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S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! 3
#22007919 - 07/28/15 03:13 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here I am kinda depressed and fat, starin' at ya.

Here I am feeling a bit better.

I'd like to see what you guys look like! Just 'cos it'd be interesting to share more directly what kind of people we are.
Peace!
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: circastes] 1
#22008813 - 07/28/15 10:17 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm an outlier, loner etc
revealing what I look like wouldn't give you any better of a read on me at all
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: yeah] 1
#22008840 - 07/28/15 10:25 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You look like that dude on the show SCRUBS. Bigger tho
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: circastes] 1
#22008875 - 07/28/15 10:32 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I already have a a couple of pics in my gallery. One from from a few years ago, one with my wife from about 10 years ago.
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: Chakatron] 3
#22008882 - 07/28/15 10:34 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Looking for fields...
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MarkostheGnostic said: I already have a a couple of pics in my gallery. One from from a few years ago, one with my wife from about 10 years ago.
I saw those man, kinda felt an instant attraction; you have a look about you shared by the kind of people I tend to gravitate towards in this life. It's like I can see the wisdom behind the words you write here in your eyes.
I love these kinda threads personally - it's quite a sad truth for me that in order to seek out people who most often think and feel as I do, it has become necessary in this age to seek out the correct online forum - and I tend to feel the lack of physical presence with others quite strongly. So a picture of those you're talking with often is a wonderful thing IMO - it just gives that slight sense of.. I don't even know what. But I feel it is good.
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 3
#22009797 - 07/28/15 01:50 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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nice bikes, jokeshopbeard 
here's a pic of me from about a year ago...
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#22009841 - 07/28/15 01:58 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the compliment Jokeshopbeard. I certainly gravitate towards kind individuals of every stripe. Remember that wisdom is not so much a personal achievement so much as the sharing of those who have come before us, passing through us.
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MarkostheGnostic said: Remember that wisdom is not so much a personal achievement so much as the sharing of those who have come before us, passing through us. 
I hear you man, quite how you keep so much of that wisdom stored up in your head is beyond me though! Perhaps I'm thinking of wisdom in slightly different terms though; I tend to think of it as the kind and compassionate nature of our species that can only really come to light when one makes an effort to focus one's mind, clear of the many distractions of thought.
Could you elaborate on your understanding for me please?
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: circastes] 3
#22010135 - 07/28/15 02:53 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here's to all the sophisticated souls of the Spirituality and Mysticism forum:

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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#22010161 - 07/28/15 02:56 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I just quoted this for glimpee: "And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." - Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
Wisdom is unlike knowledge in that it is not a content of ideas, things that have to be memorized and recalled on demand. The Buddhists have these Dhyani (meditating) Buddhas, each with its own mudra (hand gesture). One of them is called Amitabha - Buddha of Discriminating Wisdom. Just knowing about this is merely a matter of knowledge, but Discriminating Wisdom itself is something that is best manifested in our dealings with other beings. For me it is the best choice of words to be used here, or in my hypnosis session. I have time to erase here, but in a session I have to be quick and hopefully spot-on with an adjective or a metaphor with less opportunity to 'back-peddle' if I make a mistake.
The words I chose to use with a menacing old street-bum with a pipe wrench was to invite him to hang with us for awhile. That was 40 years ago. He was a bit deformed, homely, but what I perceived was at the core of that moment (he was trying to stroke the long blonde hair of my friend Kathy with his greasy Aqualung fingers) was that he was profoundly lonely. I offered him some friendship. His eyes widened and he said "I have to do something!," and ran away from us as soon as I treated him as a human being. Wisdom there was clear perception of his brand of suffering which was causing his offensive behavior, followed by an act of compassion. The bum didn't permit the compassionate action, but a pelican once allowed me to approach it, grab and hold it while a friend removed the fish hook and wire from its neck.
Discriminating Wisdom is often referred to as Judgement in the Tenach (OT). Remember the wisest of men, Solomon? (1 Kings 3:20-28). The Word of God (an unfortunate translation of Logos) is not the written word, but a mind open to the Logos, "the mind of Christ." Here is a reference to the word of God that is a metaphor for surgical precision in one's discrimination (or Discriminating Wisdom):" For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." - Hebrews 4:12. I think the word "quick" in this verse means 'alive,' rather than 'fast.' It is a transcendental consciousness that yields clarity and penetrating perception to any given situation, and is precisely what you say: "the kind and compassionate nature of our species that can only really come to light when one makes an effort to focus one's mind, clear of the many distractions of thought."
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: FishOilTheKid] 1
#22010996 - 07/28/15 05:42 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Heh heh cool pics dudes! Thanks!
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: Chakatron] 1
#22011004 - 07/28/15 05:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Chakatron said: You look like that dude on the show SCRUBS. Bigger tho
The Jewish bloke? Heh I've always suspected I'm a bit Jewish.
Bigger? Of course! I'm a fat bastard atm. Starting to work it down lately...
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: Chronic7] 1
#22013201 - 07/29/15 03:31 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's an absolutely gorgeous landscape!
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South Wales in the UK... tis a very beautiful place, especially when it's bursting with liberty caps 
Happy birthday by the way deff
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: Chronic7]
#22013508 - 07/29/15 06:34 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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thanks Chronic nice pic btw - very beautiful scenery
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Re: S&M Selfies thread? Reveal thyself! [Re: deff]
#22013838 - 07/29/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Happy Birthday, dear friend.
Wonderful thread, and you all look amazing. I will share a pic one day; no idea when. Such pictures do exist, but I don't hold on to them very well.
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thanks, once in a lifetime
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