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gettinjiggywithit
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Re: Acting for Real? [Re: Icelander]
#4583430 - 08/26/05 09:44 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hey Ice,
The acting part came from knowing that people "act tough" at times to intimidate, to induce fear with the intent to manipulate and then say they have "good intentions" to justify the behaviror, words or actions.
Thats what I was calling BS on.
Like I said, if and when I get mean, my intentions are to be mean and I know no good will come of it. That happens rarely these days and only when I loose patience. Thats no excuse either.
-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
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BlueCoyote
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Just a short throw-in from my side:
Isn't there the saying: Don't let the intention justify your means !?
I hold on that strictly.
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gettinjiggywithit
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Re: Acting for Real? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#4583446 - 08/26/05 09:51 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I never heard that one. I like it.:)
I was working to understand what was meant by the phrase I grew up with "the road to hell is paved with "good intentions".
I think I get what is meant by it now. Only took me 37 years.
-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
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gettinjiggywithit
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Re: Acting for Real? [Re: Swami]
#4583451 - 08/26/05 09:54 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Swami said: Love your new Avatar, Jiggy. Have you petted a dolphin lately?
I love your avatar too. I rated you for it.
Havn't petted one lately but they have been in my dreams a lot lately. I was browsing through an Islands Travel magazine and that was a centerfold. I felt something nice when I looked at the photo and thought, if I use it as my avatar maybe others might feel that same "something nice" when they look at it.
I look at your avatar and it makes me smile.
-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
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AvatarofAtavism
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Dolphins are amazing animals. I've been captivated by them for years it seems.
So.. elegant. playful.
-------------------- Do not despair, said the mystery. You will always have a friend in me. Untill the day you break my code. Then I will be gone, and you are free... to manifest another.
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gettinjiggywithit
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Indeed!
I was following a story not long ago about over 100 whales having beached themselves in Aus. They got them back out once and they turned right back for the beach.
The second time they got them out, helicopters were over head keeping track of them and saw a pod of dolphins come in from a distance and they escorted the whales back out to deeper waters and they stayed out that time.
How did the dolphins know? They are amazing.
I learned that whale sonar doesn't work in the shallows. They get confused and disoriented in them easily.
Anyway, dolphins are so cool!
-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
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BlueCoyote
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From the ancients, they say: The intentions justify the means... I think Jesus reversed it somewhen (had to reread)... But surely there is no way to justify the actions by the means... They alway have to go synchron to them, only then, they will justify each other...
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Re: Acting for Real? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#4584083 - 08/26/05 01:31 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I posted on that recently.
The gist was good-good bad-bad
Justification!
Then the crowed said," NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's
bad-good"
I said," "
And they jumped me. Where were you then?
-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
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Swami
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Dolphins are amazing animals. I've been captivated by them for years...
I am starting a petition to get you set free. Am trying to raise some mackerel as bail if that doesn't work.
Stay strong!
-------------------- The proof is in the pudding.
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gettinjiggywithit
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Re: Acting for Real? [Re: Swami]
#4584330 - 08/26/05 02:38 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
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BlueCoyote
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Uh sorry..think I was searching for some dolphins, but found a water-turtle instead Sometimes floods of postings carry me away here... especially if I have some break
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dr0mni
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Re: Acting for Real? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#4594679 - 08/29/05 10:39 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm sure this thread is buried by now, but I just wanted to add a few things, as I was busy all weekend...
"The only thing accomplished by this is not having a relationship with your brother, the only means through which one interacts with a person. If your brother is not living his life in a manner that will benefit him in the long run, then life will show him this through some form or another. It's his choice how he chooses to act, and all you are doing is trying to punish him to make him act how you want him to act, which results in a seperation between you and him, which certainly isn't going to help him out. "
see, you misunderstand, I'm not ignoring him to try and make him change. I just don't want such a negative influence in my life, and I won't stand for being treated like shit. If he was anyone other than my bro I would just stop talking to him, but by TELLING him why I am doing what I'm doing will hopefully make him realize he needs to change.
I'm not trying to punish him. I'm trying to demonstrate the consequences of his actions. He treats me and my friends like shit, and as a result no one wants to be around him. Not even his brother! If I wanted to punish him there are plenty of malicious things I could do, but I'm not punishing him. I'm distancing myself from him until he can learn to give and earn respect.
As for the "road to hell/good intentions" thing. I really think that is a pretty different topic which can vaguely be linked to this one. If you are "acting" or "pretending" to be mean/cruel then you are not actually being mean/cruel. If you punish someone out of righteousness then that falls in line with that idiom.
Really, I think it just means that just because our actions are based on right morals, doesn't mean that we carry them out in a way that brings about the desired consequences. Often our good intentions backfire on us.
I don't know. It's a pretty complicated argument.... and I have to go, so I can't write a damn essay right now...
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BlueCoyote
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Re: Acting for Real? [Re: dr0mni]
#4594961 - 08/29/05 12:06 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Woa, just simply react and act to him, as you feel like at the moment, with the adequate words, of course...while being aware of personal hurts.
Don't make it complicated for him...and for you.
(Someone has said this before )
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