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Relying On No-one But Yourself

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I understand that fish swim in water. What more do I need to know?

Which fish are edible?

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Which fish are edible?

All of them are if cleaned properly. Some are tricky though - mess up and you poison yourself.

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I understand that fish swim in water. What more do I need to know?

 

Don't take them out of water...!!! Ofc...unless you want to cook them... :D

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I never did.

 

I never will.

 

You can't rely on anyone in this world.

 

Except deci belle.

 

Thanks a zillion babe.

 

I hope yer listenin'.

 

I think I schooled them too hard in ultimate reality.

 

But maybe I still need a lesson or two from teach.

 

I got an apple.

 

;)

...

 

 

hilarious

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Everything depends on something

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In this case I'd look for what's behind everything. :)

 

not really sure what your point is here.

 

Like whether your trying to ask me to do one of those "DO I exist, kind of things" (which I didnt ask for btw :))

 

 

Im just making my own point

 

People have this idea/delusion that they can be completely independent of everything

 

Like maybe it comes from tv or something

 

In nature every organism is dependent on the whole.

 

Like if I have money Im independent

 

This is kind of wrong thinking imo

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There is a season for all seasons. A season to contemplate by one self or with others, and a season to not contemplate with oneself or with others.

 

I Am all for going off alone and communing with nature and cultivating oneself to reach whatever goal one has set. At some point being alone and cultivating oneself is most neccessary. !!!!

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We are all dependant on many things and probably many people. I would argue however that the more independent and less needy we can become the better. Such a state may even be likened to returning to the state of the uncarved block.

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Hi you :)

 

not really sure what your point is here.

 

Like whether your trying to ask me to do one of those "DO I exist, kind of things" (which I didnt ask for btw :))

Ehm, I think I did recommend you to practice meditation :)

In the end that leads one to this Self which you will rely on.

People have this idea/delusion that they can be completely independent of everything

Noonoo, that's not what I was talking about. Actually that conclusion is right the opposite of what I aimed at.

Realizing the absolute is realizing the in-dependent. But realizing this doesn't work without realizing that things in Samsara (sorry for that buddhist term) will always rely on each other, and therefore depend on each other.

 

So we're quite on topic, I assume :)

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We are all dependant on many things and probably many people. I would argue however that the more independent and less needy we can become the better. Such a state may even be likened to returning to the state of the uncarved block.

True, but there's also synergy.

Where 1 + 1 is 3. We're stronger and better with the other.

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I get by.

 

With a little help from my friends.

 

That's right.

 

Yes.

...

 

Pass that peace pipe around in your avatar... we may all feel a little help from friends :)

 

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hmm

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—— and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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I'm not so sure about that one Nestentrie. Many people have been burned at the stake for speaking their latent convictions.

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I'm not so sure about that one Nestentrie. Many people have been burned at the stake for speaking their latent convictions.

 

 

Hmm. Well Emerson did get caught up in emphatic language but good judgement still has a place.

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I believe it's called discretion… not that I'd know anything about that.

 

 

 

 

ed note: add "… not that I'd know anything about that"

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I believe it's called discretion… not that I'd know anything about that.

 

Yes that's a better word. Cheers.

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