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 when is it ok to step on toes
#8890879 - 09/07/08 01:06 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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to "skewer" a ballooning ego? do you have to know someone or whats the rule?
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: sleepy]
#8890894 - 09/07/08 01:10 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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uhm, what? Who's ballooning ego? Yours? A friend? Co Worker?
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: Ogre812]
#8890901 - 09/07/08 01:13 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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thats sort of my question. when is it ok, when is it not... i mean, is it a balancing act of doing it kindly, or more of a "just work on yourself" thing, or what?
i'm talking about other peopls egos. mine is long gone 
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: sleepy]
#8890914 - 09/07/08 01:17 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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Well, I don't really like to step on toes. But, if I'm going to I make sure that I am in the right (for whatever reason I'm doing it.), Or, I just don't like or don't give a shit about the person. I'm still not sure if I'm thinking "stepping on toes" in the same way you are.
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: Ogre812]
#8891317 - 09/07/08 03:05 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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Whenever I feel strongly about an issue.
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: Boots]
#8891367 - 09/07/08 03:14 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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Then just do it. Just make sure you are right and all is well.
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: sleepy]
#8891508 - 09/07/08 03:37 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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If you have to ask, you shouldn't be deflating people's egos in the first place. It's only when you don't give a fuck what other people think that you're ready to start to skewering.
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: sleepy]
#8891836 - 09/07/08 04:41 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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ok, i dunno if u guys understood what i meant. i dont like putting people down, but i like destroying their ego games. sort of like morpheus freeing neos mind in the matrix.
that sort of thing
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Edited by sleepy (09/07/08 05:04 PM)
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: sleepy]
#8893862 - 09/07/08 11:01 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Well whenever you feel like doing it, go for it then. Large egos are annoying anyways.
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 Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: sleepy]
#8893880 - 09/07/08 11:04 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Quote:
sleepy said:
when is it ok to step on toes
When you are dancing, you can just say that it was an accident....
>^;;^<
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: PhanTomCat]
#8893916 - 09/07/08 11:13 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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the tantrist method of deflating an ego in a positive and productive manner 
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"you're in a boat, you choose the color of the boat
the boat's on the ocean
the ocean represents your spirit, your emotions, and your life
and the life that you're living is the boat, you're in the boat
you have an anchor, that you don't know you have, it's an invisible anchor
when you see it, that's when you'll be seen"
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: sleepy]
#8895934 - 09/08/08 12:03 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Quote:
sleepy said:
to "skewer" a ballooning ego? do you have to know someone or whats the rule?
It's ok to step on toes when they land under your shoe.
Do what thou will, that's the law bro.
But really what others do is none of your business if you don't want it to be.
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: Ogre812]
#8896142 - 09/08/08 12:53 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Quote:
Large egos are annoying anyways.
To other large egos.
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being annoyed isn't exactly liberation from the ego's grip
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"you're in a boat, you choose the color of the boat
the boat's on the ocean
the ocean represents your spirit, your emotions, and your life
and the life that you're living is the boat, you're in the boat
you have an anchor, that you don't know you have, it's an invisible anchor
when you see it, that's when you'll be seen"
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Caution: Egos in rear-view mirror may be smaller than they appear. 
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
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Large egos are annoying anyways.
To other large egos.
So, they are not annoying to small egos?
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: Ogre812]
#8896235 - 09/08/08 01:10 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Who the hell can determine the size of one's own ego, much less someone else's ego? This is an absurd distinction.
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: Veritas]
#8896237 - 09/08/08 01:10 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Which is the more spiritual stance:
My ego is bigger than your ego!
or
My ego is smaller than your ego!
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Size is not an applicable concept to ego structure. It might be worthwhile to consider flexibility or adaptability of one's personality/ego structure, or how effective your ego is in attaining personal goals or managing one's behavior according to one's values.
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Re: when is it ok to step on toes [Re: Veritas]
#8896304 - 09/08/08 01:21 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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My ego is so flexible that it can accept your ego's metric of egoishness. 
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