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Welcome to The Club @crowfeather .You may well set the record for the shortest time from arrival to ignore.
I think I am a thinker. I think a lot. I do not loathe you and I trust that I will never loathe you.
Thinkers loathe me. It's understandable. I once was one of them.
You can stand back from life and study it, as if it were a thing, or you can merge with it, become it, and live.
Never can you do both.
Why do you think that one can't do them both? They're alternate perspectives. We can and ought do both.
And it's all living, but in different frames of mind - one more focused and analytical, the other more diffuse and emotional
You come across with a HUGE air of self-important superiority, as though you have the answers that all other should be seeking. That is most unbecoming in one claiming Taoist predilections.If you're talking about playing-at life, sure you can do anything at all. This acting-out of life is what many do, and it shows.
If, on the other hand, you prefer to fully live, you must discover how to do that, rather than act in a movie about life.
You live life by becoming life. There is no other means.
And this has nothing at all to do with emotions. Nor 'frames of mind'.
As for 'diffuse', I'm not sure what you mean. There's nothing diffuse about my life. There's nothing more real than Reality.
Of course, if you don't know what Reality is - and most Westerners don't - you'll just have to take my word for this.
Or not.
You may notice, though, that I don't accuse those who accuse me of such things, of being those things they accuse me of, even though it is an obvious fact that they are those very things.
I refrain from doing this, because I am of no importance, and who cares what I say, anyway?
In fact, I reliably expose people for what they are, every time I have dealings with them.
Just watch: every time somebody mounts an attack on me, by accusing me of certain failings, if you investigate, you will unerringly discover that those accusers are, in fact, describing their own behaviors.
I'm sure you see whatever you decide you see. I'm also sure that in your view, you are right.
But I am not like you, or anybody else.
I see what is there.
A great rarity.
Fine. You show me, once again how utterly pointless and counterproductive it is to deal with forum users at all.
There are no good people. Only those who are out and out bad - atheists, and those whose religious aspects restrain them from being equally as bad.
You all deserve exactly what you end up with: a world you go on and on about wanting to change, while being the reason you think it needs changing.
I'm done.
'Bye.
If you're talking about playing-at life, sure you can do anything at all. This acting-out of life is what many do, and it shows.
If, on the other hand, you prefer to fully live, you must discover how to do that, rather than act in a movie about life.
You live life by becoming life. There is no other means.
And this has nothing at all to do with emotions. Nor 'frames of mind'.
As for 'diffuse', I'm not sure what you mean. There's nothing diffuse about my life. There's nothing more real than Reality.
Of course, if you don't know what Reality is - and most Westerners don't - you'll just have to take my word for this.
Or not.
Hating isn't my thing, but it would appear to be yours.
In fact, I reliably expose people for what they are, every time I have dealings with them.
I don't do this by design, it happens, unprompted, all by itself.
Just watch: every time somebody mounts an attack on me, by accusing me of certain failings, if you investigate, you will unerringly discover that those accusers are, in fact, describing their own behaviors.
This seems to be a law of human character. I am an unwitting catalyst in the process. I'd rather not be, but there it is.
Buddhists speak of this mirroring effect of advanced beings, reflecting back to accusers the very behavior they accuse others of.
It is mysterious.
Thankfully, the good outnumber the bad. But the bad make far more noise than the good. That's humans for you.