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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Blackholes and Lives of Stars......
Marcia
Please, no offense intended, just observational feedback.
Interesting comments. I wonder if you would mind taking it a little
farther.
For example, the phrase "upbeat rather than negative"
negative is an emotional response which is learned behavior.
Why would you allow yourself to be "programmed to be offended" by
something, do you like being offended?
When something is "ugly" you make it ugly, by allowing yourself to
accept those conditions. IMO, there is nothing ugly on the planet but
hate and violence. Everything else is the humam endeavor derived from
human nature.
Conditioning is not a tool, it is a result. Paradigms are not there for
protection, they are there because of environmental influences.
WE are in control of our minds. Yet by being offended by something, you
have lost that control. Road rage is a loss of control. Hate is a loss
of control. These are emotional reactions without intellectual control.
If you are offended by something, a far more intelligent mind finds away
to release itself from that loss of control, taken away by the offender,
by looking for tools which allows it to regain control. Obsenity is not
a sign of stupidity in some, it is a sign of an intelligent mind which
has found away to rise about the quagmire of emotional reactions. I am
not offended by any word. There is one exception to that, and there are
sound reasons for that exception. I do not let myself become offended by
obsenities. What is the point?
On a more simple note, obsenities have been around since the human could
speak, and as far as I can tell, they are not going away. So what is the
point of allowing yourself to be offended for what appears to be the
rest of your life? It will not change anything.
Terms which we should be using? Understanding, acceptance, philosophy
and logic.
Conditioning and Paradigms are the culprits. These are the failings of
the humans. Not all conditionings of course. Just the ones which slow
your progress to a rich, powerful mind. The mind which can see clearly
and far more distant than the average.
It's your choice Marcia, of course. But condemning others means somehow
they are wrong. That lends to the premise, you are one of the curators
of human behavior. Wow! How did you get that job?
It is not the messenger who offends, it is the listener who allows
themselves to be offended. So is the messenger wrong, or the individual
interpreting the message?
I hope you would chose to respond to this, I am interested in your
reactions.
Please, take care out there.
Gregory david Stempel
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