belividere
Master Don Juan
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2005
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- 45
I dont want this to be misconstrued so I'll add this disclaimer. I have no problem with pook's lack of concision. I think it is important that he wrote all that he did, and in the detail that he did.belividere said:All that pook did was put it into way to long of a group of stories with excessive use of adjectives.
My main point of contention, which I think I failed to convey. Is that Pook is telling the great stories. His message seems to be lost on people who hope to find an answer. While original because he described his experience, these stories are universal as many men have traveled the same path. This sense of the universal struggle of the modern male is why I believe that the underlying message of all of pooks posts (or those in the bible from other contributors) is not new, or profound.
I didn't grow up in the internet generation, nor was I an early adapter, so my life experience was unique (or not for anyone over 25) in that I couldn't transmit my problems or read about others struggles in real time. I had to base my life around what I knew at the time which still was a pretty fast paced existence. For the most part I appreciate the fact that I didn't have faceless opinions on how I should live life, or what move I should make. The lack of options (and retarded terms like AFC) made me come into my own by my own.
Much of what pook has written is in the same vain. He isn't one to conform (although following him like everyone else on this site is conforming), he isn't one to secede from the life he wants, and he isn't one to allow external sources to define himself. I'll revisit what I mentioned previously by repeating the question; what is the difference between idolizing pook or idolizing a woman?
Live your life in such a way that you can idolize yourself. Not in a ****y way, but rather a confident self assured way. When you come to the point where you have your own ideology and purpose you can then question the principles that brought you to that point. This is the fundamental inspiration to pooks posts, or any other posts that people have changed their life because of. Ironically, the message is lost on those that want the quick fix, or have the cultish, mentality.
There is no need for "the next pook". There are at least a dozen posters on this site that have messages that are at the least as important as the first coming of the pook. A few have already posted on this thread, the others are obvious if you know what your looking for.