 - Last login: 5 hours agoRoyandroy
- Roy is a 60 year old guy in a relationship from Cape Town, South Africa.
- Likes 466 pages, 30 videos, 62 photos • 28 fans • Received 6 reviews
- Member since Sep 07, 2006
I am interested in science/mysticism as understood in taoism and sufi esoteric philosophy. I practice yang style t'ai chi and Iyengar and Ashtanga style hatha-yoga.
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Yes, ICantSeeYou
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May 10, 9:18am
2 reviews
blogs
http://icantseeyou.typepad.com/my_weblog/page/2/
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The Family Guy Enters the Matrix .. forget Zeitgeist, this is it.
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http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/multiyear.ice.quikscat.mov
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May 10, 9:07am
1 review
climate
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/multiyear.ice.quikscat.mov
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Illustrating the changing Arctic ice levels.
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May 9, 7:16am
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The knives come out....
SAY WHAT?
"It's clear who Hamas wants to be the next President."
-- John McCain, on Obama
Thanks to Doonesbury online at Slate.
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YouTube - Gandini Juggling commercial
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May 8, 3:03am
1 review
advertising, video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fy7T_Sy6mbk
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This is an ad for MTN cell 'phone network, but these two jugglers are brilliant!
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About Blackle - Energy Saving Search
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May 8, 1:58am
9 reviews
environment
http://www.blackle.com/about/
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Thinking out of the box. Every little bit helps with oil heading for $200 a barrel.
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May 7, 8:06am
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May 7, 7:56am
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The afterlife is like a gramophone; man's mind brings the records; if they are harsh, the instrument produces harsh notes, if beautiful then it will sing beautiful songs. It will produce the same records that man has experienced in this life.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is a story of a murshid and a mureed. The mureed said, 'O, Teacher, I should like to see heaven.' The teacher said, 'Yes, this is the way you should meditate in order to see heaven.' So the mureed went and did so; but the vision of heaven which he had was not as described in the scriptures, a place where one enjoys nothing but comfort and luxury, milk and honey, marble halls and white robes, beautiful gems and jewels, garlands of flowers, and the waving of palms. He could not see any of these, and he asked himself, 'Has the murshid perhaps shown me a wrong heaven, or have the prophets given a wrong message in the scriptures?'
So he went back to his teacher saying, 'Now I should like to see hell.' The murshid said, 'Yes, this is the way you should meditate in order to see hell.' And then the mureed did this, and he saw in a trance that there was certainly such a place, but there was no fire or snakes or serpents or thorns or tortures or imps or flames such as have been described to people throughout the ages. So he could not understand whether his vision was right or wrong; and he went back to the teacher, and said, 'I have seen in this way: I have not seen in heaven the things that are promised, nor have I seen in hell the things which are foretold as being there.' 'O,' the teacher said, 'all the things promised for the hereafter you will have to take there from here. They are not kept ready for you; you will have to bring them with you. If you take sorrows with you, you will find them there; if you take hatred, you will find it there. Your mind is like a gramophone record, and if you use a harsh voice, the instrument produces a harsh note; if beautiful words and tones, it will sing beautiful words and tones. It will produce the same record that you have experienced in life. Indeed you have not to wait till after death in order to experience it; you are experiencing it even now.'
Everything is reproduced before us now, if we would only listen to it and perceive it. Every good or bad word or deed is reproduced before us, though it seems as in a dream.
If we watched life keenly, we should see how true this is. Joy, sorrow, love, all depend on our thought, on the activity of our mind. If we are depressed, if we are in despair, it is still the work of our mind; our mind has prepared that for us. If we are joyful and happy, and all things are pleasant, that also has been prepared for us by our mind.
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May 7, 7:48am
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Some smart ideas about finance and investing from the ultimate guru, Warren Buffett,courtesy agorafinancial.com [agorafinancial.com]
To those just starting out in their careers, Buffett also recommended working for someone you admire (and then joked that for many people, that means working for themselves). He pointed to his own experience working for Ben Graham and how much he learned during that time. Finally, he said it is important to "have the right spouse." He then quipped: "You may find the perfect woman, but you may find she is looking for the perfect man, in which case, you have a problem."
On the oil question, Buffett said spare capacity is as low as he can ever remember. While he said the world would adjust, he added, "Nothing we can do in any short period of time will wean the world off oil." Munger added that he confidently predicts there will be pain in making the transition to a world less dependent on carbon-based energy sources. He also put in a good word for solar, saying that, ultimately, solar will be an energy source we will learn to rely on a great deal more.
One shareholder asked how he should invest if he can't spend any time on his investments because he has another job and his knowledge of finance is limited. Buffett told him something I'm sure he didn't want to hear: "Put your money in an index fund. Why should you expect to make more than an index fund if you don't bring anything to the table?"
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Best Cartoons - all on one page
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May 7, 2:37am
63 reviews
cartoons
http://www.nearingzero.net/best_bunch.html
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Some great stuff to brighten your day.
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KAYAK AFRICA
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May 6, 10:07am
2 reviews
canoeing-kayaking
http://www.kayakafrica.net/
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This is just the most stunning place for the holiday of a lifetime! The diving is like being in an aquarium and the silence when you drift in your kayak is deafening.
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