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| re: What is true consideration? read here. starr 27 Aug 08 7:16AM | Thread Closed |
I hink this will be my essay for the day once I get to work. I'm just wakin' up right now and it's too heavy to respond to first thing in the morning. Need more coffee, butts and then I'll be able to think on it for a few hours. Interesting thread. Glad it was begun. :-)
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| re: What is true consideration? read here. unknown 27 Aug 08 7:25AM | Thread Closed |
BUTTS...?, more than one..!, before you go to work, naughty starr.
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| re: What is true consideration? read here. AlchemiA 27 Aug 08 10:47AM | Thread Closed |
Lovers are givers and Love grows only in the giving it away without expectation -- what is that Beatles ditty? -- The End (The Beatles song) the last song they did together,
"And, in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to the love you make."
Love is the only possible remedy for the ills of these often dark and dreary times -- Simplicity is the key to Love -- utter simplicity, a complete naturalness in any environment and a distinct and total lack of any patronizing attitude -- a child is as important as an aged philosopher, and a King or President is no more important than a wage earner or prostitute -- the Loving Heart does not distinguish between one human being and another, whatever differences birth, environment and society might have otherwise created -- I believe this to be the cardinal lesson that we all have to learn in this world
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| re: What is true consideration? read here. unknown 27 Aug 08 11:49AM | Thread Closed |
It has always appeared quite strange to me, that so many people know down to the last cent or penny the value of what they give, but so few ever have a real understanding of what they receive.
Mor.
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| re: What is true consideration? read here. Isabelle5 27 Aug 08 11:56AM | Thread Closed |
There is a calculator in Karma's hand that keeps track.
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| re: What is true consideration? read here. netskyIam 27 Aug 08 12:07PM | Thread Closed |
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No, I am not a spiritual person, smugzy. I am sentimental and a fumbler and a bit over-bold at times, but not spiritual.
We're so close to agreement on the point. The tip of the point is almost academic in nature.
If I pick up a nail from the roadway (and I do), that is "altruistic" because it saves somebody from a flat tire, and gains for me nothing at all....or does it?
I gain a deserved, smug feeling of having done the right thing, picked up a nail.
I got a "stroke" thereby. That's all. Smiles at strangers, picking nails from roadways, not littering, not spitting on strangers' cars or on the strangers themselves (hee hee). I'm going silly now, but you see the point, and I see your point, and we are really together now.
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| re: What is true consideration? read here. netskyIam 27 Aug 08 12:21PM | Thread Closed |
I just read this page, Isabelle's recounting, Mor's observation.
We all have this in common here, different though we are: we are sensitive and none of us writing here today are blind, aimless, users.
I've known some very seemingly sweet people who get their hands caught in the wringer....no, they put YOUR hands into their wringer. And then you get sucked into their Maelstorm of Life Incompetence.
The poor young couple with the infant, who worked here at our house a few years ago. Uneducated, not bright, but honest. Ended up parking the 6 month old with ME and Ernie while she and her mate worked outside all day. I like infants, I really do, but day by day, the infant was more often brought here for day care, than left at home with its grandmother. Ha ahhh. Then, frictions at home: Jr.s mom and he had a spat. He and his mate had no where to sleep one night; he/she just wouldn't go home, couldn't! So we gave them $100 for the trio to take a nice hotel room down the street. They were so appreciative!
Of course, you know what happened then: a phone call to Mom, make up, go home, and of course, they kept the $100. That was it. Kicked the infant over the roof, and done with 'em (not really, but that was enough usery). Trailer park people have hearts of gold and holes in their pockets and pragmatism that never quits. And they have all the insight of legally blind moles.
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| re: What is true consideration? read here. netskyIam 27 Aug 08 12:32PM | Thread Closed |
That's funny after all. Let's make a parable, hee haw:
Altruistic People
fetch fasteners from the roadways,
failing to differentiate lucky horseshoe
nails from coffin nails.
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