Topic: Many thinking pathways only one path can be walked
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Sun 12/04/16 01:02 PM
I went for a walk today, along the usual scenic routes and beautiful rivers by my side. But there was one issue with it all, thinking! The mind was churning over whether to take thinking option a, b or c as usual and how the whole conundrum was making me feel ill and dividing me against myself. Then it dawned on me. If a man is faced with three paths, can he divide himself into three and travel down all three paths at once. I don't think so, he can only physically travel down any one path at a time. I might entertain three or four levels of thinking, but in the end I would only be inclined to pursue in action one of them.

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Sun 12/04/16 02:16 PM
I walk my own path

darkowl1's photo
Sun 12/04/16 02:20 PM
I poop in the corner to round up the flies, then juice some fruits and veggies, work out, then walk all the paths, then come back n have supper.

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Sun 12/04/16 02:29 PM

I poop in the corner to round up the flies..

hahahahahahahahahah
Now the flies don't go in the supper do they?

darkowl1's photo
Sun 12/04/16 02:55 PM
nope, they stay there in the corner. I pet them now and then.

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Sun 12/04/16 04:06 PM

My path would be strewn with empty RAID cans.

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Sun 12/04/16 08:34 PM

I went for a walk today, along the usual scenic routes and beautiful rivers by my side. But there was one issue with it all, thinking! The mind was churning over whether to take thinking option a, b or c as usual and how the whole conundrum was making me feel ill and dividing me against myself. Then it dawned on me. If a man is faced with three paths, can he divide himself into three and travel down all three paths at once. I don't think so, he can only physically travel down any one path at a time. I might entertain three or four levels of thinking, but in the end I would only be inclined to pursue in action one of them.


There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

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Sun 12/04/16 09:35 PM

I went for a walk today, along the usual scenic routes and beautiful rivers by my side. But there was one issue with it all, thinking! The mind was churning over whether to take thinking option a, b or c as usual and how the whole conundrum was making me feel ill and dividing me against myself. Then it dawned on me. If a man is faced with three paths, can he divide himself into three and travel down all three paths at once. I don't think so, he can only physically travel down any one path at a time. I might entertain three or four levels of thinking, but in the end I would only be inclined to pursue in action one of them.

Each path is an experience we can traverse through the magic of time whether time is an illusion or not.
Without time all paths may or may not exist
While I have time I shall explore the paths I choose and the ones I cant avoid for a duration chosen in combination by me and existence.

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Mon 12/05/16 05:52 AM
one issue with it all, thinking!... he can only physically travel down any one path at a time. I might entertain three or four levels of thinking, but in the end I would only be inclined to pursue in action one of them.

Okay.
So you figured out you can only physically travel down one path at a time.
Possibly figuring out that having to start a new path you either have to go backwards on your current path before starting over, or simply starting over at a new path.
Maybe even that every new path you try other people have been there before so when you start you're always behind them.

...But what did you determine regarding the "conundrum" of thinking? Of your mind focusing on "a, b, c?"

Did you determine your path wasn't fulfilling, therefore not keeping your mind on it, allowing it to wonder?

Did you determine your path wasn't satisfying, therefore pushing your mind to seek elsewhere?

Or did you not really focus on what you identified as an "issue" at all?