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reply posted on 19-5-2009 @ 03:34 PM by blupblup
reply to post by pharaohmoan





Which questions have you had answers to, I'd be interested to know?

I have endless questions.... but i KNOW i will never get the answers.

I guess it's all perspective.


reply posted on 19-5-2009 @ 03:45 PM by argentus
Wow, I'm both envious and frightened for you. Let me explain, and, look, I mean no harm -- it's just the way I look a things.

I'm 51, not that that matters. I've had questions all my life. When I sign up for things online I always list myself as a "student", because, hey, that's what I am. Student for life. I've heard people here locally infer that they know all they need to and I think to myself...... "gee, that would be death for me." It's true.

Not to get too daisylike or fuzzy on you, but it really IS the journey that matters, at least to me. I said I am envious, and that's true, because I'd LOVE to truly know the answers to many of my lifelong questions -- things I've researched and sought answers to in faraway lands and came back with more evidence, however MORE questions than answers.

I can't say that I've ever felt the way you said. I've always had questions. I kinda think I always will. Sure, along the way, some things get answered for me, but it's a cumulative effect -- a tipping point of information as it pertains to a particular question. That's the nature of belief, and I've come to realize that many of the questions we ask of ourselves don't really have a definative answer. Somewhere along the line one has to sense the pattern and correlate the information and come to a believe.

This, of course, is the antithesis of the scientific process, but it's the core of the human process. We reach our beliefs, and the only thing I can thing to advise you of, OP, is to be open to reforming your beliefs when persuasive data comes your way. Beliefs are funny like that. You can't just close the door and say, "that's it, I know this thing." Why? Because your data may have had errors or assumptions and you always, ALWAYS have to leave the door open for at least discussion, and leave your mind open a crack for understanding, because it will happen for you if you allow it.

There. That's the sum total benefit of my years. All wrapped up tidily in a thread reply. So now, it's my time to thank YOU, because I haven't wandered this particular way of thinking in perhaps three or four months. You remind me to see the world with wonder and to shrug off my paradigms, and to feel.

Cheers, friend

Don't forget to smile and laugh. Your body loves endorphins.


reply posted on 19-5-2009 @ 03:47 PM by wonderworld
reply to post by pharaohmoan



I'm guessing that this is simply a turning point in your life. Not to seek the answers but to live them to the fullest.

Sometimes it's good to take a break from figuring life out and truly enjoy, what we do have.


reply posted on 19-5-2009 @ 03:49 PM by bsbray11
reply to post by pharaohmoan



Sounds to me like you are about to enter yet another octave of spiritual growth.

You've run out of questions? That's an easy one.

You don't actually know anything. Like the light coming out of this screen to hit your eyes. You may know theoretical bits and pieces or what have you, but can you experience for yourself what it is like to stream out of a computer screen into your own eyeballs? If not then you don't really know what in the world is going on right now.

Truly, not a single one of us "knows" anything in its ultimate context, or else we would have to know everything, in which case I doubt we would be incarnated any longer.


I constantly wander around, like in a wonder land, I have no idea what is going on around me. It is a supreme mystery, and anyone who thinks they know anything about it, is only deluding themselves.

If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.

If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything,
give everything up.


Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharper;
I alone am dull.
Other people have a purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.


I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.



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reply posted on 19-5-2009 @ 03:55 PM by argentus
reply to post by locster



Paradox? Sorry, friend, I couldn't resist.

You know, that's not going to get better with age.



reply posted on 19-5-2009 @ 03:59 PM by locster
reply to post by argentus



That was great!
Thank you for the laugh.

Isn't that a hydrostatic paradox?


reply posted on 19-5-2009 @ 04:00 PM by Hazelnut
Originally posted by argentus
reply to
post by locster



Paradox? Sorry, friend, I couldn't resist.

You know, that's not going to get better with age.


Belly Laugh Alert! Paradox, too funny. Yes, it took me a second cuz I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
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