Comments on: Heart of the Hunter – Part 2 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/19/heart-of-the-hunter-part-2/ A Daily Journal of a Permanent Resident of Paradise Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:39:07 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: MadDog http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/19/heart-of-the-hunter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2879 MadDog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:41:01 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6364#comment-2879 Yes, Val, there do seem to be more of them around. There are even a few back at the Eel Garden. It's nice to get a comment from someone who knows how difficult it is to get close to them. Wait until you see your shots of India. You'll be very happy. Jan Yes, Val, there do seem to be more of them around. There are even a few back at the Eel Garden. It’s nice to get a comment from someone who knows how difficult it is to get close to them.

Wait until you see your shots of India. You’ll be very happy.

Jan

]]> By: Val Jerram http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/19/heart-of-the-hunter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 Val Jerram Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:05:48 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6364#comment-2867 Wow Jan!!!!!!!!!!!! I really am impressed with your shot of the eel. They are almost impossible to capture. Have their numbers improved again? Wow Jan!!!!!!!!!!!! I really am impressed with your shot of the eel. They are almost impossible to capture. Have their numbers improved again?

]]> By: MadDog http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/19/heart-of-the-hunter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2830 MadDog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:41:15 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6364#comment-2830 The first quotation seems very animistic to me, not that that's a <em>bad</em> thing. It reminds me of Heinlein's novel, <em>Stranger In a Strange Land.</em> Your last paragaph, Heinlein again! The first quotation seems very animistic to me, not that that’s a bad thing. It reminds me of Heinlein’s novel, Stranger In a Strange Land.

Your last paragaph, Heinlein again!

]]> By: Steve Goodheart http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/19/heart-of-the-hunter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2821 Steve Goodheart Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:08:52 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6364#comment-2821 I like your metaphor. It reminds of something—was it CS Lewis, an essay or one of his fictions?—where he talks about how eating, transformed by light and love, becomes not a consumption of another, but the deepest kind of giving and taking and sharing, without harm, but rather ultimate joy and communion. Maybe this higher sense of eating (not consumption, which destroys) is pointed to in passages like, "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Or, when Jesus said, "Take, eat; this is my body." Or once Ramakrishna said, "I don't want to <em>be</em> the sugar, I want to <em>eat</em> the sugar" his way of saying he didn't want to disappear or be absorbed into his Beloved, but to taste His Beloved forever. Myself, I've always been in that camp, the taster of the Love that Love Us, as I like to call the divine. And anyway, It's only the human mind says union with God has to mean disappearance of the individual. The human mind just can't grok it, but I'm pretty sure the Infinite that is Love can handle it just fine. :) I like your metaphor. It reminds of something—was it CS Lewis, an essay or one of his fictions?—where he talks about how eating, transformed by light and love, becomes not a consumption of another, but the deepest kind of giving and taking and sharing, without harm, but rather ultimate joy and communion.

Maybe this higher sense of eating (not consumption, which destroys) is pointed to in passages like, “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Or, when Jesus said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” Or once Ramakrishna said, “I don’t want to be the sugar, I want to eat the sugar” his way of saying he didn’t want to disappear or be absorbed into his Beloved, but to taste His Beloved forever.

Myself, I’ve always been in that camp, the taster of the Love that Love Us, as I like to call the divine. And anyway, It’s only the human mind says union with God has to mean disappearance of the individual. The human mind just can’t grok it, but I’m pretty sure the Infinite that is Love can handle it just fine. :)

]]> By: MadDog http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/19/heart-of-the-hunter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2806 MadDog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:55:22 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6364#comment-2806 It's hunting at it's best, mate. Your most perfect bull's eye shot doesn't harm a living thing, but you get to put the hide in front of the fireplace anyway. It’s hunting at it’s best, mate. Your most perfect bull’s eye shot doesn’t harm a living thing, but you get to put the hide in front of the fireplace anyway.

]]> By: Steve Goodheart http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/19/heart-of-the-hunter-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2801 Steve Goodheart Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:11:41 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6364#comment-2801 Love these beasties! Those Spotted Porcelain are really beautiful. Having spent half a hour above water trying to catch a shy lizard, I tip my hat to you for some of these below-water catches! Love these beasties! Those Spotted Porcelain are really beautiful. Having spent half a hour above water trying to catch a shy lizard, I tip my hat to you for some of these below-water catches!

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