My philosophy on life, "The Answer to Life."

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:58 pm

listen here my fresh faced pie in the sky neophyte, 30 years from now you'll be piss and vinegar too.

myself, i'm a half-kosher dill.

now shut the fuck up and jump in the brine.

welcome home, freak.

Gizmostarr · Post by **Gizmostarr** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:49 am

Armand wrote:Well I have to say I always take this topic seriously. I'm fully aware of trolls/trolling but yea, it gets annoying after a while, especially when it gets to the point on some forums where every single person is trying to troll each other.

Either way, I feel I represented myself well.

Armand, yes, you did represent yourself (well). It's taken me a long time to figure out (a) don't take anything too seriously, and (b) no need to be annoyed.... unless you want to be annoyed, that is.

It just.... is what it is. You'll try and try..... and when you're feeling like you're being crucified, well......
They'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're trying to go home
They'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:17 am

Armand, there is another method to get what you want in life through a focused process. Just grab your beeds, say you want a Datson 280Z and after some chanting, you get the car. It is that simple, all you have to do is try, and not half-assed, you have to try full-assed to have it work for you.

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What is NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO?

The phrase NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO is taken from the title of the greatest teaching of the first historically recorded Buddha, known as Siddhartha Gautama or Shakyamuni Buddha, who lived in India around 500 years before Christ was born. This teaching, called the Lotus Sutra, declares that all living beings, regardless of gender or intelligence (that means everyone - including you and me!), have the potential to attain Buddhahood. In the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha teaches that inside each one of us a universal truth known as the Buddha nature. Basing our lives on this Buddha nature enables us to enjoy absolute happiness and to act with boundless compassion. Such a state of happiness is called enlightenment. It's simply waking up to the true nature of life, realising that all things are connected, and that there is such a close relationship between each of us and our surroundings that when we change ourselves, we change the world.

In the 13th Century, a Japanese priest called Nichiren (1222-1282) realised that the message of the Lotus Sutra was summed up by its title, NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO, which can be translated as the teaching of the lotus flower of the wonderful law. Nichiren declared that all of the benefits of the wisdom contained in the Lotus Sutra can be realized by chanting this title NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO. Since the time of Nichiren many, many millions of people have followed his advice, chanting NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO regularly as a means of improving their health, happiness, wisdom and compassion. The goal of chanting NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO is to manifest the enlightenment of the Buddha in our own lives. We can then realise our own creative potential as individuals and, in so doing, create thriving and peaceful families, work places and communities. Eventually this gradual transformation of individuals will create peace and prosperity in societies throughout the world.

(someone here on eplaya posted NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO a few weeks ago, thanks for the reminder)(now they weren't the "hairy barefoots") There was a temple in chatsworth in the hills from the 40's to the mid 60's i think, hairy barefoots everywhere.

Boijoy · Post by **Boijoy** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:20 am

NAME-MY-HOE-REGGIE-KOKO ???

OMMMMMMM.. I-WANT-A-BEER
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OMMMMMMM.. I-WANT-A-BEER
OMMMMMMM.. I-WANT-A-BEER
OMMMMMMM.. I-WANT-A-BEER

SilverOrange · Post by **SilverOrange** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:23 am

So have you gotten a beer yet?

Gizmostarr · Post by **Gizmostarr** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:56 am

Either I'm doing it wrong, or this thing doesn't seem to work....

All I got was a Kia KVC-III

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:49 pm

wedeliver wrote: (someone here on eplaya posted NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO a few weeks ago, thanks for the reminder

Yeah, how ya doin'.

Nichiren-shu was my wife's faith. As I understand it, the phrase is a formula of submission to Buddha and the will of the universe.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:53 pm

Try this.

Recognition: O Mitra! You are the universal spirit that pervades the universe!

Unification: O Mitra you pervade the entire universe. Since I am in the universe, Mitra lives in me now.

Realization: Here and now, Mitra grants me the gifts that I wish for and imagine vividly in my mind.

Gratitude: I give thanks in advance to Mitra for granting my every wish that lives in my mind.

Release: I let go of my prayer, confident that Mitra is granting me my wishes.

Hail O Mitra!

Boijoy · Post by **Boijoy** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:29 pm

Ohhhh HELL no !! I'm not submissing to the will of the universe..
The Universe will fuck you up!! Don't you people watch Star Trak ???

Boijoy · Post by **Boijoy** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:30 pm

Oh & I have it on good authority that I will have a beer tonight around 6 pm.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:33 pm

Maybe you should stop praying and start brewing.

From Emerson's essay Nature:

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:07 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:
wedeliver wrote: (someone here on eplaya posted NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO a few weeks ago, thanks for the reminder
Yeah, how ya doin'.

Nichiren-shu was my wife's faith. As I understand it, the phrase is a formula of submission to Buddha and the will of the universe.

wow, full circle, you really are a barbarian.

I was introduced to this stuff while I lived in the Hollywood Hills, so it was probably a perverted version. This one guy talked about how he wanted a T-Bird and after a few weeks of chanting for it, he got it. I always thought that being focused and positive thinking is behind it.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:55 pm

Boijoy wrote:Ohhhh HELL no !! I'm not submissing to the will of the universe..
The Universe will fuck you up!! Don't you people watch Star Trak ???

some of us LOVE Star Trek........

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:24 am

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ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:27 am

My mother dated Jeffrey Hunter (Capt. Pike in the original pilot).
I coulda grown up on Talos IV

Post by **Elderberry** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:30 am

ygmir wrote:My mother dated Jeffrey Hunter (Capt. Pike in the original pilot).
I coulda grown up on Talos IV

Are you SURE you didn't?

JK

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:31 am

jkisha wrote:
ygmir wrote:My mother dated Jeffrey Hunter (Capt. Pike in the original pilot).
I coulda grown up on Talos IV
Are you SURE you didn't?

JK

beeeep................beeeeep.............

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:47 am

TLTR

But I do just want to say how sad this thread is. Imagine realizing at the age of 18 that life has nothing more to teach you.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:10 am

dont worry fishy, he'll learn that soon enough.

you know how twisted god's sense of humor is all too well.

And it's not that i wish ill will on this young pup, but in order to truly appreciate what hunger is, one must know what it is to starve.

If everything worked out according to plan, i think i'd be so fucking bored i'd kill myself.

this might explain the extremely high rate of heroin addiction and suicide in Switzerland, one of the worlds "best standards of living".

They (the swiss) think they know everything too.

Armand · Post by **Armand** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:52 am

theCryptofishist wrote:TLTR

But I do just want to say how sad this thread is. Imagine realizing at the age of 18 that life has nothing more to teach you.

Yes, I've made it very clear that life cannot teach me one more thing. I'm pretty much the next Jesus and consider myself a prophet from God himself. Life can't teach me anything more than I possibly know, God, the creator of the UNIVERSE showed me these ways. Ignorant fools.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:57 am

I'm pretty much the next Jesus

prepare to be crucified, son of Gawd.

ps....your tone is beginning to get a little negative....whats up with that Mr. Smiley Face?

Gizmostarr · Post by **Gizmostarr** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:50 am

....uh oh.....

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:25 am

Armand wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:TLTR

But I do just want to say how sad this thread is. Imagine realizing at the age of 18 that life has nothing more to teach you.
Yes, I've made it very clear that life cannot teach me one more thing. I'm pretty much the next Jesus and consider myself a prophet from God himself. Life can't teach me anything more than I possibly know, God, the creator of the UNIVERSE showed me these ways. Ignorant fools.

Hey everyone, I think Armand has given us a snarky, smart ass answer. I don't think he means the above, he is just being funny. I like it, I think he has real potential as long as he don't get scared away. think about it, youth, energy, spunk, all those things that really make the world turn.

So thanks Armand, I look forward to seeing you at BRC. You need a playa name, what about Mohammad, or Jesus or do you have one? (maybe his name is really bill and Amand is his playa name...)

Armand · Post by **Armand** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:07 am

wedeliver wrote:
Armand wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:TLTR

But I do just want to say how sad this thread is. Imagine realizing at the age of 18 that life has nothing more to teach you.
Yes, I've made it very clear that life cannot teach me one more thing. I'm pretty much the next Jesus and consider myself a prophet from God himself. Life can't teach me anything more than I possibly know, God, the creator of the UNIVERSE showed me these ways. Ignorant fools.
Hey everyone, I think Armand has given us a snarky, smart ass answer. I don't think he means the above, he is just being funny. I like it, I think he has real potential as long as he don't get scared away. think about it, youth, energy, spunk, all those things that really make the world turn.

So thanks Armand, I look forward to seeing you at BRC. You need a playa name, what about Mohammad, or Jesus or do you have one? (maybe his name is really bill and Amand is his playa name...)

Armand was my great great great great great grandfather's name, Armand Eoghan(pronounced Owen) Lawless, who was part of the greatest viking crew this side of the earth in the middle ages. After my grandfather and his crew wreaked havoc amongst the western side of the earth, disobeyed all the common laws, torched every village they encountered along with raping and defiling their women, burning their crops, and destroying their sources of water, society stamped my grandfather and his crew with the last name of Lawless, because with my grandfather, laws were as meaningless as slaying an enemy viking.

And no, I don't have a playa name.

Armand · Post by **Armand** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:12 am

Simon of the Playa wrote: ps....your tone is beginning to get a little negative....whats up with that Mr. Smiley Face?

I only become negative when the all powerful God himself wakes me in my sleep and tells me which random hobo I should butcher for today as a sacrifice for our almighty lord.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:14 am

Armand wrote:
Simon of the Playa wrote: ps....your tone is beginning to get a little negative....whats up with that Mr. Smiley Face?
I only become negative when the all powerful God himself wakes me in my sleep and tells me which random hobo I should butcher for today as a sacrifice for our almighty lord.

hey,
you're starting to sound like the leader of the free world.....Tim Geitner..................

ourania · Post by **ourania** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:37 am

"Well I have to say I always take this topic seriously. I'm fully aware of trolls/trolling but yea, it gets annoying after a while, especially when it gets to the point on some forums where every single person is trying to troll each other."

Armand - Please don't assume you know what it is I was referring to by making a characterization of me as a troll. I'm a Dragon Lady, thank you very much. As someone who seems to know everything, I would have expected a more accurate interpretation.

"Nice gift:
are you camping with "reacharound camp"?.........."

Ygmir - They have a camp for that? Hmmm, I may have to re-think the two minute limit. Surely that's not enough time to get anything/one done?

It's not what you think! Sorry Simon! Although perhaps I've already scared him, freaky libertine that I am...and no, it's not some hippy-doo chanting either.

Armand · Post by **Armand** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:46 am

ourania wrote: Armand - Pleas don't assume you know what it is I was referring to by making a characterization of me as a troll. I'm a Dragon Lady, thank you very much. As someone who seems to know everything, I would have expected a more accurate interpretation.

I would have expected a more accurate interpretation from a Dragon lady.

ourania · Post by **ourania** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:49 pm

Oh no no no.....I don't purport to know life's secrets, whelp. I freely admit I occasionally misread and misinterpret posts. If that is the case here and your comments were intended for someone else, I offer my most modest apology.

Armand · Post by **Armand** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:54 pm

ourania wrote:Oh no no no.....I don't purport to know life's secrets, whelp. I freely admit I occasionally misread and misinterpret posts. If that is the case here and your comments were intended for someone else, I offer my most modest apology.

Oh why thank you.