05-30-2010, 12:00 AM
Bob May wrote:datura8 said:
"I know there's a lot on this site about the foreign installation. Ive always had a hard time with it, the concept. I do see it as making sense, like that perhaps society creates the foreign installation. I know at times Ive had thoughts Ive felt weren't my own."
If the concept of the foriegn installation is true, then it is not society that creates the foriegn installation, but the foriegn installation that creates society.
As far as having a "hard time" with the idea of it, that is caused by our society here in the modern Western world. Not so much in other cultures.
There is an old saying that goes something like "The Devil's greatest trick was convincing man that he didn't exist."You know, the first time I heard that saying, was from the movie The Usual Suspects. It is an interesting saying, and I suppose since Ive leaned on Buddhism over the years, I have begun to question if there really is a devil, or if perchance, it is just people who 'create' through the collective unconscious, an entity called the devil. Society at large, tellls great stories and myths, which are true, which are false, who should we follow and why? Oh to explore this whole thing, and even explore if there is a flyer, or a series of flyers. I think in the end, we have strange things in the world - because all is not as it seems - and really its here to test us more than anything. And a warrior, will rise to the call and pass the tests, because the goal of the infinite is a worthy goal. In the end there are those who take it seriously, and those who do not. But the warrior always takes it seriously and takes up the battle, flyer or not, devil or not. I think if we lean on Spirit, and take heed to the call, we cannot go wrong. We just have to pay attention to the signs and the path that has been laid out before us.
"I know there's a lot on this site about the foreign installation. Ive always had a hard time with it, the concept. I do see it as making sense, like that perhaps society creates the foreign installation. I know at times Ive had thoughts Ive felt weren't my own."
If the concept of the foriegn installation is true, then it is not society that creates the foriegn installation, but the foriegn installation that creates society.
As far as having a "hard time" with the idea of it, that is caused by our society here in the modern Western world. Not so much in other cultures.
There is an old saying that goes something like "The Devil's greatest trick was convincing man that he didn't exist."You know, the first time I heard that saying, was from the movie The Usual Suspects. It is an interesting saying, and I suppose since Ive leaned on Buddhism over the years, I have begun to question if there really is a devil, or if perchance, it is just people who 'create' through the collective unconscious, an entity called the devil. Society at large, tellls great stories and myths, which are true, which are false, who should we follow and why? Oh to explore this whole thing, and even explore if there is a flyer, or a series of flyers. I think in the end, we have strange things in the world - because all is not as it seems - and really its here to test us more than anything. And a warrior, will rise to the call and pass the tests, because the goal of the infinite is a worthy goal. In the end there are those who take it seriously, and those who do not. But the warrior always takes it seriously and takes up the battle, flyer or not, devil or not. I think if we lean on Spirit, and take heed to the call, we cannot go wrong. We just have to pay attention to the signs and the path that has been laid out before us.