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RE: What is Strength - 7/28/2009 1:15:02 PM

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The ability to not only endure, but grow under pressure.

That explains the size of my ass....

~snorts~ I've never seen your ass but I am quite sure it is as gorgeous as the rest of you...your face, your mind, your down-to-earth ways.

For me, my definition of strength is close to what carol and several others have said. I've always found my strength in those situations where I was under fire. Looking out into a black night and jumping out of an airplane, facing up to my girlfriend getting pregnant while I was in another country and deciding to stay with her, facing up to continuing to practice in a town where it seemed like everyone found out what a "twisted pervert" I am because here is where my ums were and here were the patients that stayed with me, sending the submissive I was deeply in love with home to deal with her personal issues when it would have been easier to just let things "flow" and turn a blind eye to the truth. These were where I found out whether or not I had strength and these times didn't have an audience, they had me and those close to me.
But...as someone else noted, the fact that I stayed with my girlfriend when she got pregnant by another might be noted as weakness by someone else. The fact that I stayed here instead of going elsewhere and starting over might be seen as being too afraid to "start over". What many see as strength is indeed often perceived as weakness by others and so, you have to define what is strong for you.

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RE: What is Strength - 7/28/2009 1:16:22 PM

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What is Strength

we can just guess

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RE: What is Strength - 7/28/2009 10:55:16 PM

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What is Strength

we can just guess

That is BS. Strength can be defined.

Describe non-existence... Try it in your mind.. What is non-existence (something which does not exist - LOL no really). What the hell is it - define it. Think of a person now define that.... In the same way, the same way you define anything, define non-existence - ya can't.

Something which is beyond definition can not logically exist.

**Ya, ya philosophical musings of my red is different than yours. This does not mean red is beyond description nor are colors. Colors are vibrating wavelengths of light from 360 nm to 740 nm that are picked up by our eye and decoded by our brain. Or something like that. It has been a minute since I have studied 'Color Theory'.

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RE: What is Strength - 7/29/2009 9:22:27 AM

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What is Strength

we can just guess

That is BS. Strength can be defined.

Describe non-existence... Try it in your mind.. What is non-existence (something which does not exist - LOL no really). What the hell is it - define it. Think of a person now define that.... In the same way, the same way you define anything, define non-existence - ya can't.

Something which is beyond definition can not logically exist.

**Ya, ya philosophical musings of my red is different than yours. This does not mean red is beyond description nor are colors. Colors are vibrating wavelengths of light from 360 nm to 740 nm that are picked up by our eye and decoded by our brain. Or something like that. It has been a minute since I have studied 'Color Theory'.

you say it is bullshit..please go ahead....explain

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RE: What is Strength - 7/29/2009 9:32:11 AM

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Strength is very simple... the ability to change your environment to meet your desires… there is not right or wrong, good or bad in strength.

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The ability to adapt to your environment, or to endure what you can't change, is also strength.

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RE: What is Strength - 7/29/2009 9:38:01 AM

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Strength is the ability to do.

Sometimes it's just the ability to try, to continue striving. I think the "The Impossible Dream" lyrics from The Man of La Mancha sum it up pretty well:

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

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RE: What is Strength - 7/29/2009 8:23:32 PM

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Strength to me is purpose.
Personally, I cannot see having one without the other. Strength gives me a purpose and purpose gives me determination to remain strong through challenges.

Being able to see who we really are is a matter of perspective. No other person is ever going to "see"you the way you envision yourself.
Ultimately, the only persons opinion about who you are that matters should be your own.

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RE: What is Strength - 7/30/2009 3:20:55 AM

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how many of us can really see who we are?

Thoughts?

Most are capable, but few are willing. They're either scared, or tired, or preoccupied with other things.

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RE: What is Strength - 7/30/2009 7:31:19 AM

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how many of us can really see who we are?

Thoughts?

Most are capable, but few are willing. They're either scared, or tired, or preoccupied with other things.

I don't know how to ask it in english..but saying.."most are capable, but few are willing""sounds so theoritical. An assumption(??).
Why do you think people don't want to see themselves?

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RE: What is Strength - 7/30/2009 3:40:08 PM

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I'd prefer to call it an educated guess rather than an assumption

I don't think a lot of people want to see themselves, because either they don't like what they see, or they're scared of what they see. Also, gaining self-knowledge isn't very easy, usually. I've always been the opposite, I wanted to know myself, the good and the bad. That caused a lot of pain, but what I gained was invaluable to me.

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