PPK, they just don't understand what I am trying to say.

[The_Chosen_One]

Thanks everyone.

This quote comes to mind a lot in my days. I love it and try to live by it:

Recognise beauty and ugliness is born.
Recognise good and evil is born.

Is and Isn't produce each other.

Hard depends on easy,
Long is tested by short,
High is determined by low,
Sound is harmonised by voice,
After is followed by before.

Therefor the Sage is devoted to non-action,
Moves without teaching,
Lives but does not own,
Acts but does not presume,
Accomplishes without taking credit.

When no credit is taken,
Accomplishment endures.
(Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu)

Loup

Taoism can be considered Paganism too, which makes me feel good. Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Shamanism, Celtic Mysticism are all things that are part of what I believe.

[Frolic_Fun]

Fucking hell, that thread speaks exactly on what I think.

An example is myself: My girlfriend is in the UK and we love one another very much. We want to live together and all that typical romantic stuff. It's so intense that it can convince me at times, but I have to battle with my own naivety to accept that *anything* could happen and to prepare for any unforseen consequences. Shit can and will happen sooner or later.

However, I have realised that despite my intense dislike of such naivety, it is naivety itself that will make these people learn about the intolerance of life. They will learn it in some form sooner or later - the hard way. Some will survive from it, some will die. Due to this, I decided to leave them be and worry about my own life instead.

[Icequeen]

It was a good post Loup.

You've got a couple replies from some still living in a fantasy world because fortunately for them life hasn't smacked them upside the head yet, or if it did it bounced off.

That's to be expected though. Thanks for posting the link.

[Osensitive1]

I decided to leave them be and worry about my own life instead.

[Loupgarou]

Thanks so much everyone. There was one post on there(WP) that I read this morning that made me cry, it was so well worded and hit so close to home. It "moved" me to tears, and that is rare. I wasn't 'cause he agreed with me, it was because his words "sang"(can't think of a better way to say it). It was written by a member Rossc towards the end of the thread.

I really liked hearing everyones thoughts.

And steve-o, a man after my own heart I got into Taoism when I did Kung Fu. My master was an amazing man and taught me many things. Paganism, is also wonderful. Learn't a lot about that when doing theological studies and Buddhism I was brought up with. My mother was born in Thailand (even though my family is not Thai. We are of European descent. My grandfather was a mining engineer). Brilliant stuff.

Take care,

Loup

[Loupgarou]

Ah herrrmrrm! Now I know who Rossc is and blushed furiously

Just thought I should clear that up.

Thanks all for your thoughts
 

Loup

[P7PSP]

Fucking hell, that thread speaks exactly on what I think.

I see it all around me, impressionable youths with naive delusions of peace, change, love and harmony. An example of such naivety is this: A friend of mine (Gus) went to the US because she only "wanted to be loved" despite not particularly finding the person attractive (TWO). I tried to tell her to think things through and consider the consequences (ie. the love may not last, you're fucked if things go wrong in the US etc.) but she wouldn't listen to me. She went anyway and has been there since.

Is she stalking Lindsay Lohan? If she is I'll buy her a collectors edition of Catcher In The Rye.

[The_Chosen_One]

Ms Lohan?

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Hey, someone just shot Lindsay Lohan.

YAAAAAAYYYY!

[P7PSP]

Unrequited love is so poignant. 

[The_Chosen_One]

Unrequited love is so poignant. 

Well, Chapman had a copy of Double Fantasy, will bint be carrying Lohan's knickers?

[P7PSP]

Unrequited love is so poignant. 

Well, Chapman had a copy of Double Fantasy, will bint be carrying Lohan's knickers?

Probably not that hard to get a pair.

[RageBeoulve]

First of all, why bother posting there in the first place? I can see why you got so many stupid answers, as its wrong planet! Anyway, I saw -some- acceptable answers. Whats the problem?

[Al Swearegen]

Ah herrrmrrm! Now I know who Rossc is and blushed furiously

Just thought I should clear that up.

Thanks all for your thoughts
 

Loup

All good mate