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Hey Beamish, greetings and felicitations, my friend…
…authoritative? Not in the sense that makes anyone subordinate or inferior, everyone has the freedom of will to choose what they so choose to believe.
Isn't it ironic and coincidental that the highest the Schumann Resonance can go is 13 Hz?
Those which judge another and accept limited facts might not be seeing a "total" image of what's been depicted or inferred.
The world is a trap
Originally posted by Unity_99
reply to post by LeoVirgo
I have an inner wellspring of joy and happiness, and have been experiencing this for years, with minor ups and downs related to stress, kids and illness,surgeries. Writing and research and adding to my awareness only adds to my happiness, especially when it is on task, from nudges/pushes within, the very stream itself pushing me onwards.
Also, do notice how many posters are on here as if having a party, and trying to control the few that don't share their views, and then suggest, and their happiness level now as well.
Its beyond transparent.edit on 21-10-2011 by Unity_99 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by The Magicians Apprentice
Thank you for writing that song my friend thank you, so much awareness and gifts given in just his words.
Originally posted by Cogito, Ergo Sum
Originally posted by The Magicians Apprentice
Thank you for writing that song my friend thank you, so much awareness and gifts given in just his words.
Yeah, a real literary masterpiece that one...
Though I suppose it is, if it appeals to you.
Shakespeare, Dante, Byron, Homer, Tennyson, Keats.......................and Martin.
Originally posted by thedoctorswife
Des's (destinyone) poem was good, did you read that?, it was few posts ago, im not really a poetry person, but that was well written. Im sure skeptics arent mean to be that sensitive and poetic!!
Originally posted by 547000
Why did that go to the hoax bin but not this?
Book II:
---let us give the way in which we ourselves would like to receive. Above all we should give willingly, quickly, and without any hesitation; a benefit commands no gratitude if it has hung for a long time in the hands of the giver....
---Men would be much more modest in their petitions to heaven, if these had been made publicly; so even when addressing the gods, before whom we can with all honor bend our knees, we prefer to pray silently and within ourselves.
--- One who gives so readily must needs give with good will; he therefore gives cheerfully and shows his disposition in his countenance.
---And the following lines, the expression of virtuous—a high-spirited man's misery, –
“What thou doest, do quickly.”
---Accordingly, all writers on ethical philosophy tell us that some benefits ought to be given in secret, others in public. Those things which it is glorious to receive, such as military decorations or public offices, and whatever else gains in value the more widely it is known, should be conferred in public; on the other hand, when they do not promote a man or add to his social standing but help him in weakness, in want, or in disgrace, they should be given silently, and so as to be known only to those who profit by them....
---...Let us shun vain boasting: let us be silent, and let our deeds speak for us.
---The best man is he who gives readily, never asks for any return, and is delighted when the return is made, because, having really and truly forgotten what he gave, he receives it as though it were a present.
----He who intends to be grateful, let him think how he shall repay a kindness while he is receiving it. Chrsysippus says that such a man must watch for his opportunity and spring forward whenever it offers, like one who has been entered for a race, and who stands at the starting point waiting for the barriers to be thrown open; and even then he must use great exertions and great swiftness to catch the other, who has a start of him.
Stoics, on the other hand, take pleasure in bestowing benefits, even though they cost us labour, provided that they lighten the labours of others; though they lead us into danger, provided that they save others, though they straighten our means, if they alleviate the poverty and distresses of others. What difference does it make to me whether I receive benefits or not? Even if I receive them, it is still my duty to bestow them.
edit on 25-10-2011 by Unity_99 because: (no reason given)
---...In the same manner, he who merely gave in order that he may receive, cannot be said to have given.....
---....I must give to him that wants, yet so I do not want myself; I must help him who is perishing, yet so that I do not perish myself unless by so doing I can save a great man or a great cause.
--We ought not even to tell others of our good deeds. He who confess a benefit should be silent, it should be told by the receiver; for otherwise you may receive the retort which was made to one who was made to the one who was everywhere boasting of the benefit which he had conferred; “You will not deny, said his victim, “that you have received a return for it?” “When?” asked he. “Often, “ said the other, “and in many places, that is, wherever and whenever you have told the story.”
Originally posted by Beamish
reply to post by Destinyone
Thanks, Destinyone, for making me laugh out loud! Oh, what an image that summoned!
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