Let's Talk about Hobbies.

[MrGiggles]

Re: Let's Talk about Hobbies.

Sad thing is, it's impossible to achieve.

yeah beg to differ here

No need to be needlessly cynical bro. I'm sure you've been happy multiple times.

[Phynx]

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yeah beg to differ here

No need to be needlessly cynical bro. I'm sure you've been happy multiple times.

I'm sure he's referring to a "True" happiness, one void of all stress, pain, suffering and anything else that promotes negative emotions. THIS is something mortal humans can't achieve. But we've settled on a level of happiness that is enough to quell pain and give humans a life to live, and for reason.

[Devilsrejectedsoul]

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I enjoy....

DJing for internet radio stations (Blade Radio, hoping FFR streams will be open again)
games (mainly RPGs and DDR,ITG,PnM)
DnD
Guitar
Piano
Making Ceramic Masks
Watching The Guild
Play Guild Wars
TeamSpeak Karaoke
cooking

[Phynx]

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Oh I build model rockets. Well I did, haven't for some time now, still enjoy it though. I need to go buy more kits... >.>

[Crisis_Adverted]

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I enjoy....
cooking

That completely slipped my mind. Me too.~
What type of foods do you enjoy cooking? Or do you mean cooking in general?
Now I really want to dig out all my recipes and cook...or make a blog for recipe exchange. xD

[Xx{Hunter}xX]

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I finally have an awesome thread!

[joep49]

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BMX
Video Games
Music
.....yeah thats it

[DSMLMD]

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Reading
Writing
Playing DDR, PIU, FFR
Adventuring
Scouting
Watching

[revolutionomega]

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I'm sure he's referring to a "True" happiness, one void of all stress, pain, suffering and anything else that promotes negative emotions. THIS is something mortal humans can't achieve. But we've settled on a level of happiness that is enough to quell pain and give humans a life to live, and for reason.

I don't believe this to be true either. (p.s. hi ol' buddy :3)

Just because stress exists does not warrant being anti-happy as a general. True happiness does not necessarily represent a constant happiness, as our emotional spectrum would not allow that, even if you are happy a majority of the time there is bound to be something troubling every once in a while. I would say true happiness is the level at which you ARE happy most of the time and can accept faults and limitations at face-value. I think that too many people take the minimum value for what they have achieved because they have not reached this point of acceptance yet. Thus, it is this peak for an individual warranting "True" happiness.

[Spenner]

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The normal things:

-Reading
-Any type of visual art
-Relaxing outdoors on nice days
-Photography (...which is a visual art, yes)
-Any disturbing/frightening film
-Socializing on the computer
-Brawl
-Listening to music
-Dreams/writing in my dream journal

The slightly irregular:

-Staring
-Fantasizing about ideal conversations
-Becoming aware of my physical body
-Dissociation with music playing-- synesthesia
-Out of body experience induction
-Observing my mind as it summons the most disturbing imagery imagineable
-Fetish thinking
-Stream of consciousness typing.

[jchinzilla]

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I'm sure he's referring to a "True" happiness, one void of all stress, pain, suffering and anything else that promotes negative emotions.

Yes

I've been reading this book The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life. There's a chapter wherein they talk about the existence of evil. In Buddhism, the belief is that the fundamental nature of all living beings is perfect...and this "perfection is always there, deep within us, even when it's hidden from sight by ignorance, desire and hatred." Evil is thought to have no more existence than a mistake. The Absolute Truth, they claim, is that the opposition between good and bad doesn't really exist. Nonduality is the term for this.

Sad thing is, it's impossible to achieve.

Hardly. What I've said is that there exists in religions long-standing methods which put us on a paths that lead us toward understanding our own inner peace. Hermits, monks, nuns, and the like aren't living in isolation from the world just to ignore the world. They are trying to cultivate this true inner perfection in a way that can (hopefully) ultimately help the other 6 billion people.

I believe that Buddhism has developed one of the strongest contemplative traditions. However Christianity also has a powerful tradition of mysticism (read Thomas Merton). Even the Muslim religion of Islam provides a way. The very name "Islam" is derived from an Arabic word meaning "to be safe," "peace/purity," "obedience/submission to god."

I would say true happiness is the level at which you...can accept faults and limitations at face-value.

I would agree with this statement. Yet what we perceive as a fault may not be a limiting factor at all, just our conditioned way of seeing things.

I must confess that I feel a bit hypocritical because out of all the reading concerning meditation and prayer...I never do such things! That is, in the formal way that religions have taught. Yet the spiritual reading that I have done has set in me a mode of contemplation which I think is imparative to becoming a decent human.

[Xx{Hunter}xX]

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The normal things:

-Reading
-Any type of visual art
-Relaxing outdoors on nice days
-Photography (...which is a visual art, yes)
-Any disturbing/frightening film
-Socializing on the computer
-Brawl
-Listening to music
-Dreams/writing in my dream journal

The slightly irregular:

-Staring
-Fantasizing about ideal conversations
-Becoming aware of my physical body
-Dissociation with music playing-- synesthesia
-Out of body experience induction
-Observing my mind as it summons the most disturbing imagery imagineable
-Fetish thinking
-Stream of consciousness typing.

What's an out-of-body experience induction? Is it fun?

Yes

I've been reading this book The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life. There's a chapter wherein they talk about the existence of evil. In Buddhism, the belief is that the fundamental nature of all living beings is perfect...and this "perfection is always there, deep within us, even when it's hidden from sight by ignorance, desire and hatred." Evil is thought to have no more existence than a mistake. The Absolute Truth, they claim, is that the opposition between good and bad doesn't really exist. Nonduality is the term for this.




Hardly. What I've said is that there exists in religions long-standing methods which put us on a paths that lead us toward understanding our own inner peace. Hermits, monks, nuns, and the like aren't living in isolation from the world just to ignore the world. They are trying to cultivate this true inner perfection in a way that can (hopefully) ultimately help the other 6 billion people.

I believe that Buddhism has developed one of the strongest contemplative traditions. However Christianity also has a powerful tradition of mysticism (read Thomas Merton). Even the Muslim religion of Islam provides a way. The very name "Islam" is derived from an Arabic word meaning "to be safe," "peace/purity," "obedience/submission to god."



I would agree with this statement. Yet what we perceive as a fault may not be a limiting factor at all, just our conditioned way of seeing things.

I must confess that I feel a bit hypocritical because out of all the reading concerning meditation and prayer...I never do such things! That is, in the formal way that religions have taught. Yet the spiritual reading that I have done has set in me a mode of contemplation which I think is imparative to becoming a decent human.

Dude...You seriously have to teach me your ways!

[PrawnSkunk]

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I play some mean Fifa Soccer 10 on the Xbox360. :]

[Xx{Hunter}xX]

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I play some mean Fifa Soccer 10 on the Xbox360. :]

...I have no comment for the horrors you have just described to me.

[Emo_Saur_]

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Bowling, Dragracing, Fishing, Music, Camping.

Long walks on the beach ALL YOU SINGLE LADIES SAY YEEAAHHHH