i dunno if youve ever fucked with any tumbleweeds but they dont gently roll past. those fucking things can be huge and can go really fast and can fuck up your car. i was somewhere in oklahoma back in the day driving through the middle of nowhere and a whole gang of those bitches were just bouncing and flying all over the fucking place like a mob of them looking to do violence. theyre made of branches and sticks and could probably kill a small, or even a medium sized child.
When I worked for a hotel practically in the sticks (at the time) (which was not all that long ago)… the tumbleweeds were a real nuisance. It was like the fricken wild west out there. For reals.
Ichthus, Was it you who said the first part here? Can you explain it?
My sense of it, and I can be wrong, is that we need to ask ourselves the question: Is it better to have loved and lost then to not have loved at all?
It would have depended on the individual who we loved and lost. I can say that it is better to have loved and lost (certain individuals) than not to have ever met and loved. Some people just enrich us and we are more blessed for having known them. It can be a double-edged sword but it just depends on which side of it we decide to caress.
Are you speaking of God here?
On the other side of that coin, that might depend on whether or not those issues hurt us and keep us from moving forward.
Life can be very suspenseful and intriguing in a good, enriching way. One never knows what lies around the corner.
I do realize though that there are some issues which cannot be resolved in the present mome
Below is one of my all-time favorite quotes. It never ceases to give me the shivers when I read it. It sooooo resonates…
[b]“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
I would certainly love to believe so but I do not believe that ALL issues will be resolved. Humanity and civilization, if you want to call it that, will always find ways to stop the flow of smooth running rivers. lol
They, the issues, do keep cropping up in our lives I think and as they do, we either transcend them or work on them. It is a process.
Some issues seemingly can be resolved in a moment but it really is not a moment - it has been a process but we do not often see it that way.
Some issues can be resolved quicker if we take the stoic’s way and not make such a BIG issue out of something. Changing our beliefs and perspectives can really help some issues turn to dust quicker and we find that they were must dust in the first place.
I think perhaps you are talking about the afterlife with your question though I may be wrong here.
I really do not know, I am not certain. Our beliefs make us think they will be but I do not know.
All I know is what I would like to believe.
Meanwhile we have the here and now to focus on all of these wonderful issues.
How boring would life be if we did not have any challenges to contend with.
Without challenges, life would be a lack of consent.
If no one’s consent was violated, so that no injustice needed to be made whole…
…there would still be choices on how to multiply truth/being, goodness, and beauty.
The “less” before the “addition” would not be ugliness, injustice, or nihil needing to be reconciled… and the “more” after the addition would (as is currently/always the case) add nothing to the eternal whole that wasn’t always part of it before/beyond our contributions. Reread the part about the less…nothing is ever less about the whole (the More) — consent violated or respected.
It is not what goes in to persons that defiles them. And nothing imperfect comes from the Trinity. We are our own origin points of meaning.
self=other
Without consent, life would be a lack of awareness.
@ecmandu better to avoid consent violation than make everyone experience it in a “visceral” way. One way to encourage empathy & consent respect in a positive, visceral way is — say when two kids are getting along really well — ask them, “Remember when you guys were super upset with each other and didn’t want to talk to each other anymore?” (yes) “Aren’t you glad you kept talking? You’re having such a great time together, aren’t you?” (yes) “Maybe next time you’re mad you could say, ‘Hey, let’s not ruin the way we have a good time together. Let’s talk about how we can figure out how to make this good for both of us.”
Isn’t it a miracle we can make the leap from visceral to “their visceral has fun like my visceral” to “all viscerals have that in common” to “all viscerals can leap like this about the common viscerality”?
This is happening in your own imagination. You need to purge your brain of bullshit and start over. Unfortunately I think you have lost knowing the difference. Also: What do you mean by walk of shame? You can reframe that to “make things good“ and the only one responsible for that is the one who messed it up in the first place. If it was a both situation then both are responsible to make things good. And the one who didn’t mess it up doesn’t have to make things worse by “lording it over“ the one who did. They shouldn’t make it difficult to make things good. But does the one who messed it up genuinely want to make things good or are they pretending? Men don’t necessarily see that right away for some reason. Women can smell it a mile away. For some reason. Especially the more they have been fooled/”conquered”.
It’s the “once bitten twice shy” principle. Closely related to “the boy who cried wolf” principle.