NIkki - more for the conversation that continues from it paraphrasing: you can’t get drunk and fuck women wrapped around a tree" frenchie replies “thats the kind of mentality that keeps the dead with the living but lets not argue. not trying to convert here.”…“stuck up bitch”. ok. suppose I should hace said PIIHP and then a fist pump and we’d be cool and role like bros. I keep thinking these are serious and thoughtful threads. my bad.
joe- The nastiness in this world prevents me from believing that there is a “creator”. there is too much I would change. if it were my world I would be crying. I suppose trying to understand the plan is beyond our scope.
Soldog - I will remember your quote next time. If I open my mouth in there it just means I’m willing to get dirty. enough said.
snap - you make it sound so comfy, except that with my recent tear I’m chicken shit. no way in hell now.
I just try to be a good person. I look for the goodness in others. I love nature and the peace it brings. I believe everything and everyone is connected in some way. (yes, even trees) What way that is, I’m not sure.
But we only live in this body and this life once. Helping others helps yourself. If everyone would give back more and just be kind to one another, this world would be better off. I believe in Karma and she can be a bitch, as they say.
You get what you give. If you don’t give a shit, then ye shall be shitted on. lol
Frenchie: I thought a lot last night about why I don’t have an opinion about what happens when we die. The question kinda makes my throat close up. It’s hard for me to consider. When people that you have loved have died–the answer really starts to matter.
I’m an agnostic - there’s far too much weird shit going on to say for certain, no I don’t believe. However, I am not religious (and I don’t know anyone who goes to church - it’s a minority thing here in Britain) and whilst it would be believe in an afterlife, I tend to think that this life is all we have and then it’s lights out.
My most spiritual view is that we are all part of a whole - us, animals, plants, the planets and stars and anything else out there - and that whole is “God” if you like. We are born from it and we return to it when we die. Whether it is aware of us, I cannot say - perhaps we, as sentient beings, perform a unique function, or perhaps not, and it is no more aware of us than we are of the cells in our body.
Oh, I like where the discussion has been going lately.
I was raised Christian, I strayed from that mentality for many years – I believe we are all connected. Humans, animals, nature, ect. I believe in the law of attraction and karma, I have come to realize Christianity embraces many of the same ideas as the new age mentality. While I regularly attend church, I can’t say I’m sold on an afterlife… I believe hell is failure to attain your potential.
There’s a deep metaphysical aspect to Christianity, I’ve read through the new testament several times and I believe if you can TRULY love your neighbor as yourself you will be a very happy and content person. It sounds simple but can you really love someone else as much as yourself? I also believe the bible teaches how to live a balanced and disciplined life. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” (Matthew 7:7)
Maybe odd but the AMT makes you feel kinda superhuman (I can’t wait for them to be used somehow as modes of transport one day). My fantasy typically goes something like this:
I don’t believe in God (I actually think the argument from evil is fatal to the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam therefore that kind of God cannot exist). I… Would like it if the world was a better place for having had me in it.
Good question Nikki, and training there was not since thursday. I was invited to a birthday supper party on friday. Drove 2.5 hours to Ottawa and ate with wonderfully typical Italien family with fabulous food and some homemade wine and also a 16yr old red bubbly straight from the mother country.
supper included vodka penne
homemade salami I believe
fresh raw muscles/cooked muscles (depending on preference, I had both)
plenty of wine and a super moist carrot cake
after that 6 of us went out dancing and had a blast. I slept about 6 hours and then drove back home.
Today I am feeling sicky and congested. dammit. Last time I went out dancing was 6 years ago and although I love dancing and partying I don’t see how people can do this on a regular basis.
Today is thus rest day. Maybe we can count the 3 hours of dancing as cardio?
been a little bit since ive been in here frenchoo and i’ve missed out.
so i’m calling do over.
the best answer i’ve ever encountered to why there is pain and suffering and “nastiness” in the world i read in “angels and demons,” when the carmelingo (sp?) answers the same question.
that parents, often when raising children, let them make sometimes painful mistakes as an opportunity to learn/teach them something. the less they learn, the more opportunities they get to do so.
and that if God is our Father as Catholicism (and others) teach, then all of our suffering is to teach us. what, whom, and why, we don’t know because we’re not privy to The Plan.
I cant say i totally accept this answer, but it’s the most logical i’ve heard yet.
It is not at all unusual that I agree with Cal…except my degree wasn’t in philosophy. I do very much like what you and Joe wrote on the subject.
Nadia, I wear thong panties while training and, frankly, always. I don’t own any other kind, and I don’t own anything that isn’t top-shelf pretty. Commando just means more washing of workout pants than I really can be bothered with since I’m not much of a sweat-machine.
See Frenchy, what happens when I die and thong panties are perfectly capable of being discussed in the same post.
@Kimba - I used to wear thongs (despite having an arse like two cauliflowers) because I hate VPL but went through a phase where I was constantly getting cystitis. It was so bad and so frequent I thought it was interstitial cystitis (the chronic kind) and I couldn’t bear any kind of pressure against my nether regions, so I stopped wearing underwear for a while. Then I got used to not wearing it and now if I do put some on, it irritates the fuck out of me. As far as hygiene goes, if I want to wear something (jogging bottoms, jeans etc) more than once, I’ll stick a panty liner in it - problem solved.
