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Chugach
Trad climber
Vermont
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Jan 20, 2014 - 03:51pm PT
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I still believe.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Jan 20, 2014 - 09:43pm PT
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I believe in animal lust.
I asked my father how he knew that he should stick with my mom. He said it. "Oh, I suppose animal lust."
Thanks dad.
I suppose that means that I should probably stick with many many women. Sounds tough.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Jan 20, 2014 - 10:45pm PT
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Damn you Gilroy, I am trying to pretend I am bleak, dry and unable to scar the heart muscle once more.
But the drums, the biology bring me around once more
"Til I get a little lonely,
in the middle of the night..."
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 21, 2014 - 05:50am PT
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Too many people confuse love and ego
Until you sort that out, real love will be evasive
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Jan 25, 2014 - 01:27pm PT
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Who's that girl, that pretty young thing?
After I f*#k her she'll get up and sing,
Whaaaiii yaaaiii yaiii
Sharpen your bones and bludgeon yer eye,
The Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye.
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I ain't got no girl 'cause I haven't the time,
Got too many other things on me mind,
But Patty was nice,
she was pale and cute,
but I threw her away like an old piece of fruit
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2014 - 05:19pm PT
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This thread was totally tongue in cheek, I hope that's realized.
Also, TBC, Ween rocks, nice to see that there are other fans out there.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Jan 25, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
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Oh yes, dude, I know that love is really the root of many good things.
Just feeling burned these days.
How is the booze ban going for you, B? I lost the bet, as you know.
But nighttime ice TR climbing is pretty nice with a couple Schlitzes to grease the path, y'know? I am self-limiting to only a couple a night, it helps. So does the enforced zen of those rarified places, the climbing as meditation, the ulcerative pain of life blotted neatly away by the heart-thumping goodness of passing through a runout, the sweet pure clean joy of reaching the top of a new little micro-shit tower all by yerself.
Good on you B, and I hope you keep up with the sobriety, your body will thank you in the long run.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 25, 2014 - 06:55pm PT
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Fork in the road, maybe? Good question, Jingy?
The Taco is turning
and we are all learning
to ponder the question WHY?
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2014 - 07:01pm PT
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TBC,
Sobriety failed. I'm still drinking.
It's not good for me, and I know it. It's nothing crazy, I'm way scaled down in my consumption but it's still there.
Right now I've got a beautiful woman in my life, a good (albeit difficult and time consuming) job, and am looking to buy a house.
So, I'm toning things down, acting my age, and getting in shape.
Thirty four years old is no place to be as an alcoholic, so I'm changing that. If I don't, I'll lose the woman of my dreams.
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splitter
Trad climber
SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Jan 25, 2014 - 10:34pm PT
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thirty-four years old is when i had a brief but torrid romance with a gal named kamchatka. quart a day for months on end. i thought it was love. fortunately, i came to my senses one morning on my way to pick her up. she was always there for me when i needed her. every morning, in fact. that particular morning i ran into this fella who told me that she had cost him everything. she wasn't all i thought she was, and a few other not so wonderful things. if i was wise, i'd best end my little fling. i did.
back around 3-4 years ago, here on ST, late one night a fella from back east posted that he was inebriated, that the bar was closing and he was thinking about driving home. as i recall, i was the only one who responded to his post. i encouraged him to get a taxi and he did. he contacted me the next day and said he was very grateful. been wondering how he's been doing in that respect.
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Trusty Rusty
climber
Tahoe Area
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Jan 25, 2014 - 11:41pm PT
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"If you think about TRUE LOVE as that of a parent, child, sister, brother, etc...
not infatuation...
it fails much less..."
Ego fails, love does not. Check your anchor. Base love on another person's behavior and you'll take a F'kn huge whipper. Love is unconditional, it's choice whether we want it or not. Love with a higher love, or stroke your ego, whatever, just understand the difference and don't blame your own inability to lead on someone else. Bottom line is, you cant fail if give what you most desire from someone else.
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bigbird
climber
WA
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Jan 26, 2014 - 03:23am PT
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Why all the back and forth?
The Humanist side of me wants to believe that love exist....
The realist and rationalist in me says otherwise... Especially in light of recent discoveries regarding electrochemical brain activities. Wider studies of mammals seem also indicate that modern monogamous love is largely a construct of human society... Among the greater apes only a handful of species are actually monogamous...
Even Swans are not all that faithful...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060607170545.htm
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go-B
climber
1 Corinthians 8:6
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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"I"m Through With Love"
I'm through with love
I'll never fall again
Said adieu to love
Don't ever call again
For I must have you or no one
That's why I'm through with love
I've locked my heart
I keep my feelings there
I have stocked my heart
Like an icy Frigadere
For I need to care for no one
That's why I'm through with love
Why did you lead me
To think that you cared
You didn't need me
For you have your share
Of slaves around you
To hound you and swear
Their deep devotion
Emotion
Goodbye to Spring
And all it meant to me
It could never bring
The things that used to be
For I must have you or no one
That's why I'm through with love
(Livingston & Malneck)
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Love is a verb.
If you do it right it won't fail.
If you think of it as a noun - something that "happens" to you, or something to posess, well, then you are bound to be disappointed.
Love must be expressed in actions, otherwise it is meaningless.
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