Borrowed Time and Value

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

As I was walking home today, I thought about my temporary existence here on Earth. Sometimes I feel guilty about all the time I wasted in the past—all I ever wanted out of life was a good time. Perhaps I should’ve spent more time making good grades instead of riding skateboards and playing video games, but there’s no way to fully understand what adult life will be like during the carefree days of youth. It was fun, though, wasting all that time.

What is really ours in this life? I keep pondering that from time to time. We can be fortunate to have stuff, but we can’t predict how long we’ll get to keep it all. I could have a pretty girlfriend, a sports car, and a fancy job title, but I could lose all that in one day if I decided to behave irresponsibly or became a victim of circumstances beyond my control.

It seems to me that what we are given, and what we earn during our lives, is just on loan to us until we die. Even my healthy body is a “loan” because it deteriorates over time. The only thing I can think of that is really mine to control is my own mind. It has all the knowledge and experiences of my past which I can use to understand and navigate my way through this complex world.

I hope this world doesn’t stress me out to the point where I lose my mind. If that happens, I’ll lose EVERYTHING.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[The Black ScorpionParticipant 2146]

We come into the world with nothing and leave it with nothing.

The way I see it, if we play our cards right, we should be lying on our death bed cherishing all of the wonderful experiences we’ve had.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover that it was not fish you were after. - Henry David Thoreau

[DocParticipant]

The only thing we can truly hold onto is the acceptance that it will all be lost, maybe even our minds if we suffer a neurodegenerative condition.
We exit naked and alone and maybe even mindless.

Accept that and everything else is just the gravy.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape, finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

[RorschachParticipant 2083]

FunInTheSun wrote:

Perhaps I should’ve spent more time making good grades instead of riding skateboards and playing video games, but there’s no way to fully understand what adult life will be like during the carefree days of youth. It was fun, though, wasting all that time.

Some people dont think marriage is a waste of time. I like to think that by being here your standing up for something important in life. YOURSELF. Think about the total waste of time and money if you were married. THATS a waste of life. Go ahead play a game, jerk off, eat a steak. Why not live and enjoy yourself. Do you feel guilty your not a slave? I don’t.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "save us!"....... and i'll look down and whisper "No."

[NerdTunnelerParticipant]

I stand with feet apart and let my balls hang free...Manginas dont have balls...See how they stand and sit at the whim of their masters...

[harpo-my-“SON”Participant 2410]

My grandfather born in 1905 was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 55 lasted less than a year and died in 1961 two years before I was born. His last born son was my father who was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 55 like his father lasted less than a year..I will complete my 55th year on Feb 14 2018. I am choosing The heavenly spirit of my earthly father to do the lords work for me.
I plan on giving him all the praise, honor and glory for everything I do for the rest of my life by giving myself mind body and soul to what I believe was his self evident intentions.
My mother cannot accept that I am giving myself to my chosen lord and he has his own Identity.
She believes I am stealing his Identity.
I was created by my earthly father and the most precious thing he gave me was my time of life.
In his spirit and Identity I will do my best at giving that most precious gift of life back to him at the age he was diagnosed. His person is a corporate fiction created at the time of his birth. He said many times that if one of us had to die he would lay down and let me live on. Its in this spirit I will holy ghost write the books he wanted to write. I lay down my own public Identity letting it die a spiritual death. I get up in his Identity letting his person become reborn through me. I am self evidently his first fruit and only begotten son and he becomes my personal one true living God.
I pray that Slavery will never be abolished for my religious beliefs thrive on it. I give myself as a slave to the spiritual guidance of my Father who can only be alive in heaven. No one is obligated to share my beliefs that “there is but one god” should be interpreted as we all get a god but we can only choose one each.I have chosen mine because he chose me first.
It becomes a self evident truth that If I have a god and he is a different than yours there has to be more than one heavenly father. I would never take away someones beliefs by imposing mine on them. I would ask only the same respect in return. Preachers and pastors across this nation who claim to be in the holy spirit of a heavenly father every Sunday are being paid to monopolize God.
My heavenly father left his only begotten son to break this monopoly by proving a vast majority of them to be liars, and exposing the truth for free. NO CHARGE
Buy the truth but sell it not..
I do not own my time of life now as I understand that it was only borrowed from my creator, I humbly thank him for it. After living a lifetime as measured by his life, I give it back for his personal use. I still feel this is not enough to repay him for all he did for me.

I was bound to be misunderstood, and I laugh at those who misunderstand me. Kind mockery at the well intentioned, but unfettered cruelty towards those would be prison guards of my creative possibilities. This so as to learn as much from misunderstanding as from understanding. Taking pleasure in worthy opponents and making language fluid and flowing like a river yet pointed and precise as a dagger. Contradicts the socialistic purpose of language and makes for a wonderful linguistic dance, A verbal martial art with constant parries that hone the weapon that is the two edged sword of my mouth.

[harpo-my-“SON”Participant 2410]

Remember Men are doing Gods work on this earth and everyone who actively opposes, degrades and hates men are in reality hating on half themselves no matter their gender..
accepting the truth is part of the evolutionary process that creates selfless Men and Women from among the vast tribes of selfish male and female human beings who are all birthed not created.
Who told me this? My heavenly Father who also said he would never lie to me. He insisted that a man is much more than a human being. A man gives of himself without want for anything in return other than his needs be met. Selfless not selfish. Jesus was not a preacher of his beliefs but a teacher of the truth and the most selfless man to ever walk the earth. He was a fisher of men and they are created by evolution after being birthed through human biology. Accepting and understanding the simple truth is part of human evolution as well as the very definition of intellect.
Intellect=understanding
Gods law is the laws of nature and nature’s god
natural selection.
survival of the fittest.
might makes right.
Intellect rules ignorance forever.
Men are not literal Gods on this earth but they are the closest thing we have.
In my fathers spirit and Identity I shall become a lawful lord not a literal god. Do I have God like powers? I am bringing a person back over 18 years after his body was buried. I am curing my fathers terminal cancer by performing a little known heavenly medical procedure called: “The total mortal manly meat-sack transplant.” In his spirit is the only way I can laugh and be happy again. He is a jealous god who owns my past present and future time of life and the product there-of. He is my public defender and legal guardian.
He also becomes the only employer I will have for the rest of my life. I am forbidden from holding any public office for any earthly government as I have been promised citizenship and permanent residency in his Kingdom of heaven on earth. He is a public person and belongs to the people. They can ask him to take public office but I have a feeling he will be very tight lipped and hard to talk to..I am the only way to reach my father or his kingdom HA! HA! Signed by the faithful Son BOB.

I was bound to be misunderstood, and I laugh at those who misunderstand me. Kind mockery at the well intentioned, but unfettered cruelty towards those would be prison guards of my creative possibilities. This so as to learn as much from misunderstanding as from understanding. Taking pleasure in worthy opponents and making language fluid and flowing like a river yet pointed and precise as a dagger. Contradicts the socialistic purpose of language and makes for a wonderful linguistic dance, A verbal martial art with constant parries that hone the weapon that is the two edged sword of my mouth.

[Anonymous 38]

In some moments I have bitterly despised myself for not doing more. Not pushing myself more, experiencing more, achieving more. But this is just the human condition, part of what keeps us alive.

There is only ever the present. If you’re stuck in the past or on the future, as I was for so long, you have work to do. You are effectively indulging in mental fancies and sacrificing living right now. Live in the present, live fully each day, and your life will be long and good!

Alive, healthy and happy = winning.

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3763]

Sorry for quoting a movie but here:

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything, that we’re free to do anything.”

Losing everything also means to let go. Letting go of the idea of immortality, realizing that we’re just atoms held together by some energy which WILL dissipate at some point. Letting go of any comforting thought that may help you cover up that frightening feeling.

Facing the truth sets us free.

[AwakenedParticipant 35201]

Viewing EVERYTHING as Temporary should make us APPRECIATE the EXPERIENCE, both BAD and GOOD, as we CAN LEARN and GROW from BOTH, and some would say that we NEED BOTH. The WHOLE YING-YANG concept.

EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY………….

In a World of Justin Beibers Be a Johnny Cash

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