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WScott
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Whats so great about life?
#18855272 - 09/17/13 08:10 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Life is suffering, death is peace.
Maybe the trick is to never really ever think you're alive but still enjoy and appreciate the ride. Why and how do you know I should enjoy and appreciate life you might say. Well it may just so happen that that method is most beneficial to you and everything simultaneously. Why is it important for Experience to be beneficial? Is it?
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: WScott]
#18855370 - 09/17/13 08:30 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Life is not suffering. Life is about growing and learning. The second you stop learning you choose to remain the same. Change is good. People should always be learning to understand each other as well as everything around them. If you are suffering in life it is because you have chosen that path or a greater being be it a god or just the ever ticking clock has picked for you. People come and go love, friends, pets but understanding that death is a part of life and that with death brings a new. We are just a vessel that ages from the massive amount of energy that pulses through us. "Energy can never be destroyed only its form can be changed" A. Einstein
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You're just depressed.
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: circastes]
#18855476 - 09/17/13 08:57 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Although I am not depressed in your narrow-minded conception of the word, I cannot deny that I could likely have room for expansiveness in my life; any other view would be detrimental to growth.
Edited by WScott (09/17/13 09:34 PM)
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: WScott]
#18855515 - 09/17/13 09:06 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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i agree depression is just a label for those that realize
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Life is just whatever your brain is doing. If it's not awesome, you need to do something about your brain.
I'm not a physicalist, but 99% of your experience is brain generated, I concede this aspect of materialism.
The key then, is mind over matter.
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: circastes]
#18855623 - 09/17/13 09:33 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: hTx]
#18855977 - 09/17/13 10:54 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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The great thing about life is that we live in an infinite universe completely devoid of it, and yet everything we touch is literally filled with it. Its some force that connects us together, yet is somehow simultaneously rooted in death;for in order for life to sustain itself, there must be death. That we are statistically fortunate enough to glimpse this brief second of consciousness compared to all the possibilities for our planet is just absurd. And not to mention that we also live in a time where we basically can do ~fuck all and survive thanks to the efforts of those before us. This to me is pretty amazing.
The problem is, the human mind was designed to not do ~fuck all, and when we settle for that, it seems unspecial, pointless, etc. It really takes having that fire of creation, nurturing life, working with your own hands (psychedelics too, and i'm sure other things for other people, this is just how it has worked for me) for your own survival that people really appreciate how ridiculous me typing this right now is.
Edited by stanski (09/17/13 10:55 PM)
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: WScott] 3
#18857424 - 09/18/13 10:51 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yep, I'm afraid my little closed-minded self also finds your expression to demonstrate depression. As my Lady likes to say, "Life is a stone trip!" Unfortunately, I shared your sentiments until I turned 43! I was not a happy camper except for a few years during college, living on acid, and bridging those trips with hashish. Throughout seminary and graduate school, and then a terrible marriage that lasted 9 years, in retrospect, life sucked. At age 43 the good came with the bad. After 'eating myself up alive' with bitter resentment over having wasted 9 years in a bad marriage resulting in divorce, and having nothing to show for all those years, and having made a massive professional error moving to Florida, I developed Malignant Melanoma and got ready to die. Then my mother died. BUT, while looking for self-help immunological books at Borders Books and Music, I met my future wife, with whom I have lived for the last 16 years, and almost the same time, I found the house we adore. I have always been a late bloomer, but whereas many of my peers seem to be on a decline at age 60, I am still digging everything. I recently retired, and I'm still in shock, but one of these days I'm gonna realize I'm free and I'll be letting out a Rebel Yell!
Bottom line: There's hope for YOU too!
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: WScott]
#18857449 - 09/18/13 11:04 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
WScott said: Life is suffering, death is peace.
Maybe the trick is to never really ever think you're alive but still enjoy and appreciate the ride. Why and how do you know I should enjoy and appreciate life you might say. Well it may just so happen that that method is most beneficial to you and everything simultaneously. Why is it important for Experience to be beneficial? Is it?
Welp - Urth is well known for its shiteholness so don't give up on life too quickly. After all you've only experienced it on this bottom feeding rat hole - elsewhere, the experiences are infinite, use your imagination
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: WScott]
#18858771 - 09/18/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Life is just a dream that we chase after. It's not exactly what it seems."
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: WScott]
#18859069 - 09/18/13 04:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
WScott said: Life is suffering, death is peace.
Maybe the trick is to never really ever think you're alive but still enjoy and appreciate the ride.
I remember I used to love this Alan Watts saying, if you consider yourself dead, then you've got nothing to lose. So why not just die now and consider yourself dead so that you won't worry about dying?
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: r72rock]
#18860580 - 09/18/13 09:52 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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r72rock said:
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WScott said: Life is suffering, death is peace.
Maybe the trick is to never really ever think you're alive but still enjoy and appreciate the ride.
I remember I used to love this Alan Watts saying, if you consider yourself dead, then you've got nothing to lose. So why not just die now and consider yourself dead so that you won't worry about dying? 
Because Death Anxiety
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: Memories]
#18861105 - 09/19/13 12:03 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well... I know that's why I haven't fully committed to what Watt's is saying, but maybe one can. Who knows?
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: WScott]
#18863299 - 09/19/13 02:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
WScott said: Life is suffering, death is peace.
Maybe the trick is to never really ever think you're alive but still enjoy and appreciate the ride. Why and how do you know I should enjoy and appreciate life you might say. Well it may just so happen that that method is most beneficial to you and everything simultaneously. Why is it important for Experience to be beneficial? Is it?
Your thoughts are pretty choppy brah... it happens  Sounds like you should become a mercenary.
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: andrewss]
#18867093 - 09/20/13 10:42 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” - Richard Dawkins from the book the selfish gene
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: Fun-Gee]
#18867482 - 09/20/13 12:32 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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It is our sacred duty to gripe as the non-people cannot do so. We raise our whiney voices for those who have no voice.
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OrgoneConclusion said: It is our sacred duty to gripe as the non-people cannot do so. We raise our whiney voices for those who have no voice.
Can you give your puppet a hand job and make it happy before you put it back into the box?
No, it doesn't get the lotion.
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: Fun-Gee]
#18868014 - 09/20/13 02:32 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fun-Gee said: “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” - Richard Dawkins from the book the selfish gene
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Re: Whats so great about life? [Re: andrewss]
#18868069 - 09/20/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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