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Elvin
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posted August 06, 2009 12:38 PM |
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Just beautiful, love it!  Sounds like you had a feel-good dream recently.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 06, 2009 01:19 PM |
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The last time a song really moved me with its lyrics was this here:
Woke up insane today
Dreamed I was blown away
Ten thousand called my name
Asleep at the wheel again
Turn me down, turn me down
Take my head and turn it around
Turn me on, turn me on
Everything I do is wrong
Woke up in hell today
Spoke to the devil, he turned away
All of my friends were there
They didn't have no time to spare
Turn me down, turn me down
Step back and I hit the ground
Turn me on, turn me on
Everything I do is wrong
Out of the night comes a song that I know
Twisted and ruined and black
I can remember the people they were
Nobody knows if they ever come back
Lost in the ashes of time they still sing
Echoes of romance gone bad
I can remember them better than you
I shared the darkness they had
Dead and gone, dead and gone
Woke up in my grave today
I dreamed I heard you say
All of eternity was pain
I laid my head back down again
Turn me down, turn me down
Your lips move but you make no sound
Turn me on, turn me on
Everything I do is wrong
Out of the night comes a song that I know
Twisted and ruined and black
I can remember the people they were
Nobody knows if they ever come back
Lost in the ashes of time they still sing
Echoes of romance gone bad
I can remember them better than you
I shared the nightmares they had
Dead and gone, dead and gone, dead and gone
So long, so long, so long
Dead and gone.
I think that this one is really amazing. Music is fitting as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrVbEU0tEM
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Elvin
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posted August 06, 2009 01:29 PM |
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Wow that sounds like a bad day, descent to madness imminent.
Listened to the song, good find JJ.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 06, 2009 01:34 PM |
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For me it seems to express the feeling
LOSS
quite well. A great deal of loss, in this case. 
Of loss that comes with getting old and looking back.
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Elvin
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posted August 06, 2009 02:43 PM |
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Yes loss and pain is prevalent here. I shudder at the thought of reaching that age but I won't have to worry about that for some time.
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Arcax
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Its quite hot inside...
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posted August 21, 2009 01:33 AM |
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Edited by Arcax at 01:33, 21 Aug 2009.
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DISABILITY
When you know that something is going in a way you dont want to. But you cant do anything about it. Youre just screaming but nobody hears you.
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Elvin
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posted August 22, 2009 11:53 AM |
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The way you describe it it could very well be something in your mind, sounds like you are detached from contact with others. Maybe deliberately, maybe unconsciously.
I randomly stumbled again on Osho, couldn't help posting it
LIVING THE MOMENT
Live each moment as if this is the last moment: put all at stake, risk all and you will be immensely surprised that life becomes a tremendous miracle. Everything starts vibrating with life, everything becomes a message. Every flower becomes a bible or a Koran or a Gita, and every star becomes a proof, enough proof that life is not just material. Every experience of beauty proves that life is more than matter. Every time your say aha! You are saying a prayer.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 22, 2009 12:34 PM |
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That sounds like the guy was just an adrenalin junkie.
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Elvin
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posted August 22, 2009 01:23 PM |
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You could say that  He's always about enjoying yourself to the fullest, realizing your potential, an optimistic and energetic old man.
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VokialBG
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posted March 16, 2010 10:41 PM |
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Edited by VokialBG at 22:45, 16 Mar 2010.
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No idea why, we need this up, hm...
Soul phoenix
You're lost. The dark dense fog is blocking your view. You step furtive, leaving traces on the ground covered with ashes. Your arms are stretching in the nothing, you can't see almost anything. You're blind. You are in this dying place, forgotten by everyone. What are you looking for? Is it something important? Something you need? Go, go ahead... that's right, cross the dry river bed. Can you see it? Can you see it? Can you... You stand in front of it - a vision of yourself, your soul, a statue made of black ashes, the heat wind slowly blow it away, ash after ash, they fall in the mud. You stand infront and watch with your embarrassed vision. You can't do anything. You can't do anything? ... Hey, what's that? Yes. Yes, that one! It's inside the statue, a small flame, is it? You get closer, you look more carefully - it's an ember, dying one. It twinkle thiny. You feel like you need to tuch it, why it looks so enticing? Hey, hey, did you saw that? It just made a spark! Your hands are now near... your fingers are getting closer... hesitatingly... Another spark! Bigger one. And one more! And more, and more and more. You pull back your hand quickly. The ember turn into small flame. It grows fast. It burns the fog, consuming it. You feel like not running away. It turns to fire. You stay and watch. It rise to a huge column. There is no smoke. Only fire. Your fire. Hahaha! Your fire! You need to tuch it. You need to feel it. To get inside! This whole world will be consumed by the fire. Your fire! That gives you new reason life. You feel it inside you. Your fire!
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Elvin
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posted March 16, 2010 11:33 PM |
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Vokial I'm proud of you  What caused your spiritual renewal?
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VokialBG
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posted March 18, 2010 08:46 AM |
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Catalyst.
Completely new element in my view for life.
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Elvin
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posted September 06, 2010 08:00 PM |
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*bump!*
Found a good one in hellblazer. I have been reading the comic on and off for a while, it has a good storyline, mood, characters and raises some interesting philosophical issues. Constantine is all sorts of messed up yet I can't help but like him.
FAILURE
Failure is when you tumble, frightened and alone, into a sea of confusion. It's when you struggle to survive, refusing to be lost in the detritus. It's when you catch a glimpse of daylight above and struggle towards it. Only to be swallowed by a shark.
- John Constantine
So, what's new in your emotional world?
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DagothGares
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No gods or kings
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posted April 17, 2011 02:30 AM |
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In dutch this was perfectly scanned (own structure of 7 6 6 7 3), by the way, except for the last lines, due to the stupidity of actually achieving perfection in a text about this subject.
Performance anxiety
Can't, can't, can't
It fails catastrophically
Miserably, monstrously
Can't, can't, can't
We die
Impossible to
say how horribly
I suffer
By my own hands
We fall
Has to, has to, has to
Or the world will break
scatter to a million pieces
Has to, has to, has to
We sink
I choke, choke I. I choke?
Eigen nood maakt monddood
Geen vaste grond, geen voeting
Choke just, just choke. Just choke!
Flesh to earth
We hack and push
and fall and cry terribly
Dying without dying
Living without living
Release me
I don't believe you
I'm appalled by the idea
Go away, you're no help
Has to, can't, I choke
By my own hands
(the "I choke, choke I. I choke?" translates terribly, but all else is decent)
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bLiZzArdbOY
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posted May 02, 2011 07:03 PM |
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It's more than just a feeling; it extends and trickles through your entire body like a living, breathing creation. It extends to the tips of your appendages. Your nerves feel white hot with energy, as though your entire body were in the throes of an electrical fire. Your leg muscles are tense, as though they are desperate for exercise. You futilely clench your fists, seeking reprieve from the ravenous hunger growing inside of you. You close your eyes and concentrate, hoping to blot out your hatred and regain a state of peace, but the darkness behind your lids offers nothing. You have been belittled, and the offense rings in the marrow of your bones, far worse than any physical blow. Your mind feverishly searches for answers, for ways to sate your torturous lust for vengeance, but it finds no possibilities without suffering consequences. You would lash out anyway, to feel the elation of your nails sinking into flesh, but you know it would merely bring you harm and do nothing but bring smug delight to your foe. There is nothing to sate the hunger but the hope that it will wither away from time. Your chest grows heavy, but the hatred gives you the strength to hold it up anyway. A feinted expression of indifference covers your face, concealing the boiling inferno within.
I am suppressed contempt.
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gnomes2169
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posted May 02, 2011 08:31 PM |
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Coping
"Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told."
— Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind)
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Elvin
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posted January 18, 2012 07:13 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 19:14, 18 Jan 2012.
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A curious state of mind I have very rarely felt after a good training session in aikido. It has only happened a few times and man does it feel good.
STILLNESS WITHIN MOVEMENT
A euphoric feeling washes over you as your body surges with newfound vitality, your insides are warmed as if by an inexhaustible, slow-burning inner fire and your mind knows calm and clarity. In this rare moment you feel whole, in control, relaxed yet ready to spring into action. Stillness within movement.
And one I have experienced in the army. Normally things are rather comfortable but there are certain days when the day is just rigged to mess you up. Worse yet there can be a string of days in a row whose schedule keeps eating away at your willpower, clarity, mental and physical health and barely gives you enough time to regenerate. It's like you lose a little more energy every day until you feel a total wreck.
APATHY SETTING IN
Repeated sleeplessness and exhaustion have brought you on the bring of nervous breakdown - cold, tired and irritable, you are ready to lash out on the first person that pushes his luck. But as time drifts by you begin to slip into a state of weary acceptance. Things are not going to get better anytime soon but you know what? It doesn't matter. Nothing really matters as you have run out of emotion, purpose and identity. You are empty and it feels rather.. peaceful.
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baklava
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posted January 18, 2012 07:44 PM |
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You should've just called that second one Comfortably Numb, link to the doctorate on the subject and spare yourself a few minutes of typing, mate.
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is. When you ain't got no
money,
you got the blues."
Howlin Wolf
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Mentat
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Known Hero
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posted January 18, 2012 09:28 PM |
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Hatred without anger and malice.
Felt only once in my life. Was strange and first I was unable to describe. And strangely it faded away as time passed by...
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gnomes2169
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posted January 18, 2012 11:49 PM |
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Despair not with fear, but tranquility.
The feeling that comes when everything is lost and all hope of victory crumbles, but instead of fighting any longer against the inevitable or being afraid of what is to come you find only acceptance and peace. You will leave everything behind, but there is no fear in the act. You can die at that moment and though the thought causes you sorrow, you know that it is your fate and you know that you have led a good life.
I have only felt this way twice, and that was at the absolute peak of my depressive stages. Both times I refused to give up and die only on the principal that my parents would have to act like they were grieving, (I thought at the time that no one loved or cared for me), and I thought that I would not be worth the effort. I honestly can say that I am glad that I did not give in and that I am still here today. With love: Nick. (AKA, Gnomes)
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