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Every Day Is An Unopened Box
What am I working on right now? I have been working a lot on the devotion teaching. Every day I work on it, it seems only more mysterious. I have been working a lot also on the difference between mysteries and secrets. Secrets are just information withheld and they always have a way of outing themselves. Nevermind that we can all see each others’ souls if we allow ourselves to. Usually we don’t. It’s easier to look down or away than into someone and then have the responsibility of responding to them thereafter as an ensouled entity. But I’ve gone on enough about that. I’ve been working on another definition of love. I like to set them up and then destroy them. It keeps me honest - nevermind tortured.
Love is a bad word. Love is mappo. You can’t know if you’re in love because you’re in mappo and mappo is within you. But the things you can know are striving and wanting - struggling to be the best possible person you can be so that you can fully express that in every moment and give of yourself fully at all possible times. That is how you can know. That makes it pretty concrete, I think.
That fits into: gifts are for giving (forgivingness). The nature of a gift is that it is given. Therefore to be true to its nature one must thereby give it in turn. Which leads you into the idea of does giving mean you have less? That, I’m afraid, is a personal choice. Something about zero sum games and mutual abundance. When you’re given something you increase and when you give it to others you also increase. Not everybody looks at it that way but it can be. Especially with the kinds of gifts that are inexhaustible: in other words, the only ones that are worthwhile.
I bought pants today that fit me again. Because I gave away all of my weight. Not all of it. Just a lot over these past six months. Just happened without my intention or specific awareness at the time. Feels good again to have things that fit me after all this fluctuating. I leave for a 2-3 week sailing adventure Tuesday morning, I have a lot and nothing to do until then. I have “notes” from my notebooks scheduled to post through the end of this month. Not sure what day I’ll be back. I’m not going to write or probably read anything on my trip. Or that’s the operating theory at the time. Nothing to slice in between myself and my experiences.
Somebody started talking to me last night about the ending of Pinocchio which I don’t remember whatsoever. Apparently they go to this place called Pleasure Island which is just full of gambling and vice and then everybody turns into a donkey or a goat or something. It seems really scary. I felt as they were describing it that I could very much relate to it.
Pinocchio is the classic Christ story: he is struggling to become A Real Boy™ so that he can Join His Father™, and in so doing he just so happens to redeem everybody else. Because this is the thing and this is really important: the things you think of as being “flaws” in other people are actually their character traits. It is the art of them playing at being themselves. By Redeeming Everybody Else First™ what you are doing is allowing people to simply be themselves which further encourages them to express who they really are. Because everyone’s true nature is perfection beauty joy love all the rest. Being who you are and getting what you want or being what you want and getting who you are?
Goddamned difficult in practice though: because each person in whom you see “flaws” was sent to you to highlight one of your own weak points. One of your own instances where you failed to allow yourself to be and express your true nature. That’s why love is a challenge. Love is sent to teach you to finally let go of your pain and your fear. Again good words on paper. Good words in the ear and the eye. Mighty hard to live according to and by.
But the point of the Pleasure Island thing (if there is one) is something like this: within the Garden of Eden, you become the pleasures which you allow yourself to indulge in. This doesn’t sound so bad at first blush, does it? But on further inspection it is also the direct route to hell. Think back on those cartoons they fired at our minds in childhood. I remember images of piggish people in hell being fed donut after donut. You become the pleasures you allow yourself to indulge in. It doesn’t mean don’t indulge in pleasures (because this is the Garden of Earthly Delights after all) but it means that you may become other things if you choose. You don’t have to turn into a pig or a donkey or a goat - unless you want to. I think this is what they are talking about when they say that “sin separates you from God.” The point isn’t that you’re doing something wrong by getting drunk or stoned or screwing but that you’re choosing a lesser pleasure when there may be others available to you if you transcend living simply by indulging in drives. This is where Faith, I think comes in. Why should I bother to live such and such a way (away) if I don’t have any proof in the rewards? There isn’t really a reward though. I mean there is, but there isn’t. I think reward implies that it’s given randomly from without. But it’s pretty far removed from that because the reward is what radiates out from you the gifts that are grown and to be given from within your heart.
I like the bit in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas where Jesus gives the two commandments about how to live daily life: Don’t lie and don’t do what you hate. What he is talking about is purity. Not just moral purity. Because moral purity is an after-the-fact occurrence stemming from states of increasing spiritual ecstasy and purification gradually daily. He is talking about unity of mind and heart. He also says: Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. Which is the same thing. He is not talking about some kind of transcendent state. He is just talking about totally accepting the Truth of what is in front of you and within you and making it continuous in and throughout.
“Happiness equals what we have divided by what we expect.”
Thomas (”The Contender”) Carlyle continues:
The Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Demoninator, Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero, then thou hast the world under thy feet.
This is why the “regular” Jesus talks about giving everything you have away. Got no possessions. Got no expectations. All you have then is the Truth. You heart is like a diamond. You throw your pearls at swine. No wonder you can cast out demons then. No wonder you can heal illness. No wonder you can raise the dead and cleanse the lepers. When all you have is the truth everything becomes very obvious very childish; why deny the obvious child?
“When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].”
You have to make everything into a single fixed point. The point of the suffering Christ impaled upon the wall of the hearts everywhere beating and wailing upon the Cross at every moment equally alive and equally aware of his own death. The diamond consciousness. The diamond body. The diadem corona crowning your already halo hair tonight, o woman. You have to stop the world. You have to stop the world I wanna get off.
I think I understand what the purpose of Theology is now. Theo logos. The Word of God. The Word of the Prophets. The Way of the Truth Tellers. All people understand this. Aslan. Theology is just what happens when you try to be precise in your language, in when you try to be True to Your Word. That is you recognize that what you say is what you do in your decisions inner most heart. And you try to be perfectly uniform so as not to mar the perfect beauty of what you’re experiencing within your heart. But that must be tempered not by adherence to the letter but to the vivifying spirit beneath it bouncing dancing in omniscient octopus arm abundance.
I have been trying lately to perceive the space within the exact physical center of my head lately. It is weird because I am growing increasingly aware now of the state of that space. It is a weird feeling. It I think indicates some weird attempt at this whole diamond unity thing I am talking about. Its like trying to become aware of all points within any given field space at once simultaneously is omniscience. Not that’s what I’m after. I just want things to be clear for once in my life. Clear simply because they are what they are. Being what you are and getting what you want or being what you want and getting what you are? I guess what I am saying is that I am done fooling around.
(Sorry Ted, I couldn’t find a way to work that stuff in but I will come back to it cause it fits somehow)
Pregnant impulses glisten upon
the new morn lawn.
“Mornin’ moon man,” the
mailman whimpers.
Crows banter back and
forth go cars
On the freeway uniting
and separating
Both our hearts.
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July 16th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Try either going in from your lips, over your tongue and then up behind your palate or just start in your mouth and slowly go back and then up when it feels right. An exact physical center didn’t mean much to me - when I am there it feels as if I am a fraction or so off center - more towards the back of my head. When I can get there man do my feet feel FAR away. Sometimes I have even hit the space about 12 inches behind and up from the top of my head. Man oh man do my feet feel far away then. My mouth feels like a vast, pulsing cave. Difficult to do but always pleasant when I can.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Well that was interesting anyway…but damn…if you go sailing, before you get to it I’ll never hear your answers!!
This pleasure island thing and becoming what you want to become eventually and the danger of getting what you want, thats interesting too though.
I feel like I never finish anything. I was on this project to kind of go over to the dark side and be rich and powerful. I was reading lots of nietzsche, “the 48 laws of power”, the “Psychopaths Bible” etc. “left hand path” religions etc. etc.
But it was mostly a mental exercise, changing how i think. But it didn’t feel fulfilling. Maybe it would have eventually had I kept going. But anyway, the PKD article had a big effect on me.
It feels like coming back home in a way to Christianity again, but still i am burnt out on a lot of aspects of christianity still. Anything that smacks of being a martyr, suffering for the sake of being pure, self sacrifice etc, turns me off.
But I do feel like I need some type of purpose other than serving my self to feel fulfilled, I just feel that suffering is best understood as pointless and not some holy beutiful magical thing that blesses people.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:55 am
It’s funny how different those words are but get translated into one word in the english version.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:01 am
I think the best thing suffering can do is toughen you up. There is a Brazilian MMA fighter I followthat got run over by a truck as a kid and broke his back, collapsed a lung, almost died. Then he came back and used that fighting spirit he gained from it to be a fighter.
But like, suffering to show obedience, submission, moral purity, love, I just find it annoying. I’m annoyed that maybe that is God’s plan to really grow spiritually. I hope its not.
I even like Socrates martyrhood better, because he did it with spite.
Plus I think all this imagery of Christ on the Cross has been used for hundreds of years as guilt manipulation. “Just look what he did for you!! Look at him!” these crucifixes seem to say.
Now I can relate to what you say in terms of choosing some pleasures over others. I think you can be on higher frequencies or lower frequencies. I can see that.
I like having an uncluttered rather austere life, because it lends itself more to insight.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I found some interesting articles doing a google Search on “The Beauty of Suffering” one article came up by then Cardinal Ratzinger.
Google: Beauty of suffering
I guess ,to me, submitting to suffering as an act of obedience, feels akin to submitting to being raped or somthing. I won’t rattle on about it here any more. but I think I’ll write about it on my blog.
July 16th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Ok,
I wrote an article on my blog about suffering, That way, I won’t use your comments section as my blog.
But I found this paragraph in the PKD article that encapsulates what I am most interested in. I would really be interested in your opinion on this:
“What can one say in favor of the suffering of living creatures in this world? Nothing. Nothing, except that it will by its nature trigger off revolt or disobedience — which in turn will lead to an abolition of this world and a return to the Godhead. It is the very gratuity of the suffering that most of all incites rebellion, incites a comprehension that something in this world is terribly, terribly wrong. That this suffering is purposeless, random, and unmerited leads ultimately to its own destruction — its and its author’s. The more fully we see the pointlessness of it the more inclined we are to revolt against it. Any attempt to discern a redemptive value or purpose in the fact of suffering merely binds us more firmly to a vicious and irreal system of things — and to a brutal tyrant that is not even alive. “I do not accept this” must be our attitude. “There is no plan in it, no purpose.” Scrutinizing it unflinchingly, we repudiate it and aid in the repudiation of all delusion. Anyone who makes a pact with pain has succumbed to the artifact and is its slave. It has done in another victim and obtained his consent. This is the artifact’s ultimate victory: The victim colludes in his own suffering, and is willing to collude in a willingness to agree to the naturalness of suffering in general. Seeking to find a purpose in suffering is like seeking to find a purpose in a counterfeit coin. The “purpose” is obvious: It is a trick, designed to deceive. If we are deceived into believing that suffering serves — must serve — some good end, then the counterfeit has managed to pass itself off and has achieved its cruel purpose.”
Because in some ways you seem caught up in this idea of beauty and purification through suffering. I could be mistaken.
July 16th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Yeah I can see how it sounds dumb from the outside. I have at least one more post in me I think before I go sailing.
In the meantime I think this is a wonderful description of what I’ve been through:
http://archives.nd.edu/episodes/visitors/rhb/fc03.htm
This in particular is good:
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“There follows, however, a third stage before the Way of Purgation is wholly passed. The soul has learned that external things are not Christ; that internal things are not Christ. She has become “disillusioned,” first with the frame of the picture, and next with the picture itself, before she has reached the original. She now has to learn the last lesson of all, and become disillusioned with herself.
Up to now she has always retained a belief, however faint and humble, that there was something in herself, and of herself, that attracted Christ towards her. She has been at least tempted to think that Christ had failed her; now she has to learn that it is she who, all along, in spite of her childlike love, has been failing Christ; and this is at once the real essence and object of Purgation. She has been stripped of all her coverings, of her ornaments and her clothes; now she has to be stripped of herself, that she may be the kind of disciple that He wishes.
She begins then in this third stage to learn her own ignorance and her own sin, and to learn, too, that which ought to have been wholly incompatible with her ignorance and her sin — her amazing self-centredness and complacency. Up to now she has thought to possess Christ, to hold Him as a lover and a friend, to grasp Him and to keep Him. Her previous mistakes came from this very thing; now she has to learn that not only must she relinquish all that is not Christ, but she must relinquish Christ — leave, that is to say, her energetic hold on Him, and be content, instead, to be altogether held and supported by Him. So long as she has a shred of self left she will seek to make the friendship mutual, to give, at least, a fraction of what she receives. Now she faces the fact that Christ must do all, that she can do nothing without Him, that she has no power at all except what He gives her. What has been wrong with her up to now, she begins to see, is not so much that she has done or not done this or that, that she has grasped at this or that . . . but simply this, that she has been herself all along, that she has sought to possess, not to be possessed . . . that she has been herself, and that that self has been hateful because it has not been altogether lost in Christ. She has been endeavouring to cure the symptoms of her disease, but she has not touched the disease with one finger. She sees for the first time that there is no good in herself apart from Christ; that He must be all, and she nothing.”
July 16th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I don’t fucking know, man. First of all you don’t seem dumb to me and my perspective is outside of your experience, but I don’t believe I am outside experiences of suffering caused by devotion to Christ.
I really think I am very well aquainted with that. This article really, just clinches it for me more. Maybe these exchanges we have aren’t really going to be productive.
But this paragraph, you posted just makes me more angry. Not that anyone should care that I am angry. I don’t care if anyone cares. I am not angry in order to get some reaction from others. I am just sharing how this stuff affects me.
First of all its in the feminine voice in that PC way, that I believe causes male readers have to emasculate themselves to identify with the narrator.
but in this case its fitting. Because Christians are all female in a sense because we are the bride of Christ. I resent that also.
We must be totally passive and dependant to mature in our relationship with christ.
I resent that. So really this article just underscores, 4 or five times pressing the pencil really hard and breaking it on the paper, why I hate Christianity and the fundamental beef I have with it.
I have to be Christ’s bitch basically, have to be a submissive all tied up in leather with a red ball in my mouth.
That’s how I look at it. And I say fuck that. If that’s what it takes to be a mature disciple of Christ, fuck that.
But I get nothing out of ranting and raving on your blog. I don’t want to convince you of anything. I guess i just saw your new found faith blossoming here on your blog and I wanted to test you to see if you would come to the same point i did and what you would do.
And you answered my question. You got to where I did and you continued on and i just won’t.
I won’t.
Good bye.
July 16th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
You don’t suffer because of devotion to Christ. You suffer because of mappo, because of the degraded state of human existence. Devotion to Christ is what removes that. You can only remove it by embracing it. The point of the “via purgativa” is simply to do as you said: to fully enter into the dark side, accept it and let it go. Power is not important. All power and glory comes from God.
Give yourself permission just to be angry and pissed off then. It’s okay to feel how you feel. It’s perfectly normal. The Mysteries of Christ and of God cannot be first pierced by the Logical Mind. Rather the experience of them totally transforms the organization of your interior world.
I don’t see that as being very relevant. Noone, I don’t think, should be a “disciple of Christ.” You should instead act out the stories in your life with your friends and loved ones. It’s a story to be lived and experienced from the inside out. Getting riled up over it intellectually is all well and good, but it’s not the purpose of it. It’s like watching a movie and getting mad that there are plot holes, that certain scenes were shot from certain angles, that you don’t like the actors, etc. It’s just a story: but it’s a story that leads somewhere. It is a set of steps towards a specific goal.
July 16th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Really, what we’re talking about is “exchanging bad harm for good harm” ultimately. But that’s a whole other story
July 16th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I am responding back because you responded back to me. I don’t personally feel there there is some huge gulf of understanding about this between you and I.
I mean unless you think there is no choice at all in this process? Not sure what your disagreement is with the concept pf being a disciple.
Call it what you want. could it be that i don’t really have it all wrong? That maybe I am not in the dark on this stuff?
look at this statement out of context.
“He must be all, and she nothing.”
Who would want to be the “she” in that sentence? In what context would the “He” not be a total asshole?
I think the only context in which it would make sense is Stockholm syndrome. The victim identifying with the abuser to the point that the victim loses his/her identity and takes on the identity of the abuser.
But of course you have the abuse being mediated in such a way that the abuse is not perpetrated by the person whose identity is being taken on.
You can’t say an educated “No.” to this transaction? Must you either be the wise one or the ignorant one, The wise one knows she is nothing and relents, the ignorant one foolishly clings to self respect?
July 16th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Well, I went back and read the whole thing.
I guess in this model presented in the article this would be me:
“There is first the danger of gradually losing hold on religion altogether, during a long lapse of discouragement; of turning with bitter reproaches upon the silent Friend who will not answer. “I trnsted You; I believed in You; I thought I had found my Lover at last. And now You too, like all the rest, have failed me.” A soul such as this passes often, in a burst of resentment and disappointment, either to some other religion — some modern fad that promises quick and verifiable returns in spiritual things — or to that same state in which she had been before she ever knew Christ. (Only, it must be remembered, a soul that has once known Christ can never be quite as one that has not known Him.)”
There is a ring of truth to that. It makes it more annoying. The thing that gets me is that my life had to suck so bad in order to get me to accept Christ. I came to Christ is a desire to escape horrible gut wrenching pain and suffering. Then I had a beautiful honeymoon with Christ, that lasted about 4 or 5 years. Think about that for a second. I went to Bible College, then eventually I was faced again with horrible pain and suffering, existential depression, hopeless situations, but there was no one to turn to for solace, I will not mouth the words “Though he slay me, yet will I trust him” or whatever it was Job said. I don’t want to do it.
This makes me shallow of soul? I guess it does. I guess I am fucking shallow. It seems like I earned that title. You wouldn’t think it would be so hard.
So yeah, if I ever let go of this bitterness I have toward Christ, i would have nothing. It would be the last thing I would need to let go of to be purged of everything and I won’t let go.
July 16th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Let me specify a bit more on the time frame:
Honey moon: 1991-1995,
horrible suffering and unanswered prayer while still being faithful :
1995-2005
2005 to present:
Rejection of Christ.
July 16th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
If Christ were a soldier on a battlefield who jumped on a grenade to save my life I would owe him my devotion. He died to save me. My life is nothing without his. I wasn’t worthy but he did it anyway because he loved me. I didn’t ask to be loved it was just a decision he made because he’s that kind of guy. I don’t feel it to be slavery to recognize my past and how it is connected to my future. I owe this guy a soul debt that I can’t repay. He had the hard part I get to sit around sipping Lattes. If I think of Christ as a human with a story like mine I don’t get caught up in as many mind games.
You’re totally right about this but, for me, this is where ‘be in the world but not of the world’ comes in. The world says be God’s bitch because they have appointed themselves representatives of God on Earth and benefit by my subservience. I like it that you’re so annoyed, it’s good to hear from you again.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Julia,
I think you illustrated the substitutionary atonement with your analogy of the soldier and the grenade.
here are a couple serious problems: The one that threw the Grenade is the Father and he asked Jesus to lay on it.
So say it was a free gift, even though a seemingly unneccesary one, since not throwing the grenade would have been a simpler solution….
but be that as it may, if it were a free gift, it should be free to do with as the recient pleases without any life of devotion or servitude attached to it.
But anyway, Good to see you too. I don’t think Tim holds to the subtitutionary atonement. Not sure though.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Consider the situation where she is a fictional character and He is the author and reader of her life story. She has no existence apart from His imaginative projection of his own Self, what he imagines he would feel, no, what he would BE, if he were in her shoes.
Does she ever suffer? No. Her superior willingly suffers for her sake, so that she can exist in her story. She doesn’t have the power to suffer, it is not ontologically applicable to her. At certain points in the story, she may believe she is suffering, but this is only insofar as her author/reader sacrifices his Self so that her self may have a portion of his existence.
I feel strongly that unless one has completely understood the Delphic injunction to “Know Thyself”, one cannot pretend to be educated on the matter.
The Passion occurs at all times and the living Christos continually bears the pain of existence. The Lamb was “slain from the foundation of the world.” It is both necessary and sufficient that the sacrifice in eternity should suffer the world to live, the conflicts of our world are resolved by the universal reconciliation, which both transcends Christianity as such, and of course is its cause.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Well I guess the thing is everybody has to handle their own emotional states in the end, right? (”I’ll have to handle myself”)
The one thing I wanted to point out here which isn’t really in response to what you’re saying, but one way to think of the soul as being “female” is the Jungian angle. Every man has his anima (female counterpart, animating spirit) which acts as his conscious mind’s mediator to the wild and crazy world of the unconscious. So in that reading it’s not a matter of the person or their soul being “passive” and “feminine” it’s just a simple matter of the polarity within each person - and how, like an electrical circuit, certain things need to set up energetically in such a way that a certain process can occur which powers the battery. But in this case, Christ is like a fusion engine or something which gets plugged into these processes and then negates the need for degraded fuel sources.
How bout that? It’s not *about* guilt or suffering at all really. Those are just human-level emotional experiences of these quasi-physical processes which something or other.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
This is also highly relevant.
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/11/17/a-broken-spirit/
When you sacrifice your heart to Jesus, what you’re giving up is actually the idea that you need to suffer (exchanging bad harm for good harm). But to give that up is a kind of suffering. Giving up suffering is painful because you are attached to it, to the pain of it. You seize up and let the pain hold you in a particular position which is a feedback loop that reinforces yourself.
You don’t give of the best parts of yourself, you give up the worst. Because those we hold to much more closely
July 16th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yeah,
I can see why you Guys like Christianity so much. Theres nothing not to like only things you can misunderstand. Totally unassailable. All objections meet a continually shifting target.
There are all these examples in the Bible of people choosing to show their obedience to God through choosing to suffer, there is the example of Christ in the three gospels, There is this two Millenia old tradition, all these writings and so forth…
but it all comes down to I guess that its whatever you want it to be at any given second. And you can constantly change the entire dynamic of it, at any objection to it.
Suffering is purgative, but if you object to that its really not about suffering.
There is sin, there is no sin. There is a God God is you and you are God’s dream.
whatever….
July 16th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I bet you that Guy at Notre Dame was talking about a specific thing in the article. I know what he was saying, I disagree, I bet if I were to talk to him he would’t flip the whole meaning of the article totally around constantly.
I mean if everything is just a big rorsharck test that you can change oevery second
or like theology written on a exo sketch.. then there is nothing to disagree with or object to.
So thats fine. I love Christ, Christianity etc. then. I totally agree.
I repent/rebel/love/hate/believe/doubt.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I’m not saying I’m qualified to explain it to you or that I even understand any of it, because I flat out don’t. I’m just trying to share my experiences openly and honestly and answer questions in ways that make sense to me based on what I’ve seen and felt. It’s not just a shifting target”, it’s THE shifting target: Life!
July 16th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Well,
I don’t mean to just be a Dick. have fun sailing seriously. I asked you a question I got an answer, it seems to me like you changed the answer. But maybe you aren’t trying to.
I feel like I know exactly what the Guy means that wrote the article on the Purgative way. So at first it seemed like you agreed with him.
Is it possible to reject Christ? I mean the author seems like he thinks you can. He uses words like “Danger”.
I feel like there is a real thing i am objecting to. You don’t have to agree with me. But its like I know what the Hell I am talking about.
I am not speaking to your experience, but is everything totally subjective? No one can know what the hell anyone is talking about?
There is nothing analagous in any way with two different people and their relationship to Christ?
There is no common path, and one guy is going along and gets off the path and maybe the other guy stays on the path?
There is no danger? Nothing to be risked nothing to be lost?
Its all whatver anyone says it is?
Seems to me like things don’t have to be quite so complicated. But why should I lay my shit on you anyway?
it seems to be working for you, this path, so thats fine. I guess I just feel like I know what I am talking about. But no one is under any burden to acknowledge that I guess.
So anyway, I’m sorry. No hard feelings Good luck on your trip.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
He who has ventured farther from home has a greater welcome awaiting him on his return.