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Ourcrazymodern? · 11-15-2008, 08:05 PM

What else can it do?
Belief believes in itself.
I believe in belief though I recognize it ironic.

Amaras · 11-15-2008, 09:00 PM

Belief needs not us,
rather in needs only to be
what it is, regardless

BadNick · 11-15-2008, 09:10 PM

But do we need it? What could cause us to lose it? Without it we're doomed?

Amaras · 11-15-2008, 09:17 PM

Our needs seem not to matter,
only our wants.
Overindulgence of wants can lead to it's loss,
only when wanting it will it need to be found.
We are doomed when we do not need it.

uncle phil · 11-16-2008, 05:11 AM

i'd rather be a leaf than a garden hose...

Amaras · 11-16-2008, 08:14 AM

A paper sheaf all alone,
that nobody knows

Cynosure · 11-16-2008, 09:37 AM

Since neither belief can be proven
completely and irrefutably;
and since both beliefs
have been explored and argued,
exhaustively and endlessly;
which belief a person chooses
speaks volumes about that person.

ring · 11-16-2008, 11:12 AM

Others words are our words.
I breathe in our exhalations.

"I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would

Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
Its saddest sound

I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would"

Ourcrazymodern? · 11-17-2008, 04:59 PM

You see how we are? I'd rather have you here, smelling my pits! I love you.

BadNick · 11-20-2008, 07:08 AM

uncle phil · 11-21-2008, 12:52 PM

i'm a great fan of ceilings, myself...

ring · 11-22-2008, 09:55 AM

"Spinnin' wheel, got to go round.."

uncle phil · 11-22-2008, 10:45 AM

25, or 6 to 4?

Tophat665 · 11-22-2008, 06:25 PM

Only doubt persists longer than belief.

I believe in nothing because nothing is sacred. Nothing endures. Before there was anything, there was nothing, and when everything goes away, nothing will remain. I spend a great deal of time thinking about nothing. Nothing can comfort me, nothing can console me, and nothing can satisfy me. I stop for nothing, stop at nothing, and pray to nothing. My church is nowhere and there is nothing on the altar.

All Hail Nothing! It's better than anything.

BadNick · 11-22-2008, 09:49 PM

I'm still searching for beliefs. Here's a couple I found:

bee leaf
..........

if you look carefully, you can see this Super Bee leaf spring
...............................................................................

Ourcrazymodern? · 12-02-2008, 10:28 AM

Two weeks ago, I entertained a completely different basis for belief.
Its fluidity might be one of its most charming aspects.

I might now even have to look for ceiling cat.

uncle phil · 12-02-2008, 01:49 PM

Tophat665 · 12-02-2008, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?

Two weeks ago, I entertained a completely different basis for belief.
Its fluidity might be one of its most charming aspects.

I might now even have to look for ceiling cat.

Ourcrazymodern? · 12-05-2008, 09:11 AM

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

I believe that's very funny.
I believe humor is very important to our species.

I'm still a little unsettled that "lie" lies in the middle of the word, in English.

ring · 12-05-2008, 09:29 AM

I know,(believe) that I received the most loving, magical,
sparkling, crackling, heart-filled, smile-producing,
hairs-on-my-arms-standing-up, letter and card yesterday in the mail,
from my most beloved lover.

I re-read it at least five tmes in the middle of the night.

Love believes in love,
always has,
always will.

uncle phil · 12-05-2008, 02:23 PM

does the candle really glow?

Daniel_ · 12-05-2008, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil

does the candle really glow?

No.

The candle persists in NOT glowing.

The FLAME glows though.

Tophat665 · 12-05-2008, 03:05 PM

There are no such things as light bulbs. They're dark absorbers. When activated, they suck the dark out of an area in straight lines. Shadows are places that are obstructed from the dark absorber. Eventually they will fill up and refuse to absorb any more darkness. This gives us the opportunity to prove that dark has mass, because when you shake a full dark absorber, you can hear the dark rattling around.

11-15-2008, 08:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	belief persists What else can it do? Belief believes in itself. I believe in belief though I recognize it ironic. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

11-15-2008, 09:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
Amaras Junkie Location: At my daughter's beck and call.	Belief needs not us, rather in needs only to be what it is, regardless __________________ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -Noam Chomsky Love is a verb, not a noun. -My Mom The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. -Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928

11-15-2008, 09:17 PM	#4 (permalink)
Amaras Junkie Location: At my daughter's beck and call.	Our needs seem not to matter, only our wants. Overindulgence of wants can lead to it's loss, only when wanting it will it need to be found. We are doomed when we do not need it. __________________ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -Noam Chomsky Love is a verb, not a noun. -My Mom The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. -Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928

11-16-2008, 05:11 AM	#5 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	i'd rather be a leaf than a garden hose... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-16-2008, 08:14 AM	#6 (permalink)
Amaras Junkie Location: At my daughter's beck and call.	A paper sheaf all alone, that nobody knows __________________ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -Noam Chomsky Love is a verb, not a noun. -My Mom The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. -Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928

11-15-2008, 09:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	But do we need it? What could cause us to lose it? Without it we're doomed?

11-16-2008, 09:37 AM	#7 (permalink)
Cynosure Psycho Location: the center of the multiverse	Since neither belief can be proven completely and irrefutably; and since both beliefs have been explored and argued, exhaustively and endlessly; which belief a person chooses speaks volumes about that person.

11-16-2008, 11:12 AM	#8 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	Others words are our words. I breathe in our exhalations. "I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail Yes I would, if I could, I surely would I'd rather be a hammer than a nail Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would Away, I'd rather sail away Like a swan that's here and gone A man gets tied up to the ground He gives the world its saddest sound Its saddest sound I'd rather be a forest than a street Yes I would, if I could, I surely would I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would"

11-17-2008, 04:59 PM	#9 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	You see how we are? I'd rather have you here, smelling my pits! I love you. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

11-20-2008, 07:08 AM	#10 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa

11-21-2008, 12:52 PM	#11 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	i'm a great fan of ceilings, myself... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-22-2008, 09:55 AM	#12 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	"Spinnin' wheel, got to go round.."

11-22-2008, 10:45 AM	#13 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	25, or 6 to 4? __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-22-2008, 06:25 PM	#14 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	Only doubt persists longer than belief. I believe in nothing because nothing is sacred. Nothing endures. Before there was anything, there was nothing, and when everything goes away, nothing will remain. I spend a great deal of time thinking about nothing. Nothing can comfort me, nothing can console me, and nothing can satisfy me. I stop for nothing, stop at nothing, and pray to nothing. My church is nowhere and there is nothing on the altar. All Hail Nothing! It's better than anything. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

11-22-2008, 09:49 PM	#15 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	I'm still searching for beliefs. Here's a couple I found: bee leaf .......... if you look carefully, you can see this Super Bee leaf spring ...............................................................................

12-02-2008, 10:28 AM	#16 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Two weeks ago, I entertained a completely different basis for belief. Its fluidity might be one of its most charming aspects. I might now even have to look for ceiling cat. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

12-02-2008, 01:49 PM	#17 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	__________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

12-05-2008, 09:11 AM	#19 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	ROTFLMAO!!!!!! I believe that's very funny. I believe humor is very important to our species. I'm still a little unsettled that "lie" lies in the middle of the word, in English. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

12-05-2008, 09:29 AM	#20 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	I know,(believe) that I received the most loving, magical, sparkling, crackling, heart-filled, smile-producing, hairs-on-my-arms-standing-up, letter and card yesterday in the mail, from my most beloved lover. I re-read it at least five tmes in the middle of the night. Love believes in love, always has, always will.

12-05-2008, 02:23 PM	#21 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	does the candle really glow? __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

12-05-2008, 03:05 PM	#23 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	There are no such things as light bulbs. They're dark absorbers. When activated, they suck the dark out of an area in straight lines. Shadows are places that are obstructed from the dark absorber. Eventually they will fill up and refuse to absorb any more darkness. This gives us the opportunity to prove that dark has mass, because when you shake a full dark absorber, you can hear the dark rattling around. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.