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11-30-2010, 03:52 AM
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Interesting enough, at my study group tonight, about learning to listen to the wisdom of the heart, the hostess in our talks mentioned a movie she had watched, and although I haven't seen it, somehow even the title seemed to perhaps offer the alternative, "Eat, Pray, Love" (yeah its a Julia Roberts movie). It's apparently about finding yourself, and having the courage to break free of cycles such as made note of in the I.P.
Have to watch it before I can comment further~!
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11-30-2010, 04:50 AM
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 "We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find." "Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says: 'You're nowhere near ready'. And the other half says: 'Make her yours forever'."-Remember Me "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"-Mahatma Gandhi "It can't rain all the time"-The Crow
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11-30-2010, 04:50 AM
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Well, if life has to be in some cyclical form, I'd rather go through one that I choose of, not one that the system pushes me into. The current system wants to push you into the cycle as described in Zenit's picture. If someone would rather live another cycle, or make their own, that's their choice. If someone's happy being a consumer paper-pusher, good for them. If someone wants to be a minimalist and live off the land, good for them. And to anyone doing anything in between, good for them. Your life, your cycle, your survival, your thriving, your choice.
If your life is ending one minute at a time, might as well make the most of that minute in whatever way you see fit to use it. You're going to die your own death some day, might as well live your own life, your own cycle. So yes, very much carpe diem. You just so happened to be plopped onto this little 7,900 mile blue ball floating through space, go have some fun while you're here.
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11-30-2010, 06:15 AM
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11-30-2010, 06:44 AM
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Well, we are beings made of matter, so we have to consume some material things simply for survival's sake. Everything beyond that is luxury, things someone could choose to live with or without. How much value someone places on each of these, and how much effort one wishes to put into acquiring each determines what lifestyle they wish to live. To which I say, whatever floats your boat. Que sera sera.
So if you want to speak in absolute and scientific terms, then yes, everyone and everything - even atoms - is a consumer. It is the societal definition of consumer, as defined by the modern economy, that people wish not to be.
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The Dreamer's Manifesto Mike Malloy, a voice of reason in a world gone mad. "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." - Inception "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." - Tyler Durden
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11-30-2010, 06:34 PM
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Live your life, people.
In any way you want, let it be in routines or with a "seize the moment" and "live as if there was no tomorrow" mindset. I just point out a reality. How you react to that, is not my business.* *What is that I like about art, by the way.
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