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Re: Merry Christmas, HN

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Post by vinckr »

samsquire wrote: post #78
labrador wrote: post #58

In case you're homeless and living in your car rejected by everyone you love because you can't stop drinking, but temporarily holed up in a roadside motel over Christmas with a case of vodka... that was me. It gets better. I now have 5 years sobriety, but I'll never forget that despair I felt and how my mind was in a loop thinking about killing myself. I've put a temp email in my profile in case you want to reach out…

I experienced a similar episode but not with alcohol. I surround myself with things that are of these words: good, love, kindness, peace, serenity, tranquility, purity, loveliness, wholesomeness, cleanliness, positivity, light, fruit, right, proper, meant, should, high. Reject dark, evil, bad, negative, low, death, darkness, sinister. It's a duality you need to escape. Pick the good side. If you surround yourself wit…

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.

This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.

The gateway to all understanding.

Re: Merry Christmas, HN

#113

Post by protonbob »

theboywho wrote: post #51

Can someone please explain to me what’s special about Christmas for those who celebrate ? Is it special symbolically ? To me it feels like you get to see your family and maybe have 2-3 days off, which is something most people do many times a year, usually during the weekends.

Its special for me because it is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. (I know it probably wasn't the real date). It's a great time together with family and remember.

Re: Merry Christmas, HN

#116

Post by sircastor »

danbmil99 wrote: post #107
danbmil99 wrote: post #25

So this hotbed of liberalism -- high tech SV -- says "Merry Christmas"? What happened to the war on Xmas? Happy Kwanzaa, Joyful Festivus, and may the winter solstice bring a great harvest!

What's with the downvotes? Just a bit of cheeky sarcasm

It doesn’t come across in the text - it just reads like bitterness at the popularity of the holiday.

Re: Merry Christmas, HN

#118

Post by 6stringmerc »

I wish me the very best for 2023 as well, and I've realized life is actually out in the real world and if they're thousands of miles away, go visit them. Otherwise you just want to endorse that shithead Zuckerberg's perspective that the future is online. It isn't and kid, there are things worse than death...

Re: Merry Christmas, HN

#120

Post by CMCDragonkai »

vinckr wrote: post #112
samsquire wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I experienced a similar episode but not with alcohol. I surround myself with things that are of these words: good, love, kindness, peace, serenity, tranquility, purity, loveliness, wholesomeness, cleanliness, positivity, light, fruit, right, proper, meant, should, high. Reject dark, evil, bad, negative, low, death, darkness, sinister. It's a duality you need to escape. Pick the good side. If you surround yourself wit…

Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Is this original daoism or did you derive it from something?
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