posted November 03, 2007 06:31 PM         

Perhaps we can find the answers not by thinking, but through feeling?

posted November 03, 2007 06:57 PM         

For me, thoughts are the product of the brain. Much like breathing is the product of the lungs, and movement a product of the muscles.

The brain can be trained just like other organs. You can control your lungs, legs, why not your brain? It does not function autonomously. It can, but much like breathing, you can take over.

Emotions are less out of our control, but we don't have to react to emotions. Thinking and feeling are inherent parts of the human experience, through them we KNOW and name what is going on around us. We make associations with phenomenon based on our experiences.

I think thinking and feeling is a good answer for why we are here. We are here to think and feel. We're not supposed to understand why we're here, if we did, that would ruin the mystery. Isn't it more fun to make up your own meaning for being here?

posted November 04, 2007 12:56 AM         

This is what I think but, what do I really know? I still haven't read 1/2 the books you guys have probably read, on the other hand, I am not so thrill about taking someone else's "words" I like to come up with conclusions myself from my own experience.

So, I'll say it again, I must be an experiment gone wrong because so many people tell me so many wonderful things of my future but I am still not satisfied.

posted November 04, 2007 12:56 AM         

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Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer,
but rather what they miss.
~Thomas Carlyle

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Emerson

When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain

God writes a lot of comedy...
the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor

To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde

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posted November 04, 2007 12:58 AM         

God writes a lot of comedy...
the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.

posted November 04, 2007 01:06 AM         

Life is not having been told that
the man has just waxed the floor.

~Ogden Nash

posted November 04, 2007 01:15 AM         

~Edwin Arlington Robinson

...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

~Walt Whitman

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

posted November 04, 2007 01:19 AM         

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

posted November 04, 2007 02:34 AM         

And I keep thinking about how we can eradicate child abuse for once and for all and wipe sexual abuse off the face of the Earth. It is TORTURE.

NOW WITH THIS IN MIND, I AM SORRY BUT I CAN'T jump around euphorically saying we've all got to learn to enjoy life, that life has justice and that;s that.

Life is PAIN.

I think the question is, how can we stop the pain??

And yes, I probably would be a lot better off turning a blind eye to it all.
There is a part in the novel "The Beach" where they decide to turn their backs on a man who is dying for their own peace of mind. This just about sums up the majority of society. They'd rather not believe. They use denial as a mechanism. Or they would rather accuse the innocent people than face up to the horror of where an innocent, beautiful child may have ended up.

If more people cared, if more people try, then we'll see the day they no longer cry.

And turn "sadness into gladness".

But first we must sacrifice our own needs and our own peace of mind in order to face up to reality and do something to truly make a difference.

What is the meaning of life????

Perhaps it does have a meaning, but one thing's for sure.

It doesn't have to be like this.

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know how you were diverted
you were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
no one alerted you

There is no good reason for suffering. There is little justice in the world. Everything does NOT happen for a reason.

As long as children and animals are tortured every single day, no one can persuade me otherwise.

posted November 04, 2007 02:44 AM         

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I AM SORRY BUT I CAN'T jump around euphorically saying we've all got to learn to enjoy life, that life has justice and that;s that.

Life is PAIN.

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I dont think anyone is asking you to do that...

Illumination and divine comfort to you, dear.

posted November 04, 2007 07:24 AM         

Relax.

Perhaps I must also add

When I pay tithe, I pay tithe.
When I cry, I cry
Whan I am joyous, I am joyous
When I am in my neutral space, I am in my neutral space

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God never gives any one more pain than they can bear. Trust me on that. Why do some people go in coma when they die? Its been made that way. Hope that eases your heart.

Gandhi is my God because he said "To see the change be the change."

Whatever I do , people who watch me follow it. Therefore, I make sure I share all the good things I do with people. And leave the bad part to existence.

posted November 04, 2007 07:42 AM         

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"To see the change be the change."

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There you go, that is telling you right there that people need to take action and LTT is right about stopping people from taking advantage of the few weaker ones that can not take care of themselves, example:kids and animals. (although we all know there is more)