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Lucis
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Back to the beginning 3
#24028180 - 01/21/17 12:57 PM (7 years, 9 days ago) |
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"Back to beginning" is how I feel right now.
I searched long and hard for something to commit myself to, I figured it might bring me some peace of mind, I explored many different beliefs, and am back to where I began, with nature being my one and only love, I am earth born, married to nature.
This is nothing new to me, I just wanted to explore more because how could I be sure of what to put my faith in, if I didn't explore what was out there first, that would seem rather ignorant if you ask me.
I saw many truths, and have adopted many practices into my life, practices from numerous faiths, but nothing gives me the peace of mind that nature gives me, it really is that simple for myself. I flirted with Hinduism, Buddhism, Left Hand paths, above, below, left, right, and everything in between, only to come to the realization that I need what nature gives me, and nothing can fill that void. I don't feel as spiritually full from reading any text, as I do after I walk through the woods, and smell the rotting leaves, earth, dew, hear the life of small and great creatures around me.
One thing I have realized, is whatever you put your energy into, you will see made real in your life. If you practice Buddhism, you will see those things manifest in your life, if you practice any belief, you will see those things often become reality in your life, so in that way I kind of think all beliefs are real, we just have to choose which one gives us peace of mind and follow it, maybe the lack of faith in the spiritual world is someones faith, either way the fact that they follow something creates stillness in a person, we all need to put our faith in something, and for me that something is this earth.
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Lucis] 1
#24028335 - 01/21/17 02:21 PM (7 years, 9 days ago) |
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We are a large portion 'of the earth' afterall. I'm of the mindframe that cities are cancer, as evidenced by their destruction of life/earth. 'For everywhere you look, there is something to be seen..'
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. - George Gordon Byron
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Lucis
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Amanita86]
#24028551 - 01/21/17 04:07 PM (7 years, 9 days ago) |
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I like that.
I agree, big cities tend to shut people down, I don't do well with big cities, sure they can be fun to visit from time to time, but give me nature or give me death.
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Lucis] 1
#24028938 - 01/21/17 06:54 PM (7 years, 9 days ago) |
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In the past 40 years, 2/3 of the wildlife have died. Animals are literally starving to death all over. All the local fishermen care about is catching as many fish as they can. Well guess what boys, this year sucked, and next year is going to be a disaster. I feel such sympathy watching all the animals struggle. Not too many even seem to notice, let alone care.
The bug population, it's imploded. Even the flies are dying, you know it's bad when the flies are dying. Fucking Corps of Engineers just killed the entire double breasted cormorants in their nesting grounds, thinking that will somehow save the salmon that are starving out in the Pacific Ocean that is in free fall collapse.
I wish I shared your optimism that we can somehow go back to the beginning. We are in fact nearing the end.
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Lucis
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LunarEclipse said:
I wish I shared your optimism that we can somehow go back to the beginning. We are in fact nearing the end.
I am speaking from my personal standpoint. Nobody knows when the end is my friend, and I wouldn't trust anyone that said they did, but for now we still have beauty to behold, so don't worry about what is fading, time touches everything, nothing escapes its grasp, so live this life now without fear for what the future holds.
I see things around the world are going downhill, and fast, but that's life, life is the rise and fall, enjoy it while you can, appreciate nature while you have the chance, teach the next generation to cherish it, and to not neglect it, so that many more generations to come will be able to enjoy its wonders.
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Lucis]
#24029896 - 01/22/17 08:44 AM (7 years, 8 days ago) |
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June was particularly rough last year, but then again, time is an illusion.
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Lucis]
#24030746 - 01/22/17 02:36 PM (7 years, 8 days ago) |
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From Fennario:
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....so that many more generations to come will be able to enjoy its wonders.
Very key. Cool post. I hope all here would be good parents to teach their kids things like this.
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I can remember having the position of 'If I can't see the beginning I want to see the end' for as long as I can remember.
As far as I'm aware, I could go at any time, and best case scenario I have a few decades left. So, not in a selfish way, I got mine. I know the world is going to shit. Just in the past three generations the world has taken quite the blow, and it's picking up speed. So I'm just riding it out, taking one last look before the curtain falls.
I feel bad for the kids who won't be born for another 20-30 years. All these animals I've seen live and some I've been able to touch will just be like what I know of dinosaurs.. some remains, pictures etc. Their entire existence will be without experiencing any of that. It's fucked up.
It's like, from a discovery channel point of view 'the humans' will be the ones that voluntarily worked their entire lives to further imprison themselves and destroy their source of life. A very 'peculiar' animal.. they couldn't be happy with what they were given and enjoy the only life that they can be sure they'll have. Instead they just destroyed it for no real reason.
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Amanita86]
#24035236 - 01/24/17 06:29 AM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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Who was the one to say it ever begun or ended?
You'll realize the loops we fall in and out of, you'll circle so many times and go through so many obstacles until finally you catch yourself, you begin to understand deeper and deeper. The more you know, the less you know, but the more you understand.
Nature is an infinite looping dream, the instant you begin to realize is the next instant you will know nothing of, unable to grasp. We go through continuous cycles for eternity, never dying, never living.
Always dreaming
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Edited by LunarEclipse (01/24/17 06:47 AM)
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Lucis
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Amanita86]
#24038194 - 01/25/17 09:49 AM (7 years, 5 days ago) |
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Amanita86 said: I feel bad for the kids who won't be born for another 20-30 years. All these animals I've seen live and some I've been able to touch will just be like what I know of dinosaurs.. some remains, pictures etc. Their entire existence will be without experiencing any of that. It's fucked up.
That's an interesting statement to make because you're assuming that mankind will not invent some way to further the existence of certain creatures. We have lab grown meat now, of course it costs an incredible amount of money to create, and is not ready to be mass produced yet, but I think breakthroughs in science might lead to a more colorful future than you're describing, it call also lead to catastrophe, time will tell.
Imagine endangered animals grown in test tubes, some genera/species of animals have been brought back from the edge of extinction through human efforts to save them. Also, everything has its time, everything dies, this cycle of life. I think there are many great things on the horizon for mankind, I only hope we will use these new inventions for the betterment of the human race, of course I am not ignorant to the fact that some people will use new technologies for nefarious purposes, such is life, but I see more people wanting to do good, than do harm with the things of the future.
I must clarify one things though about my original post, I am not saying "back to nature" in some dreadlocked wook lord way, I wont be fucking any trees yet, but when I am outside I see so much honesty in nature, nature seems honest in its harmony, and in its brutality, and that inspires me. Nature seems to be without "sin", just honest through and through, I see the sun cast shadows and the shadows remind me of my shadow side, and how nothing hides from the illuminating light of truth. I see a stream wearing through rock, and think of being persistent over time to work towards something more, to join the larger flow. I see the spring time and think of life, and how fragile it is.
Anyway, I got roughly 45-55 years left on this planet judging from how long people in my family live, I hope to see some interesting changes in that time.
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Re: Back to the beginning [Re: Lucis]
#24038265 - 01/25/17 10:19 AM (7 years, 5 days ago) |
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I find it interesting that you actually believe that men can somehow cure the dire situation we are in by a scientific method. This is the problem, this sort of jaded delusional thinking. Lab grown meat? That's a great example of a non solution from science.
If science can cure the three ongoing meltdowns in Fukushima, I'll start to become a believer. Meanwhile, the steelhead numbers this winter are abysmal. The Pacific Ocean is dying, and your scientific community won't even acknowledge either Fukushima or aerosol spraying. Of course, that would affect their paychecks and pensions, so they won't buck that system. Some have federal gag orders such as NOAA.
Anyway, it's good to know that you only care about nature as a concept, and could care little about what's really going on. Thanks for at least clarifying.
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