On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:50:27PM +0300, Andres Suarez wrote: > В Ср, 02/01/2019 в 00:48 -0600, goli...@dyne.org пишет: > > On 2019-01-01 23:46, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > > > On 02/01/2019, goli...@dyne.org <goli...@dyne.org> wrote: > > > > On 2019-01-01 21:37, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > The degree of attentiveness we now > > > > > demand in our workplaces has been a positive trait for only a > > > > > couple centuries, and genetics hasn't caught up. So blame is > > > > > counterproductive. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I beg to differ. It's not in the genetics. It's in how we choose to > > > > live. The level of consciousness in parts of the world hundreds of > > > > years > > > > BC surpasses what we are capable of today. Our individual > > > > traits/skills/talents are the resultants of the quality of our past > > > > actions over millennia. IOW we start a life with what what is > > > > commensurate to whom we have been. So choose wisely. > > > > > > > > golinux > > > > > > > > > > What 'consciousness' you are talking about?! > > > > > > > I am talking about the consciousness/awareness that receives data in the > > form of eye:sights, ear:sounds, nose:smells, tongue:tastes, > > body:physical sensations and mind:thoughts. It is the mere reception of > > these stimuli that turns our inner world and outer world so it's to our > > advantage to get to know the interaction between stimulation and > > response intimately. > > > > Without great awareness in the present moment, we are carried along by > > emotional reactions to events instead of actually knowing and > > understanding them. More often than not, that impulsive reactiveness > > brings us much misery and pain. But if that same consciousness is > > harnessed to focus on this never-ending stream of events moment to > > moment, it begins to understand them in a very different way and changes > > the mind at a fundamental level. > > > > The ability to touch that understanding has declined over the last 2500+ > > years and there will come a time when that knowledge will be forgotten. > > But it will be rediscovered sometime in the very distant future because > > it it cyclical as all things are. > > > > golinux > > > Beg pardon for the interruption: but actually that ability has increased in > the last millennia. What hominids had 2500+ years ago was a primitive sense > of reality, which gave rise to all that mysticism which prevails so far. > Consciousness, defined as advanced awareness, was the last part to develop. > > That function allows you to build "Devuan Linux" instead of mixing with > the sheep.
At this point, the discussion has gone off-topic. I think it's still worthwhile, but it should at least start a new thread with a new subject. I've given it a new subject, but am placing it in this thread anyway so people will see it here and look for or start the new thread instead of going on here. -- hendrik > -- > Андрес Суарес > мобильник +79310009732 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
