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Topic: How Buddhist's like to roll...
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hypatia238 Moderator Posts: 1235 From: Miami for now.... Registered: Sep 2014
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posted July 23, 2015 03:06 AM
So true! IP: Logged |
ikja Knowflake Posts: 1701 From: Inbetween Venus opposite Pluto Registered: Oct 2014
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posted July 23, 2015 04:39 AM
Yes hunny!IP: Logged |
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posted July 23, 2015 06:14 AM
Hrm. I've got a question about that, hypatia.(Pardon me for playing "devil's advocate" here -- I'm a Libra Sun, what else can be expected?) What if... what if... you do exactly that for a really long time, and no one responds? Then what? IP: Logged |
hypatia238 Moderator Posts: 1235 From: Miami for now.... Registered: Sep 2014
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posted July 23, 2015 01:54 PM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere: Hrm. I've got a question about that, hypatia.(Pardon me for playing "devil's advocate" here -- I'm a Libra Sun, what else can be expected?) What if... what if... you do exactly that for a really long time, and no one responds? Then what?
LOLI think some people will always respond, maybe not the overwhelming majority all at once but more in the style of a butterfly effect. Like everyone is stuck in this republicans versus democrats dichotomy but little by little the numbers of libertarians, minarchists, anarcho capitalists etc are growing in number. Maybe none of those groups will ever be the majority but they are growing in number yearly so maybe not in this life time or the next but at some point none the less there will be a transformation in our current system as we know it, change is inevitable. ***Without chaos nothing can evolve***
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PixieJane Moderator Posts: 6698 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted July 23, 2015 07:31 PM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere: What if... what if... you do exactly that for a really long time, and no one responds? Then what?
Then nothing, you just continue with yourself. IP: Logged |
Selenite Knowflake Posts: 653 From: Registered: Aug 2013
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posted July 23, 2015 07:58 PM
quote: Originally posted by PixieJane: Then nothing, you just continue with yourself.
Right. The Aries moon in me is saying, "That's not my job. Peace. " IP: Logged |
hypatia238 Moderator Posts: 1235 From: Miami for now.... Registered: Sep 2014
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posted July 23, 2015 07:59 PM
quote: Originally posted by PixieJane: Then nothing, you just continue with yourself.
Exactly, you continue with yourself enjoying the gift of enlightenment. IP: Logged |
T Knowflake Posts: 11832 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 23, 2015 11:35 PM
I love a good quote, especially a pictorial one.Not going to share my thoughts about a comment here because it probably wouldn't be taken well, but I like what the last three posters said. Was thinking about putting together a digital collage of favorite buddhist (and other) quotes to add here.... Will post it if i do. IP: Logged |
hypatia238 Moderator Posts: 1235 From: Miami for now.... Registered: Sep 2014
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posted July 24, 2015 12:38 AM
quote: Originally posted by T: I love a good quote, especially a pictorial one.Not going to share my thoughts about a comment here because it probably wouldn't be taken well, but I like what the last three posters said. Was thinking about putting together a digital collage of favorite buddhist (and other) quotes to add here.... Will post it if i do.
That would be cool. Which comment do you feel if you reply to it that it won't be taken well? Mine? If is mine you can reply to it, it's fine.
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T Knowflake Posts: 11832 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 24, 2015 12:46 AM
Hi! No, i loved the original quote and mentioned liking the three responses before my last post.Sorry for the confusion. IP: Logged |
hypatia238 Moderator Posts: 1235 From: Miami for now.... Registered: Sep 2014
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posted July 24, 2015 01:30 AM
quote: Originally posted by T: Hi! No, i loved the original quote and mentioned liking the three responses before my last post.Sorry for the confusion.
Well thanks.
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posted July 24, 2015 01:43 AM
quote: Then nothing, you just continue with yourself.
quote: Right. The Aries moon in me is saying, "That's not my job. Peace.
(No worries, I wouldn't hire you for it, anyway.) quote: Exactly, you continue with yourself enjoying the gift of enlightenment.
Hrmmm... I'm starting to intuit something "fishy" in this implication that life is supposed to be one long spiritual masturbation session. That there's something unworthy about the desire for human contact... BTW, what are y'all's tumblr usernames? IP: Logged |
T Knowflake Posts: 11832 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 24, 2015 02:00 AM
quote: Originally posted by hypatia238: Well thanks.
You're welcome. IP: Logged |
Charmaine Moderator Posts: 586 From: Venus Next To Randall Registered: Dec 2014
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posted July 24, 2015 02:37 AM
quote: Originally posted by hypatia238: So true!
Love this. IP: Logged |
PixieJane Moderator Posts: 6698 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted July 24, 2015 03:05 AM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere: Hrmmm... I'm starting to intuit something "fishy" in this implication that life is supposed to be one long spiritual masturbation session. That there's something unworthy about the desire for human contact...
That's an implication that you have perceived for some reason, but not one that is implied. (And not sure why you ask but I'm not on tumblr.)
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Selenite Knowflake Posts: 653 From: Registered: Aug 2013
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posted July 24, 2015 03:13 AM
Love the quote by the way Can we make this a cool quote thread?
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posted July 24, 2015 04:16 AM
This isn't pointed at you, PixieJane. Or you, hypatia. Both of you seem like sane and decent people.Anyone else who feels this may be pointed at them: that's your guilty conscience, so, yes, it's pointed at you. No matter how subtle your ill-intent, I will recognize it. No matter how you cloak it in sarcasm and New Age phrasing, I will recognize it. If that's what you want to do at this site, you're going to offend my sense of rightness. If you want to play games, I'll beat you at them -- because I can and because you deserve it. Sorry to derail a thread (which I do a lot of lately), but hypocrisy gets under my skin. I could contribute a lot to a thread on Buddhist quotes (heck, I'd even whip out Photoshop and contribute my time, energy, and talents to it), but I hate that there are bad-hearted people here, for whom this site is a re-run of their high school days, and they want to form cliques and intentionally hurt people's feelings to bolster their egos, covering the actual lack of self-worth bubbling up from their subconscious. Saggie Moon no like. IP: Logged |
Bluejay Knowflake Posts: 429 From: Registered: Jun 2013
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posted July 24, 2015 07:13 AM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere:
No matter how subtle your ill-intent, I will recognize it. No matter how you cloak it in sarcasm and New Age phrasing, I will recognize it. If that's what you want to do at this site, you're going to offend my sense of rightness. If you want to play games, I'll beat you at them -- because I can and because you deserve it.Sorry to derail a thread (which I do a lot of lately), but hypocrisy gets under my skin. I could contribute a lot to a thread on Buddhist quotes (heck, I'd even whip out Photoshop and contribute my time, energy, and talents to it), but I hate that there are bad-hearted people here, for whom this site is a re-run of their high school days, and they want to form cliques and intentionally hurt people's feelings to bolster their egos, covering the actual lack of self-worth bubbling up from their subconscious.
I couldn't have said it better myself Namaste
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LeeLoo2014 Knowflake Posts: 14026 From: Venus cornering Neptune Registered: Mar 2014
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posted July 24, 2015 07:31 AM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere: (No worries, I wouldn't hire you for it, anyway.)
Just wow! One of the saddest things is to watch highly aggressive people constantly projecting this aggression by feeling personally attacked by everything, including different opinions and/or posts which are not addressed to them. Time for a gym session, sir! ------------------ I seem to have loved you in numberless forms... AstroMandala Summer Readings IP: Logged |
LeeLoo2014 Knowflake Posts: 14026 From: Venus cornering Neptune Registered: Mar 2014
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posted July 24, 2015 07:37 AM
I have one too (not Buddhist though, but quite Zen : ------------------ I seem to have loved you in numberless forms... AstroMandala Summer Readings IP: Logged |
Faith Knowflake Posts: 11880 From: Bella's Hair Salon Registered: Jul 2011
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posted July 24, 2015 09:44 AM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere: Sorry to derail a thread (which I do a lot of lately)
Are you sorry? You can prove it by stopping.
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Faith Knowflake Posts: 11880 From: Bella's Hair Salon Registered: Jul 2011
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posted July 24, 2015 09:56 AM
quote: Originally posted by LeeLoo2014: I have one too (not Buddhist though, but quite Zen :
Thanks for reminding me...I'm not too clear on the distinctions between the two. Well here's a contribution: IP: Logged |
hypatia238 Moderator Posts: 1235 From: Miami for now.... Registered: Sep 2014
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posted July 24, 2015 11:04 AM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere: Hrmmm... I'm starting to intuit something "fishy" in this implication that life is supposed to be one long spiritual masturbation session. That there's something unworthy about the desire for human contact...BTW, what are y'all's tumblr usernames?
I don't think there is anything unworthy what so ever about desiring human contact. I like Buddhism a lot but I am not a Buddhist, I am not committed to any religious or political ideology bc I feel it limits me and my intellectual freedom. I don't use tumblr. IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 7175 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 24, 2015 11:11 AM
quote: Originally posted by the7thsphere:
Anyone else who feels this may be pointed at them: that's your guilty conscience, so, yes, it's pointed at you. No matter how subtle your ill-intent, I will recognize it. No matter how you cloak it in sarcasm and New Age phrasing, I will recognize it. If that's what you want to do at this site, you're going to offend my sense of rightness. If you want to play games, I'll beat you at them -- because I can and because you deserve it. Sorry to derail a thread (which I do a lot of lately), but hypocrisy gets under my skin. I could contribute a lot to a thread on Buddhist quotes (heck, I'd even whip out Photoshop and contribute my time, energy, and talents to it), but I hate that there are bad-hearted people here, for whom this site is a re-run of their high school days, and they want to form cliques and intentionally hurt people's feelings to bolster their egos, covering the actual lack of self-worth bubbling up from their subconscious. Saggie Moon no like.
I don't think this describes anyone here. IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 7175 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 24, 2015 11:15 AM
I used to like Eckhart Tolle, until someone ruined him for me. After a while, I associated yoga, buddhism, and people like Byron Katie, with the guy who twisted the message so that he never caught any blame for anything he did: it was always the other person's fault for having trusted him. He would tell others that they shouldn't need to be loved, but it was his one goal in life - he was "saved" by a woman, but I should just appreciate my pets, and my family. You know? I hate that he's all tangled up in my head like that, with something that is supposed to bring more peace and sanity to your life. IP: Logged |