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icon6.gif I am my own Person  [message #50914] Fri, 13 June 2008 10:00 Go to next message
Michael-Kent Dobison is currently offline  Michael-Kent Dobison

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Location: South Africa - Gauteng
Registered: January 2007
Messages: 309



Hey there all yo sexy people,

This is just an add-on to something I posted a bit back. Been thinking and all Wink Hope that you all have a fab weekend, and if not have fun trying.

I am my own Person.

I own responsibility for the baggage I have chosen to carry.
I am ready to lay the weight of a burden or secret I have been hiding behind where it belongs in order to reconcile my conscience.
Do I want to be right or alone?
I am empowered by blind faith in fulfilling my purpose or greater good to "just do it," and I transform through passion or direction in principle.

My superpower is liberated by free will and trust, which lead me to explore simple speculations for their own sake.
I can move beyond the fear factor.
I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I've been.
I only know that, as the hero of my own story, it's for me to find out. For, like Alice, I'm on the verge of stepping into a rabbit hole; unless I stop short and play it safe, I'll know soon enough where following my own feet has landed me on this curious venture.
The blissful frailty of unwritten conclusions and unguarded access sweetens the desire.
So despite familiar warnings, irresistible promise draws my eyes wide open and away from domestic comfort zones, with only certain inquiry, hope and faith to recommend my course.
I'll never know until I try.



"And so the lion fell in love with the Lamb"
"What a stupid Lamb"
"What a sick, masochistic lion"
Re: I am my own Person  [message #50920 is a reply to message #50914] Fri, 13 June 2008 14:26 Go to previous message
acam is currently offline  acam

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Location: UK
Registered: July 2007
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Wow, Tempo,

I don't get it. I know I'm a literal minded person with no soul but your message is completely baffling to me. I just don't understand a bit of it.

Please don't take me the wrong way. I'm not disagreeing with you or criticising you but when I read something that looks as if it is supposed to be sense and I completely fail to get it I worry.

You wrote (my comments in [brackets]):
I am my own Person. [Who else could you be? What do you mean?]

I own responsibility for the baggage I have chosen to carry. [Well of course if you've chosen to carry it then you have chosen it so you're responsible. Why say it? How could you not be?]

I am ready to lay the weight of a burden or secret I have been hiding behind where it belongs in order to reconcile my conscience. [I didn't know your conscience needed reconciling. I don't know what it would mean to reconcile a conscience.]

Do I want to be right or alone? [Are these alternatives for you?]

I am empowered by blind faith in fulfilling my purpose or greater good to "just do it," and I transform through passion or direction in principle. [How could any sort of faith (blind or seeing) empower anything or anybody? I understand fulfilling a purpose but not 'fulfilling a greater good'.]

My superpower is liberated by free will and trust, which lead me to explore simple speculations for their own sake. [What's a superpower? I thought it was fiction. You are aware that free will and blind faith are sort of incompatible, aren't you?]

I can move beyond the fear factor.[Where is it and what counts as 'beyond' it?]

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I've been. [Not something to boast about!]

I only know that, as the hero of my own story, it's for me to find out. For, like Alice, I'm on the verge of stepping into a rabbit hole; unless I stop short and play it safe, I'll know soon enough where following my own feet has landed me on this curious venture.[What if you don't stop short?]

The blissful frailty of unwritten conclusions and unguarded access sweetens the desire.[Frailty of something sweetens desire? Really? Is sweet desire stronger than other sorts?]

So despite familiar warnings, irresistible promise draws my eyes wide open and away from domestic comfort zones, with only certain inquiry, hope and faith to recommend my course. [Your eyes are being taken away from comfort zones and inquiry hope and faith recommend your course. I don't know what 'certain' inquiry is. I don't see how faith can recommend anything or, for that matter, hope.]

I'll never know until I try.[You mean what you can do? Of course not.]

Please tell me if I'm out of court saying all this.

Love,
Anthony
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