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Boxes: Inside or out?

In or out?

  • In

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Out

    Votes: 8 66.7%
  • Huh?

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • Total voters
    12

JAVO

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The box has many facets. I fear that to define them all, that would put me in a box too, but I'll try.

People act as if meaningless things in society define who they are--things like money, possessions, music, tv, movies, the past, their career. Few think about who they want to be or how they want to live. They allow that to be defined for them.

The box can be dangerous. Humans survived for a very long time with no electricity. Now, many depend on it to the degree that they don't know how to survive without it. The ice storm knocked out power to millions, but few realize it also provided abundant firewood for heat and plenty of easily-obtainable drinking water which is probably more pure that what most usually drink.

Many make psychological or social boxes for themselves. They are trapped by their own thought habits, which they repeat as if they were an emo teenager cutting themselves. Some settle for friends which hinder their personal growth and impose pointless expectations.

The box is deceptive, because it is created by our own mind. It knows how to trap us. But, if we know the limits of our mind, I think we are capable of exceeding them.
 

GargoylesLegacy

Kickin' Ass since 1984
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I am kinda missing an option for both; inside and out, since this is what I do?
 

JAVO

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Good thinking, you are already outside the box of this poll. :D
 

nozflubber

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Eff that noise dawg, I'm in the box with my Cheez-its, mp3 player and 1,100+ pages of Aristotle. I'm g2g for life
 

Totenkindly

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There is no box.
 

wolfy

awsm
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Understand the box and free yourself from the box's limitations.

Jump in, Jump out.
 

01011010

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Understand the box and free yourself from the box's limitations.

Jump in, Jump out.

Nah. Just tell your parents, church, school... Forces that try to create a box in the first place, to buzz off.
 

wolfy

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Nah. Just tell your parents, church, school... Forces that try to create a box in the first place, to buzz off.

If you do that the box defines your box's dimensions.
That's the typical trap. Reject one box for another.
 

01011010

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To define is to create categories.
Categories must have hard edges.
Creating your own way is great. But it is still a box.

The problem with your previous statement, is that you think a box must exist in the first place.
 

lunalum

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I'm in a quantum box.
...or am I?
 
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