well, here's some irony. . .

[arleybob]

Sorry man - didn't think it'd be so bad going in. I thought it'd be a simple flush, maybe even orgasmic.

But no - worst pain I've ever felt in my ear ever.

[Blunderstar]

Did he give you an alternative to q-tips?

[tomjohens]

Originally Posted by Blunderstar

Did he give you an alternative to q-tips?

If you carefully read the warning label on a box of q-tips, you would see that they are not intended for use on the ear canal.

Anyway, bummer news arms

-Tom

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by Vizier

But pain is an illusion and we're immortal

We are not our bodies--the body is merely a convenience, a learning tool that will be laid aside when it no longer serves us.

We are, indeed, eternal, immortal, invulnerable. And that means ALL of us, not just some arbitrary chosen few.

[Lavender Lilac]

Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant

We are not our bodies--the body is merely a convenience, a learning tool that will be laid aside when it no longer serves us.

We are, indeed, eternal, immortal, invulnerable. And that means ALL of us, not just some arbitrary chosen few.

I don't understand this. To me, it feels as if the body is an inconvenience, and that my senses and interpretations are distorting true reality. Like my mind trying to translate my feelings into language; something is lost and sometimes unnecessary things are gained.

[ArmsMerchant]

Okay, this is way off-topic, but it's important.. . .It is more like your senses create "true reality," (whatever that is). If by "true reality," you mean "objective reality," I think you will be dissappointed.

I don't think there is any such thing as "true reality"--closest we get to it, maybe, is the great mass of sensory data (what Deepak Chopra called "a great cosmic quantum soup".) we all draw upon out of which we create our reality.

[Lavender Lilac]

Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant

Okay, this is way off-topic, but it's important.. . .It is more like your senses create "true reality," (whatever that is). If by "true reality," you mean "objective reality," I think you will be dissappointed.

I don't think there is any such thing as "true reality"--closest we get to it, maybe, is the great mass of sensory data (what Deepak Chopra called "a great cosmic quantum soup".) we all draw upon out of which we create our reality.

So you're not a realist, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what it is that you are. Maybe that's my fault, and I need to stop trying to put your beliefs to terms and labels.

How's work on that philosophical language coming, anyway?

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by King of the world

Please, don't encourage him.

TOO LATE!

rubs hands together, cackles evilly

[Lavender Lilac]

Or are you a realist? It's like you say you are, then go on to say the complete opposite of what you just said.

EDIT: Here is what I mean:

Arms: Perception IS reality!

Arms: True reality cannot be perception.

[Shrike]

He's a tedious old man who hides behind spirituality quotes from pop philosophers to make himself seem interesting or clever, but fails miserably.

[benny vader]

24,

'' .......... 24hours ago, we're hanging at my Cabin, on the verandah section ofcos, since my six-by-nine cabin cant accommodate two adults and NINE cats, with two glasses of full of snow in our hands ..... waiting for them to melt into sky-juices ...... hiding from the judgmental judgement of the society in which we live in, in this ghay year of our Lord Two Thousand and Eleven ....

when this chink-eyed of an Inuit postman appeared on my drive/walkway.

'' This must've been what the two of you gentlemen have been waiting for .... Sirrss !!!!!!''' he said with a grin while handling out a brown envelope, slanting his already slanted eyes even more in the process.

I snatched the the envelope off his before he could extend it out fully, ripped it apart with my cold, senile hands and read.

''My Ghott, YOUR RITE !!!!'' I exclaimed. '' This is indeed, something we've been waiting for all these while although I didnt know then from who it's from, what;s its about and to whom it may concern ........ but I knew there and then that this BRAUN envelope is definitely what's we've been waiting for all these while.

As I read further, it all became clear.

''That was the GUNN SHOWW organizer.'' I said enthusiastically to my sales adviser. ''They finally allowed us to be there, entirely on our own expenses.''

I was expecting some responses from my sales adviser, but there's none, which disappointed me, so I continued reading.

'' ..... as long as we're there before .... ''

Suddenly my sales adviser stood up, grabbed me by my arms and wwith popped-out eyes, lashed

''HOTTT DAMN, I think I see a pattern here''

He began to rip his his Hawaiian shirt open ....

'' .... this one sounds like real trouble. Your going to need plenty of sales advice before this things over ... ''

I was considering when ... suddenly my sales adviser looked me dead serious in the eye and said, in dead serious tones ...

'' as your sales adviser, I advice you to get ourselves some hi-capacity, mil-spec duffel baggs, a nondescript, gray station wagon with formidable horses-power, a few baggs of hi-quality organically grown Grass, '' and then he went into his silent thinking mode again .... and in the midst of the dead silence, he derped

''and a few hawaiian shirts. We must have hawaiian shirts ''

Compelling suggestions from Meta thar. Why not ??? ''

'' Well why nott .... if things are worth to be sold, they ought to be sold right, with the right kind of sales advice. '' I answered.

We pulled our guns from our concealed holster and this somehow scared our postman and he ran off. Fucking North Koreans.

My sales adviser then wrapped his hand round my shoulder and herped his joint deep and derped .....

'' I tell you Mane, this is the se-fockin'-cond amendment in action mane, and we'd UN-manely and UN-american not to ride this strange torpedo all the way to the balls ....''

I didn't really get what's my sales adviser're saying but what he said invigorated me so much that I felt compelled to thrust my hands into the air and yell

''TO THE BALLS.''

We lowered our hands and gave each other guilt-ridden looks once the homosexual overtone sets in.

[Fournaridis]

Originally Posted by Shrike

He's a tedious old man who hides behind spirituality quotes from pop philosophers to make himself seem interesting or clever, but fails miserably.

And yet, he's still happier and more content with life than you'll ever be. Believe me, I'm not into all this "spirituality" shit, but I'd take the well-meaning, somewhat deluded, harmless old man over the vindictive, depressive, friendless shit that you are any day.

[Shrike]

Implying Greyfox isn't also vindictive, depressive and friendless.

[Daily]

Implying that happiness and contentedness with life is superior.

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by Daily

Implying that happiness and contentedness with life is superior.

I strive to avoid using judgemental terms such as "superior."

I would say that being contented is vastly preferable to being seething with anger and resentment.