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"culture is not your friend"
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:mushroom2::persistence::tripping:Terrence McKenna.....










what sayeth you!? :etbig:


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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: MokshaIs]
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Culture is also not your enemy. It merely is. It is your choice to react to your programming, and follow the agenda that culture has laid out for you. Ultimately you ARE the culture and you are not separate from it. It is as you choose to make it. If you reject it you merely reject yourself. Complaining about it's failings and rebelling against it in an aggressive manner will only drain your energy and achieve little. Only through positive conscious action will you manage to make it something useful. Blind adherence to it or blind rebellion against it accomplishes nothing.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: MokshaIs]
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That second video is pretty cool.

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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Huehuecoyotl said:
Culture is also not your enemy. It merely is. It is your choice to react to your programming, and follow the agenda that culture has laid out for you. Ultimately you ARE the culture and you are not separate from it. It is as you choose to make it. If you reject it you merely reject yourself. Complaining about it's failings and rebelling against it in an aggressive manner will only drain your energy and achieve little. Only through positive conscious action will you manage to make it something useful. Blind adherence to it or blind rebellion against it accomplishes nothing.


Great post.:thumbup: The first step IMO is to become aware of your programs as much as possible. You might get emotional for awhile about it but just see that as another program and watch yourself go through it. (do go through it if you need to)  At some point you will see there is nothing to do but make the best (stalk it) of it.


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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: "culture is not your friend" [Re: MokshaIs]
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Fight Back: Make Art!

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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Huehuecoyotl said:
Culture is also not your enemy. It merely is. It is your choice to react to your programming, and follow the agenda that culture has laid out for you. Ultimately you ARE the culture and you are not separate from it.


it is most definitely the background or the fabric of almost everything we do/know. maybe it's because many people in the world like to 'step out of' their cultures and into other ones; they recognize the difference between the two, but don't realize that most culture right now is pretty much the same (yes, there are exceptions).

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It is as you choose to make it. If you reject it you merely reject yourself. Complaining about it's failings and rebelling against it in an aggressive manner will only drain your energy and achieve little. Only through positive conscious action will you manage to make it something useful.


while yes, this is true, and well put, there definitely is a point where culture is not what you make it. think about how many people grow up in the same town for all their lives, then die there. most of them probably never questioned why things were the way they were. lots of people never wake up to this. and up until that point, they have been blinded without realizing it. now where one goes from there becomes making it


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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: Middleman]
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Middleman said:
Fight Back: Make Art!

:tripping::mushroom2::tripping::persistence:


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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: MokshaIs]
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Culture seems pretty problamatic, to put it lightly... Pop culture, here in the west and many industrialized nations, denies humanity, glorifies excess, promotes an insatiable lust to consume, perpetuates fear, embraces the materialist prison system... Perhaps not an enemy, but nothing I want to have a part of. As McKenna said, ART. Whenever I am in an environment of art induced culture, ie High Sierra Music Fest, I more so realize the possibility and potential of us. McKenna owns with his lectures :tripping: ...um...culture?...Fear Factor....Joe Rogan, smoking DMT?


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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Huehuecoyotl said:
Culture is also not your enemy. It merely is. It is your choice to react to your programming, and follow the agenda that culture has laid out for you. Ultimately you ARE the culture and you are not separate from it. It is as you choose to make it. If you reject it you merely reject yourself.


I have to disagree. The map is not the territory.


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Re: "culture is not your friend" [Re: kotik]
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The map is not the territory.


Boom shaka G! We are a part of culture, just as much as we are a part of everything else. I am a part of all, of the dust and stars and space and schlopergh and all. I am a "little bit of eternity", and all that eternity encompasses decides who I AM , just as much as this mind shadow we call culture decides who I am. One could even say that the stars and earth and mysts of celestial realms is more decisive of who I AM because they have a greater aura of permanence around them,for they dance but a step as whole worlds collapse, for they are more so etched into the fabric of reality, so it seems, than this thing we call culture...culture may produce who I think I am, yet that which IS am I...... ?

"Give up the things in doubt for that which has no doubt."


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