posted January 03, 2010 02:59 PM         

I know you do to regarding your mum.

what I said was out of order, simplistic astrology, but I didn't have another way to comfort her. I'm not perfect and that's all I came up with.

I've got a true problem for expressing my support when someone faces some suffering. I can feel it inside but I don't know how to help or what words to find.

posted January 03, 2010 03:19 PM         

I know you do to regarding your mum.

what I said was out of order, simplistic astrology, but I didn't have another way to comfort her. I'm not perfect and that's all I came up with.

I've got a true problem for expressing my support when someone faces some suffering. I can feel it inside but I don't know how to help or what words to find."

I understand. I have no problems with you. You're a pretty cool person.

peace

Raymond

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"Nothing matters absolutely;
the truth is it only matters relatively"

posted January 03, 2010 04:40 PM         

quote:

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"Nothing matters absolutely;
the truth is it only matters relatively"

- Eckhart Tolle

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This quote got me thinking, hmmmm...

posted January 03, 2010 05:23 PM         

but that doenst function as an apologize for people to start offending and hurting others,does it?

these last days i dont come here often cause all i see are people treating others bad,just to feel better about themselves...that is extremely stupid and uncomprehensible for me.

a person who is hurt and passing difficult times,has the choice to be a nice person too,and we cannot forget that we receive what we get.

behavious like that will only worse the person΄s situation,besides of generating a bad environment and bad vibes...

posted January 03, 2010 09:48 PM         

Glaucus
I didnt even do anything wrong! I was just trying to maintain a nice friendship i assumed we had on here after all these years. But now id prefer not to!

posted January 04, 2010 04:11 AM         

Honestly Glaucus had no reason to even get angry at me! All i wrote after he started to attack Lara was this...

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oh no its the eclipse its made everyone crazy.. :P
Weve all been on here for years!! And im sure everyone loves each other so no need to argue.

Kisses to everyone xxx

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and then he had a big sook about it. After reading his post I felt bad and thought ill apologise anyway its not a big deal and then he ignored me and made up some pathetic excuse as to why he could acnowledge someone elses post but not my apology. Anyways he doesnt have to, its not anyones loss. I dont have tolerance for MEN who disrespect girls. Quite frankly theres no difference between polo and glaucus. Polo started on WinkAway and Lara and then Koiflower. Then Glaucus started on Lara and had to cry a river over why Polo shouldnt apologise to her. Whats it to him?? People on here are having this reaction without even knowing what happened to begin with.

This is how it all started, and me being the great cancerian i am I stood up for the people i cared about on here and made the same insulting remarks back to him.

posted January 04, 2010 09:51 AM         

What, exactly, does it mean
to be relative to infinity?

There is no such relativity
as "relative to the absolute".

The absolute is endless,
so nothing may approach it.

This was understood by Jesus
when he introduced a teaching
which respected the absolute.

The Pagan scheme was of a ladder
of virtues, reaching to heaven,
and a man who had acquired more
virtues occupied a higher place.

The Christian scheme does not
abolish or contradict the Pagan,
but it adds a crucial final touch
("I came not to destroy the law,
but to fulfill it,") -- what matters
most is not the rung you've attained,
but, your rate of ascension; --
hence, the confession of a repentant
sinner is superior to "the stationary
righteousness of the Pharisees" (Tolstoy).

Whatever level of awareness we reach,
it is nothing compared to the Infinite,
or Absolute, and the temptation to
"rest on your laurels" only increases,
the higher you mount the ladder of virtue.

Even Jesus had to pray.

Perhaps he even had to pray
more than any other person, --
in order to become the Christ.

posted January 04, 2010 10:19 AM         

I agree with you, for the most part,
but REAL people are not chromosomes.

There are rules of thumb
concerning gender, just as there
are rules of thumb concerning all things.

The exceptions should not blind us
to the rule, -- nor should the rule
blind us to the exceptions.

I think people are objecting to your
exposition of the rule by noting the
exceptions -- but it seems that you
and your objectors are making the same
mistake, and where they seem to be
exaggerating the exceptions, you seem
to have exaggerated the rule.

Gender is a powerful factor,
but it is not so powerful a factor
that an abundance of lesser factors
may not combine in order to "overthrow"
the, let us say, tyranny of gender.

There are highly nurturing men,
and highly analytical women, and,
if anything, they've had to go against
cultural influence, rather than succumb
to it, in order to be as they are.

If culture has had any say, I think,
it has been to provoke people to
behave according to the rule, and
not to "feel" something exceptional.

Feelings should be given
proper consideration.

We may misinterpret a feeling,
and form an erroneous belief
on the basis of that feeling,
but, while the feeling does not
justify the belief, neither does
the belief negate the feeling; --
we must still account for the origin
and significance of the feeling.

As I see it,
"the proof is in the pudding",
and the pudding, in this case,
is not gender, but feeling.

If a man feels that he is,
in fact, a mythical creature,
this may not be valid as fact,
but it may still be valid as truth.
Truth and fact should be distinguished.
The man may imagine himself a gryphon,
and, though he is unable to fly, yet,
his mind and heart adapt to the vision.
He behaves more like gryphon than man,
and, in that sense, he is more gryphon.
We may find that he has had former incarnations
as a gryphon, and that they trump, in some way,
the influence of the present incarnation.
But discoveries like this are irrelevant; --
if we have the heart to receive his witness,
we will not require explainations.

Still, sometimes,
our minds insist on an explaination.
If you find yourself in this position,
it might help to reflect on the soul.

The soul is without gender.

And while we appear in the guise
of male or female, for the sake of
acquiring a certain experience,
we are, ultimately, more.

If a person marries male and female
characteristics within themselves,
to a rare extent, it may be that
they are closer to their soul than
most of us are while in the body.

If a person faces gender issues,
it could just be an experience which
assists them in generating awareness.

Okay, sorry to ramble so much.
One last thing here, about awareness.

Awareness is not increased
in the way that weight is increased,
or gathered, in the way that nuts,
seeds, and berries are gathered.
Awareness is not a substance,
so much as an activity; a burning.

posted January 04, 2010 10:54 AM         

quote:

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Awareness is not increased
in the way that weight is increased,
or gathered, in the way that nuts,
seeds, and berries are gathered.
Awareness is not a substance,
so much as an activity; a burning.

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
but a fire to be kindled." ~ Plutarch

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