|
 Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
|
Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
Quote:
Icelander said:
You made me laugh.
That's what I'm here for. It's just that most don't get my sense of humor.
No, we get it; its just that you generally are not funny.
No you don't get it because if you did you would laugh.
You don't even really exist anyway. You are the insane part of my brain. Out satan! 
--------------------
"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
|
 gluke bastid
Stinky Bum
Registered: 12/20/00
Posts: 3,322
Loc: Charm City
Last seen: 5 years, 6 months
|
 Re: Your Path  [Re: xFrockx]
#9915666 - 03/05/09 09:55 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I can't figure out if I should keep doing what I love which keeps me poor and possibly unhealthy or take the job that I'm not really interested in because things are getting so shitty and difficult.
I feel like either way I will generally be the same person with relatively equal mixtures of satisfaction.
I know this sounds like a trite problem. It just keeps asserting itself and I'm becoming an extremely anxious person in relation to it. I have a hell of a lot of trouble making decisions like this.
--------------------
Society in every form is a blessing,
but government at its best is but a necessary evil
- Thomas Paine
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
|
Everyone has trouble with this I'm guessing. Most opt for security if that is any hint. Those that go their own way often reach great heights of satisfaction.
I wish often I had bigger balls.
--------------------
"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
|
xFrockx
Registered: 09/17/06
Posts: 10,458
Loc: Northeast
Last seen: 3 hours, 11 minutes
|
|
They were only men, every one of us has the capacity to take the same responsibility for our emotions.
Edited by xFrockx (03/05/09 10:05 AM)
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: Your Path [Re: xFrockx]
#9916005 - 03/05/09 11:22 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Especially those in insane asylums.
--------------------
"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
|
TameMe
Stranger
Registered: 10/24/05
Posts: 2,734
Last seen: 5 years, 5 months
|
Re: Your Path [Re: xFrockx]
#9916327 - 03/05/09 12:25 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
xFrockx said:
They were only men, every one of us has the capacity to take the same responsibility for our emotions.
No they weren't. There're fictional characters.
|
xFrockx
Registered: 09/17/06
Posts: 10,458
Loc: Northeast
Last seen: 3 hours, 11 minutes
|
Re: Your Path [Re: TameMe]
#9916593 - 03/05/09 01:02 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I can't deny that any more than you can prove it.
|
TameMe
Stranger
Registered: 10/24/05
Posts: 2,734
Last seen: 5 years, 5 months
|
Re: Your Path [Re: xFrockx]
#9916639 - 03/05/09 01:13 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
true....but i think the evidence tilts my way. jesus especially.
|
deCypher
Registered: 02/10/08
Posts: 56,232
|
Re: Your Path [Re: TameMe]
#9916648 - 03/05/09 01:15 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
TameMe said:
true....but i think the evidence tilts my way. jesus especially.
As far as I'm aware, most modern scholars don't question the historicity of Jesus.
Miracles are another matter.
--------------------
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  
|
TameMe
Stranger
Registered: 10/24/05
Posts: 2,734
Last seen: 5 years, 5 months
|
Re: Your Path [Re: deCypher]
#9916656 - 03/05/09 01:16 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
i'm not talking about a man named jesus. i'm talking about Jesus, the God, from the bible.
|
TaoMonk
Stranger
Registered: 02/18/09
Posts: 31
Loc: Somewhere On A Mountain
Last seen: 14 years, 8 months
|
Re: Your Path [Re: TameMe]
#9923469 - 03/06/09 03:00 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Not knowing where our path is going is the point, isn't it?
Imagine a life where you had every major and minor decision planned for you, so that you never had to experience change? Such a life would involve no growth.
Once we come to understand that change is the only constant, we can begin to see that the path of least resistance is one of constant change, and one of growth. Whatever path we may find ourselves on, it is the right one, or it wouldn't exist. There are no mistakes in the universe. That being said:
Be wary of trying to achieve. A lifetime spent trying to carve one's name onto the rock of history will probably succeed -- but at what cost? Will one find peace when the goal is reached? Ask the most 'successful' people. They say here are always more peaks to be conquered. The path of least resistance has no end, either. But once one is on that path, there's no striving, so it doesn't matter if it doesn't end.
Be a lawyer. Be a doctor. Be a philosopher. If you have to strive, stress, and struggle, it is not the Way. Better to be lazy, looked down upon by this society that tells you to struggle until the day you die, and just fish by the riverside until you grow old and die. The worst you can do by taking the path of least resistance is to not be the cause of any harm.
No lazy man ever became a Hitler, Stalin, or Genghis Khan.
No one who struggled their whole lives to achieve ever found peace.
Sounds like you're in a good place -- enjoy the ride.
--------------------
"The best people and mushrooms are like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao." ~ Lao Tzu
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: Your Path [Re: TaoMonk]
#9923552 - 03/06/09 03:12 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Better to be lazy, looked down upon by this society that tells you to struggle until the day you die, and just fish by the riverside until you grow old and die.
Now you're talkin. This is exactly the path I have taken even the riverside bit. I want to have nothing to do with being a productive member of this society. That's why I no longer work either. Seriously, I just go hiking and camping and fishing and post here. Soon enough any troubles I have will be over.
--------------------
"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
|
OrgoneConclusion
Blue Fish Group
Registered: 04/01/07
Posts: 45,441
Loc: Under the C
|
|
Quote:
I wish often I had bigger balls.
A hammer or any heavy, blunt object will suffice.
--------------------
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
|
Man that took you awhile. You need to get off dial-up.
--------------------
"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
|
OrgoneConclusion
Blue Fish Group
Registered: 04/01/07
Posts: 45,441
Loc: Under the C
|
|
Poker tourney, dewd.
--------------------
|
OrgoneConclusion
Blue Fish Group
Registered: 04/01/07
Posts: 45,441
Loc: Under the C
|
|
Quote:
Soon enough any troubles I have will be over.
You mean *GASP!* you're going to eat a Biggie Meal?
--------------------
|
redgreenvines
irregular verb
Registered: 04/08/04
Posts: 38,169
|
|
poker gently with flow
--------------------
 _  🧠_ 
|
BrainChemistry
Captain Obvious
Registered: 06/19/07
Posts: 3,657
Loc: Mountains of N. America 
Last seen: 10 years, 2 months
|
|
You don't always have to poker hard.
--------------------
Word to your mom.
|
niteowl
GrandPaw
Registered: 07/01/03
Posts: 16,291
Loc:
|
Re: Your Path [Re: xFrockx]
#9924587 - 03/06/09 06:09 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
What I am confident of is my belief that one should never do wrong, even in response to wrong.
Isn't that kinda like
do unto others
as you would have them
do unto you
Quote:
I do not waltz haphazardly through life, stepping on toes and crossing my fingers, this is the path of the fearful, the path of those who love themselves.
I have learned that at times
it is impossible to live your life
and not step on someones toes
no matter how hard you try
unless you avoid all relationships
you will eventually
hurt someones feelings
Quote:
The more I come to love my ego, and become attached to it, the more I will be held back by fear and lust.....
My own answer for finding one's path is to do what feels right. Both Happiness and Fear deceive, they are temporary thrills. Its just emptiness for me, that's all I want, is nothing.
--------------------
Live for the moment you are in nowDon't be bogged down by your pastDon't be afraid of what lies in your future
|
niteowl
GrandPaw
Registered: 07/01/03
Posts: 16,291
Loc:
|
Re: Your Path [Re: deCypher]
#9924619 - 03/06/09 06:15 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
deCypher said:
Only when you forget you are human will you remember that you are a god. 
Exactly!
You are the master of your reality.
You create the world you choose to live in
By the decisions you make each day
--------------------
Live for the moment you are in nowDon't be bogged down by your pastDon't be afraid of what lies in your future
|
|
Threaded
Previous
Index
Next
Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order 
North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies 
Bulk Cannabis Seeds 
Red Vein Kratom
Edit 
Reply 
1 2 all )
chodamunky
gettinjiggywithit
SkorpivoMusterion
Source
cleaner
tekramrepus
Moonshoe