So I was talking to a buddy of mine yesterday about his process of sobering up from all types of drugs (ie: too much acid, coke, and shrooms to be specific) and he was talking about how he went a bit nuts after sobering up and how he thought he was in the middle of a vicious struggle between the devil and god for his soul. But the weird thing is he expressed thoughts that I myself have thought. How every now and again I get the feeling like there is something magnificent I am put here for. Like if I could just focus I would figure out what I was meant to do. Maybe gandhi and people like martin luther king were people that took a step further and put their calling into action. Maybe each of us could do so much if only we would be more aware. It sounds cheesey, but does anyone else ever think things like that?
well you know you how you never seem to find what you're looking for until you're looking for something else? i don't think it's a mater of trying to focus but of developing your capacity to recognize. my personaly feeling is that the greatest magnigance is the limitless, or close enough to it, diversity of the infinite, or close enough to it universe, we are all surrounded by, outside of and beyond, the coerciveness of human society. and i do believe too few people really open their eyes to it. we litteraly live in a culture that doesn't have the slightest idea what it's missing, by failing to do so. =^^= .../\...
The atoms which make up our bodies are over 14 billion years old (the age of the universe) We are the universe made conscious. when we die we revert back to our basic form, born of stardust, we once again find ourselves among the stars. Hotwater
When someone spends alot of time changing their brain chemistry with chemicals, non-chemically induced life tends to seem a bit crazy. If he gets off the shit for a while, things will seem a bit more normal. There is always a struggle for one's own soul when it comes to good and evil. I've been on the extremes of both. I'm not a very religious person though, so devil/god part is a bit unreal to me. As for feeling that you are here to do something magnificent, you are correct. Every person is in no way like anybody else, ever. There are similarities, but never the same. The first thing that comes to mind are people's hobbies. Whats the purpose? None whatsoever except for the fact that you need to do them. That is your gift. Some people have hobbies that only effect their personal surroundings, and some have hobbies that can be showed or displayed to others to be enjoyed or discussed or to bring about changes in everyone's lives. Hobbies are your talent. All & all everybody is here to do something magnificent. You just need to discover what it is, and thats the hardest part of all. If you do nothing and waste your time, the magnificence is lost. The last thing I want to feel on my deathbed is regret for not doing what I think is my purpose. So far, I think I'm working towards that goal pretty well. Hopefully you and your friend will too...
I totally agree. There's no difference between the serial killer and the venerated gandhi and MLK; it's just the way they choose to live their lives, and the unique circumstances which they found themselves in. I just got back from Nashville, where I was trained by Al Gore for 3 days on how to present his slideshow on Global Warming, as seen in his movie An Inconvenient Truth! -Josh
Agreed, but some people are actually born with some sort of 'defect', which prevents them from achieving what I was talking about in my previous post. And by defect I'm not in any way trying to put anyone down, but there are certain incurable problems within some's brains or bodies that can prevent them from ever realizing their full self. Hence the serial killer. ...and how's my old pal Al doing?
