SmoochyTX
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Trust is indeed a shield protecting solitude. That shield represents how comfortable we are with ourselves and how we believe society will envelope and eventually accept us.Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
There is a scale within all of us and each side fights the other continuously. It sometimes, unfortunately, depends upon that one second, minute, hour, day, week, month, and/or year that just might decide our ultimate lives and the lives of others.Originally posted by: Goosemaster
which is what leaves so many of us paralyzed.
when a moment comes that uproots everything we hold dear, man gets lost, lost in his own meaning, looping in and endless analysis of the origins or their beliefs, the origins of their reason.
that catalyst, however, that brings back the sound of rain drops falling all around you, the smell of a buttercup, the smell of life, that makes things interesting.
it gives hope to the hopeless for irrational reasons. it empowers the weak and hopeless, tearing down walls in such an irrational manner that invincibility becomes real and death simply a possibility and not an expectation.
that catalyst is what allows a man to become great.
It is what allows them to stop thinking, and act, for once before their pathetic lives end.
It is what allows them to accept ignorance and yet denounce it with one foul swoop.
It is what allows them to realize and acknowledge their limit of time...
....but not of possibility.
Hope is where you make it providing you give it enough time. Hope is sometimes presented at improbable times yet it is always there waiting. Hope is always there - for you, for me, for our fellow man.
Trust is there as well. Trust is what makes man.
Trust is a shield however, a barrier against solitude, but what is one to do in the presence of no man? Are we to lose the hope we fought so hard to yield in the face of meaninglessness?
What truly makes a man, what makes him strong, what makes him invincible until death, what makes him cower at nothing and stand up to everything, what lets him cry without regret, what lets him laugh without guilt, what makes him row that extra mile, run that extra lap, kiss that extra minute, play that extra bar, sing that last chord, bake the extra pie, build that extra bridge, fasten that extra bolt....
...is our own sense of, and desire for, individuality.
We are strong, because we are not one. We are the one.
When that trust has been shattered it is up to us to rebuild it. It's less to do with who we are dealing with but more on dealing with ourselves. Trusting in yourself is foremost in life.
Ultimately, what makes a man strong is knowing that he can stand on his own two feet. Without others.
Theres nothing funnier than a bunch of college kids who think they have reached enlightenment after taking a few into philosophy classes . The only thing worse than an ignorant person is an ignorant person who thinks they are enlightened.
. The only thing worse than an ignorant person is an ignorant person who thinks they are enlightened.
judasmachine
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most of the population is too concrete logic to really experiance this phenomenon. it's us abstract few that don't just get lost in our heads, we live there.
Originally posted by: BrownTown
Theres nothing funnier than a bunch of college kids who think they have reached enlightenment after taking a few into philosophy classes
I am not enlightened. I would think it a good mental exercise to surmise and try to explain with what little we have, and add to it, progressively, as we age and gain wisdom.
Are we to remain silent?
in the face of a teacher, of some sort of guide, or even in solitude, is it not a good thing to ask and argue over meaning?
is it not better to hear that you are wrong than to live, silently, believing that you are right?
I live to learn from my mistakes
SmoochyTX
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You sound like a nonbeliever!Originally posted by: BrownTown
Theres nothing funnier than a bunch of college kids who think they have reached enlightenment after taking a few into philosophy classes
HardcoreRobot
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Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
You sound like a nonbeliever!Originally posted by: BrownTown
Theres nothing funnier than a bunch of college kids who think they have reached enlightenment after taking a few into philosophy classes
PITCHFORKS! EVERYONE GET YOUR PITCHFORKS!
btw, I fell asleep in about 75% of my philo. classes
the topics were interesting..I was just taking too many classes together and it was too early in the morning....
maybe hearing the rantings of Socrates and then the seriousness with which Aristotle regarded Socrates' works while I was asleep got to me.....
the topics were interesting..I was just taking too many classes together and it was too early in the morning....
maybe hearing the rantings of Socrates and then the seriousness with which Aristotle regarded Socrates' works while I was asleep got to me.....
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
I see you are tapping into Chappelle's secret stash
Chapelle hell, the stuff youse guys are tokin on is approaching "Bush league"...
My neighbors a few years ago sent someone to Amsterdam and came back with literally everything they talk about in the various pothead mags... I tried one or two of them and wow. It's really too bad I don't smoke anymore.
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