It's the very nature of a relationship, to end.

[woodychitwn]

I wanted to take a minute to revisit a post I made two years ago...  Mostly because it seems an appropriate reminder for what some friends going through:

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up

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[jilduck]

so very true. alternatively, you can quote sam shepard: "love? what a crock of shit! love... that's another disease. only difference is it's a disease that makes you feel good. while it lasts. then when it's gone you're worse off than you were before you caught it..." ;P

[woodychitwn]

A much more quotable quote indeed! Although, truth be told... I have always found a certain eloquence in Neil Gaiman's overly-descript writing.

[dog0fwar]

why do we always say forever if reality is momentary

why seek eternity?

[woodychitwn]

I think that it is the nature of man to seek stability. It is why the concept of "god" is so comforting to the masses. To say that there is something greater than oneself, an all-knowing, all-seeing force which created time itself and all of existance... To a weak mind, there is comfort in giving up oneself to a greater power. Because to accept that... This is it. This is ALL we have, that we have to make the MOST of this lifetime and no more... For many, that is simply unacceptable. And for that, I pity them. To spend your entire lifetime living in service of another, bound by their restrictions and expectations... That, to me, is not a life.

Forever and eternity... These are but theoretical concepts. Because to actually define them, to pluck them out of existence and hold them up for all to see... Would defy that very definition.

[dog0fwar]

I think that it is the nature of man to seek stability.

WHY IS THIS OUR NATURE?

IT IS EITHER A LIE TOLD TO OURSELVES FOR THE PURPOSE OF FALSE HOPE OR IT POINTS TOWARDS TRUTH.

Make your decision and stick with the consequences.

I had a long serious talk with my dad the other day and one of the things he told me was my job is to simply get out of bed each morning and put my shoes on.
This life is 80 years of suffering and then death.
The only true joy we have is love, and the only eternal love is God.

I am thankful for this Love. I would have long given into madness and covered myself in guilty blood long before this. I am chained to the conscience. I am bound tightly by the greatest Law. My heart rages in lonliness and confliction but the soul is unyeilding.

[woodychitwn]

Why is it our nature? My guess is because evolution has shown us that stability leads to knowing the terrain, the threats and the protections... And these things lead to survival.

To look at life as an 80 year struggle, followed by death... The thought is incomprehensible. To waste an entire lifetime, in the hopes that a 2,000 year old religion's deity would provide for them an "eternal" paradise... No wonder Christians seems so lonely... To look for happiness only from without instead of from within... No external force can make someone truly happy. And as such, I wonder how many Christians say that they are thankful for the love of their god... But then find silence filled with doubt and questioning.

Do not confuse morals or conscience with Christianity... These things pre-date even Dravidianism, widely accepted as the "original" religion.

[enveri]

I hope they can find comfort in this... I sure do.

Thanks hon. *hug*

[woodychitwn]

Well, thank-YOU... Of course, ultimately they're just words and I would be surprised if the people most in need of them, are yet capable of accepting the meaning behind them.

[graemelion]

You've basically hit on my values :)

All things are transient.

Live in the moment.

Never take more than you give.

[woodychitwn]

*WAGZ*

nietzsche called you the last man for a reason

[dog0fwar]

how horrible and depressing to have no goal other than momentary enjoyable survival

Re: nietzsche called you the last man for a reason

[graemelion]

Only if you view things as needing goals.

I don't find it depressing to know that I am momentary. I find it thrilling.

[mapdark]

It doesn't HAVE to end.

>_>

[graemelion]

Everything ends.

[wyldekyttin]

Yep. Everything. Things change, morph, end, begin. Sometimes those changes are for the better, ultimately. For relative values of 'better'.

[dog0fwar]

lies