Thread: Isn't it cool

All my opinions are naturally real and the same I use in IRL. It is just that this is only shadow of my character in real life.

I've never actually tried online dating, now that you mention it... I could do the classic and write myself to stars

Originally Posted by b12

to be a part of an online forum? You can create your own identity. Have people who don't even know you, and can't see you, view you in whatever way you choose...whether it be completely yourself, a different aspect of your personality, or to completely create your own.

Or of course, you could just BS your way around. I could say I'm a high-profile communications consultant who has worked for Coca-Cola, BMW, and Exxon Mobile, I make $450k a year and have a perfect-10 model wife...and you'd never REALLY know, as long as I was smart enough to back it up in my posts.

Awesome, right? So tell me...who are you, really?

I am,
pretty sure who I am is NOT~your business?

AKA - Arrogant bitch.

Don't post then.

Da da tsss

I don't lie. There's no point.

That is so very very true. You know what else is cool about this site, the new design boo-yeah

You could even go so far as to say that I'm the ballad in your box, or even the bullet in the gun.

Originally Posted by b12

Or of course, you could just BS your way around. I could say I'm a high-profile communications consultant who has worked for Coca-Cola, BMW, and Exxon Mobile, I make $450k a year and have a perfect-10 model wife...and you'd never REALLY know, as long as I was smart enough to back it up in my posts.

Well at least I get some satisfaction knowing that you aren't any of these things. (Just messing with you).

Me? I'm a student.

I am more or less the same person as I am on these forums, except I rarely talk in real life.

Also, I do believe I have lost my mind.

Originally Posted by Enjyu

I am more or less the same person as I am on these forums, except I rarely talk in real life.

Also, I do believe I have lost my mind.

I'm slightly socially awkward in real life. Probably because I find that I can't really have "intellectual" conversations with anyone; they never go deeper than "hey, what did you do this weekend?"... Saying that, I like to have stimulating discussions with people.

Also, I talk like an adult sometimes. People sometimes don't understand what the hell I'm saying. o_o

(For those who've read my posts, would you think I'm a 17-year old? Curious here.)

well its hard to say because i know your 17, so its hard not to think of you as 17 even if your posts might be of a 90 or 12 year old

@ Puffin - not. at. all.

I'd guess at least 18.

No but seriously, I'd say college or older.

Originally Posted by Puffin

I'm slightly socially awkward in real life. Probably because I find that I can't really have "intellectual" conversations with anyone; they never go deeper than "hey, what did you do this weekend?"... Saying that, I like to have stimulating discussions with people.

Same here. Most things that interest me require at least a little intelligence. Whenever I bring one of those subjects up in a conversation, they change the subject faster than I can finish my sentence.

Originally Posted by Puffin

(For those who've read my posts, would you think I'm a 17-year old? Curious here.)

Like Solarflare, I already knew you are 17. I've read quite a bit of your posts, including your Sporadic Awareness Technique. If I didn't already know you were 17, I probably wouldn't have believed you if you told me.

the inter glow that let's you know to call your brother son, the promise of what's to come, the story that's just begun, and...

Who am I? I am that one guy few people even know about... Even people who I befriended know little of my past, or what I truly am or think. You can merely assume that I am just another enigmatic figure hiding all secrets, both light and dark. THAT is who I am... really.

I WILL remain a soldier until the war is won!

(100 brownie points to whoever got that)

As far as who anybody really is, think about this.

This poem by Thich Nhat Hanh embodies the essence of what he calls "interbeing," the innerconnectedness of all things.

Call Me by My True Names
by Thich Nhat Hanh

From: Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh

In Plum Village, where I live in France, we receive many letters from the refugee camps in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, hundreds each week. It is very painful to read them, but we have to do it, we have to be in contact. We try our best to help, but the suffering is enormous, and sometimes we are discouraged. It is said that half the boat people die in the ocean. Only half arrive at the shores in Southeast Asia, and even then they may not be safe.

There are many young girls, boat people, who are raped by sea pirates. Even though the United Nations and many countries try to help the government of Thailand prevent that kind of piracy, sea pirates continue to inflict much suffering on the refugees. One day we received a letter telling us about a young girl on a small boat who was raped by a Thai pirate. She was only twelve, and she jumped into the ocean and drowned herself.

When you first learn of something like that, you get angry at the pirate. You naturally take the side of the girl. As you look more deeply you will see it differently. If you take the side of the little girl, then it is easy. You only have to take a gun and shoot the pirate. But we cannot do that. In my meditation I saw that if I had been born in the village of the pirate and raised in the same conditions as he was, there is a great likelihood that I would become a pirate. I saw that many babies are born along the Gulf of Siam, hundreds every day, and if we educators, social workers, politicians, and others do not do something about the situation, in twenty-five years a number of them will become sea pirates. That is certain. If you or I were born today in those fishing villages, we may become sea pirates in twenty-five years. If you take a gun and shoot the pirate, all of us are to some extent responsible for this state of affairs.

After a long meditation, I wrote this poem. In it, there are three people: the twelve-year-old girl, the pirate, and me. Can we look at each other and recognize ourselves in each other? The tide of the poem is "Please Call Me by My True Names," because I have so many names. When I hear one of the of these names, I have to say, "Yes."

Call Me by My True Names

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
loving.

I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my
people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
walks of life.
My pain if like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh

im just the sperm that won the race

I'm a human that can express himself a lot more on these forums than in real life. I usually talk more to adults than kids in my school, because I never really get into what kids talk about and adults usually have more interesting things to say (adults don't cuss as much too). I barely talk in group conversations, except with my family. I like reading. I am asian.

Raetin, a truly creative person is awakened and not merely dreaming. Limitations are for the limitators, not for the free-minded ones. As an Asian you may understand this. Ride the wild Tiger and she is Zen personified. Hell of a ride but totally free.

Lol, I forgot I put that in my signature.

Originally Posted by Solarflare

im just the sperm that won the race

Sure you aren't the one who lost?

Solar is the sperm that found the hole in the Trojan.

... And his parents are the ones who lost