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What is best in life?
    #8397140 - 05/13/08 02:55 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women?


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
    #8397173 - 05/13/08 03:03 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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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Re: What is best in life? [Re: oreandra]
    #8397233 - 05/13/08 03:12 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

>>>>none of the above.

Well, what is best?


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
    #8397238 - 05/13/08 03:13 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

Orgasms, of course. :smirk:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
    #8397288 - 05/13/08 03:26 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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Rahz said:
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women?




no


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397295 - 05/13/08 03:27 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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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Re: What is best in life? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8397298 - 05/13/08 03:29 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

:lol: If epileptic seizures felt like orgasms, no one would ever medicate to prevent them.


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397305 - 05/13/08 03:31 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397311 - 05/13/08 03:32 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

Word, but personally chocolate is up there too :crazy:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
    #8397318 - 05/13/08 03:35 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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. :shrug:

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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Re: What is best in life? [Re: deimya]
    #8397320 - 05/13/08 03:36 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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Word, but personally chocolate is up there too :crazy:




Chocolate is great, but orgasms have no calories, sugar or saturated fat. :grin:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397352 - 05/13/08 03:42 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

Very true. My recommendation is then to combine dark chocolate with orgasms; burn the fat of the former with the latter, works wonders :whistling:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397357 - 05/13/08 03:44 PM (3 months, 15 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. :nono:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: deimya]
    #8397360 - 05/13/08 03:44 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

I'm not worried about gaining weight, I'm watching out for my overall health. Orgasms are 100% healthy!


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8397369 - 05/13/08 03:47 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
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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. :nono:




Crying is both messy AND unacceptable in public. Runny nose, red puffy eyes, salt water dripping everywhere...ewww. :wink:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397392 - 05/13/08 03:52 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

joi

and

:tripping:

and

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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
    #8397405 - 05/13/08 03:58 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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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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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397417 - 05/13/08 04:00 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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Veritas said:
Orgasms, of course. :smirk:




Actually I would choose unconditional acceptance of everything as the best feeling that one could have.


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397468 - 05/13/08 04:17 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

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Runny nose, red puffy eyes, salt water dripping everywhere...ewww.




Your orgasms are different than most!

:rimshot:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Icelander]
    #8397470 - 05/13/08 04:17 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

But orgasms are more likely to happen. :lol:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Rahz]
    #8397472 - 05/13/08 04:18 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

what is best for me atm is realizing the potential there is to experience in this life, and being in deep, still silence.

an orgasm lacks that depth...
may as well just shoot some heroin or eat some Dilauded, lasts a lot longer...


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: SyntheticMInd]
    #8397473 - 05/13/08 04:18 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

an orgasm lacks that depth...


Maybe you're doing it wrong. :lol:


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397518 - 05/13/08 04:29 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

it's too short for guys, maybe women have it better.

there's not enough time to really delve into the moment, it happens then it's over in a flash.


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: SyntheticMInd]
    #8397521 - 05/13/08 04:29 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

Men can have incredible orgasmic experiences if they learn to orgasm without ejaculating. I've talked to men who practice Tantra, and they say that they've had full-body orgasms which last for 5-10 minutes.


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: Veritas]
    #8397543 - 05/13/08 04:34 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

yep, gotta work those muscles. but it's no simple task...


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Re: What is best in life? [Re: SyntheticMInd]
    #8397550 - 05/13/08 04:36 PM (3 months, 15 days ago)

It's not just about the muscles. If you're interested, I'd recommend reading Charles & Caroline Muir's book, "Conscious Loving." It's an excellent guide to the Western practice of Tantra.


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