'What an awesome first experience with meditation. Weird, scary...hopefully it has show you some of the limitless potential of the mind. I focus on trance meditation, but I have also done zazen...
Some thoughts, may they help you: Our emotions are in a constant state of chaos. One minute everything is perfect and has always been perfect, the next minute nothing is perfect and could never be...
Somewhere in childhood I had a thought. I'm going to read everything and be a genius and say amazing things all the time. It took another 20 years for me to tell myself to shut the hell up. ...
Family in Italy and Israel. At one point I was going to make aliyah and join the IDF with my cousins, to be able to call myself an Israeli. Instead I went to college in Philadelphia. Then moved down...
INFJ's love talking about love. The first time I felt love was with a Norwegian blonde girl. She was beautiful inside and out. I loved hearing her speak, hearing her ideas. She was a pianist, I...
Haba Aba Daba Aba I'm not fully sure I can understand why one would call that pretentious, hate the creator, then mock the piece, then quote Schopenhauer on the epistemology of artwork. I loved that...
I'm on the alpha male side of the spectrum, so emotion has always been a very curious subject for me. I am an empath, yet I lift weights and am extremely fit. I tend to let only few friends close,...
Chocolatentropy I agree. Such are the actions of someone who is uncomfortable in their own skin. You are not alone in that, ever.
I was an art major. I was given scholarships for my portfolio, the dean of my school even bought my artwork. I thought that was direction. Art was just something I was always good at, it was not a...
Most people's actions are directed by two things: control and fear; and they will fight hard as hell to deny it. The point at which the pain of staying the same was greater than the pain of...
I like using the Sanskrit word for reincarnation: Samsara, to describe some of my behaviors. When I am alone I may be profoundly comfortable, but at some point I will begin missing company. When I am...
Glassland I can empathize deeply, I believe that in your snapshot lies pieces of someone that I once was. I once romanticized my hardships and turned them into manifesto-like certainties. I once...
ani medabere ivrit...hebrew is a beautiful language. I miss Israel a lot.
If I have to go back and forth in my head about whether or not I have romantic feelings for a girl, I most likely do not. I've recognized this pattern in myself, but in the past I would alternate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M17aG_Po2Y
banned for changing your avatar
Revenge ban for previously banning me.
OldManRivers I look forward to your posts when I see them. That one word was so much. Thanks for everything you've ever said on here. As for me, I'll finally have my masters, or doctorate. I...
Max ‘Love at first sight’ always sounded like a bullshit retrograde reinterpretation. Like something lifted from those perfectly banal movie love affairs and pop-culture dreams by couples that...
Facebook is like looking out of a window at a summer day. Reddit seems to be a race to the most satirical, sardonic comment. Tumblr is like building a digital bedroom, except I already have...
Hey frosty I'll trade you a fuck if you'll give me your dunkaroos for it at lunch. My mom packed it for me today :dry:
Banned for shooting Ketamine out of your username
Philadelphia, born and raised!
I'm a leo, but my moon is in pisces. I have no idea what that means though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj1ErN7tn9A
I am indoctrinated into an academic mindset. Falsefiability, reproducibility, objectification...all not exactly feely feely. I am not limited to this though, very spiritual somehow. The truce made to...
I tend to see this type of metaphor/simile-infused mindset in terms of Piaget's stages of development and neuroscience (because its interesting stuff to me). Within the Symbolic Functioning of...
I was 8. Found the guitar! Also I grew a sick beard and watched cartoon network forever.
Welcome to the forum! When I first joined I didn't think I would actually stick around...my username is even a joke to be honest, yet I found myself really loving the people on here. I feel you...
Welcome to the forum! 25 years of experience, wow! I am sure your opinions and knowledge will be valuable to many, and I hope you enjoy your time here.
Hello Lisa, welcome to the forum! This site is really wonderful -- I hope you find it as enjoyable as I have, and hope to learn more about you in the infj section as well as around the site.
Banned for an analysis of variance.
good choice! love that book too. good luck in school.
Banned for being two standard deviations to the left, your z-score is perplexing me.
Whats your favorite book? What are you doing with your life?
Maybe my lack of fear is ignorance alone. I don't fear death. I actively want my loved ones to die before me, because I can't bear the thought of them having to suffer my own death. There is...
@INeverJustThink Sorry I am just responding! Work two jobs...school starts tomorrow. From someone struggling with severe lonliness (while surrounded by people) and low-grade cyclothymia...I...
kay002 I see you mention defense mechanisms. I think lots of people remain locked in Freud's concepts, but I suggest looking up Vaillant's categories/hierarchy as well! For instance, defense...
Hey everyone go get hit by a bus or do heroin ok? Thanks! Yeah...I tend to compartmentalize my sociopathic dictator into one corner of my mind, starved of any real resources. Its a little North...
INeverJustThink Its all a balancing act with alone time. Easy to fall. Its like saying because I love sleep, I won't get out of bed. I need people communion time, dearly. Because people that...
The least stupid thread I've seen, ever. bubbleboy wish I knew you, I'd have gone with you. I think people need a witness. Need someone to see, hear, touch them. I agree with Jung in his...
I actually like the fact that I can draw the human body, either gender, in any pose, just from figuring out where the spine is as reference for the rest of the body. I like that I am at a point...
Went to a place called kungfu neck tie tonight. Hipster bar. Oh my god its like fuck parenthetical girls their music is shit I screamed MILK ME in his face and he gave me an OMG WTF BRO...
I yell two things at strangers. Its my form of exhibitionism: less dick, more OMG WTF BRO. 1. MOM!? and 2. MILK ME. <3 But no for real, my mom smokes long cruella deville cigs and drives a...
Some ridiculous encounters lately: I met a troupe of young people dressed as old people (diapers, canes, medical gowns) in a forest chanting sponge bath. There was a guy on psychedelics...
When the leaves first turn lime green before they settle into a darker shade, and when they turn into yellow and fire before they fall. I like the whole transition, always sort of reminded me of a...
How true! Kubla Khan is my absolute favorite...But hey, Frankenstein and even Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were inspired by dreams as well. And I agree: pain is the engine that starts it all. Catharsis to...
Klaro26 It was true in a dream at least. This was my Kubla Khan of sorts. Literally, I woke up from a dream in another dream, to a woman made of stone, and she just wanted to escape and be me.
revised. (like this one) Antedeluvia. The dream idea. It was an error to think I did not know the mason yet there I was awoken by a woman made of stone. His tools ripped from the body of a...'
