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FunWiThFunGuS
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Existential survey
#14151857 - 03/20/11 12:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Why do you do what you do and what do you hope to accomplish through said action(s)?
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ninja cat 09
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I study to be able to live independently from my parents, I run about 3 times a week with hopes of avoiding future heart problems because of my parent's and grand parent's medical history. Chill with buddies cause' it's fun.
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tumaru
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I'm sorry but I don't understand what this survey is about.
Is it the existential nature of mushrooms or just existentialism.
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FunWiThFunGuS
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Re: Existential survey [Re: tumaru]
#14152101 - 03/20/11 02:22 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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specifically no, but if mushrooms be involved in your answer then it will be as well received as any.
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Re: Existential survey [Re: tumaru]
#14152237 - 03/20/11 03:30 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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tumaru said: I'm sorry but I don't understand what this survey is about.
Is it the existential nature of mushrooms or just existentialism.
What a waste of a first post
I learn to alter my reality.
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meatcakeman
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i do what i do because i must. i must traverse these moments of life in order to discover and rediscover myself. my purpose in life is to learn, to absorb all details in perspective of their contexts. i'm on a quest to understand, to feel, and to realize. forget nothing, question everything.
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Hasta siempre, comandante.
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I am a self publicizing maniac on the shroomery....trying to live up to my hype...this is all I know
I am trying to keep the shroomery alive
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I have considered such matters. SIKE
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FunWiThFunGuS said: Why do you do what you do and what do you hope to accomplish through said action(s)?
Gain pleasure, avoid pain
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Re: Existential survey [Re: Icelander]
#14153174 - 03/20/11 11:02 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Playing music, going to music festivals, hanging out with friends that don't care how I act, hiking, biking, kayaking, walking, adventuring of any kind, looking for love, and continuing to learn as much as I can about my own existence.
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There've been times when I wander, and times when I don't. Concepts I'll ponder, and concepts I won't ever see. God isn't one of these, former or latter. Which did you think I meant? It doesn't matter to me.
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tumaru
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Re: Existential survey [Re: tumaru]
#14153297 - 03/20/11 11:24 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've only done shrooms once and I turned into a magnet. I don't know what I have done that would be existential.
Does trying to get rid of your biases merely to learn that though the process I was keeping them alive by trying to get rid of them count.
Or is existentialism the one where you had just started dreaming and found yourself on the roof looking down (no I didn't see the area my body was in). I was woken up sometime around ten minuets in and then fell back into my body. I was only on the roof for a short time, somewhere around 30-180 seconds or maybe less.
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FunWiThFunGuS
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meatcakeman said: i do what i do because i must. i must traverse these moments of life in order to discover and rediscover myself. my purpose in life is to learn, to absorb all details in perspective of their contexts. i'm on a quest to understand, to feel, and to realize. forget nothing, question everything.
Don't get me wrong, I love this answer. But why must you? And to what ends does your quest to understand, to feel, and to realize establish? Is this merely a personal or a collective conclusion? In other words, do you do what you do for yourself, the collective, or both? And in finding the knowledge you seek, are you silent in your findings or do you try to share them for the enlightenment of all who seek the same?
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Re: Existential survey [Re: Icelander]
#14153903 - 03/20/11 01:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
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FunWiThFunGuS said: Why do you do what you do and what do you hope to accomplish through said action(s)?
Gain pleasure, avoid pain
I think that concept being run away with leads to addictions and then to suffering. There is no pleasure without pain and to avoid one or the other creates an imbalance in yourself. Maybe accepting them as two parts to a whole and knowing that neither would exist without its counterpart might make it easier to maintain the balance. But I digress. What does this acquisition/avoidance do to drive you in what you do? So again the question, Why do you do what you do and what do you hope to accomplish from said action(s). If it be merely the acquisition/avoidance of pleasure/pain I think you may be in line for undue suffering.
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meatcakeman
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meatcakeman said: i do what i do because i must. i must traverse these moments of life in order to discover and rediscover myself. my purpose in life is to learn, to absorb all details in perspective of their contexts. i'm on a quest to understand, to feel, and to realize. forget nothing, question everything.
Don't get me wrong, I love this answer. But why must you? And to what ends does your quest to understand, to feel, and to realize establish? Is this merely a personal or a collective conclusion? In other words, do you do what you do for yourself, the collective, or both? And in finding the knowledge you seek, are you silent in your findings or do you try to share them for the enlightenment of all who seek the same?
i must because i must assign my life purpose. without such purpose, i'm just a walking mass of organic matter, a waste of energy. and for the most part, i do it for myself. but all of us are interconnected on so many different levels. it'd be foolish to say that what i do has no effect on society. now, i'm not saying one man can change the world, but like-minded individuals can. a collective of earnest individuals can create a large mass of intellectual tinder. we just need a spark to light the flame.
also, i tend to keep it to myself. all of us are somewhat equally capable of attaining enlightening knowledge. i just believe there's a larger impact when one does so on one's own accord, rather than by the teachings of someone else.
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Hasta siempre, comandante.
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FunWiThFunGuS
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meatcakeman said:
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FunWiThFunGuS said:
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meatcakeman said: i do what i do because i must. i must traverse these moments of life in order to discover and rediscover myself. my purpose in life is to learn, to absorb all details in perspective of their contexts. i'm on a quest to understand, to feel, and to realize. forget nothing, question everything.
Don't get me wrong, I love this answer. But why must you? And to what ends does your quest to understand, to feel, and to realize establish? Is this merely a personal or a collective conclusion? In other words, do you do what you do for yourself, the collective, or both? And in finding the knowledge you seek, are you silent in your findings or do you try to share them for the enlightenment of all who seek the same?
i must because i must assign my life purpose. without such purpose, i'm just a walking mass of organic matter, a waste of energy. and for the most part, i do it for myself. but all of us are interconnected on so many different levels. it'd be foolish to say that what i do has no effect on society. now, i'm not saying one man can change the world, but like-minded individuals can. a collective of earnest individuals can create a large mass of intellectual tinder. we just need a spark to light the flame.
also, i tend to keep it to myself. all of us are somewhat equally capable of attaining enlightening knowledge. i just believe there's a larger impact when one does so on one's own accord, rather than by the teachings of someone else.
Purpose or not, we all are just walking masses of organic matter. Without purpose indeed a waste of energy, But when looking around and reading peoples opinions and such I fail to see intelligent reasoning in the majority. It is disheartening to witness the intelligence man holds and see it wasted so as it is today in most systems, cultures, and societal conditioning. I swear sometimes i could cry. Something as simple as throwing a piece of trash next to a garbage can exhibit this ignorance on a small scale but can be seen exponentially through other actions. What does one do? Wait for the blinders to fall off? You said, and I agree, in the larger impact of self discovery, but with a majority conditioned to stray away from asking deeper questions, how can self discovery be accomplished in time to save ourselves as a species on earth while witnessing the diminishing resources and bloody wars fought for financial gain and power? What of the world being left behind? Will a catalyst for change come in time? Is it a live and let live philosophy with the hopes a more intelligent, rational, and less narcissistic mindset will arise in time to save us from ourselves?
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