectiveness of the new practices (regular reporting) with a willingness to discard fails and to build on what works. You would have to be willing to accept the unpleasantness the users would have to experience with the new policies. It seems that there are two ways to make drug trafficking unprofitable terrorists and gangster, there has to be an immediate, personal, and severe consequence to trafficking or there has to a change in the market price so the manufacturers make no profit.
thank you for the friend request Frank. And thank you for letting me know about Alex Grey, I didn't know it was his painting, I found it amongst a collection of other images without it being attributed to him.
I am featuring some poems and short stories on my page at the moment if you wanted to check them out.
OH, FRANK - I do not think Wm means you repeating posts at all. You are always, always kind and professional in your sharing and in your comments. I believe Wm meant those LYR times when several of the guys bang back and forth, forth and back with each other, usually several ganging up against a certain Christian believer - who, himself, also, often does not let a sleeping dog lie with his comments and responses. I am certain that Wm WAS NOT writing of you in any way, shape, form - mho!
