fldrkhorse
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Joined: 11/5/2005 From: North Carolina Status: offline
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Distant Friend, By happenstance, tonight, I occasioned and perused the newfound site & forums whilst casually surfing -- In a forum for Dominants advice I encountered a post "New master needs to learn - 12/4/2005 11:17:07 AM" And I read all the comments. I am not a member of the site and unable to offer a guest post. I speak as an elder and long experienced BDSM Dominant. No more, no less. I am the Master of my Beloved & owned, pleasure slave elisabeth. I am a Master of & to her and of & to myself. Also, no more, no less. I wanted to respond to Afreak's post -- as one of many valid perspectives -- believing that new explorers always need to hear varying views about the BDSM lifestyle -- no matter their chronological age -- I was impressed by the variety of wisdom & comments I saw -- my compliments to you and many peers- I wondered if you would be so kind to forward my comments to the OP and/or add them to the thread? I will not be disappointed if this violates any rules of the board or protocols -- I saw your email address -- I submit: |||| Many are familiar with the admonition, "Know thyself" yet few know the source of the phrase and fewer know that the phrase is incomplete without the next part of it. Thales, (c.600 BCE) was unanimously acclaimed and accepted to be the wisest of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece. They asked of Thales, "What is the most difficult of all things?" Thales answered, "Know thyself." Then ... they spoke to Thales again and asked, "If, 'know thyself' is the most difficult of all things, what is the most easy of all things?" Thales replied, "Give advice." Thales preceded Will Rogers, Samuel Clemens, and a host of stand-up comedians with the shortest punchline I have ever taken to heart as both a rejoinder and a glimpse into anthropic philosophy in its purest essence. It is the complimentarity (not unlike non-locality of the physics of quantum mechanics and Neils Bohr's hypothesis) that I conjecture with honorable respect to all the words I have read in the threads therein replying to Afreak's query. |||| Thank you if you can carry this to the newbie (or wanna-be) -- thank you for reassuring me that there are respectable sources for such as he and for an old dog always capable of learning new tricks, such as me (modern acronyms & abbreviations!!! :-) -- Best rgds, Dustin Dream Master of elisabeth on the California Northcoast
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I'm not where I need to be, but I'm better than I was yesterday. Namaste, I honor the divine in you
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