Angela Mailander wrote: That's all well and good, but it is another
thing to say that those who suffer have deserved it. Language
matters. Words matter.
Edg: Words matter to whom? Seems to me that the whom part trumps the
words part. Writing here at FFL has been an education for me about
I have shifted many of my POVs considerably by reading posts here Edg.
It is not just one person's post, but the shifting shapes of POVs
being expressed reminding me of gray zones where I had sometimes
colored black and white.
Words here do have the power to shift a person's POV but it isn't
Curtis,
The POV washing machine here at FFL is merely another object that your
ego projects upon. If your ego starts changing how it projects, no
surprise since that's what we call learning, but miss not that one's
mind is always as if a fire hose spraying red paint on everything, and
then the
Edg,
Our discourse is an example of change, big time. Much more productive
and we both had to work at creating it.
I'm not sure I am as far on the side of inner change driving outer.
Of course it is huge, but I purposely put myself in situations that
hit me with new stuff despite my natural
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
We imbue our environment with our definitions, and to me, the game of
enlightenment asks us to entirely quit the definition business.
Edg
yep- less thought, more experience.
Curtis,
Hey, we're getting along fabulously today! Gotta love it.
Okay, I think we're down to our normal end-game of each of us doing a
semantic shuffle. We've sorta got ourselves agreeing with the other,
but, below, you finally called it, and noted that we don't know our
definitions of inner
This may have nothin to do with nothin but it is yesterday's story and
may be worth telling -
I ride about Madison on a bike with a sign a friend made for me - it
simply states Non consumption Changes Everything and occasionally
it spurs up a conversation. especially with fellow bikers or peds
I was in a movie theatre in Madison some
years back. A baby was crying very loudly for
an extended period before someone yelled
PLEASE take that child outside. Almost instantly
a reply came. Kids have right too!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All that is is right. That is true for me, certainly,
and always has been. Moreover, compassion is built
into the structure of manifestation.
That's all well and good, but it is another thing to
say that
