The 1st time I went to CR, I was still recouping from a massive foot would I got from a fin and ensuing operation to remove gangrenous muscle and artery the hospital gave me. I always thought when you go into the jungle, always bring someone slower. I was the slow one.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. George S. Patton 9
everyone thinks rainforest are cool. but how many people have been to them or slept by them and had thousand of army ant invade there cot? **** rainforests. theyre death traps.
hey man let eat fish taco is a classic now. do you really think my typo is tht funny? i mean i face palmed myself when i saw it...
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau
"One must be careful that in the process of killing monsters, that one does not himself become a monster." - Nietzche . very good u2b, hope that clap clears up He has the most who is most content with the least. Diogenes
You forgot about the fuggin Peccary. They'll eatcher azz up. I talked to a guy in the Corcovado who walked into a clearing . He said there was a herd of them. They stopped what they were doing, started chomping their teeth together and ran him up a tree until it got dark. then they got skeert and ran off leaving him alone.
One of my favorites, super positive when you are trying to live healthy and honorably, but people try and bring you down: "You're either on my side-or else you're in my way." Is it chesty puller or Tony Robbins? Negative. Tom Araya from Slayer. The rest of the song isn't so cute though. But it keeps me going when people spew negative bs.
"Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time.*But he loves you. He loves you and he needs*money."--George Carlin
Aha... Although run that scenario long enough, age or attrition will require a gazelle to be faster than the fastest lion.
Me today, trying to explain to this wahine about surfing: "Surfing is like a cross between a religion and a drug addiction."
yeah, non-surfers have a hard time grasping that analogy. Also, try explaining that being in a big tube is the closest thing to being high without doing any actual drug. Until you've been there, you just won't understand.
I sent this video to Doug in a PM, but with the response this thread has been getting it needs to be shared here. If you want a really clear, rad explanation of what's going on while you're surfing. as well as something you can now show to people who Don't surf or understand Why you're walking out the door to shovel snow at 4am so you can be on it at first light. Take 11 minutes. This is Really good. http://vimeo.com/17904201
Thanks K. I have struggled to explain that moment of peak experience where, "We are what we're doing," to non surfers but there are no words.
Thanks for contributing to the thread everyone. I'm glad you've enjoyed it. By all means keep it coming, if you choose. Kpd, thanks for the vid. Sorry I didn't get right back to you. The past week has been a hectic one for me.
Dude no worries at all. I threw it to you in a PM due to your interest in the topic, the fact that this thread was 4 pages deep when I discovered it and usually at that point a fair maiden has been tied to the train tracks of relevancy , I didn't want to see it ...Lost. Sent it to Seldom too. Hope this week involves waves and you're more fulfilled, less bothered. Be well man, and thanks again for hitting upon this. I'm going to do a proper intro thread one day soon. I've been working on something for a year now that ties the Surfing, Spiritual and Scientific world that I'm really stoked on. Om
blasters, I think you had a moment of satori when you typed that, or at least I did when I read it. Everybody needs to watch this. Stop what you are doing and watch this, now. Mr. kpd, thank you for sending that my way. Imho, this video is spot on. Radical, in the truest sense of the word.
"If you believe me and I am wrong you will lose nothing, If you don't believe me and I'm right you lose everything" Zig Ziglar
