Shelled and Covered Life
As life's consumed by flames of desire I feel the tears crawl down my emotion Burning shells cov'ring soft interiors Been there for so long, knew not how to feel. Just like I took a venomous potion A potion that harms more than it can...
The Pokemon Journey -- Back to Viridian City -- Pt. 1
Martial arts as known by the humans of the pokemon world was formulated with eastern philosophies and western philosophies. this book had some eastern philosophy in it, especially on the chakras. mike explained it while kelly looked on.
Beginner's Lessons
The basic philosophies are out of the way and more philosophies will come to us as we go along in your lessons. first, we will learn about attuning the chakras and then work with them one by one. then we will practice subduing prey by preds.
Stray Werewolf: Lunch with a Wolf
There are other philosophies.” oliver leaned forward curiously. “other _werewolf_ philosophies? elaborate?” teagan nodded. “there are some who behave like you described—i like to call them human purists.
Why a dragon?
The beast is mired in its own philosophy. quiet, seemingly calm, but don't come near, don't harass, and under any circumstances, don't tease. proud of his personality. proud of not being human. an apparently strong and independent loner.
Spirit Bound: Chi
It is the name of a philosophy of the east, but for us in the west, it is oft confused with religion, for philosophy as the greeks taught us is different than philosophy as the great teachers of the east taught them.
Love and Altruism.txt
Selfishness guided by lack of caution. Altruism is dead. Was it alive? Or is this just a pure selfish passion? Destruction of the self leads right to love But without the self one ceases to strive For dreams, releasing the white mourning dove. ...
Owning My Humanity -- Anxiety
I am in a considerable deal of ongoing pain--and while that's not a particularly engaging way to solicit an audience--pain being what it is--I feel it important to qualify my position. My pain is that of concentration, and of feeling it constantly...
Come With Us To Gomorrah, Opportunity Knocks But Once
What is the reality we dream of? I sat pondering this, scraped and scarred in the dust, as I watched my fellow man putting bullets through each other's brains. On a better day, in a better context, maybe it was giving your life for your country, or...
Furtasia: The Canari
The canari also extend this philosophy to taking-in strays and orphans. they will accept abandoned children of all races into their large family clans, and care for them as one of their own.
Owning My Humanity -- Commitment
"Eventually we all have to make commitments to the things we hold dear, or risk losing them entirely." I had thought about this, and questioned--'do I value being a person'? On the one hand, you have expression, art, communion with friends and...
Quick Announcement 1
"is there philosophy" is a story about rejection. for those of us with thick skin it rolls off like rain, but even the strongest of us know a time when "no" was too hard a word to hear. rejection sticks with us.