"what's the "dadgummed thang" you're doing,sir"? "my dear genius brother"? "if you have not found it in yourself"? "you cannot be searching for any answers"? "unless like you; you've got all the answers"??
begging your pardon, but an understanding of this tool called "language", particularly this "english" variant, will allow for an awareness that, while, yes, there is nothing inherently "antagonistic" about the phrases that i have pulled from your post, they, generally, when used in this fashion, can be construed to serve as a "polite" form of "derisive sarcasm". in the spirit of love that exists in this House, i will attempt to not reply in kind. (but i will probably not be as completely successful as i would wish, being "only human", and still Seeking on this "Path to Enlightenment".) thank you.
"what am i doing?" i'm up in here trying to find some folks that are also trying to come together to understand and implement enough stuff to do the work. "what am i doing?" i'm up in here Listening, Learning, and Seeking to Understand all of the Fabulous Wisdom/Knowledge that is being Presented/Shared.
"what am i doing?" i'm continuously expanding my understanding of this technology such that it can be used by us. "what am i doing?" being available to help to seek "answers" to as many of the questions and issues that folks might run into about that technology they are using to get here.
"what am i doing?" continuing to "get down into the trenches" reaching out to some of our "dear genius" brothers and sisters trapped in that crack mess. (I WILL LEAVE NONE OF US BEHIND!!)
maybe it ain't much, but it is what i can do. it usually seems to appear to help those that i am blessed to share it with.
"secondly": as they say "don't take it personal". also "if the shoes don't fit, don't put them back on!"
"drawn into a diversionary conversation about how I choose to express myself and my thoughts."??? i wouldn't do something like that; it would waste too much of the time that i could spend learning from you your interpretation of the Knowledge that we all Share by virtue of our Being.
a bunch further down this "Path to Enlightenment" is sufficient Awareness that one Knows that one has asked, or seen asked, most all the basic questions. please don't presume to "believe" that "i have not found it in myself" to continue to ask these very same questions. also, please allow the possiblity that i may very well, in fact, have found some glimmers of "answers" to some of the more basic of them.
(oh! now i guess i understand why the Honored Elders that i have been asking these questions of for so many years (the "Search" began in 78 or 80 or so) always had "that" expression on their faces. in retrospect, i guess they were coming at me, like it appears that i am coming at "you" with their constant "why you gotta keep asking these questions? "the answers" are right in front of you!", and i would always come back "well, if i don't ask the questions, how am i gonna figure out any answers?" ... wow! the epiphanies that y'all be helping me to have around here!! Thank You!!)
back in 86 or so, when my "walkabout" led me to "the ruins of the Tower of Babel", my next older sister's mother, and her mother, gave me the Lost Books of Eden/Forgotten Books of the Bible. as i had chosen to spend that summer deeply reading, pondering and seeking to understand (even to forcing myself to study the "begats") the Bible, this book gave everything i had come to understand (since i had started Bible Study classes in the second grade - i'm 50; how long ago was that, then?) so much more Clarity, Strength and Inner Peace, that i began to live something that i read on a reader board:
(drat! i was supposed to be someplace at 9:30 ... gonna miss this bus, half hour till the next one. reckon i should log out ... )
begging your pardon, but an understanding of this tool called "language", particularly this "english" variant, will allow for an awareness that, while, yes, there is nothing inherently "antagonistic" about the phrases that i have pulled from your post, they, generally, when used in this fashion, can be construed to serve as a "polite" form of "derisive sarcasm". in the spirit of love that exists in this House, i will attempt to not reply in kind. (but i will probably not be as completely successful as i would wish, being "only human", and still Seeking on this "Path to Enlightenment".) thank you.
i'm sorry, but "the dadgummed thang" should be like totally self-evident! "Nation Building" "Family Gathering" "Spiritual Uplifting" "Recovery and Expression of Selfhood" "Infrastructure Development" what else could "the dadgummed thang" be? ain't that obvious? well, yeah; i know that it is - you are all over this place doing a most fantastic job of doing your Share of this Uplifting!FLATFOOTFLOOGIE said:Brother AnAfrican, what's the "dadgummed thang" you're doing, sir?
Secondly, I wont be drawn into a diversionary conversation about how I choose to express myself and my thoughts. I used "WE" to express my personal and our collective relationship to Africa on many an occasion in my post, so you do the accounting on how many times I said WE instead of SHE, as if there is some mystical incantatory significance that will lift African up from her ruins...
These dumb questions you speak of my dear genius brother, are the incipient beginnings to the solution of all problems. If you have not yet found it in yourself to ask questions, you cannot be searching for any answers - unless, like you brother, you;ve got all the answers. I will return later to address some of the other posters.
"what am i doing?" i'm up in here trying to find some folks that are also trying to come together to understand and implement enough stuff to do the work. "what am i doing?" i'm up in here Listening, Learning, and Seeking to Understand all of the Fabulous Wisdom/Knowledge that is being Presented/Shared.
"what am i doing?" i'm continuously expanding my understanding of this technology such that it can be used by us. "what am i doing?" being available to help to seek "answers" to as many of the questions and issues that folks might run into about that technology they are using to get here.
"what am i doing?" continuing to "get down into the trenches" reaching out to some of our "dear genius" brothers and sisters trapped in that crack mess. (I WILL LEAVE NONE OF US BEHIND!!)
maybe it ain't much, but it is what i can do. it usually seems to appear to help those that i am blessed to share it with.
"secondly": as they say "don't take it personal". also "if the shoes don't fit, don't put them back on!"
"drawn into a diversionary conversation about how I choose to express myself and my thoughts."??? i wouldn't do something like that; it would waste too much of the time that i could spend learning from you your interpretation of the Knowledge that we all Share by virtue of our Being.
a bunch further down this "Path to Enlightenment" is sufficient Awareness that one Knows that one has asked, or seen asked, most all the basic questions. please don't presume to "believe" that "i have not found it in myself" to continue to ask these very same questions. also, please allow the possiblity that i may very well, in fact, have found some glimmers of "answers" to some of the more basic of them.
(oh! now i guess i understand why the Honored Elders that i have been asking these questions of for so many years (the "Search" began in 78 or 80 or so) always had "that" expression on their faces. in retrospect, i guess they were coming at me, like it appears that i am coming at "you" with their constant "why you gotta keep asking these questions? "the answers" are right in front of you!", and i would always come back "well, if i don't ask the questions, how am i gonna figure out any answers?" ... wow! the epiphanies that y'all be helping me to have around here!! Thank You!!)
back in 86 or so, when my "walkabout" led me to "the ruins of the Tower of Babel", my next older sister's mother, and her mother, gave me the Lost Books of Eden/Forgotten Books of the Bible. as i had chosen to spend that summer deeply reading, pondering and seeking to understand (even to forcing myself to study the "begats") the Bible, this book gave everything i had come to understand (since i had started Bible Study classes in the second grade - i'm 50; how long ago was that, then?) so much more Clarity, Strength and Inner Peace, that i began to live something that i read on a reader board:
"God plus Me equals a Majority"
(drat! i was supposed to be someplace at 9:30 ... gonna miss this bus, half hour till the next one. reckon i should log out ... )