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shaggy101
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where does sorrow dwell?
#2453612 - 03/20/04 05:04 AM (20 years, 13 days ago) |
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well as far as dualism goes I dont really see good and evil but I do see love and hate
hate when fire is set, a burning quick reaction that can go into slow bitterness and love, the ability to see with eyes of truth
yet what the fuck is sadness?
a emotion brought on buy pain
its gray though like if im sad, it can turn into despair and anger and work its way to hate yet it can also strengthen me to love by showing me how much I care and revealing more truth than I feel I can handle
like they say "there beauty was increased by sorrow" the pain and sorrow made the outcome something more desirable
yet we wouldnt choose sorrow..would we?..do we? I think im in love with her sometimes digging warm ageless claws into me
i dont get it
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psyka
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: shaggy101]
#2453665 - 03/20/04 06:34 AM (20 years, 13 days ago) |
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You want things in the outside world to be ok so that it is easier to find contentment and solitude within. Sorrow occurs when you understand you have no control over that variable in which case, you have a very small influence of control. Your behaviors can only react to it and your actions are just a reflection of who you really are. You cannot find happiness outside of yourself. Its a conscious decision that you can learn to accept. It is my personal and unargued theory that selfishness is ultimately the source of negative emotion. No offense, of course, we are only human Peace
-------------------- As the life of a candle, my wick will burn out. But, the fire of my mind shall beam into infinite.
Edited by psyka (03/20/04 06:37 AM)
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kaiowas
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: shaggy101]
#2453731 - 03/20/04 08:20 AM (20 years, 13 days ago) |
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just keep in mind these are only my thoughts Anger, worry, sorrow, frustration, boredom, and any other negative emotions are caused by you, not what happens externally. Normally when you feel any of these emotions it is because you have an addiction. What I mean by addiction is it is any desire that makes you upset or unhappy if it is not satisfied. Addictions (or emotionally back demands) being out fear of not being fulfilled. Addictions bring out jealousy and paranoia that someone or something make take away anything that provides fulfillment. boredom comes when you aren't trying to make progress towards your demands. Anger arises when we can't control the situation (as in when someone disagrees with your opinion). You have anxiety when you are worried and fearful about what's happening(if that makes sense ). Overall it is unhappiness when the external world doesn't supply us with whatever demand we want. "In life, you win some, and you lose some" This is how life works, and you may say "so what?" If you think about this for a second you may realize that if you can't control what externally happens, then feeling bad about what happens isn't really necessary. now I'm not saying suffering doesn't have a use, I think it does, and I will get to that. Because in life "you win some and you lose some" you may also realize how useless it is to think that trying to change the people and the things outside of your mind as a means to become happy. It's because life will never provide us with all of our demands. now even half of our demands will be met. Now I'm not saying you can't be right, I'm not saying to repress your emotions, and I'm not saying you hsouldn't have desire. Also I am not saying anything about extreme situations either, such as lack of food, shelter, or health, death, etc. We can keep all of that, after all it is apart of the experience. What I am saying is that instead of demanding to happen, prefer it to happen instead. If we make it so we prefer things to happen rather than an emotional backed demand of your version of the way things should be, you will start to see negative emotions more as a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the world. In order to intellectualy realize this, it is important to accept the world as it is now. If you want to go do something about that you don't agree with in the world, by all means DO IT!!! It's a part of you, don't ignore your feelings, confront and realize them. you can still disagree, but you don't have to feel angry or upset about it because you understand that you can't always control what externally happens. For the most part, you are responsible for how you feel. shouldn't we all have control of our emotions? can't we change them?? I think we can, through focus. we can learn something in an instant, if there is enough focus. If you ever feel a negative emotion, realize that you are demanding something our of the world, and then ask yourself. "what would I want right now that would make me happy?" the answer is your addiction. The more you catch yourself the easier it is. you can change it to a preference by repetition (that is, the more you catch yourself the more likely it'll be that the next time this comes around, you won't feel AS negative). This is just one way of course. Use your ego and rational mind as a way to use suffering instead of suffering using you. everytime you suffer, see WHY you suffer, andm ost of the time, it can be changed. when we suffer we learn do we not? What do we all want? to be happy!!! In some shape or form, it's happiness that is the end. realize, that happiness is also the means to that end.
-------------------- Annnnnnd I had a light saber and my friend was there and I said "you look like an indian" and he said "you look like satan" and he found a stick and a rock and he named the rock ooga booga and he named the stick Stick and we both thought that was pretty funny. We got eaten alive by mosquitos but didn't notice til the next day. I stepped on some glass while wading in the swamp and cut my foot open, didn't bother me til the next day either....yeah it was a good time, ended the night by buying some liquor for minors and drinking nips and going to he diner and eating chicken fingers, and then I went home and went to bed.
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: shaggy101]
#2453779 - 03/20/04 09:01 AM (20 years, 13 days ago) |
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I think im in love with her sometimes digging warm ageless claws into me great metaphor, really captures the feeling
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PHARMAKOS
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: falcon]
#2455420 - 03/20/04 07:19 PM (20 years, 12 days ago) |
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what i find interesting is some kinds of sadness are kind of enjoyable like i sometimes get into grey-mopey moods that i secretly enjoy and thus keep myself from getting out of or like someitmes just lieing on the floor and indulging in self pity for a while is a good exercise as long as you snap out of it MARIJUANA IS A DRUG
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falcon
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
#2455477 - 03/20/04 07:47 PM (20 years, 12 days ago) |
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Some kinds of sadness dredge up memories of joy lost or forgotten and you get to remember the joy and the loss.
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Squatting_Otter
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: shaggy101]
#2455656 - 03/20/04 09:04 PM (20 years, 12 days ago) |
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are you guys serious?
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trendal
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Please read the forum rules...
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Squatting_Otter
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: trendal]
#2456829 - 03/21/04 08:58 AM (20 years, 12 days ago) |
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trendal
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What part of that didn't you understand?
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Squatting_Otter
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: trendal]
#2457124 - 03/21/04 11:29 AM (20 years, 12 days ago) |
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well, I asked them if they were serious. An honest question. Is this a joke or not? And then you stepped in and told me to read the rules.. this suggests that I am breaking the rules. This makes me go
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trendal
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Yes, they are serious. You will know if someone is making a joke here.
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shaggy101
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: trendal]
#2475850 - 03/26/04 04:21 AM (20 years, 7 days ago) |
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Psyka- I agree with you ...is love selfish?
PHARMAKOS- Exactly, but the promblem comes for me that I may feel a litte enjoyment in being blue, but I have a deep powerful love(lust?) for sorrow and I am speaking of not just being a little depressed or sad.. but heart breaking, oath making sorrow. It is engaged in a internal conflict with my love of love and happiness
falcon- thanks, and I think you said it. sorrow is the missing feeling you feel when you remember happiness alone it can be negative but its not alone it is with you and you can see that it is part of this world to experience it... it is just so hard to see that it will lead you to joy and new found happiness when it can also lead you to hate and biterness.
kaiowas-you sound like a buddhist
squating otter-im not sure I understand what you meant but trendal may have answered it
Trendal- nice quote
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shaggy101
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Re: where does sorrow dwell? [Re: kaiowas]
#2475897 - 03/26/04 05:05 AM (20 years, 7 days ago) |
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Anger, worry, sorrow, frustration, boredom, and any other negative emotions are caused by you, not what happens externally.
This is something I have been facing up to lately, and trying to remember in life moments that it is my choice to react as I wish to the external world....I control my feelings, but that doesnt mean I think its unhealthy to at times let your emotions control you.
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What I mean by addiction is it is any desire that makes you upset or unhappy if it is not satisfied. Addictions (or emotionally back demands) being out fear of not being fulfilled. Addictions bring out jealousy and paranoia that someone or something make take away anything that provides fulfillment. boredom comes when you aren't trying to make progress towards your demands. Anger arises when we can't control the situation (as in when someone disagrees with your opinion). You have anxiety when you are worried and fearful about what's happening(if that makes sense ). Overall it is unhappiness when the external world doesn't supply us with whatever demand we want.
"In life, you win some, and you lose some"
This is how life works, and you may say "so what?" If you think about this for a second you may realize that if you can't control what externally happens, then feeling bad about what happens isn't really necessary. now I'm not saying suffering doesn't have a use, I think it does, and I will get to that. Because in life "you win some and you lose some" you may also realize how useless it is to think that trying to change the people and the things outside of your mind as a means to become happy. It's because life will never provide us with all of our demands. now even half of our demands will be met.
I see the reasons for my emotions, and after the emotion is ran its course I make adjustments accordingly... yet seeing this leaves me with 1. the knowledge of what I need in this world to be happy with me.. my addictions as you say 2. the understanding that there is a "me" seperate from the conditions and circumstances of the world outside of me.
who dwells in this world the me inside ...the me who gets poked by sticks ..or both? finding happiness within myself is for me- to understand, and judge myself..if I am satisfied ..so be it if not where do I search to find the happiness..the assurance that I am who I think I am and want to be? within? in the world outside I can see the fruits of my being and understand the source better from contemplating the effect.
in other words I agree but cannot be completely happy within until I see an end to conscious/sub-conscious effects that are not in unison with me yet are within my control.
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Now I'm not saying you can't be right, I'm not saying to repress your emotions, and I'm not saying you hsouldn't have desire. Also I am not saying anything about extreme situations either, such as lack of food, shelter, or health, death, etc. We can keep all of that, after all it is apart of the experience. What I am saying is that instead of demanding to happen, prefer it to happen instead. If we make it so we prefer things to happen rather than an emotional backed demand of your version of the way things should be, you will start to see negative emotions more as a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the world.
In order to intellectualy realize this, it is important to accept the world as it is now. If you want to go do something about that you don't agree with in the world, by all means DO IT!!! It's a part of you, don't ignore your feelings, confront and realize them. you can still disagree, but you don't have to feel angry or upset about it because you understand that you can't always control what externally happens. For the most part, you are responsible for how you feel.
you worded that perfectly
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Use your ego and rational mind as a way to use suffering instead of suffering using you. everytime you suffer, see WHY you suffer, andm ost of the time, it can be changed. when we suffer we learn do we not?
What do we all want? to be happy!!! In some shape or form, it's happiness that is the end. realize, that happiness is also the means to that end.
that is a very cool thought! happiness seems to be our natural state, but as hard as it is to see it sorrow can- if you choose to- strengthen happiness showing you who you are in the proccess
This post has helped me see my life a little clearer and although I still cannot say I completely understand my love of sorrow and where it will lead me, I can say once again I see beyond it and that it could be no other way for me
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