Things are not what they seem

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  1. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    fadingCaptain

    Actually, I think I'm right. After all, you have no idea what you're talking about.

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    Tiassa

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  3. fadingCaptain are you a robot? Valued Senior Member

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    Well, it sure seems that way...
     
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  5. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    fadingCaptain

    It's not that you or anyone else isn't right. Well, a couple of people I've told they're wrong, but aside from that ...

    You may well have the right answer.

    To a different issue.

    That's all it is, because you are correct in the statement that no question needs answering because things are not what they seem. But that answer works for a different question.

    "Purple", for instance, is a perfectly fine answer. But what if the question is "Which way do I turn to get to the store?"

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    Tiassa

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  7. Cupric What's a wookie? Registered Senior Member

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    *ponders briefly* Huh. Whaddaya know about that?

    I'm not actually confused, I just seem confused.

    I also seem a bit too lazy to give it more than that.

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    (I'm inclined to just simply say, "That's because we create our own realities, duh.", but that's just too easy.)
     
  8. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Cupric, true enough

    Technically I'm running out of patience with this topic, but namely because it grates my nerves to treat people this way. For the most part, people are doing fine. In that respect, I've also received an unintended pleasure from this topic.

    I will probably break sometime today or tomorrow, and let everyone in on what I'm doing.

    In the meantime, excellent points.

    thanx much,
    Tiassa

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  9. Raithere plagued by infinities Valued Senior Member

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    Re: You're almost there, Raithere

    Well, I'm trying to follow your path on this. I do still think my first point was relevant but it was obviously not what you were aiming at.

    So how's this answer:

    Because we're looking into a mirror.

    ~Raithere
     
  10. Raithere plagued by infinities Valued Senior Member

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    Re: Cupric, true enough

    Aww, come now, this is fun.

    ~Raithere
     
  11. spookz Banned Banned

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    way more convenient to accept that things are more or less as they appear.
     
  12. m0rl0ck Consume! Conform! Obey! Registered Senior Member

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    "Things are not what they seem;
    Nor are they otherwise."
    -- Lankavatara Sutra

    http://www.geocities.com/unibuds.geo/sacca/may_2000/LighterSide.htm

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    Here is the whole sutra:

    http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/GrPhil/EPhil/Lanka.htm


    This is my favorite sutra:

    http://www.drba.org/heart_sutra_e.htm

    Short, to the point, explains everything.

    "Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. "
     
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  13. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    "Is all that we see or seem
    But a dream within a dream?"
    -Edgar Allan Poe
     
  14. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Here, a little clue

    See topic post for source reference.

    Thought I'd let y'all in on a little something about what you're trying to talk about.

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    Tiassa

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    PS on Edit: Raithere, you're right, it is kind of fun. I thought it might be interesting to show a little more of the source, though. Dollars to donuts, though, that people will still miss.
     
  15. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    Everything Is Meaningless

    "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly
    meaningless!" What do people get for all their hard work?
    Generations come and go, but nothing really changes. The sun
    rises and sets and hurries around to rise again. The wind blows
    south and north, here and there, twisting back and forth, getting
    nowhere. The rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full.
    Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows again to the
    sea. Everything is so weary and tiresome! No matter how much
    we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear,
    we are not content. History merely repeats itself. It has all been
    done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.
    -Ecclesiastes 1:2-9 (NLT)
     
  16. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    The pursuit of the material is a vain thing

    "No one can serve two masters; for either he will
    hate the one and love the other, or else he will be
    loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot
    serve God and mammon." -Matthew 6:24 (NKJV)
     
  17. Jenyar Solar flair Valued Senior Member

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    It doesn't matter, seemingly

    Galatians 2:6
    As for those who seemed to be important–whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance–those men added nothing to my message.

    2 Corinthians 4:18
    So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
     
  18. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
    This life of mortal breath
    Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
    Whose portal we call Death.
    -Longfellow, Resignation
     
  19. hockeywings Don't dance without music Registered Senior Member

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    uhh yea

    As far as I can see, there has yet to be a question asked, how are all of you coming up with answers, and being judged whether you are right or wrong? You are answering nothing.....
     
  20. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Good point!

    Hockeywings
    Well, that establishes how they're wrong, doesn't it? The degree of presumption is amusing to me, and nearly shocking.

    Jenyar
    A red rose absorbs all colours but red; red is therefore the one colour that it is not. (Perdurabo, Psalm 40, The Himog)


    thanx,
    Tiassa

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  21. spookz Banned Banned

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    do you mean to say you find this quote presumptuous and shocking?

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    out with it tiassa
    the anticipation is killing me
     
  22. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    "Things are not what they seem"

    That can also include this thread. Which so far
    seems pretty absurd and pointless. Or is it?
    Perhaps this thread is not what it seems.

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  23. joegurl13 Registered Member

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    "Objects in the mirror are closer then they appear" - quote from the anoyumous person who typed it up and printed it out on little clear stickers and place them statregically on every car mirror to teach us a life lesson.
     

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