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akira_akuma
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Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks.
#21145281 - 01/19/15 05:05 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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discuss.
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Jokeshopbeard
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#21145292 - 01/19/15 05:08 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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I prefer the analogy 'whack-a-mole'. Soon as I address one thing in this life, another pops right up!
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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akira_akuma
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#21145300 - 01/19/15 05:09 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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that's a good enough analogy. i like it.
but my bullshit analogy has the advantage of being all-encompassing. and your analogy doesn't posit what the "next thing is", but mine does... it's more bullshit. but then again, you can say, sometimes you might get gold too.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma]
#21145333 - 01/19/15 05:16 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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But when panning for gold, you only really have two substances - dirt & gold. Where do all those 'grey zones' in life fit in?
At least with whack-a-mole it could be anything - cause you never know what you're gonna get next in life. Other than the fact that it'll be some kind of mole. But then moles can be happy, sad, angry, reckless, romantic, etc etc.
I'm rambling.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#21145359 - 01/19/15 05:22 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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If you find a romantic mole, by god hold onto it.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: Jufin]
#21145370 - 01/19/15 05:24 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Jufin said: If you find a romantic mole, by god hold onto it.
The question would then be, not what I can do for the mole, but what it can do for me?
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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akira_akuma
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#21145382 - 01/19/15 05:26 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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not really. it'd be more like "what can i teach this mole, and will this mole fucking listen?"
grey zones?
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma]
#21145411 - 01/19/15 05:33 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Between dirt & gold...
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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akira_akuma
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#21145422 - 01/19/15 05:35 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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what is between dirt and gold? silver? magnesium? minerals?
metaphor check!
there is nothing really worth it in life, except for what you attribute to it!
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma]
#21145677 - 01/19/15 06:27 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma]
#21145704 - 01/19/15 06:32 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah life is mostly just bullshit filled with some good times here and there. The material world is fucked up. Lately I've been getting pissed and shit over money issues. Having to pay back loans from community college I didn't finish (nor did I learn much, it was all mostly shit I knew.. waste of my time, really), I now have to get new tires for my car, I pay for everything in this house because my gf doesn't have a car or job and no one ever fucking calls her back after she puts out a million applications... it sucks. She had a job several months ago but got fired after hitting her head and being in pain for weeks, so since she didn't have health insurance (we can't afford that) and her benefits from work haven't yet kicked in, she was forced to go to the doctor to get checked up thru work cuz I told her to since I was concerned for her head. Well, they determined it was a concussion and she'll be fine. I just wanted to make sure. But she got fired cuz company policy is that at the docs you get drug tested. Weed..
So I'm left with like no money, I can't save money to fund our future plans of heading west and woofing and finally settling down in Oregon and make ourselves self-sufficient there. I mean, it will happen in time, it's my life goal, but it's rough right now since i can't ever save jack shit.. and I've always been good at saving till we were forced to move in together and get a place. (her mom disowned her and made her choose me or her, so my gf chose me.. cuz who wants to live with a bitchy stepmom hag that won't let you love who you want to love, right? So we are renting a cheap trailer with nice property. I don't have it too bad, but bills n shit... and being unemployed till my job starts back up in the spring.. shit can be rough. And then at work, people are just ignorant fucks.. bunch of rednecks. I always feel so out of place. I just want to live in the wilderness and grow veggies and have solar panels and live off the land hunting and fishing. I will someday..
Perhaps I'm rambling... but shit can suck sometimes. I agree with the title of the thread. Like Buddha said, "Life is suffering."
But no matter what... there are many others who have it worse... like child soldiers in Africa n shit. We gotta think of people like that who have it way way worse than we do, when we're feeling depressed and stuff.
Crazy world we live in..
And I'll understand if you guys don't give a fuck about my bitching. I'm just saying this shit to further agree with the idea of this thread, from personal experiences.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: Forest Sprite]
#21145731 - 01/19/15 06:36 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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i care. it reminds me of why i feel like punching my own face. i remind myself how shitty life is be pretending that at least i'm not the hospital and dying some terrible death or some shit, kinda routine. it's losing it's glamour.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma]
#21145760 - 01/19/15 06:41 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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(love the Ren, akira )
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: DividedQuantum]
#21145774 - 01/19/15 06:45 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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it needed to be done, i feel like i have got the happy helmet on and i'm reeling to the thought of everything, and i'm gonna take a hammer to it soon.
i remember once when i watched Ren and Stimpy for like four hours straight after a mushroom trip, starting to come down, and i laughed... almost the whole time. almost straight four hours of just bellowing laughter as my puss-puss friends slept.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma]
#21145799 - 01/19/15 06:48 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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i been there
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akira_akuma
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: DividedQuantum]
#21145816 - 01/19/15 06:51 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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i'll be happier somehow to be less happier and live in a more constrained and useless, and rigid and wasteful manner... and also, lets not forget, throw away the search for meaning or reason... just move around, let go, just don't think.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#21147605 - 01/20/15 12:46 AM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was thinking just now before I read this thread how I actually do feel quite a lot better the more bullshit I seem to be able to shake off. This has been an on going thing for me since joining these forums and I can honestly say I feel way more sane than I did when I started. I'm still quite depressed much of the time but I'm a lot less pulled this way and that by neurotic beliefs and wishes.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma]
#21147635 - 01/20/15 12:58 AM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: i care. it reminds me of why i feel like punching my own face. i remind myself how shitty life is be pretending that at least i'm not the hospital and dying some terrible death or some shit, kinda routine. it's losing it's glamour.
Just think, look at North Korea, it could be worse. Quote:
akira_akuma said: it needed to be done, i feel like i have got the happy helmet on and i'm reeling to the thought of everything, and i'm gonna take a hammer to it soon.
i remember once when i watched Ren and Stimpy for like four hours straight after a mushroom trip, starting to come down, and i laughed... almost the whole time. almost straight four hours of just bellowing laughter as my puss-puss friends slept.
That's a well spent 4 hours. That show makes me deeply happy that it was made.
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Re: Life is like a sieve; you shake out the bullshit and you're left with potentially more rocks. [Re: akira_akuma] 2
#21147888 - 01/20/15 03:33 AM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: discuss.
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