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Don't know how profound this is...
Topic Started: Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:07 pm (269 Views)
boots73521
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But it sounds nice....

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few disturbances and interruptions... Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of their fellow beetles would c...limb the stem of a lily pad and would never be seen again. They knew when this happened; their friend was dead, gone forever... Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what he had found at the top... When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying... So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never known existed... Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended... But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what he now knew.

So, he raised his wings and flew off into his joyous new life!
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CaptDennyCrane
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There can be only one

I would call it rather profound indeed.
The unambiguous and defined essence of a truest friend, is a single soul, shared in two bodies. A person who completes you so, that it pains you when they hurt, and sustains you when they are with you, no matter how far.
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AWOLangel
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reminds me of the TNG episode
transfigurations
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln
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spocklet
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Live long and prosper.....!!

Yeah, very profound.

The concept of changing from one state to another, the knowledge that we can't go back and that all living things must go through this eventually. Not only a metaphor for life, but for death also.

It's very Buddhist. :sara:
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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boots73521
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spocklet
Jul 21 2010, 02:03 AM
Yeah, very profound.

The concept of changing from one state to another, the knowledge that we can't go back and that all living things must go through this eventually. Not only a metaphor for life, but for death also.

It's very Buddhist. :sara:

I feel very honored that you think of it that way, Spocklet.
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spocklet
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Live long and prosper.....!!

Thank you my friend. :blush:

Though having said it's Buddhist, it could also fit with many religious ideologies (or be adapted to fit by them).
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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Mojochi
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The bittersweet sentiment of what you leave behind, as life makes of you, something anew

I like :)
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