@sarah_the_magpie said in What is the greatest temptation in your life?:
@pe7erpark3r
i wish i had the guts to say "no" more often. i just can't stop myself from agreeing to do things i don't actually feel like doing just because i want to seem like a polite & helpful person. i wish i wasn't so wimpy all the time, but it's a really hard habit to break.
I feel you. I think I can and do say "no" more easily, but I tend to feel guilty about it often...
@Matt_Aranha said in What is the greatest temptation in your life?:
@pe7erpark3r I can't go into detail and answer the rest right now as I'm just out the shower and need to head down for dinner, but mine is giving extra chances to people who don't deserve them from me. Being empathetic pushes me to reach out, "be understanding", and move forward with such people still around even when I'm fully aware they are bad for me. I often want to check up on people who have wronged me (depending on the circumstances and particular of the wronging of course) months (or longer) down the line just to make sure they are okay, no agenda. Although in getting better at cutting out folk who are unhealthy for me.
That's an interesting one, but a good one. Be good for those who are bad for you, good moral principle. But of course that does not mean, that you should support their being-bad-for-you. Of course you should actually be good for them, which might mean to do quite the opposite of what they would want, including breaking contact, depending on the circumstances.
Like, what is a thing you really want to stop but cannot keep yourself from doing it? How does it feel to be so out of control over yourself? Have you overcome something like this already? How?
The best part of me is that I am nothing. Being nothing is good, because then Love can be all.
The indian organization Persecution Relief (https://persecutionrelief.org/) has released their half-year report. In 2020 there were already 293 cases of hatecrimes against christians in india, including 5 rapes and 6 murders. The organization says that the cases are only a percentage of what is really happening to the christian minority in india. Apparently the Corona lockdown has resulted in a rise of 40 percent.
In the past 7 years the aid organization "Open Doors" has moved india from place number 31 to place number 10 on its list of countries with persecution of christians.
The perpetrators seem to not so much be muslims but radical hindu-nationalists. I know there are many indians on this site, so I'm hoping you guys can do your part to fight hatred. It is one thing to want to have one's own indian and hindu identity, and another thing to persecute those who think different than you, but do not harm you.
And it is so unhinduistic to kill and hate the innocent, in as much as I have understood how my friend @Div1ne explained hinduism to me...
@kaia_ said in Concentration of Power [The Rise of Reason III]:
@pe7erpark3r Then who has more power? politics or money?
What I just wrote was not exactly the answer to your question :sweat_smile:. I think that currently we have a concentration of power outside of politics, that is greater than any state's power.
@kaia_ said in Concentration of Power [The Rise of Reason III]:
@pe7erpark3r Then who has more power? politics or money?
People have power. It exists in the form of relationships, technology, goods, contracts and money. Money is the one that is most easily measurable, but those with a lot of power are easily able to hide their money from other people's eyes.
@kaia_ said in Concentration of Power [The Rise of Reason III]:
This is one popular system of modern day to survive democracy. More of a concept to tackle the fact that absolute power leads to absolute corruption. They work side by side in their respectative fields and also check others if they misuse their power. Some people believe in this system. Debatable, but... haven't seen anything better suggested
Lol, that's like the short version of the first part of my article! :+1:
@livingisoverated said in im so board help me plz!!!!!:
@animeelizabeth i need some advice,my parents are very strict with what i wear and want to know if its normal or toxic? Heres a list.
Im not allowed to straighten my hair
Im not allowed to wear makeup
Im not allowed to wear" tight shirts" meaning every shirt i wear has to go past my knees.
Im rarely allowed to wear pants and if i do they have to be sweats or flowy pants. No jeans
Im not allowed to wear shorts AT ALL unless its for P.E.
I have to wear a baggy oversized T-shirt over my swimsuits
im not allowed to wear high heels.
im not allowed to wear leggings in public unless im working out of somethingTheir are solo many more restrictions but was just wondering if these were just way to much and is my parents may be toxic. I desperately need advice. My friends tell me its toxic. I don't see it as being a big deal but do I just really need advice. They also say that this is to protect from men with bad intentions
and to prevent men from looking at me in a sexual manner.
If it's not a problem for you personally, then don't worry about it. You have to make those decisions yourself once you're grown up. Until then you have a nice excuse before your friends, if you actually don't want to bother with makeup, highheels, leggins and all the other stuff teenage girls do to feel sexy and to attract the looks of boys and men. It is good to have something that backs you against group pressure (from your friends).
This gives you a form of freedom, your friends do not have. Because they have to walk around in leggins, highheels and look sexy, since everyone (including their parents) expects them to do so. They are being controlled by society. You on the other hand are free to use your parents as an excuse or change your looks when your parents are not around. E.g. you are free to follow society's pressure, depending on whoever is around, or you can do what you actually would like to do. Don't let anybody steel the freedom from you.
stop doing all the things that keep boredom away. You will no longer be bored. Just try it, it actually helps.
Ever heard of the french king Louis XIV the "Sun King"? He was absolute king of france, for the longest time any king ever ruled in european history. What he said was law. It is no wonder that the french revolution happened in france. (Duh! LOL) By which I mean ofc that it is no wonder, that this kind of revolution happened there. The kings of france had concentrated so much power in their own person, that no other power could stand beside them. Nothing good was allowed to grow, if it only appeared like a threat to the kings power.
So what is the problem with the concentration of so much power? There are many actually, I'll just enumerate some:
So what can you do against something like that? The answer is simple, yet hard to implement: You divide power. This of course has disadvantages too, for then it is hard to make effective politics. So you need to choose carefully where power should be divided. And very smart people came up with some good ideas on how to divide power.
You divide power between:
And you go one step further, you make sure that the people in all those categories, especially the ones who make political decisions, are being replaced regularly. This ensures that those who are being replaced and are blind to certain problems, can be replaced by people who see the problems that have arisen in the meantime.
And then you add an element who's responsibility is to investigate everything that is going on and bring dark happenings to the light of day.
You prolly have recognized the western model by now: Democracy, with separation of power into executive, legislative and judicative and the media as the investigative force. But as we all know something is wrong with the system. Something is acting out. Is anybody seeing what is acting out? Has the system really become racist? Why are soooo many people calling out for its destruction?
Concentration of power... Yes. A group of people has been concentrating power behind the curtains. How? Lucky folks have realized that technology and science enable concentration of power to an unprecedented degree. And it even enables you to make the people even be "happy" with being controlled and follow your every command as you manipulate them to your heart's content.
Let me just draw the outline. Throughout the last decades global trade has enabled economic empires to grow, empires so large and powerful that even the strongest states cannot escape their influence. There are a few people on the same level as Bill Gates, who have concentrated so much power that they can throw a country into an economic crisis by moving a single finger.
And of course those people are interested in what? increasing their power further. And they know that cooperation with other people of the same capacity will increase this power. They have established networks throughout the globe. Nothing can escape their reach, because enough people in every organization in every country can be bought with money, power and a bit of manipulation.
It was a lucky coincidence (or was it not?) that in the 80s news networks discovered that one can make money with news. Before that, the media was usually state funded. Now it started making money. And money hungry people strove for positions of power in the media. And money hungry people are easily bought with money. And they are easily invited to join the club, to become insiders, and to gain more money and more power.
And thus the fourth leg of democracy (the media) was broken. And as constant dripping wears the rock away, the fourth leg has increased its influence over the other legs.
Also those pulling the strings have done their best to increase the state apparatus, e.g. the amount of people who work for the state, the bureaucracy. This is important, because the people who make up the bureaucracy, they are not being replaced in a democratic state. They run things in the background. It is kind of like the fifth leg, that is somewhat divided below legislative, judicative and executive. But if you control this group of people, you already have immense control over the state itself.
So where are we now? We are shortly before the open appearance of those who pull the strings. They have almost amassed enough power and influence to take control. Already they are – through their followers – openly attacking the very foundation of the democratic state:
Because above all that we talked about now stands something formerly untouchable: human dignity, natural law, being created in the image of God. This is on what all good that we know and still profit from in the west was founded on. But it is no longer. It has been replaced by democratic choice, through the power of the opinion makers. And as you may have felt by now: this fact is actually quite anti-democratic. I will explain how this is the case in another article.
It is concentration of power and putting yourself in the position of God. And it is not done by you, even if you think you are destroying an evil system. It is done by those who control you, and who have been undermining a good system for a few decades by gaining more and more power over you (e.g. the people).
It is eery to see Author Aldous Huxley predict the future so accurately:
@Rissa_TheBest said in We used to talk all the time but now look at us...:
You know when you meet someone here and you become best friends, a couple days later they don't even feel like texting you? that drives me crazy, like why stop talking to a person just because you become more popular. Now anyone can relate tell me how yall feel when it happens to you.
oh and let's not forget, that TWS does lose private messages sometimes :joy:
@Nosnikda-Life-Poet said in We used to talk all the time but now look at us...:
Well to be honest, it would be inappropriate. If you have someone under 18 they have not really experienced life. The real question is what would you expect from them. Yet, history has shown where arranged marriages have happened and many times it was adult men with girls as young as 14. Not sure how I would respond to that.
Humanity can grow too, or revert to it's more primitive or childish ways. Right now humanity seems to be reverting...
By growth I mean though, that we are understanding human psyche better and do understand better what it means to mature. We now know that children are not capable of understanding the depth of marriage, of this relationship, at least on average they don't. Also teenagers don't really understand love yet, they only have emotions and strong desires. They seldomly know what it means to give yourself.
Ergo, we – most of humanity – have grown to understand that love needs a certain level of maturity, and thus we don't allow children to marry anymore.
@Rissa_TheBest said in We used to talk all the time but now look at us...:
You know when you meet someone here and you become best friends, a couple days later they don't even feel like texting you? that drives me crazy, like why stop talking to a person just because you become more popular. Now anyone can relate tell me how yall feel when it happens to you.
I don't think there is anything wrong with talking to people and being friends for a time. It's like you are giving love to them, and they are giving love to you, but you don't have to stay who you are together forever. So everything has a time.
However there are friends in a deeper sense of the word too, people you will remain connected with forever. We desire those kinds of friendships, but those do require us to be capable of them too.
@Kana said in TWS sucks... bugs...:
@pe7erpark3r
-Yes I have to be the one to start a chatroom now.
-My points are in negative. (Not that I mind)
-I am unable to un-follow a particular user. I assume that user had also attempted to delete account judging from their negative points.
-I messaged you.
LOL :joy:
alrighty :joy:... I messaged you back, just in case the message does not arrive... maybe them @talkwithstranger should make a sticky topic saying that sometimes private message get lost and stuff :yum: