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 Rahz
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 What is best in life?
#8397140 - 05/13/08 02:55 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women?
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rahz
comfort pleasure power love truth awareness peace
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 oreandra
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
#8397173 - 05/13/08 03:03 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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none of the above. I don't cultivate enemies to do these things to. It takes work in most cases to create actual enemies. Most folks are apathetic enough, that if you just stay away from folks you don't care for, they will do the same with you.
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If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. <Mckenna>
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting
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Rahz
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: oreandra]
#8397233 - 05/13/08 03:12 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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>>>>none of the above.
Well, what is best?
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rahz
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Veritas
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
#8397238 - 05/13/08 03:13 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Orgasms, of course. 
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
~Albert Ellis
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
#8397288 - 05/13/08 03:26 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
Rahz said:
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women?
no
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
-oOo-
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397295 - 05/13/08 03:27 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Let's see: your eyes roll back in your head, your body convulses, your breathing becomes labored, your thinking brain shuts down and foam forms at the corners of your mouth.
Sounds like as much 'fun' as an epileptic seizure.
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Veritas
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 If epileptic seizures felt like orgasms, no one would ever medicate to prevent them.
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
~Albert Ellis
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Rahz
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397305 - 05/13/08 03:31 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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I cannot disagree.
Yet, I believe the dictionary's entry is a bit constrictive. So, what is an orgasm? Anything beyond the act of sex?
Does Conan have orgasms on the field of battle?
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rahz
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deimya
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397311 - 05/13/08 03:32 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Word, but personally chocolate is up there too 
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
#8397318 - 05/13/08 03:35 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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IME, orgasms are most-easily provoked by sexual stimulation, yet it is possible to have them without it. If Conan really really enjoyed battle, he might have an orgasm on the battlefield. 
It seems to me that orgasms are an expression of extreme joy and pleasure, much as tears can be an expression of extreme sadness.
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
~Albert Ellis
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Veritas
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: deimya]
#8397320 - 05/13/08 03:36 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
deimya said:
Word, but personally chocolate is up there too
Chocolate is great, but orgasms have no calories, sugar or saturated fat. 
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
~Albert Ellis
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deimya
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397352 - 05/13/08 03:42 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Very true. My recommendation is then to combine dark chocolate with orgasms; burn the fat of the former with the latter, works wonders 
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397357 - 05/13/08 03:44 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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It seems to me that orgasms are an expression of extreme joy and pleasure, much as tears can be an expression of extreme sadness.
But messier and less publicly acceptable. 
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Veritas
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: deimya]
#8397360 - 05/13/08 03:44 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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I'm not worried about gaining weight, I'm watching out for my overall health. Orgasms are 100% healthy!
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
~Albert Ellis
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Veritas
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
Quote:
It seems to me that orgasms are an expression of extreme joy and pleasure, much as tears can be an expression of extreme sadness.
But messier and less publicly acceptable.
Crying is both messy AND unacceptable in public. Runny nose, red puffy eyes, salt water dripping everywhere...ewww. 
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
~Albert Ellis
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MokshaIs
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397392 - 05/13/08 03:52 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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joi
and
and
Love
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in all of Infinite
there is but One
and it is nOne
ever and always
in every and all ways
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Icelander
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
#8397405 - 05/13/08 03:58 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
Rahz said:
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women?
That snarky ol Tibetan. This is that animal urge that reminds us who we are.
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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.
Edited by Icelander (05/13/08 03:59 PM)
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Icelander
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397417 - 05/13/08 04:00 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Quote:
Veritas said:
Orgasms, of course.
Actually I would choose unconditional acceptance of everything as the best feeling that one could have.
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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.
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
#8397468 - 05/13/08 04:17 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Runny nose, red puffy eyes, salt water dripping everywhere...ewww.
Your orgasms are different than most!
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Veritas
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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Icelander]
#8397470 - 05/13/08 04:17 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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But orgasms are more likely to happen.
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
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