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No, these are 2 different movies....

Check the trailer maybe:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/waking_life.html

In my case, I would not say it's a lack of imagination/creativity...  In my case, it's more of a social problem.  The computer screen and anonymity allow me to fantasize a lot more than if I had to do it in front of others...

Same for me...

Another explanation is that, by doing energy work, you become more interesting/"shinny"/"yummy" to the astral wildlife...

Not sure but I think I remember reading Robert Bruce saying that you should always close your chakras when you're done with the work, to avoid attracting bad things...

Ok, one more try...

I see a dark/greyish (maybe rainy) image of someone (maybe young or skinny) holding an umbrella...

quote:Is there anything you want? you must want something?

I know what I don't want...  I don't want to be like a robot.  I don't want to be used.  I don't want to be a good consumer that will buy countless of useless crap just to help the economy.  I don't want to be a good citizen that obediently goes to work, makes a few kids (so that there will be enough of them to pay the retirement for old people), buy a house and get a dog.  I don't want to pay taxes to sponsor some stupid games/shows on governemental TV.  I am sick of being seen as a walking wallet by the marketing guys.

It's like if you are hired for a job; but they just don't tell you what you are supposed to do.  So you just goof around... with no goal...  It's like if you work several years on a project, and then the project is finaly cancelled.

It's like being a rat in a cage, observed by some scientists.  They just watch you as you turn around in your cage, again, and again, and again...

Yeah, I do love animals but...  that still seems like non-important to me...

Just take for example... hum... soccer.  Quite a few people seems to live just for soccer; worship soccer; etc...  while for me, watching a bunch of guys kicking in a ball, means nothing.  Some people learn the phonebook by heart.  Some people spend their life reading fiction books.  Some people spend their life on computer games.  Some people would kill if you take their cellphone away.  Etc...

Creating your reality is all nice but... to create what?  It's like taking the plane to another country and then immediatly come back without having visited anything...  Why take the plane at all?  Espescially when the ride is long/boring/tiring...

So, my problem is not really being bored; it's more having no goal; not knowing the purpose of this life.  Of course I heard of all the theories out there (afterlife, reincarnation, etc...), but theories are just theories.

And what about immortality?  Would you really want to become immortal?    It reminds me of the "Ground Hog Day" movie.

quote: Evidence?

Just read the news...  It's in hundreds of newspapers websites.

quote:Even if all the non-felons voted, if they voted as the rest of their state

That's a big 'if'.  Do you really think that Jeb Bush would have put some pro-bush voters on his purge list...

quote:New York Times found no evidence of fraud, period.

The NYT is the NYT, just a newspaper; period.

quote: The New York Times newspaper claims he did. They did their own, independent recount - it was the third recount.

There are many news reports about the voters purge ordered by Jeb Bush, which is supposed to remove felons voting rights...  The problem is that , among the list, there were thousands of non-felons...

Ok but... the problem is that I do not know what to aim for...
I did not find anything "meaningful" yet.
Maybe one day...

And, to come back to the responsability topic: didn't the Buddha abandonned his whole family to continue on is spiritual path...?

I am not saying it is ok or not ok; I am just wondering about the different motivations...

Realizing that, so far, my life has been "sleep, study, sleep, study, ..., sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep, work... etc...", I tend to get a little depressed...  I just think "What's the point?"

One of my "big problem" (everything is relative) is that I loose interest VERY quickly, about EVERYTHING.  By example, even with OBEs.  I used to practice up to several hours a day... and now, I just think again "What's the point?".  And many things that people seems to enjoy or be passionate about (books/movies/art/technology/nightclubs/chatting/family/etc...) don't attract me.

So, I am just waiting... waiting for something to appear/happen...  Hope that 2012 is for real!!!  []

Help me!!!  I have the "What's the point?" syndrom!!!!!  [B)] [|)]

quote:Could you specify who you refer to with "you"? There are so many psoters recently that it gets confusing

"you" being the ones who "talk mainly about suicide because of fear, or to escape problems".  If you did not talk about it, you are not "you"...   []

[theories]

To come back to the "responsibility" thing...  What do you think of: "Your parents took care of you; so now it's your turn to take care of your parents".  Basicaly, you would be responsible for them for the rest of their lives; which could be something like 50+ years...  Is this right?  Shouldn't the parents have planned the rest of their lives?

Some parents just "kick" their children out of their house; as soon as they are 18/21.  Is that giving up on their responsability?

And, if some people feel so bad as to end up their life; I'm pretty sure they won't even think about this responsability thing.

Personaly, I love freedom.  That's why I will never get married or have children.  I don't want to be chained for the rest of my life.

Also, you talk mainly about suicide because of fear, or to escape problems...  What about people who cannot find anything meaningfull in their life?  If you put aside all the theories of re-incarnation, learning lessons, spiritual test for the after life, etc...  What pushes you to go on with your life (apart from the fear of death)?  Maybe we are just there to grow, reproduce and expand our consciousness... to be later "milked" by some higher entit(y/ies)...

Never played the pen/paper style either.

I have a pretty creative imagination but, for me, watching/listening to some friends disguised in some wizard/fairy/troll/gnome... would spoil the "fantasy".

Reminds me of: http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html  []

Don't forget greed...  Greed is at least as common as fear.

Ultima / Ultima Underworld
Bard's Tale
Eye of the Beholder
Quest for Glory
Lands of Lore
Baldurs Gate
IceWind Dale
Diablo

Two big changes I would like to see from the UN are:
1. No more of this VETO crap.  Too many times the UN tried to do something; but has been blocked by one of the veto-holding member (see US/Israel stuff for example).
2. All countries should have the same voting rights/powers.  No discrimination.

But keep in mind too that quite a few powerful countries would be very happy if the UN disapeared; and would do anything to make it look bad...

I read once about an experiment where they monitored the weight of a projector with very precise scales.  And, supposedly, they noticed a tiny loss of weight, followed later by a tiny increase of the same amount...

quote:About the only thing uniting the "United Nations" right now is their collective hatred of the USA.

Ahhhhh... come on!  Stop this "they hate us" thing!
The world don't hate the US; the world is just ticked-off to see one country bullying/annoying everybody else; polluting like nobody else (producing 24% of the CO2 emissions for 4.6% of world population); etc...

quote:But the UN as it exists is ineffective when it comes to crisis situations.

I agree for now.

quote:The UN may be the best we have right now as an international body of representatives.

Another thing we agree on!

quote:That doesn't mean that once in a while they don't all need to be told to go to hell.

Based on...?
The weapons of mass destruction lame excuse?
The still unproven link between Saddam and the 9/11 thing?
Bush did not gave the finger to the UN because the UN was wrong-doing...  He did it because he could not wait anymore.  He's been waiting for years to attack Iraq; planning it as soon as he became president (months before 9/11).

So, once more, the UN is far from perfect; but the US is far from being a viable alternative.  No single country is; not even mine.

So, a bunch of UN guys went corrupt; and we should just give up on the idea of the world being overseed by all of its nations, united...

That's a little too easy!  Especially when the other choice is an even more corrupt "Shoot first and maybe ask questions later" solution!

The UN is the only viable solution.  It might take time.  It might never be perfect.  But the whole world just can't be controlled by one country.

I would advise to try with only one single simple image first...  If there are too many pictures with too many details, it makes it too difficult and we are too easily tempted to make our visions match with some details.

Example of trying to match:  "Although the girl kind of forms an arch-like structure laying across the lion's paws"  [][]

I just posted this to strenghten the link between sex and procreation; since we had some discussions about wether sex had other purposes...

quote:If the European Union wants to run the world, a la The French and The German leaders -- they are welcome to it.

I beg your pardon???  They were pushing for UN since the beginning!
It's the US Government that said "f*ck" UN, we'll do it our way.
Maybe the UN is slow and not perfect; but it is representing the nations of the world...  So, basicaly, the US said "f*ck" to the world.

quote:But there definitely is a hate-America sentiment out there right now.

Nope.  As Jilola said, do not (purposefully?) confuse America with American Government...  I have many American friends and, 99% of them are very nice, peaceful and respectfull persons.  They don't like Bush's governement either, and they were against the war...

So please, stop this "the world hate us so let's f*ck them" propaganda...  You don't buy love/respect; you earn it.

If I understand it correctly, they say that the more "healing" your body needs (as you get older), the more genes will switch from "mental" mode to "medic" mode...

But I agree that there are counter-examples out there; like old "geniuses" in poor health condition and young "dumb people" in perfect shape...

quote:I think they really have convinced themselves they are 'saving the world'.

Not sure about that.  I think they know what they are doing; planning to boost their military/oil/construction stocks...  It's just that they are not very subtle about it.

They need to wage wars from times to times to make profits...

quote:I think we should just nuke the damn country. But that's my opinion.

The millions of Iraqi civilians are happy to know that nobody cares about your opinion... [xx(]