It is the simple things that is the hardest. If anything, having children revealed many of the mentioned. To me, having children is enlightenment
Nine things I learned in ninety years
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#22a completely different topic & question on this post. how is his blog made? I like the style (simple yet clear and beautiful). Anyone know what direction i should look at?
I think this is just a PDF hosted on WordPress?
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#23a completely different topic & question on this post. how is his blog made? I like the style (simple yet clear and beautiful). Anyone know what direction i should look at?
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#24Love these. This quote stuck out to me: > It follows, I think, that the luckier you’ve been, the more humility and generous spiritedness you need, and the unluckier you’ve been, the more compassion for yourself you need, and unfair as it may seem, the more you need irrepressible resolve.
Few among the lucky are humble, few among the unlucky are serene, and irrepressible resolve is often met by irresistible fate.
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#25a completely different topic & question on this post. how is his blog made? I like the style (simple yet clear and beautiful). Anyone know what direction i should look at?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
don't you want to be in the world where people are kind? or you rather be in a world where everyone is selfish? Heard of categorical imperative?
Yes I heard of it. Considering we already live in a selfish world, while people preach to be kind just shows me how ignorant people are. Kindness is something the poor or the sick need. Coming from the poorer side of things I never received kindness. I've seen my mum struggle in life just to get me and my brother some new clothing. People are pretentious and while a small few geow richer and richer, we are out here c…
Well, your view (and others) will be skewed by your upbringing and experiences. I value kindness.
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Encouraging others with positivity to be kind is rarely a bad thing. Dismissing others that try to spread positivity is rarely a good thing.
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You're confusing kindness with being a pushover. You can be kind and self-respecting at the same time.
Your last two comments here make me suspect you suffer from some kind of traumatic abuse you haven't had the chance to poperly recover from yet.
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#28Wear sunscreen?
and moisturize
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#29Love these. This quote stuck out to me: > It follows, I think, that the luckier you’ve been, the more humility and generous spiritedness you need, and the unluckier you’ve been, the more compassion for yourself you need, and unfair as it may seem, the more you need irrepressible resolve.
Few among the lucky are humble, few among the unlucky are serene, and irrepressible resolve is often met by irresistible fate.
That’s a money quote and shows you lived.
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Encouraging others with positivity to be kind is rarely a bad thing. Dismissing others that try to spread positivity is rarely a good thing.
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> According to?
General consensus. Also it seems to lead to more stable societies when people are kind to eachother. That creates mutual safety and comfort. Humans are uncomfortable with constant conflict and violence. Doing things that lead to that are wrong.
You're right in that there's no god or universal measure against which we can say that being good is Good and being bad is Bad, we have to just throw our hands up and pick, luckily humans mostly agree and so picking being Good isn't inherently a conflict-causing thing, except to those who prefer people are constantly at war with eachother. I'm perfectly fine saying those folks that prefer that are valid in their way of thinking, but invalid in trying to apply it, and therefore should be stopped.
> Being kind is being weak.
Well it's a bit silly for you to argue against universal morality and then argue for universal concepts of strength and weakness. Anyway I disagree, being kind takes tremendous strength.
> It forces you into situations u dont wanna be in in the first place.
Ah! Being kind doesn't always mean saying "yes," sometimes it just means saying "no" instead of shouting it.