Weakness is strength??

OK … suppose this OP was just terminated. :laughing:

Strategy depends somewhat on having/acquiring more/better information/knowledge/intuition than your opponent. For example … Google probably still has the edge in terms of measuring sentiment(s) of the masses … globally.

Yes … no?

If yes … and one’s knowledge/intuition or access to knowledge/intuition is compromised … how doesn’t matter … the advantage is neutered??

Maybe the Nooscope is up and running? :laughing:

Yes. It is called “consciousness”.

If one is made unconscious, he has certainly lost any advantage. That is why Life is the most powerful force in the universe.

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James … are you intentionally attempting to conflate the issue?

Strategy is the purview of a select few. Yes -No?

Life is the purview of 7 billion+ individuals.

Obviously you don’t believe the equation … One Life = One Unit of “powerful force”

Nonetheless 7 billion lives is a formidable force to reckon with … n’est-ce pas?

Reminds me of an expression a real estate mogul (consumer real estate) mentioned many years ago … "people are like a school of fish … you never know where they will feed next.

“Intentional”, me?
… never.

Emmm… if you mean “the talent of a select few”, then no. Every life operates via its strategies.

On Earth Life = 100trillion individuals. You don’t seriously think that human activity equates to life on Earth.

But I still don’t understand your complaint. :-k

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No complaint … I humbly acknowledge your far superior intellect. let me start with a brief review of “me”.

I’m a “small town” old man who has bumbled through life trying to figure out if my life has some purpose/meaning … no luck yet. :smiley:

I’ve often posted comments describing my virtual “isolation” from the world … ergo: no opportunity to engage in face to face dialogue. Exasperating the situation is the fact that my “confidants” have all been long dead. :smiley:

From time to time … from boredom mostly … I engage in ILP e-conversations.

Obviously my thinking is not always “orthodox” … ergo: consistent with main stream thought. Though I rarely spend much energy defending my thoughts/opinions.

Back to the OP … let me state it differently.

First let me share a post by Amorphos in another OP:

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Something that may be perceived as “weakness” is the fact that most … perhaps almost all … people have yet been unable to transcend “duality”/“dualism” … the result being these same people are unable to view/understand the “ONENESS” and where this “ONENESS” is taking humanity … ergo: to the shores of “ONENESS”.

Teilhard’s Omega Point theory.

Teilhard acknowledged that reaching the Omega Point may take another million years … perhaps more.

OTH … it may happen in 2017.

There is nothing to transcend.

There is nothing to understand.

Now ya thinkin…

Dualism is an operative principle in both nuclear activity and genetic development. This interacts with that in order to produce something that is the more than this or that alone. Holism, at best, is one thing comprised by a variety of things–a plenitude. In other words dualism describes the activity by which the one is formed. What is seen as weakness may amount to the easing of tension between conflicting forces.

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That is not necessarily true.

I have been profoundly aware at times of something which I, in essence, have never really had.

I feel a loss at particular moments and know that I have lost something which I never really had ~~ strange though it may seem.

once again we fall into a trap here and that trap is simple…

what is “weakness”? how would you understand “weakness”…

as a man, I often fall into the trap of thinking that women are “weak” because
they don’t act as I do… and yet, women seem to get what they want, perhaps because
they are “weak”? their, for lack of better work… coping mechanism is bend but don’t break…
women are much more like water, the bend to the situation better then men…
when faced with a situation, I tend to be a man and I fight… I am aggressive
and attack when faced with a situation whereas women don’t do that…
and that is often far more successful then men… is their so called
“weakness” actually their strength

you have to understand the situation and deal with it, cope with it,
and women and men have far different skills in dealing with a situation
and men call women skills “weak”… I have no idea what women call it for men,
but I suspect its something along the lines of… “he is a man” and the
implications of that for women…

the point I am making is this, calling something weak or strong
really depends on how you define weak or strong…

water can be called weak and yet, water can injure me and enough water
can kill me… so is it really weak? depends on how you define weak…

the saying “the meek shall inherit the earth”
depends on who we call the “meek”… and how we define
weakness and strength…

now many would call my handicap of a hearing loss as a weakness and yet,
in many ways, it has been a strength… I don’t stand in the world of
the hearing and I don’t stand in the world of the deaf… I am in between
as I am in between in so much in life… but my hearing loss can be called
a weakness and still, it can be a strength… depending on who is doing the
accounting…

Kropotkin

That’s besides the meme.

But anyway, maybe you are missing something instead of loss?
Or are you using loss because you think you had something almost or had the potential for something which then didn’t come about?
You know…, like missing out on an inheritance or something.
In a way, metaphorically, that might actually be it, in that case.

google…
Loss - the state or feeling of grief when deprived of someone or something of value.

…or in my case, in my moments of realization, when it comes home to me in a manner of speaking, the life and person which I might have been and become, the unconditional love and relationship which I might have had, if I had had this someone of great value.

I almost gave up a friendship because someone could not understand how I could miss and ache and feel the loss of having not grown up with a father.
Once in a while, I conjure up images of reincarnation (which I don’t believe in) and how wonderful it might be having that kind of a relationship with a man. I’ll say to myself: I hope in my next life I get to experience this.
One cannot understand this loss unless they have experienced it.

So, yes, you can “lose” what you never had every moment you are reminded of this with the relationships between good fathers and their daughters.

‘Consciousness Seeker’ … taking your tag at face value … ergo: sincere/honest … supports your post. Similar experiences are reported in all spheres … philosophy … science … and religion.

Generally … any individual who claims more than a temporary … of very short duration … glimpse of “Consciousness” is a charlatan … including those individuals who translate their experience into human language.

The ‘experience’ is outside the envelope of main stream experience/thought … making efforts to explain it a waste of time and effort.

A logical and intuitive explanation is that the human mind is simply not equipped to handle such encounter(s).

Peter … thank you … thank you … thank you … for your constructive comments … a rare enough treat … for me at least … here at ILP

My google turns up
loss - the fact or process of losing something or someone.

Which is a hilarious definition.

I got another one.
Girl says - “Guess what, I lost something I never had.”
Me - “Your innocence.”
Girl - “You are no fun to play with.”
Me - “You lost your innocence at 18 but you never were innocent, you were born wicked.”
Girl - “Ha–Ha, very funny.”
Me - “Hey, I also know better things to play than word games.”

I’m such a klutz when it comes to the feelings.

Anyway, so I have this disability. Two options, guys.
Either we think of my disability as a strength and therefore I am and do feel good (better) about it.
Or we say weakness is good and I am worthy of special consideration because of my lot in life yadda yadda.
Actually, I’d like to have both if possible.
Guys, get on it. Figure this stuff out.

It makes no sense to talk about strength and weakness separate from intention, goals and purpose.

If you want to win an Olympic goal in Weightlifting, then you need lots of muscular strength. If you want to win an Olympic goal in Marathon, then that same muscular strength is a weakness. You need other ‘strengths’ to win Marathon.

I am strong now!

  • A guide how to feel good about yoself n’shit with word games.

I hear this is a legitimate thing.
And with legitimate I don’t mean it’s legal but I mean it as “it’s a good, positive, thing”.

The more word games change the more they stay about the same.

Perhaps weakness is strength because strength is weakness. That is to say, if you look at anything people regard in themselves as strength, you usually discover that they are strong because inside they are weak, and its a reaction to that weakness. A covering up of that.

The Chinese people(s) learned a very very long time ago that contradiction(s) … weakness/strength … dialectic(s) … weakness/strength … given enough time without intervention … without hostility and violence … would work itself/themselves out.

The West has yet to learn this lesson.

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:evilfun: The first definition is for dummies.

Maybe that is not such a bad thing. That realization might make you tred more lightly.
Sometimes what people are looking for is more understanding than simple sentimentality.

Just for clarity, is this disability referring to your being a klutz when it comes to feelings or anything which you might consider to be a disability?

A man who is blind DOES have a disability but at the same time he doesn’t allow that disability to get in the way of living his life in the best possible way. It isn’t so much of a deterrent for him.

Anyone who has gone on a job interview realizes how important the perception of a weakness also being a strength is.
For instance, some might consider being a perfectionist as being a weakness of sorts but it is the perfectionist who would always strive to turn in the draft of the brief with no errors.

Some would think that always needing to be on time for things could be a weakness and it might be under certain conditions a sign a neurosis lol - but to an employer it would definitely be a strength. Who wants an employee who shows up late?

Who would say that weakness is good except for those who seek self-pity or the pity of others. All that does is weaken one all the more.

On the other hand, seeing that we do have our weaknesses - that at times we are weak - reminds us that we are after all only human. But we don’t stop there.