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Posted by RoTtEn ApPlE on September 17, 2001 at 20:38:39:

In Reply to: fun with cory's head... (and more problems with variants) posted by isaac on September 17, 2001 at 15:12:37:

: :I doubt my own ideas much of the time and as a result am quite suggestible. However when I do find an idea I really like, I tend to latch on to it for some time and be a staunch defender of it, until eventually I give up that idea/belief for something else.

: and here the shift to 7 shows up.
: since none of your ideas really give you the security you desire, you hop to the next idea, which seems like it has some promise. when you have an idea which is giving you this sense of power, it's the only thing that really matters. but, since an idea can never give you what you're looking for, and the next idea looks better, you switch.

>>> Sense of power... I like that isaac. It's almost like a search for something magic. More than that... perhaps a search for a transformation.

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: : I don't really know who I am and this is central to my problems.

: flap that wing!

:
: : I have no strong sense of myself. If asked what I LIKE...what my PASSIONS are, it's really hard to say. I don't really care much for life. Most things seem pretty boring to me.

: apathy to the nth degree. i hear ya, bro. find something fun and keep doing it. anything you can do to get yourself out of your rut would probably be good. something disciplined and daily that you enjoy. take up the guitar, or tae kwon do, or something. make it a daily activity that you can't get out of without some penalty. you already know enough to act. just do it.

>>> Well said. Breaking out of a rut is KEY... and the inertia of habit and procrastination can be an amazing obsticle to happiness. DOING without depending on feelings or fantasy as a catalyst... sometimes it just means taking a deep breath and plowing through. Then ya find out that making mistakes can be a lot of fun. The exercise bit always sounded like shit theory to me but I can't begin to say how much it improved my life to start taking a 45 minute walk every day.

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: : :I doubt my own ideas much of the time and as a result am quite suggestible. However when I do find an idea I really like, I tend to latch on to it for some time and be a staunch defender of it, until eventually I give up that idea/belief for something else. : : and here the shift to 7 shows up. : : since none of your ideas really give you the security you desire, you hop to the next idea, which seems like it has some promise. when you have an idea which is giving you this sense of power, it's the only thing that really matters. but, since an idea can never give you what you're looking for, and the next idea looks better, you switch. : >>> Sense of power... I like that isaac. It's almost like a search for something magic. More than that... perhaps a search for a transformation. : : : : : I don't really know who I am and this is central to my problems. : : flap that wing! : : : : : I have no strong sense of myself. If asked what I LIKE...what my PASSIONS are, it's really hard to say. I don't really care much for life. Most things seem pretty boring to me. : : apathy to the nth degree. i hear ya, bro. find something fun and keep doing it. anything you can do to get yourself out of your rut would probably be good. something disciplined and daily that you enjoy. take up the guitar, or tae kwon do, or something. make it a daily activity that you can't get out of without some penalty. you already know enough to act. just do it. : >>> Well said. Breaking out of a rut is KEY... and the inertia of habit and procrastination can be an amazing obsticle to happiness. DOING without depending on feelings or fantasy as a catalyst... sometimes it just means taking a deep breath and plowing through. Then ya find out that making mistakes can be a lot of fun. The exercise bit always sounded like shit theory to me but I can't begin to say how much it improved my life to start taking a 45 minute walk every day.

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