Thought for the day

[nioka]

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

 

[brilliantmichael]

Many shall be restored that now are fallen, and many shall fall that now are in honour.

 

[>Apocalypto<]

all i can think today is



ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

 

[explod]

all i can think today is



ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Maybe there is something in that. There is a text on Metaphysics which starts with a chapter on the potential of a rock, the possiblities are endless.

To know, is a great gift, to use it, is the way towards success.

 

[nioka]

When I was 6 I thought my parents knew everything.
When I was 12 I began to have doubts.
When I was 18 I knew they really didn't know much at all.
When I was 24 I began to have doubts.
When I was 30 I began to realise that they didn't know everything but they knew a lot more than I did and if I listened to them I could learn more and hopefully teach my 6 yearold enough that by the time he reached 18 he did not think that I really did not know much at all.

 

[josh_in_a_box]

When I was 6 I thought my parents knew everything.
When I was 12 I began to have doubts.
When I was 18 I knew they really didn't know much at all.
When I was 24 I began to have doubts.
When I was 30 I began to realise that they didn't know everything but they knew a lot more than I did and if I listened to them I could learn more and hopefully teach my 6 yearold enough that by the time he reached 18 he did not think that I really did not know much at all.

I like that. not that i will ever admit it to my folks

 

[nioka]

Fools gold you find at the end of the rainbow. The good stuff you find along the way.

 

[noirua]

On and on we go and can never reach the end. Therefore, there can be no end and therefore, there was no beginning.

 

[rub92me]

Some girls will. Some girls won't. Some girls need a lotta lovin' and some girls don't. Oops, wrong thread. :

 

[explod]

On and on we go and can never reach the end. Therefore, there can be no end and therefore, there was no beginning.

That's cool, reminds me of the dust in the universe (another thread) where the NASA Scientist explains that the right mixes of dust from the universe in the right conditions becomes organic and we rise. In ritual we are told that we come from dust and to dust we will return.

So dust has been allways perhaps, and we are immortal because it will recycle over and over. Ahhhh too deep late in the day, cant' think anymore

 

[Pat]

Baby atoms I dont know

well might you ask where gluons and quarks come from? current theory suggest they are spontaneously created when conditions enable them to be created. not that that they come out of nowhere, they are actually always there in a subatomic soup of sort, they just don't exist until the conditions are right for them to come into existence.

from the micro to the macro, nature is following a plan.

To keep it simple, tiny bits/packets of energy. Everything is made from energy.

But what is energy? With out all the mumble jumble that is.
I don't know.

 

[noirua]

That's cool, reminds me of the dust in the universe (another thread) where the NASA Scientist explains that the right mixes of dust from the universe in the right conditions becomes organic and we rise. In ritual we are told that we come from dust and to dust we will return.

So dust has been allways perhaps, and we are immortal because it will recycle over and over. Ahhhh too deep late in the day, cant' think anymore

A quote from from T.S. Eliot: "Between the idea And the reality, Between the motion And the act, false the shadow"

 

[Red Fatboy]

Thought I knew all the answers,till the passage of time changed all the questions.

 

[nioka]

It's a good thing to listen to your body. (You don't have to believe everything it tells you.)

 

[noirua]

***Failure is not in falling down, it's in staying down***

 

[kgee]

A recent favorite of mine

" Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

-Hellen Keller

 

[brilliantmichael]

To have any hope of winning, first you must be prepared to lose.

 

[brilliantmichael]

Another gem from Sterling Hayden:

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?

 

[kgee]

or-to have any chance of winning, you gotta believe you have a chance of winning?
Really like that last quote....forgive my ignorance but who is Sterling Hayden?

 

[brilliantmichael]

or-to have any chance of winning, you gotta believe you have a chance of winning?
Really like that last quote....forgive my ignorance but who is Sterling Hayden?

Glad you asked! He was an American actor. Search wikipedia if you're interested. I'm currently reading his autobiography, 'Wanderer'. Fascinating philosophical and spiritual views totally different to our money-worshipping society today.....