Hi everyone:
Been away from here for a little while and ......wellllll.....loooky there!!! (as good old Jed Clampet would say).
Hey Butterfly:
Did you know that the only man-made structure an astronaut in outer space can see on earth is the Great Wall Of China? Pretty cool, huh?
No I didn't know that and that is very cool! Learn something every day!! Thanks!!
I didn't know about the child labor in China. How very sad that child labor still exist even in the 21st century. I think India also allows child labor, as well as many poverty-stricken countries. How very, very sad for the children
Horribly sad! Yes India and a few other countries too (they didn't even compute because like you, I didn't think stuff like that was still going on. I got China because I'd been speaking with you about it and it stuck and you reminded me of India). Isn't that so awful? Children as small as 3 and 4 working 12 to 16 hours in these stinking factories, for virtually nothing.
AND EVERYTHING WE BUY IS......MADE IN CHINA!!!!
I doubt anything.
What do you think of this statement:
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." Eric Hoffer
Well Guest, Guesting........it is interesting and it does make sense, imo. I definately have enemies and..... yep......it works!
I'm with P in that I don't hate people and certainly I don't hate my "enemies" but I bet they are close to hating, if not drowning in hate toward me. Mostly, I feel sorry for them. They're missing a lot of life, wasting their energy like that.
Sometimes I think I make them madder by not hating.
So when someone rages and accuses you of, for example: “You’re always so selfish!” you can sure that they are scared stiff of being thought selfish, or being accused of it.
Could be P, or.....worse.....afraid you will notice how selfish they are!
One way I guess is not to be frightened of anyone.
It's tough for some of us but you're right, I bet. When I think about it, when someone says something nasty.....for a split second.....I might wonder if they're right!!
(and sometimes they are but let's skip those times...heehee). So they induce me with fear, for a short time. Usually, though, I realize that what they're saying is just nasty and doesn't apply to me. Then, the fear disintegrates and I'm thinking of how to respond. I do tend to wonder what people are afraid of first and try to ease their fears, if possible. Unfortunately for my enemies, their fears are so far from reality that they seem to be uneasable, at least by me.
If we could just skip being afraid, in the first place, we'd save time and save ourselves some discomfort. Easy to talk about in theory but not so easy when in shock and confusion....after hearing a nasty comment, directed at us, at least in my case this is true.
The only person with zero enemies is someone with he spine of a squid.
Mud, you have the mind of a marine biologist!! You really make me giggle!!!
Eric Hoffer by the way was a longshoreman turned philosopher.
He wrote the book "The True Believer". Indispensible for understanding fanatics of any stripe. A great read.
Got it writ down and willa be areadin' it some where, some time.
Someone spent 4 yrs of her life telling just that: that I was selfish.
2cents
Sorry you took these words to heart, 2cents. They were untrue, ignorant, mean, rotten, downright wrong words!! I'm glad you got away!
(((((2cents)))))
"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." Bede Jarrett
Guesting: Anger is a weird emotion isn't it? It can protect us, I think, in dangerous situations. I have used it, once or twice, to save my life (when some idiots tried to rob me/attack me/poor suckers!! heehee
-- scared 'em half to death....no kidding!!).
The Inhuit do not allow the expression of anger (or maybe it should be said....their older gerations did not.....I don't know if this is still the same now adays). Any person who became angry enough to strike out/yell etc.... was banished from the clan.....period. Sent out into the snow to survive or die on their own (which was a death sentence because it's pretty tough to survive up there in the really, really, great white north, without other humans assistance).
This fact has always intreged me. Not allowed to show anger? They considered it a deadly emotion (imagine a huge brawl breaking out in one of those tiny igloos, with infants and elderly alike being bashed around, and the very walls of the place collapsing...and everyone afterward....freezing and bloody and bruised and having to work together to rebuild the place, while still right ticked with eachother..... It's not that hard to figger out why they thought of the emotion as deadly, I think.
But in our world now? Anger? Personally, I think the Inhuit had it right.
Our anger doesn't solve a whole lot and probably makes more trouble than productive solutions. That's what I think.
It isn't meant to be habitual, however.
Ya Mum! Maybe that's what I'm trying to say. It seems a habit to become mad first and ask questions later, for many.
The only way to deal with it is to learn what it is saying.
I agree. And maybe it doesn't always have to be expressed the minute it starts to brew? Maybe, we all would do well to repress it, a little, like the Inhuit, and figger out something more useful to do to solve problems?
Isn’t this a great thread? Thanks GFN for Anything . I need a breath after that dream I posted. It's a bit close to the bone. Weird. Need to come over here and just express some surface opinions, phew
Thank P. I love this thread! I'll have to zip over and read about your dream!! Bones an' all!!
To be honest, I’ve always felt like this, even at school. I wondered where kids got that hate energy from, girls being vicious to each other, boys fighting etc. I was generally confused and bewildered, which makes it difficult to dislike anyone enough to think of them as enemy.
Me too. And it was always about stupid stuff. I never did get it. I think I was a bit of a loner sometimes. If I spotted the nasty beginnings, I tended to duck behind a book. Never could stand all that conflict over nothing, really. The worst......were those high school brawls!!
"So and so's school is coming over next Wednesday to brawl, are you gonna come watch???" some kid would ask me.
"Nope", I'd answer, "I'm going to be busy sticking pins underneath my toenails next Wednesday, maybe another time!"
I wasn't the most popular kid in school.
Understanding why people do these things might be a step nearer to stopping it
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I agree with you P. Good idea!
I suppose the supreme example would be Christ, who loved everyone, and yet he had sufficient enemies to nail Him to a cross.
Ya Muddy. Great example there with that one!! And getting angry wouldn't have stopped it either, would it?
Have a great eve all!!
GFN
