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XUL
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the answer is not to trust anyone who brags about being old and gaining.
Do older people really know the anser, or are you old shills all full of shit just like I am guessing?
You are assuming that older people who brag are untrustworthy? What a conjecture!
Do people get wiser as they get older? It seems that there are too many variables here to really say. You may be able to establish some kind of correlation there, but I think it would be a weak one at best. One person may get wiser and one may become a bumbling fool!
YOU, are not addressing the correct person. Get it together.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: Mad Season]
#18818506 - 09/09/13 11:00 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Socrates is known for quoting the Delphic Oracle: "Know Thyself," which I've adopted as my signature. At the same time, Socrates admitted that he knew nothing. This is a paradox. Insofar as I continue to seek understanding, the Wisdom that emerges from the process is misunderstood by Westerners (including yourself apparently), as being nothing. It is rather, 'no thing,' no objectified content, which would amount to an epistemological knowledge. However, gnosis is a different kind of knowing in which knower-knowledge-known are unified. Thus, the Buddhists, on the contrary, defines Wisdom AS Emptiness, Void, Sunyata, Clear Light. This Wisdom consists of the immediate intuition of the Unmanifest from which all form manifests. Eckhart Tolle calls it Being. To the extent that awareness of Being exists, Wisdom exists. It is not that 'I' possess Wisdom, it is a matter of to what extent my being manifests Being/Wisdom. The Buddhists say that Compassionate Action is the measure of that Wisdom. It is the intersection of Wisdom and Compassion, the vertical transpersonal dimension of Wisdom, which is Emptiness, Silence, and the horizontal personal dimension of Compassion towards sentient beings in the world.
There are relative truths and there is Ultimate Truth which equates with Ultimate Reality. Ultimate Reality cannot be communicated horizontally, with words, but it can be implied by the wise [wo]man's way of being-in-the-world. Awareness of Ultimate Reality makes saints out of us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
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What are you trying to say to me?
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: XUL]
#18821082 - 09/09/13 10:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You replied to me, but I was not the one whose quote you included. I responded to it, but I did not write it. I think you clicked on the wrong reply button is all.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: XUL]
#18824742 - 09/10/13 06:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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the answer is not to trust anyone who brags about being old and gaining.
Do older people really know the anser, or are you old shills all full of shit just like I am guessing?
You are assuming that older people who brag are untrustworthy? What a conjecture!
Do people get wiser as they get older? It seems that there are too many variables here to really say. You may be able to establish some kind of correlation there, but I think it would be a weak one at best. One person may get wiser and one may become a bumbling fool!
I am a shameless bragger, and people largely hate the hell out of it. I am old, I would say wiser but time is short so let's be real. I am not to be trusted.
This is all I have really learned. Love is all you need. Ignore that fact at your own peril.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: LunarEclipse]
#18833175 - 09/12/13 04:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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What about water bro? Can love hydrate my body and keep me from shriveling into a prune? I didn't think so.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: Cactilove]
#18833696 - 09/12/13 06:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Cactilove said: What about water bro? Can love hydrate my body and keep me from shriveling into a prune? I didn't think so.
Just take a pebble. Suck on it, you will feel hydrated even if you aren't. Old dude trick.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: LunarEclipse]
#18834879 - 09/12/13 10:57 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: mathieu]
#18836463 - 09/13/13 11:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Although I have only been around here for short while, I have gained a passion for mycology that has had no equal in my life. I have gained so much knowledge through this site that it's ridiculous. Hell, I am rarely on any other site.
To Mark, congrats on everything. My cup is a old tankard given to me by the owner of a "pirate" bar in St. Augustine, FL. And it has been in my hand whilst naked in public many times.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: ghiajake]
#18836657 - 09/13/13 11:58 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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older people like me is full of mental issues like deep depression. Sometimes I think about blowing my brainz out.
Then I feel okay a little later.
the cycle repeats.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: handwaveee]
#18836661 - 09/13/13 11:59 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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whatever you do don't be that guy. BE ALPHA. FUCK EVERYTHING. NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOU. Therefore my advice is to GO OUT THERE A FUCK PEOPLE.
YOu will feel a lot better when you become a true alpha. you life is so much better. STEP on faggots' throats.
ZBE ALPHA>
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: handwaveee]
#18836674 - 09/13/13 12:01 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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you got to learn how to play massive mental games with people. You have to make examples out of people, that the consequence of fucking with YOU is dire. Hell, just fuck with someone just becos. COS BE ALPHA.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: handwaveee]
#18836676 - 09/13/13 12:01 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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handwaveee said: older people like me is full of mental issues like deep depression. Sometimes I think about blowing my brainz out.
Then I feel okay a little later.
the cycle repeats.
How very "alpha" of you. You sound really happy.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: Sleepwalker]
#18836744 - 09/13/13 12:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't worry I'm not alpha. I've been throughly butt & mental fucked to even toy with that thought.
I'm OMEGA.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: ghiajake]
#18837498 - 09/13/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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To Mark, congrats on everything. My cup is a old tankard given to me by the owner of a "pirate" bar in St. Augustine, FL. And it has been in my hand whilst naked in public many times.
Thanks man. I hope your buds are always at your back with bail money!
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: handwaveee]
#18837518 - 09/13/13 03:58 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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handwaveee said: Don't worry I'm not alpha. I've been throughly butt & mental fucked to even toy with that thought.
I'm OMEGA.
Best get some therapy for sexual abuse, and in the mean time, don't become a parent until you've resolved your rage.
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Re: What I Have Gained In My 15 years Here [Re: handwaveee]
#18839610 - 09/14/13 12:22 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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handwaveee said: you got to learn how to play massive mental games with people. You have to make examples out of people, that the consequence of fucking with YOU is dire. Hell, just fuck with someone just becos. COS BE ALPHA.
You really need to change your opinion of what being an "Alpha Male" means man. Alphas lead, educate, care for, protect, and provide for those in their pack. Your version of an Alpha would be killed by the pack. Have you not seen the "The Lion King"?
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