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Name: Ben
Country: Bermuda
Metro: Neverland
Birthday: 1/20/1920
Gender: Male
Interests: I love alot of things... Love, being a friend, acting, Joy, singing, dancing, Heather (of the cousin variety), getting caught in the rain, being a ridiculuously bad speller, and musicals! I guess thats it... :)
Expertise: I'm really good at being a kid. I refuse to grow up in alot of areas in my life. Its just not practical!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  benny10100111001
MSN: hollywoodbound10
Member Since:
6/6/2004
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| It's been said that we attract exactly the kind of people we need in life. We attract the situations, personalities and problems that we need to help us grow and be fulfilled.
Other people say God has a plan for our lives that we can't hope to understand the complexities of, but trials and joys all fit perfectly into it.
Other people say experience doesn't matter at all. It's all about how you perceive the things that happen in your life. Growth is learning that nothing lasts. The good or the bad.
I don't know who's right anymore. I spent most of my childhood entrenched in conservative Christian beliefs. I then found a huge appreciation for Wicca, but never practiced it. Then I grew into a Christian Youth protege. Then left the church entirely to explore eastern religion, philosophy, and the new age movement.
I've questioned everything I've ever been told was true, studied everything I can get my hands on, and read more on psychology and world religion than any 23 year old should on his leisure time.
All I've found is that people all want and need the same things. And most people want to be the only person that's "right". Everyone essentially believes the same core truths, though few want to admit it. We all have our own formulas of definition. We all have our personal semantics that we gravitate toward.
But the fact is-
Everyone believes that selfless love is the highest calling, that it is honorable and to be admired.
Why? It's the order of nature. Love is built into the fabric of the universe. Older weaker members of herds will often walk towards attacking predators to protect the young, knowing they are sacrificing themselves. Mother bears, tigers, and birds protect the helpless ferociously at all cost.
In all the complexity of my studies I keep coming back to one simple truth:
God is Love.
Love is God.
period.
that's all.
But why can't we accept the differences in each other? It's so clear; so crystal clear that acceptance and tolerance and (dare I say it) respect of other ideas is really all this world needs to thrive.
No one is right.
Everyone is right.
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| They've managed to get rid of me, returned me to the grave
ECT, electric chair, we shock who we can't save
They've cleared you of my memory and many more as well
You may have wanted some of them but who can ever tell
Your brainwaves are more regular, the chemistry more pure
The headaches and the nausea will pass and you'll endure
You son is gone forever though, of that the doctor's sure
The memories will wane, the aftershocks remain
You wonder which is worse, the symptom or the cure
They've managed to get rid of me. I'm gone without a trace
But sear the soul and leave scar no treatment can erase
They've cut away the cancer but forgot to fill the hole
They moved me from your memory, I'm still there in your soul
Your life goes back to normal now, or so they all believe
Your heart is in your chest again, not hanging from your sleeve
They've driven out the demons and they've earned you this reprieve
The memories are gone. The aftershocks live on
But with nothing to remember, is there nothing left to grieve? | | |
| How hard to stay impartial.
To love and protect at the sacrifice of my own agenda and needs.
I do it without fail.
I provide all I can, choosing to not manipulate or damage something I very easily could.
It's a little like manhandling plutonium
or one of those fables weapons of mass destruction...
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| Its eerie to read posts from a year ago today. Esp two years ago today.
Have I learned nothing?
I seem to have done the same things up to this point many times before.
I've even said similar things in blogs.
The difference is what I do now.
I've come HERE before.... now what's beyond.
See the chevy
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| can I do it?
will i like it?
will 'us' change?
should it change?
will you get confused?
will i get scared?
how will he really feel?
does it look funny?
will you like it?
will it mean more?
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