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Topic: Versus
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Mama Mia
Knowflake Posts: 2328
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Registered: Jun 2005
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posted March 27, 2008 12:57 PM
 
Every day we make decisions. Daily we are confronted with options. We must choose one or the other. We cannot have both. These options include:Being bitter versus being better
Indifference versus decisiveness
Lukewarmness versus enthusiasm
"If we can" versus "how we can"
"Give up" versus "get up"
Security versus risk
Coping with evil versus overcoming evil
Blending in versus standing out
How much we do versus how much we get done
Coexisting with darkness versus opposing darkness
Destruction versus development
Resisting versus receiving
Complaining versus obtaining
Trying versus committing
Peace versus strife
Choice versus chance
Determination versus discouragement
Growing versus dying
Demanding more of ourselves versus excusing ourselves
Doing for others versus doing for self.
Progress versus regression
Steering versus drifting
Priorities versus aimlessness
Accountability versus irresponsibility
Action versus activity
Solutions versus problems
More of God versus more of everything else
Being in "Who's Who" versus asking "Why me?" IP: Logged |
virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 2474
From: upstate NY, USA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted March 27, 2008 01:06 PM
With coping with evil vs overcoming evil, don't you usually have to cope with it to overcome it? That's not choosing either side. And that goes for a lot of what's on the list, a working THROUGH to get to the other. And chances often create opportunities for choice. Doing for self is essentially doing for others - if you don't take care of yourself it hurts others. Some of those on the list you can do both in even one day - every moment you are changing. I can see where I could be growing in one situation but 'dying' in another, being determined in one situation whereas discouraged in others, being accountable (say, in college courses) and then be irresponsible after I get out of them by going out to get drunk. I really do not even get action vs. activity, because activity quite often has action (and yes, I know there are exceptions such as meditation). Sometimes, you don't have to choose. You CAN have both, if you know how to look at time differently. Think of it as if you could have both sides, because you certainly can. IP: Logged |
Mama Mia
Knowflake Posts: 2328
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posted March 27, 2008 01:18 PM
Uh take what you need and leave the rest..Thankyou.. IP: Logged |
virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 2474
From: upstate NY, USA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted March 27, 2008 02:12 PM
I see that after all these months, logic and critical thinking still are not strong suits on lindaland. Enjoy your mindless guru new age ******** . What do their ***** taste like, anyway? Like fruit?IP: Logged |
Mama Mia
Knowflake Posts: 2328
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Registered: Jun 2005
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posted March 27, 2008 02:18 PM
You are igorant and if Lindaland is not up to your standards why are you here, better yet why did you return, is the question..When a topic subject does not apply to you or fit somewhere in your life, the considerate thing to do is keep moving, unless of course your goal is to start some sh1t. Oh I see you have not changed either..Crazy ass!!! IP: Logged |
BlueRoamer
Knowflake Posts: 4018
From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 27, 2008 03:20 PM
 Wow VTT you're in fine form this round. IP: Logged |
yourfriendinspirit
Moderator Posts: 2564
From: California, USA
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted April 14, 2008 06:37 AM
.Thank you for this thought provoking post Mama Mia 
I quite enjoyed it 
virgotaurustaurus, may I remind you that what you seek is exactly what you'll find. Here, there, and everywhere...
Some of us quite enjoy our time spent here, we also are blessed to have common decency to not talk trash about the very site that we are graciously provided FREE of charge. While membership is free, actions are not.
Your actions do cost others hurt and confusion. It's only a matter of time before the big wheel of Karma come's swingin' back your way... IP: Logged |
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