Most Important thing you've learned in your life?

[Selggurkim]

That there is no meaning or point to life beyond my own ability to imagine it;

Well spoken.

 

[plmar]

Striving for happiness in life is pointless, as the negatives always outweigh the positives.

 

[shadeyshaun]

i have read and am blown away by every quote above, the only one who is way off the mark seems to be capt heroin who disagrees with junkiedays quote that drugs are a waste of time.WTF capt, ofcourse they are if i could have every moment I have spent on searching for that perfect, ultimate, head spinning, earth shattering orgasm bettering 'high' then I would have half my life back. Its taken me 20 years of wasted time to conclude absolutely that among many other theoreticaly sound quotes i read here

Opiates will completely destroy ones life once they pick up the habit!

Lilunwell is 100% correct and i wonder how he came to that conclusion. Anyway the most important thing I have learned on my journey thus far is that there is no point or value in learning anything because I will either expressly repeat the experiment even if i have learn t the result to be negative ie repeating the same behavior expecting a different result. or i will ignore what i have learn t because it conflicts with my desire for immediate gratification.
My thought for the day, would Jim Morrison be any more eloquent than Ozzy Osbourne if he were still shuffling the planet today? I think not.

 

[cire113]

Im curious have any of you guys ever though of or considered this.... gotta really really be objective and look outside urself

"Whatever you believe in becomes truth in your reality and perception of "life and the world"

Do you think its quite possible that things we believe might just be a certain perspective that we align ourselves to based on our experiences or whatever else?

Is it possible that what we think or believe in is really is skewed and even possibly fantasy made up in our minds?



sorry if this sounds confusing; HOpefully somebody understands what i mean....

 

[Comrade Kane]

Experience is created in the brain using data from the physical senses of the body. You do not truly see anything. Your eyes take in data push it through the optic nerve then the brain creates a subjective experience of you appearing to look out from behind your eyes but really all along your not its just a trick. This trick is repeated with all the body inputs you feel see sense nothing of the real world only experience it secondhand filtered and with meanings and symbols added virtual reality of the mind.

 

[Lost Ego]

Striving for happiness in life is pointless, as the negatives always outweigh the positives.

happiness is about focusing on the positives. mood is allllll about what you think about. this was an important lesson for me to learn.

another big one is i learned that i can learn something from anyone. It erased every last trace of arrogance from my bones.

 

[Lost Ego]

Im curious have any of you guys ever though of or considered this.... gotta really really be objective and look outside urself

"Whatever you believe in becomes truth in your reality and perception of "life and the world"

Do you think its quite possible that things we believe might just be a certain perspective that we align ourselves to based on our experiences or whatever else?

Is it possible that what we think or believe in is really is skewed and even possibly fantasy made up in our minds?



sorry if this sounds confusing; HOpefully somebody understands what i mean....

what you believe influences your reality drastically. how you see the world greatly depends on what you think of the world. if you truly believe a person is bad or evil you will begin to see that side of them.

 

[Stevenski]

Be honest & true to oneself. You have to look the man in the mirror every morning & should be able to do so with humility & courage to face the day.

I know I spent many years not looking at the man in the mirror due to shame at what I had become.

 

[ugly]

The most important thing I know right now is that people are what they are, regardless of whether I like it or not. I've learned that what I feel about someone is just what I feel and what I expect is just what I expected. My feelings and expectations needed to be set aside.

I learned that because I was careful to raise all my kids one way. I had rules. We went to church every Sunday. I stayed home with the kids, and husband worked. I put everything I could into being a good mother.

My kids are all totally different than I thought they would be. They were all raised the same way. They are close in age, and we did everything together.

The older they get, the more they have proven to me that they are themselves. They are very... they are profoundly different from each other. They are doing things I'd never have predicted. They have husbands and wives that are not what I had planned for them at all.

I let go of my attempts to change them and surrendered to the way my kids are, and who their spouses are, and I realize that everybody has some issue. Everybody. I have to let it be. I've learned that even though the people I love have qualities I don't like, I can still love that person.

 

[sssssssssss]

if ur going through hell, why would u stop?

 

[EatMushrooms]

Music is life.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

[How] to listen to silence.

 

[DoctorJC]

Most important thing I've learned is that virtually everything is temporary, the highest highs and the lowest lows, everything is transient and consistently changing. Which can be good and bad. It's bad if you try and hold on to old feelings and ways of living which will only hurt you in the long run, and it's good for people to realize when the have severe depression or anxiety. It took me so long to understand and accept but even the points of absolute misery and despair will pass if you have the willpower and desire to see them through. Life is constantly changing and you gotta be on your toes to handle it.

 

[SideOrderOfOpiates]

The most important thing based on its impact in my life specifically, or the most important thing based on what I feel holds true to the same degree for everyone?

The most important thing I have learned that is personal is that failure is alright. That it is, in fact, the backbone for growth, and without it, the foundation isn't steady and able to prepare you for things to come. The most important thing I have learned that I would advise to the same degree with everyone, is that life is continuously disenchanting, and that no quantity or quality of anything or anyone can fix that.

 

[Jean-Paul]

hmm. i suppose at the moment...
it would be that i shouldn't give any credit at all to anyone who tells me that the fundamental truth i know to be true is inaccurate. basically, to not let myself be manipulated or cheated out of the truth by anyone, but to keep stating the truth as i know it. the ones who hear it and accept it are worth something. those who hear it and yet don't, are not.

 

[pk.]

probably that time doesn't exist

 

[Engage]

That nothing is ultimately knowable.... or permanent.
Darkness within darkness, this is the source of all things.


Be adaptable.

 

[oldflattop]

That nothing is ultimately knowable.... or permanent.
Darkness within darkness, this is the source of all things.


Be adaptable.

If nothing is knowable, then you can't possibly know that 'nothing is knowable', because to know that something is unknowable requires you to know a thing which, by your own definition, is unknowable.

How is 'darkness within darkness' the 'source of all things'? What does that even mean?

basically, to not let myself be manipulated or cheated out of the truth by anyone, but to keep stating the truth as i know it. the ones who hear it and accept it are worth something. those who hear it and yet don't, are not.

What is the 'truth' that everyone must accept to become 'worth something'? Why must they accept your truth when you are not willing to listen to theirs? Perhaps other people's truth is better than your truth? Can it be the 'truth' if it cannot stand-up to any questioning? Doesn't it devalue the 'truth' if someone accepts it unquestioningly as the truth?

 

[Engage]

Do you have anything to add, Oldflap?
or, are you are just gonna repeat what I am saying? NOTHING is knowable.
Darkness within Darkness...take a ripe grapefruit, eat it, wait a few minutes then, 4 bottles of DXM.
YOU will experience 'Darkness within Darkness'. If you push your mind in such a direction.


...or just sickness ...within sickness...if you DNA isn't 'programmed' right for your liver.

Lawl. Good luck. Safe journey.

 

[P A]

take a ripe grapefruit, eat it, wait a few minutes then, 4 bottles of DXM.

To be perfectly candid, Engage, I think that sounds like a pretty stupid thing to recommend, especially on a harm reduction board. Plz to not do again pl0x.