Won't be apologizing for shit, you spiritually proud rapscallion! It appears to me that until one truly has their ego crushed, over and over again by circumstance, they cannot open their minds to something larger than themselves. "Everyone is the Hero in their own story." My late-blooming mind also had a very difficult time understanding the intellectual abstractions of high-philosophy until the last few years.
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Originally Posted by Joe Rogan
Philosophy....without the drugs....SUCKS.
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And let's not forget you were one of the first ones to get pretty militantly atheist on this board after your crazy (sorry) family's behavior, before you met your BAE and found God or w/e.
That being said, I have found the most life utility out of a self-chosen amalgamation of various Eastern philosophies, analysis of comparative religion, and shamanistic drug experiences. It's not my fault everyone in the Midwest region is
retarded and terrible at transmitting spiritual knowledge in any way comprehensible to a flowering, stubborn, overly-curious young boy --- mostly because they do not appear to understand it themselves.
It seems that one cannot truly (TRULY) face the fact of their mortality until it is forced on them by life or other cirumstances.
Zazen and
Wu-Wei. Do it.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.
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Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended, except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
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~ Aldous Huxley
Also, Alan Watts is a fucking genius and helped me unfuck a LOT of my indoctrination: