-- Posted by Solitude at 6:35 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 theory or philosophy that you might have heard, whether you agree with it or not. Or if you want you can just post a quote that summarizes your values. "It is our choices far from our abilities, that show who we truly are." J.K. Rowling -- Posted by hI jAMES at 6:37 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 "If Im right, I lose nothing. But if you're right, I lose it all." -- Posted by TechnoShark at 6:38 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 My left eye itches. -- Posted by hI jAMES at 6:40 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 Hey, also this one:   "I ran.. Couldn't get away."  Flock of Seagulls style of penetration. -- Posted by Solitude at 6:40 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 Quote: from IndieGo at 3:38 am on Oct. 9, 2008 My left eye itches. because the other people will probably post something to bring attention to themselves -- Posted by confuzion at 6:42 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 camels have three eyelids!!!! random fact.... but in reality, my signature kinda sums things up for me, but I have many quotes, poems, etc. that I love, and that sum me up nicely.... How bout Invictus by William Ernest Henley anyone??? Best poem ever!!! -- Posted by Hi Carie at 6:49 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 love becomes justice when we realize we have neighbors.--Bishop Hanson ELCA president. -- Posted by libreg at 7:17 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 "It is better to wear out then to rust out" -- Posted by Wilder at 7:55 pm on Oct. 8, 2008 Long thought: Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, — master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. -Emerson, "Nature" It strikes unexpectedly at 9 am on the surface platform of the London subway system. (Due to a mistake)...I wind up at a station where I have never been before....The view is the dingy interior of the station, some grimy buildings, a bit of open sky. Instantly the entire view acquires three qualities: Absolute Reality, Intrinsic Rightness, Ultimate Reflection. With no transition, it is all complete....Yes, there is the paradox of this extraordinary viewing. But there is no viewer. The scene is utterly empty, stripped of every last extension of an I-Me-Mine (his name for ego-self). Vanished in one split second is the familiar sensation that this person is viewing a city scene. The new viewing proceeds impersonally, not pausing to register the paradox that there is no human subject "doing" it. Three insights penetrate the experient, each conveying Total Understanding at depths far beyond simple knowledge: This is the eternal state of affairs. There is nothing more to do. There is nothing whatever to fear. -James H. Austin describing his enlightenment (with 100 mg, smoked) "As I exhaled I became terribly afraid, my heart very rapid and strong, palms sweating. A terrible sense of dread and doom filled me -- I knew what was happening, I knew I couldn't stop it, but it was so devastating; I was being destroyed -- all that was familiar, all reference points, all identity -- all viciously shattered in a few seconds. I couldn't even mourn the loss -- there was no one left to do the mourning. Up, up, out, out, eyes closed, I am at the speed of light, expanding, expanding, expanding, faster and faster until I have become so large that I no longer exist -- my speed is so great that everything has come to a stop -- here I gaze upon the entire universe." -TiHKAL Why? What is the significance of an egoless state and why (from an anthropological perspective) does it occur so often in religion? What makes people interpret this experience as divine, and what are the implications of that? Is it still Samadhi if you find it in the end of a pipe? -- Posted by Vordhosbn at 2:22 am on Oct. 9, 2008 in my sig :) also: i'm eating chilli laksa, and my nose is runny. -- Posted by whoami111 at 9:30 am on Oct. 10, 2008 Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.                                                           -Einstein -- Posted by Solitude at 5:09 pm on Oct. 10, 2008 Quote: from whoami111 at 6:30 pm on Oct. 10, 2008 Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.   -Einstein I love that one -- Posted by JohnTheNormalOne at 10:51 am on Oct. 11, 2008 "We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene! " Col. Kurtz - Apocalypse Now -- Posted by Lihiro at 1:17 pm on Oct. 11, 2008 "Decisions must be lose-lose situations. Without having to lose one option, the predicament would simply be common knowledge." "Polygamy is having one wife too many, monogamy is much the same." - Oscar Wilde. -- Posted by the seer at 9:23 pm on Oct. 17, 2008 "What has surprised me most about mankind during the great war is not our ability to adapt to the new arenas of conflict, but instead our willingness in victory to so quickly return to the old." I'm tired of people's "morals" interfering with scientific advancement. take for example nuclear power. Because of the Impression the Atomic bomb has given the world people are afraid to embrace and improve this technology when it has such an amazing potential to solve the energy crisis as well as other applications.