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Originally Posted by norman
Your getting there Bill, just a little further and we'll really talking soon.
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Responding to this and Bill's comment on sarcasm.
STOP! EVERYONE JUST STOP!
Do you believe in a world where a child can be born into a healthy environment with free education and equal chances to grow up into a beautiful and enlightened individual? Do you?
This is what the elections do to us. Friends that are close and dear to you being torn apart by bull sh*t. We have the same beliefs deep down. We want change. We want truth. We want to be loved.
These times are hard. The powers at be don't need to bring down this site by physically shutting it down. We are doing it ourselves with this pestering and bickering. It gets us no where. You are human. I am human. Even more importantly, we are all human (And above that, we are all thinking entities).
I've stated my positions in as much as a positive manner as possible not to infuriate people. The people on Avalon on some of the most good-hearted honest individuals I have ever met. We are surrounded by beauty and so many seem to forget it as you encompass yourself with hate and fear.
This world makes me so depressed at time, but I am always reminded of the beauty it shares with me in every prevailing moment. Don't let the latter overcome the former, otherwise you will be stuck in that dark lonely mindset that plagues the world continuously day in and day out.
I want to share a little bit more of my perspective here. A personal story with my life that I hope will shed some light. During the summer in Maine, I perform downtown more than several times a week with my fire dancing. I spend money on fuel and on the excess food for the calories for my performances. I set out a hat, and do my thing.
To many, it may seem that hat is my purpose, to get by, to feed myself, and so forth. That hat is seemly there for the form of generosity and respect. I am there to create beauty, to be apart of beauty, to fall into the moment as my feet dance to the music. But even more importantly, I want to share that beauty with the world. Someone walking home from a depressing day at work, picks up the far off sounds of Sigur Ros playing in the distance. The hypnotizing music attracts them to a square where they see myself moving ever so gracefully to the music with the awe of fire spinning around me. And for a moment, a single moment, they forget about the ******** in life, their troubles, their sorrows, and they smile as the beauty encompasses every aspect of their existence, even if for only a millisecond.
That is why I do what I do. Please people, please, remember the simple truths. They are the intangible friend that is always standing by your side, someone who you do not have to question your faith in.
So right now, I ask one thing. Just smile.