@philokalia said"Martial arts" and just being an a-hole in the forums are two totally different things.
Don't try to take up jiu-jitsu, bro. You are not very skilled at reversing these things.
@philokalia saidLol.
Let's be the change we want to see.
... Dive, I love you, and I want us to start over. Let's just talk about things in a calm way and understand that our differences do not have to make us rant bitterly.
Let's just post oru thoughts, and our replies, and avoid the ad hominem.
What do you say, mate?
You love Dive? Not possible.
@philokalia saidI'm not interested in stuff like steel handcuffs.
I'm talking about how we are limited to the real circumstances around us and thus it does not all begin and end with our mind.
Feel free to mount an argument against that position as opposed to dislodging the context.
@philokalia saidSurely this disingenuous prattle has nothing to do with the previous off-target prattle I was asking you about. Look, I'm interested in the stuff I mentioned and not in bathtubs and broken windows. Substance abuse could be relevant to what interests me about the OP quote but you'll just have to talk to someone else about all this other pretentious blather.
The you is the abstract concept of the everyman, lol.
It applies to the universe.
Like, for instance, when a car crashes through the window of a storefront, a man might say,
"You don't see that every day!"
Or, a man reflecting on his previous life as a drug addict and trying to make an observation might say,
"You can try as hard as you want, but if you d ...[text shortened]... t truly, actually want to quit, you can't quit."
Do you (specifically you, FMF) see what I mean?
@fmf saidLOL, yiou asked me what I meant by "you"!
Surely this disingenuous prattle has nothing to do with the previous off-target prattle I was asking you about. Look, I'm interested in the stuff I mentioned and not in bathtubs and broken windows. Substance abuse could be relevant to what interests me about the OP quote but you'll just have to talk to someone else about all this other pretentious blather.
I decided to explain the basic English of it to you because I thought it was absurd for a native speaker to ask such a question...
And now you're like....
"Oh, look, that's not what I wanted...."
What do you want?
@fmf saidObviously, it doesn't have to be steel handcuffs.
I'm not interested in stuff like steel handcuffs.
It can be your sickness, or your hunger, or your poverty, or the fact that you have to work 40 hours a week to survive, or the fact that you need a car to get into the city, or the fact that your mother died of cancer when you were 9 and you have been emotionally shook up to some degree ever since, never fully recovering from the heartbreak...
Are you really doing this?
Are you really pretending that ... like ... you suddenly can't extrapolate something?
I love you, FMF, and I hope that you put more effort into understandign content, and thus avoid these smug retorts.
@philokalia saidIf you talk about something interesting that is within the scope of what I mentioned, then I will have a look.
Obviously, it doesn't have to be steel handcuffs.
It can be your sickness, or your hunger, or your poverty, or the fact that you have to work 40 hours a week to survive, or the fact that you need a car to get into the city, or the fact that your mother died of cancer when you were 9 and you have been emotionally shook up to some degree ever since, never fully recovering ...[text shortened]... , and I hope that you put more effort into understandign content, and thus avoid these smug retorts.
@philokalia saidYes, sure, there can be psychological barriers to doing things like escaping the clutches of a religion or an ideology.
It can be your sickness, or your hunger, or your poverty, or the fact that you have to work 40 hours a week to survive, or the fact that you need a car to get into the city, or the fact that your mother died of cancer when you were 9 and you have been emotionally shook up to some degree ever since, never fully recovering from the heartbreak...
@philokalia saidWhich "question"? Which "native speaker"?
I decided to explain the basic English of it to you because I thought it was absurd for a native speaker to ask such a question...
@philokalia said"Smug retorts"?
I love you, FMF, and I hope that you put more effort into understandign content, and thus avoid these smug retorts.
@philokalia said“It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.” What I am interested in is where "it" and "what" refers to adherence to or feeling bound to certain beliefs.
Are you really pretending that ... like ... you suddenly can't extrapolate something?