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Offlinepoofdargon
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Sailing upon the ocean
    #26941201 - 09/17/20 07:01 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

What does a person do when they spend their life looking for a purpose only to find that it is made and not discovered. Do they stay on the beach and try to make a sand castle or brave the uncharted waters?

If that was too obscure I'll say it like this then. What is someone to do when they spent their life trying to do the correct thing only to find there is no correct thing and then wondering what to do with life.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon] * 1
    #26941221 - 09/17/20 07:17 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)



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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: PatrickKn]
    #26941248 - 09/17/20 07:47 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Groovy. Not what I meant but still groovy.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon]
    #26941254 - 09/17/20 07:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Shadowy ships sail in the distance on the horizon of an endless sea...


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon]
    #26941269 - 09/17/20 08:10 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Perhaps the xhange you seek only requires a temporary effort, like dropping a rock in a stream to change the flow in an area.

Perhaps also you should share your more specific thoughts. What meaning do you personally pursue and what conundrum do you face? That will help us provide more specific advice, if advice is what you seek.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon]
    #26941321 - 09/17/20 08:44 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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poofdargon said:
What does a person do when they spend their life looking for a purpose only to find that it is made and not discovered. Do they stay on the beach and try to make a sand castle or brave the uncharted waters?

If that was too obscure I'll say it like this then. What is someone to do when they spent their life trying to do the correct thing only to find there is no correct thing and then wondering what to do with life.




i don't know, what do you do when you are convinced that your entire family has sold their soul to the devil and are FUBAR beyond talking about the dog, or killing the dog and getting a new one, and then killing that one for whatever FUBAR reason, and are periodically trying to kill you perhaps to collect a bounty?

i suggest it's very rare to find a situation with all things fair.  maybe there is no higher moral scale keeping balance, maybe it's just laws to try and support an economy for human trafficking.  who knows.

what would you do if you were rich and unlimited?  and no one's opinion really mattered and you weren't obligated to please anyone?  do you think that terrorists honestly want to kill people or if they were rich and spoiled they wouldn't think twice about hitting the snooze button or jacking off again instead of blowing something up.

maybe you have an idea for the future and could join a group that wants to manifest it, or teach some youth about something that could help them.

sry, i'm not meaning to sound like a jerk i'm just like that.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: the strander]
    #26941329 - 09/17/20 08:46 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Well without becoming more poetic.

In life I followed the standard model: school, work, try to get a partner, then graduate, get a job, marry, house. Lots of stuff went differently through that to the point that now I realize that is someone else's dream and not mine. Now I don't know what to do without some solid core plan for how to live life,let alone if there is a plan for life.

I try to imagine what I would do if I had all the money in the world, but I get nothing. I honestly wouldn't know what to do with any of it. It's as though I'm a doll that has lost the main program and has nothing inside to guide it.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon] * 1
    #26941337 - 09/17/20 08:49 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

hmm, you're sounding like a familiar poster from not too long ago....


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon] * 1
    #26941354 - 09/17/20 08:58 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Spaghetti is soup.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: christopera]
    #26941365 - 09/17/20 09:04 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Apple pie is a sandwich.



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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon]
    #26941367 - 09/17/20 09:06 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

poofdargon said:
Well without becoming more poetic.

In life I followed the standard model: school, work, try to get a partner, then graduate, get a job, marry, house. Lots of stuff went differently through that to the point that now I realize that is someone else's dream and not mine. Now I don't know what to do without some solid core plan for how to live life,let alone if there is a plan for life.

I try to imagine what I would do if I had all the money in the world, but I get nothing. I honestly wouldn't know what to do with any of it. It's as though I'm a doll that has lost the main program and has nothing inside to guide it.




go to thailand and bareback a bunch of hot girls, and tip them.  and don't be mean, be really nice and sweet and like worship them.  be gentlemanly to the guys.

then come back here and get back to the grind.  getting high and working and paying bills.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: PatrickKn]
    #26941380 - 09/17/20 09:13 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Apple pie is a sandwich.






Alan Watts is actually a favorite of mine. You get that, I think. Or it was coincidence, who knows?


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: christopera]
    #26941415 - 09/17/20 09:42 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)



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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: PatrickKn]
    #26941418 - 09/17/20 09:44 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

We are spaghetti, and soup, but also just noodles and broth, but neither spaghetti while still being noddles, and neither broth but still sauce.

I get it.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: christopera]
    #26941436 - 09/17/20 09:57 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

As much as I like the man as a person I can't really get behind Alan Watts. As far as I know, and anyone else, I am a sack of flesh like the rest of us.

Quote:

hmm, you're sounding like a familiar poster from not too long ago....




I figured I was overdue for my existential malaise, though this took longer than expected. Or shorter...

What exactly is the age range for this stuff?


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon]
    #26941441 - 09/17/20 09:59 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

69 is always the range. Unless it's 420, or spaghetti.


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A Dorito is pizza, change my mind.

Bank and Union with The Shroomery at the Zuul on The internet - now with %'s and things

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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon]
    #26941451 - 09/17/20 10:06 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

poofdargon said:
In life I followed the standard model: school, work, try to get a partner, then graduate, get a job, marry, house. Lots of stuff went differently through that to the point that now I realize that is someone else's dream and not mine.



I feel you brother. I did exactly the same. Had the wife, dog, white picket mortgage and great job in the city. Then it all went to shit over a period of about six months in 2015 and I spent years at the bottom of a bottle and wandering the planet lost, broken, and shellshocked, wondering what the fuck had just happened to the man I once knew.

The realisation that I had followed the culturally programmed dream rather than my own was a whole 'nother shock to the system when I realised it years later.

Find your cause. Find your raison d'etre. It is - as you well know - different for each of us.

But should you not be grateful for realising this?

I know I am.


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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.
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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26941470 - 09/17/20 10:21 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I will say that Watts has a beautiful speaking voice even if I don't agree with him.

I will say it is great to know this, well great-ish. Realizing I was living someone else's life was good. But now I also realize I don't have a life of my own. Guess I'll have to work out what to do next.


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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: poofdargon] * 1
    #26941484 - 09/17/20 10:29 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Victory only comes after a battle.


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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.
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Re: Sailing upon the ocean [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26941501 - 09/17/20 10:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Fair enough, I'll take your word for it. Though considering I've never fought for anything in my life I'm in for rough waters ahead, though the prospect is somewhat exciting. I feel slightly giddy. :smile:

Off topic, what exactly does your sig mean?


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