What was your last revelation?

I don’t think I ever had one. Because I was mentally prepared for most things and because I just rationalized most. Even if I don’t receive messages from God [or Allah or the Universe etc] I don’t think it’s something wrong with it.

A few days ago.

I realized that haters will continue to hate and it is best to therefore disregard them.

I realized I am more important than I think I am. I should value myself more and put myself first instead of trying to please everyone all the time. This was a pretty big eureka moment for me and it happened only a couple of months ago.

Oh and as for what sparked my revalation, I think it was the nasty attitude of someone I trusted and respected. I realized she’s a prick(?) and I should have been looking out for my interests all along.

@Hibernate It doesn’t have to be a spiritual revelation. You’ve never had a mental revelation???

That I’ve still got “it.”

I really thought that my spirit was crushed beyond repair. The last couple of years have been really hard on me, and it felt very much like the hard times have vastly outweighed the good times in my life. Maybe that is true, but there is definitely still a spark in me. I thought it was long gone. It’s nice to be wrong about that.

@ANef_is_Enuf it?

How much my impatience really works against me. Oddly, it was the World of Tanks MMO that made me realize it.

@Schroedes13 I thought the sentences to follow that one pretty much explained what I meant. I’m still alive in there.

@ANef_is_Enuf Oh….they kind of did. Somehow I just thought you were referring to another kind. My bad!

I’ve still got that, too.

One day, I shall rise from the ashes. The sky shall to grow black, and I will raise my arms to it. For God begs, and so do the gods that came before.
But I will laugh and say no, as I grind Satan to oblivion. Your prayers will all become an orchestra to misery, and all will burn to ashes. The hatred to rage on until everything croaks. If I cannot die, than everyone else will.

Also, no, no real revelation. So I just make shit up. :D
I got problems with booze. My ’‘revelation’’ is that I really need to do something about that. Not because I write retarded shit on the internet, but because my physical health is starting to take some serious fuckin notice. Hope that counts lol.

That everything will be alright as long as I keep a positive attitude and keep on kickin’ ass.

Ahhhh @KatetheGreat those words are music to my ears (or the visual equivalent of it). I tell myself this to get through the day.

@Schroedes13 not really because… I need to explain using short sentences so bare with me. I don’t know to do/make/understand a thing. Someone explain it to me. I don’t really get it at first. Later I figure it out for myself. But you see here? someone already told me what’s what but I forgot so i can’t see that as a revelation. It’s closer to what you said to be an “eureka moment”. I got some of these but mostly after I asked for help. When I don’t understand something I ask for help. Others might help me without me asking or without knowing it. I just make some interconnections here and there but I rarely get to say “Eureka, I found it !” :)

@Hibernate I understand, but I still think that these moments can come from the help of others too!

I read this a week ago and I find myself blown away by the usefulness of some of these ideas. They weren’t even necessarily new or original ideas for me but somehow just being reminded of them has had a huge impact on my perspective of various things lately.

I find that usually when I spend an hour or two on www.ted.com, I have multiple revelations! It’s usually pretty intense!

TED is actually actually made of win.

My whole life is one long moment of revelation.

@flutherother what is the revelation?

I’m not sure it is not yet complete.

@flutherother Touche.

I realized that nobody is special. This includes myself.

There may be people who are special to you specifically just like there are people who are special to me specifically, but nobody as a whole is special. We are all, deep down, very much the same. and it bugs the shit out of us

I realized everybody is special. Not just myself.

There may be people who seem stupid to you specifically just like there are people who are stupid to me specifically, but everybody as a whole is special. We are also, deep down, very much the same. and it bugs the shit out of us

Revelation Update:

i just revalized that @rOs is hitting on me. i’m flattered and maybe even a little curious, but i have a lovely wife and three beautiful children at home that count on me not to commit buggery.

The last few months has been one big realization after another, coming in quick successions. Damn, I need a break.

I’m still working through it – probably having to do with how women are made to feel ashamed for their post-pregnancy bodies in addition to a milltion other things. It’s from reading a book called Body Panic: Gender, Health & Selling Fitness. I will make a fluther q out of this revelation soon.

I realised I’ll work until I drop, most probably drop down dead on the job…… Having spent years running around, wiping the noses & cleaning up after my colleagues this will be one mess I don’t have to clean up :-/

Just a couple of days ago, I found out that I needed to analyze something that’s been bothering me for the past year, and take the time to rectify an issue that’s been a “monkey on my back”——mental baggage that I’ve been carrying around with me that I need to let go of.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard ;)

@Schroedes13 when I help others or others help me I either remind [or am reminded] things I already knew or I found out new things but I can’t say it’s a revelation when I gain knowledge. Or else I’d say I get a new revelation every couple of minutes :P

Just this past month I’ve had to deal with a really terrible friend. She has said some pretty hurtful things to me lately and I’ve been able to divorce myself from her…entirely without feeling really badly about it. This is great because 5 years ago dealing with this situation would have had me feeling terrible for weeks. It is nice feeling emotionally strong again.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Thank you buddy. ;)

About two years ago. I finally became un panicked at the thought I might never again be what I once was and if I never progressed beyond where I was then with the things I’d become content with, I’d be ok to finish out my 2nd leg of life.

I’m in my 40’s and have never before had any kind of contentment about my life, never not had the pushing feeling having to find that elusive something I was supposed to be doing in order to feel like my life was worthwhile. The relief I have now with simpler living is immense. I still want things but no longer feel like I’m wasting away if I don’t accomplish them on my timeline.

The United States has lost its reputation as a world leader.