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What do you do when you have mixed emotions about everything in your life. Some things seem right this way, for others, its the other way around. Is it wrong to ask a thorough explanation for every little thing. I always ask 'why' to the most basic questions. It's not to see how smart someone is, I just feel like I need to know. Though I'm not sure what void I'm trying to fill by asking 'why' all the time.
People at times, can be so understanding and loving and caring. At other times, people can be very hurtful and not even care. It's just the way we are as humans. We tend to say we'll change, but in reality, we don't do anything to make ourselves change. It's a sad thing really.
I was watching Sue Thomas [link] the other day. And I have to say, I have taken a liking to the series. There was a specific part of the show that I remember quite well. Sue (who is a deaf person) was invited to a wedding reception of a couple people she went to high school with. She didn't like the people, because they made jokes of her because she was a deaf woman. And at the wedding reception, one of the two people raises a glass to Sue, and instead of making a decent comment or saying something nice, he says to her: 'Sue Thomas, Deaf B Eye.' That's the specific part that I remember. Do we live in a world where the only way we can make ourselves feel better is by making someone else feel bad? What's wrong with us. I'm not emotional or anything right now, I'm just stating what I think.
If people have on their minds, only making others feel bad, then I'd say there's something wrong with the way we are living in the world.
I'll talk to you all later.
~Josh~
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Love who you want to.
~Josh~
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Hey John.
I agree. I tend to look on the positive side of life, but there are times where I am emotional, more like everyday. It's just a part of me. I know I have to be positive, even though there's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world right now. Hopefully we can all get along someday.
What goes around comes around. That's certainly true. Thanks for the advice and comment.
~Josh~
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Love who you want to.
~Josh~
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marc
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Needing to know is one thing....
However......
Doing nothing with the information makes it all an effort in futility...
So why bother asking?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Dear Josh,
I, too, always asked "Why?" to everything when I was young. I wanted to know how the world worked, what made people and systems tick (and, for that matter, what made me tick). And I found the answers given by religion completely unsatisfying because they didn't actually explain anything: they put an even more difficult mystery as the answer.
So when I went to university I read Politics (to understand people), Economics (to understand one of the world's systems) and Philosophy to understand the world. Mainly I read philosophy which was either moral philosophy to understand right and wrong or what they called the theory of knowledge which was about how we can know anything and what are the limits of what we can know.
And here I am at 73 and I'm still a philosopher and still discovering things about me and the world.
And although nobody to speak of was nasty to me in my childhood I think my greatest lack was that I was emotionally immature and didn't recognise when people *really* liked me or how I felt about them - as I've said before I didn't even recognise my sexual desires until after I had left school and left home and joined the Navy!
But after all that, I still don't know why some people apparently get pleasure out of being nasty to others, and the only thing I can do about it is to avoid such people if I can and to try to bring up my own family not to be like that.
And I don't understand how anyone can willingly join the armed forces and agree to kill other people when given the order; it seems to me to be profoundly immoral.
Love,
Anthony
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I am surprised at such a statement and question comming from a scholar. The question is asked to gain knowledge. When one will have the opportunity to apply that knowledge can not be known, but that doesn't devalue the knowledge.
It took years before I found myself applying some of the things that I learned in school, or from my father through asking "Why?".
I say, "Keep asking Josh, you never know what pearls of wisdom you will find."
JimB
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marc
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Well, don't be too surprised... I know Josh pretty well and i am about as familiar with what he can do as what he can not.
Therefore, without reservation, I stand by my statement...
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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You don't know me at all Marc.
~Josh~
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Love who you want to.
~Josh~
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marc
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and that is the part that is disturbing....
It makes me wonder who the person I was talking to really is...
A pittiable thing to have to consider, I know....
But it is nonetheless something that must be considered...
[Updated on: Mon, 31 March 2008 22:43]
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I'm sorry. I'm me with mood swings, thoughts and love to give. I'm not mad at you. *hugs* Please don't hate me..
~Josh~
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Love who you want to.
~Josh~
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