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#23422275 - 07/08/16 03:11 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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With all my heart, with the window down, loud enough for them to hear me.
Must feel good for them.
Love is just a toy I play with I'm so full of it.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23422485 - 07/08/16 06:05 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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And I look at them like this when I say it -

So what are you guys doing to change the world, man?
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23422817 - 07/08/16 09:03 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hi c*******s!
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: DividedQuantum]
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: graceful dragon]
#23423077 - 07/08/16 10:29 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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sounds like a waste of energy man. Focus all that love within.
if you stop caring what other people think about you then you actually open your heart much more than you could if you tried
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23423131 - 07/08/16 10:48 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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beforethedawn said: I'm so full of it.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Rorge]
#23423234 - 07/08/16 11:16 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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You don't believe I do this or that I'm full of love?
or is this whole thread just haughty?
Hi!
And king of the elves... lol!!!
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23423475 - 07/08/16 12:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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'Love is never wasted. Love Can never be wasted, For love is Infinity's Life' ~Sri Chinmoy
'It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.' -Thich Nhat Hanh
'True love, the kind that [ I searched for it, best I can remember is close to purifies and awakens ] purifies and awakens is the love we give, not the love we receive.' -Amma
'As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.' - Amma
'Where there is true love, anything is effortless.' - ''
'But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.' - J.W. von Goethe
last but not least. .
'To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.' -Thomas Merton

i personally wouldn't / do not / drive cars very often - hardly at all, (in answer to your question)
almost never - it, and a couple other things, are my practice for earth and her species..
it's very good, i am just a single person but each of us . . well, there is a lot of spiritual power within , which it is possible to attain
-- and, any time i get a glimpse, i realize love and wisdom are the only goal --
Spiritual practice is the only true wealth of this world -- Amma
'Or lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys...'
etc... anyway, ramble over. . . no much pride here, nor exceptional certitude in my humility -- but a lot of love, self-faith, peace, yes.
i do my best ..!
love and peace beforethedawn -- ttyl
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: graceful dragon]
#23423566 - 07/08/16 01:07 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Love can be defined as "to fear the loss of" and we kill or run from the things that we fear by nature. Love is not what it is made out to seem like, as God is not love and happiness but strength and acceptance
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn] 1
#23423568 - 07/08/16 01:07 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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That was actually kinda sweet before I saw the picture, then it was creepy.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: nooneman]
#23423635 - 07/08/16 01:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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hahahaha
I wasn't looking for approval, just being a clown
I guess it is creepy from one perspective, hahaha
I don't look like that very often, that is my brutal self
We are the imagination of ourselves
What that guy sees though... wow... 
Pretty sure I just look like a beautiful lovely dovely do when I do the yelling.
I should give another picture to show I am the imagination of myself, please hold
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23423647 - 07/08/16 01:34 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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There is HUMAN me, lovely man
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23423650 - 07/08/16 01:36 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Another human

He loves you allllllll
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23423651 - 07/08/16 01:37 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Actually if that first one was telling people "I love you" that'd be fucking outrageous roooooofllll
He really means,
"I GOT SHIT TO FIGURE OUT, SHIT TO EXPLORE, WANT TO COME?"
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23423656 - 07/08/16 01:39 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm taking over the world by the way. Well some of them are.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn] 2
#23423759 - 07/08/16 02:16 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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You're going to get banned again if you keep making threads where you post to yourself dozens of times.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: viktor]
#23423981 - 07/08/16 03:23 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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True... Sorry
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23424312 - 07/08/16 05:49 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I love you has to be the three creepiest words when strung together.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Thanatos10]
#23424361 - 07/08/16 06:10 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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haha i understand man, you should just write fewer and longer posts; just break your sentences into paragraphs now and then, and if they're too small you can add some together... best of luck and good as always to see you.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: graceful dragon]
#23424483 - 07/08/16 06:57 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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graceful dragon said: haha i understand man, you should just write fewer and longer posts; just break your sentences into paragraphs now and then, and if they're too small you can add some together... best of luck and good as always to see you.
Spiritual power is about as good as no power for all the good it does.
Ask love is often incredibly naive.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Thanatos10]
#23424524 - 07/08/16 07:14 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanatos, bro
You're looking at thread with three pictures
They are all the same person
How?
Obviously reality is imagination/consciousness itself.
Wake up, young man
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Thanatos10]
#23424528 - 07/08/16 07:15 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanatos10 said: I love you has to be the three creepiest words when strung together.
Why?
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: cez]
#23424616 - 07/08/16 07:46 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think the world would be an even greater place if we all said "i love you" more. sure, it's just a string of words but words mean something damnit!
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: EternalCowabunga]
#23424713 - 07/08/16 08:27 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I mean I do it when I'm on a roll, not all the time. 
By the way thanks for the kind words, dragon.
ttyl indeed!
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23427765 - 07/09/16 09:10 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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beforethedawn said: Thanatos, bro
You're looking at thread with three pictures
They are all the same person
How?
Obviously reality is imagination/consciousness itself.
Wake up, young man
Well not exactly. Real, objective reality will always be beyond the scope of anything to understand. So we settle for a constructed version of it.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Thanatos10]
#23427797 - 07/09/16 09:26 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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That sounds sort of right actually.
The difference between what the brain constructs and what the world is the focus of our attention though... what is the difference between inner and outer?
Something to ponder on, especially if the constructions come in ordered levels of varying beauty.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23427810 - 07/09/16 09:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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beforethedawn said: That sounds sort of right actually.
The difference between what the brain constructs and what the world is the focus of our attention though... what is the difference between inner and outer?
Something to ponder on, especially if the constructions come in ordered levels of varying beauty.
Irrelevant. In the end people live in their own worlds. I mean we can even prove things to be real.
But like I said, it doesn't matter.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Thanatos10]
#23428017 - 07/09/16 11:22 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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So beauty doesn't matter?
You've seen a beautiful woman.
Did she matter to you?
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Thanatos10]
#23428476 - 07/10/16 06:28 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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There's a quote about that in Dune somewhere
found it
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: yeah]
#23428478 - 07/10/16 06:29 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's a good one! 
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23428484 - 07/10/16 06:33 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Pretty sure this one is God or something -
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23428568 - 07/10/16 07:38 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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-------------------- Anxiety is what you make it.
Edited by LunarEclipse (07/10/16 07:43 AM)
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: LunarEclipse]
#23428819 - 07/10/16 09:38 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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if you love your trouble, it ceases to be trouble, does it not? at least sometimes.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn] 1
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beforethedawn said: With all my heart, with the window down, loud enough for them to hear me.
Must feel good for them.
Love is just a toy I play with I'm so full of it.

will you love me when my mom and dad pass away? I dont have any siblings or children of my own. No one left who is obligated to love me.
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#23428931 - 07/10/16 10:22 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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You just need Yourself, then you will be the whole of the dream.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: graceful dragon]
#23429687 - 07/10/16 03:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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graceful dragon said: if you love your trouble, it ceases to be trouble, does it not? at least sometimes.
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i haul shit and dig holes for a living. that and being a real estate mogul. what's not to love? at least sometimes...
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23429780 - 07/10/16 04:28 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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sprinkles said:
Quote:
beforethedawn said: With all my heart, with the window down, loud enough for them to hear me.
Must feel good for them.
Love is just a toy I play with I'm so full of it.

will you love me when my mom and dad pass away? I dont have any siblings or children of my own. No one left who is obligated to love me. 
Quote:
beforethedawn said: You just need Yourself, then you will be the whole of the dream.
sorry Sprinkles, guess that's a no
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Repertoire89]
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23431063 - 07/11/16 01:54 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Saying "I love you" to every car you drive past is easy.
Saying "I love you" to the people in every car is more difficult.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23434832 - 07/12/16 12:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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beforethedawn said: So beauty doesn't matter?
You've seen a beautiful woman.
Did she matter to you?
Of course not
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Thanatos10]
#23434840 - 07/12/16 12:34 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, right...
If beauty doesn't matter to you I'm going to suggest extreme doses of antidepressants or some manner of an attempt at brain regeneration.
Life is overwhelming. If you do not find it so, you are deep in pathology.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
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beforethedawn said: Yeah, right...
If beauty doesn't matter to you I'm going to suggest extreme doses of antidepressants or some manner of an attempt at brain regeneration.
Life is overwhelming. If you do not find it so, you are deep in pathology.
Or not. Again you are speaking from your own view point and trying to project it as objective fact. Life is what you make of it, beauty is subjective. But I would say it isn't important. Because in the end we all die, and he world still turns.
I don't get hung up in fleeting concepts like beauty.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: beforethedawn]
#23439390 - 07/13/16 10:37 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Giftin out love missiles with the sky sockets of your eyes, sometimes it takes some extreme measures to know what we need to realize.
But hey, you know sometimes gentle methods work too. Not everyone needs a deep peering into their soul from a new person. And some people do. All I'm sayin is, use your judgment on that one, a little brevity helps clear the air too, y'know?
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Chakra Shock]
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yep!
great post
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RJ Tubs 202 said: Saying "I love you" to every car you drive past is easy.
Saying "I love you" to the people in every car is more difficult.
I would add that I feel genuinely having the capacity to love each and every one of those people is nigh on impossible.
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beforethedawn said: And I look at them like this when I say it -
So what are you guys doing to change the world, man?
You posting about expressing love in words, but with a straight face seems to suggest that you have awareness that the rigid physical body is the prison bar hindering your expressiveness of truth.
I think changing the world (at least for oneself which is ultimately all), involves gliding through the bars with a whispful spirit that knows ultimately that the other side (of the bars) is already the place where they truly are.
Once that is achieved, the rigid avatar is a lesser concern and becomes a lot more pliable in life and cooperative to all and oneself.
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Beautiful words Duncan!
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
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RJ Tubs 202 said: Saying "I love you" to every car you drive past is easy.
Saying "I love you" to the people in every car is more difficult.
I would add that I feel genuinely having the capacity to love each and every one of those people is nigh on impossible.
"Love" is such a loaded word and means so many things.
(Sanskrit has 96 words for "love"; ancient Persian has 80)
How about feeling compassion for all of humanity?
I used to scoff at the idea I could feel compassion for everyone.
Even if we accept we can feel compassion for everyone, we often don't want to.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
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Witnessing the interconnection of life forms, as a seamless whole, makes it difficult to exclude compassion from any one part. How can one not have compassion for their self?
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Repertoire89] 1
#23454416 - 07/18/16 09:50 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Our shame and self-loathing inhibit our ability to be compassionate to our self.
“Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
Hermann Hesse
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#23454807 - 07/19/16 01:05 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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A valid observation
Generally my compassion is tempered by the knowledge of impermanence of pain, the omnipotence of worldly ignorance / corruption, and the experience in permanence of self. In other words... anyone living in this world is severely flawed, all pain one experiences is limited to this life, and this life is one of many.
So there seems little reason to be overly sentimental in compassion "The wise grieve neither for the living, nor the dead". One's compassion towards their children is not diminished by dishing out discipline as needed, there must be a degree of emotional callous / detachment to handle this world.
Compassion to me, is goodwill Yet while I may have spiritual goodwill towards any being, innately That might not extend to goodwill in this lifetime For say, Ted Bundy Or more practically, for someone who has crossed me
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#23455527 - 07/19/16 09:41 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nice post, Repertoire.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Repertoire89]
#23463718 - 07/21/16 07:22 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Compassion to me, is goodwill Yet while I may have spiritual goodwill towards any being, innately That might not extend to goodwill in this lifetime For say, Ted Bundy Or more practically, for someone who has crossed me
Yes, compassion to me is to wish others goodwill, and offer my loving-kindness.
To have compassion for those who do great harm is challenging but possible, as to withhold one's goodwill towards some people only closes our own heart, and makes these people into our enemy, instead of connecting with their humanity.
If we only have compassion for certain people, we live in a constant state of judgment, always in the business of deciding who gets our love and who doesn't.
I don't want that job.
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#23463986 - 07/21/16 09:01 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Compassion to me, is goodwill Yet while I may have spiritual goodwill towards any being, innately That might not extend to goodwill in this lifetime For say, Ted Bundy Or more practically, for someone who has crossed me
Yes, compassion to me is to wish others goodwill, and offer my loving-kindness.
To have compassion for those who do great harm is challenging but possible, as to withhold one's goodwill towards some people only closes our own heart, and makes these people into our enemy, instead of connecting with their humanity.
If we only have compassion for certain people, we live in a constant state of judgment, always in the business of deciding who gets our love and who doesn't.
I don't want that job.
Personally I have no problem discriminating between people Old friends have become enemies, because they stole from me If I caught one of them in my house again, I would have no problem ending their life
All matter is living and conscious, as far as I understand We breathe and microorganisms die We walk and crush plants beneath our feet Our skin absorbs, our blood wrestles with viruses and infections Our food is living: animals, plants and insects
This is just the nature of the world I think there is release in accepting that
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Repertoire89]
#23466838 - 07/22/16 05:32 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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That you would kill someone for stealing your possessions reflects your values.
Many people value material objects more than life.
We create "enemies". We blame our anger on our enemies, but that's a cop out.
If your wife or child stole from you, would you kill them?
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23468097 - 07/23/16 12:48 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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RJ Tubs 202 said: That you would kill someone for stealing your possessions reflects your values.
Many people value material objects more than life.
We create "enemies". We blame our anger on our enemies, but that's a cop out.
If your wife or child stole from you, would you kill them?
Anger is a transitory emotion, there's no need to blame anything for it I just experience it and let it past, moderate my actions
If I catch someone breaking into my house, they've forfeited their life by threatening mine That's not a problem for me, just a situation to be dealt with
They'll be fine in a spiritual sense If I was a materialist and thought they would cease to exist upon dying that would be their problem
Honestly I don't see the hangup Regarding family, there's other ways to deal with that  A roommate stole weed from me so I confronted him and took it back, no big deal He missed some sessions
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Repertoire89]
#23471166 - 07/24/16 01:02 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Anger is a transitory emotion, there's no need to blame anything for it
I just experience it and let it past, moderate my actions
You must not follow the news. You don't notice the anger based violence around the world?
I "blame" nothing. Anger has it's roots. Ask someone whose loved one was killed by road rage.
"Transitory" wouldn't be part of their reply. Adult anger is just like a child's temper tantrum.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23471178 - 07/24/16 01:13 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think you're confusing the options one has available (violence)
With the actions one takes (ethics)
Anger exists for a reason, to be used for your benefit
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Repertoire89]
#23471202 - 07/24/16 01:37 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's a common notion that anger is a catalyst for growth and change.
Many people believe that anger fuels progress (for example angry protesters).
Anger is an option. Anger, at it's core, is pure ego.
Although it wants to hide, nothing reveals our ego like anger. Anger is our teacher.
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#23471206 - 07/24/16 01:45 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is all assuming you find the idea of ego compelling
The ego is what it is
Anger is a catalyst for keeping bears from eating you
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: Repertoire89]
#23471213 - 07/24/16 01:50 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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When people kill due to road rage, they're not in fear of their life.
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Re: I say "I love you" to every car I drive past [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23471217 - 07/24/16 01:55 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Probably not
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