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kaiowas
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Re: Its more important to be nice than to be right [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7828433 - 01/03/08 05:23 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion said: It's more important to be nice than to be right.
How about being true to ourselves and following our highest joy?
what if someone's highest joy is being mean or even in extreme cases murder?
that is not necessarily my business. every one is in charge of his or her own evolution.
if somebody chooses to hinder another's joy by means of violence then it is to be resolved by the community if not first by the individual involved IMO.
another person's choices are no excuse to prevent my own happiness.
it being your business is neither here nor there.
The idea here is to be wary of single noted doctrines to apply to mass amounts of people. if you had said "I'll follow my highest joy and be true to myself for the compassion and love for others," then that's different because you are only speaking for yourself.
however, "being true to ourselves and following our highest joy" does a couple of things
1) including 'our' is setting up a way of thinking for more than yourself and I'm sorry but not everyone is the same...which leads to
2) 'Highest joy' is very general my friend because each of us are different. sometimes, someone will have to self sacrifice for the good of others, which may not be the highest joy. It may be of highest pain even. I'm not doing this to be a dick, because I see what you mean, but I'm putting this across to you because its good to keep in the back of you mind that everyone will interpret and see these words through, often, very different lenses.
highest joy even implies that there's some sort of joy out there that is above and beyond anything else that we are. that somehow, we as humans aren't already being true to ourselves, that we are not already exhibiting our true nature.
same with OC's it's more important to be nice than right...well it depends on the situation, does it not?
-------------------- Annnnnnd I had a light saber and my friend was there and I said "you look like an indian" and he said "you look like satan" and he found a stick and a rock and he named the rock ooga booga and he named the stick Stick and we both thought that was pretty funny. We got eaten alive by mosquitos but didn't notice til the next day. I stepped on some glass while wading in the swamp and cut my foot open, didn't bother me til the next day either....yeah it was a good time, ended the night by buying some liquor for minors and drinking nips and going to he diner and eating chicken fingers, and then I went home and went to bed.
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AlteredAgain
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Re: Its more important to be nice than to be right [Re: kaiowas]
#7828622 - 01/03/08 06:18 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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for pointing out my cliché. I understand that you don't intend to talk down.
Looks like I might just have to sit down and discover the personal meanings that lie behind the words 'our' and 'highest', as they relate to me and my own spiritual path.
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Its more important to be nice than to be right [Re: Rose]
#7829724 - 01/03/08 09:36 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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In the picture she is incredulously explaining how 'big' I am (or at least how she remembered it).
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PhanTomCat
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Re: Its more important to be nice than to be right [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7829745 - 01/03/08 09:40 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion said: In the picture she is incredulously explaining how 'big' I am (or at least how she remembered it).
Hhhhhmmmmm..... She is only holding up three fingers..... ***scratches head***
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-------------------- I'll be your midnight French Fry.... "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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Re: Its more important to be nice than to be right [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7829849 - 01/03/08 10:02 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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Listen Buster, it was a sub-zero, wintery Montana day and we were attempting a 'snowie', OK?
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Re: Its more important to be nice than to be right [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7829858 - 01/03/08 10:03 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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>^;;^<
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