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Quicksand
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Are we all in a sort of quicksand when it comes to choosing what to believe?

If we do not hold on to a branch and try to pull ourselves out, we can try but if the branch breaks or if we aren't strong enough we won't make it. Even then, it's not like being on land puts one in any better set of circumstances.

Or if we don't try to pull ourselves our but struggle and flail our bodies in fear and in an vain attempt to fight our way out in frustration, we go only quicker, deeper into the quicksand, closer to drowning.

But if we relax and try to float, then we can lay there floating in the pool of quicksand, which in all its viscosity easily will support the floating weight of even the most muscular people.



So which do you choose, if any?

Be careful, the branches are close. Your answer will be indicative of your struggle.

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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So which do you choose, if any?

I'm going down either way. If I knew I wasn't going to be able to get help, then I would try and go down as quick as possible and get it over with.


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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and forget his own." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."  - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it." -Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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But if we relax and try to float, then we can lay there floating in the pool of quicksand, which in all its viscosity easily will support the floating weight of even the most muscular people.


But what if the quicksand is full of blood sucking leaches and rotting corpses of others who couldn't relax and it's getting cold out and about to start a freezing rain and it's on private property with mean dogs and a guy with a shotgun and you have to take a shit real bad and you're really late for work?


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"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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Re: Quicksand [Re: Icelander]
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I would try and get the guy with the shotgun to help me out or shoot me.


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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and forget his own." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."  - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it." -Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Quicksand [Re: Icelander]
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I don't see why a person couldn't float in that situation. As long as they didn't freak out from the leeches or corpses it wouldn't be like the dogs could get to them in the quicksand. Leeches are painless anyway, and corpses are harmless. I don't know what the dude with the shotguns' intentions are. As far as shitting goes no harm shitting in the quicksand, and as for being late for work... well depends on where work is.

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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Why is an ebay ad saying Shop for: Toilet paper shown on this page?
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574691905&toolid=10001&campid=5335980952&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg&customid=heh&icep_uq=toilet+paper

One of the first items that show up when you click it is this:
TOY POODLE ART DECOR RED TOILET PAPER COVER CROCHET USA MADE IN AMERICA DOG PUP


Belief is something strangely laxative perhaps?

Thanks.:thumbup:

Edited by husmmoor (12/06/11 02:22 PM)

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Re: Quicksand [Re: husmmoor]
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I need to take a belief right now. :grin:


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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and forget his own." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."  - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it." -Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx] * 1
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I was able to find a branch that works for me. I'm not out of the quicksand, but my time spent in it has actually become pretty enjoyable. I think most people aren't able to accomplish this, and I think even fewer are capable of successfully relaxing and floating. If you are capable of that, and it brings you pleasure then go for it.

Nice thread. :thumbup:


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Live your Life! :heart:

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Re: Quicksand [Re: 4896744]
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So what is your branch?

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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xFrockx said:
I don't see why a person couldn't float in that situation. As long as they didn't freak out from the leeches or corpses it wouldn't be like the dogs could get to them in the quicksand. Leeches are painless anyway, and corpses are harmless. I don't know what the dude with the shotguns' intentions are. As far as shitting goes no harm shitting in the quicksand, and as for being late for work... well depends on where work is.



You know I never thought of that.


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"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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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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xFrockx said:
So what is your branch?


Using logic to figure out my beliefs. What it has left me with is a very scientific view of it all, I don't really delude myself with emotion or at least not as much as most. This reasoning has helped me become much better at making choices that increase my overall happiness. Fairly recently, things have greatly improved.


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Live your Life! :heart:

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Re: Quicksand [Re: 4896744]
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"Using logic to figure out my beliefs."

Can you give an example?

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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Funny, I wrote a similar analogy to this inspired by a recent death anxiety thread, though I never did post it...


After thrashing about for a while grasping at branches, I'm inclined to learn how to lay back and float, gently studying the branches, weaving them together... perhaps into a hammock.

At some point though I may have to grab hold of a cowgirl and drag her in with me.




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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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I don't waste my money on tons of weightlifting supplements other than protein powder and a pre workout powder with DMAA in it, as almost none of them have shit in the form of research backing their claimed performance enhancement.


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Live your Life! :heart:

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Re: Quicksand [Re: DisoRDeR]
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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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hey man just wanted to say how much your post reminded me of the experience of a 'bad trip'.

the more you fight it, the worse it gets?

perhaps what we choose to believe leads us to a loss of ego, yet the more we fight it, the harder it is to "see the light"?


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vi veri veniversum vivus vici

What she said :
"I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an
Early death
AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING !"

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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xFrockx said:
I don't see why a person couldn't float in that situation. As long as they didn't freak out from the leeches or corpses it wouldn't be like the dogs could get to them in the quicksand. Leeches are painless anyway, and corpses are harmless. I don't know what the dude with the shotguns' intentions are. As far as shitting goes no harm shitting in the quicksand, and as for being late for work... well depends on where work is.


The man with the shotgun could be out hunting.  "Excuse me, sir, could you please help me out of this quicksand?"  Is asking for help not an option?

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Re: Quicksand [Re: xFrockx]
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xFrockx said:
Are we all in a sort of quicksand when it comes to choosing what to believe?

If we do not hold on to a branch and try to pull ourselves out, we can try but if the branch breaks or if we aren't strong enough we won't make it. Even then, it's not like being on land puts one in any better set of circumstances.

Or if we don't try to pull ourselves our but struggle and flail our bodies in fear and in an vain attempt to fight our way out in frustration, we go only quicker, deeper into the quicksand, closer to drowning.

But if we relax and try to float, then we can lay there floating in the pool of quicksand, which in all its viscosity easily will support the floating weight of even the most muscular people.



So which do you choose, if any?

Be careful, the branches are close. Your answer will be indicative of your struggle.



i'd use the quicksand to throw at others who got near
as a warning ya know


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Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction?
Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain

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Re: Quicksand [Re: Kickle]
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Wouldn't you eventually end up laying at the bottom of an empty whole?

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Re: Quicksand [Re: HippieChick8]
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Sure it is an option, but he might be hunting helpless people.

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