I had a dream as a child that most people would think of as a nightmare, but to me it was always something to look forward to.
At night when I went to sleep after a particularly hard or traumatic day, I always dreamt I was abducted, tied up and blindfolded and led away by a group of people who were considered by my family to be undesirables.
Remember I was only a small child at the time, maybe 6 years old.
In the dream, they used to discuss how much ransom to ask for me, and I always was afraid they wouldn't ask enough, and I'd have to be returned to my parents.....
That dream went on right into my teens, and I used to hate to wake up and find myself at home again.
Some men like their women compliant. This is not a word that is used much any more, but it is still valid as an explaination for this phenomenon.
Some women like their men compliant too.
In the wider sense of this word, it means being needed, or to be more precise, letting them believe that you need them, (as opposed to just want them in your life).
All of this, (independance and compliance), is just so much rubbish brainwashed thinking and learned behaviour, and game-playing, but to some people it is still important when finding a partner who fits in with their (limited) thinking.
My childhood monsters were everyone who had died before me, that I felt could see everything I did, every moment of the day and night. No getting away from them. My parents had told me that the dead looked out for us and this was how I interpreted it.
Defiant little beggar what I was though, I did anything I wanted to do regardless of whether they were looking or not. I never let anything bother me, living or dead.
How could people accept him, when they didn't know him as someone's friend, someone's son, his thought's aspirations, dreams, achievements etc, besides the obvious of course......
Asking anyone to accept you as you are, is like asking them to accept the past, and not be part of your present or future.
We change from second to second, hopefully move on and move forward, so even accepting yourself as you are, right in any given minute, is wrong.
I think it is an excuse for people to not bother changing, or to stay in some rut persona, or never accept growth again, or until they might be forced to, by life.
"As I am".........I mean if we really had to think about that truely, then what are we, in any given moment, except stagnant, until we move forward again, and in doing that accept change, whence we are no longer that person that we described a minute ago?
In my thinking is, it isn't one. The whole idea of a question is to illicit information by querying something. To illicit information is to invite answers. So, what doesn't invite answers isn't a question..........(even if this is an over simplified explaination).
1.Deep, thorough, or mature understanding: insight, profundity, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience. See wise/foolish.
That would surely suggest that there would need to be some kind of knowledge there to have an understanding of, such as something we had already learned or seen or experienced....
2.The ability to make sensible decisions: common sense, judgment, sense. Informal gumption, horse sense. See ability/inability.
Now if we are to make judgements, we have to be making them about things already seen or experienced or learned, and therefore have some knowledge about......
3.That which is known; the sum of what has been perceived, discovered, or inferred:
In other words knowledge that we have gathered previously......
You can't find wisdom from a blank brain, or not having any experience.
If vixen hadn't been told about, or read about, or seen for herself, the size of the whales and what their size can do to humans, or about the fragility of humans in comparison, she might not have been very wise, and just jumped in there for the sheer exhiliaration of swimming with them.
If people didn't read books, or didn't gain expeience of living, then wisdom wouldn't be there.
Wisdom is an ammalgamation of, and making sense of, and putting to some use of, the knowledge you have accumulated.
We are not born with wisdom. Babies don't know not to stay out of harm's way. Adults only gain wisdom after they have knowledge, and the more knowledge, the more chance at a deeper wisdom.
Therefore, knowledge has to come first, then wisdom follows, if we are lucky, and work hard enough at it to gain some.
There is a time for everything, including tattling......for instance, when someone is being hurt or abused in threads.....
Most of us here who give a damn, have already "tattled" as you put it, to put a stop to it before it gets completely out of hand and the perpetrator continues to think it is ok to keep doing this with no consequences.......
You are talking about passing as if it is something seperate and different.
We "ARE". Same way God if often referred to as the great "I AM". WE are one entity, before, now, and later, (since I know you are thinking linearly again). Collectively "ONE".
Time is not linear. The only reason some people believe that is because they have to find some way to mark the transitions we go through.
I'll try to explain it by putting it this way... The only reason that our minds can jump into any century we want and explore there, and our bodies can't, is that we are trapped in this corporeal shape. When we shrug it, (death), we have no resirictions on time or space, but we are still "US". Just with infinite instead of finite freedom.
There is scientific work being done at sub-atomic level these days to prove that synopsis. Our lives here are limited only by what we are willing, or not, to open up to.
Strange that you have used that particular quote. I believe that we all know everything there is to know already. Here we get a chance to access as much of it as we can, being distracted of course by our surroundings and our interactions with others.
My view would be that there is a collective conciousness, aspects of which can be accessed at any given moment in time (as we perceive it, linearly), due to the ever flowing life/death cycle. Complacency is the death of imagination or knowledge. Collective conciousnes knows no time limits, nor space limits.
What we are taught is unimportant. It doesn't matter if we don't know how a car works, because in order to know everything, we don't have to move at all. According to Yogis, we don't even have to eat or drink either if we are in a sufficient state of meditation, because we will "absorb" what we need, just as, in order to use our imaginations, we only have to think nothing, and believe that all impossibilities are achievable...
I believe that everyone is right, in everything they beleive, no matter how idiotic is sounds, just as I believe that none of them are right too. It just has to all be put in context, not relative to what we "know" of your lives, which is nothing really, but in relation to what is "knowable" in every sense. I believe that some sense of what we can be, or are already, is able to be experienced with all our senses, if we just "be", and let what we have supposedly "learned" just go.
I have had many experiences with gaining insight over the years using varying methods of harnessing the imagination, but it would take too long to explain what I saw here. Suffice it to say that it is not something that I had ever heard, or read about, or experienced, or known in any way before, and it led to experiences I couldn't have imagined with my limited human persona. Nor, when I made comparissons with other people, could any of them envision anything I was saying nor empathise with any of the samples of the experiences I gave. (Some of which I talked about on here a long time ago).
Well, people call it using their imagination, but really it is only recalling things they have already seen, and putting them, sometimes, into a setting that they might not have thought of before, (but somebody else has), so, yes, they are falling back on variations of old ideas.....
My point was, that if/when given the choice, the ideas of what may be possible are very limited for some people........
They harp back. They don't imagine forward...
In other words, this does not seem to be a mind-opening opportunity for them, and begs the question if some minds have the ability to be open at all. It's obviously not exercise they are used to.
Now don't go true to CS type on here and go all sensitive and personal on me. It's hard enough to find a thread to be able to give an honest opinion in.
You knew before you asked this question that honesty is best. You also knew that people with limited thinking are everywhere , including here on CS, and that the issue of your having 6 kids would provoke negative responses from some of the more idiotic and limited ones.
See? I am not insulting your intelligence here. Now don't insult ours, and admit that this thread was really about just getting some positive attention for a change, because with 6 kids and a break up of a relationship behind you, and all that goes with that, you can't have been getting a lot of anything positive for a while.
Now take some time out for you and bask in a little warmth on the threads and heal a little. Welcome to the forums.
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RE: The Morning After The End Of The World
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