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1. Mary
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   I found this place almost 2 years ago, as part of a search for answers to where I thought I was back then.
   I don't know exactly how I've changed since then, although I perceive this place differently than 2 years ago. Not sure how to describe in written word even that. Yet I still visit today, weekly lately, monthly before that. You people are wonderful !

   What I gather is this place held some importance for me and still does( I'm here now) for an unknown reason.

   From where I came I was trying to escape the clutches of emotional and verbal abuse, with all its insidiousness. the kind of abuse that flies under the radar of our civil laws. How domestic violence has morphed I guess.
   I strongly acknowledge that my experience is not the 'worst' ever ie our sisters in Afghanistan, but experience being relative and subjective.

   I'm not sure how this journey will end yet. I don't think my life story was all about abuse, it may have only been a chapter. I feel I've changed because of the experience and frankly, abuse is not all that big a topic anymore 2 years later.
   Interesting ideas have creeped up. Least of all expected are art and history . Especially art history. Creativity and what's influenced me, where did I come from?

   Love to you all,

   Mary

   Posted 4 months ago #

2. Mary
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   I've spilled why I'm here. Why and what events brought you here?

   Posted 4 months ago #

3. Star
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   Hello Mary,

   glad u r doing well...i come here to say hello to some amazing beings...that would include you, but also others that i have known for many years...i feel home among many here...they know me...they helped me to unmask my true self...and recognize my own true nature...they helped me to dive beneath my own conditioning and layers of belief...to expose what was naked and waiting to experience itself in the light of day or darkest of nights...they never let me get away with any bullshit, but were always there to catch me if i felt that i was falling...now that is true friendship and compassion...all here have helped me to become a pretty amazing human being...if i do say so myself...LOL...but i still must dive into that bottomless well (thnx shin), at even deeper levels...and dance this wondrous gift of life!!!

   love and kisses to you Mary...and all*

   Posted 4 months ago #

4. abstractprophet
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   Hi Mary, great to see you

   Do you think there is a reason to your interest in art history awakening?

   Also what has influenced you and where do you think you came from?

   Posted 4 months ago #

5. Mary
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   Hi Star, thanks for sharing. I enjoy all the contributions here. You speak of your own true nature with a tone of knowing. I believe I sense what you are referring to. In any case, not sure if it makes any difference, although I feel most honest with my soul ( true nature?) when I've been out in the forest with my dog. My dog died and I'm now spending more time with people, media and technology. Results of that to follow I guess.

   Abs, Your comments are so profound I have to do mental pushups to ( most times unsuccessfully!) delve into the meaning. Well worth the effort too.

   Answers:
   1. Yes I think there is a reason to my interest in art history. Not exactly how to describe it other than an appetite; a yearning to create. I've starved/ denied that appetite, but it still calls. To see how others through the ages have expressed that pursuit in visual arts is like looking through a window into their thoughts despite their sociopolitical environment. What is beautiful and why? Philosophy of aesthetics is interesting. Somewhere I think God may be found in this search of human creativity and I feel pulled in this direction.

   2. Many things have influenced me. Nature vs nurture: genetics vs environment have tangoed together forming me into the person I am now. If a big bang happened over 13 billion years ago, I sense I came from what was before that, as did everything else in the universe, including you too. Are we all cosmic stardust, ie dust to dust?

   Does anyone know for sure where they came from? Do you?

   Hugs :)

   Posted 4 months ago #

6. abstractprophet
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   Hi Mary

   Thanks for the niceness. In all honesty though there is no difference between you and I. :o)

   Am very busy currently so do not have much time to respond in any great detail but in regards to where you/I came from what do you think the difference is between where we come from and where we are right now? ;o)

   enjoy

   Posted 4 months ago #

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