[Devinoir]

That's right, McCain.

[Kadesh]

 I'm all for Paradise..... just not lions nursing sheep. Gods that creeps me out... thanks a lot Dev. Now I've got the icky chills. And I'm with Muerte... I've never heard anything but the warm fuzzies about Shang...

[onishadowolf]

I found the link, but it is dead. So I am looking else where.

[Moloch]

I don't know... Shangri-La seems to good to be true. Also, it's not even a real belief but a mythical place. It's based off of a description of a place in a story called "Lost Horizon" that some British dude named James Hilton wrote in nineteen-thirty-three.

A link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La

[onishadowolf]

Yeah I found that one too.  I was looking for the under ground army and city lost to corruption.

nirvana   
 
nir·va·na [neer vnə, nur vnə]
noun
1.  Nir·va·naspiritual enlightenment: in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, the attainment of enlightenment and freeing of the spiritual self from attachment to worldly things, ending the cycle of birth and rebirth
2.  completely enjoyable experience: an ultimate experience of some pleasurable emotion such as harmony or joy


[Mid-19th century. < Sanskrit < nirvā- "be extinguished" < nis- "out" + vā- "to blow"]
 

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Hmm.... the etymology seems to indicate the end of life. To blow out the last candle so to speak.
Or the extinguishing of the passions maybe?

I could go into detail but that would involve research.

I don't know much about Shangrala, just that it is supposed to be the most peaceful of places, which sounds pretty boring to me, hence the lack of study.

lol I get that feeling, probably too often !
Apparently the second, almost first, most researched spells after love are hexes and curses so we're not alone

I know it sounds stupid but how can you have to stages of complete fufilment or is it the nirvana is a state of being and shangrila is an actual place?

I don't know much about Shangrala, just that it is supposed to be the most peaceful of places, which sounds pretty boring to me, hence the lack of study.

lol I get that feeling, probably too often !
Apparently the second, almost first, most researched spells after love are hexes and curses so we're not alone

I know it sounds stupid but how can you have to stages of complete fufilment or is it the nirvana is a state of being and shangrila is an actual place?

You Guys know...... this is quite possibly the most proper definition we'll get.

[Kadesh]

 When did someone say that Shang wasn't a place??

[MagnusCrane]

How is something considered a mythical place as mentioned before? Mythical places are neither proven or disprove.

[Muerte]

How is something considered a mythical place as mentioned before? Mythical places are neither proven or disprove.

  It can be sonsidered Mythical because of a persons "Faith" in it's exsistance, Shangrala exist in much the same fashion as Heaven and Hell.  Neither can be physically proven, but many believe that they are there none the less.

[Kadesh]

 That goes for most of what's on this site. We can't prove or disprove it, but we still believe.