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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Hmn, it is these little things you say that make me think you do not truly understand this. You say we are occupied or obsessed with death and so unbalanced. (The Egyptians believed in balance, where you hear that?). Samurai on the deeper length idolized death to promise them a form of eternal life. So the extreme death stance would give them imortality. Now, you can not think of this on a soul level, it is a spiritual level. You don't actually live on once you are dead. It is more so the feeling of having learned the Way of the Warrior in your heart, just that feeling is what Samurai would have called imortality. I can see in your idea of the necesity of compromise to do this or that, I see how about your spirit is. It is same as in Buddhism, I know if you understood what I meant you would be like both the Samurai and the Buddhist monk after enlightenment, where everything is already completed, there is no need to live on. You do not see this, now you will run around your whole life besting things, and each time you redo something to make it better you will think you are getting somewhere. But just like your balance thing, the point you are looking for is neither at the end of your path nor at the beggining, it is on the road between, where life resides, and from your own words makes it easy to see you have no idea about this since you are racing down the path trying to get to the end to do all this and that... Amnell, this is not one of them argueable things, so I don't want to discuss it anymore, all that needs to be said is I am so resolved that I am ready things to end right now, where as you feel that you could only accept to end yourself were there something to go on afterwards, hinting only you are incomplete.
You don't understand the Way of the Warrior.
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-_- I don't understand YOUR way of the warrior. Granted, I'm still a little too young to have really found my balance or to really know where I'm at RIGHT NOW. But I have an idea of where I'm going, and until I get there, I'm not ready to die. Maybe you've reached that point in your life where you feel you've fulfilled your purpose in life, but then you're about ten years older than me (still a little young to be at that point, I would think). er... You are about 28, right? (*Can't remember*)
I think what bothers me most when we talk is how you act like you know me, like you can see into my brain and pick it apart, even though you've never seen me once in your life, shared an experience with me, been around when I discovered something or stumbled across an idea... I don't mean to lose my respectful tone here, but what the fuck do you know about me? Just because I've outline how I view the world for you does not mean you understand me. You've seen *what* I think, but now how or why, so stop trying to psychoanalyze me. You are at least correct in infering that I don't know where I'm at, yet. The rest of it is way off.
Oh, about the Egyptians: They, unlike the modern monotheistic religions, did not believe in the elimination of evil. They saw it as the counter to good and believed that if you eliminated all evil, you would never know what 'good' is. Hence, their goal in existence was to keep in check all the evilness within them/the world around them.