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ScavengerType



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Re: Does life have significance? [Re: Ginseng1]
#8028682 - 02/15/08 06:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think some of you people may be falling into a negative nhilistic pithole. Now I consider myself a nhilist, after all It's the gurilla ideology always on the attack while you have no ideology to defend, but the reality is that I still hold faith in the common good and acting for the good of the commons. This holds my actions to some sort of standard and keeps me from harming others and myself a lot of the time. The fact is that this is a part of my self concept and holds coheasion to the structure of my life, without it I would have no way to distract myself from negative thoughts that could lead to harming others or myself. When you can stop and ask yourself "where does this lead?" or "what does this get me?" you can hold yourself to those things you would like to achieve.
You know I don't have much money or many college/university qualifications, but I am a smart self educated man, and when I do take one of these courses I hold myself to a higher standard than the rest of the class. Doing this required myself to apply the above logic to achieve what I wanted to, I was not soft on myself I held myself hard to practice what I preached and ask hard questions of myself.
Though while doing this I went through a phase of ego death it sounds like you people are experiencing, but I used it to my advantage and came out of it destroying my compulsion I had built up to control my self through obligation of guilt and now I act by obligation of constructive desire.
Though my drunken alter ego may have suffered for it, I think it may be that I just don't stop when I should anymore.
-------------------- "Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?" "The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything." - Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now. Conquer's Club
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Archemetis
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Re: Does life have significance? [Re: ScavengerType]
#8028810 - 02/15/08 07:13 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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ScavengerType said: I think some of you people may be falling into a negative nhilistic pithole. Now I consider myself a nhilist, after all It's the gurilla ideology always on the attack while you have no ideology to defend, but the reality is that I still hold faith in the common good and acting for the good of the commons. This holds my actions to some sort of standard and keeps me from harming others and myself a lot of the time. The fact is that this is a part of my self concept and holds coheasion to the structure of my life, without it I would have no way to distract myself from negative thoughts that could lead to harming others or myself. When you can stop and ask yourself "where does this lead?" or "what does this get me?" you can hold yourself to those things you would like to achieve.
You know I don't have much money or many college/university qualifications, but I am a smart self educated man, and when I do take one of these courses I hold myself to a higher standard than the rest of the class. Doing this required myself to apply the above logic to achieve what I wanted to, I was not soft on myself I held myself hard to practice what I preached and ask hard questions of myself.
Though while doing this I went through a phase of ego death it sounds like you people are experiencing, but I used it to my advantage and came out of it destroying my compulsion I had built up to control my self through obligation of guilt and now I act by obligation of constructive desire.
Though my drunken alter ego may have suffered for it, I think it may be that I just don't stop when I should anymore.
these are good thoughts. in the end i still find myself trusting in the purity of the flow, and acting for the common good as well. i couldnt imagine existance if it were any other way.
we're learning....we'll get there.
the void can be our savior in so far as it is the slayer of illusions, though its a double edged sword, for our dreams also disapear. and this is the way of the mystic....the dreamless dreamer, who carries the passionless passion on the pathless path. but i still dont know why.
Edited by Archemetis (02/15/08 07:20 PM)
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ScavengerType



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Re: Does life have significance? [Re: Archemetis]
#8028908 - 02/15/08 07:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think it's not a half hearted thing I am speaking of. Make your goal to forge your constitution from Iron. Come to terms with the fact that you are just one person, all the world is a stage and we may play many parts but we are still just one actor. If you are experiencing an Ego death depression caused from malnutrition is commonly a cause. Ironically mushrooms carry the usual candidate (vitamin b12) in spades. Make sure you eat the non-hallucinogenic kind more often and boil them to soften their fibrous tissue that your stomach acids will not otherwise penetrate.
Now that I think about it Grinding your mushies up and consuming them in a mildly heated hot chocolate or coffee is likely the best way to get the psyllocibin and ect out and thus a higher high. Funny the things you can stumble upon while contemplating life.
Btw my emo-gauge says I'm drunk but I'm just buzzing.
-------------------- "Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?" "The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything." - Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now. Conquer's Club
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Archemetis
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Re: Does life have significance? [Re: ScavengerType]
#8028924 - 02/15/08 07:40 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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ScavengerType said:
Btw my emo-gauge says I'm drunk but I'm just buzzing.
aye, aye as well
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ScavengerType



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Re: Does life have significance? [Re: Archemetis]
#8029238 - 02/15/08 09:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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anyone have the problem that they are going to change their emotion on the forum, but can't find one that they feel fits their emotional state?
the real philosophical question is do our emoticons have any significance?
-------------------- "Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?" "The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything." - Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now. Conquer's Club
Edited by ScavengerType (02/15/08 09:09 PM)
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Re: Does life have significance? [Re: ScavengerType]
#8030642 - 02/16/08 09:50 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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ScavengerType said: I think some of you people may be falling into a negative nhilistic pithole. Now I consider myself a nhilist, after all It's the gurilla ideology always on the attack while you have no ideology to defend, but the reality is that I still hold faith in the common good and acting for the good of the commons. This holds my actions to some sort of standard and keeps me from harming others and myself a lot of the time. The fact is that this is a part of my self concept and holds coheasion to the structure of my life, without it I would have no way to distract myself from negative thoughts that could lead to harming others or myself. When you can stop and ask yourself "where does this lead?" or "what does this get me?" you can hold yourself to those things you would like to achieve.
You know I don't have much money or many college/university qualifications, but I am a smart self educated man, and when I do take one of these courses I hold myself to a higher standard than the rest of the class. Doing this required myself to apply the above logic to achieve what I wanted to, I was not soft on myself I held myself hard to practice what I preached and ask hard questions of myself.
Though while doing this I went through a phase of ego death it sounds like you people are experiencing, but I used it to my advantage and came out of it destroying my compulsion I had built up to control my self through obligation of guilt and now I act by obligation of constructive desire.
Though my drunken alter ego may have suffered for it, I think it may be that I just don't stop when I should anymore.
Right on Nihilism rocks.
-------------------- "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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BlueCoyote
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Re: Does life have significance? [Re: VisualLearner]
#8033641 - 02/17/08 03:10 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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As I see, everything existing has significance and meaning.
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