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Topic: WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 28, 2009 09:17 PM
"If You Want To Sing Out"
Cat Stevens
Well
if you want to sing out
sing out.
And if you want to be free
be free.
'Cause there's a million things to be.
You know that there are.
And if you want to live high
live high.
And if you want to live low
live low.
'Cause there's a million ways to go.
You know that there are.
You can do what you want.
The opportunity's on.
And if you find a new way
you can do it today.
You can make it all true.
And you can make it undo
you see.
Ah
it's easy.
Ah
you only need to know. Well
if you want to say yes
say yes.
And if you want to say no
say no.
Cause there's a million ways to go.
You know that there are.
And if you want to be me
be me.
And if you want to be you
be you.
Cause thee's a million things to do.
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augentier
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posted March 28, 2009 09:51 PM
I stand for..a bold, adventurous, forward-looking existance..striving and establishing your individuality. Experience (in anything), humor, seeking knowledge and connecting with others.I stand up for the underdog and human rights. ------------------
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 28, 2009 10:02 PM
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I stand for..a bold, adventurous, forward-looking existance..
striving and establishing your individuality.
Experience (in anything), humor, seeking knowledge and connecting with others.
I stand up for the underdog and human rights.
YES!!!!!  
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 28, 2009 10:03 PM
 
"He's still alive."
"How do you know?" "Nobody but John can make somebody that p!ssed off."
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posted March 28, 2009 10:16 PM
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities: the punishment that brought us peace was upon him; and with his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."~ Isaiah 53:3-7
"Both the eighth and the twelfth houses are related to occult and metaphysical studies and practices, suffering at a deep level as a prelude to some sort of rebirth, and an immediate awareness of the realities of psychic and spiritual dimensions of life. The primary difference between the eighth and twelfth houses is that, whereas eighth house planets have to be confronted immediately and worked through, twelfth house planets can often be transcended. In the first case, one brings to the surface the old tendencies in order to transform them through immediate and intensive involvement, whereas in the latter case, one rises above the problems entirely."
~ Stephen Arroyo
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 28, 2009 10:19 PM
"Wild Geese"
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
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"Buoyancy"
Love has taken away my practices and filled me with poetry.
I tried to keep quietly repeating,
"No strength but yours," but I couldn't.
I had to clap and sing.
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That's how I hold your voice.
I am scrap wood thrown in your fire, and quickly reduced to smoke.
I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence, it obliterates existence,
and yet when it comes, existence thrives and creates more existence!
The sky is blue.
The world is a blind man squatting on the road.
A great soul hides like Muhammad, or Jesus,
moving through a crowd in a city where no one knows him.
To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.
Praise, the ocean.
What we say, a little ship.
So the sea-journey goes on, and who knows where!
Just to be held by the ocean is the best luck we could have.
It's a total waking up!
Why should we grieve that we've been sleeping?
It doesn't matter how long we've been unconscious.
We're groggy, but let the guilt go.
Feel the motions of tenderness around you, the buoyancy.
Rumi
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posted March 28, 2009 10:27 PM
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. -- William Shakespeare
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 28, 2009 10:31 PM
'While in reading the Gospels -- particularly that of St. John himself, or whatever early Gnostic took his name and mantle -- I see the continual assertion of the imagination as the basis of all spiritual and material life. I see also that to Christ imagination was simply a form of Love, and that to him Love was Lord in the fullest meaning of the phrase."~ Oscar Wilde, 'De Profundis'
"And so he who would lead a Christ-like life is he who is perfectly and absolutely himself. He may be a great poet, or a great man of science; or a young student at University, or one who watched sheep upon a moor; or a maker of dramas, like Shakespeare, or a thinker about God, like Spinoza; or a child who plays in a garden, or a fisherman who throws his nets into the sea. It does not matter what he is, as long as he realises the perfection of the soul that is within him. All imitation in morals and in life is wrong. Through the streets of Jerusalem at present day crawls one who is mad and carries a wooden cross on his shoulders. He is a symbol of the lives that are marred by imitation. Father Damien was Christ-like when he went out to live with the lepers, because in such service he realised fully what was best in him. But he was not more Christ-like than Wagner, when he realised his soul in music; or than Shelley, when he realised his soul in song. There is no one type for man. There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yeild and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yeild and remain free at all."
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26taurus
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posted March 28, 2009 10:54 PM
I'll always stand up for a good person if theyre getting beat up or unfairly treated or harassed.IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 28, 2009 11:01 PM
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I'll always stand up for a good person if theyre getting beat up or unfairly treated or harassed.
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Chryseis
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posted March 28, 2009 11:18 PM
<<<backing up...Azalaksh: silly me  my spelling and grammar are atrophying. Tho I always have thought that vice was spelt like that - mebbee an orstrellian ting. Funnily enuf tho, I used to think I was positively fab as a speller but I think I've acquired someone else's schooling of late, haha, am becoming an illiterate bushman. Inspirational, HSC 26T, the degree of my vertex btw, yes, I used to do that until I found that 9 times out of 10 the good person ended up being a total pain in the ar**, *shrugs* can't cradle everything I guess IP: Logged |
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posted March 28, 2009 11:30 PM
Zala 
Interchanging of homophones drives me nutters!
I see people doing that in Lexigramming attempts too often. http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones-list.html Or using "Ur" or "your" in lieu of "you're"
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 28, 2009 11:40 PM
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Inspirational, HSC
Thank you, Chryseis.
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Azalaksh
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posted March 28, 2009 11:46 PM
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mebbee an orstrellian ting . . . haha, am becoming an illiterate bushman.
No worries, mate 
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 29, 2009 12:35 AM
I stand for...
People who speak their truth.
And give it words, to give it weight. Who are willing to dialogue rationally,
to arrive at a mutual understanding. I do not insist that any man's philosophy
be harmonious with mine, but with itself;
if he would silence me, let him prove to me
that his logic is consitent, at least,
from his own point of view. I ask that, if he insists on a point,
which I have objected to with a counter-point,
he should object with another point,
to counter my counter-point. Otherwise, it is like taking little digs at someone,
just going an inch below the surface in search of the truth,
and, when they propose to dig deeper than this, you run off,
and begin to dig another inch somewhere, and tell them its deep.
Can you expect a man to meet you at every new hole in the ground,
when you have shown that you simply refuse to go more than an inch deep? That is something I stand up to, because I think its unfair,
and because shallow thinking leads to rash judgments on everything. Reason is a light as powerful as love,
and as lacking in many minds,
as love is lacking in many hearts. I also respect people who show at least as much respect
to their opponents as their opponents show to them. If a person crosses a line in a fight, and I refuse to cross it,
I think that is something to be proud of myself for.
If someone is shouting insult after insult, refusing to reason with me,
and I consistently respond to them in a less aggressive
and more rational way, this is something to be proud of. No question. Okay, there's my answer.
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 29, 2009 12:37 AM
Oh, I also want to say that..I stand up for whatever I feel moved to stand up for. From moment to present moment.  IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted March 29, 2009 08:23 AM
Chryseis, good point. I hear you there actually. IP: Logged |
Lara
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posted March 29, 2009 08:25 AM
I stand for LOVE and because i love myself i am happy to stand up for myself and others less fortunate. IP: Logged |
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posted March 29, 2009 08:42 AM
i stand for a lot of things, and fall for few.
i stand for love and music.
hsc
please go check out my u tube videos in the poetry forum. i would appreciate it.
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 29, 2009 08:46 PM
"Sacred cows make the best hamburgers." ~ abbie hoffman  
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posted March 30, 2009 01:28 AM
Done.  IP: Logged |
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posted April 06, 2009 07:24 AM
Where did I see this the other day? quote:
Stand for something, or fall for everything.
Nicely written HSC: quote:
People who speak their truth.And give it words, to give it weight. Who are willing to dialogue rationally,
to arrive at a mutual understanding. I do not insist that any man's philosophy
be harmonious with mine, but with itself;
if he would silence me, let him prove to me
that his logic is consitent, at least,
from his own point of view. I ask that, if he insists on a point,
which I have objected to with a counter-point,
he should object with another point,
to counter my counter-point. Otherwise, it is like taking little digs at someone,
just going an inch below the surface in search of the truth,
and, when they propose to dig deeper than this, you run off,
and begin to dig another inch somewhere, and tell them its deep.
Can you expect a man to meet you at every new hole in the ground,
when you have shown that you simply refuse to go more than an inch deep? That is something I stand up to, because I think its unfair,
and because shallow thinking leads to rash judgments on everything. Reason is a light as powerful as love,
and as lacking in many minds,
as love is lacking in many hearts. I also respect people who show at least as much respect
to their opponents as their opponents show to them. If a person crosses a line in a fight, and I refuse to cross it,
I think that is something to be proud of myself for.
If someone is shouting insult after insult, refusing to reason with me,
and I consistently respond to them in a less aggressive
and more rational way, this is something to be proud of. No question. Okay, there's my answer
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posted April 06, 2009 08:41 AM
I salute those who walk their talk,
who live what they preach,
who can be happy for others, not jealous.
Who can and do, honestly put themselves in the shoes of others.
Simply spouting words of understanding, respect, and love, and so forth, but not following such thinking, is not enough.
Pretty philosophies freely spoken of are only facades some wear and do not pertain to the speaker if not put into action and conduct.
Anyone who has read words of wisdom can quote
or paraphrase such words...but that does not make them automatically a person who applies such teachings in their own lives and interactions with others, and themselves.
So again I say...
I stand for those who walk their talk, and practice what they preach.------------------
A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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posted April 06, 2009 04:47 PM
For a while in my Facebook profile I had written down "EQUALITY, TRUTH, JUSTICE" as my interests before replacing it with "feminism, sample sales, boys"IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted April 06, 2009 09:04 PM
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