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Larrythescaryrex
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the duelity of the human mind.
#1866071 - 08/30/03 02:57 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yesterday, I went to a pep rally at my school. I went with the others from my residence hall. We have all just met, but we act like friends. I was asked to accompany some people to dinner. Nobody cared that I have long hair and seven peircings in my head. Everyone acted like reasonable people. I had fun. Which is odd that I would enjoy that. It gave me hope.
Today I went shopping. Traffic was horrible. People cutting people off, blatantly defing traffic laws. The stores were packed with asshole employees, and customers obsessed with buying and buying all they could.
My campus has about 40,000 people so the stores don't even have to pretend to care about you. If you don't shop there, there are still 39,999 people who will, and more coming every year. So the employees and business act in the most money hunger, smug way they care to and are up front and honest with you about not giving a shit.
The other shoppers are blind to this and most everything else going on around them. The only thing that matters to them is playing race car, or buying all they can afford.
Sometimes I think that material goods are used to distract people from the important things on earth.
Sometimes I think that getting behind the wheel of a car will cause a human being to lose between 5 and 10 IQ points.
I don't understand how people can be so cool, down to earth, and understanding one moment, and then vain, selfish, and greedy the next.
I've realized I can't save the world, and that all I can do if I am very lucky is to keep myself from becoming what I hate. I already know that I too possess the qualities that I see and hate in others. It has been beat into me for the last 21 years. However, I want to believe that I can limit the negative efffects my actions have on others, and I want to believe I can keep the truly important things in life as my first priorities.
Sometimes when I talk like this people get confused and angry.
-------------------- RIP Acidic_Sloth Sunset_Mission said: "larry the scary rex verily scary when thoroughly vexed invoke the shadows and dust, cast a hex mercifully massacring memories masterfully relocate from Ur to 8th density and become a cosmic bully mulder and scully couldn't decipher his glyphs invoke the shadows and dust, smoke infernal spliffs" April 24th 2011
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fireworks_god
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Larrythescaryrex said: I've realized I can't save the world, and that all I can do if I am very lucky is to keep myself from becoming what I hate. I already know that I too possess the qualities that I see and hate in others. It has been beat into me for the last 21 years. However, I want to believe that I can limit the negative efffects my actions have on others, and I want to believe I can keep the truly important things in life as my first priorities.
Well, it can't take just one man to save the world (although it can take one money hungry Cowboy to ruin it). Just start with yourself and live your life despite all of the negative around you, and being in a higher consciousness sort of mindset continously will give the possibility of others picking up on it, realizing how much better it would be to live their own lives in that way..
It takes a group effort to save the world. Go for it! hehe Peace.
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HagbardCeline
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Re: the duelity of the human mind. [Re: fireworks_god]
#1866362 - 08/30/03 04:16 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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(although it can take one money hungry Cowboy to ruin it)
No politics in S&P.
Please...
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Ped
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Beautiful post, Larry. Absolutely, fireworks_god. Living by example is the best way to have an impact. People are naturally drawn to peace of mind. If we can have it for ourselves, other people will have it too. >> Sometimes I think that material goods are used to distract people from the important things on earth. This is a crime perpetrated by whom? Surely those who would employ such a technique would do so only from being bewitched by their own deception. This earth is bursting with joy, bursting with life and beauty. How then can we be so far removed from it, and when will we come home? It is certainly depressing to see materialism and thing-addiction so rampant all around us. It is even more upsetting when we start to realize these aspects of ourselves. What's worse is when any attempt to articulate these feelings is made publically, only a venomous response is received. These things make some of us feel very isolated. In past pondering, Larry, I've found that your point begs an uncomfortably familiar question. How can we enjoy life constantly questioning the authenticity of everything we experience, believe, or are told to believe? No wonder American Idol gets such enormous ratings. How long can it last?
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Re: Melancholy [Re: Ped]
#1867304 - 08/30/03 11:16 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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It will last until humankind evolves to the point where they realize we are all seperate manifestations of one entity capable of thinking for ourselves and excersixing their mind unhindered by society or law.
-------------------- What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection, Is it all you want it to be?
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Re: Melancholy [Re: Murex]
#1867391 - 08/30/03 11:56 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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the only hope is to destroy planet earth before we get all the aliens hooked on starbucks and plastic surgery.
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Larrythescaryrex
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Re: Melancholy [Re: DoctorJ]
#1867443 - 08/31/03 12:20 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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thanks ped, I'm going to think about that one.
DoctorJ, may I quote you on that?
-------------------- RIP Acidic_Sloth Sunset_Mission said: "larry the scary rex verily scary when thoroughly vexed invoke the shadows and dust, cast a hex mercifully massacring memories masterfully relocate from Ur to 8th density and become a cosmic bully mulder and scully couldn't decipher his glyphs invoke the shadows and dust, smoke infernal spliffs" April 24th 2011
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DoctorJ


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yeah, ok, but you should know that I dont really want to destroy the earth...
just the people on it
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fireworks_god
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Re: the duelity of the human mind. [Re: HagbardCeline]
#1867634 - 08/31/03 02:18 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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HagbardCeline said: Quote:
(although it can take one money hungry Cowboy to ruin it)
No politics in S&P.
Please...
Just a quick aside, notice the parentheses... Guess it couldn't be avoided, that politics forum is getting to my brain... I apologize. Peace.
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HagbardCeline
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Re: the duelity of the human mind. [Re: fireworks_god]
#1867636 - 08/31/03 02:21 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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It wasn't a big deal, I just try and stay away from that because it gets me too fired up. I have to watch my stress levels.
-------------------- I keep it real because I think it is important that a highly esteemed individual such as myself keep it real lest they experience the dreaded spontaneous non-existance of no longer keeping it real. - Hagbard Celine
Edited by HagbardCeline (08/31/03 02:21 AM)
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I don't understand how people can be so cool, down to earth, and understanding one moment, and then vain, selfish, and greedy the next
I'm not sure if I get it. Were these the same people?
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