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ClockCode
A Lonely Hypha


Registered: 11/12/12
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Re: Would you take it? [Re: Romi]
#18825656 - 09/10/13 10:16 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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My life is a "he" thank you very much.
But good post otherwise.
-------------------- Psilovibing
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Chuckfinely
another round for me an my buddy

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Re: Would you take it? [Re: ClockCode]
#18827153 - 09/11/13 10:14 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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totally would not take living over never existing
I've always believed that ignorance really is bliss.
If i had to have been born why couldn't it have been as a sloth just chilling the jungle, or a house dog only concerned with chasing its tail and food pushed from the table by the kids
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MrMoo
Psychonautical explorer



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I'd take it for sure. If we're talking about my life I have already lived so far, the good has sure outweighed the bad and the bad has only made the good even greater.
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Romi
Indigo Child



Registered: 08/14/08
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Chuckfinely said: totally would not take living over never existing
I've always believed that ignorance really is bliss.
If i had to have been born why couldn't it have been as a sloth just chilling the jungle, or a house dog only concerned with chasing its tail and food pushed from the table by the kids 
So you will take life just not in a human form again... =D
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Chuckfinely
another round for me an my buddy

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Re: Would you take it? [Re: Romi]
#18835934 - 09/13/13 08:01 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Romi said:
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Chuckfinely said: totally would not take living over never existing
I've always believed that ignorance really is bliss.
If i had to have been born why couldn't it have been as a sloth just chilling the jungle, or a house dog only concerned with chasing its tail and food pushed from the table by the kids 
So you will take life just not in a human form again... =D
being human and self aware is a horrible affliction imo. It must be a punishment for some cosmic-wrong doing on my soul's part
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LysergicX7
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Only if I came back hotter.
-------------------- “Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in the political kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self – the deep down basic whatever there is. And you’re all that… only you’re pretending you’re not.” -Alan Watts I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.” ― Albert Hofmann
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Grapefruit
Freak in the forest


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Re: Would you take it? [Re: Tropism]
#18836142 - 09/13/13 09:26 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Tropism said: I don't know where people are getting the idea life was intended as an idyllic affair. 
Something is not clicking in my brain that one would give up all they have ever known from beginning to end in trade for for the complete lack of experience (presumably). I just don't get it. Too much negative stimuli? Not enough positive? Who said it wouldn't be that way? Where are we getting these crazy delusions of happiness from?
This is life and this is life. She ain't going to change so lets not try and change her. I'm not trying to defend her or say she isn't a horrible sadistic bitch, by no means am I --she is FUCKED, but to act as if there isn't some reward from life alone is perplexing to me. Living is a success in and of itself compared to how many things don't make that cut, how many billions of animal lives haven't ever been born thanks to their ancestors trotting off the cliff. What you think they're the ones who got lucky? Has life truly become such an empty meaningless husk to transport your mind from beginning to end?
Dudes, we get to see this shit. All of it, for better and worse. yeah, it's fucking mangled to all hell and we can devise a million ways it could be better but none the less this is what is happening. Fuck the human race, fuck self-righteousness and fuck our egos. This isn't about our ideas and expectations, this is between us and the universe, mono e mono.
Call it whatever you want, I call it perspective and ultimately that's all we've got.
A life I'd like to live would have to be better than this by some distance. Regardless of all that. However I do realise I'm stuck with what I've got and had better make the most of it, and I'm trying to also.
-------------------- Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. "Chat your fraff Chat your fraff Just chat your fraff Chat your fraff"
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quinn
some kinda love


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likewise
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Raven Gnosis
𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔡𝔞


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Re: Would you take it? [Re: Tropism]
#18843461 - 09/15/13 05:55 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Indeed. A close family member just a few days ago was in a severe motorcycle accident, his life long friend was on the back, a car ran her over and killed her. He is in intensive care in a drug induced coma fighting for his life, brain swelling and bleeding... Ugly shit.
If he survives these next few days and makes it into recovery, once cognitive again, I wonder what his thoughts on the question of this thread would be.
He will no doubt never be the same, or look at life the same.
I'm going to be writing a letter for him to read on his own time, extending my understanding and openness to him, as he is no doubt going to face an onslaught of criticism and ostracization from people around him, let alone his own demons born of this...
-------------------- To be human is to be fettered, to endure what one is, in perpetuum, no matter what the debility or perversity.
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Repertoire89
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Tropism
ChasingTail


Registered: 09/12/09
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Grapefruit said: A life I'd like to live would have to be better than this by some distance. Regardless of all that. However I do realise I'm stuck with what I've got and had better make the most of it, and I'm trying to also. 
What is this better life and why do you think it is real? The familiar habit of weighing and measuring naturally has us comparing lives and their quality, but how can we compare to something outside or experience? We can compare our lives to the appearance of others' lives, sometimes influenced by their opinions of them, but that doesn't actually give anyone anything concrete to compare it to. Ever. If that's the case it leaves us making judgment for judgement's sake. Better, worse, what does it matter they're just labels we're applying to things in relation to other things --things we cannot experience and thus must be imaginary and projective.
Doesn't make sense man to me man. What does make sense is a human mind weighing, measuring, and judging and naturally assuming there is something better when evidence has only shown that there is this. There might not be after life of any sort, this might be it, and so I ask where is this better life? Doesn't seem anyone in history has had it. Doesn't seem that other animals are having it. Doesn't seem the futures gonna have it, that's fer sure. So where is it? I just feel like if I'm going to spend my whole time looking for that better life and wishing I was there, then I guess it makes sense why I ain't having a good one. We only get back what we put in.
Nonetheless I figure it comes down to preference, and the weight that one puts on life, how much they love it and are willing to sacrifice for it. But I kid you not dear Grapefruit, guard your life. It is the only thing we truly have.
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White Beard

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Raven Gnosis said: If you were offered the gift and curse of life before your birth, knowing that everything you would come to love would figuratively and literally die, that your own death was inevitable, would you truly take it?
Why or why not?
I'd take it because life is pretty fun.
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hTx
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Fuck a would..I will!
I will take it.
'Nd I will own it.
I will give it.
'Nd I will live it.
-------------------- zen by age ten times six hundred lifetimes Light up the darkness.
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