What scares you..........

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by Posher778

That's why you tweak reality in your favor. I'm not sane. It's obvious. But i control my world because I *decided* to. "there's a universe in all of us" :D

Very nice - I like the way you think.


To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wildflower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake

[missmacabre]

Originally Posted by Posher778

That's why you tweak reality in your favor. I'm not sane. It's obvious. But i control my world because I *decided* to. "there's a universe in all of us" :D

Someone's been readin out of Oprah's bookself again :D

[Posher778]

Originally Posted by missmacabre

Someone's been readin out of Oprah's bookself again :D

Nope... Just always thought that way.

[urgeok2]

Originally Posted by The_Return

Man, thats what I thrive off of.

Hate to break it to you, but in a world like this you have no control over ANYTHING. You dont even really have control of yourself - how do you know that you're even sane? Maybe all of this - everything you know - is just a creation of your own mind?

Even on a less metaphysical level, this world has WAY too many variables to believe in any kind of "control". You could be killed 30 seconds from now by an errant plane engine crashing into your house, or any of a million other random events.

Chaos all the way, baby - its the only way to live.

you can control yourself to some extent .. you can control your actions.

you can do risk management and minimize the possibilities of negative events which is a form of control.

(speeding, driving drunk, etc - choices within your control to minimize the risk of an accident you cause)

life is about balance.

the balance between realizing (and exercising) what you can control and what you can't is one facet of the larger balance.

all chaos is not balance.

[missmacabre]

thunder and lightning... againnn. first big storm of the summer and im freaking out. Hold me?

[urgeok2]

i love thunder and lightning

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

you can control yourself to some extent .. you can control your actions.

you can do risk management and minimize the possibilities of negative events which is a form of control.

(speeding, driving drunk, etc - choices within your control to minimize the risk of an accident you cause)

life is about balance.

the balance between realizing (and exercising) what you can control and what you can't is one facet of the larger balance.

all chaos is not balance.

Thats more of an illusion of control.

Just because YOU aren't drinking and driving doesn't mean that some other guy isn't.

You can be in the best physical shape humanly possible. You can take every safety precaution on Earth - it's still not gonna help when your plane crashes. Or when some jackass blows up your office building. Or when the mugger's gun goes off unexpectedly. Or when the "routine surgery" goes horribly wrong. Or when you trip and stumble into moving traffic.

Nothing is ever guaranteed. I agree wholeheartedly that it's essential to understand what you can and can't control - and, IMO, no matter how much you want to think you can "reduce risks", there are still 30 million more ways to die at any second that you've never even considered.

I guess I just fall somewhere between Absurdism and Existentialism...life has no pint, and that IS the point.Have some fun and do whatever the hell you want to - because what else is there? Live every second that you have, 'cause you could die at any second.

[urgeok2]

Originally Posted by The_Return

Thats more of an illusion of control.

Just because YOU aren't drinking and driving doesn't mean that some other guy isn't.

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no but it cuts your chances of bad luck down.

sure - there's always the other guy .. but if YOU'RE the other guy .... you have a much greater chance of having bad things happened to you.

think of it as being 'better trained'
if you're better trained - you'll do better at your job .. there will still be assholes but your chances are stilla lot better.

you still have control over your own actions .. or should anyway.

it's like being drunk or not.

[Disease]

Originally Posted by missmacabre

Someone's been readin out of Oprah's bookself again :D

I guess it takes one to know one, but I'm just guessing.

[missmacabre]

Originally Posted by Disease

I guess it takes one to know one, but I'm just guessing.

you know me too well haha. I actually have been reading a lot of oprahs book club books. The Secret, and a new earth by eckhart tolle