I Am Smart Thread
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DAVETOTHEGRAVE a répondu le Sun 18 Sep, 2005 @ 2:29pm |
 Coolness: 49730 | Its a boring sunday, shitty outside so today i'm going to dedicate myself to posting some cool articles I find on the net. Cool.
Will the real Tyler Durden please stand up? Primal connection The Purity of Impulse The Rule of Entropy The Emergence of the Id What is harder than destroying something beautiful? Creating something truthful. The objective of fight club is to break through the plastic bag wrapped around the human soul; to tear down the facade of the middle class value consumer cultural madness called civilization and to discover the ORGANIC self. Through animal brutality it is intended to re-open the connection to the Earth, Sun, and Universe. The Body is this connection. The body is the Beast, the doorway to the Soul. Awareness of the Body is the key. Civilization is the enemy of Spirit. It is designed towards maximum convenience. Convenience engenders complacency, and complacency is death to the creative imagination, death to the Spirit. Western civilization is built as a roomy and guilded cage in which all is provided for us. We leave our houses by radio controlled garages, ride in our autopilot cars talking on our cell phones, arrive at highrise work places, ride muzak-playing elevators into our office dungeons, plug in for 8 hours, and then go home again. The laundromat, the delicatessan, the photocopy shop, the shopping mall, this is our jungle. All our needs are met before they are given the chance to arise. Where once we hunted and gathered, now we go shopping. The objective of consumer culture is to keep us distracted and satiated in order that we, the inmates, never become aware that we are prisoners, slaves to a closed system that requires our blood to sustain itself. The solution to this is to reject all the trappings and comforts of civilization and return to the roots, to a more primal level of thought/activity. Man is an animal. As an animal he is programmed with certain instincts necessary to survive, the hunting instinct for example. Civilization, by providing us with all our basic survival needs, denies us an outlet for our elemental natures. As a result, these primordial instincts that are our organic connection to the Universe have steadily decayed over the generations. The current generation is all but entirely alienated from its primordial nature; as such it is devoid of purpose, energy, and meaning. The primordial program has been deviated and debased into more socially acceptable channels, as evidenced by the mass popularity of sports. This is where fight club comes in. For a generation of men raised by women, for whom nature is no adversary and God is just a rumour, the only club worth joining is one that promises what all the others cannot give: a sense of reality. And the only remaining cause within a society and civilization that has stripped us of our identity and purpose is that of self-transformation. The first step towards transformation is destruction. This is where Project Mayhem comes in. It is not humanity but Earth that must be saved; to save the Earth, humanity must first be destroyed. The world must be stopped. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. - Tyler |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Sun 18 Sep, 2005 @ 2:33pm |
 Coolness: 339610 | Originally posted by TARDCORE...
What is harder than destroying something beautiful? destroying something beautifull is very easy. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DAVETOTHEGRAVE a répondu le Sun 18 Sep, 2005 @ 3:33pm |
| Coolness: 49730 | A cool story and newsletter from my friend stephane really cool shit.
------------------------------------ This is a non-pg13 free e-letter from [ www.ideaGasms.com ] on the topic of sexual/spiritual harmony and heart-centered seduction. Hello everyone! I can’t believe it. This is my 50th newsletter. Time flies… People keep sending me emails asking, “Stephane, when is your ebook coming out man??” Haa, as if I have time to write an ebook! Now, I’d like to talk to you about transcending fear. After all, that’s what we’re mainly discussing here, isn’t it? I mean, there’s only LOVE or FEAR. All human emotions fit into one of those two categories. It’s not easy. We all want to get over our fears in life, and we all want to experience love, joy, bliss… but it’s HARD. It takes work. We’ve all been on this crazy planet for millions of years, and it’s been HARD. But we’re in a new age now. We’re finally figuring this shit out, this thing called, “Duality.” Love – Fear. Life – Death. Good – Evil. Man – Woman. Dark – Light. Everything in this 3-dimensional world seems to involve duality. But not for long... As a species, we are transcending the Ego in a big way. We’re starting to shed this ILLUSION that we are all separate. And we’re finally letting go of the fear-based teachings of the Church. The Church is the main reason we are so fucked up, by the way… But we’re realizing now that “God” isn’t some spooky father figure who lives in the sky. God isn’t some mean, masculine macho-man who has a special list of ten things that he doesn’t want you to do. We’re beginning to AWAKEN. We’re slowly realizing that hell is ON EARTH! More importantly, we’re starting to realize that somehow, WE ARE GOD. We’re part of this mass consciousness. We are a spark of divinity! Somehow we ended up on this Earth, learning the lessons of duality. And it’s hard… Holy shit is it ever hard… LOL. Now, I’d like to share a story with you. This is a story about darkness, and FEAR. So imagine for a moment that I have invited a guest along to join us. This guest you may not like so much… It is a SNAKE. And this snake… This snake slithers in on the floor to coil up next to you while you read this newsletter. This snake represents your own darkness, your own fears. I ask you to feel the energy of this snake. It is your fears. It is the outer manifestation of your fears. It is also a swirling, rising potential of energy that sits at your feet at all times, metaphorically. The snake is depicted in the DNA. It is your “kundalini”, a rising energy potential, but one that holds much fear. Now, imagine four people – 2 women and 2 men. They are all walking down Enlightenment Street, together. Suddenly, a snake crawled up from the brush, onto the road, and stopped directly in front of the fourth person, a woman, who was at the back of the group. The snake slithered up to her and cut her off her path. The snake coiled its body, reared its head and directed energies of fear straight through its eyes directly into hers. This broke down everything she had ever learned. It broke her down for a moment. She shrieked, and she went running back at amazing speed, back to the village where they came from that morning. She left so quickly that the others in the group could not even catch her and settle her down. She was filled with so much fear! She was so deeply terrified by this snake that she forgot everything she had ever learned. The snake was very pleased, for he did not even need to exert himself. He scared away this woman. Be gone with her! He instantly slid back into the underbrush, out of sight, out of the way of the other three people who remained. They were confused. They did not know what to do. They were sad that one of their own had run back to the village, and would probably not resume her path on this road to enlightenment for quite some time. They discussed it briefly, and decided to continue on their path. They gave thanks and blessings that at least no one was harmed. The three remaining people continued on their path toward enlightenment, enjoying the day, when once again a snake appeared from the underbrush. It came darting onto the road, in direct contact with one of the males. It coiled up his head and opened his mouth to expose his pointed teeth. One of the men said, "I will kill you. You make me angry! You chased away one of the others. I'm going to kill you once and for all!" He pulled the knife out of the sheath, held his arm back, and was about to strike a blow, when the snake coiled, released, and bit him in the leg. He died instantly. The anger had arisen within him. He was going to save and protect the others. He was going to kill the snake, but the snake was much more cunning. The snake was much faster. The snake caught him off guard and killed him. The snake quickly escaped back into the underbrush, out of sight of the other two remaining people. They continued walking down “Enlightenment Street”, but now it weighed heavily upon them – the events of one woman who had been scared silly and ran back to the village, and the other who had come to what seemed to be an untimely death. They continued walking, and as you already know, the snake once again came from the underbrush, slithered onto the road, and put itself directly in the way of the one woman who remained. The one woman who remained decided to use a different tact this time. Instead of trying to kill the snake, she would talk the snake through its fears and angers. She knelt down, just out of reach of the snake. She said, "Oh, dear snake, you must have had a difficult childhood! Dear snake, I raise my hands now, not to attack you, but I will send you energy, and I will send you love, and I will heal you and all of the wounds from your very disturbing childhood. Oh, dear snake, I imagine that your father beat you, and that is why you are so angry. And dear snake, I will sing you a lullaby to make you feel better, to nurture your inner snake." Now, the snake coiled back and had an interesting look on his face, a look that was quite puzzled. Here was a human that was not displaying anger. Here was a human that was trying to change him. The snake looked at her, and a big smile came across his face. And the woman thought, "I am connecting with him, heart-to-heart. Look. He is smiling." Suddenly, the snake leapt forward and bit her. She died instantly. And the snake retreated back into the underbrush, laughing and laughing and laughing to himself: "Here was a human, trying to change the world and to change me. She was the easiest of all my targets! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Now, the one remaining human was quite concerned now. He wondered about this road of Enlightenment. This was not such a good thing, for now one of his friends had been chased away in fear, and two had been killed. He sat and thought for quite awhile about whether to continue on the path. Finally, he said, "It is so deep within my being and deep within my soul that I must continue." He continued walking, somewhat more carefully and more cautious than he had before, but he continued walking. And as you already know, after a short period of time, the snake crawled up from the underbrush once again, now feeling more invigorated and more powerful for having chased off three in one way or the other. The snake came directly in his path. The snake said, "I will allow you to go no further on the path. Like the others, I will kill you now." The remaining man looked the snake eye-to-eye, who was coiled and ready to bite. The snake was empowered with the blood of a human dripping from his mouth. He was so delighted with himself. At that moment Samuel said to himself, "I must take response-ability for creating my own reality. It is not about me anymore. I must take ownership and be in a place of balance. I must breathe. I must breathe in my divinity, for this is what I have learned to be true. I must somehow let go of my fear." Unbeknownst to both this man and the snake, an eagle had been circling overhead, watching the series of events. At the moment Samuel took in the breath, the eagle swooped down, grabbed the snake with its strong and sturdy claws, flew up hundreds and hundreds of feet into the air, did circles and spins with the snake screaming and slithering its claws. Then the eagle dropped the snake to his death on the ground. The man breathed again, but this time, it was with relief. He continued walking on his path, and thought about the events of this very strange day. He contemplated all that had happened. He thought about the eagle, who had truly been there all of the time, waiting for the appropriate moment to come forth. He asked himself, “What does this mean? What is the lesson?” He continued walking on the path of enlightenment, when suddenly another snake appeared. It was a relative of the snake who was killed. This new snake was very, very pissed! This new snake darted from the underbrush and stopped directly in front of him. It was almost twice as long as the first snake. It coiled in front of him, and said, "I will surely kill you now, for you have killed my own relative. I will have revenge. I must, for that is the way of our snake god. We revenge all who do us harm." Now, Samuel had been thinking quite a bit along his walk, ever since the first snake was killed. He knew it was a blessed and sacred moment when the eagle came down. He also knew that it was a divine act, and he knew there was more to be learned from all of this. He asked himself, "What is it that I should know about the snake? What is it that I should do if this ever would happen again to me?" He listened within for the answers to his questions. He knew that the answers always come from within. Samuel knew that he couldn’t just close his eyes and wish that the eagle would swoop down once again. He knew it was time to truly take ownership of his reality. He looked the snake in the eye and said, "Dear snake, what is it that you seek? Why are you in my path?" The snake was shocked! No human had EVER asked this question! Humans had always acted in fear or anger or sometimes stupidity, but they had never displayed this kind of wisdom, this kind of CURIOSITY. They had never asked, "Why are you here in my path? What is that you have for me?" To his questions, the snake responded, "Dear Sir, I am you. I am no different from you. I am not some external reptile. I am your darkness, your fear. And I come here today to stand in your path because you, Sir, do not like change. You, Sir, have issues that need addressing. I am here as a messenger to help you bring your issues to the surface. I can be your greatest enemy, or your greatest teacher. It is up to you." The man thought for a moment and then asked the snake, "But if it is so simple, if it is so simple, then why did the first snake kill and scare the other humans? Why couldn’t you just come to us and explain why you are here?" And the snake shook what little head it had and said, "That is not the way it works. It is only when we are asked, only when you have enough curiosity, only when you open the door by asking the questions, can we then answer. We do not want to be changed. We do not want to be attacked. But when a human comes to us – the snake that is within – and asks, then we must tell. We must share." So the man now understood his own power, his own balance, and he understood why the snake had been sent there in the first place. They talked for many, many, many hours. The man learned much through this experience about himself. He saw the darkness and the fears that were within him, expressed through the snake. When they were done, he said to the snake, "I still do not like you. I still do not like when you show up on my path. I still do not like what you represent. But, now I know that you come bearing a gift. Now I know there is a reason for your being, and now I know how to address you and what to do." He continued on his path. There was an occasional but rare snake that attempted to stop him. He understood it was just a test of his own being to see if he was still staying in his balance. But now, each time a snake appeared before him, he would smile, and he would say, "Why are you here? What is it that I should know? Why are you here? What is it that you want? What’s the wisdom? What is the lesson that you bring?" Dear friends, as we move into our hearts, there are still issues. There are still the imbalances. They will appear, but understand, as the man in this story came to understand, that the darkness, the fear, at its core level, are issues and energies within you that seek release. That is all. If you hold an imbalance of fear within you, the darkness can cause you to go scampering back to the village where you came from. If you hold fears and you allow them to let you forget everything you’ve learned, to shake you to the core, you will run backwards to the village, back to your security. This snake of fear and darkness that scared you away did not get what he came for. He wasn’t trying to scare you. He was really looking to be addressed. The fear seeks release. It has insidious ways of doing this. It has damaging and crippling ways of doing it. But go straight to the core and understand that the fears within you seek to be released. When you try to kill the snake as the second man did, when you go after it in anger and judgment, it is throws you into imbalance. You have discovered that in yourself. When you are angry, when there is something that happens from within and you get angry within yourself, you lose! Anger is an imbalance. It isn’t, as so many of you have tried to argue with me, a useful emotion. Anger is FEAR-BASED. When you are angry with yourself and others, it is like trying to build a house during an earthquake. Understand this when the snake is standing in front of you, and you are angry, and you draw your knife, and say, "I will cut your head off. I will kick your ass motherfucker!" Even if you do manage to kill the snake, it will come back through all of its relatives. It will be there, because the fear seeks to be released! You have only inflicted anger and pain on it. But it will persist. It will be there. It will be in your path of ascension and enlightenment. Anger does not solve the problem. Consider a question I got yesterday from a woman: ***QUESTION ABOUT JEALOUSY*** okay stephane, well i am a girl and my boyfriend told me about your site. he was hesitant about telling me because he assumed i wouldn't get it. he assumed i would be judgemental and closed minded. Since june, my boyfriend has discussed quite a few of your techniques and ideas about human behavior, relationships and life in general. your love vs fear model has changed the way i think about the world everyday. he never told me exactly where he was learning these things. he made a conscious decision to delay telling me about this site but he decided last night that the time had come for him to fill me in on what you have taught him. recently, i have done some (very little) research on chakras and meditation and i respect what you say and the advice you give your readers. so today was my first chance to look over your site. i read the heart chakra newsletter, the power dramas pts. 1 and 2, the what to do if someone cheats on you, and the dragonbutter (awesome), i plan on reading much more after i send you this email. well over lunch, my man asked me what i thought about the site. i mentioned a few things that i liked. i told him that i think you have a very down to earth and strong approach to spirituality and relationships and i understand from the advice you give that you have a lot of integrity. and then i mentioned threesomes and hermetic circles. Being able to love more than one person at a time scares me. all i can think about is my man wanting other women to be involved in our relationship. HE HASNT EVEN PROPOSED THIS IN ANY WAY. but my worries and fears are freaking out. and so these fears are preventing me from understanding your real message and they are preventing me from experiencing spiritual growth with my boyfriend. bottom line: i am insecure. i am afraid of him loving someone else, because that would mean he could love me less. i dont trust his intentions, which isnt fair to him or to our relationship. i want to trust him and i want to make my fears shut up. and now there is a rift between us. your site has truly inspired my boyfriend and all i could comment on was the threesome part. he is very disappointed in me. i dont know what i want from this letter. do i want my mind set at ease? do i want you to validate my fears? i geuss i just want help because i am clearly sexually repressed, incsedure and jealous. i want to open my chakras and learn to love unconditionally. i want to be detached in a positive way. but i still want to care. i dont want to let my fears sabotage the love i feel for my boyfriend and i dont think i will be able to truly love him until i can let go of my fears and anxieties. >>>MY COMMENTS: The fear (the snake called jealousy) doesn’t want to be judged, it wants to be released. Rather than getting angry and frustrated with yourself, ask the jealousy what it wants. It wants to be heard, and ultimately it wants to be released. Ask it, “What is it that you’re trying to tell me? What is the wisdom that you wish to share? What is the lesson I need to learn here?” The answers may surprise you. And DO SHARE! We’re all on the edge of our seats J Thanks for reading, and if YOU have any questions send them to Stephane@ideaGasms.com and I might answer them in future newsletters! Don’t give me your life story, just a question or two. If I don’t answer you, it’s because I get TONS of emails every day. You can always take comfort in the fact that Jesus loves you… |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FRANKB a répondu le Sun 18 Sep, 2005 @ 3:42pm |
 Coolness: 103280 | ur crazy..the sun is out... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» M-A-X a répondu le Sun 18 Sep, 2005 @ 4:00pm |
 Coolness: 121580 | wow that is a post! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico a répondu le Tue 20 Sep, 2005 @ 3:32am |
 Coolness: 150405 | Okay, that is the most brilliant shit I have ever read on ravewave ever.
Where, and what and how do I have to do to get this newsletter? (Thank You) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DAVETOTHEGRAVE a répondu le Tue 20 Sep, 2005 @ 12:27pm |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Atrix a répondu le Tue 20 Sep, 2005 @ 4:27pm |
 Coolness: 55235 | Not bad! A really nice parable in there with the snake. But I think your friend Stephane might be plaigerising off of Deepak Chobra...
He still has a great grasp on the material and it's good to see people finally thinking like this. Religion will not give you Truth. It is a mind-control designed to keep the sheep in order. Taming Humans is tough work. If you dive into Science to find Truth, you will get lost. Science searches for Facts. Truth is the business of Philosophy. After getting a degree in the Sciences I stopped studying for tests and began studying for me. Now I can see I know nothing. I can see that the only Fact science has provided us with is that the material that makes up ourselves does not actually exist and we don't know what the score is. Quantum Mechanics has been saying so for 100 years. The proof of the design is in the Atomic Bomb. IT is the ultimate riddle with no answer. Life is a koan. It took us thousands of years to get to the point of splitting the atom. And it was only then where we realized that the Buddhists were saying this all along. So fuck the Church. Fuck organized Religions. I think I'm a Quantum Buddhist. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PonChalice a répondu le Tue 20 Sep, 2005 @ 4:50pm |
 Coolness: 76200 | my other "I rock" is a camaro. whaaat?
pwned bitches, so gettin owned up in here! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Toltech a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 9:03pm |
 Coolness: 145365 | Originally posted by DJNEOFORM...
Originally posted by Tardcore...
What is harder than destroying something beautiful? destroying something beautifull is very easy. seriously, for real. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 6:18pm |
 Coolness: 201170 | doesn't matter how smart you are because compared to CTHULHU, you are NOTHING |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lady a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 6:22pm |
 Coolness: 182475 | Originally posted by DJNEOFORM...
Originally posted by Tardcore...
What is harder than destroying something beautiful? destroying something beautifull is very easy. agreed |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lady a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 6:24pm |
| Coolness: 182475 | i feel like i just read a book on some crazy spiritual stuff... nice post.. really! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 11:06pm |
| Coolness: 150405 | CTHULHU, ain't Vibing.
CTHULHU, sucks balls. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DAVETOTHEGRAVE a répondu le Fri 23 Sep, 2005 @ 11:16am |
| Coolness: 49730 | yeah... if everyone thought like thsi the world would be a very different place. I mean its not becoming some religious freak or anything but for real man it's about love. real love that has no conditions. Love for all people, because we our sharing the same world, the same oxygen, we ride the sames busses, go to the same parties, movies we walk the same sidewalks and yet people are so close in the physical world but are a universe apart in just being human. Instead we choose to numb ourselves with Drugs, TV, music, movies, exploiting human sexuality and just over all fucking ourselves up and creating an internal prison a prison that keeps you trapped in this culture, while the culture whispers in your ear that everything is OK. and it'll be fine and slowly... you drift to sleep.
When will people wake up? Why can't people JUST BE NICE? ITS THAT SIMPLE JUST BE NICE. Instead people judge you everywhre you go, they judge you because they are constantly judging themselves its beacuse being a person today means, hating yourself, it means not liking your body beacuse you don't look like the cover of a fashion magazine it means buying and buying clothes as if external shit was actually a true extension of your personality. IF you think like this you are an acter, putting a persona on to the world. Lets be real. - David |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul a répondu le Fri 23 Sep, 2005 @ 11:23am |
 Coolness: 56145 | Originally posted by TOLTECH ...
Originally posted by DJneoform...
Originally posted by Tardcore...
What is harder than destroying something beautiful? destroying something beautifull is very easy. seriously, for real. It's only easy, if we have lived in a world that has mostly done only that for the most part I would think. i doubt it would be as easy to destroy something beautiful, if we raised in a world that appreciated those things which need to be taken as sacred (our sources of life etc. not just the physical). We would have conscience for it. Whereas now, humans have taken things for granted for so long, it's easy to keep doing it in some respect. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zomb-o-Tron a répondu le Mon 26 Sep, 2005 @ 7:47pm |
 Coolness: 42625 | Originally posted by MICO!...
CTHULHU, ain't Vibing. CTHULHU, sucks balls. plz do not talk bad of Cthulhu, he will be our savior. feel the touch of his tentacles, youll understand. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico a répondu le Tue 27 Sep, 2005 @ 3:22am |
| Coolness: 150405 | Nevah! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead a répondu le Tue 27 Sep, 2005 @ 4:04pm |
 Coolness: 685535 | Seriously, though. Don't piss Cthulhu off. Bad idea. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul a répondu le Tue 27 Sep, 2005 @ 8:57pm |
| Coolness: 56145 | what is this ctchulu or whatever... is it a word someone on this board made up to represent some type of god..pretty much as a handy reference to joke with? |
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