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Pinkerton
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I believe in the future! 1
#28669360 - 02/21/24 08:45 AM (4 months, 3 days ago) |
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If it was not for that belief, i would have ended my life a long time ago.
Peace, love and happiness - here we and I come.
Topic for discussion: Do you believe in the future?
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#28669366 - 02/21/24 08:48 AM (4 months, 3 days ago) |
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Idk if I 'believe in it' per say, but I do count on it - playing as what's made of the very moment.
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#28669490 - 02/21/24 10:16 AM (4 months, 3 days ago) |
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It's a good bet, but I try not to think about it too much
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Pinkerton
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I will finally meet my twin flame: PT. And my childhood heroes: RGVs, Looney, Orgy.
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#28669977 - 02/21/24 04:12 PM (4 months, 3 days ago) |
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The future doesn't exist, because its literally always the present.
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: RationalEgo] 1
#28670246 - 02/21/24 07:13 PM (4 months, 3 days ago) |
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The future is just a projection from this instant called now..
It still pays to make plans though.. ensuring there is something good to do eventually..
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton]
#28670417 - 02/21/24 08:38 PM (4 months, 2 days ago) |
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Pinkerton said: I will finally meet my twin flame: PT. And my childhood heroes: RGVs, Looney, Orgy.
find something better to think about
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Pinkerton
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Why?
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#28670921 - 02/22/24 06:32 AM (4 months, 2 days ago) |
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Be ez with it, pinky. smothering can be quite unappealing. space & less-clinging is chill, No infatuated~smooshing of the garden's vines pls!
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#28672672 - 02/23/24 11:17 AM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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I believe in the present.
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it takes me a few minutes to believe in it so I would say that I believe in the last few minutes and live in the present.
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Pinkerton
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I guess I believe in space and time.
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#28676966 - 02/26/24 01:49 PM (3 months, 29 days ago) |
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I'm taking your question to mean 'Do you believe the future will be better?' To that I would answer generally yes, but oftentimes no. I spend a lot of time bellyaching about the past, present, and future. I'm chronically online and living with a lot of stress right now so that's a lot of it. I am invested in topics like political dysfunction, income inequality, environmental degradation, social media's deleterious influence on people's minds, the silent class war of billionaires vs the working class. Systemic issues like these feel overwhelming, oppressive, and make it clear that us regular folks are on the losing side of the issues. When you look into the nuts and bolts of how our society works, the greed, corruption, hate, and ignorance of the world is hard to see past.
I believe humanity is entering a very awkward phase of existence wherein our potential for greatness is growing but so too is our potential for great evil. We are committing relatively fewer atrocities but we are also becoming more self-aware. So when we do wrong, we really truly know better. We are not following an indigenous culture that makes us genuinely think we have to sacrifice children for a good harvest. So it makes our wrongs all the more haunting. But we are also aware of the atrocities of 'normal' life- The things that are wrong, but are so ingrained into our culture and society that they cannot simply be stopped- due to their tremendous momentum, among other things (i.e. capitalism, warfare, criminal justice systems).
So many people feel hopeless and that marks this as a very precarious period of time. Too many people do not believe in the future. They're uninspired, unmotivated, closed-minded, bigoted, and downright misanthropic. We can grow out of it, but we need hope to do so. We need people to tell themselves and everyone else that we will get better because we have to. And there are ways to improve your world, if not the whole thing. Focus on improving yourself, then help your family and then your neighborhood. It's a gradual process but you can bring a lot of beauty and good into the world if you learn the right tools. Live to improve your corner of the world. There's nothing hopeless people love more than to tell others why everything is hopeless- so tell me it's hopeless if you need to get that out- but I'd rather die fighting than live in peaceful resignation.
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Ch3f] 2
#28677567 - 02/26/24 09:55 PM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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I was at a bar last night where the dj was playing Brian Eno and David Byrne compositions, and it was very restorative.
for those stuck on the web and all the concerns of the planet, all I can offer is to break into the moment with some kind of jazz
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton]
#28678038 - 02/27/24 10:49 AM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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it seems this brain takes an ocean of data makes little ideas out if it ducks and bombs and me and good and bad endlessly elaborating this and that future and past its all we got to go on, but I don't believe in it
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redgreenvines said: I was at a bar last night where the dj was playing Brian Eno and David Byrne compositions, and it was very restorative.
for those stuck on the web and all the concerns of the planet, all I can offer is to break into the moment with some kind of jazz
Awesome! Let us go deep:
I am so looking forward to me being a DJ in heaven.
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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Freedom]
#28678054 - 02/27/24 10:56 AM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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why should you?
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Pinkerton
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Quote:
Pinkerton said:
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redgreenvines said: I was at a bar last night where the dj was playing Brian Eno and David Byrne compositions, and it was very restorative.
for those stuck on the web and all the concerns of the planet, all I can offer is to break into the moment with some kind of jazz
Awesome! Let us go deep:
I am so looking forward to me being a DJ in heaven.

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Re: I believe in the future! [Re: Pinkerton]
#28678081 - 02/27/24 11:13 AM (3 months, 28 days ago) |
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try this, less tight overall yet stiff in other ways that groove structurally and sneak right inside my head
no will whatsoever...
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