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<blockquote data-quote="Sa&amp;#039;ad" data-source="post: 100649" data-attributes="member: 8439">I appreciate all of your posts by each of you.&nbsp;&nbsp; When I was young, so much younger than today, and I was at the university, my mentor advised me to learn Hebrew, Greek, and/or Latin in my undergraduate studies and learn Sanskrit in my graduate studies.&nbsp; I believe he was teaching Theology at Yale at the time.&nbsp; Of course, I took courses that interested me and didn&#039;t take any language other than English.&nbsp; I have read most of the Sacred Texts of Most of the Major Religions in Translated and/or transliterated form.&nbsp; The more I learn, the less I know.&nbsp; I feel as though Ik Ong Kaar, reveals one and that informs me that there are two hidden from me.&nbsp; There was a low budget movie that I watched along time ago.&nbsp; This man was standing on a pier about to jump into the winter river.&nbsp; He turned to his friend and said &quot;a hundred years from now, this won&#039;t mean nothin&#039;&quot;&nbsp; Than he jumped.&nbsp; A few seconds were spent on the expression of his friend and than the voice of the man who jumped was heard expressing an expletive.&nbsp; The camera panned down and showed that the man had jumped into a passing garbage barge.&nbsp; He looked up and said, &quot;A hundred years from now, this still won&#039;t mean nothin&#039;&quot; ,and he jumped from the barge into the water.&nbsp; That scene reminds me that we have a choice in how we use our determination.&nbsp; We can use it to serve and build or to take and destroy.&nbsp; I am not sure if it will mean anything in the future, but sometimes I feel like the past and future doesn&#039;t exist and all there is &quot;is Here and Now&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; at other times I feel like past, present, and future are all Here and Now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sa'ad, post: 100649, member: 8439"] I appreciate all of your posts by each of you. When I was young, so much younger than today, and I was at the university, my mentor advised me to learn Hebrew, Greek, and/or Latin in my undergraduate studies and learn Sanskrit in my graduate studies. I believe he was teaching Theology at Yale at the time. Of course, I took courses that interested me and didn't take any language other than English. I have read most of the Sacred Texts of Most of the Major Religions in Translated and/or transliterated form. The more I learn, the less I know. I feel as though Ik Ong Kaar, reveals one and that informs me that there are two hidden from me. There was a low budget movie that I watched along time ago. This man was standing on a pier about to jump into the winter river. He turned to his friend and said "a hundred years from now, this won't mean nothin'" Than he jumped. A few seconds were spent on the expression of his friend and than the voice of the man who jumped was heard expressing an expletive. The camera panned down and showed that the man had jumped into a passing garbage barge. He looked up and said, "A hundred years from now, this still won't mean nothin'" ,and he jumped from the barge into the water. That scene reminds me that we have a choice in how we use our determination. We can use it to serve and build or to take and destroy. I am not sure if it will mean anything in the future, but sometimes I feel like the past and future doesn't exist and all there is "is Here and Now" at other times I feel like past, present, and future are all Here and Now. [/QUOTE]

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