Ehm.. A question I'd like to have answered please

[XzUltima]

Is this all just role playing?... - -'

[Frank]

Ha ha, he caught us all out.

Yep, it's game over guys and gals. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, lol.

Yours,
Frank

[Nay]

LOL...  *jumps up and down*    I get to play the dragon!!

Nay  

[Rastus]

Yes.

I can't afford my Evercrack....errr...EverQuest account anymore so I play here.

[Telos]

I think Shakespeare asked that same question.

[karnautrahl]

Me too... I'm a Life Mage with a 1000 exp points.

</end taking the mickey>

[CaCoDeMoN]

Is this all just role playing?... - -'

Yes, life is some kind of role playing, and it's certainly the best game I've ever played  

[heter]

Is this all just role playing?... - -'

No.

[Rob]

haa!!! And if he was confused before, now he is even more confused!!!

Awesome    - just let me be an Elf

Rob

[RT]

"You take the blue pill and the story ends.
You wake in your bed and you believe
whatever you want to believe.

You take the red pill and you stay
in Wonderland, and I show you how
deep the rabbit-hole goes."


RT

[Telos]

Actually, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and many others have asked that question too...

[redcatherine]

"You take the blue pill and the story ends.
You wake in your bed and you believe
whatever you want to believe.
...You take the red pill and you stay
in Wonderland, and I show you how
deep the rabbit-hole goes."RT

Now that's AMUSING    

Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all;
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall;
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call;
To call Alice, when she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go;
And you've just had some kind of mushroom,
and your mind is moving low;
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead;
And the white knight is talking backwards;
And the red queen's off with her head;
Remember what the dormouse said,
Feed your head, feed your head
1967 Icebag Music Corp.



FROM : http://anunda.com/wisdom/detachment.htm
All the World's a Stage - The Tantra of Detachment

Do we allow the Tantric play that is our life to unfold,
guided by our inner sense, our inner director,or are we stuck on our individual reaction to one of the other players on the stage of life?

"All the worlds a stage ..
and all the men and women, merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
and each one in their time plays many parts."
So wrote William Shakespeare
400 odd years ago in "As you like it"The Play

....As I sit in the audience, swept up in this detachment, I experience the emotions, the highs and the lows ...(but)...
How much of Life will I miss ..
We, each of us, is a living Tantra..
Who is our unconscious inner Director ..
   and how many times do we even hear this director
       let alone heed what we hear ..
Do we allow the play to unfold ..
   or are we stuck on our individual reaction to one of the other players ..
       or one of the props ......
To whom do we give the power of
   God or Goddess .......thus abdicating our own directorship ..
   defining our own expression of Tantra
   by someone else's rules - and experiences ..?

As Laurence Fishburne asked in the movie "The Matrix,"Neo , will you take the blue pill or the red pill?

So today I will be a dargonesti swimming magically in the sea and tomorrow I will be Falkor saying "Having a luck dragon with you is the only way to go on a quest. Things will work out fine Atreju. Never give up and luck will find you."
....

[XzUltima]

T_T...

I just want an honest answer...

Don't kill me for being open minded...

[no_leaf_clover]

Yeah, Heter gave you the only good answer I think. No, this isn't all role-playing, or any role-playing really, besides what started here after you posted.

[XzUltima]

Yeah, Heter gave you the only good answer I think. No, this isn't all role-playing, or any role-playing really, besides what started here after you posted.

Thankyou for the answer...  I think all the other people here should be ashamed....

They don't even realize that there are people who aern't quite sure and want to understand...

Hmph... I just try to be curious and they kill me for it...

And there are even moderators that insult me..... How disgraceful...

Can you please answer this question?

Do I have to believe in god to do this?...

I am an athiest... I do not believe in quite anything....

[redcatherine]

T_T...
I just want an honest answer...
Don't kill me for being open minded...

what with ??
kindness ??
lol
i am sorry if my answer offended you
but  
i thought we were having fun
and answering rhetoric with musings
but you were serious

Is this all just role playing?... - -'
_________________
--»°I'm Your Slave°«--

yes we play a role in life
more than one of course for example :
as son and student lover employee father et al
we set the roles before we came
some of them
others are set by other players
we have freewill
there is also predestiny
some guide posts
i am told
that we have set before we came
and the other choices
we make after getting here
so our path of free choices
meanders on our journey of life
stopping at the guideposts that are predestined
but deciding how to go on from that one to the next one
predestined stops include birthplace and marriages and death
but i am told there is a plan B
so are we playing a role
yes several mate determined by choice
and freewill
and fate
and predestiny
and D all of the above
how much choice we are afforded by the universe
is supposedly determined by how we lived the previous life
so that the next life of the soul is to learn more lessons
either better than before or new to us
the more love shown the more choice

the soul goes again incarnating
but the spirit only has one go

best i can do
did you want fries with that ??
lol
life is good
go live it
shine

there are both not either

[no_leaf_clover]

Do I have to believe in god to do this?

No, though I'd say it'd help to have an open mind towards what you're attempting, if not a firm expectation of it to work. I've only had the dreams though, not the projections.

[redcatherine]

Do I have to believe in god to do this?

No but you might him and her along the way .

[Telos]

This is an excellent thread.

Xz, I was honestly trying to offer a meaningful response. But considering how vocal I've been about encouraging more demonstration of AP, you're right, I should be ashamed.

In the past few minutes I've been looking at this entire site through the lens of make-believe, or "role-playing" as it is more maturely known.

This place really does look like everyone could just be making [edit] up.

But, don't worry. Assuredly, that's not the case. People come here to share their thoughts and experiences on this startling phenomenon.

[redcatherine]

Telios :This place really does look like everyone could just be making [edit] up. But, assuredly, that's not the case. Certainly not for most of us, at least

Sometimes what we see with our eyes can seem like fantasy but we know in our hearts the truth . There is no harm if laughter is amongst us and not against another . Laugh with me anytime and laugh at me when i can take it on the chin . But don't laugh at me if you know i can't . So if I laughed and hurt i beg forgiveness . I would not try to harm .

I reread this thread too and see only love and lighthearted laughter and musings . But you are right too . It seems like it is made up if you look at it wrong . The ethereal the esoteric the surreal the supernatural are these the imaginings of mad people or are we sane and they are the blind ones . Which is the illusion ?

MOODY BLUES LYRICS

"The Day Begins"

Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight,
Red is gray and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
Pinprick holes in a colourless sky,
Let insipid figures of light pass by,
The mighty light of ten thousand suns,
Challenges infinity and is soon gone.
Night time, to some a brief interlude,
To others the fear of solitude.
Brave Helios wake up your steads,
Bring the warmth the countryside needs.

[XzUltima]

Thanks for the answer guys...
redcatherine.... I have no clue whether you are trying to help or just trying to confuse me...

I'm not a university student... I'm a 15 year old high school dumbass, who would like to attemp Atral Projection...

But at some points in time there will be hardships... and in order to pass these hardships.. You need to be more social and ask alot more around places where people know things...

But if these people... Including moderators... Are mean to you and insult you so that it makes you basically want to give up and just try something else....

Then complain... and if you get positive responses (Telos)... Then you don't give up, knowing there are good people there to help you...

But if you encounter a person that gives you confusing words and difficult questions.. (redcatherine)... Then it just makes you unsure of yourself again....

Please just give me a straight answer catherine... Real or not... No more questions that would try to confuse me even more....

I would believe Astral Projection is real because there are alot of books on them and countless sites....

If you please... Stop trying to confuse me, if that's what you're trying to do...

[karnautrahl]

She is not. She's telling you from her own rather wide and deep experiences the best way she knows how. Her posts are likely to be worth re-reading more than once. There are many individuals here who are like that, however you may have to consider reading the posts from different points of view before deciding what the author intended as language is very limited in this kind of arena.

[XzUltima]

I don't understand most things...
Let me quote...

15 year old, highschool DUMBASS

[Frank]

Hello:

I am locking this thread as there is no point in continuing to speak at cross purposes. Whether you intended to or not, you have posted a somewhat tongue-in-cheek question in the Chat forum. As such, you have illicited what you could say is a like response.

It now appears, from what you say, you did not intend doing that. In which case could I request, please, that you rephrase your question and perhaps offer fuller information about yourself, so that anyone answering can take account of your level of intellectual capacity. Then would you please post to one of the more serious forums such as: Spiritual Development.

There I am sure you will illicite a response that is more aligned to your original intent.

Yours,
Frank