There is an age old question...
What makes a man a man, what makes a woman a woman?
Is it what is between your legs?
Is it what you feel in your heart?
Is it what those instincts drive you to do?
Is it what your brain insists you are?
Is it what sex you are attracted too?
Is it all of the above?
These are questions that anyone has asked themselves at one point in their lives. They need not be under the lgbt flag.
Many of those here no doubt have just one mirror in their house. Why? Simple it does not show who they believe themselves to be.
Many of us do go through hell and back searching for answers. We can answer one or two but never all.
Does this make us different?
Does it make us freaks?
Does it make us monsters?
Are we even human?
Dark thoughts I know but we all think them. Then there is that word. You know it and it is without a doubt the most painful of words.
Normal
I have never met in all my almost 4 decades on this earth a normal person.
Does society hold us all to a standard that can never be met?
Society claims that a woman must bear children. I know of many a woman who have never borne children, will never bear children, and have no wish whatsoever to do so.
In a number of these cases they cannot bear children. Yet they are no less a woman.
Society claims a man must be tough and strong. I know of many men who are weak both in body and mind. They are even so weak that they cry at the smallest slight against them.
They are still seen as men without question.
Society claims that those who choose to go against society are weak, crazy, freaks of nature.
All these comments really do nothing but add yet another knife through our hearts.
There bravest thing I have ever seen is to watch a person turn their back on society and live there lives.
My congratulations to those of you brave enough to do so.
But all this pales in comparison to the ultimate question.
What is that question? You know it as well as I. Every man woman and child on this our planet earth seeks it.
Is there really a god?
Is this all that I am is there nothing more? A favorite quote from star trek.
What is true love? Where is my true love?
Nope that is not it. Nor is it What is the meaning of life? 48 is not an answer either.
I will not name the question. You know it. For many it is a daily all consuming struggle. For others they have to put everything aside to even find that question which can be near impossible.
I can give you an answer of sorts that I have worked out after my almost 4 decades.
If you lay back on the ground and empty your mind of everything, memories, touch, sound, smell, pain, joy. You can but glimpse the answer to the ultimate question.
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one Mirror
one lying mirror...
thank you Tels.
Hugs,
Diana
It needs no question
I stand on the top of Dartmoor and look around me and feel an inner peace.Im at home on a hill looking at the sea and have the same feeling.The words that come to mind,Gods Country.We have a handicapped son who we were chosen to look after and protect until he grew to adulthood.We prayed a lot over the years and it helped us through it all.I have one special prayer repeated since I was 5 ,it hasnt happened yet but I have faith.I dont go to church I just go outside and look around,a blade of grass,a flower,a cloud ,the stars.You cant see your heart but you can feel it inside.You cant see God but you can feel him inside,its called faith and it brings that inner peace and calm.Shout me down if you want ,I wont reply ,I have faith.
devonmalc
devonmalc
If someone seems normal to
If someone seems normal to you, then you don't know them well enough yet. That's my guideline for telling of someone is a friend or just an acquaintance. If someone actually seems "normal", then you just don't know them that well. If you know what their own personal "odd" is, then you may call them a real friend.
Oh one more thing. It's a little geek nitpick. I just thought I'd point it out before someone else does, and I know someone else would. It's 42, not 48. :)
Dies of shame
Ive never read the book and only seen the movie like twice.
NOOOOO No Dying!
You still have so much to share!
Hugs you,
Diana
No dying, got it?
And it IS 42. She the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. the radio series, the is it five books of the trillogy? or the two films.
Danged your muse is busy of late.
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. Waiting for your next letter or note Missing Manhoods. Have ideas for Francis's next. her short note was of couse a shameless setup.
John in Wauwatosa
you have mail
I sent you something already but was waiting for a second letter from francis...However I am sure my muses is quite happy to ablige you.
= )
Extravagance - Necromantic HuggleSnugglePurr
tels - Raised from dead
= D
From your list, I would say it's just what you feel in your heart.
I would also misquote Timone, and say: "When society turns it's back on you, you turn your back on society!" :D
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BCTS's resident Extravagant Honorable Trans-Cat-MegaTomboy! ;D ...But I do like cuddles from soft but strong arms... ^_^
still working on my answer
I suspect if I ever get it, they'll change the question on me anyway.
Nice piece, hon.
Dorothycolleen, member of Bailey's Angels
THERE is a GOD
Tels,
there is a God, you only have to look around you at at all the things that man did not make or manufacture to realize how beautiful the world was before we came along and wrecked it,if one goes inside a quite room to pray you will feel god within your whole being,
Well it has worked for me for over sixty long years, YES there is definitely a GOD.
Hugs Roo
ROO
ROO
actually
rita is the one who stays awake at night wondering if there is a dog.
I am quite aware of god as I get summons to confession on a irregular basis. Usually quite against my will since I positively hate going to churches.
THE LAST PARAGRAPH IS THE
THE LAST PARAGRAPH IS THE BEST ONE.
The ultimate question
Sounds as if you just read "THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE"
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Male Female
Normal is over rated.
What makes a man/Woman Its your Inner most being some call soul but the essence of Hu you are the body is a shell the brain the central processing system that Soul/Spirit is the programmer. When you die you take off the body like a tight fitting shoe God neither male nor female but the principal of the universe that has no religion.
Whats coming at you is coming from you. Don't believe me look to your self if you find some one that tell you thay have all the answers Run Very Fast.
Love and Hugs Hanna
Love And Hugs Hanna
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Blessed Be
'Who am I?' is the question.
That question comes in many forms and tenses. Who should I be? Who will I be? Who can I be? Who could I have been? Who should I have been? Who would I have been (if)? In the christian faith (of which I subscribe)we know who God wants us to be (to be like) having been given his son as our ensample.
Having got that out of the way the other concerns... Society (the majority comprising) approaches these concerns like poker. They believe in playing with the hands they are dealt and are put off by others palming aces and dealing from the bottom of the deck and trying to change the rules in the middle of a hand. Myself, I got no problem with a person's introspection and reacting accordingly. But all bets would be off if I entered into a relationship where the person wasn't forth comming. It wouldn't have to be limited to transexualism. Any relationship that is not built on trust and truth is doomed to suffer or fail. I would feel extremely violated even raped. Beyond that consideration there is no (shouldn't be any) justification or mitigation to violence. In christianity there is also guarding the heart. I may not agree with someone but I must not act 'out of character'.
Soul is simply the name given the union of body, mind and spirit. Soul=individual. And God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul (a living one).