Home | Community | Message Board

Mycohaus
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflineDoctorJ
Male

Registered: 06/30/03
Posts: 8,846
Loc: space
Last seen: 1 year, 4 months
Balls
    #3867074 - 03/04/05 09:15 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

I've been thinking a lot lately about the word "balls", and how people define it differently.

Like say you are a kung fu expert, right? And you're at a bar and some asshole gives you shit, says something or does something that makes you want to beat his ass.

Now some people might say that if you don't kick the dude's ass, you have no balls.

But other people might say that if you know you can kick the dudes ass, and you want to kick the dude's ass, but you DON'T kick his ass because you have willpower and principles, then THAT is what real balls are.

Some people define balls as taking control of one's environment. Other people define balls as having control over one's own self.

what do you think?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibleniteowl
GrandPaw
Male User Gallery

Registered: 07/01/03
Posts: 16,291
Loc: Flag
Re: Balls [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3867112 - 03/04/05 09:30 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Quote:

DoctorJ said:
I've been thinking a lot lately about the word "balls", and how people define it differently.





The word "balls", in both situations are a representation of the persons ego.


That is where the meaning comes from.



kinda depends on how you want to look at it.


--------------------
Live for the moment you are in now
Don't be bogged down by your past
Don't be afraid of what lies in your future

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineGomp
¡(Bound to·(O))be free!
Male User Gallery

Registered: 09/11/04
Posts: 10,888
Loc: I re·side [primarily] in...
Last seen: 1 year, 28 days
Re: Balls [Re: niteowl]
    #3867137 - 03/04/05 09:42 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

testicles..  :eek:


--------------------


--------------------
Disclaimer!?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineProsgeopax
Jaded, yethopeful?

Registered: 01/28/05
Posts: 1,258
Loc: Appearing at a mall near ...
Last seen: 18 years, 3 months
Re: Balls [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3867227 - 03/04/05 10:23 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

I lean towards self-control as constituting 'having balls.' But I don't think refraining from kicking someone's ass when you know you can takes balls (though I do think it is an admirable trait). I think standing up for what you believe in or what is right against the crowd is more indicative of balls. I think being willing to step between a victim and an aggressor takes balls.


--------------------
Money doesn't grow on trees, but deficits do grow under Bushes.

You can accept, reject, or examine and test any new idea that comes to you. The wise man chooses the third way.
- Tom Willhite

Disclaimer: I reserve the right to change my opinions should I become aware of additional facts, the falsification of information or different perspectives. Articles written by others which I post may not necessarily reflect my opinions in part or in whole, my opinions may be in direct opposition, the topic may be one on which I have yet to formulate an opinion or have doubts about, an article may be posted solely with the intent to stimulate discussion or contemplation.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineJacquesCousteau
Being.
Male User Gallery

Registered: 06/10/03
Posts: 7,825
Loc: Everywhere, Everytime.
Last seen: 1 year, 10 months
Re: Balls [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3867228 - 03/04/05 10:23 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Well what if you were to just knee him in the balls, then walk away? heh...

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisiblePsychoactive1984
PositiveCynicist
Male
Registered: 02/06/05
Posts: 3,546
Loc: California, Monterey Coun...
Re: Balls [Re: Gomp]
    #3867230 - 03/04/05 10:25 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Being able to do what you aren't used to, and/or prone to in a typical environment permitting the circumstances.

For instance one who is a Kung Fu expert, wouldn't be considered to have balls imo, due to the level and degree of experience such that the ability to kick somebody's ass is ultimately a relatively easy task.

Someone on the other hand that has never been in a fight, and is unsure of their ability... yet still gets into the same fight, is who I'd consider to have more balls.

So i guess I'm trying to say I think having balls is having confidence in awkard situations you're unprepared for. If your used to something, the activity is mundane, such that it doesn't require having balls.


--------------------
"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"We may not be capable of eradicating the corruption of reason, but we must nevertheless counter it at every instance and with every means." Dan Agin
"Politics is the best religion and politicians are the worst followers."
-It's ok to trip as long as you don't fall.
-Substance over Style.
-Common sense is uncommon.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinedeafpanda
Stranger
Registered: 05/07/04
Posts: 984
Loc: Inguland
Last seen: 12 years, 5 months
Re: Balls [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3867233 - 03/04/05 10:26 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Balls taken to mean bravery, I would say it takes balls to do something that you are apprehensive about, or that you don't know you can achieve.  If you are a kung-fu expert, it is certainly not a display of "balls" if you kick the guy's ass, because there is no challenge or apprehension for you.

Not attacking him isn't a display of "balls", either, I would say, it is a display of good moral judgement and willpower.

If you were unlikely to win the fight, fighting him would be a display of "balls", but probably not good moral judgement or willpower (depending on the circumstances).

People who beat other people up for words, and just words, are absolute assholes and deserve the beating they will one day get (just an aside :smile: ).

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSeussA
Error: divide byzero

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 1 month, 19 days
Re: Balls [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3867416 - 03/04/05 11:20 AM (19 years, 29 days ago)

> Now some people might say that if you don't kick the dude's ass, you have no balls.

With my background and training, if I fight somebody then it is a fight to the death. Luckily, this has never been an issue. I wouldn't consider fighting or not fighting to be a "display of balls". As another poster pointed out, it is an issue of ego and self-control.

I would consider a "display of balls" as a display of courage. Saving a woman from a mugger when everybody else is just watching; that sort of thing.


--------------------
Just another spore in the wind.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineGomp
¡(Bound to·(O))be free!
Male User Gallery

Registered: 09/11/04
Posts: 10,888
Loc: I re·side [primarily] in...
Last seen: 1 year, 28 days
Re: Balls [Re: Seuss]
    #3867591 - 03/04/05 12:03 PM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Even girls could have balls! :P


--------------------


--------------------
Disclaimer!?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisiblePsychoactive1984
PositiveCynicist
Male
Registered: 02/06/05
Posts: 3,546
Loc: California, Monterey Coun...
Re: Balls [Re: Gomp]
    #3867629 - 03/04/05 12:14 PM (19 years, 29 days ago)

AC/DC
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1981)
Big Balls

I'm ever upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

CHORUS:
I've got big balls
I've got big balls
And they're such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he's got big balls
And she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all

And my balls are always bouncing
My ballroom always full
And everybody cums and cums again
If your name is on the guest list
No one can take you higher
Everybody says I've got
Great balls of fire

CHORUS

Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night

CHORUS

And I'm just itching to tell you about them
Oh we had such wonderful fun
Seafood cocktail, crabs, crayfish...

Ball sucker

(Dunno about balls, but It tells you how to have big ones).


--------------------
"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"We may not be capable of eradicating the corruption of reason, but we must nevertheless counter it at every instance and with every means." Dan Agin
"Politics is the best religion and politicians are the worst followers."
-It's ok to trip as long as you don't fall.
-Substance over Style.
-Common sense is uncommon.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblemoog
Stranger

Registered: 02/15/05
Posts: 1,296
Re: Balls [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3867649 - 03/04/05 12:17 PM (19 years, 29 days ago)

i think having balls means having confidence. not necessarily courage, because courage can be conjured up on the spot by someone without a naturally high level of confidence. so if someone's disrespecting you, and if you have balls, you would have the confidence to call them on it without hesitation or an afterthought. using your example, a person with balls wouldn't care whether he has to fight or not because he has the confidence to handle any situation, and confidence can avoid a fight just as easily. anyway if a fight does ensue, the person who feels more threatened always throws the first punch.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineMAIA
World-BridgerKartikeya (DftS)
Male User Gallery

Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 7,396
Loc: Erra - 20 Tauri - M45 Sta...
Last seen: 2 months, 16 days
Re: Balls [Re: DoctorJ]
    #3867733 - 03/04/05 12:38 PM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Daniel San,
Before you can take control of the environment, you must take control of yourself. You are defined by what you do with that control.

MAIA


--------------------
Spiritual being, living a human experience ... The Shroomery Mandala



Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisiblePsychoactive1984
PositiveCynicist
Male
Registered: 02/06/05
Posts: 3,546
Loc: California, Monterey Coun...
Re: Balls [Re: MAIA]
    #3867766 - 03/04/05 12:48 PM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Quote:

MAIA said:
Daniel San,
Before you can take control of the environment, you must take control of yourself. You are defined by what you do with that control.

MAIA




Pearls of wisdom.  :thumbup:


--------------------
"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"We may not be capable of eradicating the corruption of reason, but we must nevertheless counter it at every instance and with every means." Dan Agin
"Politics is the best religion and politicians are the worst followers."
-It's ok to trip as long as you don't fall.
-Substance over Style.
-Common sense is uncommon.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblegettinjiggywithit
jiggy
Female User Gallery

Registered: 07/20/04
Posts: 7,469
Loc: Heart of Laughter
Re: Balls [Re: MAIA]
    #3867806 - 03/04/05 12:55 PM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Quote:

MAIA said:
Daniel San,
Before you can take control of the environment, you must take control of yourself. You are defined by what you do with that control.

MAIA




:thumbup:


--------------------
Ahuwale ka nane huna.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineDoctorJ
Male

Registered: 06/30/03
Posts: 8,846
Loc: space
Last seen: 1 year, 4 months
Re: Balls [Re: Gomp]
    #3867896 - 03/04/05 01:11 PM (19 years, 29 days ago)

Quote:

Gomp said:
Even girls could have balls! :P




in theory, but rarely in practice :nonono:

thats all I've ever wanted.  A bonnie to my clyde, a chick that has balls as big as mine. 

a lot of people think I have no balls, but I think they don't know what balls are. 

a lot of people think they run the world, but I think the forces that really run the world are just letting them think that.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Mindfulness and Control
( 1 2 all )
Sclorch 3,353 28 02/11/04 09:29 AM
by Frog
* Japanese Self-Control
( 1 2 all )
SkorpivoMusterion 2,965 21 04/07/04 12:16 PM
by SkorpivoMusterion
* controlling reality question
( 1 2 all )
kaiowas 3,624 36 08/12/04 03:39 PM
by deff
* i knew i was dreaming, but i wouldnt go lucid SnuffelzFurever 1,143 7 01/18/03 04:35 AM
by The_Clash_UK
* No control. Droz 3,139 16 05/31/01 07:09 PM
by MrTechnoShaman
* Using Drugs to Control a Society
( 1 2 all )
Anonymous 4,850 37 12/19/02 02:27 PM
by monoamine
* (((((mind control))))) cHeMiCaLbLuE 1,536 16 04/11/02 06:47 AM
by Tannis
* Lack Of Control In Life Twirling 435 6 08/03/04 06:48 AM
by Samuel

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Middleman, DividedQuantum
1,095 topic views. 0 members, 8 guests and 23 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.025 seconds spending 0.004 seconds on 12 queries.