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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Brian Fletcher
Date: Nov 9, 2006 02:27

"kevirwin" comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1163031979.919629.186870@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Brian Fletcher wrote:
>> It is about a year old, and there is a follow up called The Secret.
>>
>> Ive no doubt you will have a ball.
>>
>> BOfL
>>
>>
>> "kevirwin" comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:1162762695.586256.55600@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>> Brian Fletcher wrote:
>>>> "BernardZ" Nospam.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:MPG.1fb2ff3423e6bbd3989c3c@news...
>>>>> In article , bernardZ@Nospam.com
>>>>> says...
>>>>>> In the above movie, they have a scene
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, a wonderful story
>>>>>> that I believe is true...
>>>>>> is that when the Indians--
>>>>>> the Native American Indians...
>>>>>> on the Caribbean Islands saw
>>>>>> Columbus's ships approaching...
>>>>>> they couldn't see them at all.
>>>>>> Because it was so...
>>>>>> unlike anything they had ever seen before,
>>>>>> they couldn't see it.
>>>>>> [ Man ] When Columbus's armada
>>>>>> landed in the Caribbean...
>>>>>> none of the natives
>>>>>> were able to see the ships...
>>>>>> even though they existed
>>>>>> on the horizon.
>>>>>> The reason that they never saw
>>>>>> the ships was because...
>>>>>> they had no knowledge in their brains,
>>>>>> or no experience, that clipper ships existed.
>>>>>> So the shaman starts to notice that
>>>>>> there's ripples out in the ocean,
>>>>>> but he sees no ship...
>>>>>> but he starts to wonder
>>>>>> what's causing the effect.
>>>>>> So every day he goes out
>>>>>> and looks and looks and looks.
>>>>>> And after a period of time,
>>>>>> he's able to see the ships.
>>>>>> And once he sees the ships, he tells
>>>>>> everybody else that ships exist out there.
>>>>>> Because everybody trusted and believed
>>>>>> in him, they saw them also.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [ Explosion ]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [ Man ] We create reality.
>>>>>> We're reality-producing machines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We create the effects of reality
>>>>>> all the time.
>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I remember reading stories of American Indians seeing these
>>>>>> ships
>>>>>> for the first time and I don't remember any of this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any comments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect this is a case of overstating ones story.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a true story of an Indian in Canada about 400 years ago who
>>>>> saw
>>>>> a large French ship. Thinking to himself it there is a large canoe
>>>>> there, then must be people on the ship. So he went to the ship to
>>>>> trade.
>>>>> Obviously he did not have any problem in seeing a ship.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> When we try to see the future we are like the traveller trying to
>>>>> figure
>>>>> out where we are going by studying where we have been. It often does
>>>>> not
>>>>> work for him either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Observations of Bernard - No 105
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the movie, there is also a demonstration of how the brain "hard
>>>> wires"
>>>> after an image is received.This is Harvard stuff, not just the
>>>> ramblings
>>>> of
>>>> what some would see as "off the planet" types.
>>>>
>>>> It has been understood that when recognising faces for instance, the
>>>> brain
>>>> scans existing images for comparison.
>>>>
>>>> Bit like the "brain" thats whirrling in the background ;-).
>>>>
>>>> Remember when you were first introduced to the concept of the
>>>> internet?
>>>> Hard
>>>> to "picture" wasn't it ! AS it is with any new principles. When you
>>>> are
>>>> ready, they will appear.
>>>>
>>>> BOfL
>>>
>>> Hey Brian:
>>> This was the movie you said I see, right??? Is it in video rental
>>> stores??? (I'm pretty cut-off, by personal choice, with most outside
>>> entertainment)...Should I be embarrassed I never heard of this movie
>>> before??? Seems like it must be current with people posting about it
>>> (for anyone who is even remotely interested in Kev's viewing habits,
>>> the last movie I saw was "The Passion of Christ" with a religious
>>> friend who I happened to be attracted to.)
>>> When my daughter rents another movie, I'll look, so is it old or
>>> new???
>>> K e v
>>>
>
> Thanks Brian, You may have already seen the post where I told Chazwin
> that my Blockbuster people didn't know about, but they **were** able to
> look it up, So I'll see it this week-end!!!
>
> If there is a greater logical fallacy to "predetermining" your decision
> before the facts are fully presented, I don't know what it would be...
> Not guilty of that..
>
> I'm havin' a "not guilty" kind of day.

Leading to a "not guilty" kind of life :-)

BOfL
> K e v
>
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