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Poid
Shroomery's #1 Spellir




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Spirituality in a competitive society
#13402717 - 10/28/10 06:47 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is there room for it? Can we stop fighting over something?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_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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fungivore
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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: Poid]
#13402737 - 10/28/10 06:50 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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I seriously doubt it will ever happen. It would seem that we fight more now than ever before. However, there will always be those few of us who strive towards more love and less hate.
-------------------- "His job is to shed light And not to master."
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Poid
Shroomery's #1 Spellir




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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: fungivore]
#13402945 - 10/28/10 07:37 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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fungivore said: It would seem that we fight more now than ever before.
Why do you say that?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_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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c0sm0nautt

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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: Poid]
#13402951 - 10/28/10 07:38 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fuck society, do your own thing and stop being such a Poidbot.
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Poid
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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#13403121 - 10/28/10 08:13 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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But what about compassion?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_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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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#13403341 - 10/28/10 08:58 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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c0sm0nautt said: Fuck society, do your own thing and stop being such a Poidbot. 
You are society mr. cosmo.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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curenado
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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: Poid]
#13403377 - 10/28/10 09:04 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Poid said: Is there room for it? Can we stop fighting over something? 
Sure! This:


But after the fashion I think you mean, I am not sure. One time there were these 12 guys and they killed most of them after they killed their leader.
-------------------- Yours in the Natural State! "The woods are lovely, dark and deep; but I have patches to keep, and jars to sterilize before I sleep...."
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clctvsl
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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: Poid]
#13403644 - 10/28/10 09:54 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm going to be the most spiritual person here!
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c0sm0nautt

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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: Icelander]
#13403675 - 10/28/10 10:01 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Poid said: But what about compassion? 
Who said anything about not having compassion? 
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Icelander said: You are society mr. cosmo.

Sorry, I had to.
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Seanfu
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Re: Spirituality in a competitive society [Re: Poid]
#13409034 - 10/30/10 12:12 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Poid said: Is there room for it? Can we stop fighting over something? 
We can when lies are dispelled like religion and the bs around ruling politics.
-------------------- I am a chronic liar.
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