Now here is a good question.. If your conscience nags you without even the smallest moments peace, that every day you feel as if something is missing. should i listen to it?
Because ever since I was 12 this has been happening. So I've been suffering with these feelings for 9 years. I'm intelligent enough to descern it from depression. This feeling is not emptyness Its like trying to remember prior to your first memory, theres something there just cannot be grasped.
So what should I do? should I listen to it?
And if anyone else has had these feelings and have listened or ignored them, tell me how that changed things.
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 Sep 8 2002, 8:12 pm
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Darnit! Now you have me all depressed! Go see a shrink!
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two paths basically, each leading to their own obscurity
1: Vigilanteeism 2: Pilgrimage (In the sense of the Spiritual Journey on Earth) | |
Here's something it might be helpful to remember: the sort of people you feel you have every right to impose your will upon are exactly the objectionable sorts they are because they believe they have every right to impose their will upon others.
I don't know why I waste so much time worrying about you, since you're not intelligent or motivated enough to be truly dangerous and if you ever do try to do anything that you talk about, you'd only get yourself incarcerated or killed. This isn't conscience that's nagging you. It's a fear of inferiority... or actually, a fear of normalcy, which can seem inadequate when you're presented from birth with images of larger-than-life figures. You have a god/superman complex. You need to believe that you're somehow fundamentally different (better) than everyone else, and what's more, you need for us to believe it, which is why you're willing to take any off-the-wall passing thought that merely strays past your consciousness and present it to us like it's a deeply-held belief. Whereas the average person will have a random thought like, "I wonder what it would be like to have x-ray vision?", you would have the same thought and then announce, "I can see through physical matter and I always have been able to." Even if no one believes you, this serves to create a distinction between you and everyone else... you have seprated yourself, made yourself different... and if anyone mocks you or argues with you, it just further proves your superiority because "why else would we fear you?" Fact is, you're not that different. My roommate, after visiting one of my Wiccan friends' apartment for the first time, announced that she was going to become Wiccan, too. 48 hours later, after having borrowed a book from someone, she announced she was a natural witch and could cast spells without any elaborate rituals, materials, or years or practice. 48 hours after that, she had forgotten about the whole thing, which is a good thing, because part of her delusion of the moment was that she could steer her 18 wheeler with her mind. Everyone goes through a phase like this growing up. Most of us grow out of it. She hasn't. You haven't. Go see a shrink... or just grow up. | |
If it'll make you feel better to do something about the feelings, then do it... If not, then don't...
Simple as that... Life doesn't have to be as complicated as everyone makes it out to be... I try to simplify all of my thoughts and feelings as much as possible... It really makes living into quite an easy task... | |
Myself, I imagine that you're the person who would consider the government at fault if some schmuck killed someone in a fit of passion.
There's nothing wrong with seeing a psychiatrist, assuming you have the money to throw out. Lots of people deny their psychiatric conditions and look just fine, but would be better off professionally checked. I'm not implying anything here, just stating fact -- my own mother could actually use some psychiatric sessions, since she's apparently schizophrenic (unless, of course, it really is four people that come into the house, call each other quite obscene names, and threaten to kill each other just about every night), but all attempts thus far to convince her to seek help have been brushed away angrily. Of course, I've never been one to trust psychiatrists either -- there are mental illnesses that can explain every single word that comes out of your mouth, and most psychiatrists assume you're handicapped until proven sane. | |
Heh... I too have a major internal feeling of some high destiny...
For as far back as I can remember, I've wanted to be a hero... Not the mundane type of "hero" like a firefighter or something... But something grander... And there's always been this thought behind that desire that told me that I will someday become the hero that I've always wanted to be... I'm talking "video game hero" type of hero... "Save the world" kind of deal... Of course, this is obviously a foolish thought... So I've pretty much just entertained it as a fun thing to daydream about from time to time... But if the chance ever arose... I'd be all over it...lol The trick is to realize how silly it is to think that a "save the world" type of role could ever fall upon one person... It's just not feasable... So I know it'll never happen... But that nagging thought has always lingered...and will probably continue to until the day I die... So my revised advice to Dareb is that you should only fix whatever's naggain at you if it's possible, and won't cause a danger to yourself or others...lol | |
you are in a constant dream that others dream, the "reality" you speak of where there are limitations exists, but no more than a video game.
Wake up, there is more to life than what is visible. | |
I like toying with the hero concept too, but only when getting ideas for my major non-BYOND project -- having a player who can do backflips and cartwheels without touching the ground, and who can whip out twin pistols in John Woo style, ought to lend it a Matrix-esque atmosphere (which, incidentally, has a fairly good hero concept by itself).
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Not from where I'm standing...
As far as I'm concerned, if I don't think it exists, then it doesn't exist... Regardless of whether it really does or not... If my reality doesn't include it, then it doesn't affect me... If it affected me, then my reality would include it... You sound a bit like The Matrix, you know...lol Sure, the concept seems feasable, but not likely... And even if it was, it hasn't hurt me to this point by not knowing it...why bother to change that? | |
uh.... people can do cartwheels without using their hands, but on a level field the most successful flips AND land was 2.
Many people are very flexible which would allow their tendons and muscles to promote blood flow and would permit faster movement even some movements that would be otherwise impossible. I myself can put both my knees together behind my back. So as stated earlier about me having an inferiority complex, not so, im hardly normal as is. | |
Whereas the average person will have a random thought like, "I wonder what it would be like to have x-ray vision?", you would have the same thought and then announce, "I can see through physical matter and I always have been able to." lol | |
Who defined "perfection"?
If none of us fit the model, then none of us could have possibly conceived the model... Therefore, the one who considers himself to be perfect must have defined his own model of perfection... So of course it applies to him... Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy... | |
I have a feeling Dareb is more of a person that either hasn't outgrown childish games or is still a child. Essentially going to forums and online communities where all sorts of oddities can be said from the anonimity (mostly) of a computer. They are to get reactions out of people, toy with them, see what they will believe, and what exites them or invokes a response from them. Merely a form of entertainment.
Of course that could be wrong and Dareb is really a confused person who thinks he's on a higher plain, above others, or simply better than others (as is evidenced by his statement to wake up from the dream of reality, implying that he already has woken up and sees more clearly than the rest of us mere mortal puppets, bound to our vision of reality and the limitations it imposes). I hope it is the former. These may just be manifestations of my limited perceptions and lack of practical experience with judging peoples intentions. Enough babble for now :p | |
Dareb wrote:
you are in a constant dream that others dream, the "reality" you speak of where there are limitations exists, but no more than a video game. So we're in the Matrix? Gads, that's not even original. Wake up, there is more to life than what is visible. This is of course literally true, but if you get into the spiritual... how exactly are you qualified to know what's true and what's bogus? (How is anyone? But that's another discussion.) As Lexy said, and I quite agree, you've shown a certain aptness to leap to bizarre beliefs without foundation. People of religion have faith, which is more than just blind belief, and much more than just believing anything that pops into their minds like an electric monk. You've never really shown any indication that your beliefs have any kind of consistency. This being the case, wouldn't it be desirable to put a firm footing in the visible world and strict logic before going back to wondering the big Why? Lummox JR | |
Just a tip before you go on the debate circuit: most people will expect you to disagree and try to refute other people's claims, rather than immediately going and proving them.
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Incidentally, exactly what is your conscience nagging you about?