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Ego Death
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Why are we suppressing the love?
#7824010 - 01/02/08 02:47 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Hmmm, just remembering how I was when I was younger. I loved everyone until I started to meet horrible people. Then they somehow transfered their horribleness to me.
Inside though, I still have the love, I'm soppy at heart. Apparently this is wrong for a man. Society is pushing this image of 'male ego' upon me which actually disagrees with my true good nature.
Sometimes I dismay at whats happening here, everyone constantly living in a lie. Pretending because honesty is not accepted.
If theres any love left inside of you, then bring it out and spread it! Fuck image, fuck social pressure. If your truly good natured then show it and pass it on.
Maybe its just me? Was I born a true hippy? Or are other people hiding it too?
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824036 - 01/02/08 02:51 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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want a fight?
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: sam420]
#7824041 - 01/02/08 02:53 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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i dont know how you do things on plant x but here in the U.S. you gotta be an asshole...
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: sam420]
#7824043 - 01/02/08 02:53 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Self defence is a sacred right but to indulge in a battle of ego. No thanks.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: S4mm1ch]
#7824048 - 01/02/08 02:55 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Was that your view at 6 years old or is this some negativity that your environment has pushed upon you?
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: S4mm1ch]
#7824051 - 01/02/08 02:56 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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haha
ya you dont have to be a pussy to be nice.
you can still be nice and a hardass.. i try to maintain a balance.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824052 - 01/02/08 02:56 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Every statement made here is a representation of ego. People say 'fuck image, fuck being one of them' to make a point, whilst building their own image.
The only way to make a change is to be the change..
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: im_on_a_boat]
#7824061 - 01/02/08 02:59 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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i am with you sir. sometimes it is very hard. today was a hard day. i just try to regain the bliss and embrace it. love is the answer. anything that takes you to it is blessed. don't let the bastrads get you down. believe it or not your post was perfect for me today. man it was hard to stay in the love zone. i appreciate your post and thank you.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824073 - 01/02/08 03:01 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Sorry I was just kidding dude.
I think you're right and I'm the same, I'm a 'nice guy', I prefer to be good to people and give them the benefit of the doubt, then if they fuck me over in some way I will find a way of cutting them out of my life. I think perhaps it seems like assholes do better when they are younger, but when they're 35 and have no friends willing to give them the time of day, they lose out in the long run. I don't believe in Karma but that shit exists in human social circles fo' sho, shit comes back around man.
Whats up anyway man. I think there's lots of nice people on the Shroomery at least!
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Cepheus]
#7824096 - 01/02/08 03:07 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Cepheus said: Every statement made here is a representation of ego. People say 'fuck image, fuck being one of them' to make a point, whilst building their own image.
The only way to make a change is to be the change..
No people can say that to build their ego or they can say that because they want to be the change.
I'm not trying to build myself. I honestly was born soppy, its the bad things in the world that have converted me to bad. I want to be that change. At this time of year - its a retrospective time, the time to set yourself a new path. Only time will tell. I agree saying it is not enough but the thought is the start.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824113 - 01/02/08 03:14 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Image is a consequence of ego, whilst ego is a consequence of society. Everything we do is governed by it.
The problem with society is social convention.. if it was convention for everyone to express their true feelings about everything then the world would be a better place. Love is a good thing, but not necessarily the answer straight up.. I think truth, honesty and true freedom of expression would change the world for the better.. of course none of this can happen without love.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Cepheus]
#7824122 - 01/02/08 03:18 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Cepheus]
#7824124 - 01/02/08 03:19 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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I spose.
Maybe its just this chemically induced sense of goodness that is completely flawed or maybe it does hold a more spiritual meaning.
All thats for certain is (for most of us at least) we prefer the feeling of love to hate. The people that prefer hate, seem to thrive on it from the fact they don't have enough (or think) love.
I don't know. I'm just trying to decode it all, ya know?
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824143 - 01/02/08 03:27 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Me too. 
People that prefer hate do so because of psychological reasons.. there is some sort of ego based emotion fueling their progression of thought.. People that get stuck on such things are the ones that spiral into depression, then self pity, then anger. The thing about anger is that its a very primitive emotion.. Its empowering. This is why people who hate all the time are more often than not insecure; they need the power to feel adequate... It all relates to social convention.
I don't believe there is such thing as an evil person. However; as the world hangs in balance, there are plenty of souls who simply refuse to understand and accept their circumstances, which leads to hatred.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Cepheus]
#7824152 - 01/02/08 03:29 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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I agree
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824155 - 01/02/08 03:29 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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What do you mean by love? Being polite? Where exactly do you live, from what I've experienced there are friendlier places in different states, even cities or streets. In LA there is a disconnect, in San Francisco there is plenty of love, but then again it's hippie love
Also showing "love" to strangers in some places is seen as weak or awkward.
Edited by Anarleaf (01/02/08 03:40 PM)
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Anarleaf]
#7824168 - 01/02/08 03:33 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824184 - 01/02/08 03:38 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Why are we suppressing the love?
To spare us the pain of rejection and being taken advantage of?
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Asante]
#7824209 - 01/02/08 03:43 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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we pee love into the water supply on the beast coast
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Anarleaf]
#7824247 - 01/02/08 03:55 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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I mean love that feeling that you should care for and be good to everybody else, or am I wrong?
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Asante]
#7824254 - 01/02/08 03:57 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Good point.
It boils down to the fact that it takes only one person to take advantage of a a load of good people to fuck things up.
What does this mean? Evil has won? Shall we join them and shit on everyone to get what we want?
Or keep fighting for what deep down (I hope) we all feel is right.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824286 - 01/02/08 04:11 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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What does this mean? Evil has won?
No, we're more on guard and more reserved in our interaction. We give of ourselves less readily. Evil people get less love too because of their own doing 
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Shall we join them and shit on everyone to get what we want?
You can't voluntarily become evil. Either you're born evil or you're made evil by a sequence of particularly excruciating experiences early in life, and drawing the wrong life lessons from it. There isn't much warmth and joy in evil.
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Or keep fighting for what deep down (I hope) we all feel is right.
Give of yourself as much as you're comfortable with and roll with the punches if it backfires on you. That's what I do.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824393 - 01/02/08 04:52 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Ego Death said:
If theres any love left inside of you, then bring it out and spread it! Fuck image, fuck social pressure. If your truly good natured then show it and pass it on.
Maybe its just me? Was I born a true hippy? Or are other people hiding it too?
I don't think its just you. I think most people are stuck in patterned behavior which arose from emulation of the other humans. The pattern traps us into habitual activity like a net, and that net enforces its requirements using fear (manifesting in all different ways--for me, anticipation of sounding "stupid" and not "like my perfect self" which is actually just an egoic illusion). [what is your perfect self? you are perfect already!]
The only way to overcome this behavior is by acquiring strength, which can be applied as courage and calmness, which is a prerequisite for honesty and spontaneity. There are many ways to build this strength--I'm practicing kundalini yoga for this purpose--training to center myself so I can remain unruffled in the face of social pressure (which is arbitrary and asinine more often than not.)
IN a nutshell then: you gotta put work into cleaning off the lens of your love light
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824463 - 01/02/08 05:22 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Yeah, I'm feeling everything that you're saying. I'm right there with you.
That's why a lot of people love the late 60's so much. My friend and I were talking about The Temptations album "Psychedelic Shack" the other day and how that album is a good example of the fact that for a brief moment in time, it was cool to be a good person. If The Temptations where out today, they'd be doing songs with Young Joc or somebody. But in early 1970, when that album released, it was cool to be a hippie, and hippies spoke of peace, love and happiness.
Now it's cool to be a complete asshole.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824607 - 01/02/08 06:03 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824630 - 01/02/08 06:08 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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I truely belief after my mom died something just snapped inside, i just stopped caring about everything cause it was like i had realized everything even when i was just a lounging 6th grade. To this day iv just locked myself from the rest of the world. I really dont know why, maybe deep inside im afraid or i really dont care about anything or anyone anymore. Going numb is awful feeling
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7825100 - 01/02/08 07:57 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Ego Death said: Hmmm, just remembering how I was when I was younger. I loved everyone until I started to meet horrible people. Then they somehow transfered their horribleness to me.
Inside though, I still have the love, I'm soppy at heart. Apparently this is wrong for a man. Society is pushing this image of 'male ego' upon me which actually disagrees with my true good nature Sometimes I dismay at whats happening here, everyone constantly living in a lie. Pretending because honesty is not accepted.
If theres any love left inside of you, then bring it out and spread it! Fuck image, fuck social pressure. If your truly good natured then show it and pass it on.
Maybe its just me? Was I born a true hippy? Or are other people hiding it too?
I agree with you, the world could be a much better place if people weren't afraid to love. Every small act of love -- a compliment, an offer of help -- only makes the world better.
I'm happy you see the value of compassion. But I don't see a lot of love in your post.
I see blame, contempt, despair. The reason you see people so many people withholding their love is because they have been hurt too. They don't want to make themselves vulnerable again. So they offer up nothing. They too choose contempt over compassion.
We all do it sometimes, but in every moment we get another opportunity to make the better choice. It's not up to others to make it a risk-free endeavor.
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