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InvisibleIcelander
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Life works when you choose it.
    #7474220 - 10/01/07 02:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I think much of the reason folk choose to believe in fairy tales is because they don't want to choose real life. It seems way too harsh and frightening. And at the end death is waiting and the deterioration of the body and maybe suffering to boot. One stands alone looking into the infinite and no one is watching and waiting for you.

I completely understand. But sooner or later real life rears it's head and breaks down and washes away all the castles of sand. So choosing life is the only way to make it work. By choosing you are surrendering to things being messy and uncertain. You really need to be on your toes to make a fun game of this.


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"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.
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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Icelander]
    #7474248 - 10/01/07 02:26 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

That reminds me. I have to vacuum my room and make my bed.


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7474291 - 10/01/07 02:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Your Mom gives you your own room?:whoa: I bet I know what you do in there.:whacker:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Icelander]
    #7474310 - 10/01/07 02:46 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I thought I turned my internet-cam off, dammit!


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Icelander]
    #7474312 - 10/01/07 02:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

This thread is like 95% of the threads you post in here, but it's damn good stuff, so thanks.  :lol: :heart:


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“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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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Lion]
    #7474331 - 10/01/07 02:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm mono focused these days

or maybe just getting senile.:heart:


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"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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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Icelander]
    #7474488 - 10/01/07 03:36 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

It is a good area of focus though Ice, and I'm trying to work with these ideas.

I like what you said about being on your toes.  Because it's very, very easy not to be.  All it takes is one negative interaction, one slip of the tongue that you start to fret over, or one over-indulgence of any kind, to drive a wedge between yourself and the potential for lively and energetic interaction with reality.  This can spiral to the point where you've deluded yourself into thinking you need to be punished for indulging, or where you begin to feel that you have no choice but to continue this pattern of indulgence.

Life works when you choose health and consciousness.  The latter seems to start with the simple act of recognizing that you have the potential to think a wide range of thoughts, none of which are representative of who you are, none of which can be harmful if you can let go of them.

Last night I was meditating and all of a sudden an interaction I'd had with someone two nights ago popped up in my head.  I realized I was still regretting something I'd said.  Suddenly my reality seemed literally distorted, like a switch had been tripped behind my eyelids.  I was able to let go of it by coming back to my breathing and dis-identifying with the memory.

Sounds simple, but it's a long process.

Keep up the good work, my brotha.

:hippie:


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“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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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Lion]
    #7474562 - 10/01/07 04:06 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

All true. You really do need to be on your toes. I just keep at it, not giving up, although it often feels impossible and rarely sustained for long. Little by little over the years things begin to look and feel different.


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"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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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Icelander]
    #7474591 - 10/01/07 04:16 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The journey ain't so bad anyway.  :love:


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“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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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Icelander]
    #7474749 - 10/01/07 05:22 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Mod edit: no personalisms. If you can't debate the topic without bringing the poster into it, stay out of this forum.

Please read the rules of this forum before posting here again.


Edited by Diploid (10/01/07 06:29 PM)


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: palmersc]
    #7474758 - 10/01/07 05:25 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

How can he think he is "on par with God" if he does not believe in God?  :rolleyes:


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Veritas]
    #7474769 - 10/01/07 05:28 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

He's an atheist who uses psychedelics?

What a fool.

It will grind him up if he's lucky. Else he will be given over to his crooked ways.


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: palmersc]
    #7474785 - 10/01/07 05:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

:thumbdown:

How about an open mind?

In your version of reality, who is God and what role does God play in your life?  And who are YOU?


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“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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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: palmersc]
    #7474798 - 10/01/07 05:39 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

palmersc said:
He's an atheist who uses psychedelics?

What a fool.

It will grind him up if he's lucky. Else he will be given over to his crooked ways.




:haha:


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Icelander]
    #7474811 - 10/01/07 05:44 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Icelander said:
I think much of the reason folk choose to believe in fairy tales is because they don't want to choose real life. It seems way too harsh and frightening. And at the end death is waiting and the deterioration of the body and maybe suffering to boot. One stands alone looking into the infinite and no one is watching and waiting for you.

I completely understand. But sooner or later real life rears it's head and breaks down and washes away all the castles of sand. So choosing life is the only way to make it work. By choosing you are surrendering to things being messy and uncertain. You really need to be on your toes to make a fun game of this.




I've given up trying to make this a fun game. Now I'm just trying to make it less miserable for others. It seems hard for me to have fun if nobody else is.


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Lion]
    #7474821 - 10/01/07 05:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I am Steve.

I practiced a year of constant self inquiry. Only to find the emptiness they speak about and the demonic realms that entails. These guys who are "awake" are pure evil.

God created us in order to glorify him. To worship him. To love him.


"In your version of reality" .... What???


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: palmersc]
    #7474843 - 10/01/07 05:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

A whole year of self inquiry?  I'm speechless. :crazy2:


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“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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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: palmersc]
    #7474845 - 10/01/07 05:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'll worship him once he starts doing his job.


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: Lion]
    #7474904 - 10/01/07 06:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

hahaha good luck with it man. I'm trying to give you another perspective on where it leads. I don't mess around with anything that I do. I'm extreme in whatever I do.

Truth demands it if you want to make all the mistakes for yourself.


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Re: Life works when you choose it. [Re: palmersc]
    #7474939 - 10/01/07 06:16 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I don't believe that you know what Truth demands.


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“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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