Please acknowledge your limitations...

This topic was created in the Aquarius forum by Lady_M on Friday, December 28, 2007 and has 47 replies.

How to Acknowledge Your Limitations Effectively

Acknowledging your limitations helps you understand your boundaries and fosters personal growth. It involves honest self-assessment and accepting areas where you need improvement. Recognizing limitations can improve decision-making and relationships. Embracing these boundaries allows for better self-awareness and development.

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@DK09
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Please tell me you have been pushed in a shopping cart by a drunk friend while stoned! It's one of those things that has do be done .. like going up the Eiffel tower, visiting Japan or sticking your hand in a furnace for as long as is humanly possible.

Sometimes I wonder if we were separated at birth.

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@~devil's_the_name~
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nyx dear,you have to be honest here,seriously,are going to take your clothes off on a bussy street? or participate in an orgy? or (not that you can even think about it)cheat on your **very awsome** fiance? or not take a bath ever in your life again?(i can see you you squirming now😛)
or better yet,can you eat a spider,worms,critters,and such things?

😛
haa! now tell you dont have any limitations.
**smirks**

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"Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?"

Art imitates and adds some imagination to it. Like olden days idea of heaven was full of wooden structure and after man invented gold, he painted his idea of heaven with gold. Bcoz he had that major misconception that white is the color of pure and black is the color of evil, he painted his imaginary heaven with white. since they believed its above the clouds, they had to even add wings to justify the means of transport and gravity. Angels were all naked hot chicks in primitive era and slowly we painted some dress to them and after Jesus mentioned kids are innocent, we immediately changed the naked babes and painted kids with wings instead. And we dont have any sea creatures out there in heaven i guess. probably bcoz man assumed the ones who live in water cannot survive in air or havent seen them at all. Also primitive men had no idea abt the oxygen content on higher altitudes. else he might have painted gods and angels with oxygen mask.

Art will always imitate life. Bcoz our brain cannot imagine more than what we have seen in this earth.

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thnx lady M. this was the first time i got into aqua board i guess and was quite surprised to see something like this. Thought I did something stupid and getting flamed in a diff board.

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(( I dont agree. ))

For eg??

Yea true... a bit restless since Nov. Esp since all of my friends are at different places for holidays and i got stuck back home, all i have is this lappy. cannot go out since its monsoon here. 😢

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@thelibran
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nobody imagined a car before they invented bicycle. No one imagined a bicycle before they invented a wheel. No one imagined a wheel before they figured out round shaped wood can be used to transport heavy objects.
Attempt to fly like a bird was always there.

For everything man has invented or imagined has some resemblance with nature. Like all the aliens you get to see in movies have human or animal features. We are simply incapable of imagining anything more than what we can see around. Limits to imagination is the limits to our awareness of nature. So art imitates life. I dont know if aqua is one step better here.
And humans have imagined certain things like heaven, hell, after life and stuff like that which none of us have ever seen or ever will. And all of those elements in that imaginary world are elements of nature exaggerated to fit mans beliefs and capabilities of reasoning.

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Can it be considered as art or imagination? its the need like you said. but if we look at subjects which are not useful to us like aliens, heaven, hell, unicorn, angels, time travel, tele-transportation, superpowers etc, those are the pure imaginary concepts which still remain as an imaginary concept. There was no idea or imagination of a modern day computer till we got grips on electronics and electricity. Only when we have the base element, we tend to apply further logic on top of that and try to imagine further. Took us so much of time to find out electricity even though it was readily available in nature. Its a gradual process imho. So imagination cannot be infinity. Its constrained by our knowledge of nature.

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@thelibran
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and yea well.. most times its not need, its the want and greed which leads to further imagination. We can sure survive with most of what man have invented. And now since we have so many things to make our life easier, we will soon be declared as endangered species.