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 Senor_Hongos
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 What it's all about.
#8611533 - 07/09/08 03:38 AM (4 months, 12 days ago) |
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The Hokey Pokey.
I saw a bumper sticker on a car today that read:
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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?
Funny, yes, but is there a deeper meaning that we miss while laughing at it? Or, if we do not find it funny, are we incapable of understanding philosophical humor?
The meaning of meaning. Can anything mean whatever we want it to mean? If so, what does that mean? How well do abstract meanings pasted on top of common ones work?
Are we in a world of our own making? Is anyone out there? Is anyone in here? How do we know?
Discus.
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Amanitas kill more people than all other mushrooms put together, so an ID of some to be eaten must be correct. An ID based on a photo on the Internets is not reliable enough to potentially risk your life on. ToxicMan
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redgreenvines
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I love bumper stickers
you have enough time to read them while you are still you.
then they can echo through a chain of 3 second selves.
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Icelander
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Senor_Hongos said:
The Hokey Pokey.
I saw a bumper sticker on a car today that read:
Quote:
What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?
Funny, yes, but is there a deeper meaning that we miss while laughing at it? Or, if we do not find it funny, are we incapable of understanding philosophical humor?
The meaning of meaning. Can anything mean whatever we want it to mean? If so, what does that mean? How well do abstract meanings pasted on top of common ones work?
Are we in a world of our own making? Is anyone out there? Is anyone in here? How do we know?
Discus.
There is no way to know, end of discussion IMO.
What is up for discussion is beliefs and how attached we are to them or afraid of not having absolute assurance in them.
This is where honesty and courage come in to it; the closest we can come to truth IMO.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. R.A.W.
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. R.A.W.
embrace death in all the ways it comes no matter how soft or hard. cruel ,tragic,weak,light, gentle, ect how ever. thats life
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redgreenvines
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 Re: What it's all about. [Re: Icelander]
#8611975 - 07/09/08 07:41 AM (4 months, 12 days ago) |
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that's like 5 bumber stickers
if I may precis:
zoom...ping...vroom... arrrrh...shhh!!!
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Re: What it's all about. *DELETED* [Re: Senor_Hongos]
#8612382 - 07/09/08 10:23 AM (4 months, 12 days ago) |
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Icelander
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Michael Cain gets laid.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. R.A.W.
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. R.A.W.
embrace death in all the ways it comes no matter how soft or hard. cruel ,tragic,weak,light, gentle, ect how ever. thats life
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 Re: What it's all about. [Re: Icelander]
#8612731 - 07/09/08 11:40 AM (4 months, 12 days ago) |
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Personally I think it's about learning how to intelligently (and wisely) manifest reality. First you have to establish some guidelines for yourself in terms of how you make your decisions. The parable about the mustard seed touches upon this. Surely we are not meant to go on experiencing as we presently are. Why do you think people take psychedelics?? If ayahuasca tasted like wonderful candy then the kids who don't know how to swim would dive far too deep. Shamanic drugs don't taste good. They are intimidating for a reason. IMO drug alkaloids were designed to taste atrocious... Then you start asking questions and demanding answers.
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Re: What it's all about. [Re: Mr.Al]
#8613068 - 07/09/08 01:25 PM (4 months, 11 days ago) |
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and demanding answers.
Good luck with that.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. R.A.W.
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. R.A.W.
embrace death in all the ways it comes no matter how soft or hard. cruel ,tragic,weak,light, gentle, ect how ever. thats life
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Re: What it's all about. [Re: Mr.Al]
#8614844 - 07/09/08 08:37 PM (4 months, 11 days ago) |
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Perhaps, and I'm just spitballing here, Shamanic drugs taste bad because they're toxic?
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Toxic:
1 : containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation.
2 : exhibiting symptoms of infection or toxicosis
Eat 12 ounces of food and check your reaction.
Eat 12 ounces of shrooms and check your reaction.
Which one will debilitate you?
I'm sure hair-splitters can try to find a way around this, but toxic substances are poisonous.
It's incontrovertible.
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Amanitas kill more people than all other mushrooms put together, so an ID of some to be eaten must be correct. An ID based on a photo on the Internets is not reliable enough to potentially risk your life on. ToxicMan
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I think the bumper sticker isn't profound at all, only clever.
We can project whatever we want to on the vague symbolism of "hokey pokey" if we choose to forget that it is the most awesome dance there is.
I say the hokey pokey is the dance of life, and in extremely blatant fact, that is all there is.
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The meaning of things lies not in the meaning themselves, but in our attitudes towards them.
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THE ETERNAL LAW OF LIFE
"What you think and feel you bring into form.
Where your thought is, there you are.
For you are your consciousness,
and what you meditate upon, you become."
"Everything you could want and could be, you already have and are."
According to the Tao, true words seem paradoxical.
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deranger
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meaning is a linguistic creation, it has no existence outside of the human mind.
maybe nature has intentions for us... but they are obscured when we filter them through language.
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new progressive dubstep mix 
"you're in a boat, you choose the color of the boat
the boat's on the ocean
the ocean represents your spirit, your emotions, and your life
and the life that you're living is the boat, you're in the boat
you have an anchor, that you don't know you have, it's an invisible anchor
when you see it, that's when you'll be seen"
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Re: What it's all about. [Re: deranger]
#8615986 - 07/10/08 01:48 AM (4 months, 11 days ago) |
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It's a dream god fucking damn it.
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we must strive against all ill-formed resistance to attain the chalice of a higher spiritual awakening
There's nothing there.
"Dreams: at the bottom of them lies the merciless onslaught of reality."
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Re: What it's all about. [Re: burgatory]
#8616503 - 07/10/08 08:17 AM (4 months, 11 days ago) |
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Where ever you put your left leg in and you shake it all about... That's where I want to be. In there.
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unrelated, but I throw the discus
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao
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Hokey Pokey = Hocus Pocus.
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Re: What it's all about. [Re: Middleman]
#8618653 - 07/10/08 06:09 PM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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...And you put your sanity in... ...and you shake it all about... ...do the hocus pocus... ...thats what its all about... HOORAY.
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Amanitas kill more people than all other mushrooms put together, so an ID of some to be eaten must be correct. An ID based on a photo on the Internets is not reliable enough to potentially risk your life on. ToxicMan
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...you put your gardening tools in... ...you take the anti-psychotics out... ...you do the hocus pocus so much and...
And FUCK!! Its tiring. Now Shazam. Away with the heavy handed hedging on my mustard seed tree, bitch.
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