tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50083593974680942482024-03-05T02:34:18.140-08:00MonkeySocietyblogMonkeySocietyblog is a commentary about Existence, Life, Liberty, and Spirituality. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-67671741652547638442014-06-08T01:48:00.001-07:002014-07-09T02:19:08.229-07:00Spiritual Enlightenment Anyone? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I will tell you this: Enlightenment is a thing anyone can be so excited about..yeah with all that imagination of that higher consciousness, awakening, immaculate being etc? Oh my god you will be really convinced that there is nothing you can't give up just to attain it.....even your family and wealth! That is how powerful it is. </div>
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But here is the spoiler folks. Enlightenment once you thought it through, is a boring thing you want to puke out knowing you were scammed big time. Haha.</div>
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This is not to disappoint anyone's spiritual seeking but this is what I found out. You see, you still have to wash you ass after you shit, won't you? Hell, you can't even delay it. Aka this is called in Zen that you still have to clean the plate after you have eaten the food. Enlightenment is not like you will ascend to the heavens kind of feeling. </div>
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Or in the more popular saying, "An ordinary man sees there is a mountain. A Seeker says there is no mountain. But a realized monk says there is the mountain again". </div>
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Enlightenment is akin to completing the circle of consciousness. First you are an ordinary man, then you are a seeker, then you are a realized being. You are lucky if you are already halfway through it or when you are about to see that the mountain is there again. </div>
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Of course I only speak out of my 20/20 hindsight. If you were already told that the paint is still wet, you have all the right to touch it just to know it firsthand and so you won't depend on second hand opinions from those gurus who refuse to tell outright the joke you were in. And there is a reason they won't tell you. Because by then it becomes senseless and boring. True gurus would only tell you a hint. They truly know that enlightenment can only be truly appreciated if one found it first hand. </div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">Taxation begun as a repugnant idea. But it did not remain as such through times. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">People got used to taxation already for a long
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">Taxation became acceptable these times partly because of the constant propping up of its importance. It is important to note that taxation could have never reached it current collective acceptance in the society without creating first a new type of crime called tax evasion. Taxation is never been a voluntary system of contribution. Rather it is a forced collection of funds from people. At times an individual is suspected of not paying his 'fair share', he will be accused of the of tax evasion. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">This way people are intimidated to join the system. If they don't then they pay the price, penalty or jail, set under the new crime defined.</span></div>
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sharing their wealth. </b></i> Of course, there is no such thing as crime of not sharing wealth. Tax is a portion of a man's income or a part of the value of his properties. When a tax is collected from him, what he is doing is sharing a part of his wealth. So, tax evasion is simply a refusal to share wealth. But it is a joke, right? Because again, there is no such thing as a crime of not sharing wealth. Tax evasion, when reworded in the context of private property and ownership of income, becomes a ridiculous form of crime. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">Tax evasion was defined in the context of duty to the society; a man being his brother's keeper. Without it having that way, there is no way to impose that tax evasion as a crime. The choice of words is the key. The term evasion is synonymous to dodging, avoidance and refusal. Tax refusal is being impressed as refusal to be a brother's keeper. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">However, again on the same sense, refusal to pay taxes is simply refusal to share wealth to 'brothers'. But this amounts to selfishness, is it not? Not sharing a part of one's wealth, they say, is a glaring show of selfishness. A man who does not give for the 'greater good' is a selfish individual. But I think there is a huge misconception on that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">First, if a man refuses to share his wealth to the rest of the society is called selfishness, what to call then those other men who demand a part of wealth from the former? The current state of social affair tells that the man who don't give is a selfish member of the society and the man that collect taxes is a public servant. The man who collects taxes is promoted as a hero and saint who is duty-bound to serve for the greater good while his subject of collection, the tax payer, if he refuses, is called in a negative characterization.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">However, there is an idea that is unapparent within the impression that tax evaders are bad and the tax collectors are good. And that is no other than the nature of collection. Collection is done in aggression. Taxation runs in intimidation or threat of penalty and jail. This fact, that collection is a form of force or aggression, is rarely known. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">Now, conceding for a moment that those who refuse to share their wealth to others are selfish men, the ones collecting the taxes should be categorically characterized in a proper manner. Tax collectors are simply by nature aggressors. These people use force to collect taxes. They use threat on people who hesitate to share a part of their wealth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">And there we see who is the real victim. The victim is not the greater good, neither the people who are unable to produce wealth themselves nor the tax collector. The real victim is the person subject of aggression, the one coerced to share his wealth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">I am not against sharing wealth at all. I share my money to beggars too. The act of sharing somehow gives comfort to me. It feels good to be compassionate. However, what I will be against is if I am forced to give my money to beggars. Worse is when beggars demand to me that it is their right for me to give them money. What I will protest against is if I am forced to be compassionate. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">There is nothing wrong with sharing wealth. Neither the refusal to share wealth. What is wrong is the use of force just to have a portion of other's property and money. Taxation as implemented by bureaucracy is inherently thru force akin to robbery albeit a legalized one. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">The society we are in today has a lot of people who consistently demand that every man must share his wealth pro-rata to all others, that is according to his capacity, a.ka. fair share. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">But if come closer to scrutinize it, there is a characteristic</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;"> only found on people who demand that everybody must chip-in and that evasion of taxes is a crime. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">So I am not against of sharing wealth. I am critical to the act of intimidation and threat in forcing people to share their wealth. Sharing must be done voluntarily. And if some people refused to do so, let them be and never resort to aggression for them to give. </span></div>
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So, people will continue choose to form or dis-form a government, a society, a connection among each other. But no longer my concern how they do it. But this does not mean I remain dead. In my own terms I still move, breath, eat, enjoy sex and money. But I do what I do just for the sake of doing it. Again, it is just the way things happen. And when the time comes I became itchy again at throwing stones to people, I will do it. But not with a mind that I should do it. I will do it for the sake of just doing it. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-44740457397671477502013-11-22T14:55:00.001-08:002013-11-24T21:50:23.545-08:00An Atheist, a Christian and a Monk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
An atheist, a Christian and a monk were heard conversing with each other.<br />
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Everytime the Christian uttered the word God, he pointed up is finger up to the sky in which the atheist would chuckle everytime because he really believes there is no God up there and that the Christian was acting irrational. He said to the Christian, "how can you be so sure that God is up there where in fact this planet is oblate spheroid! It is not flat."<br />
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The monk couldn't help himself and he chuckled too. The atheist had a point. A man in the north pole and another in the south pole would point their fingers in opposite directions. This very fact, the atheist thought, the Christian had a hard time getting. On the other hand the Christian had a point too. The only plausible answer to the question of existence is to insist that there must be someone who started everything. Big bang must not have been a cause-less fart.<br />
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As the debate goes on, all the monk could do was to chuckle and laugh. He had a zero intellectual contribution to the subject the other two were so sweating about. Finally, the other two were annoyed. And they asked the monk about God. The atheist, "hey, skinhead, will you side with me?" And the Christian asked, "what is God to you?"<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-55998149460471077192013-10-25T02:36:00.000-07:002013-11-18T21:50:46.170-08:00The E Question<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Too many questions. Countless. But there is only one which says it all: The E Question. Yes, the Existence Question. It only morphed into a multitude of forms, appeal and relevance. But they have the same root of itch. </div>
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<i>What am I doing here? </i></div>
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The question about existence comes in various ways. These questions basically ask the same thing, or express the same problem and expect to get the same answer. The answer being sought is hoped to finally end all questions. There is no bug as great as that elusive answer.<br />
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Remember when a fellow misplaced something. First, he has this sense he lost that thing, say a car key. Then he asks where he might have put it. Then he begin to trace back his actions in his memories. Then he finds the key. What is going on is that the E Question is being treated like the lost key. This is evident on scientists, among them most notably the ones who deal with galaxies, stars, sub-particles, strings and so on. They peer through every hole the can find to see where was everything before. What scientists do is practically asking <i>where is that key?</i> Scientists hope to find where did everything begin with a strategy similar to finding the lost car key, with no avail. Because every time a new hole is found where they could gaze through, the expected answer is not what is being found. What they keep on finding are just derivatives of their prior findings. They keep seeing smaller and smaller objects. The process does not end. </div>
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Which brings me to ask, what is the problem? Why is it that the answer is not found? The problem lies on the treatment of the E Question. What has been going on for a long time is that the E question is treated as a question which is thought to find a tangible answer.<i> Oh, here is the key at last!</i> Meaning, it is being hoped that behind the E Question is a grand object, a huge car key perhaps, which holds all answers. It is not. </div>
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1. The E Question will continue to be a problem mainly due to the inadequacy of reasoning, language and symbols. If one lost an object, he may ran out of places to locate it. In E question, language will run out of words. There will be time when scientist will find out the same answer a Zen master had already found out. </div>
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2. The E Question is not a problem of the answer being not found. The problem lies on the nature of the questioner and the question. In physics, the hindrance to understanding the nature light is light itself. Every time light is being studied, it is necessary they use light to see what happens. But by then, the light used to observe interferes the light being observed. The act of observing brings meaningless results. In E Question, the problem is the question and the questioner. </div>
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3. The E Question is an expression of <i>a</i> feeling of discomfort, a sense that there is something missing, or an expression of confusion. It is itself not the discomfort or confusion. Actually, it is <i>about </i>the confusion. Being just an expression, what sort of things does anyone hopes to get out of the E question? Probably more expressions masked as an answer. Nonetheless, not the true answer. Just an expression of the unspeakable answer. </div>
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So what is the problem? The problem is not that one can't find the answer. In truth, all has the chance of a lifetime to finding out the real answer to the E Question. The answer is found when the E Question stops being a question. How to make it as such? A master or guru has one simple instruction. Find the one who asks. The problem is solely on the questioner. </div>
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No man has ever planned to be sadder each moment.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">No one ever walks towards being a lesser happy
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<span style="font-size: large;">How about those men who take the
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The question presupposes a false dilemma.</span></span></div>
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<b>MonkeySocietyblog</b> is an attempt to spread the message of individual liberty using the kind of spirituality the Buddha had taught people in ages.<br />
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<i>MonkeySociety</i> is a metaphor for a backward-thinking society. The term "backward thinking society" is a vague idea. There is no clear calibration from where the "backward" thing can be seen to begin. But there is an unwritten rule for it I think. A rule that can't be well described and expected not to be agreed upon by all men. It means only one thing and that is it uniquely depends on the person making such evaluation. In my case, it is I who holds the idea how backward my society is. In my viewpoint shall reside the basis of judgment when to call my society a backward society or in this blog's theme, a <i>MonkeySociety</i>.<br />
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Much of what's to be said in this blog is just an image of me and not of anyone else. Though it may appear <i>MonkeySociety</i> is a group of people I wish myself not to be associated with, the paradox would be it is myself that is being described in all of its subtlety.<br />
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MonkeySociety is a contrast to what could have been. I believe humans are destined to evolve to a higher consciousness. However, there are times wherein a man is unconsciously caught in the trap of his own ignorance, preventing him to step beyond the human psyche's self-imposed limits. I for one have been trying to negotiate my way through it. It's a struggle during wake hours and I believe I came to a much clearer understanding of everything compared before.<br />
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MonkeysSociety is to be imagined like a fence, a wall, and an ironic rogue prison residing in the head that swallows a man in his entirety. There is nothing more baffling than to lay confused and not knowing how to break the heavy shackles of self-created painful confinement. But there is a way, don't worry. The very confusion will be the beginning of it all. It means that a change is commencing. That's one thing that is sure.<br />
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MonkeySocietyblog will serve a daily reflection of my thoughts. That is why I write this blog. I want to help myself. Only in that moment I can be able to help others (or seem to help others)<br />
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MonkeySocietyblog is to tackle backward tendencies of human mind (or my mind). Humans have grown very dependent to the institutions they have invented and slowly discarding the inner potential for a much nobler development. Government has been a powerful machine by which citizens could morph to a much lower level of creation. I don't like to mention it but I believe that some sectors of the society are fast becoming shamelessly parasitic in behavior, of course in irony with the popular claim that human civilization is advancing. And these humans fight among themselves just to survive.<br />
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But there is a way. The way would be to recognize that a<i> MonkeySociety </i>could never have been possible at the current extent if only humans could recognize the inherently genuine wholeness from within each self.<br />
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This is why <b>MonkeySocietyblog</b> was created. There is a joyful feeling knowing from within I am free to mock my own existence.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-37781338226539191132013-09-24T02:32:00.001-07:002015-02-22T22:39:56.131-08:00Why Socialism Naturally Appeals to Humans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The common thing between Socialism and Anarchism is that they are both Utopian. These two ideologies talk about societies that are hypothetical, a form of society that can be attained only in theory. And along with these two social theories are the means by which men tried to utilize to attain what these ideologies represent. Unfortunately, what is happening is that every time men would try to push for it, the means to attain it collapses in chaos and the goal is always left far from reach. </div>
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The differing views on the concentration of power is perhaps the only thing that makes Anarchism and Socialism distinct from each other. And that is the reason why, on the degree of appeal, socialism seems to always find frequent prevalence in societies. But why? </div>
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To attain an end, or to fulfill a scarcity, whatever it is (economic or not), a man would readily take the means which offers a lesser cost or the one that requires him a lesser sweat to attain the end or to fulfill the scarcity. Interestingly, <b style="font-style: italic;">power,</b> when one has it, perfectly offers a solution to anyone's scarcity problem. When incentive comes with a lesser cost than any other means, men would stick to that. </div>
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Perhaps the single biggest showcase of power, or the concentration of it, can never be found elsewhere greater than that which is held by the <b><i>State</i></b>. Meanwhile, often <i>government </i>and <i>state </i>are interchangeably used. But this should not be. Government is just an object of the State. State is the colloidal mixture of numerous hierarchy of power in a society, government being the identifiable central part of the State. State is a combination of all institutionalized affairs of humans like education, justice, trading, services, religion, and all other activities dynamically synchronized by laws held by the government. </div>
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The power to control is monopolized through the utility of government. And this monopoly of power does not come about by non-humans. The power is held by humans over the rest, albeit just few of them who by fortunate seize of opportunities brought to themselves the power to control the society. This is the status quo or simply means "the existing state of affairs". Things will always be most favorable to the ones who control "the existing state of affairs". </div>
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Going back to the question why socialism seems to be more prevalent in societies, the answer is obvious. The adherence to the idea of socialism is rooted to the human nature in which their desires are tried to be fulfilled by opting means that require lesser efforts. Government is the easiest way for men to fulfill desires without much expenditure of one's own personal resources. If one has the control, all that is needed to be done is to hold on to this power at all costs. Unfortunately, men who already have in them the power to control the rest of the population do not just stick onto their power. They naturally try to expand it at every opportunity. </div>
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The maintenance of power comes by constantly appeasing the rest of the population. Government promises to deliver services the public wants. Through the course of time, the tendency is that the public, wants after wants, desires more from their government. This tendency, again displays the inherent character of humans in which their desires are tried to be fulfilled in a minimal effort. While government leaders, politicians and bureaucrats can maintain a cozy lifestyle funded mostly by taxes, the population (who pays taxes) will willingly play their part as the governed as long as they feel they get their exchange on the bargain - the pampering. There is a symbiotic relationship between the governed and the ones governing. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.15; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Much talk had been done about which is which. Destiny or Choice. I am no longer inclined to regurgitate the already expended thoughts of many dead intellectuals only to satisfy no one, even myself. What I am more interested in is to make a way to arrest further commentaries about which of the two does really matter. Kicking the can down the road is no longer an option. If I would delay the matter, I am only engaging my valuable neural signals to already non-profitable, non-spiritually enriching nonsense of the mind. Yeah, I must accept that in order to do it, I am still using the mind yet paradoxically I am not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">So which is which? My answer is neither of the two. I have one word to describe the seemingly uncombinable thinly thick repulsive membranes of the two concepts. The two are like cousins allergic to each other but I will smack them together tightly. I would turn those illusory rigid and discrete boundaries of the two pesky concepts into a colloidal mixture until there is no more telling which one belong to either. As I said there is one word that can do that. When made to take side, I say fuck it. I simply call it STYLE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yeah life is not a matter of choice or destiny. Life is a matter of style. What else could it be? While others are busy with their heads which mindless doctrine they would follow, and switch at times they see fit, I am busy beating and bartering my STYLE with time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" />I have to live not as a spell of destiny or as a dictate of choice. I have to live as matter of style. Giggle and wiggle, cry and laugh, to be in uptrend or downtrend, and for the most important thing, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">to spend energy not actively minding which responsibility to take or leave but to be the responsibility itself. Yeah to embrace both life and death. To be whole, to be neither the Yin or Yang, to be the unyielding, the uncharacterized, the untouched that was me prior to becoming “me”. That is what I call style. To BE. </span></div>
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There is no doubt. The problem about existence or the problem of origin of everything can be clamped down into one of the simplest questions of all time: <b><i>which one came first, chicken or egg?</i></b> </div>
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Stalemate is the current status of the matter . The unyielding egg camp is yet to yield to the equally unyielding chicken camp. And with the rate by which the intellectual battle goes on, it is sad to say that the future of the discourse is a dead end. The fate of the case in hand will be sealed without satisfaction. </div>
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But there is a way out: <i>Question the question</i>. Doubt the question. Away from the usual expectation that an answer can be found to satisfy every question, or every question is expected to yield an answer, a new approach must be introduced if men are that sincere to find the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of existence. The E-question, or existence question, must be dealt with not in a manner like when one needs trivial answers to trivial questions.<br />
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As said, there is a way out. <b><i>The way out is to find the way in</i></b>. Is it not true that a rewarding way to find a possession lost along the way is to walk back to where one had already been? Most likely that lost stuff can never be found on paths that is not yet taken because, obviously, that lost thing can only be dropped or lost on places where one had already been. Much like the same, one needs not to venture further along untouched places to satisfy the E-question. One only needs to walk back and trace the very path that brought him to his current longing for an answer. </div>
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The E-question is a man's question who he really is. The question where one came from is a seeker's question who he really is. The question about the origin of everything is a man's question who he really is. In short, answering the E-question is no more than a man's way of self-remembering. Losing a possession along the way is like a man forgetting who he really is. Along the way he thought he lost it. One way to find it back is to walk back for it. </div>
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But intellectually, how is walking back carried out? The visualization of a man physically tracing back his path to find his lost stuff is easy to do. Applying the same strategy for the mind seems laborious to do so. There is a point in time that the mind starts getting exhausted dealing so much with the E-question and the suggestion that it needs to trace back itself will only add more burden to itself. It adds more confusion than answers. Or does it? Well, if seen that way, there is a reason to be glad because in truth that is partially the point. At least one is starting to get it. </div>
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Tracing the "way in" simply means to question the nature of the mind. This time, to have real answers, cease desiring for answers as if answers are like tangible objects that can be measured. what needed to be done is to question the very question. Or more precisely,<b> question the QUESTIONER! </b>Aha!<b> </b></div>
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The great Hindu Sage Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi often used the same strategy when seekers came to him for answers and enlightenment. He introduced the strategy with his infamous question: WHO AM I? "Who am I?" is not to be taken as a mantra rather a way for the mind to trace back its way in. It is to veer the mind unto itself. When one asks about who he really is, "Who Am I?" is a question needs to be invoked to question who or what is the one questioning. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a believer of Austrian free-market economics, it is my belief that the main purpose of registration [of any property] is to address the inherent problem brought by economic scarcity of goods. It is to establish who owns what. Registration is an issue related to private property. May it be real estate, cars, business or guns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gun registration is never been peculiar with any other property in society. The registration of it must only be a matter of economic principle. And matters concerning safety is of secondary concern, or better yet not relevant at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Registered or not, gun can always be used as a means to harm others. So as cars, registered or not; driver with or without license, can cause harm to others if one intends to do so [or when an accident occurs]. Registration never change the intent to harm if such intent exists and pursued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When people use guns to kill or harm anyone, they did not actually chose guns. What they did was have the easiest means available for them carry out their intent. At early times when metallurgy doesn't yet exist, the easiest means to kill anyone is rope, a hard piece of wood, stones etc. and not guns (obviously because gun was yet to exist).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When safety is the issue, gun registration hardly matters. If safety is the main concern, why not push for a system that maximizes every citizen's chance to have defense for himself or his family?.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am not the thing Seen; the Object</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Neither the Seer; the Subject</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am the Seeing itself; the Action; the Happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yet, it doesn't end there. Doesn't start there.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am the Consciousness by which no other way can;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Happening be possible. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am beyond. (yet this is still a lie)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Haha. The Truth of who am I is not on the answer.</span><br />
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I have been smoking weed for over a year. I decided to stop it when I discovered the most potent recipe of it. I am sure not few share the same experience as mine but are reluctant to share it on wider audience so as not to draw unwanted attention from police or police-loving neighbors. <br />
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So I decided to experiment on something else. First I have found brownies. But I am a lazy person and not willing to go through buying brownie materials and later on cooking it. It is time consuming and a sure additional cost to the whole preparation. The good thing is that you can get high orally even without the brownies. I just want to be high. Brownies are not much of any consideration.</div>
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What I did was to cut through the process and use the very product which I found to be so easily preapred. Cannabis Oil. </div>
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The recipe is utterly simple. I needed to have a handful of dried cannabis and a cup of margarine. Vegetable oil is also recommended. I chopped the cannabis evenly finely. (much better if one uses a grinder). Then melt the margarine in moderate heat. Put the chopped cannabis and let it simmer for at least 20 minutes. Based on my literary research, it will only take 15 minutes to extract the THC from marijuana using oil. Twenty minutes is what I usually do. By then the THC will be in the margarine. You can throw away the residue if you want. THC is oil soluble. In water it is not. </div>
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My first take, as I was just experimenting on it, I thought was too much. I took about 4 tbsp (or maybe more) of the oil. In an hour the power of came ragingly kicking in me. And an unbelievable 20 hours I was stoned. But I came not unprepared mentally. I have to be psychologically prepared of what might happen to me. All I did was to consider every possible worst thing that might happen to me and relax to it. Like overdose. But I was not hesitant to go on because overdose, as my acquaintances said, is not possible with marijuana. </div>
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The sensation kicked in at 11:00 in the morning. It came in slowly getting stronger every minute while I lay down on my bed motionless to receive all what the stuff is sure to bring me. The sensation grew really strong and I felt like I was flying in the air. It is like two huge divine hands carrying me like a child and being brought to a peaceful sleep with a lullaby. Sometimes I felt like being tossed up to the air but there is no falling down. Felt like just floating with the clouds. It is a sensation I never felt before not even in a single moment when I smoke weed. Colors and images became vivid. And all of them are magnificent. I enjoyed the sensation of it. </div>
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But then here came the nightmare part which I really took time to think about before proceeding to my cannabis oil adventure. Though the first half of the adventure was finely lubricated to a perfect pleasurable sensation, the other half is consumed in a quite dreadful feeling of panic. Panic comes in when one grew tired of the beautiful sensation. I got bored of the sensation. The other half was partially consumed in a struggle to come out from the adventure. But it is not possible. I took too much oil. And no matter how I like it, I don't know yet how to relieve me of the then growing uneasiness of my feelings. It is like a nightmare where you feel running terrified of something yet unable to move. </div>
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I have no choice but to give in and let go of the struggle by just relaxing to the then unpleasant feeling of being high for too long. But eventually I fell asleep. The rest is forgotten story. I woke in the morning at 7:00. That's 20 hours in all. Much of the first part consumed in magnificent sensation and short panic and much of sleep. </div>
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After the experience I decided to reduce the dosage to just 1 or 2 tbsp so as not to impair me of my daily work while under high. I don't like to be under the oil spell for 20 hours again. It is horrible at some part.<br />
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Wait, I almost forgot about closing your eyes. But you don't have to be reminded of it. It would be natural to just close the eyes while on the sensation. You can't help yourself but close your eyes and go on along like a tree swaying with the wind. </div>
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I have done quite a wide readings as to the benefits of cannabis. They say there is no overdose. And it cures a lot diseases when taken orally. I was getting ready of the thing they say about getting mystical insights. But I did get nothing. I am too stoned to get insights. Perhaps the only mystical insight I can share is that everything is nothing when one stops interpreting anything. And that's what exactly had happened. I was incapable of formulating thoughts. And in that I found out the mystic secret of simply not thinking. The not-thinking part is what gives it all.<br />
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While on high, the immediate past is easily erased in memory. I was just immersed in the present moment of it and did not think and did not worry about how dirty government and politics is as I usually do when I am not high. But the feeling helped me discover it useless hating anything. Life is much precious not consumed in struggle of correcting it. Life correct itself effortlessly. The secret is to not own a thing. The whole thing own me. </div>
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In the Philippines it is a sure jail time being caught using cannabis. But I am glad some part of USA is legalizing the use of marijuana. Not in a snap but sure in the near future cannabis will be legal in the Philippines. </div>
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How many times did you hear people in silent pride claiming that "human specie is the highest form of animals"? And how many times did you agree; or have you ever disagreed? To me I automatically disagree with a laugh. Poor humans indeed to ever come-up with such ridiculous self-serving idea about themselves. </div>
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I disagree that humans are the prima donnas not that humans might be negotiated to another level lower than what was originally claimed. Contrary to the egotistic claim of humans that their specie is the highest form of animal, I categorically say they are not. In fact, people are the ONLY animals on this planet. With this I don't negotiate. Humans belong to the only level it has for itself: the animal level. Humans monopolizes this level. There should be no imposition that all other species belong to this class. </div>
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Yes, there are no other animals on this planet. Humans are the only animals on this planet. This doesn't sound like a music to any human's ears. They always prefer the term "human specie is the highest form of animals". Why? Why does the idea that humans are the only animals is so unappealing while the idea that humans being at the top of all animals is pleasing? The reason is perhaps to save themselves from the disgrace created by their acts supposedly imaginable only on all other species they call "lower animals". This is a way to somehow dilute the fact that human beings act no more than like all other species called by them as lower class. Lower class in words but not in deeds. So calling themselves top animals over any other animals somehow saves them from the perfect blow of guilt. </div>
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The only reason that the idea that humans are the top specie of all animals is that they can reason it out perfectly. With all premise in place, the conclusion is establish. Human logic solves it all. But hey, this appears to me as a huge fallacy. Humans being judges of their own case? Reasoning is a man-made brand. With this, with humans being the judge of their own cases, reasoning out to prove the claim is as ridiculous as the claim itself. Always self-serving. </div>
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But I hear the usual argument that pigs are not rational. Crap. How in heaven humans know that pigs are not rational? Of course they are rational - on their own language, the pig language. But they don't call it as such. Only humans call it that way. Never deciphered anything yet. Again, self-serving. Doesn't give much justice to everything. </div>
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What is so good about being on top of the animal kingdom anyway? None. It is an empty concept tied mainly around arrogance. Humans view they are the leader of this planet. So there is a race to put up campaigns about saving the planet. They claim they have the rational means to act in saving the planet. Really? </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-40839919010794819502013-02-09T01:29:00.000-08:002015-02-22T22:31:54.324-08:00Why Government Services are a Fake Compassion? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">One does compassion not to make himself happy. He does compassion because he is happy. That is why taxes and government socialist services are fake forms of
compassion. They arise not of the genuine feeling to extend help to
others but rest on the idea that such action MIGHT make other people
better or surely make the giver happy about himself. </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-79338691573381083672013-02-08T01:25:00.003-08:002013-02-08T01:25:54.135-08:00Why Central Bankers Don't like Gold Standard? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">Central bankers recognize the harm of
counterfeiting. So they make bills/monies with security features with a
hope that no rogue parties can counterfeit it. <br /> <br /> Gold cannot be
counterfeited but central bankers refuse to use it. Instead they use
paper bills. They justify it by reasoning that market liquidity can't be
provided by scarce supply of gold. Gold is, for them, cumbersome to
economic growth <span class="text_exposed_show">. Only bills can. Sounds logical is it not? <br /> <br />
But wait. If the reason of security features in bills is to thwart
counterfeiters, how exactly they suppose to sustain market liquidity
using the same bills? The only answer is to make more of those bills!
What? Sounds like a counterfeiting, doesn't it? A legalized
counterfeiting. <br /> <br /> The real reason bankers don't want gold is not
actually liquidity problems but gold is impossible to counterfeit.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-83162064644086560782013-02-08T01:21:00.001-08:002013-11-18T22:02:53.735-08:00What Atheist and Creationist Have in Common? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="userContent">Evolution is logical. Creation is logical too as to the idea that an "uncaused cause" must be
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<span class="userContent"> However, though creationism and evolution is not compatible with each other, the former relying on a deity to solve the puzzle, the latter encounters the same problem of how everything really started. In fact they share the same absurd focal problem; the BEGINNING of the START.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Evolution, as it traces back the origin of everything, relies on the idea of regression - that everything started from simplest form of matter and took billions of years to develop. However, problem arises because regression has to be infinite. From matter to molecules to atoms to electrons proton to much elementary particles to strings to what have you.</span></div>
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Atheists who believe in evolution ridicules the creationists who say God created universe. But as I see it atheists hold in them the same degree of absurdity. Is it not equally ridiculous to believe in infinite regression? Infinite regression is a scientified form of startless start, exactly the same odor with that of the God-idea pushed by creationists. </div>
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Both evolutionist and creationist share the same absurdity: how did everything really start? Obviously, these two factions, though opposing, only fall back to same smell of faith: creationist's faith in God, and evolutionist faith in the infinite regression. </div>
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In both concepts FAITH is to be invoked since, as to the former,
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-4612086557740931872013-02-08T00:59:00.000-08:002013-02-08T00:59:11.027-08:00I only Live for Myself<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">I don't live for others.<br /> I only live for myself. <br /> Without me living first with myself;<br /> How the hell could I give to others;<br /> Without me first destroying myself? <br /> <br /> And if I refuse to give to others,<br /> And you tell it is wrong for me to keep things for myself,<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> Then how in hell you ever came to thinking;<br /> That others have the right to keep my things for themselves<br /> Without them destroying me first?<br /> <br /> I don't act to be happy.<br /> But I act accordingly;<br /> Or perhaps accordingly is acting on me;<br /> But by accordingly I simply mean;<br /> That I have no choice but to act to be happy.</span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-24373547371512689162013-02-07T23:41:00.001-08:002013-02-07T23:41:26.065-08:00I blame Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">I blame no one. I only blame me. <br /> But I found out, there is no I. <br /> Just a grand idea.<br /> So there is no me either. <br /> <br /> So, where is the blame part?<br /> Only blame blaming itself. <br /> Itself backfiring to itself. <br /> Aha. Just a play. <br /> I am. Always be. I am.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-24681139135805997142013-02-07T23:37:00.001-08:002015-02-22T22:51:51.981-08:00Existence is an Axiom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Axiom is a premise of reasoning solidly backed only by itself as sanctioned by experience. It is a self-evident statement; a proposition assumed to be true without the burden of proving it. And at times it is tried to be disproved, the attempt only presupposes its validity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"I, this whole me, exist"</i> is a classic example of a non-disprovable statement. It relies on the felt experience that it is so. And no other proof is necessary to assert that it is so. The attempt to disprove it, ie. the words <i>"I don't exist"</i>, contradicts the very experience or feeling of being existent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">Perhaps existence is the grandest axiom
forgotten as such. Everyone have this inherent feeling that he or she exists. This the deeply-rooted but supposed to be the most obvious feeling of presence, of being here, of being alive. But most are consumed in outward things like clothes, foods, friends, status, families, cosmetics, feelings, experiences. and worries that they forgot the very thing that makes everything possible - the fact of being here and now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">Men have forgotten that their true identity is the wholeness of everything at every moment. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">The cosmic amnesia has brought all sorts of suffering to humans. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">They strongly embrace the identity which they call "I" or "me". And with the act of keeping their identities intact comes the suffering brought by the struggle to keep it. And with this, everyday there goes the ego olympics where everyone is trying to outrun everybody else hoping that by doing such would make them fulfilled, loved by everybody, sought by everybody thus making the identity more solid and more self-fulfilling and leaving the fear of being left out at bay. Even worse is when one tries to outrun himself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">Existence is an axiom because it is as it is. The suffering felt can only be brought by the mistaken identity that we are discrete individual apart from everybody else. Apart from people around, apart from trees, from insects and animals, apart from falling leaves, from clouds, from dust and mud, from soil and rocks, from seas and river, from crimes and corruptions, from crooked politicians, from pious fellows, from gurus and students, from concrete blocks, from air, from oxygen and pollution, and literally apart from everything. However, if one comes to realization that everything at this moment is the perfect conspiracy of the wholeness itself, no more there will be a suffering brought by continuous struggle to keep the idea of "myself".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="userContent">Even the idea that there is a Creator or
God or gods that created the universe is no longer relevant if one understands the wholeness of everything. The concept of creator is not important except as a worthwhile alternative for
men to keep in their heads while the axiomatic nature of existence is yet to
be recognized. Once life is understood, that it is void of
beginning and end, the idea about a God that is discretely apart from
creation will vanish. What remains is the recognition that life is
itself the very God we are trying to seek.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008359397468094248.post-37504424256040342512013-02-07T00:39:00.001-08:002015-02-22T22:53:59.568-08:00Seek the Fun in Gloomy Doom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The thought of hitting the end of the road struck me lately.
Sooner or later I am dead. There is a taste of loneliness prevailing the feeling that
someday everything will be gone. In a blink of an eye, like a puff of smoke,
everything that I possess will cease to be mine. The
passion of living will come to an end. The ultimate endgame would soon swallow
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Death never needs my permission. He comes when he comes.
My time is up when my time is up. But I hope he comes to me swiftly. I am
not really afraid of death. Dying is what makes me hesitant to give-in even in
my imagination. That is why I really hope death comes to me quick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carl Jung on his pioneering works in psychology had
emphasized the importance of understanding the Shadow. He said that one can never
understand the Substance as long as one denies the counterpart of
it which he called the Shadow. These two opposites go together all the time, so
as life and death. One embraces life, one embraces death also. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most would feel Death as a foe, an uncompromising foe. No one can give excuses like when one wants to postpone an appointment with a peer. Death keeps his schedule rigid and unalterable. When time is up, time is up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dissolution is what one is afraid of. No one wants to be separated from what they've conditioned to enjoy. Family, daughters and sons, wife, lovers, friends, job, social status, power, riches, beauty, sex, and orgasm. Everyone fears to cease existing, afraid of halting the palpable human existence. Death is to be avoided at all cost. Obviously, it is impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Running away from death is futile. Humans knew it. But they develop the culture of trying to stop death from coming. But there is a lifetime of opportunity to understand what death is. If one comes to an understanding that death is no more than just like the moment before one is born, the fear would dissolve slowly. What remains is the joy of living the current moment and a relaxing feeling going on with the flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Death is never been a problem. The way people deal with it is. </span></div>
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