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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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InvisibleIcelander
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The terror of existence?
    #7864735 - 01/11/08 12:08 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

Without tragedy and comedy, "...man now sees everywhere only the terror or the absurdity of existence..."-Nietzsche

What do you think about this quote? Before answering, please spend a moment contemplating how nature operates in our reality and how we might use culture to distract ourselves from continual confrontation with that reality.


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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: The terror of existence? [Re: Icelander]
    #7864850 - 01/11/08 12:36 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

I see terror, absurdity, tragedy, comedy, and living, breathing, unfolding beauty.


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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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InvisibleIcelander
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Re: The terror of existence? [Re: Lion]
    #7864862 - 01/11/08 12:38 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

You seem to have found a healthy response to life. Many give Nihilism a bad rap but to me it is very close to my ideas of Taoism.


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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: The terror of existence? [Re: Icelander]
    #7866150 - 01/11/08 05:37 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

Nietzsche despised nihilism. In fact, he described it as a symptom of physical and psychological decay. He also said that Christianity was the most nihilistic philosophy because it negates the value of this world in favor of the afterlife.


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Re: The terror of existence? [Re: it stars saddam]
    #7866918 - 01/11/08 09:40 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

uncertainty is the source of the terror of the spoiled child.
undecideability and uncertainty are great spirit lifters if you are not being spoiled.
they keep the heart and mind open


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Re: The terror of existence? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #7866928 - 01/11/08 09:42 PM (16 years, 21 days ago)

Quote:

redgreenvines said:
uncertainty is the source of the terror of the spoiled child.
undecideability and uncertainty are great spirit lifters if you are not being spoiled.
they keep the heart and mind open




Awesome :mushroom2:


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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

:bunnyhug: :yinyang2:


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