More relentless contemplation, by yours truly.

[higher4hockey]

ahhhh thats better

higher4hockey Reviewed by higher4hockey on 04-13-2007. More relentless contemplation, by yours truly. I should get mad rep. points for this. :p Ladies and gentlemen, the following segment of this post is the epitome of doubt. Your advice is always welcome, however it is not vital. Doubt consumes knowledge, and immerses your "faith" into a realm hardly visited by the strong-willed, until it transforms you into a machine. Eventually, doubt will consume a promising spirit, until all that remains is a breathing carcass. I feel sorry for myself at times, I realize the harm I bring in the Rating: 5

[cannabis=freedom]

Doubt could actually be said to be the biggest problem in the universe. Imagine what we could do if we only truly believed we could.

[Ganj]

It makes you feel limited. Everyone around you changes and succeeds while your doubting mind binds you to a perpetual misery.

[thcbongman]

Live. You'll die someday.

[Ganj]

Live. You'll die someday.

In the words of the great Jim Morrison, "I don't know what's going to happen, but I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames."

[Emmm]

See, this is what just gets to me about people, it's that they feel like self-pity and self-martyrization is a trophy. Fuck that - I'm confident and proud, and all that matters to me is Me, my life, and those I love.

Selflessness is the bane of human existence, because selflessness implies that you think of others before you think of yourself. One can't be a martyr by oneself, because one depends on others for empathy. And if one lives based on others rather than on the self, how can one even have morals?

Be selfish, think about yourself, be confident - because if you depend on anyone but yourself, you cannot hold convictions. Only your independent spirit is capable of being moral and deeply intellectual, and when you start putting yourself down you give up your independent spirit and start living vicariously.

Those who are arrogant take pride in winning, but those who are confident can even take pride in losing, and those guys never finish last. In order to say "I love you," one has to learn how to say "I" and mean it.

[Ganj]

I won't argue that. I want those qualities for myself. However, selflessness is an admirable trait to procure. I find that by being selfless I am only taken advantage of. I guess more people think about themselves rather than the other way around. Something inside me says that the minority is the stronger of spirits, while the majority, however more powerful in numbers, is weakened by temptation.

[Emmm]

I won't argue that. I want those qualities for myself. However, selflessness is an admirable trait to procure. I find that by being selfless I am only taken advantage of. I guess more people think about themselves rather than the other way around. Something inside me says that the minority is the stronger of spirits, while the majority, however more powerful in numbers, is weakened by temptation.

Okay slow down philosophy-face mcgee,

"However, selflessness is an admirable trait to procure."

Why? There is absolutely nothing admirable about selflessness. Selfless people have no purpose in life. How could they? They have no self to achieve anything with. In order to achieve something, you need be self-motivated, and if you're selfless, you can't be, simple as that.

"I find that by being selfless I am only taken advantage of."

Obviously. Sefless people are treated like tools because they don't stand up for themselves.

"Something inside me says that the minority is the stronger of spirits, while the majority, however more powerful in numbers, is weakened by temptation."

Yeah, the majority is often just sheep-herding, so look around - What do you see? "Think of your neighbors! Donate money here! Be selfless! Think of others before you think of yourself!" It's all over the media, it's revolting.

Anyways, I'll stop here, I have no desire to argue, just making suggestions. What you do with them is up to you.

[Emmm]

I also just realized it sounds like I'm putting you down. I'm not - all to the contrary, I'm trying to give you sound advice.

Peace.

[Ganj]

"Selfless people have no purpose in life. How could they? They have no self to achieve anything with."

Selfless people serve no purpose that they're aware of because they serve the desires of others, however I do think it is impossible to be selfless. And not impossible in the sense that it's difficult to do, but because no matter who you serve, you serve to serve your selflessness. Does that make sense? Like someone who advocates the Lord serves to save themselves from eternal damnation. The act of serving another simply to permeate goodness in the atmosphere, yet the selfless act has a purpose other than to assist another, as it also aims to show the person performing this "selfless" act that they are indeed selfless. When in all actuality they too are selfish, but in a brainwashed kind of way.

Sounds like a tool to me. Good point, Emmm. Of course, this kind of selfish advice would serve me well, as it aims to invigorate my desire to live for myself with no convictions to another, to live freely of mental slavery.