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Shankapotomus

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11. Wake Up and Just Be
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 06:29 AM
Mar 2012

If you really feel nothing can be done now, take a break from the struggle and enjoy what you can in your life now. Sometimes taking a break from the fight and letting the fight fight for itself is the most effective thing we can do. When you resist others, they tend to resist you back just as a reflex. Big changes can happen sometimes when you leave your enemy alone to think for themselves for awhile. Even sometimes allowing your enemy to have what they want is the way they finally see they were wrong. I beleive there is such a thing as fighting too hard. We should be like water, as Bruce Lee said and sometimes step out of the way and let our enemy fight themselves for us.

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Wake up and do what exactly???? [View all] Devil_Fish Mar 2012 OP
To stop buying shit. villager Mar 2012 #1
Uhhh, I think you forgot to mention Surya Gayatri Mar 2012 #2
I'm wide awake too madokie Mar 2012 #3
I think talking about it helps. napoleon_in_rags Mar 2012 #4
Work to wake up others. Live and Learn Mar 2012 #5
+1 AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2012 #6
Yup... Magoo48 Mar 2012 #7
It is? mackattack Mar 2012 #10
Here are 10 stances from Dec. 6th: AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2012 #14
thank you mackattack Mar 2012 #15
You're welcome AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2012 #17
I always feel a bit uneasy when I see the phrase 'Wake up, America" Owlet Mar 2012 #8
I agree mackattack Mar 2012 #9
Wake Up and Just Be Shankapotomus Mar 2012 #11
I think you need a good night's sleep. randome Mar 2012 #12
Not everyone wakes up just to give up lunatica Mar 2012 #13
Maybe the 60s saying is right. Turn on and drop out. However, some of the things that you say jwirr Mar 2012 #16
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