Besides the lounge, what else gives your life meaning and purpose?

[Shine]

:popcorn:

[swag]

1. Patches of sidewalk caked with years of chewing gum.

[Shine]

8. I can tell you thought long and hard about that one.

:P

[LeftyMom]

2. Food.

:9

[Shine]

9. Yup, me too.

In fact, speaking of food, it's lunchtime....
:)

[datasuspect]

3. my work with the lepers

[Shine]

11. That's soooooo beautiful!!

I'm crying, inside, where it counts.
:D

[tigereye]

4. um

my real life.

:D :hi:

[Shine]

12. Sounds about right to me, too.

:hi: tigereye!!

:pals:

[tigereye]

18. hey lady!

:pals:

How are ya? I'm all confused about what day it is... since the kid is home from school. I still think it's SUnday or something!

[Shine]

20. Yeah, the kids are home from school today on my end, too.

On top of doing 8 loads of laundry and some food shopping and bill paying, I thought I'd take them to a matinee of the new Queen Latifah movie, called "The Last Holiday". Hopefully, it'll be fairly decent...

:hi:

[hyphenate]

5. My animals,

my friends, my imagination and my daydreams.

[Shine]

13. In that order?

:shrug:

;)

[hyphenate]

47. Sometimes

But they're all held in about the same amount of equality in my mind. ;)

[Shine]

63. Fair enough.

:hi: hyphenate!

btw, when IS your actual big 50th bd? did you already have it? :shrug:

[hyphenate]

94. April

25th--I'm a Taurean, and it's often quite obvious!

[Shine]

96. Hey, we're the same day of the month!

only I'm in March--Aries Dragon, and it's definitely obvious!
:hi:

[hyphenate]

97. It's a good number!

:)

[Arugula Latte]

6. Kids, cats, and chardonnay.

Oh yeah, and chocolate. :9 Okay, and helping at our elementary school. And founding a community service group for kids.

[Shine]

15. Nice.

I can definitely get behind kids, volunteering and chocolate....although, not necessarily in that order.
;)

[bicentennial_baby]

7. love, my family...

lots o things :)

[Shine]

16. I think it's good if the list is endless, personally.

:hi:
but Family and Love are definitely right up there. :thumbsup:

[DS1]

10. Post-Fart orgasmic bliss

[Shine]

17. heheh. Sounds good to me.

Hey, whatever works. :thumbsup:

[Burma Jones]

14. My Analrapist

[Shine]

21. I've never heard of such a thing, but it sounds kind of scary...

:scared:

but hey, who am I to judge?? Whatever works.... ;)

[Burma Jones]

23. It's a joke from Arrested Development

The guy pictured wanted to combine Analyst and Therapist, so he came up with "Analrapist"

[Shine]

24. Oh, gotcha. thanks for the explanation b/c my mind was making

some scary scary pictures....ewww...

My dad's a therapist, I'll have to tell him this one. :rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

19. Finding smilies ...

[Shine]

22. That's a good answer for YOU! I always enjoy all your cool smilies

Nice image, too.

"Be Careful What You Wish For"....hmmmm.....What do you think that saying REALLY means?? :shrug:

...and is it true what the Rolling Stones say, "You can't always get what you want, you get what you need"???

boy, I'm just FULL of questions today....(full of SOMEthing....) :eyes: heheh.

[In_The_Wind]

44. I believe the Stones are right.

...and is it true what the Rolling Stones say, "You can't always get what you want, you get what you need"??? Yes.


To answer your question from my point of view: The mind is far more powerful than most people realize. I remember when The New School in NYC started courses training individuals to work with Alpha and Beta Waves. We know that we only use a small portion of the brain, imagine increasing that by only 1/4th ...

Some of my friends believe that through meditation one may be able to manifest some events ~ thus the need to take great care with your thoughts ...



Especially for those of us who love playing with rocks and crystals.

Here is my wish for May 1st ...






(((Shine )))

[Daisy Adair]

25. Thankfully, my life's meaning and purpose is not web-based.

At all.

Whew.

[Shine]

30. Good thing, Daisy!!

:hi: Welcome to DU, btw!! Have fun....

[Daisy Adair]

40. Thanks! Always nice to have a reason to smile.

The lounge can do that, but I like to gain meaning and purpose from real life stuff.

[Shine]

62. I agree, the lounge is good for a smile...

so...what "real life stuff" DOES give your life meaning and purpose? Inquiring minds want to know...

:)

[DanCa]

26. My harmonica my cat and Rev Cheesehead :D

[Shine]

31. In that order??

:P

[DanCa]

32. mix or match :D

[Shine]

37. LOL!

you're funny.
;)

[turtlelowe]

27. sorry, wrong account...n/t

[Shine]

33. Hi turtlelowe!

Welcome to DU, btw! :hi:

:toast:

[SOteric]

28. Honing my plot to take over the world

[Shine]

34. Good luck with that.

:evilgrin:

VERY cool smilie, btw....where the hell do you people find these things?? ;)

[SOteric]

39. I have

my minions search for them. If they don't make quotas I slowly and insidiously break their will and send them to their rooms without pudding.

[Shine]

61. What?? NO pudding?

Wow, you're cruel.

:silly:

[DanCa]

43. Can i be the ruler of austrillia once your finished

My needs are few and I've allways had a hankering for beach front property.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Lots o' stuff

Meeting new and interesting people...



Interacting with our animal friends...



The great outdoors...



Music, certainly...





And, of course, my relationship with God.

[Shine]

35. Excellent, excellent!!!

:applause:

Well done, OR, well done.
:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Thankew, thankew

I'm here all week. Please tip your waiter.

[Shine]

60. You are too funny.

:pals:

[Radical Activist]

36. "besides the lounge" funny

Making a positive difference in the world for others gives my life purpose.

[anarch]

38. my life has neither of those things

but I like music.

[Shine]

92. I like music, too, anarch!

I would say that definitely qualifies as one of those things.
:)

:hi:

[Catchawave]

41. GD and GD-P

:nopity: :popcorn: :nopity:

*snork*

Seriously folks, I love everything about DU, wish we could all get along, THEN, maybe ONLY THEN, could we take on the FREEPER-CREEPERS of the "outside" world.

Hope that made sense?

[Shine]

64. Yup, it made sense.

I wish we could all get along, too.

:hi:

[matcom]

45. children

and outdoor cats

[Shine]

83. I loved how you specified that the cats were OUTDOOR cats.

that made me smile.
:)

:hi: matcom! When's your official last day at work? Are you in major celebratory mode? Congrats, once again. :toast:

[RetroLounge]

46. Heroin

and an occasional felony...

:sarcasm:

RL

[wildhorses]

51. oats, hay, water and plenty of room to roam

green grass and high tides, sunrises and sunsets...


In a place you only dream of where your soul is always free
Silver stages, golden curtains, filled my head plain as can be
As a rainbow grew round the sun all the stars I've love who died
Came from somewhere beyond the scene you see these lovely people played just for me

If I let you see this place where stories all ring true
Will you let me past your face to see what's really you
It's not for me I ask these questions as though I were a king
For you have to love, believe and feel before the burst of tamborines take you there

Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you

Those who don't believe me, find your souls and set them free
Those who do, believe and love as time will be your key
Time and time again I've thanked them for a peace of mind
They helped me find myself amongst the music and the rhyme that enchants you there

Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you

[wildhorses]

52. sorry. did not mean to post here but ,I saw the word Herion

and I got all strung out....

[supernova]

57. Oooh, I must play this song now

Thanks for reminding me!

[Shine]

86. For YOU I bet one of the real things that brings your life meaning is

POETRY, the gift of words and language...

Am I right?

:)

[wildhorses]

95. ubeccha

;) :pals:

[LaraMN]

48. Kids, and I'm working on the rest...

But it defnitely won't involve any of these:

[Shine]

65. LOL! Good answer!

:thumbsup:

[neweurope]

49. My horses, my man, my friends - pretty much in this order.

Nature.

-----------------------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Shine]

66. Sweet.

Nature is big on my list, too.
:hi:

[Moochy]

50. Baiting redbaiters

and getting subthreads deleted. wheee!!! :popcorn:

[Shine]

67. heheh.

sounds like you've got a plan. Good job.

:thumbsup:

[Fox Mulder]

53. I don't even know why I'm still here.

Seriously.

My life serves no purpose whatsoever.

[Shine]

69. Oh c'mon, Fox!

Your life definitely serves a purpose, but only YOU can figure out what that is.

We just recently saw "City Slickers" with the kids. Have you seen it? Great little movie. Very funny and touching. In it, the big tough cowboy, Curly, played by Jack Palance, says the secret of life is just "one thing", but each person has to come to whatever that one thing is on their own.

I happen to disagree, in terms of it being only ONE thing, but I agree it has to be self-determined.

Anyway, my thoughts on the matter, for whatever their worth. For the record, I appreciate your presence here in the lounge.
:hi: :pals:

[qnr]

54. Darned if I know. I'm just hanging around waiting for the first

interstellar colonization effort.

[Shine]

70. chuckle, chuckle....

Do you think we've already been "checked out", so to speak?? :shrug:

hmmm...

[qnr]

75. Well, there's a lot of real estate out there, and we're not particularly

interesting - so I'd say it's unlikely, but not impossible.

[Shine]

77. We just rented "War of the Worlds" to watch with the kids last night

and they were appropriately freaked. :)

[qnr]

78. I bet :) - One thing I wondered about in that movie (aside from cameras

that survived the EMP) is, why, if they had the technology to make, transport and bury the machines millions of years in the past, didn't they just take over then?

[Shine]

80. Cuz that would've been too boring, plus, not enough people to kill.

It certainly made for a compelling story to have it set in modern times. What I thought was fascinating, in a dark kind of way, was how the characters at first assumed they were under attack from TERRORISTS. Speilberg really played that card brilliantly, imo.

[Ptah]

55. Typical male, my work is my identity

I fabricate components for large scientific instruments.

:hi:

[Shine]

71. Hey, if you get meaning and purpose out of your work, then

more power to you, buddy.

What about your incredible artistic smithwork, Ptah? :shrug: I think we create meaning from what we love, not necessarily from what we do...but sometimes we're blessed enough to have it be one and the same.

:hi:

[Ptah]

76. Shine, the origin of your screen name is fascinating.

Have I seen you in the fog?

I'm pretty sure it was you.

Thanks for the howdy

:pals:

[Shine]

79. Did you read that on the other thread, regarding my user name?

I don't quite get your question about "seeing me in the fog", but we certainly get a lot of fog here in the Monterey Bay area sometimes...

heheh.

[Ptah]

82. I didn't quite express myself clearly.

Your spirit name, Shine, sparked
a memory of some years I spent in the San Joaquin Valley.
The fog was mystical for me.
I felt I was close to another world in the fog.


:hippie:

[Shine]

88. Yes, fog is definitely mystical. I love it, too.

:pals:

[ET Awful]

56. Daily bowel movements.

:evilgrin:

[Shine]

72. LOL! That's funny.....

and probably exactly true for many people on the planet.

It's just THAT simple.

heheh.

:hi:

[supernova]

58. My solitude, my family, and my friends

And my work.

[Shine]

73. I love that you put "solitude" first.

:thumbsup:

Don't you feel as if you can appreciate others more if you are making sure to take time for yourself?? That's certainly the case on my end, anyway.

:hi: supernova!

[robbedvoter]

59. Nothing at all. The Lounge is everything!

:shrug:

[Shine]

74. heheh.

Sorry about that, buddy.
:evilgrin:

You gotta get out more...
:silly:

[robbedvoter]

87. What? and leave the lounge? Something really fun may happen

while I'm out! :hurts:

[Shine]

91. I know how it is to be addicted to all things in the lounge.

it's kind of scary...
:scared:

;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

68. I could tell you, but you would laugh at me. Then I would cry

and we don't want that. :P

[Shine]

81. I would definitely NOT laugh at you.

WITH you maybe, but not AT you. :)

You can tell me, darlin'.

C'mon...tell Shine all about it.
:pals:

[RevolutionaryActs]

85. HAHAHA! It's an obsession that gives my life meaning right now

I'm obsessed with the band INXS, but not the new band since they had that reality show, the original band from the 80s. Yup, it's good stuff. :P

[Shine]

89. Hey, that's cool.

Music is great.
:thumbsup:

I've heard of them, but am not too familiar with their sound.

[Rabrrrrrr]

84. Eviscerating live cats; crushing my enemies; throwing feces at children

You know, the usual.

[Shine]

90. Yup, just another day at the office, eh?

No wait, I'm sure you probably do that stuff in the privacy of your own home, too! hehe.

:hi: Rabrrrrrr! You silly.

[Rabrrrrrr]

93. At least at the office I get paid for it. At home, it's just a hobby.

Oh, well.