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CosmicJoke
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escapism
#5721318 - 06/06/06 11:49 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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though it's out of character, i'm about to spark up a phatty and read some Sandman graphic novels. my partner's mother is dying of cancer, and she's angry about it, and taking the anger out on the people that are there to help her. my partner isn't really one to take abuse, and this has brought up a lot of uncooked seeds with his parents he believed that he had worked through. while i've been there for him, i can't deny it's been stressful. every week something awful happens to her and he rushes off to Cleveland, this time he's taking a two week leave from work to be with her.
besides the occasional psychedelic experience, i seldomly partake in any other psychoactive substances anymore, because i haven't desired them. but right now i do, and i'm going to enjoy getting high and reading some works of fantasy.
how do you all feel about escapism?
peace/CJ
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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Telepylus
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i think escapism is good for you right now, but not your partner. resolving things with mother may be one the more pivotal moments of his entire life.
escapism is awesome when you have time to burn. lol- shroomery is my escapism lately.
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niteowl
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shroomery is my escapism lately.

My 'puter was down for almost a year.......I'm trying to make up for lost time
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DoctorJ


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CosmicJoke said: though it's out of character, i'm about to spark up a phatty and read some Sandman graphic novels.
Fuck yeah! Sandman is the shiznite! My favorite is the one where Morpheus gets the key to Hell. Great little story.
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how do you all feel about escapism?
peace/CJ
I think its perfectly acceptable as long as the person doing it retains their connection to reality enough to function properly in society.
I indulge in escapist fantasies all the time. I create entire worlds in my mind, and characters to inhabit them. Then I tell little stories to myself. Sometimes I even go into first person and assume the role of one or more characters.
All this I do while lying on my couch, staring at the ceiling. This is how I have survived periods of extreme poverty and boredom. A good imagination can be your best friend even if you have no other friends in the world.
However, it is good to have real life friends to come over every now and then and bring you back to the real world, drag you outside to the park or the club to have a few drinks.
Although I stay in my mind a lot (people often ask me where I've been when I zone out at parties), I have learned the importance of staying in the real world. I mean, you get addicted to fantasy and then your reality gets real shitty. Next thing you know, your car is being repossessed and there's an eviction notice on your door, because you forgot to work and pay bills due to your opium and weed induced escapist fantasies taking over your life.
Sometimes I think that if I didn't have friends and obligations to keep me in this world, I would simply fade away and return to my imagination from where I came. In India, holy men and gurus are always surrounded by followers who offer them food and company simply for being there. They want their guru to stay, so they lavish whatever they have on him, just to keep him in the earthly plane so he can cleanse the energy all around him.
Gurus are escapists themselves, and their function before returning home is to teach others to escape the material plane and return to the spirit, which is the true source of imagination, a place in which you can create or do anything you so desire with no consequence whatsoever.
The material world is much like a prison, where one is bound by laws of cause and effect. We are all in jail for a reason (well, most of us), and cannot forget to fulfill our purpose in this material plane. But at the same time, though we all make liscense plates and pickup trash on the side of the road by day, we must also dream by night. If you ask me, dreams are just as important as reality, if not moreso.
So when you work your bullshit job doing whatever it is you do, never let that pointless routine deter you from the purity of your own imagination, and all the riches that lie there for your enjoyment!
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redgreenvines
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Re: escapism [Re: DoctorJ]
#5721939 - 06/07/06 04:03 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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relief is therapeutic makes you more resiliant. time for yoga another time for phatty and sandy
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BlueCoyote
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Yea, there is a reason, I fabulate, which is behind our reality, so, no escapism without escapism to reality
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