[BratscheWarrior]

I enjoy our repartee true. And we do differ on our beliefs and definitions. i've been given mine based on experience dealing mostly with people. i dismiss the bumblings of the scum that is the average man. They make this place into the hell you describe. But i am very much alive. i possess awareness. i acknowledge that i will someday relinquish that awareness and will go back to that void whatever it is. Maybe i'll achieve total freedom before that, maybe not.

Here's a little nugget for you about me. Like i said before, my posts about the average man are from experience. i interact with a lot of people as part of my job. And i do my stalking thing with them. They don't know who i am. i am a being with many personalities. They wouldn't like the personality i chose most of the time even though it comes out from time to time with them.

Before i figured all this out for myself, i had another being tell me all this stuff (and still telling me). Can't call him a teacher for various reasons (well, one big reason), but i was given this information as to expect that i would encounter certain situations. Before i figured out all this stuff that i post about, i believed without enough direct experience so my words were not backed up. Foolish me. Now i talk about what i know, preferably directly and with little frills. i don't aim to be clever with my words. Efficiency is where it's at.

And apparently i've been told that i've been on this path longer than i've come to believe.

i like your road sign metaphor wall. A great post.

True, you seem a bit depressed these days. i think we all go thorough this. The ebb and flow of our path, realizing that our numbers are few and that most of the people we meet are travelers going the opposite way on a sinking ship. And dealing with them helps us on our quest to overcome false boundaries set for us and to find mastery over ourselves.

What else is there?