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 Are you really living? 
#12209836 - 03/15/10 10:02 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I watched the movie ‘peaceful warrior’.
A line from the movie;
“death is merely a transformation, a little more radical than puberty, but it’s not sad, what is sad is that most people die without ever having lived”.
What does it mean to really live?
Do you know that you are really alive?
Personally I'm delusional.
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"For Odin, my god
For folk, my spirit
For land, my soul"
-Spear Of Longinus
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When you stop taking life so seriously you are truly living.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant, and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein
  
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#12210670 - 03/16/10 12:36 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I think I would have to agree.
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― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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The Chronic
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Living to die & dying to live
Only the ones who go beyond death truly live
Otherwise this is just a life of attachment & fear, and to me, that ain't living
When you can throw everything to the wind, especially this 'I', then your living
When your mind is carrying nothing you no longer carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, you flip it & dance on top of the world
HAHAHAHAHAHA how wonderful it is not to be sane! 
I should really say how wonderful it is to not be insane, as its the life of fear that is insane
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there are a lot of insane people out there
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: deCypher] 1
#12211217 - 03/16/10 05:40 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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me personally, i have never lived.
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The Chronic
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: moi]
#12211233 - 03/16/10 05:50 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Imo the person never lives, life is defined beyond personhood
The person is just a role life plays
If you see its just a role, something is freed up
Everything gets lighter, less serious, more playful, you start living
Its like being a child again
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts"
Characters of consciousness, playing
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Thou owest God a death.
--William Shakespeare
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: deCypher]
#12211345 - 03/16/10 06:43 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I like this thread.
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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c0sm0nautt
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
Imo the person never lives, life is defined beyond personhood
The person is just a role life plays
If you see its just a role, something is freed up
Everything gets lighter, less serious, more playful, you start living
Its like being a child again
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts"
Characters of consciousness, playing
We are the play and the director. 
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#12211607 - 03/16/10 08:28 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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And beyond, as you are aware of both 
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#12211610 - 03/16/10 08:29 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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...and the prop.
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c0sm0nautt
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
And beyond, as you are aware of both
Yea. It's so simple! hehe
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Poid]
#12212828 - 03/16/10 12:48 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Poid said:
...and the prop.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: deCypher] 2
#12212866 - 03/16/10 12:55 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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In the name of the director, the actor, and the holy prop... amen.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12212972 - 03/16/10 01:13 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"we are always getting ready to live, but never really living."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I close my eyes and seize it
I clench my fists and beat it
I light my torch and burn it
I am the beast I worship....
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usulpsychonaut
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This thing I keep hearing is 'be present to the now'. Another line from Peaceful Warrior is "Right now is all you have". When the mind is focussed on the past or the future, that apparently is illusion.
When I'm in 'the now' I'm focussed on this mysterious life force that animates my body, imagining the same life force in all the mass and space that surrounds me. Beyond this I don't know any other purpose, where is this going?
That is my problem... I think the idea is to be absorbed by some kind of vocation... I'm just completely lazy and apathetic about. I really don't have a clue what about anything, this thread is pointless.
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You never existed, you will never exist. You're not real. Nothing you ever knew existed. Nor does anyone you think you ever knew, nor your life, nor where you live. You made it all up. - El Collie
"For Odin, my god
For folk, my spirit
For land, my soul"
-Spear Of Longinus
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#12215372 - 03/16/10 07:33 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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When you stop taking life so seriously you are truly living.
wait! there is some kind of point lingering... I think I don't take anything seriously right now, but this does not feel like living, now that nothing is serious, I seriously can't find a reason to open my curtains and go outside. This is just the same as not having anything to do because I know the future is hopeless, or being to down to do anything because the past is reference only to failure...
But being in the now, and not taking it seriously, well this really does somehow feel better, allot better.
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You never existed, you will never exist. You're not real. Nothing you ever knew existed. Nor does anyone you think you ever knew, nor your life, nor where you live. You made it all up. - El Collie
"For Odin, my god
For folk, my spirit
For land, my soul"
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I think when you feel that oneness with Nature you're "really living", but I also personally think of drifters as people that are really living. Just friends, drugs and the road... no wankers, just a tight-knit bunch of misfits. I used to sort of be that way... SORT OF! It's a lifestyle that makes you sound cosmopolitan and well-traveled etc. which I'm not.
I've spent nearly a whole day in a forest reserve completely sober and come home feeling so deep and relaxed and at peace with everything... such a great feeling the forest gives you.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: circastes]
#12216822 - 03/17/10 01:04 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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such a great feeling the forest gives you.
Yep. 
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: circastes]
#12216977 - 03/17/10 02:29 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Meanie.
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: circastes]
#12217145 - 03/17/10 04:44 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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such a great feeling the forest gives you.
Until you get lost or have to survive in it.
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― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Icelander]
#12217465 - 03/17/10 07:27 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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such a great feeling the forest gives you.
Until you get lost or have to survive in it.
Hah, yeah. My wife and I were hiking in Northern Minnesota once. We're not real hikers, so our path was supposed to be a short 2 mile circle back to the parking lot. We must've missed the curve at some point and accidentally followed a more advanced path, because after 2-3 hours we were nowhere near the parking lot. We were also seeing a lot of snakes and very large moose tracks. Shit got real pretty fast, as it was about to get dark soon... then we wouldn't even have been able to see. When "shit got real," that was living.
I often lament that I have no survival skills. Technology has made us weak... or at least has allowed the weak to live longer than they normally would have. Is it better to be mentally masturbating on the internet or lost in the woods? I can't really say.
Actually, being lost in the woods has got to be better... at least in moderation. 
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Icelander]
#12217836 - 03/17/10 09:34 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
such a great feeling the forest gives you.
Until you get lost or have to survive in it.
I've still always found the crazy shit that happens is easier to take when in the woods. About 20 miles in, I got my foot crushed by a horse. Couldn't sleep at all that night, had nothing to dull the throbbing. I also had several more miles to go, and wouldn't be out of the wilderness to even look at the foot for several days.
Didn't mean much while I was in the woods. I could still do what I needed to, and the pain all but faded into background noise. So much energy there... so much life. It feeds you, it nourishes you. I healed well without any medical attention to speak of.
I've heard stories a lot worse than mine, but they always turn out to sound like superman stories. People seem to draw energy from the woods that helps sustain them better than a location like the city ever could. Even with all of our fancy medicines.
And no one hurt in the woods is gonna try to file a lawsuit for their injuries, that's a bonus.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12217850 - 03/17/10 09:39 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Now picturing someone suing the Bureau of Land Management for a slip and fall on a wet rock in the middle of the river.
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Actually, being lost in the woods has got to be better... at least in moderation.
As long as you don't freeze to death, die of thirst, starve or get eaten. 
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― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12218018 - 03/17/10 10:09 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Kickle said:
Quote:
Icelander said:
such a great feeling the forest gives you.
Until you get lost or have to survive in it.
I've still always found the crazy shit that happens is easier to take when in the woods. About 20 miles in, I got my foot crushed by a horse. Couldn't sleep at all that night, had nothing to dull the throbbing. I also had several more miles to go, and wouldn't be out of the wilderness to even look at the foot for several days.
Didn't mean much while I was in the woods. I could still do what I needed to, and the pain all but faded into background noise. So much energy there... so much life. It feeds you, it nourishes you. I healed well without any medical attention to speak of.
I've heard stories a lot worse than mine, but they always turn out to sound like superman stories. People seem to draw energy from the woods that helps sustain them better than a location like the city ever could. Even with all of our fancy medicines.
And no one hurt in the woods is gonna try to file a lawsuit for their injuries, that's a bonus.
Crushed? Healed without medical attention?
I DON'T THINK SO!
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― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Icelander]
#12218038 - 03/17/10 10:12 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's true
I never went to any doctor for it.
You can still see what happened if you look at my foot.
But it doesn't cause me any issues other than aesthetic discomfort.
edit: I take that back -- there is also an issue of blood flow.
If my foot gets cold, it takes outside forces to heat it up.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12218054 - 03/17/10 10:14 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Picture of the foot or it never happened
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Kickle
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if I had a camera, I would.
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deCypher
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Chronic777 said:
Picture of the foot or it never happened
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: deCypher]
#12218288 - 03/17/10 11:03 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Set up a camera fund for me if you want one that bad :P
I loaned my camera to a friend about 2 years ago and I haven't yet, and have no expectation of, seeing it again.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12218297 - 03/17/10 11:04 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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your posts are made of lies and photographic failure 
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: deCypher]
#12218381 - 03/17/10 11:18 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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come on! Be my sugar daddy!
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Icelander]
#12218384 - 03/17/10 11:18 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Actually, being lost in the woods has got to be better... at least in moderation.
As long as you don't freeze to death, die of thirst, starve or get eaten.
I bet there's nothing more life-affirming than being eaten by a bear. It's probably the closest you'll ever get to a wild animal. While he's chomping on your femur and the endorphins unleash themselves into what remains of your bloodstream, you can look into his eyes and ruminate about the circle of life and how that bear's eating you will enable him to live for a few more weeks, long after you're shit out and biodegrading into the topsoil to feed the surrounding worms and plants.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12218567 - 03/17/10 11:54 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Get a camera. I know people who have had their foot "crushed". This means bones broken apart and all that. Now maybe you are talking about something else.
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― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Icelander]
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Crushed as in there was a tremendous weight crushing down on my foot.
And there was. My toes took the brunt of it.
I wondered if anyone would pick up on all the ambiguity in my original post.
If I had to speculate as to what the actual anatomical damage was, I'd say 3 broken toes and heavy bruising.
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12218634 - 03/17/10 12:05 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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sounds spicy
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12218755 - 03/17/10 12:31 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Is healing more possible in organic nature?
Of course, when the earth vibrates through this body rather than chemicals, how can it not heal on some truer level?
Sometimes the best healing this body can receive is an organicly natural death!
Can the mind bare that perspective for a second?
That perhaps the true healing is to be rid of this mind that clings to forms through embodyment?
To be completey naked as awareness with no limitation?
To return to your original true Self?
To come back into your universal infinite existence?
That is healing!
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I heal myself by hurting others! 
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: deCypher]
#12218771 - 03/17/10 12:33 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Then thats how the universe is using you as a zen stick to hit other beings with
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I really wish being a zen stick wasn't so painful. 
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: deCypher] 1
#12218794 - 03/17/10 12:36 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Do not try avoid the pain of the stick
That's impossible, only realize the truth
That there is no stick
It is not the stick that hits you, you are only hitting yourself
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I know, right?!
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#12218833 - 03/17/10 12:42 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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See how the being moves to speak to itself through a familiar way?
Consciousness is like that, your in the cradle of the infinite lol
The second i thought, 'there is no stick' i knew it was good for you
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#12218872 - 03/17/10 12:49 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Beyond Dodged
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There is no Dodge.
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#12218908 - 03/17/10 12:54 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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What about Chevy?
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Kickle]
#12218933 - 03/17/10 12:59 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Maybe.
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usulpsychonaut
Hungry White Ghost
Registered: 05/12/08
Posts: 538
Loc: Manawatu, New Zealand.
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Icelander said:
Actually, being lost in the woods has got to be better... at least in moderation.
As long as you don't freeze to death, die of thirst, starve or get eaten.
I bet there's nothing more life-affirming than being eaten by a bear. It's probably the closest you'll ever get to a wild animal. While he's chomping on your femur and the endorphins unleash themselves into what remains of your bloodstream, you can look into his eyes and ruminate about the circle of life and how that bear's eating you will enable him to live for a few more weeks, long after you're shit out and biodegrading into the topsoil to feed the surrounding worms and plants.
Damn, no bears or snakes in NZ woods. Another line from the movie Peaceful Warrior - "this moment must be really hard for you, are you paying attention"?
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You never existed, you will never exist. You're not real. Nothing you ever knew existed. Nor does anyone you think you ever knew, nor your life, nor where you live. You made it all up. - El Collie
"For Odin, my god
For folk, my spirit
For land, my soul"
-Spear Of Longinus
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Computerism
Propagandist
Registered: 02/27/10
Posts: 1,015
Loc: Next to a Shrub
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What's in the NZ woods?
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Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.
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flangenips
Batshitinsanse
Registered: 01/20/08
Posts: 1,520
Loc: aotearoa
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Computerism said:
What's in the NZ woods?
birds (everywhere), and deer(in some places). the only thing you need to worry about is wild pigs and cyanide possum poison.
Surviving nature in NZ isn't too bad really. plenty of fish in streams, lots of drinking water (make sure your near the source in the alps tho to avoid farm run off!). Take a spear and machete or hatchet and all is good. Winters can be rough, but there are huts littered all around if you know where to look.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce
Edited by flangenips (03/17/10 02:49 PM)
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deCypher
Registered: 02/10/08
Posts: 52,515
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: flangenips]
#12219541 - 03/17/10 02:47 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Out here in the 'glades we eat javelinas for breakfast.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Poid
deBunker
Registered: 02/04/08
Posts: 40,361
Loc: SF Bay Area
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Computerism said:
Is it better to be mentally masturbating on the internet or lost in the woods?
Internet IMO.
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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylanfireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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fazdazzle
Wanderer
Registered: 02/17/05
Posts: 1,796
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: Poid] 1
#12222216 - 03/17/10 11:41 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I heard that pop song the other day that has the chorus "liiiiiiiive like you were dyingggggg" and I started thinking about how one would go about this and if it's actually helpful. It might be a slightly superfluous way to intensely experience life, after all if I were to actually live like I were dying I would quit my job first of all and do all kinds of things that would probably end up killing me if I weren't dying, hows that for irony?
And so, if you're dying, presumably you would begin to, or completely let go of material attachments, so I think what the phrase hints at is to let go of material attachments. I'm not holding anything right now, though  
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Arden
לנשום
Registered: 09/01/08
Posts: 7,648
Loc: Α & Ω
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Re: Are you really living? [Re: fazdazzle] 1
#12222340 - 03/18/10 12:07 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
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