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"Inner-strength"

Some people find religion, and well, that's fine by me,
Some people like to clean, work with freshened pants and socks,
And some people like to sing, because that helps them to see,
But me, well, I've found my inner strength, by thinking I'm a fox,
And that may sound so strange to you, to hear me say such things,
To find a way to base everything on, by thinking I have a tail,
But to me it just makes so much sense, to me it's just the thing,
That can keep me strong inside, keep the wind filling out my sail,
Because I know I'm not a fox, I don't need to see a mirror to know,
But the fact is now I'm different, I feel different to you all,
I can stand in front of you all, feel that this is all my show,
I don't feel that I'm better than you, but that doesn't mean I can't stand tall,
And maybe being a fox wouldn't work for you, maybe it's not the thing you need,
Maybe you want to be a wolf, or a lamb, or a horse, goat, bat or bee,
And then you've got your religion for life, you've wrote your own personal creed,
Because not everyone really wants to be a fox, but I think it works for me.

Basically, it's like that bit in Spaceballs.

Spaceballs can explain everything really.

You know, when Lone Star loses the ring right at the end, and he doesn't think he can use the Swartz? Or however you spell it. And Yogurt speaks to him and says "I found the ring in a cracker, the Swartz is really in you!"

The sagacious one wrote:
"The inner strength we all possess, to differing degrees, comes from our morality and not acting on natural impulses without first thinking through the consequences."

Bingo, that's what I've been trying to say.

Not bingo, what you just said, I mean. Wrote. Hmm.

Anyway, yes. The thing is, I have lots of things that are right about me, and I have lots of things that are wrong about me. The reason I have this now, is to help myself with the things that I have problems with. I don't really want to lock up and not be myself, I just want to be able to control myself.

Because maybe I can turn to this and I'll lean on it for a little while, but all I'm doing really is leaning on myself. It's the same with Christianity in a way. People believe that they can lean on the all knowing and they'll help them see the light, but I think perhaps that they're just finding inner strength themselves from that.

I realised the other night that I'm just an intelligent monkey. In other words a species of monkey who happens to be intelligent and not necessarily an intelligent example of our species. So we are indeed animals and often act like them. The inner strength we all possess, to differing degrees, comes from our morality and not acting on natural impulses without first thinking through the consequences.

Grix Thraves wrote:

"I'll only judge people on what I know about them. I can keep an open mind,"

Sorry, reword.

I can only judge people on what I know about them, but I'm not afraid to keep an open mind. I'm not going to judge people guilty until I'm sure I know all the facts, that's what I meant. I'm not becoming this person that's giving you all labels because that's how you are and that's how you'll always be, it's just how I tend to see you. Maybe that'll change if I get to know you better, or you change yourself.

:)

It's something I just really need at the moment. Sometimes I get very depressed by how people make me feel, but if I can put it into the perspective of animals, it just makes things easier to understand for me. I'm really a very simple person, I just need little things like this to make life easier for me.

I'll only judge people on what I know about them. I can keep an open mind, sure, that's easy, and I can think that they're an animal and then they could turn around and change my perspective of them completely.

It just puts things in perspective for me.

(I've got a religion. It's better than your stupid animal thing.)

Oh yeah?

(It's called Leonism. Everything is worthless and I'm the best.)

Don't you find that a little self centered?

(It works for me. I can grasp the concept of humanity, I just tend to ignore it.)

Hmm... I still think you're far too selfish.

(Well at least I'm not messed up like you. Mr Fox person.)

Shut up.

Heh, I just get a mental image of your neighbours...

"That kydd ffrom next door is snyffing through our bynns agynn, Paulyyne!"

"Awww... hhy's onlly looking ffor food, bless hhym. Isn't he cute?"

I am a South Romanian Chigargu

ruff ruff

grrrr

Grix Thraves wrote:
> It's not as if you'll see me running around on all fours and barking,
> for Christ's sake, it's just a way to put things into perspective for
> me.


Shame, I imagine that could be quite amusing...

:-)

It makes it easier in my mind... as I said, it won't work for everyone. Because I really can't tell we are all different just by seeing ourselves as humans.

I really try to understand that people are all different, but sometimes I lose thought and really do believe that what works for me works for everyone else. It's something I tend to have a problem with.

So well, for me, it's much easier to convert people into members of the animal kingdom. We all learn differently, we all think differently. Maybe someone will take this and it'll help them, but hey, I doubt many will.

It's not as if you'll see me running around on all fours and barking, for Christ's sake, it's just a way to put things into perspective for me.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> So yeah, perhaps it wouldn't work for you. But to me, it works
> perfectly. Because it's so much easier to see we're all so different.
> Instead of classing us all as humans, I can see that some of us just
> can't live the same way as others do. We all have our own religions.
> :0)


Sorry, I just don't get why you have to pretend to be an animal to see this. Maybe I just don't get it, but can't you tell that people are all diferent normally, rather than convert them to the animal kingdom to see the difference?