Mossy Glade's shoutbox - Help.com

Ta-daaa… I’ve fixed my computer. Where are you? I see you haven’t been here in a while, same as me…

lol. I’m sure you stopped caring about being ‘cool’ a long time ago. ;)

Thanks for your kind words - I’m a writer by profession, so I do have a fair handle on linguistics and communication; which has come in handy more than once.

I don’t consider myself enlightened, by the way - just further along the path than I was before. I personally believe that evolutionary potential is infinite; so it’s really just a matter of who you want to be and how you want to live.

I’ve done a fair bit of reading, my favorites include various Castaneda books, “I AM THAT” (Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj), and many others. I’ve delved into a variety of spiritual beliefs to formulate my own.

Most of my self-work has been independent experience and reflection, though - from camping out in the Grand Canyon, visiting the energy vortexes in Sedona, pilgrimages in Peru and India, to conversations and rituals with a wide variety of shamans, sages, saints and swamis.

Books are a good springboard for knowledge, but genuine understanding only comes from personal experience. ..Which isn’t to say that one needs to travel around the world to have ‘personal experience’; that’s just what *I* did.

Thank *you* for being - it always gladdens my heart to meet a fellow traveler on the path. ;)

cool beans my friend… I totally understand.. with respect comes respect. Thank you for everything :)
~Rich

ahhhh I will happily step aside for Deepak… that a good choice on your behalf. Have you read his Arthurian legend? OHHHHH man it is FANTASTIC… if you like king Arthur stories.

I’m doing well thank you. Having some relationship issues, but trying my hardest to learn from them. I can be a very co-dependent person… took 13 years of marriage to find that out… now that I’m divorced, I’m still learning and trying to find my strength around women. It’s strange… in almost every aspect of life I can stand in my power almost automatically… but with women, I have to very consciously slip the back bone in (no sexual inuendo intended…lol) anyway… I can’t have you thinking I’m all that great… I certainly do have my flaws… ask any woman I’ve ever been with.
Bright blessings~
Richard

No problems.
It’s a mood thing, too. I’m probably more than three times your age, but I may be a bit childish sometimes. And I do think that most insults going around is not by intention, but rather by not thinking at all…

…and I did not mean that you should shut up.

Hi Mossy!
Don’t be so sensitive! I definitely don’t disagree with you. I am sure that also Oster and Crestfallen agree with you.
To start with, “Sam 123″ posted something that ought to be self-evident, but which doesn’t harm to remind people about every now and then. If you have read other Sam posts, you’ll see that he comes with loads of such. Thoughtful reminders.
You chose to pick a bit too litterally on something he wrote very symbolic, pretending to be a bit insulted by being compared to a dollar’s value. I don’t even believe that you were insulted by it, but you rightfully commented that people should not be measured by money.
You are soo right about that! I don’t think anybody disagrees.
But I guess that you have also seen that most of the comments are superfluous - all just re-phrase and agree…
So what I (and we) were doing, was just a play with words where the post itself already had done its job.

Actually I did not even remember what it was, so I had to go back and look for it, and I did not remember that it came from one of your comments.
I agree to that it is not really a good behaviour, even more so against Sam 123, the poster. We should not have played on his posting grounds.

I consequently apologize and again, I have no problem in agreeing with you.

Right On! ~smiles~ I am sure you can help me as well. I guess we’ll just play it by ear ~smiles~

Hello! I just came back from my friend’s two days ago, but she came with me and she left a couple of hours ago. So finally I have time to go online alone. It was okay at her place but you know how it goes, sometimes being around the same person 24 hours a day 7 hours a week can just be a pain in the *ss. I’m glad I’ll get a few days to take a break from her. But back at her place was great because she lives in a village and the atmosphere is much more relaxed than in a ‘big’ city like mine. I met some friends of hers and that was fun, it was also successful: one guy offered me to move in with him and another one asked me to marry him, haha. But they were just kidding (at least I think the second guy was).
It was good to get away from my usual train of thought.

What kind of artwork are you doing now? Any new thoughts on your mind? How are you?

Well, my dark corner…haha… I’m leaving it now. I’m going away for 4 days (not that far, one hour drive to a friend’s house). Hope I’ll feel better there cause this house is eating me up. I swear sometimes I feel there’s some kind of cursed old cemetery underneath the foundations of it. Oh well…

For my trip I went to a city on the coast with a bunch of friends. It was one of the best trips of my life and I’m so glad I decided to go. It didn’t cost much, less than 200 dollars for the whole thing I’d say. We hung out on the beach, played volleyball, talked… met people from other countries… I forgot how much I hated my home town, and now I’m back here *cries in a dark corner*.

Tell me about this ‘inner world’ thing, I’m interested! It reminds me of something I used to do, but mine couldn’t last a whole week.

Hi! I forgot where we were with our little discussion, but I thought I’d just stop by to say ‘hello’. I’d do it sooner but I was on a 10 day trip. I know you were probably terribly lonely without me but you can cry with relief later, I guess :-D Enough about me, how are you?

thank you, im gunna take your advise. thing is, im never positive. no matter how hard i try, it never seems to work. i always seem to think negative about the future. and i know my life is really alright, and there are kids that have it way worse than i do. but, i think my childhood made me this way. i grew up without a dad, i was sexually abused, and my mom always went out. and i never talked to anyone, so now i seem to bottle everything inside of me, and im kinda shy. im not really sure. im still trying to find myself and figure out who i am. its tough, i know it is. and i try to hide my feelings and act happy, but that only makes me unhappier. and if i let me feelings out, no one seems to understand.

i know i seem to go on & on, but you seem really good on advise, and i can probably tell you a lot. but, if you want. you can email me a private letter to (email removed)

thanks :)

for my book… please email me at richard (dot) hills @ wamu (dot) net… OR, richhills1 @ sbcglobal (dot) net.

You can always buy a bound copy later, if you think it worthy to have around.

undo undo! haha oops.

Everyday is B-Day! haha remember charlie brown?…I got a rock. :(
Yes, I get it. I read a few pages on solipsism. Thats kinda from where I came from, thinking wise. It is contradictory, But so are a lot of things. (free societies, fighting for peace, etc.)
I am tired, Ill have to shout at ya later, after my evening shower, hehe.

Hiii!
Well, solipsism is when you think that there’s no one other than you in the whole universe - that everything you see, hear, feel etc. is just happening in your mind, nobody else really exists. It’s kind of a stuck-up, lonely view if you look at it that way :-D
But, I’ve been thinking that it’s self-contradictory, since it assumes that there is only one person that exists (for example me, haha). Obviously there is at least more than one since I don’t remember creating everything else. So there must be something outside me that created me and the world since that’s not part of my memory. Some other person. Yay! Am I making any sense?

Oh look, it’s your birthday. Happy B-day!

wow… very VERY cool… it makes the world …no… the UNIVERSE of sense :)))

Me again xD
I kind of always thought the opposite of the spirit is nothingness (since so many people think the spirit is everything or connected to everything). Don’t apologize for anything, do you know how lucky I am to find someone capable of this kind of discussion?
Btw I think I solved the solipsism problem. Wanna hear it?

no, my name is Kayce. It is spelled…different, but pronounced KC. lol

I would not be the man I am without you. Thank you for your very kind words, and your friendship and support. It means so very much to me.
Bright blessings~
Richard

i only left one too for the same reason LOL. and i havn’t e-mailed him. i don’t want to… squash (?) him.

no, i am not a cat… he is my baby :)

I still hope Rich comes back. I know what you mean (and i have that much to be thankful for) but what about all the people who won’t get his advice..

what did you think was a self portrait?

yeah, i am so happy. I hope he decides to stay with help.com.

About reality… interesting thinking, though I’m still stuck on not being sure whether there is actually something other than my mind. That’s kind of opposite than your view, mine is antirealistic.

Like what?

glad not glade….

sorry, that is just the way i do things.. i ‘calls em’ like i sees em’ LOL. glade to get to know you better as well…

I am very worried about lazydaze. have you heard from her?