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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: 25 hour birthday #114521 10/26/03 05:17 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK Happy Birthday dody. Alas, this being England, what landmarks of liberty do you reach? What are the things you can do that you couldn't when you turned 18? In the States, I believe, 21 is the final freedom - they can drink! Here, of course, they seem to start at 14. I saw a young girl the other day, outside our office - can't have been 16 yet - rolling up a joint a professional manner and, with a quick look around to see if anyone was watching, smoking it. 3 in the afternoon, too. O tempora o mores. cheer the sunshine warrior Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zoroastrianism #114522 10/26/03 05:45 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago The evil one reverses the process, obliterating all that was good about the good one and inflicting a spring penalty on those who enjoyed the benefit the previous fall. This is an interesting perspective... I, however, prefer to see the glass as half full. It is truly evil that the "powers that be" decided that our clock needs tampering with so as to align a person's work day with some *western ideal <sheesh> and I officially banish *them to a life of living with their consequences of doing so. However, it is the autumn reversion to reality... a return to what is pure and evident which propells us forward and allows for us to draw on the strength of all that is natural (especially us a bit further down north) to deal with what will be soon known as "frozen tundra". ********* It does seem as if; although one wouldn't specifically call other religions "dualist" (as their defining character), doesn't all *religion reside in a dualist climate? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zoroastrianism #114523 10/26/03 06:58 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 …one assumes, there will be no Daylight Savings Time, once Ahura-Mazda has triumphed and the coming age is entered. Ah, but since, as you pointed out in your first post on the subject, the Good and Evil are not inherent in the period of being on time or ahead of time, but in the hour of transition, if Ahura-Mazda's triumph abolishes the transition the victory will be a hollow sham. The Good cannot exist without the Evil and in victory will come defeat. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Thus spake faldathustra #114524 10/26/03 07:30 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago The Good cannot exist without the Evil and in victory will come defeat. The existentialist's motto? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Dualism(s) #114525 10/26/03 09:17 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA "...doesn't all *religion reside in a dualist climate?" There are several dualisms which appear in religious discourse. Some juxtapose the material from the spiritual, some the mind from the body, some good behaviour from bad, and some posit a good diety opposed to a bad diety. It was only in this latter sense that I suggested that Zoroastrianism is dualistic. While there are elements of dualism in classic orthodox Christianity, the "good god verses bad god" is neither classic nor orthodox and has no place in Christian theology. In pop religion, on the other hand ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Happy birthday #114526 10/27/03 12:53 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Happy Birtday Dody ! Did you spend your extra hour wisely - or did ya have fun Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 25 hour birthday #114527 10/27/03 01:38 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta A belated happy birthday, dodyskin. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 25 hour birthday #114528 10/27/03 02:52 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean Happy birthday, dody. My birthday was Saturday and so I was able to sleep the extra hour after the celebration. Life is good Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 25 hour birthday #114529 10/27/03 10:03 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok So ... if good triumphs, the clock will only ever be set back? I could live with that! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Zoroastrianism #114530 10/27/03 01:40 PM Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 180 Atlanta, GA birdfeed member birdfeed member Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 180 Atlanta, GA "It is truly evil that the "powers that be" decided that our clock needs tampering with so as to align a person's work day with some *western ideal <sheesh>" On the other hand, the entire People's Republic of China has but one time zone, and it's oriented for the convenience of Beijing. Picture the implications for people living in the westernmost provinces. 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