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Lion
Decadent Flower Magnate
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Strangers
#7317431 - 08/21/07 11:01 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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I like being a stranger. It feels really good to meet someone and be friendly and spontaneous with the knowledge that the other person doesn't have expectations of "who you are" and "how you act".
I want to be a stranger to the world. I hate "knowing" people and being "known". It's emotional, psychological, spiritual paralysis.
Also, I am just afraid to be open and loving which keeps me from deeply connecting with others. Maybe there's more to be explored there.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
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Re: Strangers [Re: Lion]
#7317444 - 08/21/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Much more.
Yet you will always be a stranger.
Losing personal history has the benefit of dispelling the illusion of being known.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Veritas
Registered: 04/15/05
Posts: 11,089
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Re: Strangers [Re: Lion]
#7317454 - 08/21/07 11:06 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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The only reason being known feels like paralysis is that you're thinking of it in the past tense, rather than a continual knowing. As if, once you've presented yourself to someone for knowing, you are stuck being whatever it was they first observed.
Sometimes friends cannot handle continual knowing, and they fade out of our lives when we change. That's fine, as it leaves more room in our lives for those who will accept the fluidity of who we are.
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Lion
Decadent Flower Magnate
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Re: Strangers [Re: Veritas]
#7317470 - 08/21/07 11:11 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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That is a very reasonable answer.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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elbisivni
Registered: 10/01/06
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Re: Strangers [Re: Lion]
#7318945 - 08/21/07 06:22 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Agreed. And for some reason, many others seem to view these sort of opinions as bizarre/depressing/anti-social
-------------------- From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
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MushroomTrip
Dr. Teasy Thighs
Registered: 12/02/05
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Well from what I observed in people who get confused seeing you in other ways than they "thought you were" are usually looking for fixed personalities/situations because that's how they feel safe. And that's because they're used to see and live life only from a single angle...
-------------------- All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
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